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"(3) Any numbered mineral section which is surveyed on or after the date of the enactment of this subsection, and on which there is outstanding at the time of such survey a lease or leases entered into by the United States, shall (unless excluded from the provisions of this section by subsection (c) for a reason other than the existence of an outstanding lease) be granted to the State concerned immediately upon completion of such survey; and the State shall succeed to the position of the United States as lessor under such lease or leases. "(4) The Secretary of the Interior shall, upon application by a State, issue patents to the State for the lands granted by this Act, in accordance with the Act of June 12, 1934 (48 Stat. 1185,43 U.S.C. sec. 871a). Such patent shall include a statement that the State succeeded to the position of the United States as lessor at the time the title vested in the State. "(5) Where, at the time rents, royalties, and bonuses accrue, the lands or deposits covered by a single lease are owned in part by the State and in part by the United States, the rents, royalties, and bonuses shall be allocated between them in proportion to the acreage in said lease owned by each." SEC. 2. Subsection (c) of such Act, as amended, is amended by striking out "That" and by inserting in lieu thereof the following: "Except as provided jn subsection (d),". Approved April 22, 1954. Public Law 341 April 22, 1954 [H. R. 7380]

Boiilder, C o l o. Reconveyance.

15 USC 2 72 note.

AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to reconvey certain property which the city of Boulder, Colorado, donated to the Secretary of Commerce for the establishment of a radio propagation laboratory.

Be it enacted by the Senate and Hovt^ne of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to reconvey, without compensation in such manner and on such other terms and conditions as he deems to be hi the best interests of the United States, to the city of Boulder, Colorado, two acres of land more or less, consisting of a portion of a tract of some two hundred and ten acres of land in Boulder County, Colorado, which tract was conveyed without compensation to the United States Government represented by the Secretary of Commerce, as a site for a radio laboratory under authority of Public Law 366, Eighty-first Congress, approved October 25, 1949 (63 Stat. 886), the said land reconveyed to be used by the city of Boulder, Colorado, as part of a site for a water reservoir. Approved April 22, 1954. Public Law 342

April 22, 1954 [S. J. R e s. 146]

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JOINT RESOLUTION To authorize the designation of October 16, 1954, as National Olympic Day.

Whereas the X VI t h Olympic Games of the modern era will be held in Melbourne, Australia, November 22 to December 8, 1956, with Winter Games to be held at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, January 26 to February 5, 1956; and Whereas the Pan American Games will be held in Mexico City in March 1955; and

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