An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to contract for the sale, operation, maintenance, repair, or relocation of Government-owned electric and telephone lines and other utility facilities used for the administration of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
PL 87-279 (S.1501), enacted 09/22/1961

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PUBLIC LAW 87-279-SEPT. 22, 1961 
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Public Law 87-277 
AN ACT 
To repeal that part of the Act of March 2,1889, as amended, which requires that 
grantors furnish, free of all expenses to the Government, all requisite abstracts, 
ofHcial certifications and evidences of title. 
September 22, 1961 
[S. 931] 
Be it eiuwted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proviso 
in the third full paragraph on page 941 of volume 25 of the Statutes 
at Large, in the Act of March 2, 1889, as amended (40 U.S.C. 25^), 
is hereby repealed. 
Approved September 22, 1961. 
Public 
sites. 
Repeal. 
building 
Public Law 87-278 
AN A C T 
September 22, 1961 
To change the designation of that portion of the Hawaii National Park on 
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the island of Hawaii, in the State of Hawaii, to the Hawaii Volcanoes Na-
tional Park, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That, effective upon 
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the enactment of this Act, the portion of the Hawaii National Park park^Hawaii?"^ 
situated on the island of Hawaii, established and administered pursu-
ant to the Act of August 1, 1916 (39 Stat. 432), as amended and sup- 
^^ use 391. 
plemented, shall be known as the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. 
Approved September 22, 1961. 
Public Law 87-279 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to contract for the sale, operation, 
maintenance, repair, or relocation of Government-owned electric and telephone 
lines and other utility facilities used for the administration of the Bureau of 
Indian Affairs. 
September 22, 1961 
[S. 1501] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That, except for 
electric utility systems constructed and operated as a part of an irriga-
tion system, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to contract 
under such terms and conditions as he considers to be in the best 
interest of the Federal Government for the sale, operation, mainte-
nance, repairs, or relocation of Government-owned utilities and utility 
systems and appurtenances used in the administration of the Bureau 
of Indian Affairs. The Secretary shall not execute a contract pur-
suant to this Act until he has submitted to the Committees on Interior 
and Insular Affairs of the Senate and the House of Representatives 
a copy of the contract and a statement of his reasons for proposing 
the contract, and until such materials have lain before the Committees 
for sixty days (excluding the time during which either House is in 
recess for more than three days) unless prior thereto the Secretary is 
notified that neither committee has any objection to the proposed 
contract. 
Approved September 22, 1961. 
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