Volume 71 · 293
Public Law 85–100
To authorize the Administrator of General Services to quitclaim all interest of the United States In and to a certain parcel of land in Indiana to the board of trustees for the Vincennes University, Vincennes, Indiana.
Approved July 11, 1957
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the Administrator of General Services to quitclaim all interest of the United States In and to a certain parcel of land in Indiana to the board of trustees for the Vincennes University, Vincennes, Indiana.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That
the Administrator of General Services is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed, without consideration, to the board of trustees for the Vincennes University, Vincennes, Indiana, all right, title, and interest in and to that parcel of land located in the city of Vincennes, Indiana, title to which was vested previously in the city of Vincennes, Indiana, by section 2 of the Act of March 3, 1881 (21 Stat. 505), and which was authorized to be conveyed with certain reservations to the board of trustees for the Vincennes University by the Act of June 30, 1944 (58 Stat. 045). The Administrator shall except from such conveyance that area of land within such parcel bounded by Third and Fourth Streets and Indianapolis Avenue and Hickman Street (now College Avenue).
The Administrator shall withhold execution of the conveyance provided for in subsection (a) until he determines that the city of Vincennes, Indiana, has released and conveyed to the board of trustees for the Vincennes University any right, title, and interest that such city may have in and to the parcel of land defined in subsection (a). In the event the city of Vincennes fails to release and convey such right, title, and interest within six months from the date of enactment of this Act, the authority contained herein shall terminate and be of no further force or effect.
Approved July 11, 1957.