58 STAT.] 78TI CONG. , 2D SESS.-CHS. 589-591-DEC. 15, 1944 application for a new permit, and pays the fee required by law, shall be issued such new permit without examination. If any permit is lost, misplaced, or stolen, a duplicate shall be furnished by the Direc- tor of Vehicles and Traffic free of charge upon application and pres- entation of conclusive evidence that applicant is a member of one of the services enumerated herein." SEC. 2. This Act shall cease to be in effect six months after the date of the termination of hostilities in the present war as determined by the President or upon such earlier date as the Congress, by concur- rent resolution, may designate. Approved December 15, 1944. [CHAPTER 590] AN ACT Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain lands in Powell townsite, Wyoming, Shoshone reclamation project, Wyoming, to the Uni- versity of Wyoming. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary University of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause conveye a patent to issue conveying that unplatted portion of the townsite of l ' nds Powell, Wyoming, on the Shoshone reclamation project, located in the northwest corner of the townsite, containing approximately twenty- four acres, to the University of Wyoming, in trust for use as an agri- use. cultural experiment substation; but in said patent there shall be reserved to the United States all oil, coal, and other mineral deposits within said lands and the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same. SEC. 2 . The conveyance herein authorized shall be made upon the Condition. express condition that any use to which the area is put shall comply with all town ordinances and that within thirty days of the receipt of any request therefor from the Secretary of the Interior, the presi- dent of the University of Wyoming shall submit a report as to the use made of the land herein granted the university during the preceding period named in such request, showing compliance with the terms and conditions stated in this Act; and that in the event of his failure vO"1 ers l "O to so report, or in the event of a showing in such report to the Secretary of the Interior that the terms of the grant have not been complied with, the grant shall be held to be forfeited and the title shall revert to the United States, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and empowered to determine the facts and declare such forfeiture and such reversion and restore said land to the public domain, and such order of the Secretary shall be final and conclusive. Approved December 15, 1944. [CHAPTER 591] AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the President to appoint an Under Secretary of War during national emergencies, fixing the compensation of the Under Secretary of War, and authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe duties", approved December 16, 1940. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the President to appoint an Under Secretary of War during national emergencies, fixing the compensa- tion of the Under Secretary of War, and authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe duties", approved December 16,1940 (54 Stat. 124), is amended by striking from the last paragraph thereof the sentence December 15, 194 [H. R . 54941 [Public Law 4881 Under Secretary of War. Emergency appoint- ment, continuation. 5U. a . IlMs note. 807 Duplicates. Duration of Act. December 15, 1944 [H. R. 4665] [Public Law 487] of Wy- ance of xy pro-
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