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PUBLIC LAW 526--JULY 26, 1954 Public Law 526

[uly 26, 1954 IH. R. 6975]

Siskiyou Joint Union High School District, Calif. Conveyance.

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CHAPTER 568

AN ACT Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain lands to the Siskiyou Joint Union High School District, Siskiyou County, California. Be it enacted ty the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to convey by quitclaim deed to the Siskiyou Joint Union High School District, California, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the following described land in Siskiyou County, California, containing an area of twentyseven and fifty-eight one-hundredths acres, more or less: (a) All that northerly portion of lot 4 of section 1, township 47 north, range 4 east. Mount Diablo meridian, beginning at the section corner common to sections 1 and 2, township and range aforesaid; thence north eighty-nine degrees fifty-six minutes east along the northerly boundary of township aforesaid a distance of one thousand three hundred twenty and sixty-six one-hundredths feet to the corner common to lots 3 and 4, township and range aforesaid; thence south no degrees one minute east a distance of five hundred and eighty feet to a point on the easterly boundary of aforesaid lot 4; thence south eightynine degrees fifty-six minutes west a distance of one thousand three hundred twenty and sixty-six one-hundredths feet to a point on the westerly boundary of section 1, township and range aforesaid; thence north no degrees one minute west a distance of five hundred and eighty feet to the point of beginning; containing seventeen and fifty-eight one-hundredths acres, more or less. (b) All of the south half of the south half of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 35, township 48 north, range 4 east. Mount Diablo meridian; containing ten acres, more or less. The conveyance hereinbefore authorized shall be subject to existing rights-of-way for highways, roads, railroads, canals, laterals, ditches, pipelines, electrical transmission lines, and telephone and telegraph lines, containing two and twenty-two one-hundredths acres. SEC. 2. The land conveyed pursuant to the provisions of this Act shall be used only for public school purposes, and the conveyance herein authorized shall be made upon the express condition that if the land is abandoned for such use for a period of two years or more or if the land shall be used for other purposes, the conveyance shall be held to be forfeited and the title shall revert to the United States. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to determine the facts and declare such forfeiture and reversion and such determination and declaration shall be final and conclusive. Approved July 26, 1954. Public Law 527

July 26, 1954 [H. R. 8713]

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CHAPTER 569

AN ACT To amend section 1(d) of the Helium Act (50 U.S.C. sec. 161 (d)), and to repeal section 3 (13) of the Act entitled "An Act to amend or repeal certain Government property laws, and for other purposes", approved October 31, 1951 (65 Stat. 701). Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subparagraph