An Act to extend the benefits of certain provisions of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 to the Arch Hurley Conservancy District, Tucumcari reclamation project, New Mexico
PL 83-168 (S.1433), enacted 07/31/1953

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title to such bridges shall be conveyed to the State of New York and 
to the Canadian interests in the manner provided in section 6 hereof. 
"(4) Whenever the Commission shall determine that any bridge 
operated by it should be replaced by a new structure in order to 
facilitate the movement of international commerce at the approximate 
location of the bridge to be replaced, it may construct, maintain, and 
operate such new bridge and approaches thereto across the Niagara 
River, at a point north of the city of Niagara Falls, approximately at 
the location of the bridge to be replaced, and upon the completion of 
the new bridge the Commission may with the approval of the proper 
authorities in the Government of Canada close the old bridge to traffic 
or may continue to maintain and operate it. The net revenues of such 
new bridge shall be subject to the same pledges, if any, previously 
made of the net revenues of the bridge replaced by it. 
Such new 
bridge shall be constructed in accordance with the provisions of an 
Act entitled 'An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over 
navigable w^aters', approved March 23, 1906, and subject to all appli-
cable provisions, conditions, and limitations contained in this joint 
resolution and to the approval of the proper authorities in the Govern-
ment of Canada." 
Approved July 31, 1953. 
Replacement 
bridges. 
34 Stat. 84; 33 
u s e 491-498. 
Public Law 167 
CHAPTER 290 
AN ACT 
To authorize the conveyance for public-school purposes of certain Federal land 
in Gettysburg National Military Park, and for other purposes. 
July31, 1953 
[S. 630] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assenfibled^ That the Secretary 
of the Interior is hereby authorized to have competent and disin-
terested appraisals made as to the value of not more than twenty-
three acres of land in Gettysburg National Military Park, in the State 
of Pennsylvania, such land lying generally between East Confederate 
Avenue and Wainwright Avenue, and being situated adjacent to the 
present high-school property in that area. Upon the basis of such 
appraisals, the Secretary is authorized to convey such property for 
public-school purposes to the State of Pennsylvania, or the appro-
priate local agency thereof, the conveyance to be made in exchange for 
non-Federal land of approximately equal value, which land, upon 
acceptance by the United States, shall become a part of Gettysburg 
National Military Park. 
Approved July 31, 1953. 
Gettysburg Na-
tional 
M i l i t a r y 
Park, Pa. 
Conveyance. 
Public Law 168 
CHAPTER 291 
AN ACT 
To extend the benefits of certain provisions of the Reclamation Project Act of 
1939 to the Arch Hurley Conservancy District, Tucumcari reclamation project, 
New Mexico. 
July 31, 1953 
[S. 1433] 
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 is authorized to extend the benefits of subsection (b), 
section 7, of the Keclamation Project Act of 1939, to the Arch Hurley 
Conservancy District, New Mexico, notwithstanding the existence of 
a repayment contract entered into by that district under the Federal 
Tucumc ari recla-
mation project, N. 
Mex. 
53 Stat. 1192. 
43 u s e 485f.