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PUBLIC LAW 97-000—MMMM. DD, 1982

PUBLIC LAW 97-238—AUG. 20, 1982

96 STAT. 269

Public Law 97-238 97th Congress An Act To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to release a reversionary interest held by the United States in certain lands located in Christian County, Kentucky, so that such lands may be used for cemetery purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That, with respect to 1.52 acres of land in Christian County, Kentucky, described in section 2 of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture, on behalf of the United States, shall release the Commonwealth of Kentucky, without consideration, from the condition contained in a deed dated July 9, 1954, between the United States and the Commonwealth of Kentucky granting certain lands in Christian County, Kentucky, of which the described lands are a part, that requires that the lands so granted be used for public purposes and provides for a reversion of such land to the United States if at any time it ceases to be so used: Provided, That such release shall in no way affect the interests of the United States in coal, oil, gas, and other minerals (not outstanding or reserved in third parties) reserved by the United States in the described lands: Provided further. That such release shall be applicable so long as the described lands are used exclusively for cemetery purposes. SEC. 2. The 1,52 acre tract described in section 1 lies on the west side of Kentucky Highway numbered 109, touching the Tabernacle Church and Cemetery on the west side, and is more particularly described as follows: Beginning at an iron pipe on the west side of an old road the same being the north east corner of the Tabernacle Cemetery property; thence, north 76 degrees and 30 minutes east, and in line with the north side of the above mentioned cemetery 237.90 feet to an iron pipe in the right-of-way line of Kentucky Highway numbered 109; thence, in line with the right-of-way line of the highway south 54 degrees 45 minutes east 292.80 feet to an iron pipe in the right-of-way line of Kentucky Highway numbered 109;

Aug. 20, 1982 [S. 2154]

Christian County, Ky. Reversionary land interest, release.