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 PUBLIC LAW 711-AUG. 30, 1954

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Point Reservoir back of Gavins Point Dam, which is located on the Missouri River near Yankton, South Dakota, shall hereafter be known as Lewis and Clark Lake and any law, regulation, document, or record of the United States in which such reservoir is designated or referred to under the name of Gavins Point Reservoir shall be held to refer to such body of water under and by the name of Lewis and Clark Lake. Approved August 30,'1954. Public Law 711 August 30, 1954 [S. 3595]

Port B l i s s Military Reservation, Tex. Conveyance.

Reservation s and conditions.

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CHAPTER 1081

AN ACT To direct the Secretary of the Army to convey certain property located in El Paso, Texas, and described as part of Fort Bliss, to the State of Texas.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Army is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed, without consideration, to the State of Texas all right, title, and interest of the United States, except as retained in this Act, in and to a parcel of land within Fort Bliss Military Reservation, such parcel consisting of a portion of North El Paso Addition and a portion of Morningside Heights Addition, El Paso, Texas, and being more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows: Beginning at a point which is the intersection of the east right-ofway line of Pollard Street and the south right-of-way line of Hayes Avenue; thence south no degrees fourteen and ninety one-hundredths minutes west along the east right-of-way line of Pollard Street, a distance of nine hundred two and six-tenths feet; thence south eightynine degrees forty-five and ten one-hundredths minutes east a distance of one thousand forty-two and thirty-nine one-hundredths feet to the west right-of-way line of the Southern Pacific Railroad (formerly the E. P. & S. W. R. R.); thence north thirteen degrees forty-five and two one-hundredths minutes east a distance of eight hundred forty-five and seventy-three one-hundredths feet along the Southern Pacific Railroad right-of-way line, to a point; thence north one degree fifteen and sixty-two one-hundredths minutes west a distance of one hundred twelve and five one-hundredths feet, to a point in the south right-ofway line of Hayes Avenue; thence south eighty-eight degrees fortysix minutes west a distance of one thousand two hundred thirty-seven and three-tenths feet along the south right-of-way line of Hayes Avenue, to the point of beginning, containing in all twenty-four and twenty-five one-hundredths acres of land, more or less. SEC. 2. All mineral rights, including gas and oil, in the lands authorized to be conveyed by this Act shall be reserved to the United States. SEC. 3. There shall be further reserved to the United States in the conveyance of the above-described lands, rights of ingress and egress over roads in the above-described lands serving buildings or other works operated by the United States or its successors or assigns in connection with Fort Bliss, rights-of-way for water lines, sewer lines, telephone and telegraph lines, power lines, and such other utilities which now exist, or which may become necessary to the operation of the said Fort Bliss. SEC. 4. The conveyance of the property authorized by this Act shall be upon condition that such property shall be used primarily for training of the National Guard and for other military purposes, and that if the State of Texas shall cease to use the property so conveyed for the purposes intended, then title thereto shall immediately

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