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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 545, 546-JUNE 19, 1948 [CHAPTER 545] June 19, 1948 [H. R. 5891] [Public Law 714] Choctaw, Okla- homa and Gulf Rail- road Co. Repeal. June 10, 1948 I'f. R. 5957] [Public Law 715] Ft. Vancouver Na- tional Monument, Wash. Total area. Additional lands [62 STAT. AN ACT To repeal an Act approved August 24, 1894, entitled "An Act to authorize the purchasers of the property and franchises of the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company to organize a corporation, and to confer upon the same all the powers, privileges, and franchises vested in that company", and all Acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto. Whereas Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad Company, a corpora- tion created under and by virtue of the Act approved August 24, 1894, having become insolvent, and title to all of its railways and other properties, and ownership of all of its shares of capital stock. having passed to and become vested in Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware, and all of its indebtedness discharged, by virtue of and pursuant to consummation order and final decree entered by the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, on December 30, 1947: Therefore Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act approved August 24, 1894, entitled "An Act to authorize the pur- chasers of the property and franchises of the Choctaw Coal and Rail- way Company to organize a corporation and to confer upon the same all the powers, privileges, and franchises vested in that company" (28 Stat. L. 502), and all Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, be, and the same are hereby, repealed; and all the rights, powers, immunities, privileges, and franchises, which have been here- tofore granted to or conferred upon Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad Company by any Act or Acts of Congress shall be, and the same are, terminated. Approved June 19, 1948. [CHAPTER 546] AN ACT To provide for the establishment of the Fort Vancouver National Monument, in the State of Washington, to include the site of the old Hudson's Bay Company stockade, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled2 That, for the pur- pose of establishing a Federal area of national historical importance for the benefit of the people of the United States, to be known as the "Fort Vancouver National Monument", the Administrator of the War Assets Administration and the Secretary of the Army are author- ized to transfer to the Secretary of the Interior, without exchange of funds, administrative jurisdiction over such federally owned lands and other property, real or personal, under their jurisdiction, includ- ing the site of the old Hudson's Bay Company stockade in the State of Washington, as they shall find to be surplus to the needs of their respective agencies, such properties to be selected, with their approval, by the Secretary of the Interior for inclusion within the national monument. SEC. 2. The total area of the national monument as established or as enlarged by transfers pursuant to this Act shall not exceed ninety acres. Establishment of the monument shall be effective, upon publi- cation in the Federal Register of notice of such establishment, follow- ing the transfer to the Secretary of the Interior of administrative jurisdiction over such lands as the Secretary of the Interior shall deem to be sufficient for purposes of establishing the national monu- ment. Additional lands may be added to the monument in accordance with the procedure prescribed in section 1 hereof, governing surplus 532

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