An Act to provide that title to certain school lands shall vest in the States under the act of January 25, 1927, notwithstanding any Federal leases which may be outstanding on such lands at the time they are surveyed
PL 83-340 (H.R.7110), enacted 04/22/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 340-APR. 22, 1954 
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For exchange purposes, particularly in connection with State and 
other highway developments, the Secretary is authorized to accept, 
on behalf of the United States, any non-Federal land or interests 
therein situated within the park area herein prescribed, and in 
exchange therefor to convey park land or interests therein of approxi-
mately equal value. 
Approved April 17, 1954. 
Public Law 339 
CHAPTER 160 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act entitled "An Act to authorize a permanent annual appropria-
tion for the maintenance and operation of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory", 
approved May 7, 1928, as amended. 
April 19,1954 
[S. 1456] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America, in Congress assemhled^ That the Act entitled 
"An Act to authorize a permanent annual appropriation for the main-
tenance and operation of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory", approved 
May 7, 1928, as amended, is hereby amended by striking out clauses 
(2) and (3) of section 1 of said Act and inserting in lieu thereof the 
following: "and (2) that the said Gorgas Memorial Institute be, and 
it is hereby, authorized within its discretion, henceforth to accept 
from any of the Latin American Governments, or from any other 
sources, any funds which may be offered or given for the use of the 
Gorgas Memorial Institute for the maintenance and operation of the 
Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, and for carrying on the work of said 
Laboratory wherever deemed by the said Institute to be necessary or 
desirable." 
Approved April 19, 1954. 
Gorgas Memorial 
Laboratory. 
45 Stat. 491. 
22 u s e 278. 
Public Law 340 
CHAPTER 169 
,AN ACT 
To provide that title to certain school lands shall vest in the States under the 
Act of January 25, 1927, notwithstanding any Federal leases which may be 
outstanding on sucli lands at the time they are surveyed. 
April 22,1954 
[H. R. 7110] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congre>iS assembled^ That the first sec-
tion of the Act entitled "An Act confirming in States and Territories 
title to lands granted by the United States in the aid of common or 
public schools", approved January 25, 1927, as amended (48 U. S. C , 
sec. 870), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new 
subsection: 
"(d) (1) Notwithstanding subsection (c), the fact that there is 
outstanding on any numbered mineral section at the time of its survey 
a lease or leases entered into by the United States, or an application 
therefor, shall not prevent the grant of such numbered mineral section 
to the State concerned as provided in this Act. 
"(2) Any numbered mineral section which has been surveyed prior 
to the date of the enactment of this subsection, and which has not been 
granted to the State concerned solely by reason of the fact that there 
was outstanding on it at the time of the survey a lease or leases entered 
into by the L^nited States, or an application therefor, is hereby granted 
by the United States to such State under this section as if it had not 
been so leased; and the State shall succeed to the position of the United 
States as lessor under such lease or leases. 
School lands. 
Title. 
44 Stat. 1026. 
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"(3) Any numbered mineral section which is surveyed on or after 
the date of the enactment of this subsection, and on which there is 
outstanding at the time of such survey a lease or leases entered into 
by the United States, shall (unless excluded from the provisions of 
this section by subsection (c) for a reason other than the existence 
of an outstanding lease) be granted to the State concerned immedi-
ately upon completion of such survey; and the State shall succeed to 
the position of the United States as lessor under such lease or leases. 
"(4) The Secretary of the Interior shall, upon application by a 
State, issue patents to the State for the lands granted by this Act, 
in accordance with the Act of June 12,1934 (48 Stat. 1185,43 U. S. C. 
sec. 871a). 
Such patent shall include a statement that the State suc-
ceeded to the position of the United States as lessor at the time the 
title vested in the State. 
"(5) Where, at the time rents, royalties, and bonuses accrue, the 
lands or deposits covered by a single lease are owned in part by the 
State and in part by the United States, the rents, royalties, and 
bonuses shall be allocated between them in proportion to the acreage 
in said lease owned by each." 
SEC. 2. Subsection (c) of such Act, as amended, is amended by 
striking out "That" and by inserting in lieu thereof the following: 
"Except as provided jn subsection (d),". 
Approved April 22, 1954. 
April 22, 1954 
[H. R. 7380] 
Public Law 341 
CHAPTER 170 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to reconvey certain property which the 
city of Boulder, Colorado, donated to the Secretary of Commerce for the 
establishment of a radio propagation laboratory. 
Boiilder, Colo. 
Reconveyance. 
15 u s e 2 72 note. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Hovt^ne of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That any other law to 
the contrary notwithstanding, the Secretary of Commerce is authorized 
to reconvey, without compensation in such manner and on such other 
terms and conditions as he deems to be hi the best interests of the United 
States, to the city of Boulder, Colorado, two acres of land more or less, 
consisting of a portion of a tract of some two hundred and ten acres of 
land in Boulder County, Colorado, which tract was conveyed without 
compensation to the United States Government represented by the 
Secretary of Commerce, as a site for a radio laboratory under authority 
of Public Law 366, Eighty-first Congress, approved October 25, 1949 
(63 Stat. 886), the said land reconveyed to be used by the city of 
Boulder, Colorado, as part of a site for a water reservoir. 
Approved April 22, 1954. 
April 22,1954 
[S. J . R e s . 146] 
Public Law 342 
CHAPTER 171 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To authorize the designation of October 16, 1954, as National Olympic Day. 
Whereas the XVIth Olympic Games of the modern era will be held 
in Melbourne, Australia, November 22 to December 8, 1956, with 
Winter Games to be held at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, January 26 
to February 5, 1956; and 
Whereas the Pan American Games will be held in Mexico City in 
March 1955; and