House Bill 132

AN ACT TO RATIFY, CONFIRM AND VALIDATE THE PURPORTED CONVEYANCE OF REAL PROPERTY IN MARION COUNTY BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES TO THE MARION COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT IN 2011; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

SECTION 1. (1) The purported conveyance of the real property described in subsection (2) of this section by the Mississippi Department of Human Services to the Marion County Economic Development District under the authority of Executive Order No. 2011-001 executed by Don Thompson, Executive Director of the Department of Human Services, on April 13, 2011, and the special warranty deed dated May 3, 2011, from the Department of Human Services to the Marion County Economic Development District, is ratified, approved, confirmed and validated. The special warranty deed appears in the land deed records in the Office of the Chancery Clerk of Marion County, Mississippi, in Book 1663 at pages 99 through 104, and Executive Order No. 2011-001 appears in the land deed records in the Office of the Chancery Clerk of Marion County, Mississippi, in Book 1663 at pages 105 through 107.

(2) The real property referenced in subsection (1) of this section is described as follows:

SECTION 34, TOWNSHIP 4 NORTH, RANGE 18 WEST, MARION COUNTY,

MISSISSIPPI

Tract 1:

All that part of the N¹/₂ of the NW¹/₄, and the N¹/₂ of

The NE¹/₄ of Section 34, Township 4 North, Range 18 West,

Marion County, Mississippi, lying South of Mississippi

Highway No. 44.

Tract 2:

The S¹/₂ of the NE¹/₄ of Section 34, Township 4 North,

Range 18 West, Marion County, Mississippi, LESS AND EXCEPT

the NE¹/₄ of the SE¹/₄ of the NE¹/₄.

Tract 3:

The N¹/₂ of the SE¹/_4; the SW¹/₄ of the SE¹/₄; and the S¹/₂

of the SW¹/_4; all in Section 34, Township 4 North, Range 18

West Marion County, Mississippi, LESS AND EXCEPT that portion

of the SW¹/₄ of the SW¹/₄ heretofore conveyed unto the City of

Columbia, Mississippi, by Special Warranty Deed dated July

22, 2009, and of record in Book 1610, at page 44 of the land

deed records as contained in the office of the Chancery

Clerk of Marion County, Mississippi, and more particularly

described as follows, to wit:

Commencing at the intersection of the North right of way of

National Guard Road with the East right of way of Mississippi

Highway No. 44 in the SW¹/₄ of the SW¹/₄ of Section 34,

Township 4 North, Range 18 West, Marion County, Mississippi,

and thence run North along the said East right of way line

of Mississippi Highway No. 44 a distance of 950 feet, more or

less, to an existing fence; thence run in an Easterly

direction along said fence a distance of 450 feet, more or

less, to the intersection of a fence running North and South;

thence run South along said second fence a distance of 950

feet, more or less, back to the North right of way of

National Guard Road; thence run in a Westerly direction along

the said North right of way of said National Guard Road a

distance of 450 feet, more or less, and back to the point of

beginning, said exception containing 10 acres, more or less

and being located in the SW¹/₄ of the SW¹/₄ of Section 34,

Township 4 North, Range 18, West, Marion County, Mississippi.

SECTION 35, TOWNSHIP 4 NORTH, RANGE 18 WEST, MARION COUNTY,

MISSISSIPPI

Tract 4:

The NW¹/₄ of the SW¹/₄ of Section 35, Township 4 North, Range

18 West, Marion County, Mississippi.

All four tracts contain in the aggregate, 370 acres, more

or less.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.