An Act to authorize the conveyance to the State of Texas of approximately 9 acres of land in Houston, Tex., to be used for National Guard purposes
PL 83-713 (S.3822), enacted 08/30/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 713-AUG. 30, 1954 
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SEC. 4. 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 the Air National Guard and 
for other military purposes, and that if the State of Texas shall cease 
to use the property so conveyed for the purposes intended, then title 
thereto shall immediately revert to the United States, and in addition, 
all improvements made by the State of Texas during its occupancy 
shall vest in the United States without payment of compensation 
therefor. 
SEC. 5. The conveyance of 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 determi-
nation 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 Texas, 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 Texas, together with all 
appurtenances and utilities belonging or appertaining thereto. 
SEC. 6. In executing the deed of conveyance authorized by this 
Act, the Secretary of the Air Force or his designee shall include spe-
cific provisions covering the reservations and conditions contained in 
sections 2, 3, 4, and 5 of this Act. 
Approved August 30, 1954. 
National G u a i' d 
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National 
gency use* 
Public Law 713 
CHAPTER 1083 
AN ACT 
To authorize the conveyance to the State of Texas of approximately nine acres 
of land in Houston, Texas, to be used for National Guard purposes. 
August 30, 1954 
[S.3 822] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress asseinhled^ That the Secretary 
of the Army is authorized and directed to convey to the State of 
Texas, without compensation therefor, all the right, title, and interest 
of the United States in and to approximately nine and three-tenths 
acres of land in Houston, Harris County, Texas, and all improvements 
thereon, said property comprising that portion of the former Hughes 
Strut Plant now being occupied by the Texas National Guard under 
a license issued by the Secretary of the Army. 
SEC, 2. The deed of conveyance authorized under the provisions of 
this Act shall— 
(1) provide that the property conveyed shall not be alienated 
in whole or in part by the State of Texas and shall be used pri-
marily for training National Guard and Air National Guard 
personnel and for other military purposes, and if such provision 
is violated title to such property (including all improvements 
by the State of Texas) shall revert to the United States; 
(2) reserve to the United States all minerals (including oil 
and gas) in the lands conveyed; 
(3) provide that during any state of war or national emergency 
and for six months thereafter, if the Secretary of Defense deter-
mines that the property conveyed is useful or necessary for 
Houston, Tex. 
Conveyance. 
Reservations and 
conditions. 
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PUBLIC LAW 714-AUG. 30, 1954 
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national defense purposes, the United States may, without pay-
ment therefor, reenter such property and use all or any part of it 
(including improvements by the State of Texas) but upon the 
termination of such use such property shall revert to the State 
of Texas; and 
(4) contain such additional terms, conditions, reservations, 
and restrictions as may be determined by the Secretary of the 
Army to be necessary to protect the interests of the United States. 
Approved August 30, 1954. 
Public Law 714 
CHAPTER 1084 
August 30, 1954 
[H. R. 2012] 
Alaska 
Council 
of Boy Sc o u t s of 
America< 
Land sale. 
AN ACT 
66 Stat. 133. 
46 u s e 289, 883, 
notes. 
To authorize the sale of certain public lands in Alaska to the Alaska Council 
of Boy Scouts of America for a camp site and other public pui'poses. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Alaska 
Council of Boy Scouts of America is hereby authorized for a period 
of one year from and after the effective date of this Act to apply 
for the purchase of, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby 
authorized and directed to convey to the organization for a camp 
site and other public purposes, the following-described public lands 
situated in Alaska: 
Homesite numbered 337, located on Hot Springs Bay, west shore 
of Baranof Island, Tongass National Forest, Alaska, approximate 
latitude fifty-six degrees fifty minutes ten seconds north, longitude 
one hundred thirty-five degrees twenty-two minutes ten seconds west. 
Beginning at corner numbered 1, MC at line of mean high tide on 
shore of Hot Springs Bay, not set on account of liability to destruc-
tion by tides; thence south six and no one-hundredths chains to corner 
immbered 2; thence east five and seventy-five one-hundredths chains 
to corner numbered 3; thence north six and fifty one-hundredths chains 
to corner numbered 4, MC at line of mean high tide, not set on account 
of liability to destruction by tides; thence by meanders along shore 
of Hot Springs Bay at line of mean high tide south seventy degrees 
west three and seventy-five one-hundredths chains, north sixty-nine 
degrees west two and thirty-four one-hundredths chains to the place 
of beginning. 
(A witness corner bears south sixty-five one-hundredths 
cliain from corner numbered 4.) 
(Witness corner consisting of a 
cedar post four inches square, four feet long, marked WC 1 MC HS 
bears south seventy one-hundredths chain from corner numbered 1.) 
(Tie: Witness corner, meander corner numbered 2 of United States 
Survey Numbered 1401 bears south seventy-six degrees thirty minutes 
west two and fifty-nine one-hundredths chains from WC MC 1.) 
(A trail right-of-way one-half chain in width crosses the tract, the 
center line of which enters the west boundary of the homesite two 
and seven one-hundredths chains, south from true point for corner 
numbered 1 MC, thence north eighty-four degrees east five and no 
one-hundredths chains, north thirty-four degrees east two and eighty 
one-hundredths chains, to a point south eighty-five one-hundredths 
chain, from true point for corner numbered 4 MC), embracing approxi-
mately three and tw^enty-eight one-hundredths acres. 
SEC. 2. Such conveyance shall be subject to the terms and conditions 
provided for the sale of public lands to a nonprofit corporation or 
nonprofit association under the Act of June 4, 1954 (Public Law 387, 
Eighty-third Congress, second session) : Provided^ That the convey-
ance hereby authorized shall not include any land covered by a valid