Kansas Statutes Chapter 76. State Institutions and Agencies; Historical Property § 76-2127. Acquisition of certain real estate

The state board of social welfare is hereby authorized and directed to purchase and acquire two certain tracts of real estate adjoining the state industrial school for boys in Shawnee county, Kansas, described as follows:

All that part of the northeast quarter of section 13, township 11, range 15, described as follows: Commencing at the northeast corner of said quarter section; thence running south 580 feet to the center of Soldier creek; thence up and along the center of Soldier Creek to its intersection with the west line of said quarter section; thence north and upon said west line of said quarter section 1250 feet; to the northwest corner of said quarter section; thence east on north line of said quarter section to the place of beginning, excepting the right-of-way of the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska railroad across said tract of land, and excepting two tracts sold to the drainage board, in Shawnee county, Kansas, and

A part of the northeast quarter of section 18, township 11, south, range 16, east of the 6th P.M. described as follows: Commencing at the southwest corner of said quarter section; thence north on the west line of said quarter section, 610 feet to the center of Soldier creek; thence in an easterly direction up Soldier creek, 518 feet more or less, to a point which is 528 feet north and 453 feet east of the point of beginning; thence in an easterly direction 810 feet, to a point in the center of Soldier creek which is 522 feet north and 1,265 feet east of the point of beginning; thence in a southerly direction, up the center of Soldier creek, 630 feet more or less, to a point on the south line of said quarter section which is 940 feet east of the point of beginning; thence west 940 feet to the point of beginning, containing 12.64 acres more or less, in Shawnee county, Kansas.

The two tracts as described in the two foregoing paragraphs containing sixty-five (65) acres, more or less.

For the sum of four hundred dollars ($400) per acre and not to exceed twenty-six thousand dollars ($26,000), subject to the conditions hereinafter provided.