An Act to direct the Secretary of the Army to convey certain property located in Austin, Travis County, Tex., to the State of Texas.
PL 84-49 (S.14), enacted 06/01/1955

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PUBLIC LAW 48-MAY 27, 1955 
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validly initiated before the date of this Act and thereafter maintained 
under the mining laws of the United States. 
SEC. 2. Section 6 of the Act of May 11, 1938 (52 Stat. 347, 348; 25 
U. S. C. 396f), is amended by deleting therefrom "the Papago Indian 
Reservation in Arizona,". 
Approved May 27, 1955. 
Public Law 48 
CHAPTER 107 
May 27, 1955 
[H. J. Res. 310] 
S e c o n d tfrgent 
Deficiency Appro-
priation Act, 1955. 
Ante, p» 64. 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Making additional appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955, and 
for other purposes. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums 
are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, to supply additional appropriations (this Act may be 
cited as the "Second Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1955") 
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955, and for other purposes, 
namely: 
INDEPENDENT 
O F F I C E S 
COMMISSION ON ORGANIZATION OF THE EXECUTIVE 
BRANCH OF THE GOVERNMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses", to complete 
the operations of the Commission as provided by Public Law 41 
(S. 1763), Eighty-fourth Congress, $263,475. 
VETERANS ADMINISTRATION 
For an additional amount for "Readjustment benefits", $25,000,000, 
to remain available until expended. 
Approved May 27, 1955. 
Public Law 49 
CHAPTER H I 
June 1, 1955 
[S. 14] 
Austin, Tex. 
Conveyance. 
AN ACT 
To direct the Secretary of the Army to convey certain property located in Austin, 
Travis County, Texas, to the State of Texas. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assernbled, That the Secretary 
of the Army is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed, 
without consideration, to the State of Texas all right, title, and interest 
of the United States, in and to the following-described land in Austin, 
Travis County, Texas, together with all buildings, improvements 
thereon, and all appurtenances and utilities belonging or appertaining 
thereto, such land including approximately one hundred eighty-nine 
and eleven one-hundredths acres out of the original two hundred acres 
known as the Camp Mabry Militia Rifle Range Tract, also referred to 
as the "old Deison Farm": 
Beginning at the southwest coiner of the fifty-three-acre tract here-
tofore conveyed to J. J. Gasser by deed dated February 23, 1895, 
recorded in volume 129, page 347, of deed records of Travis County, 
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Texas, said corner also being the southwest corner of tlie thirty-eight-
and-fifty-five-one-hundredths-acre State tract numbered 2 surveyed 
March 30,1934, by M. V. Honieyer, county surveyor; 
Thence north sixty degrees west, with the original line dividing the 
Townes and Mabin tracts one thousand one hundred and thirteen varas 
to a stone corner on the east line of the W. C Phillips timber tract; 
Thence with the east line of said W. C. Phillips tract, north thirty-
six and one-half degrees east one thousand eight and eightj'-two one-
hundredths varas to a point; said point being south thirty-six and one-
half degrees west one hundred thirty and sixty-eight one-hundredths 
varas from a stone corner on the south line of the Charles Thiele tract; 
Thence south sixty degrees east along the south lines of the Ignited 
States Air Force Reserve training center parcel comprising five and 
eighty-nine one-hundredths acres, and the ITnited States Army 
Reserve, formerly the Organized Reserve Corps, armory parcel com-
prising five acres, four hundred seventy-eight and eight-tenths varas 
to a point, the southeast corner of the said Organized Reserve Corps 
armory parcel; 
Thence north thirty degrees east with and along the east line of 
the five-acre Organized Reserve Corps armory parcel, one hundred 
twenty-nine and five-tenths varas to a point on the southerly line of 
the Charles Thiele tract; 
Thence south sixty degrees east one hundred forty-six and eight-
tenths varas to an angle in the stone fence dividing the Deison and 
Thiele tracts; 
Thence with said fence on the dividing line between the Deison and 
Thiele tracts and also the Deison and Reid tracts, south one hundred 
and sixty-eight varas to a point; 
Thence south fifty-seven degrees east one hundred and sixty varas 
to a point; 
Thence southeast one hundred and eight varas to a point; 
Thence south nine degrees west one hundred varas to a point; 
Thence south ten degrees east one hundred varas to a point; 
Thence south five degrees west eighty-six varas to a point; 
Thence south three degrees east seventy-seven varas to the south-
west corner of the Elanor Reid tract on the north line of the Gasser 
fifty-three-acre 
tract; 
Thence north sixty degrees west Avith the north line of the Gasser 
tract, one hundred and forty-seven varas to the northwest corner of 
same; 
Thence south thirty degrees west with the west line of said Gasser 
tract, six hundred forty and one-half varas to the place of beginning; 
Containing in all one hundred eighty-nine and eleven one-hun-
dredths acres of land more or less together with all improvements 
thereon, said land being the remaining portion of the original tw^o 
hundred-acre tract conveyed by deed from Eliza C. J. Deison, et al., 
to the United States of America, dated June 28,1909, as same appears 
of record in volume 239, pages 82-84, inclusive, of the deed records of 
Travis County, Texas, after deducting therefrom the five and eighty-
nine one-hundredths-acre United States Air Force parcel and the 
five-acre Organized Reserve Corps aimory parcel above described, a 
total of ten and eighty-nine one-hundredths acres to be retained by 
t he United States. 
SEC. 2. All mineral rights, including gas and oil, in the lands author- 
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ized to be conveyed by this Act shall be reserved to the United States. 
SEC. 3. There shall be further reserved to the United States in the ^^Rights-of-way, 
conveyance of the above-described lands, rights of ingress and egress 
over roads in the above-described lands serving buildings or other 
works operated by the United States or its successors or assigns in 
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Use of property* 
National e m e r -
gency. 
Deed of convey-
ance. 
connection with the ten and eighty-nine one-hundredths acres referred 
to in section 1 of this Act as the United States Air Force Reserve train-
ing center parcel and the United States Army Reserve, formerly the 
Organized Reserve Corps armory parcel, rights-of-way for water lines, 
sewer lines, telephone and telegraph lines, powerlines, and such other 
utilities as now exist, or which may become necessary to the operation 
of the above-described ten and eighty-nine one-hundredths acres. 
SEC. 4, The conveyance of the property authorized by this Act shall 
be upon condition that such property shall be used for training of the 
National Guard and the Air National Guard and for other military 
purposes, and that if the State of Texas shall cease to use the property 
so conveyed for the purposes intended, then title thereto shall imme-
diately revert to the United States, and in addition, all improvements 
made during its occupancy by the State of Texas shall vest in the 
United States without payment of compensation therefor. 
SEC. 5. The conveyance of the property authorized by this Act shall 
be upon the further provision that whenever the Congress of the 
United States declares a state of war or other national emergency, or 
the President declares a state of emergency, and upon the determina-
tion by the Secretary of Defense that the property conveyed under 
this Act is useful or necessary for military, air, or naval purposes, 
or in the interest of national defense, the United States shall have 
the right, without obligation to make payment of any kind, to reenter 
upon the property and use the same or any part thereof, including 
any and all improvements made thereon during its occupancy by the 
State of Texas, for the duration of such state of war or of such 
emergency. Upon the termination of such state of war or of such 
emergency plus six months such property shall revert to the State 
of Texas, together with all appurtenances and utilities belonging or 
appertaining thereto. 
SEC. 6. In executing the deed of conveyance authorized by this Act, 
the Secretary of the Army shall include specific provisions covering 
the reservations and conditions contained in sections 2, 3, 4, and 5 
of this Act. 
Approved June 1, 1955. 
June 1, 1955 
[S. 148] 
Public Law 50 
CHAPTER 112 
AN ACT 
To direct the Secretary of the Army to convey certain property located in Polk 
County, Iowa, and described as Camp Dodge and Polk County Target Range, 
to the State of Iowa. 
P o i k C o u n t y , 
Iowa. 
CoWeyance. 
Mineral rights. 
Use of land. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of the Army is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed, 
without consideration, to the State of Iowa all right, title, and interest 
of the United States, except as retained in this Act, in and to the Camp 
Dodge Military Reservation, located in Polk ('ounty, Iowa, compris-
ing 1,848.32 acres, more or less, and Polk County Target Range, Iowa, 
comprising 742.34 acres, more or less, both together with all buildings 
and improvements thereon, and all appurtenances, easements, rights-
of-way, and utilities belonging or appurtenant thereto. 
SEC^ 2. All mineral rights, including gas and oil, in the lands 
authorized to be conveyed by this Act shall be reserved to the United 
States. 
SEC. 3. The conveyance of the property authorized by this Act shall 
be upon condition that such property shall be used for training of the