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Property transfer.

PUBLIC LAW 7 1 9 - J U L Y U, 1956

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Camp P e a r y, Williamsburg, Va. Conveyance.

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in the Federal Register. The sustained yield management requirement contained in this Act shall not be construed by any court to impose a financial liability on the United States." SEC. 2. Section 8 of such Act of June 17, 1954, is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 8. The Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to transfer to the tribe, on December 31, 1958, or on such earlier date as may be agreed upon by the tribe and the Secretary, the title to all property, real and personal held in trust by the United States for the tribe: Provided, however, That if the tribe obtains a charter for a corporation or otherwise organizes under the laws of a State or of the District of Columbia for the purpose, among any others, of taking title to all tribal lands and assets and enterprises owned by the tribe or held in trust by the United States for the tribe, and requests such transfer to be made to such corporation or organization, the Secretary shall make such transfer to such corporation or organization. The Secretary is authorized, in his discretion, to transfer to the tribe or any member or group of members thereof any federally owned property acquired, withdrawn, or used for the administration of the affairs of the tribe which he deems necessary for Indian use, or to transfer to a public or nonprofit body any such property which he deems necessary for public use and from which members of the tribe will derive benefits.'' Approved July 14, 1956. Public Law 719

July 14, 1956 [H. R. 9660]

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CHAPTER 605 AN ACT

To direct the Secretary of the Army or his designee to convey an eleven and one-fourth acre tract of land situated in the vicinity of Williamsburg, Virginia, to the State of Virginia.

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 or his designee is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed, without consideration, to the State of Virginia, all right, title, and interest of the United States, except as retained in this Act, in and to eleven and one-fourth acres of land situated in York County, Virginia, and being a part of the lands at the Armed Forces Experimental Training Activity, Camp Peary, near Williamsburg, Virginia. The eleven and one-fourth acre tract of land to be conveyed to the State of Virginia is more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point in the southwestern boundary line of the Camp Peary Reservation where the Government's southwestern property line intersects the center line of Queen's Creek; said point of beginning is also the farthermost point west that the Government's boundary line traverses the center line of Queen's Creek; thence from the said point of beginning along the property line of the Government north 41 degrees 58 minutes 20 seconds west 84.14 feet to a concrete monument; thence north 41 degrees 58 minutes 20 seconds west 150.13 feet to a concrete monument in a corner of the Government's southwestern boundary line; thence continuing along the property line of the Government north 51 degrees 15 minutes east 1,374.04 feet to a concrete monument; thence south 35 degrees 4 minutes east, through property of the Government, 2,682.73 feet to the true point of beginning; thence, from said true point of beginning, south 69 degrees 49 minutes east 837 feet to a pomt on the northwestern right-of-way line of Virginia State Highway Route Numbered 132; thence southwesterly along said

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