Volume 86 · 1537
Private Law 92–87
To provide for the conveyance of certain real property of the United States.
Approved June 6, 1972
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the conveyance of certain real property of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
Mrs. Julian Souvenir and William De Auid.
Conveyance.
of the Interior shall convey, to Mrs. Julian Souvenir of Cathlamet, Washington, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the real property described as the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 26, township nine north, range six west of the Willamette meridian, except that portion thereof conveyed by deed from Richard Dick to A. D. Birnie and recorded in Book “D” of Deeds, page 357, records of Wahkiakum County, Washington, containing approximately thirty-three acres, more or less.
Sec. 2.
The Secretary of the Interior shall convey to William D. Auld, of Ridgefield, Washington, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the real property described in the deed from Richard Dick to A. D. Birnie recorded in Book “D” of Deeds, page 357, records of Wahkiakum County, Washington, containing seven acres, more or less.
Sec. 3.
Conveyances under section 1 and 2 hereof shall be made upon payment of an amount determined by the Secretary of the Interior. Such amount shall be based upon an appraisal on the basis of the value of such land at the time of appraisal, exclusive of any increased value resulting from the development or improvement of the land by the applicant or his predecessors in interest, and in such appraisal the Secretary shall consider and give full effect to the equities or any such applicant.
Approved June 6, 1972.