An Act to direct the Secretary of the Army or his designee to convey a 6.89-acre tract of land out of a 199.959-acre tract of land; situated in the vicinity of Houston, Harris County, Tex., to the State of Texas.
PL 84-410 (S.1959), enacted 02/15/1956

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iiotthwest quarter southwest quarter, north half southwest quarter 
southwest quarter, southwest quarter southwest quarter southwest 
quarter. 
Section 18: North half northwest quarter northwest quarter, and in 
lieu thereof to include in said project those lands in the same county 
and State which are situate in section 33, township 9 south, range 23 
west, and in sections 4 and 9, township 10 south, range 23 west, and 
which lie between the east boundary of the project as limited by said 
Act and the east boundary of the right-of-way of the project's existing 
B-Main (^anal and containing two hundred eighty-five and five one-
hundredths irrigable acres more or less. 
SEC. 2. This Act shall become effective upon acceptance by the 
Unit B Irrigation and Drainage District of an amendment to its 
contract dated December 22, 1952, with the United States whereby 
the description of the Yuma auxiliary project therein contained or 
incorporated by reference is revised to conform to the modification of 
the boundaries of said project as hereinbefore provided. 
Approved February 15, 1956. 
Effective date. 
Public Law 410 
CHAPTER 38 
AN ACT 
To direct the Secretary of the Army or his designee to convey a six and eighty-
nine one-hundredths acre tract oif land out of a one hundred ninety-nine and 
nine hundred fifty-nine one-thousandths acre tract of land situated in the 
vicinity of Houston, Harris County, Texas, to the State of Texas. 
February 15, 19S6 
[S. 1959] 
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 or his designee 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, except as retained in this Act, 
in and to six and eighty-nine one-hundredths acres of land out of the 
P. W. Rose siirvey, abstract numbered 645 situated in Harris Count}, 
Texas, and being a part of and out of the northwest corner of a one 
hundred ninety-nine and nine hundred fifty-nine one-thousandtlis 
acre tract of land out of the D. W. C. Harris survey, abstract numbered 
325, and the P. W. Rose survey, abstract numbered 645, being known 
as the Veterans Hospital site and having been acquired by the United 
States of America in condemnation proceedings in civil action num-
bered 2430 in the cause entitled United States of America against 
209.01 acres of land situated in Harris County, Texas, and R. S. 
Sterling, et al., in the District Court of the United States for the 
Southern District of Texas, Houston Division. 
The six and eighty-
nine one-hundredths acre tract of land to be conveyed to the State 
of Texas is more particularly described as follows: 
Beginning at the intersection of the southerly right-of-way line of 
United States Highway Numbered 59 (Old Spanish Trail) with the 
easterly right-of-way line of Knight Road (sometimes called old Main 
Street Road), said intersection being marked by a Texas Highway 
Department concrete monument, and being the northwest corner of 
the one hundred ninety-nine and nine hundred and fifty-nine one-
thousandths acre tract above referred to, and running thence with the 
present southerly right-of-way line of United States Highway Num-
bered 59 (Old Spanish Trail) north 74 degrees fifty-seven minutes 
east 477 feet; thence south 15 degrees 03 minutes east 600 feet; thence 
south 74 degrees 57 minutes west 523.55 feet to the easterly right-of-
way line of Knight Road (Old Main Street) ; thence along easterly 
Houston, 
Texas. 
Conveyance. 
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Use. 
National 
gency. 
Cost of surveys. 
right-of-way line of Knight Koad (Old Main Street) north 10 degrees 
36 minutes 50 seconds west 601.8 feet to place of beginning, containing 
six and eighty-nine one-hundredths acres of land more or less. 
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. There shall be further reserved to the United States in the 
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 
connection Avith the remaining portion of such one hundred ninety-
nine and nine hundred and fifty-nine one-thousandths acre tract of 
land, rights-of-Avay for water lines, sewer lines, telephone and tele-
graph lines, power lines, and such other utilities which now exist, or 
which may become necessary to any operations of the United States 
on or in connection with the remaining portion of said one hundred 
ninety-nine and nine hundred and fifty-nine one-thousandths acre 
tract of land. 
SEC. 4. The conveyance of the jjroperty 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 immedi-
ately revert to the United States, and in addition, all improvements 
made by the State of Texas during its occupancy 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 j)art thereof, including any and all 
improvements made thereon by the State of Texas, for the duration of 
such state of war or of such emergency. 
Upon the termination of such 
state of Avar 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 or his designee shall include specific provi-
sions covering the reservations and conditions contained in sections 2, 
3, 4, and o of this Act. 
SEC. 7, The cost of any surveys necessary as an incident to the 
conveyance authorized herein shall be borne by the State of Texas, 
Approved February 15, 1956. 
Public Law 411 
CHAPTER 39 
AN ACT 
February 15 1956 
[S.2990] 
To extend through June 30, 1957, the duration of the I'oliomjelitis Vaccination 
Assistance Act of 1955. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 2,