Volume 70 · 577
Public Law 84–729
To provide for the conveyance of certain lands by the United States to the State of Wisconsin.
Approved July 18, 1956
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the conveyance of certain lands by the United States to the State of Wisconsin.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Army is authorized and directed to convey to the State of Wisconsin all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the real property described in section 2 of this Act, the property to he used for the training and maintaining of units of the Wisconsin National Guard, and the conveyance to be made without monetary consideration therefor, but upon condition that it shall be used for the aforesaid purposes and that if such real property shall ever cease to be used for such purposes, all the right, title, and interest in and to such real property shall revert to and become the property of the United States, which shall have the immediate right of entry thereon, and to be further subject to the reservation by the United States of all mineral rights, including oil and gas; the right of reentry and use without payment of rent or other compensation by the United States in the event of need therefor during a national emergency declared by the Congress or the President of the United States; and such other reservations, restrictions, terms, and conditions as the Secretary determines to be necessary to properly protect the interests of the United States.
Sec. 2.
The La Crosse National Guard Target Range, located near La Crosse, Wisconsin, in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, more particularly described as follows:
Beginning at the southwest corner of section 10 thence north 6 rods; thence east 160 rods; thence south 6 rods; thence west 160 rods to the place of beginning, being south 6 acres of the southwest quarter of section 10, township 15 north, range 7 west, recorded in La Crosse County, October 23, 1912, at 4:35 postmeridian, volume 120, page 354.
Four hundred and forty acres of land situated in sections 15 and 16, township 17 north, range 2 east, Juneau County, Wisconsin, more particularly described as follows:
Township 17 north, range 2 east: Section 15, northwest quarter southwest quarter, southwest quarter southwest quarter; and section 16, northeast quarter northeast quarter, northwest quarter northeast quarter, southwest quarter northeast quarter, southeast quarter northeast quarter, northeast quarter northwest quarter, northwest quarter northwest quarter, southwest quarter northwest quarter, southeast quarter northwest quarter, northeast quarter southwest quarter.
Township 17 north, range 2 east: Section 2, a parcel of land 36 rods square in the northeast corner of the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter containing 8.10 acres, more or less.
Approved July 18, 1956.