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Volume 60 · 55

Public Law 79–91

To authorize the Secretary of War to convey certain lands situated within the Fort Douglas Military Reservation to the Shriners’ Hospitals for Crippled Children.

Approved March 14, 1946

Statutory text

AN ACT

To authorize the Secretary of War to convey certain lands situated within the Fort Douglas Military Reservation to the Shriners’ Hospitals for Crippled Children.

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

That the Secretary

Fort Douglas Military Reservation, Utah.

Conveyance.

of War is authorized and directed to convey under such terms and conditions as he may prescribe to the Shriners’ Hospitals for Crippled Children, a Colorado corporation, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to seven and eight thousand eight hundred and fifty-four ten-thousandths acres of land, more or less situated within the Fort Douglas Military Reservation, Utah.

Sec. 2.

The lands conveyed pursuant to the provisions of the first

Reversion of title.

section of this Act shall be used by the grantee as a location for a hospital for crippled children; and the deed of conveyance of such lands shall contain the express condition that if the grantee shall fail or cease to use such lands for such purposes, or shall alienate or attempt to alienate such lands, title thereto shall revert to the United States.

Approved March 14, 1946.

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