Public Law 84–49

That the Seretary of the Army is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed, without consideration, to the State of Texas all right, title, and interest of the United States, in and to the following-described land in Austin, Travis County’, Texas, together with all buildings, improvements thereon, and all appurtenances and utilities belonging or appertaining thereto, such land including approximately one hundred eighty-nine and eleven one-hundredths acres out of the original two hundred acres known as the Camp Mabry Militia Rifle Range Tract, also referred to as the “old Deison Farm”:

Beginning at the southwest comer of the fifty-three-acre tract heretofore conveyed to J. J. Gasser by deed dated February 23, 1895, recorded in volume 129, page 347, of deed records of Travis County, Texas, said corner also being the southwest corner of the thirty-eight-and-fifty-five-one-hundredths-acre State tract numbered 2 surveyed March 30, 1934, by M. V. Homeyer, county surveyor:

Thence north sixty degrees west, with the original line dividing the Townes and Mabin tracts one thousand one hundred and thirteen varas to a stone corner on the east line of the W. U Phillips timber tract;

Thence with the east line of said W. C. Phillips tract, north thirty-six and one-half degrees east one thousand eight and eighty-two one-hundredths varas to a point; said point being south thirty-six and one-half degrees west one hundred thirty and sixty-eight one-hundredths varas from a stone corner on the south line of the Charles Thiele tract;

Thence south sixty degrees east along the south lines of the United States Air Force Reserve training center parcel comprising five and eighty-nine one-hundredths acres, and the United States Army Reserve, formerly the Organized Reserve Corps, armory parcel comprising five acres, four hundred seventy-eight and eight-tenths varas to a point, the southeast corner of the said Organized Reserve Corps armory parcel;

Thence north thirty degrees east with and along the east line of the five-acre Organized Reserve Corps armory parcel, one hundred twenty-nine and five-tenths varas to a point on the southerly line of the Charles Thiele tract;

Thence south sixty degrees east one hundred forty-six and eight-tenths varas to an angle in the stone fence dividing the Deison and Thiele tracts;

Thence with said fence on the dividing line between the Deison and Thiele tracts and also the Deison and Reid tracts, south one hundred and sixty-eight varas to a point;

Thence south fifty-seven degrees east one hundred and sixty varas to a point;

Thence southeast one hundred and eight varas to a point;

Thence south nine degrees west one hundred varas to a point;

Thence south ten degrees east one hundred varas to a point;

Thence south five degrees west eighty-six varas to a point;

Thence south three degrees east seventy-seven varas to tire southwest corner of the Ela nor Reid tract on the north line of the Gasser fifty-three-acre tract;

Thence north sixty degrees west with the north line of the Gasser tract, one hundred and forty-seven varas to the northwest corner of same;

Thence south thirty degrees west with the west line of said Gasser tract, six hundred forty and one-half varas to the place of beginning;

Containing in all one hundred eighty-nine and eleven onehun-dredths acres of land more or less together with all improvements thereon, said land being the remaining portion of the original two hundred-acre tract conveyed by deed from Eliza C. J. Deison, et al., to the United States of America, dated June 28, 1909, as same appears of record in volume 239, pages 82–84, inclusive, of the deed records of Travis County, Texas, after deducting therefrom the five and eighty-nine one-hundredths-acre United States Air Force parcel and the five-acre Organized Reserve Corps armory parcel above described, a total of ten and eighty-nine one-hundredths acres to be retained by the United States.

Sec. 2.

All mineral rights, including gas and oil, in the lands authorized

Mineral rights.

to be conveyed by this Act shall be reserved to the United States.

Sec. 3.

There shall be further reserved to the United States in the

Rights-of-way, etc.

conveyance of the above-described lands, rights of ingress and egress over roads in the above-described lands serving buildings or other works operated by the United States or its successors or assigns in connection with the ten and eighty-nine one-hundredths acres referred to in section 1 of this Act as the United States Air Force Reserve training center parcel and the United States Army Reserve, formerly the Organized Reserve Corps armory parcel, rightsofway for water lines, sewer lines, telephone and telegraph lines, powerlines, and such other utilities as now exist, or which may become necessary to the operation of the above-described ten and eighty-nine one-hundredths acres.

Sec. 4.

The conveyance of the property authorized by this Act shall be upon condition that such property shall be used for training of the National Guard and the Air National Guard and for other military purposes, and that if the State of Texas shall cease to use the property so conveyed for the purposes intended, then title thereto shall immediately revert to the United States, and in addition, all improvements made during its occupancy by the State of Texas shall vest in the United States without payment of compensation therefor.

Sec. 5,

The conveyance of the property authorized by this Act shall he upon the further provision that, whenever the Congress of the United States declares a state of war or other national emergency, or the President declares a state of emergency, and upon the determination by the Secretary of Defense that the property conveyed under this Act is useful or necessary for military, air, or naval purposes, or in the interest of national defense, the United States shall have the right, without obligation to make payment of any kind, to reenter upon the property and use the same or any part thereof, including any and all improvements made thereon during its occupancy by the State of Texas, for the duration of such state of war or of such emergency. Upon the termination of such state of war or of such emergency plus six months such property shall revert to the State of Texas, together with all appurtenances and utilities belonging or appertaining thereto.

Sec. 6.

In executing the deed of conveyance authorized by this Act, the Secretary of the Army shall include specific provisions covering the reservations and conditions contained in sections 2, 3, 4, and 5 of this Act.