An Act to repeal the act entitled ""An Act to authorize the Director of the Census to collect and publish statistics of red cedar shingles.""
PL 83-316 (S.2348), enacted 03/26/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 316-MAR. 26, 1954 
[68 S T A T . 
Mineral rights. 
Use. 
National 
emer-
gency. 
and ninety-five one-liundredths feet more or less,; thence north eighty-
three degrees thirty minutes west, a distance of seven hundred and 
seventy-nine feet more or less; thence south twenty degrees ten minutes 
west, a distance of five hundred seventy-six and twenty-four one-
hundredths feet more or less, to the northerly line of highway Con-
necticut Route Numbered 76; thence westerly, along the northerly line 
of Connecticut Route Numbered 76, north eighty-three degrees thirty 
minutes west, a distance of seven hundred and thirty-six feet more 
or less; thence north twelve degrees no minutes east; a distance of 
seven hundred and fifteen feet more or less; thence north eighty-five 
degrees no minutes west, a distance of seven hundred and five feet more 
or less to the easterly line of highway Connecticut Route Numbered 
75, thence north along the easterly line of Connecticut Route Numbered 
75, north one degree forty-six minutes thirty seconds west, a distance 
of thirty feet more or less to the point of beginning. 
SEC. 2. All mineral rights, including gas and oil, in the lands author-
ized to be conveyed by this Act shall be reserved to the United States. 
SEC. 3. The conveyance of the property authorized by this Act shall 
be upon condition that such property shall be used primarily for 
training of the National Guard and for other military purposes, and 
that if the State of Connecticut shall cease to use the property so 
conveyed for the purposes intended, then title thereto shall imme-
diately revert to the United States, and in addition, all improvements 
made by the State of Connecticut during its occupancy shall vest in 
the United States without payment of compensation therefor. 
SEC. 4. The conveyance oi the property authorized by this Act shall 
be upon the further provision that whenever the Congress of the 
United States declares a state of war or other national emergency, or 
the President declares a state of emergency, and upon the determina-
tion by the Secretary of Defense that the property conveyed under 
this Act is useful or necessary for military, air, or naval purposes, 
or in the interest of national defense, the United States shall have 
the right, without obligation to make payment of any kind, to reenter 
upon the property and use the same or any part thereof, including any 
and all improvements made thereon by the State of Connecticut, for 
the duration of such state of war or of such emergency. Upon the 
termination of such state of war or of such emergency plus six months 
such property shall revert to the State of Connecticut. 
SEC. 5. In executing the deed of conveyance authorized by this Act, 
the Secretary of the Army shall include specific provisions covering 
the reservations and conditions contained in sections 2, 3, and 4 of this 
Act. 
Approved March 26, 1954. 
Public Law 316 
CHAPTER 106 
March 26,1954 
[S. 2348] 
R e d - c e d a r 
shingles. 
13 u s e 94-98« 
AN ACT 
To repeal the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Director of the Census to 
collect and publish statistics of red-cedar shingles." 
Be it enacted hy the Senate arid House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Act entitled 
"An Act to authorize the Director of the Census to collect and publish 
statistics of red-cedar shingles," approved May 25,1937 (50 Stat. 204, 
205) be, and it is hereby, repealed. 
Approved March 26, 1954.