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PUBLIC LAW 8 6 - 7 8 9 - S E P T. 14, 1960 amend654. 1703. 681. 1749.

69 Stat. 643. 42 USC 1493.

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SEC. 2. (a) Section 2(a) of the National Housing Act is amended by (1) striking out "1960" and inserting in lieu thereof "1961", and (2) striking out the last sentence of the first paragraph thereof. (b) Section 401(d) of the Housing Act of 1950 is amended by striking out "$1,175,000,000", "$125,000,000", and "$50,000,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "$1,675,000,000", "$175,000,000", and "$100,000,000", respectively. (c) Section 203(a) of the Housing Amendments of 1955 is amended by striking out "$100,000,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "$150,000,000". Approved September 14, 1960. Public Law 86-789 AN ACT

September 14, 1960

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Alaska. H o m e s t e ad 1 an d s, m i n er al rights.

To provide for the granting of mineral rights in certain homestead lands in the State of Alaska.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the United States hereby quitclaims as of the date of this Act or as of the date of issuance of patent, whichever is later, to the patentee or to his lawful heirs if title to the lands prior to the date oi this Act had by devise or succession passed out of the patentee, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to oil and gas deposits in lands in the Kenai Peninsula in the State of Alaska patented to homestead entrymen pursuant to homestead entries on which all requirements of the homestead laws had been complied with prior to July 23, 1957, except for the actual submission of acceptable final proof. SEC. 2. Nothing in this Act shall aifect the validity of any lease issued under the Mineral I^easing Act of February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 437; 30 U.S.C. 181 and following), as amended, or any rights arising thereunder, or any of its terms and conditions except that quitclaim under the terms ot this Act of any oil and gas deposit covered by such a lease shall vest in the grantee all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to such lease, insofar as the lease pertains to the quitclaimed lands, including the right to all rentals, royalties, and other payments accruing after the date of quitclaim and including any authority that may have been retained by the United States to modify its terms and conditions. Approved September 14, 1960.

Public Law 86-790 September 14, 1960 [S. 2761]

e o n s e r v a tion fyogram. V a l i d a t i o n of t>ayments» 71 Stat. 176.

AN ACT To validate payments made for certain emergency conservation measures under the program authorized by the Third Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1957.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That payments which have heretofore been made under the program authorized by the Third Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1957, under the,item entitled "Emergency Conservation Measures, Agricultural Conservation Program Service", for emergency conservation measures carried out between January 1, 1956, and June 21, 1957, shall, if otherwise proper, not be considered invalid by reason of the fact that they were made for measures carried out prior to the enactment of said Act. Approved September 14, 1960.

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