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PUBLIC LAW 652-AUG. 24, 1954

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inland lake or river in Wisconsin as originally surveyed and the meander line of that lake or river as subsequently resurveyed, has been held in good faith and in peaceful, adverse possession by a person, or his predecessors in interest, who had been issued a patent, prior to January 21, 1953, for lands lying along the meander line as originally determined, the Secretary of the Interior shall cause a patent to be issued to such person for such land upon the payment of the same price per acre as that at which the land included in the original patent was purchased and upon the same terms and conditions. All persons seeking to purchase lands under this Act shall make application to the Secretary within one year from the date of the enactment of this Act, or from the date of the official filing of the plat or resurvey, whichever is later, and the Secretary of the Interior shall cause no patents to be issued for land lying between the original meander line and the resurveyed meander line until the conclusion of such periods. SEC. 2. Upon the filing of a plat of resurvey under section 1 of this Act, the Secretary shall give such notice as he finds appropriate by newspaper publication or otherwise of the opening of the lands to purchase under this Act. SEC. 3. Nothing in this Act shall affect valid existing rights. Approved August 24, 1954. Public Law 652

August 24, 1954 [H. R. 8038]

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CHAPTER 901

AN ACT fj^ authorize the coiiveyunce to the Hot Springs School District and to Garland County, Arkansas, for school and for other public purposes, of certain land originally donated to the United States and situated in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the schoorDi8?riit"and ^'"^^^^^ Stotes of Amenca in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Garland County, of the IntcHor is authorized to coiivey without consideration but ^cwiveyance. upou such temis and couditious as he shall consider to be in the public interest to the Hot Springs School District and to the county of Garland, Arkansas, all or portions of a tract of approximately thirtyfive acres within Hot Springs National Park, which was donated to the United States by Garland County, Arkansas, such property being situated in the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section 34, township 2 south, range 19 west. Garland County, Arkansas, and identified as the former United States Public Health Service Medical Center property. Such property may be conveyed together with any improvements, appurtenances, and facilities relating thereto except those which the Secretary may find to be necessary to retain for purposes of the national park system or which he may deem advisable to remove for other purposes, the conveyances of the land hereunder to be made in the approximate proportions of two-thirds of the tract to or for purposes of the H o t Springs School District, such portion to be used for public school purposes, and one-third to Garland County for purposes of the county health and welfare unit. Any costs incidental to accomplishing the conveyances provided for herein shall be borne by the said Hot Springs School District and by Garland County. Approved August 24, 1954,

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