Volume 65 · 47
Public Law 82–41
To permit the board of supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College to transfer certain lands to the Police Jury of the Parish of Rapides for use for holding livestock and agricultural expositions.
Approved May 29, 1951
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
To permit the board of supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College to transfer certain lands to the Police Jury of the Parish of Rapides for use for holding livestock and agricultural expositions.
Whereas, pursuant to Public Law 148 of the Seventy-ninth Congress,
the Secretary of Agriculture conveyed to the board of supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, for use for the establishment and maintenance of an Agricultural and vocational school, certain lands held by the United States under an agreement of transfer with the Louisiana Rural Rehabilitation Corporation, dated March 31, 1937, such lands to revert to the United States if not used for such purpose; and
Whereas, in accordance with the Rural Rehabilitation Trust
40 U. S. C., Sup. IV, § 440 note.
7 U. S. C., Sup. IV, § 1001 note.
Liquidation Act (Public Law 499, Eighty-first Congress), the Secretary of Agriculture on January 2, 1951, transferred the assets being administered by the United States under the agreement of March 31, 1937, to the Louisiana Rural Rehabilitation Corporation, and the Louisiana Rural Rehabilitation Corporation on January 8, 1951, transferred such assets back to the United States; and
Whereas it is desired to permit the board of supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College to transfer twenty-five acres of the lands transferred to such board of supervisors, as aforesaid, to the Police Jury of the Parish of Rapides for use for holding livestock and agricultural expositions: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College.
Transfer of land.
,
That, upon the written consent of the Louisiana Rural Rehabilitation Corporation, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to transfer by quitclaim deed or other appropriate means to the. board of supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College so much of the right, title, and interest held by the United States in and to the lands transferred to such board of supervisors pursuant to the Act entitled “An Act to transfer certain lands situated in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, to board of supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College” (Public Law 148, Seventy-ninth Congress) as may be necessary to
permit such board to convey twenty-five acres of such land to the Police Jury of the Parish of Rapides for use for the sole purpose of holding livestock and agricultural expositions thereon.
Sec. 2.
The transfer of such lands shall not be deemed to impose
Nonliability.
any liability upon the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to his obligations under the transfer agreements with the Louisiana Rural Rehabilitation Corporation.
Approved May 29, 1951.