An Act to provide for the conveyance of certain land of the United States to the State of Indiana.
PL 84-951 (H.R.9810), enacted 08/03/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 951-AUG. 3, 1956 
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R e s e rv atlon of 
rights. 
"ARTICLE V — R E N U N C I A T I O N 
"This compact shall continue in effect and remain binding upon each 
executing party State until six months after any such State has given 
written notice of renunciation by the same authority which executed 
the agreement. 
"ARTICLE VI—SEVERABILITY 
"The provisions of this compact are severable." 
SEC. 2. The right to alter, amend or repeal this Act is hereby ex-
pressly reserved. 
Approved August 3, 1956. 
Public Law 951 
CHAPTER 917 
August 3,1956 
[H. R. 9810] 
Vigo Covinty, Ind. 
Conveyance. 
AN ACT 
To provide lor the conveyance of certain land of the United States to the 
State of Indiana. 
Be it mulcted hy the Senate cmd House of Representatives 
of the 
United Statesj)f 
America in Congress assembled, That the Attorney 
General is authorized and directed to convey to the State of Indiana 
all of the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to 
certain real property located in Vigo County, Indiana, containing 
approximately six acres, and more particularly described in section 2 
of this Act. 
Such conveyance shall be made on the payment of con-
sideration by such State to the Attorney General in an amount equal 
to the fair appraised market value of such real property determined 
by the Attorney General upon an independent appraisal at the time of 
such conveyance, such value to reflect any reservation, exception, 
restriction, or condition to which the conveyance is made subject. 
Such amount shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States 
as miscellaneous receipts. 
Such conveyance shall reserve to the United 
States all minerals, including gas and oil in the property to be con-
veyed under this Act, and shall provide that if the property shall be 
used for anj purpose other than for a State police barracks or other 
use which m the opinion of the Attorney General is incompatible 
with the use of the adjoining premises by the United States for a 
penal institution, all right, title, and interest in and to such real 
property shall revert to and become the property of the United States, 
which shall have the immediate right of entry thereon. 
SEC. 2. The real property referred to in the first section of this Act 
is located in the northeast quarter of section 27, township 11 north, 
range 9 west in Vigo County, Indiana, and is more particularly 
described as follows: Commencing at the stone at the northeast corner 
of section 27, township 11 north, range 9 west, and running thence 
south on the east line of said section a distance of 836.79 feet; thence 
west at an angle of 90 degrees, a distance of 806.80 feet to intersect the 
westerly right-of-way line of United States Highway Numbered 41 
at a point in the centerline of the Wabash Road, and said intersection 
point being the place of beginning; thence southwardly and to the left 
at an angle of 90 degrees and 50 minutes from the last given course 
above a distance of 75.0 feet; thence left 68 degrees and 54 minutes a 
distance of 165.0 feet; thence right 44 degrees and 53 minutes along the 
westerly right-of-way line of said United States Highway Numbered 
41, a distance of 583.0 feet; thence right at an angle of 114 degrees 
and 43 minutes a distance of 563.40 feet; thence right at an angle of 
89 degrees and 37 minutes a distance of 661.50 feet to the centerline of 
the Wabash Road; thence eastwardly along and with the centerline of 
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said Wabash Road a distance of 168.50 feet to the place of beginning 
and containing 5.95 acres, more or less; and also the property included 
in the present rights-of-way adjoining aforesaid described parcel from 
the centerlines of Wabash Road and United States Highway Num-
bered 41 as intersected by extensions of the west boundary line in a 
northerly direction, and the south boundary line* in an easterly 
direction. 
Approved August 3, 1956. 
Public Law 952 
CHAPTER 923 
AN ACT 
To reauthorize construction by the Secretary of the Interior of Farwell unit, 
Nebraska, of the Missouri River Basin project. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemoled^ That the authoriza-
tion for construction, operation, and maintenance of the Farwell unit 
of the Missouri River Basin project contained in section 9 (c) of the 
Act of December 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 887), as amended and supple-
mented, is hereby amended to authorize the construction, operation, 
and maintenance of works to furnish irrigation water for approxi-
mately fifty-two thousand five hundred acres of land in Howard, 
Sherman, and Valley Counties, Nebraska. 
The principal works of 
said unit shall consist of a reservoir at or near the Sherman site, works 
for the diversion of water from the Middle Loup River and its delivery 
to said reservoir, and necessary pumping facilities, canals, drains, 
and related works. 
There shall also be included as a part of the 
Farwell unit such watershed management and channel works as are 
necessary to provide channel stability in the light of the anticipated 
application of irrigation water to the lands involved and appropriate 
portions of the costs of constructing, operating, and maintaining such 
works shall be allocated to irrigation and returned in the same manner 
and under the same conditions as other irrigation costs of the Missouri 
River Basin project: Provided^ That any contract entered into under 
section 9, subsection (d), of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 
(53 Stat. 1187, 1193, 43 U. S. C, sec. 485 (h)) for payment of those 
portions of the costs of constructing, operating, and maintaining the 
Farwell unit which are allocated to irrigation and assigned to be 
repaid by the contracting organization may provide for the repayment 
of the portion of the construction cost assigned to any project contract 
unit or, if the contract unit be divided into two or more irrigation 
blocks, to any such block over the period specified in said section 9 
(d) or as near thereto as is consistent with the adoption and operation 
of a variable payment formula which, being based on full repayment 
within the period stated under normal conditions, permits variance 
in the required annual payments in the light of economic factors 
pertinent to the ability of the organization to pay. The Farwell unit 
shall be integrated, physically and financially, with the other Federal 
works in the Missouri River Basin constructed or authorized to be 
constructed under the comprehensive plan approved by section 9 
of the Act of December 22, 1944, as amended and supplemented. 
The 
Secretary is authorized to transfer to the Department of Agriculture 
from funds available for construction of the Farwell unit such sums 
as are reasonably required to construct necessary water management 
and channel works as hereinbefore provided. 
Approved August 3, 1956. 
August 3, 195(5 
[S. 3594] 
F a r w e l l unilt, 
M i s s o u r i 
River 
Basin project. 
Irrigation 
water 
in Howard, S h e r-
man, and Va H o y 
Counties, Neb. 
43 u s e 485h.