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PRIVATE LAW 90-291-JULY 5, 1968

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the audit and settlement of the accounts of any certifying or disbursing officer of the United States, full credit shall be given for the amount for which liability is relieved by this Act. SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Richard C Mockler, Wildhorse Circle, Pinebrook Hills, Boulder, Colorado, the sum certified to the Secretary of the Treasury by the Secretary of Commerce as the sum of amounts paid to the United States by the said Richard C. Mockler, or withheld from amounts otherwise due him from the United States, by reason of the liability referred to in the first section of this Act: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with this claim, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved July 5, 1968. Private Law 90-291 AN ACT To provide for the conveyance by the Secretary of the Interior of certain lands and interests in lands in G r and and Clear Creek Counties, Colorado, in exchange for certain lands within the national forests of Colorado, and for other puriM)«es.

July 5, 1968 [H- R- 16429]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America In Congress assembled, That upon acceptance Grand and clear on behalf of the United States of title to not less than an equal value of colo. °"""*^' land within the exterior boundaries of any one or more of the Arapaho, conveyance. Gunnison, Pike, Rio Grande, Roosevelt, Routt, San Isabel, San,ruan, Uncompahgre, or White River National Forests in Colorado to be conveyed by American Metal Climax, Incorporated, a New York Corporation, in accordance with procedures set forth in the Act of March 20, 1922 (42 Stat. 465), as amended and supplemented, the Secretary of "^^ ^tat. 1090. the Interior shall, in exchange therefor, issue patent to American Metal 436^ '**'^' Climax, Incorporated, for the following: FIRST.—A tract of land in the Arapaho National Forest and in Clear Creek and Grand Counties, Colorado, not to exceed 150 feet in horizontal width, within which tract shall be located a tunnel to be excavated by American Metal Climax, Incorporated, from the portal thereof at a point in Grand County, Colorado, in what will probably be, when surveyed, township 3 south, range 77 west of the sixth principal meridian, to the mining property belonging to said company in Clear Creek County, Colorado, said tract to be described by metes and bounds.survey which shall be completed by the Secretary of the Interior within six months after the effective date of this Act, excepting and reserving, however, unto the United States the surface thereof and full rights to the soil, vegetation, and other surface resources. SECOND.—A tract or tracts of land in the Arapaho National Forest and in Grand County, Colorado, which, when consolidated with lands already owned by American Metal Climax, Incorporated, will comprise a consolidated tract not to exceed eight hundred feet in horizontal width, within which consolidated tract shall be located a railroad to be constructed by American Metal Climax, Incorporated, from the portal of the tunnel referred to in the first subparagraph of this section to lands said company has applied for in exchange pursuant to the Act of March 20, 1922 (42 Stat. 465), as amended, said 43 Stat. 1090. 16 USC 485, 486.

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