The state historical society is authorized and empowered to acquire by purchase, or by lease-purchase agreement, or by condemnation proceedings, certain real estate for the site of a state historical museum, which property is located in Shawnee county, Kansas, and is more particularly described as follows:

“A part of the northwest quarter of section 32, township 11 south, range 15 east of the 6th P.M., in Shawnee county, Kansas, described as follows: Beginning at the northwest corner of said section 32; thence N 89°23?47? E, 2638.78 feet to the northeast corner of said northwest quarter; thence S 00°02?40? E, 1514.80 feet to the northerly right-of-way of a state highway, said point being 1123.4 feet north of the southeast corner of said quarter; thence S 89°27?53? W, 950.40 feet; thence on a 1,557.4 foot radius curve to the left 1298.15 feet, said curve having a long chord of N 79°40?57? W, 1260.90 feet; thence N 50°33?04? W, 469.81 feet; thence S 89°55?58? W, 85.00 feet to a point 1656.8 feet north of the southwest corner of said quarter; thence N 00°04?02? W, 971.64 feet to the point of beginning; containing 81.393 acres, more or less, subject to an easement for road right-of-way over the west 25 feet of the above described tract.”