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Volume 63 · 1103

Private Law 81–150

To direct the Secretary of the Interior to sell certain land at South Naknek to the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of North America.

Approved May 27, 1949

Statutory text

AN ACT

To direct the Secretary of the Interior to sell certain land at South Naknek to the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of North America.

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

That upon the filing of an application and the payment of $10 within one year from the date of this Act by the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of North America, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, the Secretary or the Interior shall issue a patent to said corporation for a tract of land at South Naknek near South Naknek Village on the south side Naknek River, Bristol Bay Area, Alaska, described as follows:

Beginning at corner numbered 1 of United States survey 2875; thence east one hundred and one and four-tenths feet to corner numbered 4 of United States survey 2875 on the west boundary of United States survey 1581; thence south one hundred and ninety feet along west boundary of United States survey 1581 to a point from which corner numbered 1 of United States survey 1581 bears south one hundred and eighty and fifty-seven one-hundredths feet: thence west one hundred and forty feet; thence north one hundred and ninety feet; thence east thirty-eight and six-tenths feet to the point of beginning, containing sixty-one one-hundredths acre.

Sec. 2.

The patent issued under this Act shall contain a reservation to the United States of all mineral deposits in said lands and the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same under applicable laws and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.

Approved May 27, 1949.

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