Volume 68
Public Law 83–362
To amend An Act approved December 15, 1944, authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain land in Powell townsite, Wyoming, Shoshone reclamation project, Wyoming, to the University of Wyoming.
Approved May 17, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend An Act approved December 15, 1944, authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain land in Powell townsite, Wyoming, Shoshone reclamation project, Wyoming, to the University of Wyoming.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 1 of the Act approved December 15, 1944, Public Law 487, Seventy-eighth Congress, chapter 590, second session, is hereby amended to terminate the trust imposed on the land caused to be conveyed by patent by the Secretary of the Interior to the University of Wyoming, under and by virtue of the authority of said Act, without affecting the reservation to the United States of all oil, coal, and other mineral deposits within said lands and the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same, as in said Act provided, by striking out the following: “, in trust for use as an agricultural experiment station”
Sec. 2.
Section 2 of said Act of December 15, 1944, Public Law 487, Seventy-eighth Congress, chapter 590, second session, to accomplish the purposes aforesaid, is also amended by striking out the whole thereof.
Sec. 3.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and empowered to execute and deliver to the University of Wyoming any documentary evidence which he may determine to be necessary to carry out the intent of this Act.
Approved May 17, 1954.