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Volume 49

Public Law 74–615

To authorize the sale of a portion of the Fort Smith National Cemetery Reservation, Arkansas, and for other purposes.

Approved August 23, 1935

Statutory text

AN ACT

To authorize the sale of a portion of the Fort Smith National Cemetery Reservation, Arkansas, and for other purposes.

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

That the Secretary

Fort Smith National Cemetery Reservation, Ark.

of War is hereby authorized, under such terms and conditions as he deems advisable, to sell and convey by quitclaim deed to the Midland

Sale of portion of, authorized.

Valley Railroad Company, its successors and assigns, the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to a tract of land containing approximately one-tenth acre, outside of the wall enclosure of the Fort Smith National Cemetery Reservation, Arkansas.

Sec. 2.

That the Secretary of War shall cause an appraisal

Appraisal.

to be made of the aforesaid land, the cost of such appraisal to be paid by the Midland Valley Railroad, and said land shall be sold at not less

Purchase price.

than the appraised value thereof, the proceeds from such sale to be deposited into the Treasury to the credit of the fund known as the “military post construction fund” as provided in section 4

Vol. 44. p. 306; U. S. C., p. 317.

of the Act of March 12, 1926 (44 Stat. 203).

Approved, August 23, 1935.

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