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Volume 64 · 1033

Public Law 81–1028

To provide for the transfer to Pierce County, Washington, of certain surplus land in the Fort Lewis Military Reservation.

Approved September 25, 1950

Statutory text

AN ACT

To provide for the transfer to Pierce County, Washington, of certain surplus land in the Fort Lewis Military Reservation.

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

That the Secretary of the Army is authorized and directed to donate and convey, by quitclaim deed, to Pierce County, Washington, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to two triangular parcels of land, which are surplus to the needs of the armed forces, in the Fort Lewis Military Reservation, Washington, more particularly described as follows:

(1)

All of that triangular parcel of original Fort Lewis comprising a part of section 14, township 18 north, range 3 east, Willamette meridian, and situated northeasterly of State Highway Numbered 5 (Mountain Road); and

(2)

That triangular portion of section 19, township 19 north, range 3 east. Willamette meridian, situated northeasterly of the Military Road, being a part of original Fort Lewis.

Sec. 2.

Conveyance of land described in section 1 shall not be made until appropriate action has been taken in accordance with local law, to the end that such conveyance shall not jeopardize, in any way, the title of the United States in and to the remainder of the land donated by Pierce County, Washington, to the United States.

Approved September 25, 1950.

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