An Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to the Territory of Alaska certain lands in the city of Sitka, known as Baranof Castle site
PL 84-789 (S.3344), enacted 07/25/1956

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River at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, connecting the military reserva-
tion with the lands belonging to the Department of Justice in Platte 
County, Missouri. 
SEC. 2. The provisions in the Second Deficiency Act of 1924 (43 
Stat. 687) requiring that said bridge shall be open to use by the public 
under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Attorney 
General is hereby repealed. 
SEC. 3. The Department of the Army is authorized to remove the 
said bridge as it constitutes an unreasonable obstruction to navigation 
and such appropriation is hereby authorized as may be necessary for its 
removal and the relocation of the Government-owned utilities now 
carried by said bridge serving the lands belonging to the Department 
of Justice in Platte County, Missouri, 
Approved July 25, 1956, 
Approp ri ation. 
Public Law 788 
CHAPTER 717 
AN ACT 
To provide that lock and dam numbered 17 on the Black Warrior River, Alabama, 
shall hereafter be known and designated as the John Hollis Bankhead lock 
and dam. 
July 25, 1956 
[S. 2424] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That, in honor of the 
late Senator John Hollis Bankhead, and in recognition of his out-
standing service in securing the improvement of the Black Warrior 
River, Alabama, lock and dam numbered 17 on such river shall here-
after be known and designated as the John Hollis Bankhead lock 
and dam, and shall be dedicated to his memory as a monument to his 
distinguished public service. Any law, regulation, document, or 
record of the United States in which such lock and dam is designated 
or referred to as lock and dam numbered 17 shall be held and con-
sidered to refer to such lock and dam under and by the name of the 
John Hollis Bankhead lock and dam. 
Approved July 25, 1956. 
J o h n 
H o l l i s 
Bankhead lock and 
dam. 
Public Law 789 
CHAPTER 718 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of Ajjriculture to convey to the Territory of Alaska 
certain lands in the city of Sitlta, known as Baranof Castle site. 
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Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to convey, without 
reimbursement therefor, to the Territory of Alaska, for use as a 
historic monument site, all the right, title, and interest of the United 
States to the following described lands, containing 1.349 acres, more 
or less, and improvement thereon, known as the Baranof Castle site: 
The tract of land formerly occupied by the Alaska Agricultural 
Experiment Station, more particularly shown on the plat of Sitka 
Townsite, Alaska, United States survey numbered 1474, tract A, 
approved April 2, 1925, as the United States Reserve for Agricultural 
Investigations and Weather Service: Provided, That if the Territory 
of Alaska shall attempt to transfer title to or control over these lands, 
or to devote them to a use other than as a historic monument site title 
thereto shall revert to the United States. 
Approved July 25, 1956. 
July 25, 1956 
[S. 3344] 
Baranof Ca s tie 
site, Alaska. 
Conveyance.