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May 28, 1926. CHAP. 411.-An Act To provide the name by which the Board of General (H. R. 1966.] Appraisers and members thereof shall hereafter be known.

(Public, No. 304.) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the

Board of General ApUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the Board

praisers. of General Appraisers shall hereafter be known as the United States Customs Court and the members thereof shall hereafter be known Court. as the chief justice and the associate justices of the United States Vol. 28, p. 136. Customs Court.

Jurisdiction, powers, Sec. 2. The jurisdiction, powers, and duties of said board, its etc., transterred subdivisions and its officers, and their appointment, including the designation of its presiding officers, and the immunities, tenure of office, powers, duties, rights, and privileges of the members of said board, shall remain the same as by existing law provided.

Approved, May 28, 1926.

Granted to

May 28, 1928. CHAP. 412.–An Act Granting public lands to the county of Kern, Cali(H. R. 8916.)

fornia, for public park purposes. (Public, No. 305.)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Public lands.

Kern United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is County, Calif., for park hereby granted and conveyed to the county of Kern, State of Califor. purposes.

nia, for public park purposes and for the use and benefit of said county, the following-described lands in county of Kern, State of

California, or so much thereof as said county may desire, to wit: Description.

Those certain drilling sites in naval petroleum reserve numbered 2, comprising approximately two acres each, known and designated as drilling sites numbered 9, 10, 17, and 18, in the town site of Ford, according to the map of the town site of Ford, which comprise the southwest quarter, the west half of the southeast quarter, and the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 12, township 32 south, range 23 east, Mount Diablo meridian, approved on July 31,

1923, by the Commissioner of the General Land Office. Payment required. That such conveyance shall be made of said land to said county of

Kern, State of California, by the Secretary of the Interior, upon the payment by said county for said land, or such portion thereof as it may select, at the rate of $1.25 per acre, and patent issued to said

county for the said land selected, to have and to hold for public park Valid grants not in. purposes; and the grant hereby made shall not include any lands

which at the date of issuance of patent shall be covered by valid exist

ing bona fide right or claim initiated under the laws of the United Mineral deposits re- States: Provided, That there shall be reserved to the United States,

its grantees or lessees, all oil, coal, and other mineral deposits that may be found in the land so granted and all necessary use of the said land for prospecting for and extracting the same: Provided fur- ther, That said county shall not have the right to sell or convey the

land herein granted, or any part thereof, or to devote the same to Reversion for non- any other purpose than as hereinbefore described; and that if said

land shall not be used for public park purposes, the same, or such

parts thereof not so used, shall revert to the United States: Provided include further, That the reservations to the Government provided for herein

shall be stipulated in the patent,

Approved, May 28, 1926.

cluded.

Provisos.

served.

Use restricted.

user.

Patent to reservations,

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May 28, 1926. (H. R. 10732.) CHAP. 413.–An Act To authorize the construction of necessary additional [Public, No. 306.] buildings at certain naval hospitals, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Burdings authorized United States of America in Congress assembléd, That the Secreat specified hospitals. tary of the Navy is hereby authorized to construct necessary addi

tional buildings at the naval hospitals at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, laboratory and mortuary building, $35,000; Great Lakes, Illinois, boiler plant and connecting line, $200,000; Puget Sound, Washington, extension to mess hall and galley, $32,000; Guam, mess hall and galley, $18,000; San Diego, California, officers' ward building, fifty

beds, $150,000, which expenditure for the purposes aforesaid shall From naval hospital be made from the naval hospital fund.

Approved, May 28, 1926.

fund.

May 28, 1926. (H. R. 10055.] CHAP. 414.–An Act To amend section 77 of the Judicial Code to create & [Public, No. 307.) middle district in the State of Georgia, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States courts. United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 77

1108, of the Judicial Code, as amended, is amended to read as follows:

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