466 Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1 . Production of pe- troleum for national defense. Repeal. 34 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 524 note. Ante, p. 203. July 14, 1945 [S. 24] [Public Law 143] Approval of con- tract. July 14, 1945 [S. 100] [Public Law 144] William W. Kis- kadden. Exchange of lands. PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 284, 295, 296-JULY 6, 14 , 1945 [59 STAT. whenever and to the extent the Secretary, with the approval of the President, finds required for the national defense: Provided, how- ever, That no petroleum shall be produced pursuant to such a finding unless authorized by the Congress by joint resolution; and Whereas such a finding of the necessity for such production to the extent authorized herein has been so made and approved: Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the production of petroleum (including crude oil and associated gas and other hydro- carbons) from Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 1 is hereby author- ized at a rate not in excess of sixty-five thousand barrels of crude oil produced and saved per day, averaged over each calendar month beginning with and including the month in which this joint resolution shall be approved by the President, such production (to the extent in excess of that otherwise authorized by the Act above cited) not to extend beyond December 31, 1946; and that the joint resolution approved June 17, 1944 (Public Law 344, Seventy-eighth Congress, second session, 58 Stat. 283), is hereby repealed: Provided, That such repeal shall not operate to affect existing contracts relating to the pro- duction of petroleum nor the availability of funds from the appro- priation "Naval emergency fund" for carrying out such contracts. Approved July 6, 1945. [CHAPTER 295] AN ACT For the relief of the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proposed contract approved as to form by the Secretary of the Interior on January 9, 1945, between the United States of America and the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District is approved and, after said con- tract shall have been duly executed for and in behalf of the Truckee- Carson Irrigation District, the said Secretary is hereby authorized to execute it on behalf of the United States. Approved July 14, 1945. [CHAPTER 296] AN ACT To authorize an exchange of certain lands with William W. Kiskadden in con- nection with the Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Con.gress assembled, That upon submis- sion of satisfactory evidence of title the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to accept title on behalf of the United States to the following described land conveyed to William W. Kiskadden by warranty deed numbered 174403 from Mrs. Arah Chapman, recorded August 24, 1916, in book 339. page 231, records of Larimer County, Colorado: Beginning at the northeast corner of the southwest quarter of section 31, township 5 north, range 73 west, sixth principal meridian, Colorado; thence south four hundred and eighty feet; thence west two hundred feet; thence north 27 degrees 30 min- utes west five hundred and forty-one feet; thence east four hundred and fifty feet to the place of beginning, containing approximately three and fifty-eight one-hundredths acres, and in exchange therefor to issue a patent for that portion of the northeast quarter of the south- west quarter and that portion of the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section 31, township 5 north, range 73 west, sixth principal
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