Aug. 31, 1949 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 525, 5 29- Sept. 1, 1949 - Sept. 1, 1949 [63 STAT. and thirty-five one-hundredths feet to U. S . Monument 180, thence north sixty-seven degrees ten minutes forty-two seconds west for a distance of six hundred and fourteen feet to U. S. Monument 182, thence north seventy-seven degrees fifty-seven minutes thirty-eight seconds east for a distance of one thousand three hundred twelve and seventy one-hundredths feet to U. S. Monument 184, thence north ten degrees nineteen minutes thirty-two seconds west for a distance of eight hundred fifty-nine and six one-hundredths feet to U. S. Monu- ment 186, thence north eleven degrees forty-eight minutes twenty seconds west for a distance of five hundred seventy and twenty-one one-hundredths feet to U. S . Monument 188, thence north eleven degrees twenty-one minutes fifty-eight seconds west for a distance of one thousand seven hundred seventy and eighty-seven one- hundredths feet to U. S. Monument 190, thence north sixty-eight degrees twenty-eight minutes fifty-two seconds east for a distance of two thousand four hundred fifty-one and eighty one-hundredths feet to U. S. Monument 193, thence on a bearing of north twelve degrees twelve minutes forty-seven seconds west in a southeasterly direction for approximately six thousand six hundred and thirteen feet to point of beginning, said tract now being occupied and used by the Federal Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio, and being a portion of the land described in a permit dated March 20, 1928, executed by Frank T. Hines, Director, United States Veterans' Bureau, in favor of the aforesaid Bureau of Prisons. SEC. 2. The transfer provided for in this Act shall be effected without reimbursement or transfer of funds. Approved August 31, 1949. [CHAPTER 529] September 1 1949 [s.16471 [Public Law 280] Government royal- ty oil. 41 Stat. 451; 60 Stat. 533. Termination of con- tract. Retention of con- tract. Applicability to ex- isting contracts. 30 U.S. C. j 192. Exception. AN ACT To eliminate premium payments in the purchase of Government royalty oil under existing contracts entered into pursuant to the Act of July 13, 1946 (60 Stat. 533), and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That where, under any existing contract entered into pursuant to the first proviso in the second paragraph of section 36 of the Mineral Lands Leasing Act of February 25, 1920, as amended (30 U. S . C ., sec. 192), any refinery is required to pay a premium price for the purchase of Government royalty oil, such refnery may, at its option, by written notice to the Secretary of the Interior, elect either- (1) to terminate such contract, the termination to take place at the end of the calendar month following the month in which such notice is given; or (2) to retain such contract with the modifications, that (a) the price, on and after March 1, 1949, shall be as defined in the contract, without premium payments, (b) any credit thereby resulting from past premium payments shall be added to the refinery s account, and (c) the Secretary may, at his option, elect to terminate the contract as so modified, such termination to take place at the end of the third calendar month following the month in which written notice thereof is given by the Secretary. SEC. 2 . The provisions of this Act shall apply to all existing con- tracts for the purchase of Government royalty oil entered into after the approval of the Act of July 13, 1946 (60 Stat. 533), and prior to the approval of this Act, irrespective of whether a determination of preference status was made in connection with the award of such contracts, but shall not apply to any such contract which subsequent 682
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