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[71 Stat. 456]
PUBLIC LAW 000—MMMM. DD, 1957
[71 Stat. 456]

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PUBLIC LAW 85-178-AUG. 28, 1957

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ST A T,

States to the Agency, and such other officers or employees representini; the United States in the Agency, under such reguhitions as the President shall promulgate, shall retain their authority under this Act for such time as may be necessary to complete the settlement of matters arising out of the United States participation in the Agency. Approved August 28, 1957. Public Law 85-178 August 28. 1957 [S. 1823]

Bunker H i l l Island, Ky. Conveyance.

AN ACT To authorize the conveyance of Bunker Hill Island in Lake Cumberland near Burnside, Kentucky, to the Commonwealth of Kentucky for public park purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, subject to section 2, the Secretary of the Army is authorized and directed to convey to the Commonwealth of Kentucky all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the following portion of Bunker Hill Island in Lake Cumberland, near Burnside, Kentucky: A tract of land situate in the eighth magisterial district of Pulaski County, Kentucky, at Burnside, Kentucky, and more particularly described as follows: Being all of that part of an island lying entirely above the 765-foot contour line (m. s. 1.), said island bein^ known as Bunker Hill Island in the south fork of the Cumberland River emba^ment of Lake Cumberland, the downstream end of said island being located approximately 2,000 feet, more or less, upstream from the mouth of said river and extends upstream approximately 5,800 feet, more or less, said island contains 390 acres, more or less, and being a part of the same lands, the fee title to which was vested in the United States by reason of the following deeds of record in the office of the county court clerk for Pulaski County, Kentucky, and/or the filing of declaration of takings in civil actions pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky at London, viz: Tract No.

M-1327 M-1344 M-1355 M-1368 M-1369 M-1372 M-1373 M-1374 M-1375 M-1376 M-1377 M-1379 M-1380 M-1385 M-1387 M-1388 M-1391 Conditions.

Vendoc

Date of Deed and/or

D/t

EllaO. Sloan Elmer R. Walden et ux— Ethel E. Rossler et vir... Mitt Boland et ux Lillie Hollars et vir W. T. Turpin et ux Charles R. Cox et ux John Hollars et ux Cleveland Davis et u x... Zelmer Fitzgerald et ux-Luther Hutchinson et ux Earl Love et ux Oscar L. Dyer et ux Nancy Massey et vir Mary Truxell et vir Cora Thompson et al Marguerite Sloan

1-18-49 1- 5-49 6- 1-49 5- 2-49 2-10-49 3-17-49 3-21-49 3- 1-49 3-29-49 1-18-49 12- 1-48 1-12-49 1- 4-49 2-16-49 1-24-49 4- 8-49 8- 3-49

Deed Book

D/T No.

163 163 167 166 164 165

459 192 203 295 156 147

164 165 163 162 163 163 164

Civil Action No.

499 227 374 261 267 141 388

471

464 477 462

SEC. 2. Title to the property authorized to be conveyed by this Act shall revert to the United States, which shall have the right of immediate entry thereon, if the Commonwealth of Kentucky— (1) has not commenced the development of such property for public park purposes within the three-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act; or (2) shall ever cease to use such property for public park purposes.