WHEREAS, it appears that certain land and premises located in the Town of Bethel, County of Windsor and State of Vermont, owned by the State of Vermont, hereinafter described and presently under the jurisdiction of the Agency of Transportation have become and are no longer necessary for state highway purposes; and

WHEREAS, the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife desires the use of said land and premises for its purposes;

NOW THEREFORE, I, Richard A. Snelling, by virtue of the powers vested in me as Governor of Vermont, do hereby transfer and set over from the Agency of Transportation to the jurisdiction and control of the Agency of Environmental Conservation, Department of Fish and Wildlife for its purposes the following described land and premises, to wit:

All and the same land and premises conveyed to the State of Vermont by Fred L. Whitney by Warranty Deed dated January 3, 1952 and recorded in Volume 40, page 130 of the Bethel Land Records; and further described in said deed as follows:

"Beginning on the southerly edge of the water in the White River as it now stands at its present height; thence S36/dW 15 rods and 8 links to an iron pin at the lower side of an old farm road; thence N76/dW 15 rods and 5 links to an iron pin with a pile of stone around it at the edge of the bank; thence N31/d30’W 25 rods and 20 links to an iron pin at the base of a 16" beech tree; thence by the nearest line to the water of the White River being about 3 rods; thence easterly down said river to the place of beginning."

Dated September 28, 1984.