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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 193, 194-JUNE 10,1949 49 Stat. 1387 . U. S. easements and rights-of-way. Conveyance. June 10, 1949 [8. 1229 [Public Law 98] Civil Service Re- tirement Act, 1930, amendment. 46 Stat. 475 . 5U. . C., Snpp.U, 736c. Post, p. 476. Act entitled "An Act authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to con- vey the Charleston Army Base Terminal to the city of Charleston, South Carolina", approved May 27, 1936 (prohibiting the city of Charleston from transferring title to the property conveyed under such Act and reserving a right to the United States to retake such property in the event of a national emergency), to be included in the deed executed pursuant to the provisions of such Act the Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized and directed to release to the city of Charleston, South Carolina, by an appropriate written instrument, such restrictions and conditions so far as they pertain to the area designated as "tract numbered 2-part 1", comprising approximately two hundred seventy-eight and ninety-two one-hundredths acres, on the map on file in the Office, Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, entitled "Tract No. 2, Portion of Charleston Ordnance Depot, North Charleston, S. C ., Date: 2 Feb. 1949, Drawing Number RE-1/372 (Rev.), as further revised 9 Feb. 1949." (b) In executing the written instrument referred to in subsection (a) the Secretary of the Army is authorized and directed to make provision for reservation and/or conveyance to the United States of all easements and rights-of-way (including use of water and sewer mains) that are now enjoyed by the United States with respect to such tract and are deemed necessary for retention by the Secretary of the Army, subject to the provision that any such easements and rights- of-way (including use of water and sewer mains) as may at any time, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Army, be no longer required for governmental use may be abandoned, and upon such abandonment will automatically terminate. Such instrument shall recite that with respect to that certain water main which intersects the northwesterly corner of the above-described premises, the City Council of Charles- ton, South Carolina, its successors, or assigns, may with the written consent of the Secretary of the Army, relocate at its sole cost and ex- pense such water main on other lands and that in such event all rights and privileges now enjoyed by the United States with respect to such water main shall cease and terminate. SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Army is authorized to convey by quit- claim deed to the City Council of Charleston, South Carolina, all or any part of the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to so much of that certain tract of land comprising one and two hundred and five one-thousandths acres, more or less, and designated as tract 5, exception "C", on the drawing described in the first section of this Act, as the Secretary of the Army determines is no longer needed for military purposes. Any conveyance executed pursuant to the author- ity contained in this section shall be made upon payment by the City Council of Charleston, South Carolina, of the fair market value of the property to be conveyed. Approved June 10, 1949. [CHAPTER 1941 AN ACT To enable certain former officers or employees of the United States separated from the service subsequent to January 23, 1942, to elect to forfeit their rights to civil-service retirement annuities and to obtain in lieu thereof returns of their contributions with interest. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the last para- graph of section 8 of the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29,1930, as amended, is amended by inserting before the period at the end thereof a colon and the following: "Provided, That any such officer · tuh fie 170 [63 STAT.

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