Volume 68 · 570
Public Law 83–541
To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to convey a certain parcel of land to the city of Clifton, New Jersey.
Approved July 27, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to convey a certain parcel of land to the city of Clifton, New Jersey.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed to the city of Clifton, New Jersey, upon payment by said city of 75 per centum of the appraised fair market value therefor as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to a parcel of land comprising the westerly portion of the United States Animal Quarantine Station, Clifton, New Jersey, lying along the southerly side of Colfax Avenue and containing approximately fourteen and one-quarter acres more or less, subject to the reservations, conditions, and restrictions of this Act The cost of any survey required in connection with the conveyance of this property shall be at the expense of the city of Clifton..
Sec. 2.
Said quitclaim deed shall also contain a reservation to the
Mineral rights, etc.
United States of all gas, oil, coal and all source materials essential to the production of fissionable material and all other mineral deposits and the right to the use of the land for extracting and removing same.
Sec. 3.
The city of Clifton shall, prior to the actual use of the tract
Boundary fence.
of land conveyed to such city by the first section of this Act and prior to the alteration or removal of any fences now upon such tract of land, provide a suitable fence on the boundary line between such parcel of land and the remaining land of the United States animal quarantine station. If the city of Clifton fails to provide such fence prior to the actual use of such tract of land and prior to the alteration or removal of the existing fences, all the right, title, and interest in and to the land conveyed by the first section of this Act shall revert to, and become the property of, the United States, which shall have the immediate right of entry thereon.
Approved July 27, 1954.