Volume 74
Public Law 86–693
To provide for the removal of the restriction on use with respect to certain lands in Morton County, North Dakota, conveyed to the State of North Dakota on July 20, 1955.
Approved September 2, 1960
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the removal of the restriction on use with respect to certain lands in Morton County, North Dakota, conveyed to the State of North Dakota on July 20, 1955.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to convey, without consideration and by quitclaim deed or other appropriate means, all reversionary interest which the United States has in and to certain lands in Morton County, North Dakota, by reason of the provision of the deed of July 20, 1955, whereby the United States, in conveying such lands to the State of North Dakota, provided that, if such lands ceased to be used for public purposes, title thereto should immediately revert to and become revested in the United States. Such lands are more particularly described as follows:
The southwest quarter of section 36 in township 139 north of range 81 west of the fifth Principal meridian, and lots 3 and 4, also known as the north half of the northwest quarter of section 1 of township 138 north of range 81 west of the fifth Principal meridian, containing 240.2 acres, more or less, and together therewith all accretion land and all and singular the water rights and other rights, tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereto belonging or in anywise appertaining.
Approved September 2, 1960.