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PRIVATE LAW 89-000—MMMM. DD, 1966
[80 STAT. 1671]

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PRIVATE LAW 89-364-OCT. 15, 1966

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Vincent Peter Tramontana; Roffer Bruce Wilklow; Jefferson Bruce Young; each sum to be paid as equitable relief in connection with the death of each such former member in the plane crash which occurred during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on February 25, 1960. No part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 20 per centum thereof 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 October 15, 1966.

Private Law 89-364 AN ACT

October 15, 1966

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain lands in Inyo County, California, to the personal representative of the estate of Gwilym L. Morris, Dolores G. Morris, George D. Ishmael, and Verna H. Ishmael.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives' of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Secretary •

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of the Interior is authorized and directed to issue, subject to the provisions of this Act to the persons named below, who have previously filed desert land entries on the lands involved, patents to the following described tracts of land in the county of Inyo, State of California: (1) Township 27 north, range 4 east, San Bernardino meridian, section 27: west half containing 320 acres to the personal representative of the Estate of Gwilym L. Morris. (2) Township 27 north, range 4 east, San Bernardino meridian, section 28: east half containing 320 acres to Dolores G. Morris. (3) Township 27 north, range 4 east, San Bernardino meridian, section 27: east half containing 320 acres to George D. Ishmael. (4) Township 27 north, range 4 east, San Bernardino meridian, section 26: west half containing 320 acres to Verna H. Ishmael. SEC. 2. Each patent authorized to be issued by section 1 of this Act may be issued only after payment, by the beneficiary of this Act to the United States, of the sum of (a) the fair market value of the lands as of the effective date of this Act less the value added to the land by the beneficiary, and (b) the administrative costs of making the conveyance, both as determined by the Secretary. SEC. 3. Any patent issued under this Act shall contain a reservation to the United States of (a) any of the following named minerals for which the land is deemed by the Secretary of the Interior to be valuable or prospectively valuable as of the date of issuance of patent: coal, native asphalt, solid and semisolid bitumen, and bituminous rock (including oil-impregnated rock or sands, from which oil is recoverable only by special treatment after the deposit is mined or quarried), oil, gas, oil shale, phosphate, sodium, and potassium, and (b) the right of the United States, its lessees, permittees, or licensees to prospect for, mine, and remove them under applicable provisions of law. SEC. 4. No conveyance to any beneficiary of this Act shall be made unless application for the conveyance is made to the Secretary of the Interior within one year after the effective date of this Act and payment is made to the Secretary of the Interior within the period allowed therefor by him. Approved October 15, 1966.

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