An Act to amend the act entitled ""An Act to authorize a permanent annual appropriation for the maintenance and operation of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory,"" approved May 7, 1928, as amended
PL 83-339 (S.1456), enacted 04/19/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 340-APR. 22, 1954 
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For exchange purposes, particularly in connection with State and 
other highway developments, the Secretary is authorized to accept, 
on behalf of the United States, any non-Federal land or interests 
therein situated within the park area herein prescribed, and in 
exchange therefor to convey park land or interests therein of approxi-
mately equal value. 
Approved April 17, 1954. 
Public Law 339 
CHAPTER 160 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act entitled "An Act to authorize a permanent annual appropria-
tion for the maintenance and operation of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory", 
approved May 7, 1928, as amended. 
April 19,1954 
[S. 1456] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America, in Congress assemhled^ That the Act entitled 
"An Act to authorize a permanent annual appropriation for the main-
tenance and operation of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory", approved 
May 7, 1928, as amended, is hereby amended by striking out clauses 
(2) and (3) of section 1 of said Act and inserting in lieu thereof the 
following: "and (2) that the said Gorgas Memorial Institute be, and 
it is hereby, authorized within its discretion, henceforth to accept 
from any of the Latin American Governments, or from any other 
sources, any funds which may be offered or given for the use of the 
Gorgas Memorial Institute for the maintenance and operation of the 
Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, and for carrying on the work of said 
Laboratory wherever deemed by the said Institute to be necessary or 
desirable." 
Approved April 19, 1954. 
Gorgas Memorial 
Laboratory. 
45 Stat. 491. 
22 u s e 278. 
Public Law 340 
CHAPTER 169 
,AN ACT 
To provide that title to certain school lands shall vest in the States under the 
Act of January 25, 1927, notwithstanding any Federal leases which may be 
outstanding on sucli lands at the time they are surveyed. 
April 22,1954 
[H. R. 7110] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congre>iS assembled^ That the first sec-
tion of the Act entitled "An Act confirming in States and Territories 
title to lands granted by the United States in the aid of common or 
public schools", approved January 25, 1927, as amended (48 U. S. C , 
sec. 870), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new 
subsection: 
"(d) (1) Notwithstanding subsection (c), the fact that there is 
outstanding on any numbered mineral section at the time of its survey 
a lease or leases entered into by the United States, or an application 
therefor, shall not prevent the grant of such numbered mineral section 
to the State concerned as provided in this Act. 
"(2) Any numbered mineral section which has been surveyed prior 
to the date of the enactment of this subsection, and which has not been 
granted to the State concerned solely by reason of the fact that there 
was outstanding on it at the time of the survey a lease or leases entered 
into by the L^nited States, or an application therefor, is hereby granted 
by the United States to such State under this section as if it had not 
been so leased; and the State shall succeed to the position of the United 
States as lessor under such lease or leases. 
School lands. 
Title. 
44 Stat. 1026.