Joint resolution granting consent of the Congress to a compact entered into between the state of Maryland and the Commonwealth of Virginia for the creation of the Potomac River Compact of 1958
PL 87-783 (H.J.Res.659), enacted 10/10/1962

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October 10, 1962 
[H. J. Res. 659] 
Public Law 87-783 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Granting consent of the Congress to a compact entered into between the State of 
Maryland and the Commonwealth of Virginia for the creation of the Potomac 
River Compact of 1958. 
Whereas the State of Maryland and the Commonwealth of Virginia 
Potomac River 
have entered into a compact, known as the Potomac River Compact ^^ns^ent of cfoii-
of 1958, by means of concurrent legislation for that purpose, being gress. 
chapter 269 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 
1959 and being found in chapters 5 and 28 of the 1959 Extraordinary 
Session of the General Assembly of Virginia: Therefore be it 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of the 
Congress, subject to the provisions and conditions of section 2 of this 
joint resolution, is given to the State of Maryland and the Common-
wealth of Virginia for the Potomac River Compact of 1958 and for 
each and every part and article thereof: Provided, That nothing in 
this compact shall be construed as impairing or in any manner affecting 
any right or jurisdiction of the United States in or over the region 
which forms the subject of the compact or the power of Congress 
pursuant to the United States Constitution over interstate or foreign 
commerce. The compact reads as follows: 
"POTOMAC RIVER COMPACT OF 1958 
"PREAMBLE 
"Whereas Maryland and Virginia are both vitally interested in con-
serving and improving the valuable fishery resources of the 
Tidewater portion of the Potomac River, and 
"Whereas, certain provisions of the Compact of 1785 between Mary-
land and Virginia having become obsolete, Maryland and Virginia 
each recognizing that Maryland is the owner of the Potomac River 
bed and waters to the low water mark of the southern shore thereof, 
as laid out on the Mathews-Nelson survey of 1927, and that Virginia 
is the owner of the Potomac River bed and waters southerly from 
said low water mark as laid out, and that the citizens of Virginia 
have certain riparian rights along the southern shore of the river, as 
shown on said Mathews-Nelson survey, and, in common with the 
citizens of Maryland, the right of fishing in said river, Maryland 
and Virginia have agreed that the necessary conservation and 
improvement of the tidewater portion of the Potomac fishei-y 
resources can be best achieved oy a Commission comprised of 
representatives of both Maryland and Virginia, charged with the 
establishment and maintenance of a program to conserve and 
improve these resources, and 
"Whereas, at a meeting of the commissioners appointed by the 
Governors of the State of Maryland and the Commonwealth of 
Virginia, to-wit: Carlyle Barton, M. William Adelson, Stephen R. 
Collins, Edward S. Delaplaine and William J. McWilliams, 
Esquires, on the part of the State of Maryland, and Mills E. Godwin, 
Jr., Howard H. Adams, Robert Y. Button, John Warren Cooke 
and Edward E. Lane, Esquires, on the part of the Commonwealth 
of Virginia, at Mount Vernon, Virginia, on the twentieth of 
Decemfer, in the year one thousand nine hundred and 
fifty-eight, 
the following Potomac River Compact of, 1958 between the 
Commonwealth of Virginia and the State of Maryland was mutually 
agreed to by the said Commissioners: Now, therefore, be it 
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''''Resolved by the Commissioners appointed by the Governors of the 
State of Maryland and the Commonwealth of Virginia, meeting in 
joint session, that they do unanimously recommend to the said respec-
tive Governors that there be a new compact, to be designated as the 
"Potomac River Compact of 1958", and that the said new compact be 
referred as promptly as possible to the Legislatures of the State of 
Maryland and the Commonwealth of Virginia for appropriate action, 
and to the end and after ratification and adoption by said Legislatures 
the same be submitted to the Congress of the United States for 
approval. 
"ARTICLE I 
"COMMISSION—MEMBERSHIP AND ORGANIZATION 
"SECTION 1. COMMISSION CREATED.—The Potomac River Fisheries 
Commission, hereinafter designated as "Commission", is hereby 
created. 
"SEC. 2. MEMBERS.—The Commission shall consist of six members, 
three from Maryland and three from Virginia. The Maryland mem-
bers shall be the members of the Tidewater Fisheries Commission of 
Maryland or its successor agency and the Virginia members shall be 
the members of the Virginia Fisheries Commission or its successor 
agency. If the membership of either of the respective State Commis-
sions exceeds three, then the three Commission members from that 
State shall be selected by the Governor thereof from the members of 
the State Commission; and if the membership of either of the respec-
tive State Commissions is less than three, the three Commission mem-
bers from that State shall be the member or members of the State 
Commission, and such additional person or persons who shall be 
appointed by the Governor as may be necessary to constitute a total 
of three Commissioners. 
"SEC. 3. TERM, VACANCIES.—The term of Commissioners who are 
members of their respective State Commissions shall be conterminous 
with their term on their State Commission. The term of Commis-
sioners who are not members of their State Commission shall be four 
years. 
Vacancies on the Commission shall be filled by appointment of 
the Governor of the State entitled to fill the vacancy, except that where 
the State Commission has three members, the person filling a vacancy 
on the State Commission shall ex officio become a member of the 
Commission. 
"SEC. 4. CHAIRMAN.—The Chairman of the Commission shall alter-
nate from year to year between the representatives of Maryland and 
Virginia. 
Subject to such alternation, the Chairman shall be elected 
by the Commissioners for a term of one year. 
"SEC. 5. COMPENSATION, EXPENSES.—Commissioners shall be enti-
tled to receive from the General Fund of the Commission compensa-
tion of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each day or portion thereof 
spent in the performance of their duties, and reimbursement of rea-
sonable expenses incident to the performance of their duties. 
"SEC. 6. MEETINGS, QUORUM.—Commission meeting's shall be held at 
least once each quarter, and at such other times as the Commission may 
determine. 
"In order to constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business 
at least two of the three members from each State must be present and 
must vote on the business being transacted. 
"SEC, 7. OFFICE AND EMPLOYEES.—The Commission shall establish 
and maintain an office at such locations as it may select, and may 
employ an Executive Secretary who shall serve at the pleasure of the 
Commission, and such other administrative, clerical, scientific, and 
legal personnel as it deems necessary. The powers, duties and com-
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pensation of all employees shall be as prescribed by the Commission, 
and the employees shall not be subject to the provisions of Article 
64A of the Annotated Code of Maryland nor to the provisions of the 
Virginia Personnel Act, as the same may be from time to time in effect. 
The Commission may extend to any employee or employees member-
ship in the Virginia Supplemental Retirement System or the Mary-
land Employees' Retirement System, whichever is applicable, subject 
to the laws relating to each such retirement system. 
"ARTICLE II 
, 
"JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES 
"The territory in which the Potomac River Fisheries Commission 
shall have jurisdiction shall be those waters of the Potomac River en-
closed within the following described area: 
"Beginning at the intersection of mean low water mark at Point 
Lookout and an established line running from Smiths Point to Point 
Lookout, marking Chesapeake Bay waters; thence following the mean 
low water line of the shore northwesterly across the respective mouths 
of all creeks to Gray Point at the westerly entrance into Rowley Bay; 
thence in a straight line northwesterly to the southerly extremity of 
Kitts Point; thence along the mean low water line to the southwesterly 
point of St. Ini^oes Neck; thence in a straight line westerly to the 
most easterly pomt of St. Georges Island; thence following the mean 
low water line in a general northwesterly direction, across the respec-
tive mouths of all creeks and inlets to the southwesterly point of 
Huggins Point; thence in a straight line southwesterly to the eastern 
extremity of the sand bar known as Heron Island; thence north-
westerly following the ridge of Heron Island Bar to its westerly ex-
tremity ; thence southwesterly in a straight line to the most southerly 
point of Blakiston Island; thence in a straight line northwesterly to 
the southern extremity of Colton's Point; thence following the mean 
low water line westerly, excluding all creeks and inlets, to the point 
marking the southeasterly entrance into St. Catherine Sound; thence 
westerly in a straight line to the southern extremity of St. Catherine 
Island Sandbar; thence northwesterly, along the westerly edge of said 
sand bar continuing along the mean low water line of the southwesterly 
side of St. Catherine Island to the northwesterly point of said island; 
thence westerly in a straight line to Cobb Point Bar Lighthouse; thence 
northwesterly along the ridge of Cobb Point Sandbar to the southerly 
extremity of Cobb Point; thence following the mean low water line in 
general northwesterly and northerly directions across the respective 
mouths of all creeks and inlets to a point at the easterly entrance into 
Port Tobacco River, due east of Windmill Point; thence in a straight 
line westerly to Windmill Point; thence southwesterly following the 
mean low water line across the respective mouths of all creeks and 
inlets to Upper Cedar Point; thence southwesterly in a straight line 
across the mouth of Nanjemoy Creek to a point on shore at the village 
of Riverside; thence following the mean low water line, southwesterly, 
northwesterly and northerly across the respective mouths of all creeks 
and inlets to Smiths Point; thence northerly in a straight line to Liver-
pool Point; thence northerly in a straight line to Sandy Point; thence 
following the mean low water line northerly, across the respective 
mouths of all creeks and inlets to Moss Point; thence northerly in a 
straight line across Chicamuxen Creek to the southernmost point of 
Stump Neck; thence following the mean low water line northeasterly, 
across the respective mouths of all creeks and inlets, to a point at the 
southerly entrance into Mattawoman Creek; thence in a straight line 
northeasterly across the mouth of Mattawoman Creek to the south-
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westerly point of Cornwallis Neck; thence following the mean low 
water line northeasterly, across the respective mouths of all creeks and 
inlets, to Chapman Point; thence in a straight line northeasterly to 
Pomonkey or Hillis Point; thence following the mean low water line in 
a northerly direction across the respective mouths of all creeks and 
inlets, to a point on Marshall Hall shore, due south of Ferry Point; 
thence northeasterly in a straight line to Bryan Point; thence north-
easterly in a straight line to the northwest extremity of Mockley Point; 
thence northeasterly in a straight line to Hatton Point; thence north-
erly in a straight line to the southwesternmost point of Indian Queen 
Bluff; thence following the mean low water line northerly across the 
respective mouths of all creeks and inlets, to Rosier Bluff Point; thence 
in a straight line northerly to the intersection with the District of 
Columbia line at Fox Ferry Point; thence following the boundary line 
of the District of Columbia southwesterly to a point on the lower or 
southern shore of the Potomac River, said point being the intersection 
of the boundary line of the Commonwealth of Virginia with the 
boundary line of the District of Columbia; thence following the mean 
low water line of the Potomac River on the southern, or Virginia shore, 
as defined in the Black-Jenkins Award of 1877 and as laid out in 
the Mathews-Nelson Survey of 1927, beginning at the intersection of 
the Potomac River and the District of Columbia line at Jones Point 
and running to Smiths Point; and thence in a straight line across the 
mouth of the Potomac River on the established line from Smiths Point 
to Point Lookout, to the mean low water mark at Point Lookout, the 
place of beginning. 
"ARTICLE I I I 
"COMMISSION POWERS AND DUTIES 
"SECTION 1. OYSTER BARS.—The Commission shall make a survey 
of the oyster bars within its jurisdiction and may reseed and replant 
said oyster bars as may from time to time be necessary. 
"SEC. 2. F I S H AND SEAFOOD.—The Commission may by regulation 
prescribe the type, size and description of all species of finfish, crabs, 
oysters, clams and other shellfish which may be taken or caught, 
within its jurisdiction, the places where they may be taken or caught, 
and the manner of taking or catching. 
"SEC. 3. RESEARCH.—The Commission shall maintain a program of 
research relating to the conservation and repletion of the fishery 
resources within its jurisdiction, and to that end may cooperate and 
contract with scientists and public and private scientific agencies 
engaged in similar work, and may purchase, construct, lease, borrow 
or otherwise acquire by any lawful method such property, structures, 
facilities, or equipment as it deems necessary. 
"SEC. 4. LICENSES.—(a) The Commission shall issue such licenses 
as it may prescribe which shall thereupon be required for the taking 
of finfish, crabs, oysters, clams or other shellfish from the waters 
within the jurisdiction of the Commission, and for boats, vessels and 
equipment used for such taking. 
Recognizing that the right of fish-
ing in the territory over which the Commission shall have jurisdiction 
is and shall be common to and equally enjoyed by the citizens of 
Virginia and Maryland, the Commission shall make no distinction 
between the citizens of Virginia or Maryland in any rule, regulation 
or the granting of any licenses, privileges, or rights under this 
compact. 
"(b) Licenses for the taking of oysters and clams and the commer-
cial taking of finfish and crabs within the jurisdiction of the Commis-
sion shall be granted only to citizens of Maryland or Virginia who 
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have resided in either or both states for at least twelve months 
immediately preceding the application for the license. Within six 
months after the effective date of this compact, the Commission shall 
adopt a schedule of licenses, the privileges granted thereby, and the 
fees therefor, which may be modified from time to time in the discre-
tion of the Commission. 
"(c) The licenses hereby authorized may be issued at such places, 
by such persons, and in accordance with such procedures as the Com-
mission may determine. 
"SEC. 5. EXPENDITURES.—The Commission is authorized to expend 
funds for the purposes of general administration, repletion of the 
fish and shellfish in the Potomac River, and the conservation and 
research programs authorized under this compact, subject to the 
limitations provided in this compact. 
"SEC. 6. GRANTS, CONTRIBUTIONS, ETC.—The Commission is author-
ized to receive and accept (or to refuse) from any and all public and 
private sources such grants, contributions, appropriations, donations, 
and gifts as may be given to it, which shall be paid into and become 
part of the General Fund of the Commission, except where the donor 
instructs that it shall be used for a specific project, study, purpose, or 
program, in which event it shall be placed in a special account, which 
shall be administered under the same procedure as that prescribed 
for the General Fund. 
"SEC. 7. COOPERATION OF STATE AGENCIES.—The Commission may 
call upon the resources and assistance of the Virginia Fisheries Labo-
ratory, the Maryland Department of Research and Education, and 
all other agencies, institutions, and departments of Maryland and 
Virginia which shall cooperate fully with the Commission upon such 
request. 
"SEC. 8. REGULATIONS.—The Commission shall have the power to 
make, adopt and publish such rules and regulations as may be neces-
sary or desirable for the conduct of its meetings, such hearings as it 
may from time to time hold, and for the administration of its affairs. 
"SEC. 9. INSPECTION TAX.—The Commission may impose an inspec-
tion tax, in an amount as fixed from time to time by the Commission, 
not exceeding 250 per bushel, upon all oysters caught within the limits 
of the Potomac River. 
The tax shall be paid by the buyer at the 
place in Maryland or Virginia where the oysters are unloaded from 
vessels and are to be shipped no further in bulk in vessel, to an agent 
of the Commission, or to such officer or employee of the Virginia 
Fisheries Commission or of the Maryland Department of Tidewater 
Fisheries, as may be designated by the Commission, and by him paid 
over to the Commission. 
"ARTICLE 
IV 
" C O M M I S S I O N 
R E G U L A T I O N S 
PROCEDURE AND REVIEW 
"SECTION 1. NOTICE, 
HEARING, 
VOTE.—No regulation shall be 
adopted by the Commission unless: 
" (a) A public hearing is held thereon; 
"(b) Prior to the hearing the Commission has given notice of the 
proposed regulation b^^ publication thereof at least once a week for 
three successive weeks in at least one newspaper published, or having 
a general circulation in each county of Maryland and Virginia con-
tiguous to the waters within the Commission's jurisdiction, the first 
such publication to be at least thirty days but not more than forty-five 
days prior to the date of the hearing; 
"(c) A copy of the proposed regulation is mailed at least thirty 
days but not more than forty-five days prior to the hearing, to the 
clerk of the court of each county of Maryland and Virginia contiguous 
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to the waters within the Commission's jurisdiction, who shall post 
the same in a conspicuous place at or in the courthouse; and 
"(d) The regulation is approved by at least four members of the 
Commission. 
"SEC. 2. EECORDING, EFFECTIVE DATE.—(a) Eegulations of the Com-
mission shall be exempt from the provisions of Chapter 1.1 (§ 9-6.1 
et seq.) of Title 9 of the Code of Virginia (1950 Edition, as amended 
from time to time), and of section 9 of Article 41 of the Annotated 
Code of Maryland (1957 Edition, as amended from time to time). 
Copies of Commission regulations shall be kept on public file and 
available for public reference in the offices of the Commission, the 
office of the clerk of court in each county of Maryland and Virginia 
contiguous to the waters within the Commission's jurisdiction, the 
office of the Virginia Division of Statutory Eesearch and Drafting, the 
office of the Maryland Department of Legislative Reference, the office 
of the Virginia Fisheries Commission, and the office of the Maryland 
Department of Tidewater Fisheries. 
(b) No regulation of the Commission shall become effective until 
thirty (30) days after the date of its adoption, or such later date as 
may be fixed by the Commission. 
"(c) Leasing, dredging or patent tonging shall be authorized by the 
*" 
Conmiission only if such authorization is granted by joint action of 
the Legislatures of Maryland and Virginia. 
"SEC. 3. REVIEW.—Any person aggrieved by any regulation or order 
of the Commission may at any time file a petition for declatory judg-
ment with respect to the validity or construction thereof, in the circuit 
court of any county in Maryland or Virginia contiguous to the waters 
within the Commission's jurisdiction. A review of the final judgment 
of the circuit court may be appealed to the court of highest appellate 
jurisdiction of the state in accordance with the rules of procedure in 
such state. 
"SEC. 4. REVISION BY LEGISLATIVE ACTION.—Regulations of the Com-
mission may be amended, modified, or rescinded by joint enactment of 
the General Assembly of Maryland and the General Assembly of 
Virginia. 
"SEC. 5. REVISION OF COMPACT.—^At any time subsequent to the 
adoption of this compact the Governor or Legislature of either Mary-
land or Virginia may call for the appointment of a Commission to 
make further study and recommendations concerning revision and 
amendments to this compact, at which time the Governors of the 
respective states shall act forthwith in compliance with the request 
for the appointment of said Commission. 
"ARTICLE V 
(( 
ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS: PENALTIES 
"SECTION 1. RESPONSIBILITY FOR ENFORCEMENT.—The regulations 
and orders of the Commission shall be enforced by the joint effort of 
the law enforcement agencies and officers of Maryland and Virginia. 
"SEC. 2. PENALTIES.—The violation of any regulation of the Commis-
sion shall be a misdemeanor. Unless a lesser punishment is provided 
by the Commission, such violation shall be punishable by a fine not to 
exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or confinement in a penal in-
stitution for not more than one (1) year, or both, in the discretion of 
the court, and any vessel, boat, or equipment used in the taking of fin-
fish, crabs, oysters, clams, or other shellfish from the Potomac River 
in violation of any regulation of the Commission or of applicable laws 
may be confiscated by the court, upon the abandonment thereof or the 
conviction of the owner or operator thereof. 
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"SEC. 3. JURISDICTION OF COURT.—The officer making an arrest or 
preferring a charge for violation of a regulation of the Commission 
or an applicable state law respecting the waters within the Commis-
sion's jurisdiction shall take the alleged offender to a court of com-
petent jurisdiction in either state, in a county adjacent to the portion of 
the Potomac River where the alleged offense occurred, which shall 
thereupon have jurisdiction over the offense. 
"SEC. 4. DISPOSITION or FINES AND FORFEITURES.—All fines imposed 
for violation of regulations of the Commission or applicable state laws 
respecting the waters within the Commission's jurisdiction shall be 
paid into the court in which the case is prosecuted, and accounted for 
under the laws applicable to that court. Any property confiscated 
under the provisions of this compact shall be turned over to the Com-
mission, which may retain, use or dispose of it as it deems best. 
' 
"AJITICLE VI 
"COMMISSION FINANCED 
"SECTION 1. BUDGET.—The Commission shall approve and adopt a 
proposed annual budget showing estimated income, revenues, appro-
priations, and grants from all sources, and estimated necessary 
expenditures and shall send a copy thereof to the Governors of Mary-
land and Virginia. 
"SEC. 2. APPROPRIATIONS.—The said Governors shal^ place in the 
proposed budget of their respective states for each year the sum of 
not less than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) for the expenses and 
the other purposes of the Commission for that year, except that none 
of the sum so appropriated shall be used for law enforcement pur-
poses; and the General Assembly of each of the two states agrees to 
appropriate annually not less than this sum to the Commission. 
"SEC. 3. GENERAL FUND.—(a) The General Fund shall consist 
of: 
"(1) All income and revenue received from the issuance of 
licenses under this compact; 
"(2) The proceeds of the disposition of property confiscated 
pursuant to the provisions of this compact; 
"(3) The proceeds of the inspection tax upon oysters imposed 
pursuant to this compact; and 
"(4) The funds appropriated to the Commission by the two 
States. 
"(b) The General Fund of the Commission shall be kept in such 
bank or depository as the Commission shall from time to time select. 
The General Fund shall be -audited annually by the Auditor of 
Public Accounts of Virginia and the State Auditor of Maryland 
acting jointly, and at such other times as the Commission may request. 
"ARTICLE V I I 
"EFFECT ON EXISTING LAWS AND PRIOR COMPACT 
' 
"SECTION 1. EXISTING RIGHTS.—^The rights, including the privilege 
of erecting and maintaining wharves and other improvements, of the 
citizens of each State along the shores of the Potomac River adjoining 
their lands shall be neither diminished, restricted, enlarged, increased 
nor otherwise altered by this compact, and the decisions of the courts 
construing that portion of Article VII of the Compact of 1785 relating 
to the rights of riparian owners shall be given full force and effect. 
"SEC. 2. EXISTING LAWS.—The laws of the State of Maryland relat-
ing to finfish, crabs, oysters, and clams in the Potomac River, as set 
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forth in Article 66C of the Annotated Code of Maryland and as in 
effect on December 1,1958, shall be and remain applicable in the Poto-
mac River except to the extent changed, amended, or modified by regu-
lations of the Commission adopted in accordance with this compact. 
"SEC. 3. EXISTING LICENSES.—The rights and privileges of licensees 
to take and catch finfish, crabs, oysters, clams, and other shellfish in 
the Potomac Rdver, which are in effect at the time this compact 
becomes effective, shall continue in force for a period of six months 
at which time every such license and every such right and privilege 
shall be abrogated. 
"ARTICLE V I I I 
"EFFECT OF RATIFICATION 
"These articles shall be laid before the Legislatures of Virginia and 
Maryland, and their approbation being obtained, shall be confirmed 
and ratified by a law of each State, never to be repealed or altered by 
either, without the consent of the other. 
"ARTICLE 
I X 
u 
EFFECTIVE DATE 
"This compact, which takes the place of the Compact of 1785 
between Maryland and Virginia, shall take effect at the expiration of 
sixty days after the completion of the last act legally necessary to make 
it operative, and thereupon the said Compact of 1785 shall no longer 
have any force or effect." 
SEC. 2. (a) The right to alter, amend, or repeal this joint resolution 
is hereby expressly reserved. 
(b) The right is hereby reserved to the Congress or any of its stand-
ing committees to require of the Potomac River Fisheries Commission 
the disclosure and furnishing of such information and data as is 
deemed appropriate by the Congress or any committee thereof having 
jurisdiction of the subject matter of this resolution. 
Approved October 10, 1962. 
October 10, 1962 
[S. 3089] 
Colorado River 
Commission, Nev. 
Land convey-
ance provisions, 
extension. 
Public Law 87-784 
AN ACT 
To ameud the Act directing the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain public 
lands in the State of Nevada to the Colorado River Commission of Nevada in 
order to extend for five years the time for selecting such lands. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of ATnerica in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled 
"An Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain 
public lands in the State of Nevada to the Colorado River Commis-
sion of Nevada acting for the State of Nevada", approved March 6, 
1958 (72 Stat. 31), is amended as follows: 
(1) in section 2, strike out "five years" and insert in lieu 
thereof "ten years"; 
(2) in section 3, strike out "five-year" and insert in lieu thereof 
"ten-year"; and 
(3) at the end of section 4(c) add: "The appraisal shall be of 
the fair market value of the lands as of the effective date of this 
Act." 
Approved October 10, 1962.