Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 49 Part 1.djvu/1967

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1922

74TH C ONGRESS . SESS . IL CHS . 806, 807. JUNE 25, 1936 . [CHAPTER 806 .1 AN ACT June 25, 1936.

[5 .4L7.] To authorize the Secre tary of Ag ricul ture to extend and renew for the term of [Public, No. 798.] ten yea rs a lease to the Chicago, Mil wau kee and Saint Pa ul Rail way Co mpan y of a tract of land in the United States Department of Agriculture Range Live- s tock Experim ent Station, in the Stat e of Montana, and for a r ight-of-way to said tract, for the removal of gravel and ballast material, executed under the a uthority of the Act of C ongress appr oved June 9, 1926 . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Ran ge Liv esto ck Ex- United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secre- periment Station, Mont .eandrightof tary of Agriculture be, and h e is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, way in, renewed to to extend and renew for a term of ten years that certain lease to the Chicago, t Paul waukee Rail- Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company, bearing way Company. date the 26th day of June 1926, of a tract of land in the United States Department of Agriculture Range Livestock Experiment Station, in the State of Montana, containing an approximate area of two hundred and forty-one and sixty-seven one-hundredths acres, and also a strip of land for a right-of-way to said tract, executed by vol. 44, p . 711' the Secretary of Agriculture under the authority of the Act of Con- gress approved June 9, 1926, upon the terms and conditions contained in said lease, or such other terms and conditions as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem proper ; said renewal and extension to inure to the benefit of Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad Company (successor of said railway company), its trustees i n bankru ptcy, a nd of th e corpo ration s ucceedi ng to th e owner ship of its railroad and property . Approved, June 25, 1936 . [CHAPTER 807.] June 25,1936 .

AN ACT

[S . 4648 .] To promote safety at sea in the neighborhood of ice and derelicts, and for other [Public, No . 799a purposes . Ice patrol n . North Atlantic Ocean .

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Uni ted Stat es o f America in Cong ress ass embled, International agree- INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS ON ICE PATROL AND DERELICT DESTRUCTION ments on ice patrol and derelict destruction. President authorized

SECTI ON 1 . The President is authorized to conclude agreements to conclude, for main- with interested maritime nations (a) to maintain in the north Atlan- tenance of service of ice patrol .

tic Ocean a service of ice patrol, of study and observation of ice and current conditions, and of assistance to vessels and their crews S erv ice of study of ice conditions, etc. requiring aid within the limits of the patrol ; (b) to maintain a service of study and observation of ice and current conditions in such waters as may af fect the set and drift of ice in the north Atlantic Removal of derelicts. Ocean ; and (c) to undertake all practicable steps to insure the destruction or removal of derelicts in the northern part of the Atlan- tic Ocean, east of the line drawn from Cape Sable to a point in lati- tude th irty-fou r degre es north , longi tude se venty de grees w est, if Provision for pay- ment for services to be this destruction or removal is necessary . The President is further included . authorized to include in such agreements a provision for payment to the United S tates b y the co untries concer ned, of their p ropor- tionate share of the expense for maintenance of the services named, or for the United States to contribute its proportionate share should it be agreed that another country was to maintain the patrol . Patrol services. Maintenance during entire ice season . PATROL SERVICES SEC. 2 . (a) Unless the agreements made in accordance with sec- tion 1 provide otherwi se, an i ce patr ol shal l be mai ntained during the whole of the ice season in guarding the southeastern, southern,