Volume 68 · 258
Public Law 83–409
To provide for the transfer of the site of the original Fort Buford, North Dakota, to the State of North Dakota.
Approved June 18, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the transfer of the site of the original Fort Buford, North Dakota, to the State of North Dakota.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That notwithstanding
Fort Buford, N. Dak.
Conveyance.
the provisions of the Act of May 3, 1950 (64 Stat. 98; 40 U. S. C. 440) the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to consent to a grant, donation, and conveyance by the North Dakota Rural Rehabilitation Corporation to the State of North Dakota, for the use by the North Dakota State Historical Society, of that portion of the site of the original Fort Buford, North Dakota, which is more particularly described as follows:
Beginning at a point on the east-west quarter line, said point being located south eighty-nine degrees fifty-four minutes east two thousand three hundred and fifteen feet from the west quarter corner of section 16, in township 152 north, range 104 west, of the fifth principal meridian, Williams County, North Dakota; thence north no degrees six minutes east one thousand four hundred feet; thence south eighty-nine degrees fifty-four minutes east one thousand feet; thence south no degrees six minutes west one thousand four hundred feet to the Quarter line; thence along east-west quarter line north eighty-nine degrees fifty-four minutes west one thousand feet to the point of beginning, containing thirty-two and fourteen one-hundredths acres, more or less, in said section.
Sec. 2.
The conveyance authorized in the first section shall not be made until the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota and the North Dakota Rural Rehabilitation Corporation have assented thereto.
Approved June 18, 1954.