Road Pack 0338 House Road was Jacobs Road

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ZUKUMAS, San Joaquin County heretofore purchased a right-of-way for a public highway across the Boggs Tract leading from the City of Stockton westward to the San Joaquin River, which right-of-way was a part of the proposed Jacobs Road leading from Stockton to the Lower Division of Roberts Island, which road is a benefit to the community and a public necessity; and, wtimatu;AS, it is deemed advisable, in order to preserve the nav- igability of Stockton Channel, that Mormon Channel should be dammed and divert the watefs thereof across the Boggs Tract for a time, and the preservation of the navigability of Stockton Channel is a necessity; and, WHEREAS, it is desirable that there should be no conflict be- tween said two public necessities: THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the sum of One Dollar, the receipt whereof is b.ereby acknowledged, the Califor- nia Reclaimed Lands Company, a corporation, hereby gives to the County of San Joaquin the right to travel over and use as a public highway the road belonging to said California Reclaimed Lands Com- pany, leading from the Railroad Bridge at the foot of Main Streev, Stockton, thence in a westerly direction around 'the south end of the property of the Angel Iron Works to ;,he land of said California Reclaimed Lands Company, thence over the easterly end of the lands of said California Reclaimed bands Company to the levee south of Mormon Channel on said land, thence in a westerly and northwesterly direction on and over the levees on the lands of said Company south of Mormon Channel and south of Stockton Channel. It is understood that the County of San Joaquin can use this right-of-way and travel -over the same as a highway during the t i3ne that said right-of-way secured by the County from said Boggs is rendered unfit for use as a highway by reason of the diversion of Page 1. 36