An Act to authorize the Administrator of General Services to convey certain lands in the State of Rhode Island to the town of North Kingstown, R. I.
PL 84-859 (S.3195), enacted 08/01/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 859-AUG. 1, 1956 
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SEC. 4. Facilities shall be provided for the development of the 
fish 
^f^ 
and wildlife resources of the project area including facilities to permit 
increased minimum water releases from Lake Tahoe and restoration 
of the Pyramid Lake fishery. The cost of such facilities, including 
operation and maintenance, shall be nonreimbursable. 
The cost to the 
Federal Government of constructing these facilities shall not exceed 
$2,000,000. This amount shall not include the cost of measures under-
taken, pursuant to section 2 of the Act of August 14, 1946 (60 Stat. 
1080, 16 IT. S. C. 661a), to mitigate damages to fish and wildlife re-
sources occasioned by the Washoe project as authorized by section 1 of 
this Act. 
SEC. 5. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for construc-
tion of the Washoe reclamation project the sum of $43,700,000 plus 
such amounts, if any, as may be req^uired by reason of changes in con-
struction costs as indicated by engineering cost indices applicable to 
the types of construction involved therein and, in addition thereto, 
such sums as may be required to operate and maintain the project: 
Provided, That the appropriation of funds for the construction, opera-
tion, or maintenance of facilities authorized by section 4 of this Act 
shall not be from the reclamation fund. 
Approved August 1, 1956. 
F i s h and wlld-
resourcas. 
Limitation. 
16 u s e 662. 
Appropri ation. 
Public Law 859 
CHAPTER 810 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Administrator of General Services to convey certain lands in 
the State of Rhode Island to the town of North Kingstown, Rhode Island. 
August i, 195S 
[S. 319S] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress asseiribled. That the Adminis-
trator of General Services is authorized and directed to convey by 
quitclaim deed to the town of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, all 
right, title, and interest of the United States in and to approximately 
three and four-tenths acres of land, including improvements thereon, 
in such town, upon payment by said town of the fair market value of 
said property as determined by said Administrator after competent 
appraisal and upon such terms and conditions as may in the determina* 
tion of said Administrator be necessary to protect the interest of the 
United States. 
Such land, which is part of a tract formerly held by 
the Department of the Navy and declared surplus to the needs of 
such Department, is more particularly described as follows: 
Begin-
ning at a point in the easterly line of Post Road which point is 100 
feet northerly from a concrete bound at the northwest corner of land 
now or formerly of Dot Seafood Company; thence the line runs in a 
northerly direction 500 feet bounded westerly by said Post Road; 
thence turning an interior an^le of 90 degrees, 5 minutes, 20 seconds, 
the line runs m an easterly direction 262.74 feet; thence turning an 
interior angle of 96 degrees, 32 minutes, 1 second, the line runs in a 
southerly direction 503.27 feet; thence turning an interior angle of 83 
degrees, 27 minutes, 59 seconds, the line runs in a westerly direction 
320.0 feet to the point of beginning; said line being 100 feet from and 
parallel to the northerly line of land now or formerly of the Dot Sea-
food Company and making an interior angle of 89 degrees, 54 min-
utes, 40 seconds with the first described line; the last three courses 
being bounded northerly, easterly and southerly by land of the United 
States of America. 
The above-described tract contains three and 
four-tenths acres more or less. 
Approved August 1, 1956. 
North Kingstown, 
R. I. 
Conveyance.