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[69 Stat. 111]
PUBLIC LAW 000—MMMM. DD, 1955
[69 Stat. 111]

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PRIVATE LAW 325-AUG. 4, 1955

division of square numbered 153, as per plat recorded in liber 12 at folio 171 of the records of the Office of the Surveyor for the District of Columbia, owned by the Jewish W a r Veterans, U. S. A. National Memorial, Incorporated, is hereby exempt from all taxation so long as the same is owned and occupied by the Jewish W a r Veterans, U. S. A. National Memorial, Incorporated, and is not used for commercial purposes, subject to the provisions of sections 2, 3, and 5 of the Act entitled "An Act to define the real property exempt from taxation in the District of Columbia", approved December 24, 1942 (56 Stat. 1091; D. C. Code, secs. 47-801b, 47-801c, and 47-801e). Approved August 4, 1955.

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CHAPTER 565

AN ACT To provide for the approval of deeds executed by the heirs of Anna Hollywood Fickz.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled., That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to approve deeds executed by the heirs of Anna Hollywood Fickz conveying to Mrs. Edith Hollywood or to Mr. John Hollywood, of Sitka, Alaska, an interest in the land embraced in the certificate of allotment issued to Anna Hollywood Fickz and approved by the Department of the Interior on June 3, 1935, under the provisions of the Act of May 17, 1906 (34 Stat. 197), Anchorage serial 08054, containing four and ninety-seven one-hundredths acres, subject to the right-of-way covered by the quitclaim deed dated October 29, 1951, executed by John and Edith Hollywood conveying to the Territory of Alaska a right-of-way across such land, which quitclaim deed is hereby approved, ratified, and confirmed. Approved August 4, 1955.

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August 4, 1955 [H. R. 898]

Anna H. Fickz, heirs.

48 USC 357.

CHAPTER 566

AN ACT To authorize and direct the sale of certain land in Alaska to John Ekonomos, of the Fairbanks Precinct, Alaska.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That John Ekonomos, of the Fairbanks Precinct, Alaska, is hererDy authorized, for a period of one year from and after the effective date of this Act, to apply for the purchase of all or any part of the unsurveyed public lands in Alaska described in this section, and the Secretary of the Interior is directed to convey the lands applied for. The area subject to application and sale under this Act is that public land which when surveyed will constitute the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter, section 28, township 2 south, range 3 east, Fairbanks meridian, Alaska, containing forty acres: Provided, That the purchase price for the land shall be the reasonable value thereof without improvements, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior, but not less than $1.25 per acre: Provided further. That in the deed conveying said lands, there shall be reserved to the United States and/or the Territory of Alaska the right to flood such lands intermittently in connection with the operation and maintenance of the Tanana River and Chena Slough flood control project. Approved August 4, 1955.

August 4, 1955 [H. R. 9 10]

John Ekonomos.