Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 71.djvu/553

 71

STAT.]

517

PUBLIC LAW 85-237-AUG. 30, 1957

in and to a parcel of land comprising three and eighty-five onehundredths acres, more or less, being that parcel of land fronting approximately four hundred nineteen and fifty-two one-hundredths feet on Federal Avenue set aside for a proposed National Guard Armory and now a portion of the Veterans' Administration Reservation, Los Angeles, California, subject, however, to the conditions and restrictions set forth in section 2 of this Act. SEC. 2. The conveyance authorized by this Act shall be made without monetary consideration therefor but upon condition that the property shall be used for training of the National Guard and for other military purposes, and in the event it shall not be used for such purposes title thereto shall immediately revert to the United States, and, m addition, title to all improvements (except those improvements which the State of California removes at its own expense within a reasonable time after title to such property has reverted to the United States) made by the State of California during its occupancy shall vest in the United States without payment of compensation therefor. The deed of conveyance shall reserve to the United States all mineral rights, including gas and oil, and contain the further provision that whenever the Congress of the United States declares a state of war or other national emergency, or the President declares a state of emergency, and upon determination by the Secretary of Defense that the property conveyed is useful or necessary for military, air, or naval purposes, or in the interest of national defense, the United States shall have the right, without obligation to make payment of any kind, to reenter upon the property and use the same or any part thereof, including any and all improvements made by the State of California, for a period not to exceed the duration of such state of war or national emergency plus six months, and upon cessation of such use the property shall revert to the State of California, together with any or all improvements thereon and appurtenances appertaining thereto. SEC. 3. The cost of any surveys necessary as an incident to the conveyance authorized herein shall be borne by the grantee. Approved August 30, 1957.

National Guard training.

Public Law 85-237 AN ACT To amend the laws relating to the endorsement of masters on vessel documents and to provide certain additional penalties for failure to exhibit vessel documents or other papers when required by enforcement oflScers.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That paragraph (a) of section 4335 of the Revised Statutes of the United States as amended (U.S.C. 1952 edition, title 46, sec. 276 (a)), is amended by substituting a semicolon for the final period thereof and adding the following: ''And provided further, That in the case of any vessel engaged in towing from any port or place embraced within the coastwise laws of the United States to any other such port or place plying in whole or in part on inland rivers, canals, waterways, sounds, gulfs, lakes, and harbors, not carrying passengers nor proceeding directly or indirectly to any foreign port or place or to any port or place in noncontiguous territory of the United States, the name of the owner or some responsible person acting for the owner who otherwise meets all requirements of the laws of the United States with regard to master, may be endorsed on the license of such vessel, although not actually employed thereon, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury."

August 30, 1957 [H. R. 5894]

Vessel ments.

docu-

Coastwise to wing. Endorsement on license.

�