Public Law 85–42

That the Secretary of State is hereby authorized notwithstanding any other provisions of law, to enter into an agreement with the board of trustees of the Clint Independent School District, Clint, Texas, and the board of trustees of the Fabens Independent School District, Fabens, Texas, municipal corporations of the State of Texas and grantees of an undivided one-half interest in and to a forty-acre tract of land covered by a deed dated May 14, 1940, filed of record in volume 667, at page 290 of the deed records of El Paso County, Texas, (1) consenting on behalf of the United States that the said municipal corporations may voluntarily partition between them the land so granted: Provided, That the reversionary provisions in said deed shall remain unaffected by such partition; and (2) providing for the exchange by either or both of said grantee municipal corporations in accord with the provisions of section 2 hereof of the lands so granted and so partitioned for other lands of not less than an equal area and value, as determined by the Secretary of State, as said municipal corporations, or either of them, may deem more suitable for public educational purposes.

Sec. 2.

When the agreement contemplated by section 1 hereof shall have been concluded, there shall be exchanged simultaneously by the parties in interest such deeds and other instruments as may be required by the laws of the State of Texas (1) to effect a waiver by the Secretary of State on behalf of the Government of the United States of the reversionary interest which it has in the lands covered by the partition and to be exchanged; (2) to vest in the Government of the United States in the lands to be received in exchange by the said municipal Corporations, or either of them, for their portions or portion of the lands to be partitioned a reversionary interest which reversionary interest shall be of like intent and legal effect as the reversionary interest retained by the United States under the provisions in the said deed of May 14, 1940, to said municipal corporations; and (3) to effect the exchange between the present owners in fee simple of the lands covered by the partition and of those for which the exchange is to be made: Provided, however, That none of the instruments of title shall be valid until all necessary deeds and other instruments have been executed and exchanged: And provided further, That the exchange of lands herein contemplated shall be without cost to the United States.

Sec. 3.

The Secretary of State is further authorized to execute on behalf of the Government of the United States such deeds and other instruments of title as shall be necessary to carry out the purpose of this Act.