Section 1. The consent of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is hereby granted, in accordance with the seventeenth clause, eighth section of the first article of the Constitution of the United States, to the acquisition by the United States of America of three tracts of land in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, for use in connection with a military reservation officially designated "Carlisle Barracks"; the first tract being bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a point in the southerly right of way line of the Pennsylvania railroad, said point being a corner common to the County Home Farm, thence binding on the lands of the County Home Farm, South 37 degrees 45' East 300 feet, South 51 degrees 30' East 1110 feet, South 13 degrees 45' East 1550 feet, South 60 degrees 00' West 1250 feet, South 36 degrees 45' West 140 feet to the lands of Mary C. Fox and John Glass, thence binding on said lands North 44 degrees 00' West 975 feet, South 9 degrees 15' West 205 feet to the lands of Mrs. McCrea, Legatee, thence binding on said lands North 84 degrees 15' West 1405 feet to the Hays property, thence binding on the Hays property North 8 degrees 00' East 990 feet, North 63 degrees 00' West 530 feet to the southerly right of way line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, thence with the said right of way line North 59 degrees 35' East 2520 feet to the point of beginning, containing 151 acres of land, more or less.
The second tract is bounded and described as follows: Beginning at the intersection of the south right of way line of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the center line of the Poor House Road, thence with said right of way line North 84 degrees 04' West 1369.7 feet to the center line of Garrison Lane, thence with the center line of Garrison Lane in a southerly direction 218 feet to the Spahr property, thence binding on the Spahr property South 81 degrees 15' East 1044.4 feet to the center line of the Poor House Road, thence with said center line North 61 degrees 45' East 418 feet to the point of beginning, containing 6 acres of land, more or less.
The third tract is bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a concrete monument heretofore planted in the center line of the abandoned portion of Pennsylvania State Route No. 944, at the southeasternmost corner of the land now or formerly belonging to Lee Brenneman, et ux, a common corner to said Brenneman and the land now or formerly belonging to Maynard Long, and running thence North 84 degrees 34' 30" West binding on the center of said road 254.06 feet to the center of said Route No. 944 as the same is now constructed and used, thence North 70 degrees 57' 15" West binding thereon 376.98 feet to a concrete monument, thence South 83 degrees 15' 45" West still binding on center of said road and continuing the same course binding on a part of said Route No. 944 as abandoned, in all 2274.38 feet to a concrete monument, thence leaving said last mentioned road and running South 59 degrees 08' 15" West 520.39 feet to a concrete monument, thence South 60 degrees 49' West 1022.27 feet to a hickory tree, thence South 61 degrees 59' 30" West 967.22 feet to a planted stone, thence South 64 degrees 59' 30" West 312.65 feet to a concrete monument, thence South 78 degrees 44' 45" West 181.29 feet to a concrete monument, thence North 38 degrees 47' 30" West 448.77 feet to a concrete monument, thence South 71 degrees 04' 45" West 1326.26 feet to a point on the Northeast side of Crain's Gap Road, thence North 51 degrees 23' West 151.66 feet, thence North 73 degrees 43' West 295.35 feet to a point in the center of said road, thence North 26 degrees 12' East 404.25 feet to a point on the center of said road, thence with and binding on the center of said Crain's Gap Road the three following courses and distances, viz: North 15 degrees 48' West 867.90 feet, North 15 degrees 46' West 1939.33 feet and North 16 degrees 29' 30" East 325.20 feet, thence leaving said road and running North 81 degrees 14' 45" East 678 feet to a concrete monument, thence North 79 degrees 50' East 202.38 feet to a concrete monument, thence North 80 degrees 12' 45" East 239.53 feet, thence North 15 degrees 06' West 2164.34 feet to a concrete monument, thence North 79 degrees 51' East 2812.98 feet to a concrete monument, thence North 79 degrees 19' 30" East 430.71 feet to a concrete monument, thence North 82 degrees 31' 15" East 803.09 feet to a concrete monument, thence North 84 degrees 04' 30" East 1175.18 feet to a concrete monument, thence South 2 degrees 36' 45" East 2129.39 feet to a dead chestnut tree, thence North 80 degrees 52' 30" East 1002.68 feet to a white oak tree, thence South 19 degrees 20' 15" East 2569.15 feet to a concrete monument and thence South 26 degrees 05' 45" East 717.68 feet to the place of beginning, containing 786.399 acres of land, more or less.