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	Amend CSSB 909 (House Committee Printing) by adding the 
following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and 
renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  (a)  Not later than October 31, 2007, the 
Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall transfer to the City of 
Winnsboro, for consideration to which the parties mutually agree, 
the real property described by Subsection (d) of this section.
	(b)  Consideration for the transfer authorized by Subsection 
(a) of this section may be in the form of an agreement between the 
parties that requires the City of Winnsboro to use the property for 
a purpose that benefits the public interest of the state.  If the 
consideration for the transfer is in the form of an agreement 
described by this subsection:
		(1)  the City of Winnsboro may use the property 
transferred under this Act only for a purpose that benefits the 
public interest of the state; and
		(2)  ownership of the property automatically reverts to 
the Texas Department of Criminal Justice if the City of Winnsboro no 
longer uses the property for a purpose that benefits the public 
interest of the state.
	(c)  The Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall transfer 
the property by an appropriate instrument of transfer.  If the 
consideration for the transfer is in the form of an agreement 
described by Subsection (b) of this section, the instrument of 
transfer must include a provision that:
		(1)  requires the City of Winnsboro to use the property 
for a purpose that benefits the public interest of the state; and
		(2)  indicates that ownership of the property 
automatically reverts to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice 
if the City of Winnsboro no longer uses the property for a purpose 
that benefits the public interest of the state.
	(d)  The real property to which Subsection (a) of this 
section refers consists of two tracts of land described as follows:
		(1)  Tract 1 consists of 21.423 acres out of the Gray B. 
King Survey located in Wood County and further described as 
follows:

All that certain tract or parcel of land situated in the County of 
Wood, State of Texas, being in the Gray B. King Survey, Abstract No. 
3, and being a portion of that 2.226 acre Tract One and a portion of 
that 36.154 acre Tract Four, both conveyed from Wood County to Texas 
Department of Criminal Justice and recorded in Volume 1319, page 
147, being a portion of that 2.1 acre tract conveyed from Wood 
County to Texas Department of Criminal Justice and recorded in 
Volume 1319, page 145, being a portion of that 21.3 acre tract 
conveyed from Wood County to Texas Department of Criminal Justice 
and recorded in Volume 1319, page 152, being a portion of that 98 
acre Tract One and a portion of that 47.815 acre Tract Two, both 
conveyed from Wood County to Texas Department of Criminal Justice 
and recorded in Volume 1319, page 140, and being a portion of that 
6.360 acre tract conveyed from Wood County to Texas Department of 
Criminal Justice and recorded in Volume 1319, page 150, all of the 
Real Property Records of said county and bounded as follows:

Beginning at a ½" steel rod found in the curve of Wood County Road 
No. 4608 (now abandoned) and being the southeast corner of the above 
mentioned 21.3 acre tract, also being the southwest corner of a 
27.90 acre tract conveyed to the City of Winnsboro and recorded in 
Volume 624, page 105 of the Deed Records of said county, same being 
in the north boundary line of a 99.273 acre tract conveyed to the 
City of Winnsboro and recorded in Volume 1490, page 357 of the Real 
Property Records of said county;

Thence South 89 deg. 05 min. 44 sec. West, with said abandoned 
county road, 847.63 feet to a ½" steel rod found at the southwest 
corner of the above mentioned 21.3 acre tract, and being the 
southeast corner of the above mentioned 98 acre Tract One;

Thence South 89 deg. 29 min. 55 sec. West, continuing with said 
abandoned county road, 829.80 feet to a steel spike found at the 
northeast corner of a 20.83 acre tract conveyed to Carl Welch et al 
and recorded in Volume 1154, page 680 of the Real Property Records 
of said county, same being the northwest corner of the 99.273 acre 
City of Winnsboro tract;

Thence South 89 deg. 21 min. 40 sec. West, continuing with said 
abandoned count road, with the north boundary line of the 20.83 acre 
tract (Vol. 1154, pg. 680), with the north boundary line of a 20.83 
acre tract (Vol. 1154, pg. 684), and with the north boundary line of 
a 20.83 acre tract (Vol. 1154, pg. 676), for a distance of 702.75 
feet to a 3/8" steel rod found at the southwest corner of the 98 acre 
Texas Department of Criminal Justice tract and being the southeast 
corner of the 47.815 acre Texas Department of Criminal Justice 
tract;

Thence South 89 deg. 26 min. 50 sec. West, continuing with said 
abandoned county road, 197.23 feet to a railroad spike found at the 
lower southwest corner of the 47.815 acre tract, and being the 
southeast corner of the above mentioned 6.360 acre tract, same 
being in the north boundary line of a 31.1 acre tract conveyed to 
Jerry David Jackson et al and recorded in Volume 704, page 637 of 
the Deed Records of said county;

Thence South 89 deg. 26 min. 16 sec. West, continuing with said 
abandoned county road, 0.29 feet to a typical steel rod set (typical 
steel rod is a ½" by 24" rebar with surveyor's cap marked "Noble") 
in the north boundary line of the 31.1 acre Jackson tract;

Thence North 0 deg. 36 min. 30 sec. West, 0.16 feet to a typical 
steel rod set in the south right-of-way line of relocated Wood 
County Road No. 4608;

Thence North 89 deg. 23 min. 30 sec. East, with the south 
right-of-way line of said relocated county road, 1200.00 feet to a 
typical steel rod set at the beginning of a curve to the left;

Thence in a northeasterly direction continuing with said county 
road right-of-way line and along said curve: Radius=1492.40 feet, 
Long Chord bears North 53 deg. 06 min. 08 sec. East, 1766.59 feet, 
through a Central Angle of 72 deg. 34 min. 27 sec., for an Arc Length 
of 1890.48 feet to a typical steel rod set in the east right-of-way 
line of F.M. Highway No. 3530;

Thence North 16 deg. 49 min. 03 sec. East, with said highway 
right-of-way line, 1434.14 feet to a typical steel rod set in the 
north boundary line of the 2.226 acre Texas Department of Criminal 
Justice tract and being in the south boundary line of a 1.974 acre 
tract conveyed from Tommy Ray Clay et ux to Wood County and recorded 
in Volume 1284, page 308 of the Real Property Records of said 
county;

Thence South 83 deg. 10 min. 02 sec. East, with the south boundary 
line of the 1.974 acre Wood County tract, 114.39 feet to a ½" steel 
rod found for an angle point;

Thence South 82 deg. 57 min. 53 sec. East, 200.38 feet to a 60 d nail 
found at the southeast corner of the 1.974 acre tract and being the 
northeast corner of the 2.226 acre Texas Department of Criminal 
Justice tract, same being in the centerline of Wood County Road No. 
4608 (now abandoned), and being in the west boundary line of the 
27.90 acre City of Winnsboro tract;

Thence South 18 deg. 42 min. 44 sec. West, with said abandoned 
county road, 255.06 feet to a 60 d nail found at the southeast 
corner of the said 2.226 acre tract, and being the northeast corner 
of the 36.154 acre Texas Department of Criminal Justice tract;

Thence South 18 deg. 38 min. 50 sec. West, continuing with said 
abandoned county road, 734.22 feet to a ½" steel pipe found at the 
southeast corner of the 2.1 acre Texas Department of Criminal 
Justice tract, and being a lower northeast corner of the 36.154 acre 
Texas Department of Criminal Justice tract;

Thence South 16 deg. 59 min. 43 sec. West, continuing with said 
abandoned county road, 638.94 feet to a 60 d nail found at the 
southeast corner of the 36.154 acre tract and being the lower 
northeast corner of the 21.3 acre Texas Department of Criminal 
Justice tract;

Thence South 17 deg. 21 min. 12 sec. West, continuing with said 
abandoned county road, 869.07 feet to the place of beginning and 
containing 21.423 acres of land.
		(2)  Tract 2 consists of 2.30 acres out of the Gray B. 
King Survey located in Wood County and further described as 
follows:

All that certain tract or parcel of land situated in the County of 
Wood, State of Texas, being in the Gray B. King Survey, Abstract No. 
3, being a portion of that 43.815 acre tract conveyed from Wood 
County to Texas Department of Criminal Justice and recorded in 
Volume 1319, page 137, and being a portion of that 0.352 acre Tract 
Two conveyed from Wood County to Texas Department of Criminal 
Justice and recorded in Volume 1319, page 154, both of the Real 
Property Records of said county and bounded as follows:

Beginning at a ½" steel pipe found in the west side of Wood County 
Road No. 4608 (now abandoned), same being the southwest corner of a 
4.32 acre tract conveyed to the City of Winnsboro and recorded in 
Volume 624, page 112 of the Deed Records of said county, same being 
the upper southeast corner of the above mentioned 43.815 acre 
tract;

Thence North 84 deg. 36 min. 17 sec. West, with the south boundary 
line of the 43.815 acre tract, 29.73 feet to a typical steel rod set 
(typical steel rod is a ½" by 24" rebar with surveyor's cap marked 
"Noble") in the east right-of-way line of F.M. Highway No. 3530;

Thence North 16 deg. 49 min. 03 sec. East, with said highway 
right-of-way line, 604.38 feet to a ½" steel rod found at the 
beginning of a curve to the right;

Thence in a northeasterly direction continuing with said highway 
right-of-way line and along said curve: Radius=894.93 feet, Long 
Chord bears North 38 deg. 09 min. 29 sec. East, 651.35 feet, through 
a Central Angle of 42 deg. 40 min. 52 sec., for an Arc Length of 
666.66 feet to a ½" steel rod found at the end of said curve;

Thence North 59 deg. 29 min. 55 sec. East, continuing with said 
highway right-of-way line, 112.62 feet to a typical steel rod set in 
the west line of the above mentioned abandoned county road and being 
in the east boundary line of the said 0.352 acre tract, same being 
in the west boundary line of an 18 acre tract conveyed to J.L. 
Mullinax and recorded in Volume 169, page 23 of the Deed Records of 
said county, said corner lies South 17 deg. 12 min. 56 sec. West, 
59.97 feet from the northeast corner of the 0.352 acre tract;

Thence South 17 deg. 12 min. 56 sec. West, with the west line of said 
abandoned county road, passing the southeast corner of the 0.352 
acre tract, same being the northeast corner of the 43.815 acre 
tract, and continuing along same course for a total distance of 
378.14 feet to a ½" steel rod found for a corner;

Thence South 72 deg. 54 min. 13 sec. West, continuing with said 
right-of-way line of said abandoned county road, 350.00 feet to a 
5/8" steel rod found at the northwest corner of the 4.32 acre City 
of Winnsboro tract;

Thence South 16 deg. 06 min. 32 sec. West, continuing along said 
right-of-way line of said abandoned county road, 714.62 feet to the 
place of beginning and containing 2.30 acres of land.

NOTE: Bearings shown hereon are "true bearings" as determined by 
solar observation.