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PUBLIC LAW 316-MAR. 26, 1954

Mineral rights. Use.

National gency.

emer-

R e d - c e d a r shingles. 13 USC 94-98«

STAT.

and ninety-five one-hundredths feet more or less,; thence north eightythree degrees thirty minutes west, a distance of seven hundred and seventy-nine feet more or less; thence south twenty degrees ten minutes west, a distance of five hundred seventy-six and twenty-four onehundredths feet more or less, to the northerly line of highway Connecticut Route Numbered 76; thence westerly, along the northerly line of Connecticut Route Numbered 76, north eighty-three degrees thirty minutes west, a distance of seven hundred and thirty-six feet more or less; thence north twelve degrees no minutes east; a distance of seven hundred and fifteen feet more or less; thence north eighty-five degrees no minutes west, a distance of seven hundred and five feet more or less to the easterly line of highway Connecticut Route Numbered 75, thence north along the easterly line of Connecticut Route Numbered 75, north one degree forty-six minutes thirty seconds west, a distance of thirty feet more or less to the point of beginning. SEC. 2. All mineral rights, including gas and oil, in the lands authorized to be conveyed by this Act shall be reserved to the United States. SEC. 3. The conveyance of the property authorized by this Act shall be upon condition that such property shall be used primarily for training of the National Guard and for other military purposes, and that if the State of Connecticut shall cease to use the property so conveyed for the purposes intended, then title thereto shall immediately revert to the United States, and in addition, all improvements made by the State of Connecticut during its occupancy shall vest in the United States without payment of compensation therefor. SEC. 4. The conveyance oi the property authorized by this Act shall be upon the further provision that whenever the Congress of the United States declares a state of war or other national emergency, or the President declares a state of emergency, and upon the determination by the Secretary of Defense that the property conveyed under this Act is useful or necessary for military, air, or naval purposes, or in the interest of national defense, the United States shall have the right, without obligation to make payment of any kind, to reenter upon the property and use the same or any part thereof, including any and all improvements made thereon by the State of Connecticut, for the duration of such state of war or of such emergency. Upon the termination of such state of war or of such emergency plus six months such property shall revert to the State of Connecticut. SEC. 5. In executing the deed of conveyance authorized by this Act, the Secretary of the Army shall include specific provisions covering the reservations and conditions contained in sections 2, 3, and 4 of this Act. Approved March 26, 1954. Public Law 316

March 26, 1954 [S. 2348]

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CHAPTER 106

AN ACT To repeal the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Director of the Census to collect and publish statistics of red-cedar shingles."

Be it enacted by the Senate arid House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Director of the Census to collect and publish statistics of red-cedar shingles," approved May 25, 1937 (50 Stat. 204, 205) be, and it is hereby, repealed. Approved March 26, 1954.