Volume 68 · 17
Public Law 83–297
To enable the Hawaiian Homes Commission of the Territory of Hawaii to exchange available lands as designated by the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, for public lands.
Approved February 20, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To enable the Hawaiian Homes Commission of the Territory of Hawaii to exchange available lands as designated by the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, for public lands.
Be it enacted by the Senate and Howe of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 204 of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended, be further amended by adding a new subparagraph thereto, designated subparagraph “(4)”, and to read as follows:
“(4) The commission may, with the approval of the Governor and the Secretary of the Interior, in order to consolidate its holdings or to better effectuate the purposes of this Act, exchange the title to available lands at Waimanalo, Island of Oahu, for similarly located publicly owned lands of an equal value. All land so acquired by the commission shall assume the status of available lands as though the same were originally designated as such under section 203 hereof,
and all land so conveyed by the commission shall assume the status of the land for which it was exchanged. The limitations imposed by section 73 (1) of the Hawaiian Organic Act and the land laws of
42 Stat. 116.
Hawaii as to the area and value of land that may be conveyed by way of exchange shall not apply to exchanges made pursuant hereto.
Sec. 2.
This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved February 20, 1954.