An Act to provide for the exchange between the United States and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico of certain lands and interests in lands in Puerto Rico
PL 83-326 (S.1548), enacted 04/01/1954

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PUBUC LAW 326-APR. 1, 1954 
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SEC. 9. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated not to exceed 
the sum of $126,000,000 to carry out the provisions of this Act, of 
Avhich not to exceed $26,000,000 shall be appropriated for any period 
beginning prior to January 1, 1955. Of the amount so appropriated 
for any such period, not to exceed $1,000,000 may be iitilized for the 
purpose of section 4 of this Act. 
Approved April 1, 1954. 
Appropriation. 
Public Law 326 
CHAPTER 128 
AN ACT 
To provide for the exchange between the United States and the Commonwealth 
of Puerto Rico of certain lands and interests in lands in Puerto Rico. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress asseTubled^ 
TITLE I 
SEC. 101. The Secretary of the Army is authorized to convey to the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Eico, in exchange for the land identified in 
title IV hereof, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and 
to real estate identified in titles I I and I I I and more fully described on 
maps and in descriptions on file in the Office, Chief of Engineers, 
United States Army. 
TITLE I I 
SEC. 201. Those lands acquired by the United States of America, 
without payment of compensation, under the Treaty of Paris and set 
aside for military purposes by Executive order, dated June 30, 1903, 
identified as follows: 
(a) A strip of land alongside of Munoz Rivera Avenue, San Juan, 
and east of Army medical building, containing four and eight-tenths 
acres; the site of the San Sebastian Guardhouse at 205 Sol Street, 
San Juan, containing five one-hundredths acre; old walls around 
La Fortaleza containing sixty-six one-hundredths acre; driveway to 
Insular Department Justice containing eleven one-hundredths acre, 
and all show-n in detail on drawing numbered 15-02-142, dated August 
15, 1951, entitled "Fort Brooke Military Reservation." 
(b) Fort Mayaguez Military Reservation, comprising seven and 
five one-hundredths acres and shown on drawing numbered 18-01-180, 
dated August 17,1949, entitled "Fort Mayaguez Military Reservation." 
TITLE I I I 
SEC. 301. Those lands acquired by the United States of America 
through condemnation proceedings and payment of just compensa-
tion as determined thereby, identified as follows: 
(a) Punta Las Marias Military Reservation, comprising eighty-
seven one-hundredths acre, and shown on drawing 
numbered 
18-01-150, dated November 24, 1948, entitled "Punta Las Marias SL 
and FC Site." 
(b) Punta Cangrejos (Battery Lancaster) Military Reservation, 
comprising fifteen and eight one-hundredths acres, and shown on 
drawing numbered 18-01-114, dated November 10, 1948, entitled 
"Battery Lancaster (Numbered 264) Military Reservation." 
April 1, 1954 
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(c) Punta Maldonado Military Reservation, comprising one acre, 
and shown on drawing numbered 18-01-151, entitled "Pmita Mal-
donado SL and FC Site." 
(d) Mata Redonda Military Reservation, comprising ninety-eight 
and forty-seven one-hundredths acres of fee-owned land and one and 
eighty-one one-hundredths acres of roadway easements, and shown 
on drawing numbered 18-01-155, dated December 3, 1948, entitled 
"Mata Redonda Gun Emplacement Site." 
(e) Point Lima Military Reservation, comprising one hundred 
thirty-five and eight-two one-hundredths acres of fee-owned land 
and nine acres of roadway, electric transmission line, and water pipe-
' 
line easements, and shown on drawing numbered 18-01-152, dated 
November 24, 1948, entitled "Point Lima Gun Emplacement Site." 
(f) Camp 0''Reilly Military Reservation, comprising nine hundred 
six and eighty-nine one-hundredths acres, and shown on drawing 
numbered 18-01-160, entitled "Camp O'Reilly Military Reservation." 
(g) Tract 16 of Salinas Maneuver Site, comprising three hundred 
sixty-nine and ninety-eight one-hundredths acres, and shown 
on 
drawing numbered 18-01-126, dated November 1, 1948, entitled 
"Salinas Maneuver Site." 
TITLE IV 
SEC. 401. The Secretary of the Army is authorized to accept from 
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, without cost to the United States, 
a conveyance by the Governor of Puerto Rico of the lands identified 
below and more fully described on maps and in descriptions on file in 
the Office, Chief of Engineers, United States Army: 
(a) Area numbered 1 comprising about one thousand four hundred 
acres of rural and agricultural lands abutting along the upper one-
half of the east boundary of the existing Salinas maneuver site and 
area numbered 2 comprising about five thousand one hundred acres 
of rural and agricultural lands abutting along the west and north 
boundaries of the reservation. 
These areas are shown on drawing 
numbered 15-02-24, dated April 10, 1951, entitled "Expansion of 
Salinas Maneuver Site," 
Approved April 1, 1954. 
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CHAPTER 133 
AprU 2, 1954 
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[H. R. 5632] 
To provide for the conveyance of a portion of the Camp Bntner Military Reserva-
tion, North Carolina, to the State of North Carolina. 
Canqi Butner Mil-
itary Reservation, 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, That the Secretary 
^'cinveyance. 
^^ ^^^ Army is authorized to convey to the State of North Carolina all 
the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to (a) a tract 
of land in Granville County, North Carolina, comprising twenty-six 
and four-tenths acres, more or less, together with buildings and im-
provements thereon, being a portion of the cantonment area of the 
former Camp Butner Military Reservation, and (b) a tract of land 
comprising four thousand seven hundred thirty-four and nine one-
hundredths acres more or less in Durham and Granville Counties, 
North Carolina, being the same property now utilized by the State of 
North Carolina National Guard as a general firing range, subject, how-
ever, to reservation in the United States of all mineral rights, including 
gas and oil, in the land authorized to be conveyed by this Act.