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Public Law 85-495 AN ACT To authorize the acquisition by exchange of certain properties within Death Valley National Monument, California, and for other purposes.

July 2, _i?5A CH.R. 10349]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of ATuerica in Congress assembled, That the Secretary N a uVn\Y' Monuof the Interior is hereby authorized to grant and convey to the Death ment, caiif. Valley Hotel Company, Ltd., or its successors, perpetual easements la^cu?*'""'** °' for rights-of-way and/or title to land aggregating not more than two hundred acres within Death Valley National Monument, California, subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary may deem desirable, and to enter into an agreement with the Death Valley Hotel Company, Ltd., or its successors, defining, fixing and establishing the respective rights of the Death Valley Hotel Company, Ltd., or its successors, and the United States, as between themselves, to the use of the waters available from Texas Springs, Furnace Creek Wash and its tributaries, including Travertine Springs, and other waters in the vicinity thereof in said Death Valley National Monument, California, and to accept in exchange therefor the conveyance to the United States of parcels designated parcels F, G, and H, aggregating approximately four hundred and forty acres, on sheet 1 of 1 of a drawing entitled "N. P. S., reg. IV, drawing numbered NM-DV-2123, revised March 14, 1958", a copy of which drawing is on file with the Superintendent, Death Valley National Monument, California, said lands lying within the exterior boundaries of Death Valley National Monument. I n order to facilitate the making of such exchange, the Secretary of the Interior may enter into an agreement with the Death Valley Hotel Company, Ltd., or its successors, pursuant to which the perpetual easements and land or any part thereof which he is hereby authorized to grant and convey to the Death Valley Hotel Company, Ltd., or its successors, will be conveyed from time to time over a period of time in parcels or portions in accordance with a schedule. mutually satisfactory to the parties. Approved July 2, 1958.

Public Law 85-496 AN ACT To designate the dam and reservoir to be constructed at Stewarts Ferry, Tennessee, as the J. Percy Priest Dam and Reservoir.

fl?*fc2, 1958 [".R. 120S2]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the dam and j^J* Percy Priest reservoir authorized to be constructed at Stewarts Ferry, Tennessee, voir? ^"** *'*'" by the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the construction of certain public works on rivers and harbors for flood control, and for other purposes", approved June 28, 1938 (52 Stat. 1215), as amended, and subsequent Acts of Congress, shall be known as the J. Percy Priest Dam and Reservoir, in honor of the late Representative J. Percy Priest. Any law, regulation, map, document, record, or other paper of the United States in which such projected dam and reservoir are referred to shall be held to refer to such dam and reservoir by the name of the J. Percy Priest Dam and Reservoir. Approved July 2, 1958.