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PARCEL 1: A TRACT OF LAND IN THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION SIX TOWNSHIP FIVE NORTH, RANGE NINE WEST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT IN THE SOUTHWESTERLY RIGHT OF WAY OF THE ALTON RAILROAD, SAID POINT BEING SOUTH FIFTY-ONE DEGREES, FOUR MINUTES EAST A DISTANCE OF 299.21 FEET MEASURED ALONG SAID RIGHT OF WAY LINE FROM THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF A TRACT OF LAND CONVEYED BY R. B. LOAN AND WIFE TO THE CITY OF ALTON BY DEED DATED JUNE 8, 1939 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 781 PAGE 305 OF THE RECORDS OF THE COUNTY RECORDED OF MADISON COUNTY, THENCE FROM SAID BEGINNING POINT SOUTH ONE DEGREE WEST PARALLEL TO THE EAST LINE OF SAID TRACT A DISTANCE OF 796.18 FEET TO A POINT, THENCE NORTH EIGHTY NINE DEGREES TEN MINUTES EAST A DISTANCE OF 116 FEET TO A POINT, THENCE NORTH ONE DEGREE EAST A DISTANCE OF 705.9 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION WITH THE SOUTHWESTERLY RIGHT OF WAY OF THE ALTON RAILROAD; THENCE NORTH FIFTY ONE DEGREES FOUR MINUTES WEST ALONG SAID RIGHT OF WAY LINE A DISTANCE OF 141.6 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF MADISON AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. PARCEL 2: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 6 TOWNSHIP 5 NORTH, RANGE 9 WEST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MADISON COUNTY, ILLINOIS, MORE FULLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF LOT 1 IN "MCCORMICK SUBDIVISION" (PLAT BOOK 23 PAGE 129); THENCE MEASURE SOUTH 89 DEGREES 10 MINUTES 00 SECONDS WEST (ASSUMED BEARING) ALONG THE NORTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF MORNING STAR DRIVE, A DISTANCE OF 116.03 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING OF THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED TRACT OF LAND; THENCE SOUTH 1 DEGREE 00 MINUTES 00 SECONDS WEST FROM SAID BEGINNING POINT A DISTANCE OF 14.96 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 89 DEGREES 10 MINUTES 00 SECONDS WEST A DISTANCE OF 10.01 FEET, THENCE NORTH 1 DEGREE 00 MINUTES 00 SECONDS EAST A DISTANCE OF 230.15 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 89 DEGREES 10 MINUTES 00 SECONDS WEST A DISTANCE OF 226.23 FEET TO A POINT ON THE EAST LINE OF A TRACT OF LAND CONVEYED TO THE CITY OF ALTON IN BOOK 781 PAGE 305; THENCE NORTH 01 DEGREES 00 MINUTES 00 SECONDS EAST ALONG THE EAST LINE OF THE CITY OF ALTON TRACT A DISTANCE OF 763.76 FEET TO A POINT ON THE SOUTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE OFTHE S.P.C. AND ST. LOUIS RAILROAD (FORMERLY THE G.M. & O. RAILROAD); THENCE SOUTH 51 DEGREES 04 MINUTES 00 SECONDS EAST ALONG SAID RAILROAD RIGHT OF WAY A DISTANCE OF 299.36 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 1 DEGREE 00 MINUTES 00 SECONDS WEST A DISTANCE OF 787.37 FEET TO A POINT ON THE NORTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF MORNING STAR DRIVE AND TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF MADISON AND THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.