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56 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CHS. 338 , 339-JUNE 5, 1942 [CHAPTER 338] AN ACT For the relief of persons in connection with the extraction of gold-bearing ore from the Ruck-A-Chucky dam site. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no member of the association known as the Ruck-A -Chucky Mine Partnership or any of their agents or employees, or any other persons, shall be held liable on account of the extraction by them during the year 1940 of gold-bearing ore from Lot 19, Section 19, Township 13 North, Range 10 East, Mount Diablo Meridian, California, or adjacent lands. The Ruck-A -Chucky Mine Partnership and other persons shall be deemed to have obtained full title to such ore at the time of its extraction. No person, partnership, or corporation, Ward & Ward, or the American Smelting and Refining Company shall be held liable on account of the purchase of any part of the gold ore referred to in the first paragraph of this Act. The purchasers of such ore shall be deemed to have acquired full title to the ore at the time of its purchase. Approved, June 5, 1942. [CHAPTER 339] AN ACT To authorize the sale of certain public lands in Alaska to the North Pacific Union Conference Association of Seventh-Day Adventists. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the North Pacific Union Conference Association of Seventh-Day Adventists is hereby authorized for a period of one year from and after the effective date of this Act to purchase, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to convey to the association for use as a mission site, the following-described public lands in Alaska: Beginning at corner numbered 1, identical with corner num- bered 4, amended United States Survey Numbered 63, latitude fifty- seven degrees thirty-five minutes north, longitude one hundred and fifty-seven degrees thirty-five minutes west, approximate. From said initial point south nine degrees thirty minutes east, eleven and sev- enty one-hundredths chains, to corner numbered 3, amended survey numbered 63; thence south eighty degrees thirty minutes west, two and thirty-nine one-hundredths chains, along line 2-3, amended sur- vey numbered 63 to corner numbered 3, United States Survey Num- bered 504; thence south five degrees forty-five minutes east, thirteen and fifty one-hundredths chains, to corner numbered 4, Survey Num- bered 504; thence continuing south five degrees forty-five minutes east, six and fifty one-hundredths chains, to a point; thence north eighty-four degrees fifteen minutes east, thirteen and sixty-four one hundredths chains, to a point; thence north five degrees forty-five minutes west, thirty-two and sixty-one one -hundredths chains, to a point on south boundary of United States School Reserve, created by Executive Order Numbered 7079, June 17, 1935; thence south eighty degrees thirty minutes west, along south boundary of said school reserve, twelve and four one-hundredths chains to the point of begin- ning, containing forty-one and fifty one-hundredths acres. SEC. 2 . That the conveyance shall be made upon the payment by the said organization for the land at its reasonable appraised price, not less than $1.25 per acre, to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, and upon the submission by it of satisfactory proof that it 313 June 5, 1942 [H. R . 4213] [Public Law 578] Ruck-A -Chucky dam site. Extraction of gold- bearing ore. Title to ore. Nonliability of pur- chasers. June 5, 1942 [H. R . 4347] [Public Law 579] Alaska. Conveyance of cer- tain lands authorized. Description. Purchase price.