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SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cns. 110, 111. 1924. :499 1240%, which amended the Act of August 30, 1890, so as to authorize the ecretary of Agriculture under joint regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Treasury to permit the admission of tick—infested cattle from Mexico into that part of Texas below the southern quarantine line, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Approved, April 15, 1924. CHAP. 111.—Au Act To transfer jurisdiction over a portion of the Fort _ Keogh Military Reservation, Montana, from the Department of the Interior to the United States Department of Agriculture for experiments in stock raising and growing of forage crops in connection therewith. · Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatizies of the __ United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secre- nggiiiihiiihrigiiim tary of War having determined that the lands embraced in the Fort ,9,fg5“g* Keoigh Militaryl Reservation, in the State of Montana, are no longer Department sql- mae nee ed for mi 'tary purposes, an Executive order of February 2, xiing °"’°'“”°“*°’ 1924,_having transferred the said lands to the Department of the Interior for disposition, the said lands are hereby transferred to and placed under the control of the United States Department of Agriculture for use by that department for experiments in stock raisinf and growing of forage crops in connection therewith: Provide , H an That if the ands are not used for the purpose mentioned herein, or Bbandoned. having been used for such purpose, are subsequently abandoned as . being no longer needed for such urpose, then, and in that event, . the said land shall revert to, and gecome subject to the control and _ jrulrisdiction of the Department of the Interior: Provided further, mmm me not at this transfer shal not aifect any existing legal rights to lands *“@,; ampm in the reservation: And provided further, That there shall be ex- ° · cepted from the effect hereof that portion of said reservation described as follows: A tract beginning at a point which is south eighteen degrees D°°°"P“°¤· fifteen minutes west from the center of section 33, township 8 north of range 47 east, Montana (principal meridian, and distant therefrom one thousand six hundre and sixty feet; thence north thirty-six degrees no minutes west one thousand eight hundred and eighty- five feet; thence north sixtiy-eight degees ten minutes east one thousand one hundred and ve cet; thence north eighty-eight degrees forty minutes east three hundred and eighty feet; thence south fty-nine degrees five minutes east three hundred and seventy-five feet; thence south twenty-eight degrees thirty-five minutes east three hundred and sixt —five feet; thence south twe ve degrees fifty minutes east two hundredyand eightiy-five feet; thence sout fourteen de ees ten minutes west two hun red and fifteen feet; thence south forrty degrees twenty-five minutes west three hundred and twenty-five feet; thence south forty-six degrees twenty-five minutes west five hundred and five feet; thence south twenty-nine degrees thirty minutes west three hundred and ninety feet to the pomt of beginning, containing forty-eight and three-tenths acres, more or less. Also a tract be ing at a point which is south five degrees thirty minutes west of the center of section 33, township 8 north, range 47 east of Montana rincipal meridian, and distant therefrom two thousand two hundired and eighty feet; thence south forty-one degrees thirty minutes west one thousand and eighty feet; thence north seventy-three degrees twenty minutes west one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five feet; thence north sixteen degrees forty minutes east two thousand three hundred and seventy- ve feet; thence north sixty-eight degrees ten minutes east three hundred and forty