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Public Law 83–268

To provide for the conveyance of a tract of land in Plane County, Wisconsin, to the Wisconsin State Armory Board.

Approved August 14, 1953

Statutory text

AN ACT

To provide for the conveyance of a tract of land in Plane County, Wisconsin, to the Wisconsin State Armory Board.

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 to the Wisconsin State Armory Board, for the use of the Wisconsin Army National Guard, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to a tract of land (together with all buildings and Improvements thereon) located in Truax Field, Dane County, Wisconsin. Such tract of land contains approximately eight, and eight-tenths acres and is more particularly described as follows:

Commencing at a point, in the east line of section 29, township 8 north, range 10 east, fourth principal meridian, said point being the center line of Bowman Street; thence west one thousand three hundred and ten feet to a point, said point being the west line of Wright Street, which is the point of beginning; thence north four hundred and fifty feet more or less along the west line of Wright Street to a point in the center line of Sullivan Street; thence west along the center line of Sullivan Street to a point in the east line of Hoffman Street; thence south four hundred and fifty feet more or less to a point in the center line of Bowman Street; thence east along the center line of Bowman Street to the point of beginning.

Sec. 2.

Any contribution of funds by tire Secretary of Defense to the State of Wisconsin, for the construction of facilities as provided in section 3 (c) of the National Defense Facilities Act of 1950 (Public

64 Stat. 830.

50 USC 882, 883.

Law 783, Eighty-first Congress) shall, in addition to the limitation provided in section 4 (d) of said Act, be reduced in an amount equivalent to the fair value of the real estate described in section 1, excluding the improvements thereon, as determined by the Department of the Army: Provided, That funds contributed by the Federal Government for the construction of a National Guard Armory shall be conditioned upon joint construction and joint utilization within the meaning of

50 USC 881 note.

Public Law 783. Eighty-first Congress, as may be necessary to house other reserve component units in the area: And provided further, That the conveyance herein authorized shall be made subject to the condition and limitation that if the property shall cease to be used for the training and maintaining of reserve component units, the title to the land so conveyed shall revert to and revest in the United States.

Approved August 14, 1953.

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