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Volume 52

Public Law 75–190

To authorize the Secretary of War to acquire by donation land at or near Fort Missoula, Montana, for target range, military, or other public purposes.

Approved May 9, 1938

Statutory text

AN ACT

To authorize the Secretary of War to acquire by donation land at or near Fort Missoula, Montana, for target range, military, or other public purposes.

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

That the Secretary

Fort Missoula, Mont.

Acceptance by donation of land for target, etc., purposes.

of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to accept by donation approximately two thousand seven hundred acres of land at or near Fort Missoula, Montana, for target range, military, or other public purposes: Provided, That in the event the donor is unable to perfect

Proviso.

Acquisition by eminent domain, if donor unable to perfect title to any portion.

or acquire title to any of the land tendered as a donation, condemnation of such land is authorized in the name of the United States and payment of any and all awards for title to such land as is condemned, together with the cost of the suit, shall be made by the donor.

Approved, May 9, 1938.

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