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PUBLIC LAW 8 5 - 2 6 5 - S E P T. 2, 1957

Basin irrigation districts, or revisions thereof api^roved by the Secretary, which the Secretary determines may be supplied water from, through, or by means of the project works and are required to be included to provide for sound development and operation of the project. Lands shall be deemed to be held by a family, if held as separate property of husband or wife, or constitute a part or all of their community property, or if they are the property of any or all of their children under eighteen years of age. Lands held in trust for any person shall, for the purpose of this Act, be deemed to be held both by that person and, if the trustee derives any profit or advantage from the trust other than a moderate fixed fee for the management of the same, by the trustee." The last sentence of this amendment shall not be deemed to aflfect any irrevocable trust for the benefit of a child under eighteen created prior to this amendment, which would then have been held to be consistent with the provisions and intent of the Columbia Basin Project Act or to excuse any violation or evasion of that Act, or of the rules and regulations issued pursuant to it or of contracts entered into under it, by the creation or purported creation of a trust prior to this amendment, which would then have been held to be inconsistent with said provisions and intent. (d) Section 4, subsection (b), of said Act is hereby amended by substituting a comma for the period at the end thereof and adding thereto the following: "and each such applicant shall be required to agree that he, his heirs and assigns will not, except with the approval of the Secretary, sell, assign, lease, or otherwise dispose of or contract to sell, assign, lease, or otherwise dispose of his land during a period ending five years from the date of his purchase contract. No application for a farm unit shall be received from any person who, or a member of whose family, then has outstanding another application for a farm unit on the project or to whom a farm unit could not at the time of application lawfully be sold under this Act. No farm unit shall be sold to, and no contract to sell a farm unit shall be entered into with, any person, corporation, joint-stock association, or family which has theretofore purchased or entered into a contract to purchase a farm unit under this Act or which then owns a farm unit within the Columbia Basin Project. The prohibition of the preceding sentence, however, shall not preclude a purchase or contract to purchase by a person, otherwise eligible, whose farm unit has been or is acquired by the United States for exchange purposes under this Act or the Act of August 13, 1953 (67 Stat. 566) or, if he is 18 years of age or older, whose family purchased or entered into a contract to purchase a farm unit at a time when he was under 18 years of age." SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to amend any contract, which has been entered into prior to the date of enactment of this Act, or any existing deed or other document to conform with the provisions of the first section of this Act. The consent of the United States is hereby given to the recording, at the expense of the party benefited thereby, of any such amendment. Approved September 2, 1957.

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5 7 Stat. 14. 16 USC 835 note.

64 Stat. 1037. 16 USC 835c.

43 USC 45 1.

Contracts deeds. Amendments.

Public Law 85-265 AN ACT To grant certain lands to the Territory of Alaska.

September 2, 1957 [H. R. 3940]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby granted to the Territory of Alaska all right, title, and interest of the

Alaska. Grant of lands.

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