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 62 STAT.] 80TH CONG., 2D SESS. -CHS. 594-596--JUNE 22, 1948 and to provide adequately for its future development, all lands and other property which have been acquired by the Federal Government pursuant to the Saratoga National Historical Park Act of June 1, 1938 (52 Stat. 608; 16 U. S. C., sees. 159-159b), are hereby established as the Saratoga National Historical Park, and shall be administered as provided in section 3 of that Act. SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept all or any portion of the General Philip Schuyler Mansion property, real and personal, situated at Schuylerville, New York, comprising approximately fifty acres, and also donations of additional land, inter- ests in land, buildings, structures, and other property in Saratoga County. The authority to acquire property, contained in section 2 of the Act of June 1, 1938, may be utilized by the Secretary of the Interior in carrying out the purposes of this Act. These properties, upon acquisition by the United States, shall become a part of Saratoga National Historical Park, the total area of which, however, shall not exceed five thousand five hundred acres. Approved June 22, 1948. [CHAPTER 595] AN ACT To provide for the suspension of annual assessment work on mining claims held by location in the Territory of Alaska. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provision of section 2324 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which requires on each mining claim located, and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than $100 worth of labor to be performed or improvements aggregating such amount to be made each year, be, and the same is hereby, suspended as to all mining claims in the Terri- tory of Alaska, until the hour of 12 o'clock meridian on the 1st day of July 1949: Provided,That every claimant of any such mining claim in order to obtain the benefits of this Act shall file, or cause to be filed, in the office where the location notice or certificate is recorded, on or before 12 o'clock meridian of July 1, 1949, a notice of his desire to hold said mining claim under this Act. Approved June 22, 1948. [CHAPTER 596] AN ACT To authorize the transfer of certain Federal lands within the Chopawamsic Park to the Secretary of the Navy, the addition of lands surplus to the Department of the Army to this park, the acquisition of additional lands needed to round out the boundaries of this park, to change the name of said park to Prince William Forest Park, and for other purposes. 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 be, and he is hereby, authorized to transfer to the Sec- retary of the Navy control and jurisdiction over those parcels of land within the Chopawamsic Park, known hereafter as the Prince William Forest Park, a part of the park system of the National Capital and its environs by Act of Congress of August 13, 1940 (54 Stat. 785), comprising approximately five thousand acres, lying south of the Joplin Road and contiguous to the Marine Base at Quantico, Virginia, with the exception of approximately four acres at the intersection of roads 626 and 620, which land contains the fire tower, upon assurance that the Secretary of the Navy will guarantee the potability and the undamaged source of water of the South Branch of Quantico Creek 571 16U.S. C. §159b. Acceptance of Gen. Philip Schuyler Man- sion property. 52 Stat. 609. 16U. S .C. §159a. June 22, 194S [1. R. 6239] [Public Law 735] Alaska. Assessment work on mining claims. 30U.S.C. 28. June 22, 194S [H. R. 624e1 [Public Law 736] Chopawamsic Park, Va. Transfer of jurisdic- tion.

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