Joint resolution to provide for the preservation and protection of certain lands in Prince Georges and Cliarles Counties, Maryland, and for other purposes
PL 87-362 (H.J.Res.459), enacted 10/04/1961

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PUBLIC LAW 87-362-OCT. 4, 1961 
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Public Law 87-362 
October 4, 1961 
[H. J. Res. 459] 
Prince 
Georges 
and Charles Coun-
ties, Md. 
Preservation 
of 
certain lands. 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
D o n a t i o n s 
lands. 
Acceptance. 
of 
To provide for the preservation and protection of certain lands in Prince 
Georges and Cliarles Counties, Maryland, and for other purposes. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assemhled^ That in order to preserve for 
the benefit of present and future generations the historic and scenic 
values, the unusual cultural, scientific, and recreational values, and 
the present open and wooded character of certain lands situated along 
the Potomac Kiver in Prince Georges and Charles Counties, Maryland, 
and in order to preserve lands which provide the principal overview 
from the Mount Vernon Estate and Fort Washington, m a manner 
that will insure, insofar as practicable, the natural beauty of such 
lands as it existed at the time of the construction and active use of 
Mount Vernon Mansion and Fort Washington, the Secretary of the 
Interior is authorized to acquire and administer lands and interests 
therein, in the manner hereinafter provided. 
SEC. 2. (a) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept 
donations of lands or interests therein located in Prince Georges and 
Charles Counties, Maryland, in the vicinity of Piscataway Creek, 
held by the AccoKeek Foundation or other foundations or organiza-
tions for public use. 
(b^ When the Secretary receives a commitment, subject to such 
conditions as shall be agreeable to the Secretary of the Interior and 
the potential donor or donors, in accordance with which commitment 
the property referred to in subsection (a) will be donated to the 
United States for purposes of this Act, he is authorized to acquire 
by such means as he finds are in the public interest other land and 
interests in land lying generally within the area identified as follows: 
Beginning at a point on the shoreline of the Potomac River at 
the intersection of the northerly right-of-way line of Maryland 
State Route 227 in Charles County, Maryland; thence following 
the Maryland shoreline of said river in a northeasterly direction 
to the confluence of Piscataway Creek in Prince Georges County, 
Maryland; 
thence following the shoreline from Mockley Point and pro-
ceeding in a generally easterly direction along the south shore of 
Piscataw^ay Creek to a point 250 feet to the west of the point 
where the westerly right-of-w^ay line of Farmington Creek Road 
intersects the shoreline of Piscataway Creek; thence south-
easterly along said line approximately 250 feet west of Farming-
ton Creek Road approximately 800 feet; thence westerly gener-
ally following the 50-foot contour line to the southeasterly corner 
of the property of the Accokeek Foundation; 
thence westerly along said boundary approximately 1,600 feet; 
thence southerly with said boundary line approximately 1,800 
feet; thence northwesterly on said line approximately 2,200 feet; 
thence westerly along said line approximately 800 feet; thence 
generally westerly with the 50-foot contour line to the north side 
of a private road on the Alice Ferguson Foundation property; 
thence in a westerly direction along north side of said road to the 
southeasterly corner of Moyaone Association land; 
thence with the boundary line of the Moyaone Association land 
approximately 900 feet northwesterly; thence with that line ap-
proximately 800 feet westerly; thence with that line approxi-
mately 500 feet southeasterly to its intersection with the right-of-
way of Bryan's Point Road; thence generally westerly with the 
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northern right-of-way line of that road approximately 3,500 feet 
to its intersection with Cactus Hill Road; 
thence northerly along the eastern right-of-way line of Bryan's 
Point Road approximately 300 feet to the southwesterly property 
line of the Bryan's Point Farm of the Accokeek Foundation; 
thence with the southerly boundary line of said property approxi-
mately 700 feet; thence with that line approximately 1,000 feet in 
a southerly direction; thence 1,700 feet in a westerly direction; 
thence following said boundary line along the easterly side of 
the area known as Johnson's Gully to a point approximately 4,500 
feet from the Potomac River; 
thence northerly along said line to the 50-foot contour line; 
thence northerly along said line to its intersection with Prince 
Georges-Charles County line; thence in a westerly and southerly 
direction along the southerly boundary of the Accokeek Founda-
tion lands; leaving the Accokeek Foundation land at a point aj)-
proximately 2,200 feet from the Potomac River; thence approxi-
mately 300 feet in a westerly direction; thence north on a line 
parallel to and 300 feet from the boundary of the Accokeek 
Foundation land approximately 800 feet; thence approximately 
2,200 feet in a northwesterly direction to the southeasterly comer 
of the Accokeek Foundation lands; 
thence along the southerly border of said lands approximately 
1,700 feet in a southwesterljjr direction to the southwest corner of 
said lands; thence approximately 1,400 feet to the intersection 
with the northerly right-of-way of Maryland State Route 227; 
thence with said right-of-way approximately^ 1,300 feet to the 
point of beginning, excluding all that land within the described 
area now leased and operated by the Marshall Hall Park, Inc., 
as more specifically described in a deed, recorded in the land 
records of Charles County, Maryland, in folio 126, liber 131. The 
property herein described is more particularly depicted on draw-
ing numbered 1961-1, a copy of which is on file with the Secretary 
of the Interior. 
"Within the above-described area the Secretary shall not condemn 
improved residential property. 
As used herein "improved resi-
dential property" means a detached, one-family dwelling and struc-
tures accessory thereto, the construction of which was begun before 
May 1,1961, which are used solely for noncommercial residential pur-
j)Oses, together with one acre of land on which the improvements are 
situated, or all of such lesser acreage as the owner may hold. 
(c) To further the preservation objective of this Act the Secretary 
may accept donations of scenic easements in that land within the 
described area now leased and operated by the Marshall Hall Park, 
Inc., as more specifically described in a deed, recorded in the land 
records of Charles County, Maryland, in folio 126, liber 131^ and the 
area lying between the south boundary line depicted in drawing num-
bered 1961-1, referred to in section 2(b) and a line approximately 
3,000 feet south of said boundary. The Secretary may also acquire 
by^ other appropriate means scenic easements in the area referred to in 
this subsection when, in his judgment, such action is necessary in 
order to assure uniform application of scenic control. To further 
achieve the purpose of this Act he may cooperate and enter into agree-
ments and covenants with property owners, groups thereof, and non-
profit organizations and may also cooperate with the State of Maryland 
and the political subdivisions thereof in order to promote and achieve 
scenic preservation through zoning and such other means as may be 
feasible. 
D o n a t i o n s 
of 
scenic easements. 
Agreements with 
property owners. 
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A d m i n istration 
of lands. 
SEC. 3. Land and interests therein acquired pursuant to this Act 
shall be administered in accordance with the Act entitled "An Act to 
establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes," approved 
1
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^ use I et seq. August 25,1916 (39 Stat. 535), as amended and supplemented. 
Appropriation. 
gjjc. 4. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums, 
but not more than $937,600, to carry out the provisions of this Act. 
Approved October 4, 1961. 
Public Law 87-363 
October 4, 1961 
[H. J. Res. 569] 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
72 Stat. 277. 
42 u s e 2153. 
To waive certain provisions of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 so as to permit 
the agreement for cooperation between the United States and France to be 
made immediately effective. 
Whereas on September 7, 1961, the President submitted to the Con-
gress pursuant to section 123 d. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, 
a proposed agreement for cooperation between the Government of 
the United States of America and the Government of the French 
Republic, signed at Paris, July 27,1961; and 
Whereas section 123 d. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 provides in 
effect that such an agreement may not enter into force for the 
United States until sixty days have expired while the Congress is 
in session after the submission of the agreement, without adverse 
action thereon by the Congress; and 
Whereas it appears that the full sixty-day period will not have 
expired during this session of the Congress and that the proposed 
agreement, therefore, would not in the ordinary course of events 
be brought into force until Congress reconvenes; and 
Whereas the Congress is satisfied that the proposed agreement is 
within the scope of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, particularly 
sections 91c. (1) and 144 b.; and 
Whereas the proposed agreement is similar to the agreements for 
cooperation already in effect with the Federal Republic of Ger-
many, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey; and 
Whereas recent international developments warrant proceeding with 
such cooperation with France as expeditiously as possible; and 
Whereas the Congress recognizes that the early entry into force of 
this proposed agreement would contribute to the strength of the 
free world and thus enhance the common defense and security: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
coo^tration'^be- ^^^^^^ ^f AmeHca in Congress assembled^ That notwithstanding the 
t w e e n u. s. and provisious of sectiou 123 d. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, which 
France. 
provides for a sixty-day waiting period before agreements for co-
operation for mutual defense purposes may be made effective, the 
proposed agreement for cooperation between the Government of the 
United States of America and the Government of the French Repub-
lic, submitted on September 7,1961, by the President to the Congress, 
may be made effective at any time after the approval of this 
resolution. 
Approved October 4, 1961. 
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2164.