CHAPTER 546

An Act to authorize the Governor and Attorney General to execute in the
name of the Commonwealth, deeds conveying unto Francis T. Murtha,
Trustee, and Hunting Towers Operating Co., Incorporated, certain
formerly submerged lands in the city of Alexandria. rH 591]

Approved March 31, 1964

Whereas, Francis T. Murtha, Trustee, and Hunting Towers
ing Co., Incorporated, are owners in fee of certain fast land along the
perimeter of Hunting Creek in the city of Alexandria; and

Whereas, each claim riparian rights to contiguous acreage within
such area; and

Whereas, such owners wish to bulkhead most of the area within the
riparian claim areas, and fill same with earth so that productive use may
be made thereof; and

Whereas, as the situation now exists, a health hazard is present, since
such waters as remain are stagnant and will not support marine life, nor
are same navigable to any extent; now, therefore,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. § 1. The Governor and the Attorney General are hereby au-
thorized in consideration of the premises, and the payment into the Gen-
eral Fund of the Commonwealth of a sum to be fixed by the Governor,
not less than thirty thousand dollars, to execute, in the name of the Com-
monwealth, a proper deed of conveyance, under the lesser seal of the
Commonwealth, conveying unto Francis T. Murtha, Trustee, all of the
Commonwealth’s right, title and interest in and to the following described
property: a | |

Beginning at a point in the easterly right-of-way line of Mt. Vernon
Memorial Highway, said point also marking the southwesterly corner of a
4.8159 acre tract of the land of Francis T. Murtha, Tr. the following
courses and distances: South 77° 17’ 05” east, 284.53 feet to a point and;
north 41° 24’ 40” east, 552.35 feet to the southeasterly corner of the land
of Hunting Towers Operating Co., Inc., and thence running south
54° 44’ 26” east, 2,707.33 feet to a point 94 feet more or less west of
boundary of the Commonwealth of Virginia, as the said boundary passes
between headlands on the west shore of the Potomac River at the mouth of
Hunting Creek; and running thence, north 67° 00’ 00” west, 3,100.00 feet
to the point and place of beginning and containing 18.8734 acres.

2. The Governor and the Attorney General are hereby authorized,
under the same terms and conditions as set forth in § 1 hereof, to convey
to Hunting Towers Operating Co., Incorporated, all of the Common-
wealth’s right, title and interest in and to the following described property :

Beginning at a corner of the aforesaid land of the Hunting Towers
Operating Co., Inc., the west line of the southerly extension of South
Royal Street, south 09° 30’ west, 221.16 feet and south 09° 11’ 40” west,
325.93 feet from the southerly line of the right of way of State route 495,
also known as the Capitol Beltway and running thence south 41° 21’ 58”
east, 2,447.68 feet to a point 94 feet west of a boundary of the Common-
wealth of Virginia as said boundary passes between headlands on the ‘west
shore of the Potomac River at the mouth of Hunting Creek, thence north
54° 44’ 26” west, 2,707.33 feet to the southeasterly corner of the afore-
mentioned lands of Hunting Towers Operating Co., Inc., thence with
said land, north 65° 11’ 40” east, 653.34 feet to the point of beginning and
containing 17.5945 acres.