Public Law 85–59

That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed to the University of Missouri, without cost, the real property, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, constituting the United States Department of Agriculture Midwest Claypan Experiment Station located at McCredie in the County of Callaway, State of Missouri, which property is more particularly described as follows:

The east half of the southwest quarter of section 10, and 140 acres, more or less, being all that part of the southeast quarter of section 10, lying west of the center of the Fulton and Mexico road; Also 14.90 acres being that part of the east half of the northeast quarter of section 10 lying south of the McCredie and Williamsburg road; Also 1 acre, more or less, in the northwest corner of the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 11, being all that part of the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter lying west of the Fulton and Mexico road; Also about 1 acre in the southwest corner of the northwest quarter of section 11, being that part of said quarter section lying south of the McCredie and Williamsburg road and west of the Fulton and Mexico road; Also all that part containing about 65 acres of the west half of the northeast quarter and of the east half of the northwest quarter of section 10, lying south of the McCredie and Williamsburg road; All of the above described property lying and being in township 48 north, of range 9 west, in the aforesaid State and county, and containing 300 acres, more or less. Such property shall be conveyed upon such conditions as in the opinion of the Secretary of Agriculture will assure the use of such property in the cooperative agricultural experimental work of the Department of Agriculture and the State of Missouri. The conveyance of such property shall contain a reservation to the United States of all the minerals in the land together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.