SUBMERGED LANDS ACROSS NUECES BAY AND PASS CONVEYED TO STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION.

Sec. 1. In order that the Texas Transportation Commission may have title to and control of the more or less submerged right of way necessary for the construction and maintenance of a proposed Causeway and its Approaches, across Nueces Bay and the Pass connecting Nueces Bay and Corpus Christi Bay in San Patricio and Nueces Counties, as described in Section 2 of this Act, and as shown on the right of way map on file in the Texas Department of Transportation at Austin, Texas, and entitled, Control 101-5 & 6 in San Patricio and Nueces Counties, Causeway across Nueces Bay and the Pass connecting Nueces Bay with Corpus Christi Bay on Highway U. S. 181 from Beach Drive in Portland, San Patricio County, and North Beach in Corpus Christi, Nueces County, the State hereby conveys title to and control of the submerged right of ways described in Section 2 of this Act, and as shown on the right of way map above stated, but no part of this Act is to be construed so as to interfere nor conflict with the rights and authority of the Parks and Wildlife Commission, except that the Texas Transportation Commission shall have the full right and authority to take and use, at any time and in any quantity desired, any and all materials within the limits of these tracts, and is exempted from the payment of any and all compensation for any and all materials taken therefrom.

Sec. 2. Field Notes of a survey of 385.638 acres, more or less, of submerged lands and tidewater flats, and situated under the waters of Nueces Bay between Engrs. centerline Sta. 774/50 and Sta. 991/20, about Latitude 27° 51' North and Longitude 97° 22' West, taken from U.S.C. & G.S. Chart No. 1117, and being more particularly described as follows:

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