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[70 Stat. 31]
PUBLIC LAW 000—MMMM. DD, 1956
[70 Stat. 31]

70 S T A T. ]

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PRIVATE LAW 576-APR. 2, 1956

Secretary of State shall instruct the proper quota-control officer to deduct one number from the appropriate quota for the first year that such quota is available. >^;>proved April 2, 1956. Private Law 576

CHAPTER 163 AN ACT

To provide for the conveyance of a certain tract of laud in Madison County, Kentucky, to the Pioneer National Monument Association.

Be it enacted by the Senate and Hawse of Representatives of the United States of Amenca in (Congress ansembled^ That the Administrator of General Services is authorized and directed to convey, without consideration, to the Pioneer National Monument Association, for designation and use, including disposition to a public agency if deemed appropriate, as a part of an historic site or monument, all right, title, and interest of the United States, except as retained in this Act, in and to the following described tract of land consisting of seven and six-tenths acres, more or less, situated in Madison County, Kentucky, on the left bank of the Kentucky River and being a part of United States Lock and Dam Number 10 Reservation: Beginning at the end of a stone wall, said end of stone wall being south 20 degrees 19 minutes east 360 feet from the most westerly corner of Lock and Dam Numbered 10 Reservation and east of the Old County Road; thence severing said reservation and parallel to the north boundary north 85 degrees 00 minutes east 800 feet, more or less, to a point, said point being on the west boundary line of a 10.53 acre tract formerly owned by Thomas H. Stevens; thence with the old boundary line south 14 degrees 25 minutes east 562 feet, more or less, to a stone; thence south 82 degrees 09 minutes west 144 feet to a point; thence north 78 degrees 57 minutes west 104.42 feet to a point; thence with an old stone wall north 69 degrees 45 minutes west 610 feet, more or less, to an angle in the stone wall; thence along said stone wall northwesterly 300 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning. SEC. 2. The deed effecting the conveyance authorized by the first section of this Act shall— (a) reserve to the United States rights of ingress and egress over the road presently existing on the southern boundary of the above described tract of land; (b) reserve to the United States a perpetual easement for maintenance of a water pipeline on such tract of land; (c) provide that such tract of land shall be reserved or used for the purpose for which it is conveyed for a period of not less than twenty-five years, and that in the event said property ceases to remain available or be utilized for such purposes during such period, as may be determined by the Secretary of the Interior, all or any portion thereof, in its then existing condition, shall revert to the United States; and (d) provide that during any state of war or national emergency and for six months thereafter, if the Secretary of Defense determines that such tract of land is useful or necessary for national defense purposes, the United States may, without payment therefor, reenter such tract of land and use all or part of it (including improvements thereon), but upon the termination of such use such tract of land shall revert to the Pioneer National Monument Association or its successor in title, as the case may be.

April 2, 1956 [S. 1992]

Pioneer National Monument Association* Conveyance!