Volume 69 · 497
Public Law 84–237
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to release on behalf of the United States conditions in two deeds conveying certain submarginal lands to Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina so as to permit such college, subject to Certain conditions, to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of such lands.
Approved August 4, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to release on behalf of the United States conditions in two deeds conveying certain submarginal lands to Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina so as to permit such college, subject to Certain conditions, to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of such lands.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That, notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (c) of section 32 of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended (7 U. S. C. 1011 (c)), the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to release on behalf of the United States with respect to lands designated pursuant to section 2 hereof, the conditions, contained in two deeds, both dated December 22, 1954, conveying certain submarginal lands in Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens Counties, South Carolina, to Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina, which require that the lands conveyed be used for public purposes and provide for a reversion of such lands to the United States if at any time they cease to be so used.
Sec. 2.
The Secretary shall release the conditions referred to in section 1 only with respect to lands covered by and described in an agreement or agreements entered into between the Secretary and the college in which the college, in consideration of the release of said conditions as to such lands, agrees—
that all proceeds from the sale or exchange of such lands shall he used by the college for the acquisition of lands within the exterior boundaries of the project or for the development or improvement of lands within the project;
that any lands acquired by the sale or exchange of the lands covered by such agreement shall become a part of the project established on the lands conveyed by the two deeds referred to in section 1 and shall be subject to the conditions with respect to the use of such lands for public purposes contained in such deeds: and
that all proceeds from the sale, lease, or other disposition of the lands covered by such agreement shall be maintained by the college in a separate fund and that the record of all transactions involving such fund shall be open to inspection by the Secretary.
Approved August 4, 1955.