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 62 STAT.] 80TH CONG., 2D SESS.- CHS. 391-393 -JUNE 3, 1948 [CHAPTER 391] 301 AN ACT To provide for the conveyance of certain land to the State of Oklahoma for the [H. R. 4512] use and benefit of the Northeastern State College at Tahlequah, Oklahoma. [Public Law 58s8 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to grant and convey, for and in consideration of $1, to the State of Oklahoma for the use and benefit of the Northeastern State College, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to certain land in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, more particularly described as follows: The south two and one-half acres of the north fifteen and forty-five one hundredths acres of Seminary Park, less twenty-five feet on the east side and twenty-five feet on the north side of such fifteen and forty-five one hundredths acres, reserved for road purposes according to the official plat of the city of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, approved by the Secretary of the Interior on March 4, 1904. Approved June 3, 1948. Northeastern State College, Tahlequab, Okla. Conveyance. [CHAPTER 392] AN ACT June 3, 1948 To eliminate the requirement of oaths in certain land matters, and for other [H. R .4513] purposes. [Public Law 589] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That written state- ment in public land matters within the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior, heretofore required by law to be made under oath, need no longer be made under oath unless the Secretary of the Interior shall, in his discretion, so require. SEC. 2. Unsworn written statements made in public land matters within the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior shall remain subject to section 35 (A) of the Criminal Code (35 Stat. 1095, 18 U. S. C. sec. 80), as amended. SEC. 3. That part of section 558 of the Act of March 3, 1901, entitled "An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia" (31 Stat. 1279), as amended December 15, 1944 (58 Stat. 810, D. C. Code, 1940 edition, Supp. IV, sec. 1 -501), which reads as follows: "And pro- vided further, That no notary public shall be authorized to take acknowledgments, administer oaths, certify papers, or perform any official acts in connection with matters in which he is employed as counsel, attorney or agent or in which he may be in any way interested before any of the Departments aforesaid" shall not apply to matters before the Department of the Interior. Approved June 3, 1948. Oaths in public land matters. Unsworn written statements. Post, p. 863. D. 0. Code, Supp. VI 1-i.1. Exception. [CHAPTER 393] AN ACT NAT June 3,1948 To provide for the addition of certain surplus Government lands to the Cape [H. R. 4551] Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area project, and for other purposes. [Public Law 590] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the tract of surplus Federal property, comprising eight and one-tenth acres of land situated in Dare County, North Carolina, approximately two miles north of Kitty Hawk, and designated as "Surplus Real Prop- erty No. WH -NC-29, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina," which is now Cape Hatteras Na- tional Seashore Rec- reational Area pro- ect.

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