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62 STAT.] 80TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CHS. 396, 397-JUNE 3, 1948 full value thereof, except that unpatented mining claims and non- producing patented mining claims, which are also unimproved, may be valued at the price paid the United States therefor, or at a flat rate fixed by the legislature, but if the surface ground is used for other than mining purposes, and has a separate and independent value for such other purposes, or if there are improvements or machinery or other property thereon of such a character as to be deemed a part of the realty, then the same shall be taxed according to the true and full value thereof. No tax shall be levied for Territorial purposes in excess of 2 per centum upon the assessed valuation of the property therein in any one year; nor shall any incorporated town or municipality levy any tax, for any purpose, in excess of 3 per centum of the assessed valuation of property within the town in any one year". Approved June 3, 1948. [CHAPTER 397] AN ACT 303 June 3,1948 To amend section 203 of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, designating H. R. 5173] certain public lands as available home lands. [Public Law 594] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 203 of title II of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of July 9, 1921 (42 Stat. 109; 48 U. S. C . 697), as amended, designating certain public lands as available home lands, is further amended by adding thereto the following paragraph: "Cultivated sugarcane lands: That parcel of Anahola, Island of Kauai, comprising four hundred and one and four hundred and twenty-three one-thousandths acres, hereinafter described and being portion of the land covered by general lease numbered 2724 to the Lihue Plantation Company, Limited, notwithstanding the fact that said parcel is cultivated sugarcane land, subject however, to the terms of said lease, said parcel being more particularly described as follows: "Being a portion of land described in general lease numbered 2724 to the Lihue Plantation Company situate in the district of Anahola, Kauai, Territory of Hawaii, beginning at the northwest corner of this parcel of land, the coordinates of which referred to government triangulation station south base are three thousand and forty-nine and sixty-two one-hundredths feet south, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two and twenty-five one-hundredths feet west, and running thence by azimuths measured clockwise from true south two hundred and eighty-four degrees thirty minutes two hundred and fifty feet, thence on the arc of circular curve to the left, with a radius of eight hundred and ninety feet and a central angle of thirty-five degrees fifteen minutes, the direct azimuth and distance being two hundred and sixty-six degrees fifty-two minutes thirty seconds five hundred and thirty-eight and ninety-six one-hundredths feet, thence two hundred and forty-nine degrees fifteen minutes one thousand eight hundred and nine and twenty-five one- hundredths feet, thence two hundred and twenty-four degrees fifteen minutes three thousand and fifty-six feet, thence one hundred and thirty-four degrees fifteen minutes two hundred and seven feet, to the seashore at Anahola Bay, thence along the seashore around Kahala Point, the direct azimuth and distance being two hundred and thirty- seven degrees six minutes seven seconds one thousand and sixty and fourteen one-hundredths feet, thence along the seashore, the direct azimuth and distance being three hundred and thirty-two degrees no minutes one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven feet, thence along the seashore, the direct azimuth and distance being three hundred Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, amendment. Ante, p. 295.