Minnesota Session Laws - 1986, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1986 

                        CHAPTER 417-S.F.No. 2101 
           An act relating to state lands; authorizing an 
          exchange of certain state lands with the city of 
          Thomson in Carlton county and sale of certain state 
          land in Lake of the Woods county.  
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  [LAND EXCHANGE AUTHORIZED.] 
    Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 94.343, 
subdivision 9, the state of Minnesota may exchange certain 
parcels or tracts of state-owned land located within Carlton 
county with the city of Thomson.  
    (a) State lands to be exchanged are described as: 
    (1) All of the unplatted portion of Government Lot 1 lying 
northerly and easterly of that strip of land deeded to the 
Village of Thomson by the Northern Pacific Railway Company, 
November 18, 1940, and recorded February 5, 1941, as document 
#101684 and on May 13, 1938, and recorded May 21, 1938, as 
document #96017; southerly of the former Burlington Northern, 
Inc.'s St. Paul to Duluth Branch right-of-way and easterly of 
the right-of-way of Minnesota Highway 210, in section 8, 
Township 48N, Range 16W. 
    (2) Lots 1 to 16, both inclusive, and Lot 21 of Block 5 and 
Lots 3, 4, 8 and 9 of Block 4 in the Townsite of Thomson, 
according to the plat thereof on file in the Office of the 
Recorder of Deeds of Carlton County, Minnesota. 
    (3) Those portions of Lots 17 to 20, both inclusive, 22 and 
23 in Block 5 in the Townsite of Thomson, lying southerly of a 
line 75 feet northerly at right angles and parallel with the 
centerline of former Burlington Northern, Inc.'s St. Paul to 
Duluth Branch main line railroad track. 
    (4) That portion of a 20 foot wide north and south alley 
between Block 5 and Block 4 in the Townsite of Thomson that lies 
southerly of a line 75 feet northerly at right angles and 
parallel with the centerline of former Burlington Northern, 
Inc.'s St. Paul to Duluth Branch main line railroad track and 
northerly of the easterly projection of the southerly line of 
Lot 8 of Block 4 in the Townsite of Thomson. 
    (5) The South 85 feet of Lots 24 to 46, both inclusive, of 
Block 5, in the Townsite of Thomson. 
    (6) The North Half (N 1/2) of vacated Otter Avenue lying 
between the Southerly extension of the East and West lines of 
said Block 5, in the Townsite of Thomson. 
    (b) City lands to be exchanged are described as: 
    (1) A strip of land two hundred (200) feet wide in 
Government Lot One (1), Section eight (8), Township forty-eight 
(48) North, Range sixteen (16) West, 4th P.M., said strip being 
one hundred (100) feet wide on each side of the centerline of 
the original main track of the Lake Superior and Mississippi 
Railroad Company Fond Du Lac Branch as formerly constructed but 
now removed, and extending from the east line of said Government 
Lot one (1) to a westerly production of the north line of Block 
one (1) Original Town of Thomson, according to the recorded plat 
thereof. 
    (2) A strip of land fifty (50) feet wide on the 
northeasterly side of and adjoining the two hundred (200) foot 
strip above described, extending from a westerly production of 
the north line of said Block one (1) to a line drawn at right 
angles to the northeasterly line of the two hundred (200) foot 
strip above described from a point therein distant two hundred 
thirty-five (235) feet northwesterly, measured along said 
northeasterly line, from the east line of said Government Lot 
one (1). 
    (3) A strip of land 250 feet wide in Government Lot 1, said 
strip lying between two lines drawn parallel with and distant 
150 feet northeasterly and 100 feet southwesterly, measured at 
right angles, from the centerline of the original main tract of 
the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad Company Fond Du Lac 
Branch as formerly constructed but now removed, and extending 
from a line drawn parallel with and distant 100 feet southerly, 
measured at right angles, from the centerline of the main track 
of the Northern Pacific Railway Company's St. Paul to Duluth 
Line as now constructed and operated to a westerly projection of 
the north line of Block 1, Original Town of Thomson, according 
to the recorded plat thereof. 
    Sec. 2.  [FORM OF CONVEYANCES.] 
    All conveyances pursuant to section 1 shall be in a form 
approved by the attorney general. 
    Sec. 3.  [SALE OF STATE LAND IN LAKE OF THE WOODS COUNTY.] 
    (a) The commissioner of natural resources may declare as 
surplus and offer for sale according to law the three parcels of 
land described in paragraph (b). 
    (b) The land that may be declared surplus and offered for 
sale is: 
    (1) the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of 
Section 19, Township 160, Range 33, comprising of about 40 acres;
    (2) the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of 
Section 20, Township 160, Range 33, comprising of about 40 
acres; and 
    (3) the Northwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of 
Section 29, Township 160, Range 33, comprising of about 40 acres.
    Sec. 4.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Section 3 is effective the day after final enactment. 
    Approved March 24, 1986