An Act to provide for the conveyance of certain land of the United States to the Board of County Commissioners of Lee County, Fla
PL 84-418 (H.R.7156), enacted 02/20/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 418-FEB. 20, 1966 
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Restriction. 
"(2) where such property is encumbered in any manner, or 
where the decedent incurs any obligation imposed by the trans-
feror with respect to such property, such encumbrance or obli-
gation shall be taken into account in the same manner as if the 
amount of a gift to the decedent of such property was being 
determined; and 
"(3) if the decedent was the spouse of the transferor at the 
time of the transferor's death, the net value of the property trans-
ferred to the decedent shall be reduced by the amount allowed 
under section 812 (e) (relating to marital deductions) as a de-
duction from the gross estate of the transferor. 
"(e) PROPERTY DEFINED.—For purposes of this section, the term 
•property' includes any beneficial interest in property, including a 
general power of appointment (as defined in section 811 (f)). 
"(f) 
DENIAL OF DEDUCTION FOR PROPERTY PREVIOUSLY TAXED.—If 
the executor elects the credit provided by this section, the deduction 
provided by section 812 (c) shall not be allowed." 
SEC. 2. No interest shall be allowed or paid on any overpayment 
resulting from the amendment made by the first section of this Act. 
Approved February 20, 1956. 
February 20, 1956 
[H. R. 7fS6] 
Public Law 418 
CHAPTER 67 
AN ACT 
To provide for the conveyance of certain land of the United States to tlie Board 
of County Commissioners of Lee County, Florida. 
Lee County, Fla. 
Conveyance. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Adminis-
trator of General Services is authorized and directed to convey to the 
J3oard of County Commissioners of Lee County, Florida, all the right, 
title, and interest of the United States in and to a tract of land in 
Government lot numbered 2, in section 9, township 46 south, range 23 
east, in Lee County, Florida, more particularly described as follows: 
Being a strip of land 350 feet in width, lying at the extreme north-
ward part of the aforesaid Government lot numbered 2 and extending 
eastwardl.y and westwardly between parallel lines entirely across said 
Government lot numbered 2, from the waters of Caloosahatchee River 
on the westward side of said Government lot numbered 2 to an 
unnamed bay on tlie eastward side thereof. The northward boundary 
line of said strip of land is also the northward boundary of the 
aforesaid government lot numbered 2. 
Approved February 20, 1956. 
February 25, 1956 
[S. 180] 
Public Law 419 
CHAPTER 71 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain 
the Washita River Basin reclamation project, Oklahoma. 
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Okla 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
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n pro ec , ^^ ^^^^ Interior is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain the 
Washita River Basin reclamation project, Oklahoma, in accordance 
with the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, and Acts 
amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto), except so far as those 
laws are inconsistent with this Act, for the principal purposes of stor-
32 Stat. 388. 
43 u s e 371 note.