Volume 68 · 50
Public Law 83–326
To provide for the exchange between the United States and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico of certain lands and interests in lands in Puerto Rico.
Approved April 1, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the exchange between the United States and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico of certain lands and interests in lands in Puerto Rico.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
TITLE I
Sec. 101.
The Secretary of the Army is authorized to convey to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, in exchange for the land identified in title IV hereof, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to real estate identified in titles II and III and more fully described on maps and in descriptions on file in the Office, Chief of Engineers, United States Army.
TITLE II
Sec. 201.
Those lands acquired by the United States of America, without payment of compensation, under the Treaty of Paris and set aside for military purposes by Executive order, dated June 30, 1903, identified as follows:
A strip of land alongside of Munoz Rivera Avenue, San Juan, and east of Army medical building, containing four and eight-tenths acres; the site of the San Sebastian Guardhouse at 205 Sol Street, San Juan, containing five one-hundredths acre; old walls around La Fortaleza containing sixty-six one-hundredths acre; driveway to Insular Department Justice containing eleven one-hundredths acre, and all shown in detail on drawing numbered 15–02–142, dated August 15, 1951. entitled “Fort Brooke Military Reservation.”
Fort Mayaguez Military Reservation, comprising seven and five one-hundredths acres and shown on drawing numbered 18–01–180, dated August 17, 1949, entitled “Fort Mayaguez Military Reservation.”
TITLE III
Sec. 301.
Those lands acquired by the United States of America through condemnation proceedings and payment of just compensation as determined thereby, identified as follows:
Punta Las Marias Military Reservation, comprising eighty-seven one-hundredths acre, and shown on drawing numbered 18–01–150, dated November 24, 1948, entitled “Punta Las Marias SL and FC Site.”
Punta Cangrejos (Battery Lancaster) Military Reservation, comprising fifteen and eight one-hundredths acres, and shown on drawing numbered 18–01–114, dated November 10, 1948, entitled “Battery Lancaster (Numbered 264) Military Reservation.”
Punta Maldonado Military Reservation, comprising one acre, and shown on drawing numbered 18–01–151, entitled “Punta Maldonado SL and FC Site.”
Mata Redonda Military Reservation, comprising ninety-eight and forty-seven one-hundredths acres of fee-owned land and one and eighty-one one-hundredths acres of roadway easements, and shown on drawing numbered 18–01–155, dated December 3, 1948, entitled “Mata Redonda Gun Emplacement Site.”
Point Lima Military Reservation, comprising one hundred thirty-five and eight-two one-hundredths acres of fee-owned land and nine acres of roadway, electric transmission line, and water pipe-line easements, and shown on drawing numbered 18–01–152, dated November 24, 1948, entitled “Point Lima Gun Emplacement Site.”
Camp O’Reilly Military Reservation, comprising nine hundred six and eighty-nine one-hundredths acres, and shown on drawing numbered 18–01–160, entitled “Camp O’Reilly Military Reservation.”
Tract 16 of Salinas Maneuver Site, comprising three hundred sixty-nine and ninety-eight one-hundredths acres, and shown on drawing numbered 18–01–126, dated November 1, 1948, entitled “Salinas Maneuver Site.”
TITLE IV
Sec. 401.
The Secretary of the Army is authorized to accept from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, without cost to the United States, a conveyance by the Governor of Puerto Rico of the lands identified below and more fully described on maps and in descriptions on file in the Office, Chief of Engineers, United States Army:
Area numbered 1 comprising about one thousand four hundred acres of rural and agricultural lands abutting along the upper one-half of the east boundary of the existing Salmas maneuver site and area numbered 2 comprising about five thousand one hundred acres of rural and agricultural lands abutting along the west and north boundaries of the reservation. These areas are shown on drawing numbered 15–02–24, dated April 10, 1951, entitled “Expansion of Salinas Maneuver Site.”
Approved April 1, 1954.