An Act authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct facilities to provide water for irrigation, municipal, domestic, military, and other uses from the Santa Margarita River, California, and for other purposes
PL 83-547 (H.R.5731), enacted 07/28/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 547-JULY 28, 1954 
575 
29,1935 (the Bankhead-Jones Act), as amended (7 U. S. C. 427-427J), 
is amended by adding at the end of section 10 thereof the following: 
"(e) Appropriations for research work in the Department of Agri-
culture shall be available for accomplishing such purposes by contract 
through the means provided in subsection (a) hereof." 
Approved July 28, 1954. 
60 Stat. 1085. 
7 u s e 4271. 
Public Law 546 
CHAPTER 592 
AN ACT 
To provide for the conveyance of certain lands by the United States to the city of 
Muskogee, Olilahoma. 
July 28, 1954 
[H. R. 891 
J 983] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Adminis-
trator of Veterans' Affairs is authorized and directed to convey by 
quitclaim deed to the city of Muskogee, Oklahoma, all the right, title, 
and interest of the United States in and to a tract of land containing 
approximately five and four-tenths acres, together with all buildings 
and improvements thereon, being a portion of the Veterans' Adminis-
tration hospital reservation situate in Muskogee County, State of 
Oklahoma, likewise being a portion of certain lands conveyed to the 
United States by the city of Muskogee, Oklahoma, by warranty deed 
dated March 17, 1945, recorded in the office of the clerk of Muskogee 
County on June 23, 1945, in book 839, pages 432 to 434, the exact 
courses and distances of the perimeter of which shall be determined 
and approved by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs. 
The city 
of Muskogee shall pay the cost of surveys as may be required by the 
Administrator of Veterans' Affairs in determining the required legal 
description. 
SEC. 2. There shall be reserved to the United States all minerals, 
including oil and gas, in the lands authorized for conveyance by sec-
tion 1, and the deed of conveyance shall contain such additional terms, 
conditions, reservations, and restrictions as may be determined by 
the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to be necessary to protect the 
interests of the United States. 
SEC. 3. The deed of conveyance shall provide that the tract of land 
authorized to be conveyed by section 1 of this Act shall be used by the 
city of Muskogee, Oklahoma, for such purposes as will not, in the 
judgment of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs or his designate, 
interfere with the care and treatment of patients in the Veterans' 
Administration Hospital, Muskogee, Oklahoma, and that if such pro-
vision is violated, title to the tract shall revert to the United States. 
Approved July 28, 1954. 
Muskogee, Okla. 
Conveyance. 
Survey cost. 
Mineral reserva-
tion, etc. 
Use. 
Public Law 547 
CHAPTER 593 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct facilities to provide water 
for irrigation, municipal, domestic, military, and other uses from the Santa 
Margarita River, California, and for other purposes. 
July 28, 1954 
[H. R. 5731] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Ainerica in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of the Interior, acting pursuant to the Federal reclamation laws (Act 
of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388), and Acts amendatory thereof or sup-
plementary thereto, as far as those laws are not inconsistent with the 
De L u z 
Dam, 
Calif. 
C o n s t r u e tion, 
etc. 
43 u s e 371 note.