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52 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 58-60-MAR . 15, 1940 [54 STAT. three one-hundredths chains south of the east and west half section line of said section 23 and ten and two-tenths chains west of the east line of said section 23, and further being in the south line of the Government reservation as at present constituted; thence south a distance of six and eighty-one one -hundredths chains to a point; thence west a distance of eleven chains to a point, said point being west one and two-tenths chains from the east line of the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of said section 23; thence north a distance of six and eighty-one one -hundredths chains to a point, said point being in the southerly boundary line of the present Government reservation; thence east along the southerly boundary line of the Government reservation a distance of eleven chains to the point of beginning, containing seven and five-tenths acres, more or less. Approved, March 15, 1940. [CHAPTER 59] AN ACT March 15, 1940 AN ACT [S. 2152] To protect scenic values along the Catalina Highway within the Coronado [Public, No. 436] National Forest, Arizona. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Coroado National United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter Cditiol title to mining locations made under the mining laws of the United States certain lands along cataina Highway upon lands within four hundred feet of the center line of the Catalina witin, authorisd. Highway, Coronado National Forest, Arizona, which highway begins at the south boundary of said national forest near the southeast corner of section 7, township 13 south, range 16 east, Gila and Salt River base and meridian, and runs in a general northerly direction for a distance of about twenty-five miles to Soldier Camp, shall use restricted. confer on the locator no right to the surface of the land described in his location other than the right to occupy and use, under the rules and regulations relating to the administration of the Coronado National Forest, so much thereof as may be reasonably necessary to carry on prospecting and mining, and shall not authorize the taking of any resource other than the mineral deposits, or the occupancy of said land for any purpose other than prospecting and mining; and each patent issued thereafter under the United States mining laws upon a mineral location made upon lands within four hundred feet of said center line shall convey title only to the mineral deposits within said land and the right, subject to rules and regulations Pro relating to the national forests, to occupy and use the surface of the Existing claims. land for prospecting and mining only: Provided, That valid minin claims within said lands existing on the date of enactment of this Act and thereafter maintained m compliance with the laws under which they were initiated and the laws of the State of Arizona may be perfected in accordance with the laws under which they were initiated. Approved, March 15, 1940. [CHAPTER 60] March 15, 1940 A ACT IS.27401 To amend section 9a, National Defense Act, as amended, so as to provide specific [Public, No. 437] authority for the employment of warrant officers of the Regular Army as agents of officers of the finance department for the disbursement of public funds. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the NAct,imenadmen United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 9a 10U.s. C.§i.. of the National Defense Act, as amended by the Act of June 4, 1920 (41 Stat. 766), be, and the same is hereby, further amended as follows: