An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue quitclaim deeds to the States for certain lands
PL 83-582 (S.2027), enacted 08/13/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 583-AUG. 13, 1954 
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(b) The Commission may employ such administrative personnel, 
advisers, and clerical and other assistants as may be necessary to carry 
out its duties under this joint resolution. 
SEC. 5. The Commission shall expire on December 31,1955. 
SEC. 6. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as may be necessary to carry out this joint resolution. 
Approved August 13, 1954. 
Personnel* 
Expiration. 
Appropriation. 
Public Law 582 
CHAPTER 727 
AN ACT 
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August 13, 1954 
Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue quitclaim deeds to tlie States 
[s. 2027] 
for certain lands. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of 
the Interior shall issue quitclaim deeds to the public-land States for all 
lands patented to such States under section 4 of the Carey Act of 
August 18, 1894 (43 U. S. C, sec. 641). He shall also issue a patent 
for all unpatented public lands within each State now segregated under 
that Act for which the State issued final certificates or other evidence 
of right prior to June 1, 1953, or as to which equitable claims to the 
lands accrued prior to that date (by reason of cultivation or improve-
ment of the lands for agricultural development purposes) for con-
veyance to the holders of such rights or claims, or to their heirs, suc-
cessors, or assigns. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary shall not issue such quitclaim deeds or patents 
to any State, however, unless that State files a proper application for 
the transfer of these lands within three years after the date of the en-
actment of this Act. 
SEC. 3. The application must include a list of all the lands which the 
State certifies should be transferred under the terms of section 1 of this 
Act, the basis for the certification of each tract included, and a quit-
claim or relinquishment of all right, title, and interest in the State to 
any and all other lands under the Carey Act. 
Such quitclaim or re-
linquishment by the State shall not affect any private rights obtained 
from the State prior to the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 4. The quitclaim or relinquishment of all right, title, and inter-
est by the State to any lands under this Act shall not be effective until 
the Secretary has transferred the lands applied for under section 1 of 
this Act. 
The Secretary shall provide for the administration and 
disposition under the public-land laws of the lands quitclaimed or re-
linquished by the States pursuant to this Act. 
Approved August 13, 1954. 
P u b l i c - l a n d 
States. 
Quitclaim deeds. 
28 Stat. 422. 
Filingof applica-
tion. 
43 u s e 641, 
Effectivity. 
Public Law 583 
CHAPTER 728 
AN ACT 
To provide that United States commissioners who are required to devote full 
time to the duties of the office may be allowed their necessary office expenses. 
August 13, 1954 
[S. 2204] 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the catch-
line to section 633 of title 28, United States Code, is amended so that 
such catchline will read as follows: 
U. S, C o m m i s -
sioners. 
62 StaU 916.