An Act to authorize the conveyance to the Hot Springs School District and to Garland County, Ark., for school and for other public purposes, of certain land originally donated to the United States and situated in Hot Springs National Park, Ark., and for other purposes
PL 83-652 (H.R.8038), enacted 08/24/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 652-AUG. 24, 1954 
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inland lake or river in Wisconsin as originally surveyed and the 
meander line of that lake or river as subsequently resurveyed, has 
been held in good faith and in peaceful, adverse possession by a per-
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son, or his predecessors in interest, who had been issued a patent, 
prior to January 21, 1953, for lands lying along the meander line 
as originally determined, the Secretary of the Interior shall cause a 
patent to be issued to such person for such land upon the payment 
of the same price per acre as that at which the land included in the 
original patent was purchased and upon the same terms and condi-
tions. All persons seeking to purchase lands under this Act shall 
make application to the Secretary within one year from the date of 
the enactment of this Act, or from the date of the official filing of 
the plat or resurvey, whichever is later, and the Secretary of the 
Interior shall cause no patents to be issued for land lying between 
the original meander line and the resurveyed meander line until the 
conclusion of such periods. 
SEC. 2. Upon the filing of a plat of resurvey under section 1 of this 
Act, the Secretary shall give such notice as he finds appropriate by 
newspaper publication or otherwise of the opening of the lands to 
purchase under this Act. 
SEC. 3. Nothing in this Act shall affect valid existing rights. 
Approved August 24, 1954. 
Public Law 652 
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CHAPTER 901 
August 24, 1954 
AN ACT 
[H. R. 8038] 
fj^ authorize the coiiveyunce to the Hot Springs School District and to Garland 
County, Arkansas, for school and for other public purposes, of certain land 
originally donated to the United States and situated in Hot Springs National 
Park, Arkansas, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
schooi*Di8?riit"and ^'"^^^^^ Stotes of Amenca in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
Garland County, of tlie IntcHor is authoi'ized to coiivey without consideration but 
^cwiveyance. 
upou such temis aiid couditious as he shall consider to be in the public 
interest to the Hot Springs School District and to the county of 
Garland, Arkansas, all or portions of a tract of approximately thirty-
five acres within Hot Springs National Park, which was donated to 
the United States by Garland County, Arkansas, such property being 
situated in the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section 
34, township 2 south, range 19 west. Garland County, Arkansas, and 
identified as the former United States Public Health Service Medical 
Center property. 
Such property may be conveyed together with any improvements, 
appurtenances, and facilities relating thereto except those which the 
Secretary may find to be necessary to retain for purposes of the 
national park system or which he may deem advisable to remove for 
other purposes, the conveyances of the land hereunder to be made in 
the approximate proportions of two-thirds of the tract to or for 
purposes of the Hot Springs School District, such portion to be used 
for public school purposes, and one-third to Garland County for 
purposes of the county health and welfare unit. Any costs incidental 
to accomplishing the conveyances provided for herein shall be borne 
by the said Hot Springs School District and by Garland County. 
Approved August 24, 1954,