Volume 68 · 765
Public Law 83–620
To amend section 1 of Joint Resolution 12 enacted by the Twenty-fifth Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii, in the regular session of 1949 and approved by the Eighty-first Congress of the United States of America at the second session (Public Law 746, chapter 833).
Approved August 23, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 1 of Joint Resolution 12 enacted by the Twenty-fifth Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii, in the regular session of 1949 and approved by the Eighty-first Congress of the United States of America at the second session (Public Law 746, chapter 833).
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 1 of Joint Resolution 12 enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii in the regular session of 1949 and approved by the Eighty-first Congress of the United States of America, at the second session,
Public Law 746, chapter 833, be amended as follows:
“Section 1.
A fee simple patent shall be issued to every lessee under a nine hundred and ninety-nine year homestead lease of public lands where such lands have been improved under such lease or pursuant to a prior certificate of occupation and have been occupied as a place of residence by the lessee under such lease or under such lease and certificate of occupation for an aggregate continuous period of not less than ten years, upon the payment to the commissioner of public lands of afair price, disregarding the value of the improvements made by the lessee, which price shall be determined by three disinterested citizens to be appointed by the Governor.”
Sec. 2.
This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Effective date.
Approved August 23, 1954.