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Volume 68 · 867

Public Law 83–669

Authorizing the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs to convey certain property to Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.

Approved August 27, 1954

Statutory text

AN ACT

Authorizing the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs to convey certain property to Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs is authorized and directed to convey to Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, for use for highway, motor vehicle parking, and recreational purposes, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to a tract of twenty-eight acres of land, more or less, together with structures thereon, constituting a portion of the reservation of the Veterans’ Administration Center, Wood, Wisconsin, and situated along the southwesterly boundary of certain land conveyed to Milwaukee County by the Administrator pursuant to the Act of September 1, 1949 (63 Stat. 683), and described therein as “Parcel II”. The exact legal description of the land to be conveyed shall be determined by the Administrator or his designate and, in the event that a survey is required in order to make such determination, Milwaukee County shall bear the expense thereof.

Sec. 2.

The deed of conveyance shall—

Construction for VA.

(a)

provide that Milwaukee County shall construct for the Veterans’ Administration two service buildings, a duplex house and two-car garage, an animal house (all with necessary utilities and service drives), a water meter pit, necessary fencing, and a service road, all of which construction shall be in accordance with plans, and at locations on the reservation of the Veterans’ Administration Center, Wood, Wisconsin, to be mutually agreed upon by the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs or his designate and Milwaukee County;

(b)

provide that if Milwaukee County fails to use the tract of land so conveyed for highway, motor vehicle parking and recreational purposes or alienates or attempts to alienate all or any part thereof, title thereto shall revert to the United States; and

(c)

contain such additional terms, conditions, reservations, and restrictions as may be determined by the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs to be necessary to protect the interests of the United States.

Approved August 27, 1954.

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