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PUBLIC LAW 714-AUG. 30, 1954

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national defense purposes, the United States may, without payment therefor, reenter such property and use all or any part of it (including improvements by the State of Texas) but upon the termination of such use such property shall revert to the State of Texas; and (4) contain such additional terms, conditions, reservations, and restrictions as may be determined by the Secretary of the Army to be necessary to protect the interests of the United States. Approved August 30, 1954.

Public Law 714 August 30, 1954 [H. R. 2012]

Alaska Council of Boy S c o u t s of America< Land s a l e.

66 Stat. 133. 46 USC 289, 883, notes.

CHAPTER 1084

AN ACT To authorize the sale of certain public lands in Alaska to the Alaska Council of Boy Scouts of America for a camp site and other public purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Alaska Council of Boy Scouts of America is hereby authorized for a period of one year from and after the effective date of this Act to apply for the purchase of, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to convey to the organization for a camp site and other public purposes, the following-described public lands situated in Alaska: Homesite numbered 337, located on Hot Springs Bay, west shore of Baranof Island, Tongass National Forest, Alaska, approximate latitude fifty-six degrees fifty minutes ten seconds north, longitude one hundred thirty-five degrees twenty-two minutes ten seconds west. Beginning at corner numbered 1, MC at line of mean high tide on shore of Hot Springs Bay, not set on account of liability to destruction by tides; thence south six and no one-hundredths chains to corner immbered 2; thence east five and seventy-five one-hundredths chains to corner numbered 3; thence north six and fifty one-hundredths chains to corner numbered 4, MC at line of mean high tide, not set on account of liability to destruction by tides; thence by meanders along shore of Hot Springs Bay at line of mean high tide south seventy degrees west three and seventy-five one-hundredths chains, north sixty-nine degrees west two and thirty-four one-hundredths chains to the place of beginning. (A witness corner bears south sixty-five one-hundredths chain from corner numbered 4.) (Witness corner consisting of a cedar post four inches square, four feet long, marked WC 1 MC H S bears south seventy one-hundredths chain from corner numbered 1.) (Tie: Witness corner, meander corner numbered 2 of United States Survey Numbered 1401 bears south seventy-six degrees thirty minutes west two and fifty-nine one-hundredths chains from W C MC 1.) (A trail right-of-way one-half chain in width crosses the tract, the center line of which enters the west boundary of the homesite two and seven one-hundredths chains, south from true point for corner numbered 1 MC, thence north eighty-four degrees east five and no one-hundredths chains, north thirty-four degrees east two and eighty one-hundredths chains, to a point south eighty-five one-hundredths chain, from true point for corner numbered 4 MC), embracing approximately three and twenty-eight one-hundredths acres. SEC. 2. Such conveyance shall be subject to the terms and conditions provided for the sale of public lands to a nonprofit corporation or nonprofit association under the Act of June 4, 1954 (Public Law 387, Eighty-third Congress, second session): Provided, That the conveyance hereby authorized shall not include any land covered by a valid

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