An Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain public lands in the State of Nevada to the county of Lincoln, State of Nevada.
PL 88-35 (S.873), enacted 05/29/1963

Nev. 
Conveyance. 
77 STAT. ] 
PUBLIC LAW 88-35-MAY 29, 1963 
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Public Law 88-35 
AN ACT 
May 29, 1.963 
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain public lands in the State 
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of Nevada to the county of Lincoln, State <)f Nevada. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Houae of RepreHentatireH of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Secretary 
uncoin county, 
of the Interior shall issue to the county of Lincoln, State of Nevada, ^' 
upon the payment of the purchase price by the county into the Treasury 
of the United States, not more than five years after the Secretary 
has notified the county of such price, which shall be an amount equal 
to the fair market value plus the cost of any appraisal of the lands as 
of the effective date of this Act as determined by the Secretary after 
the appraisal of the lands by contract appraisal or otherwise, a patent 
for the following-described lands, situated in the State of Nevada and 
comprising approximately 2,844 acres (all range references are to the 
Mount Diablo base and meridian) : 
The northwest quarter, west half of southwest quarter section 2; 
all section 3; north half, southwest quarter, west half of southeast 
quarter, northeast quarter of southeast quarter section 10: southeast 
quarter of northeast quarter, northwest quarter of northwest quarter, 
southeast quarter section 11; all section 14; north half, southwest 
quarter, northeast quarter of southeast quarter of northwest quarter 
of southeast quarter, southeast quarter of southeast quarter section 15, 
all in township 3 south, range 67 east. Mount Diablo meridian, Nevada. 
SEC. 2. The conveyance authorized by this Act shall be made subject 
to any existing valid claims against the lands described in the first 
section of this Act, and to any reservations necessary to protect contin-
uing uses of those lands by the United States. 
SEC. 3. Nothing contamed in the preceding provisions of this Act 
shall be construed to preclude the county of Lincoln, State of Nevada, 
from purchasing, in accordance with such preceding provisions, only 
such portion or portions, by legal subdivision of the public land 
surveys, of the above-described lands as such county elects, nor shall 
the purchase by such county of only a portion or portions of such 
lands be construed to constitute a w-aiver or relinquishment of any of 
its rights under this Act to purchase, in accordance \\\t\\ such preceding 
provisions and by legal subdivisions of the public land surveys, the 
remainder of such lands, or any portion thereof. 
SEC. 4. All moneys received from the conveyance of lands under the 
terms of this Act shall be disposed of in the same manner as moneys 
received from the sale of public lands, except that moneys received 
as reimbursement for costs of appraisal, surveys, and extinguishing 
adverse claims may be used by the Secretary for said purposes without 
appropriation. 
SEC. 5. The lands described in section 1 of this Act shall be segre-
gated from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, 
including the mining and mineral leasing laws, from the date of 
approval of this xlct until the Secretary shall provide otherwise by 
publication of an order in the Federal Register. 
publication in 
SEC. 6. This Act shall not preclude the county of Lincoln from ^' ^* 
acquiring title or leases to any lands described in this Act for public 
or recreational purposes under the Act of June 14, 1926 (44 Stat. 741), 
as amended (43 U.S.C 869, et seq.). 
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SEC. 7. Any patent issued under this Act shall contain a reservation 
to the United States of any of the following named minerals for which 
the land is deemed valuable or prospectively valuable: coal, native 
asphalt, solid and semisolid bitumen, and bituminous rock (including 
oil-impregnated rock or sands from which oil is recoverable only by 
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special treatment after the deposit is mined or quarried), oil, gas, oil 
shale, phosphate, sodium, and potassium, together with the right of the 
United States, its lessees, permittees or licensees to prospect for, mine, 
and remove them under applicable provisions of law. 
Approved May 29, 1963. 
Public Law 88-36 
June 4. 1963 
AN ACT 
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To repeal certain legislation relating to the purchase of silver, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, 
TITLE I—SILVER 
BULLION, 
SILVER 
CERTIFICATES, 
AND FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES 
Repeals. 
SECTION 1. The Silver Purchase Act of 1934 (31 U.S.C. 311a, 316a, 
48 Stat. 1178. 
316b, 405a, 448-448e, 734a, and 734b), section 4 of the Act of July 6, 
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1939 (31 U.S.C. 316c), and the Act of July 31,1946 (31 U.S.C. 316d), 
are hereby repealed. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury shall maintain the ownership 
and the possession or control within the United States of an amount of 
silver of a monetary value equal to the face amount of all outstanding 
silver certificates. Unless the market price of silver exceeds its mone-
tary value, the Secretary of the Treasury shall not dispose of any 
silver held or owned by the United States in excess of that required 
to be held as reserves against outstanding silver certificates, but any 
such excess silver may be sold to other departments and agencies of 
the Government or used for the coinage of standard silver dollars 
and subsidiary silver coins. Silver certificates shall be exchangeable 
on demand at the Treasury of the United States for silver dollars or, 
at the option of the Secretary of the Treasury, at such places as he 
may designate, for silver bullion of a monetary value equal to the 
face amount of the certificates. 
SEC. 3. The first sentence of the ninth paragraph of section 16 of 
40 Stat. 970. 
the Federal Reserve Act (12 U.S.C. 418) is amended by inserting 
"$1, $2," immediately after "notes of the denominations of". 
TITLE II—REPEAL OF TAX ON TRANSFERS OF SILVER 
BULLION 
6SR Stat. 590. 
26 u s e 4891-
SEC. 201. (a) Subchapter F of chapter 39 of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1954 (relating to silver bullion) is hereby repealed. 
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(b) The table of subchapters for such chapter 39 is amended by 
striking out the last line thereof. 
26 use 6422. 
(c) Scction 6422 of such Code (relating to cross references) is 
amended by striking out paragraph (7) and by renumbering para-
graphs (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (13), and (14) as paragraphs (7), 
(8), (9), (10), (11), (12), and (13), respectively. 
26 use 6808. 
(d) Section 6808 of such Code (relating to special provisions 
relating to stamps) is amended by striking out paragraph (11) and 
by renumbering paragraphs (12) and (13) as paragraphs (11) and 
(12), respectively. 
SEC. 2Cfe. Section 201 shall apply only witli respect to transfers after 
the date of the enactment of this title. 
Approved June 4; 1963.