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Volume 45 · 721

Public Law 70–718

To amend an Act entitled “An Act for the purchase of a tract of land adjoining the United States target range at Auburn, Maine,” approved May 19, 1926.

Approved May 23, 1928

Statutory text

An Act

To amend an Act entitled “An Act for the purchase of a tract of land adjoining the United States target range at Auburn, Maine,” approved May 19, 1926.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Act

Auburn, Me.

Vol. 44, p. 565, amended.

entitled “An Act for the purchase of a tract of land adjoining the United States target range at Auburn, Maine,” approved May 19, 1926, is amended by inserting after the figures “$3,000,” where they appear in said Act, the words “and the sum or sums necessary to be expended for the investigation of title, and for the required survey and plan of said tract of land,” so that said Act as amended shall read as follows:

“That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to

Purchase of land adjoining Army target range at, authorized.

purchase the tract of land adjoining the United States target range at Auburn, Maine, comprising eighty-four acres, more or less, the property of the heirs of John Barron, for the purpose of adding to said rifle range, and to purchase said property the Secretary of War

Investigation of title, and survey to be made.

From National Guard allotment to Maine.

is authorized to expend a sum not to exceed $3,000 and the sum or sums necessary to be expended for the investigation of title, and for the required survey and plan of said tract of land, from funds allotted to the State of Maine by the United States from the appropriation ‘Arming, equipping, and training the National Guard,’ for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927.”

Approved, May 23, 1928.

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