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PRIVATE LAW 87-183-SEPT. 6, 1961

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SEC. 2. I n the event that the Secretary determines that the lands described in section 1 are not prospectively valuable for phosphate, he shall convey the reserved phosphate interests to the present record owner or owners of the surface rights upon the payment of a sum of $200 to reimburse the United States for the administrative costs of the conveyance; otherwise, the phosphate interests shall be sold to the record owner or owners of the surface rights upon the payment of a sum equal to $200 plus the fair market value of the phosphate interests as determined by the Secretary after taking into consideration such appraisals as he deems necessary. SEC. 3. Proceeds from the sale made hereunder shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts. Approved September 6, 1961. Private Law 87-183 September 6, 1961

AN ACT

'-—'•—'•—-— To direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain lands to Purvis C. Vickers, Robert I. Vickers, and Joseph M. Vickers, a copartnership doing business as Vickers Brothers.

Vickers B r o t h ers

Conveyance.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior IS hereby authorized and directed to convey to Purvis C. Vickers, Robert I. Vickers, and Joseph M. Vickers, a copartnership doing business as Vickers Brothers, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to a tract of land south of the town of Lake City known as tract 42 in township 43 north, range 4 west of the New Mexico principal meridian, Colorado, containing 157.07 acres of land as more specifically shown and described on a plat on file in the Office of the Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, Washington, District of Columbia, entitled "Metes and bounds survey of tract 42 of land containing 157.07 acres of land prepared to describe a tract containing the improvements of Vickers Brothers, being the area involved in S. 724, Eighty-seventh Congress, and H.R. 3596, Eighty-seventh Congress, Bureau of Land Management, Washington, District of Columbia, August 4, 1961", and certified by C. E. Remington, Chief, Division of Engineering, on behalf of the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, subject, however, to reservations for public use of the bed and a ten-foot strip of upland along the banks of the Lake Fork of the Gunnison River extending from the south boundary of this tract of land to the line crossing the river at the westerly extension of the southeasterly boundary of the Sulphuret lode, mineral survey numbered 589; reserving further the following rights-of-way for public access, a strip of land 10 feet on either side of the section line between sections 9 and 10 extending from State Highway Numbered 149 to the river and a strip of land 20 feet in width adjoining the line between angle points 9 and 10 and extending from State Highway Numbered 149 to the river. SEC. 2. The conveyance authorized by this Act shall be made upon payment of a sum equal to the costs of appraisal, the cost of survey based upon which the plat referred to in section 1 was prepared, and the fair market value of the land, exclusive of any value added by improvements to the lands made by the Vickers Brothers or their redecessors in interest as determined by the Secretary of the Interior y contract appraisal, or otherwise, after taking into consideration reservations, conditions, and limitations contained in the conveyance.

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