An Act to direct the Secretary of the Army to convey certain land located in Windsor Locks, Conn., to the State of Connecticut
PL 83-315 (S.489), enacted 03/26/1954

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exceeding one year, or both; except that any person, having been 
once convicted of an offense punishable under this section, who is 
subsequently convicted of violating any provision of this Act punish-
able under this section, shall be punished by a fine of not more than 
$10,000 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, 
or both." 
Approved March 23, 1954. 
Public Law 315 
CHAPTER 105 
AN ACT 
To direct the Secretary of the Army to convey certain land located in Windsor 
Locks, Connecticut, to the State of Connecticut. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Bepresentatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of the Army is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed, 
without consideration, to the State of Connecticut all right, title, 
and interest of the United States, except as retained in this Act, in 
and to the following described land in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, 
together w^ith all buildings, improvements thereon, and all appurte-
nances and utilities belonging or appertaining thereto, such land 
including approximately fifty-eight and six hundred eighty-five one-
thousandths acres and formerly designated as the Post Engineer Area 
of Bradlej' Field, as shown on maps on file with the Office of the Chief 
of Engineers: 
PARCEL ONE 
Beginning at the intersection of the eastern right-of-way line of 
Connecticut Route Numbered 75 and the northern right-of-way line 
of the spur track of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad; 
thence north along the east line of Connecticut Route Numbered 75, 
north one degree forty-six minutes thirty seconds west, a distance of 
sixty feet more or less; thence north fifty-three degrees ten minutes 
east, a distance of five hundred and eighty-eight feet more or less; 
thence north seventy-two degrees fifteen minutes east, a distance of 
four hundred seventy-three feet more or less; thence north seventy-
eight degrees fifteen minutes east, a distance of three hundred and forty 
feet more or less; thence south sixty-six degrees tAventy-five minutes 
east, a distance of two hundred and sixty-two feet more or less; thence 
south seventeen degrees forty-five minutes east, a distance of seventy-
seven feet more or less to the northerly boundary of the fifty-foot 
right-of-way of the spur track of the New York, NCAV Haven and 
Hartford Railroad; thence along the northern boundary of such rail-
road spur, south seventy-two degrees fifteen minutes west, a" distance 
of one thousand five hundred and eighty-five feet more or less, to the 
point of beginning. 
PARCEL TWO 
Beginning at the intersection of the eastern right-of-way line of 
Connecticut Route Numbered 75 and the southern right-of-way line 
of the spur track of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad; 
thence easterly along the southerly right-of-way line of such spur 
track, north seventy-two degrees fifteen minutes east, a distance of two 
thousand six hundred and thirty-five feet more or less; thence south 
seventy-one degrees thirteen minutes east, a distance of one hundred 
eighty-three and five-tenths feet more or less; thence south eighteen 
detrrees nine minutes west, a distance of one thousand three hundred 
March 26,1954 
[S. 489] 
Windsor 
Conn. 
Locks, 
Conveyance. 
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Mineral rights. 
Use. 
National 
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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.