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PUBLIC LAW 87-848-OCT. 23, 1962

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Public Law 87-848 October 23, 1962 [H. R. 7781]

Lands. Maryland. Sliver Hill Voluntary Fire Department. Conveyance.

Iowa. Amendment of conveyance.

Minnesota. Superior National For e s t. Exchange.

Appropriation.

AN ACT To authorize the Administrator of General Services to convey by quitclaim deed a parcel of land in Prince Georges County, Maryland, to the Silver Hill Voluntary Fire Department and Rescue Squad.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Administrator of General Services is authorized to convey to the Silver Hill Voluntary Fire Department and Rescue Squad, a body corporate of the State of Maryland, within a period of two years following the date of enactment of this Act, by quitclaim deed, and upon terms and conditions herein provided as well as others the Administrator may prescribe, a tract of land adjacent to Silver Hill Eoad, in Prince Georges County, Maryland, which shall include the site of the fire station now maintained by the Silver Hill Voluntary Fire Department and Rescue Squad, of approximately twenty-five thousand square feet, but otherwise of shape and dimension as the Administrator may determine: Provided, That the instrument of conveyance authorized by this Act shall provide that upon determination by the Administrator of General Services that the Silver Hill Voluntary Fire Department and Rescue Squad or its successor has ceased at any time within twenty years after the conveyance to use the property either for maintaining a fire station or to provide fire protection services for the facilities of the Federal Government in the adjacent community without cost to the United States, all right, title, and interest to the property shall revert to the United States in the then existing condition of such property without payment of compensation by the United States, subject to mortgages and liens then outstanding resulting from financial arrangements authorized by the Administrator and made for the purpose of improving the property. SEC. 2. That the first paragraph of section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell and convey certain lands in the State of Iowa", approved October 4, 1961 (75 Stat. 805), is amended and supplemented to read as follows: "That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to sell and convey to the State of Iowa, by quitclaim deed, at fair market value as determined by him, subject to all outstanding rights, and subject to the condition that the property shall be used for public purposes, all the right, title, and interest of the United States to those certain tracts of land containing approximately 4,649 acres of land, more or less, located in Van Buren, Lee, Appanoose, and Davis Counties, Iowa, in:". SEC. 3. (a) That, upon the application by the State of Minnesota and the agreement by the State to exchange for such lands State-owned lands in the Superior National Forest, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to acquire not to exceed one thousand acres in sections 3, 4, 9, and 10, township 121 north, range 26 west, in Wright County, Minnesota. Upon such acquisition the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to exchange such lands for State-owned lands in the Superior National Forest suitable for administration as a part thereof and having a value not less than that of the lands in Wright County^ to be exchanged therefor as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture. (b) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be needed to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out the purposes of this section. Approved October 23, 1962.