An Act authorizing the Territory of Hawaii, through its duly designated officers and boards, to negotiate a compromise agreement, exchange with, sell or lease to the owners of certain shorelands, certain tidelands, both in the Territory of Hawaii, and to make covenants with such owners, in settlement of certain damage claims and for a conveyance of littoral rights
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Public Law 199 
CHAPTER 441 
August 1, 1955 
[H.R. 6331] 
AN ACT 
Hawaiian t i d e -
lands. 
Sale or exchange, 
etc., agreement. 
31 Stat. 141. 
48 u s e 491. 
Authorizing the Territory of Hawaii, through its duly designated oflScers and 
boards, to negotiate a compromise agreement, exchange with, sell or lease 
to the owners of certain shorelands, certain tidelands, both in the Territory 
of Hawaii, and to make covenants with such owners, in settlement of cer-
tain damage claims and for a conveyance of littoral rights. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America 
in Congress a^semhled^ That the Com-
missioner of Public Lands of the Territory of Hawaii, with the con-
currence of the Board of Harbor Commissioners and the approval 
of two-thirds of the Board of Public Lands and of the Governor of 
the Territory of Hawaii, is hereby authorized and empowered, any 
provision of the Hawaiian Organic Act or any other law to the con-
trary notwithstanding, to enter into a compromise agreement with 
the owners of certain shorelands in the Territory of Hawaii covered 
by land court applications numbered 314, 1549, 1653, and 852 and 
1092 (land court consolidation 32), and with any other owner or 
owners of lands abutting any part of the tidelands described in sec-
tion 2 hereof, involving the conveyance by the Territory to said 
owners, or some of them, of all or any part of the tidelands described 
in section 2 of this Act, or to make a sale of all or any part of 
said lands described in section 2, to said owners, or some of them, 
or to exchange all or a part of said lands described in section 2, with 
said owners, or some of them, provided that said owners, who may 
have littoral rights appurtenant to said shorelands, affecting the tide-
lands described in section 2, convey to the Territory such littoral 
rights, agree to the construction of a public beach and groin along 
the seaward side of the lands described in section 2 of this Act, and 
release all claims for compensation, damages or otherwise which they 
have or might have against the Territory of Hawaii by reason of 
acts or omissions of the Territory, or for which the Territory is 
claimed to be responsible, done or omitted in connection with the 
development of the shoreline, yacht harbor and beaches in and 
adjoining said area. The Commissioner of Public Lands, with the 
concurrence of the Board of Harbor Commissioners, is hereby author-
ized and empowered, any provision of the Hawaiian Organic Act 
or any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, to lease for a period 
of fifty-five years all or any part of said lands described in section 
2, to said owners, or some of them. 
SEC, 2. The tidelands authorized to be conveyed or leased by the 
Commissioner of Public Lands by this Act are described as follows: 
Land at Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii: Being a 
portion of area transferred to the Territory of Hawaii by Presi-
dential Proclamation Numbered 1856, dated October 27, 1928. Situ-
ated off Kalia, Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii. 
Beginning at an / 
cut in face of seawall on the easterly boundary 
of this parcel of land, being also the west corner of land court appli-
cation 1653, the coordinates of said point of beginning referred to 
Government survey triangulation station "PUNCHBOWL" being 
10,981.46 feet south and 3,555.61 feet east and running by azimuths 
measured clockwise from true south: 
Along face of seawall, along highwater mark of land court appli-
cation 1653 for the next three courses, the direct azimuths and dis-
tances between points along said face of seawall being: 
1. 310 degrees, 12 minutes, 46.20 feet to an / 
cut in face of seawall; 
2. 297 degrees, 18 minutes, 23.90 feet to a f cut in face of seawall; 
3. 296 degrees, 10 minutes, 24.62 feet to a 9 cut in face of seawall; 
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Thence along face of seawall along high-water mark of land court 
applications 624 and 264 for the next eleven courses, the direct azimuths 
and distances between points along said face of seawall being— 
4. 296 degrees, 06 minutes, 27.85 feet to an /* cut in face of seawall; 
5. 293 degrees, 08 minutes, 22.85 feet to a + cut in face of seawall; 
6. 298 degrees, 14 minutes, 44.75 feet to a spike in face of seawall; 
7. 248 degrees, 12 minutes, 0,97 foot to an / cut in top edge of 
seawall; 
8. 269 degrees, 48 minutes, 55.85 feet to an / 
cut in top edge of 
seawall; 
9. 270 degrees, 42 minutes, 37.45 feet to an / cut in top edge of 
seawall; 
10. 274 degrees, 46 minutes, 16.35 feet to an / 
cut in top edge of 
seawall; 
11. 277 degrees, 33 minutes, 16.65 feet to an / 
cut in top edge of 
seawall; 
12. 281 degrees, 22 minutes, 32.66 feet to an / 
cut in top edge of 
seawall; 
13. 282 degrees, 58 minutes, 32 feet to a pipe; 
14. 234 degrees, 59 minutes, 0.27 foot; thence 
15. 319 degrees, 19 minutes, 154.69 feet to a f cut in concrete tile 
walk; 
16. 239 degrees, 30 minutes, 36.95 feet; 
17. 329 degrees, 30 minutes, 34.37 feet along end of Dewey Way, 
the true azimuth and distance from U. S. M. R. Monument 32 being: 
58 degrees, 03 minutes, 82.92 feet; 
18. 58 degrees, 03 minutes, 90.96 feet along United States Military 
Reservation (Fort DeRussy) and passing over U. S. M. R. Monument 
31 at 30.93 feet; 
19. 139 degrees, 19 minutes, 157.27 feet; 
20. 96 degrees, 18 minutes, 45 seconds, 190.64 feet; 
21. 120 degrees, 05 minutes, 25 seconds, 208.60 feet; 
22. 149 degrees, 25 minutes, 115 feet; 
23. 157 degrees, 41 minutes, 29 seconds, 427.19 feet; 
24. 239 degrees, 58 minutes, 406 feet to the west corner of land court 
application 1549; 
Thence along highwater mark of land court application 1549 for 
the next five courses, the direct azimuths and distances between points 
along said highwater mark being— 
25. 320 degrees, 22 minutes, 18.48 feet; 
26. 291 degrees, 45 minutes, 15.75 feet; 
27. 297 degrees, 01 minute, 22.75 feet; 
28. 318 degrees, 42 minutes, 32.70 feet; 
29. 326 degrees, 46 minutes, 15.03 feet; 
Thence along highwater mark of land court application 314 for the 
next four courses, the direct azimuths and distances between points 
along said highwater mark being: 
30. 325 degrees, 00 minutes, 35 feet; 
31. 334 degrees, 10 minutes, 125 feet; 
32. 336 degrees, 15 minutes, 189 feet; 
33. 334 degrees, 00 minutes, 93.42 feet to a f cut in top of stonewall; 
34. 61 degrees, 39 minutes, 60 feet along land court application 
1653 to a 23/^-inch pipe in concrete; 
35. 61 decrees, 46 minutes, 67.74 feet along land court application 
1653 to a spike in face of seawall; 
36. 61 degrees, 56 minutes, 273.88 feet along face of seawall along 
highwater mark of land court application 1653 to the point of begin-
ning and containing an area of 6.39 acres. 
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Public beach and 
groin. 
Effective date. 
SEC. 3. The Commissioner of Public Lands, with the concurrence 
of the Board of Harbor Commissioners and the approval of two-
thirds of the Board of Public Lands and of the Governor is also 
authorized and empowered in the making of any such compromise 
agreement, exchange, sale or lease to covenant with such owners to 
create and maintain a public beach and groin on the seaward side 
of the lands described in section 2 of this Act, so long as and to 
the extent that appropriations are and may from time to time be 
available therefor, and to permit access to and from said beach across 
courses nineteen to twenty-three inclusive of the land described in 
section 2 of this Act. 
SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval. 
Approved August 1, 1955. 
August 1, 1955 
[S.614] 
Public Law 200 
CHAPTER 442 
AN ACT 
To amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as 
amende<l, to authorize the Administrator of General Services to donate certain 
property to the American National Red Cross. 
S u r p l u 8 
erty. 
Ante, p. 84. 
40 u s e 484. 
prop-
Red Cross. 
Be it enacted by the jSenate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress osseTnbled, That the Federal 
Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 377), 
as amended, is amended by renumbering subsections (1), (m), and (n) 
of section 203 as subsections "(m)", "(n)", and "(o)", respectively, 
and adding subsection (1) as follows: 
"(1) Under such regulations as he may prescribe, the Administrator 
is authorized in his discretion to donate to the American National 
Red Cross, for charitable purposes, such property, which was proc-
essed, produced, or donated by the American National Red Cross, as 
shall have been determined to be surplus property." 
Approved August 1, 1955. 
August 1, 1955 
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Public Law 201 
CHAPTER 443 
AN ACT 
To revise the boundary between the second and fourth judicial divisions of 
Alaska; 
Alaska. 
Judic ialdivision 
boundaries. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the third para-
graph of section 4, chapter 1, title I, of the Act entitled "An Act 
making further provision for a civil government for Alaska, and for 
other purposes", approved June 6, 1900 (31 Stat. 322; 48 U. S. C , 
1952 edition, sec. 101), as amended by section 1 of the Act of August 
23,1954 (68 Stat. 772), is further amended to read as follows: 
"Division numbered 2 shall consist of all territory and islands 
lying north and west of a line beginning at a point in the Beaufort 
Sea latitude 70 degrees 30 minutes north, longitude 147 degrees 30 min-
utes west; thence in a southwesterly direction to triangulation station 
'Delta' latitude 70 degrees 12 minutes 50 seconds north, longitude 147 
degrees 43 minutes 18 seconds west on the north shore of the mainland 
about 51/^ miles south southeast of the north tip of Foggy Island; 
thence due west about 5 miles to the east edge of the delta of the Saga-
vanirktok River, at approximate latitude 70 degrees 12 minutes 50 sec-
onds north, longitude 147 degrees 56 minutes west; thence southwest-