Chapter 45.
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CHAP. 45.— AN ACT Granting to the State of Oklahoma permission to occupy, a certain portion of the Fort Sill Military Reservation, Oklahoma, and to maintain and operate thereon a fish hatchery. March 17, 1916.[[H. R. 403](/us/bill/64/hr/403).][[Public, No. 32](/us/pl/64/32).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the State of Oklahoma Fort Sill Military Reservation, Okla. Tract in, granted Oklahoma for fish, hatchery.is hereby granted permission to enter upon and occupy, for the purpose of operating and maintaining thereon a fish hatchery for the hatchery, propagation of fish for public distribution to the people of said State, and in pursuance thereof to construct ponds, drain the land, plant grass, shrubbery and trees, and otherwise improve and beautify the area to be occupied, the following-described tract of land within the Fort Sill Military Reservation, Oklahoma, viz.:
All that portion of Description. said reservation lying and being within the boundary lines described as beginning at the northeast corner of section nineteen in township three north, range twelve, west, Indian meridian, and extending thence west along the section line a distance of one thousand eight hundred and twenty feet to a point in the center of Medicine Bluff Creek; thence in a southeasterly direction, following the center line of Medicine Bluff Creek, to a point two hundred feet west of the east line and one thousand seven hundred feet south of the north line of said section nineteen; thence two hundred feet east of the section line between said section nineteen and section twenty, thence north on the section line between said sections nineteen and twenty a distance of one thousand seven hundred feet to the point of beginning; said tract containing an area of thirty-nine and five-tenths acres more or *Provisos.* Rights, etc., retained.less: *Provided,* That the occupation and use of the said land for the aforesaid purpose shall in no manner affect the rights, title and 36interest of the United States in and to said lands; nor the Government’s rights of passage over and across the lands so occupied:
Nonliability for damages.*Provided further,* That the United States shall not be liable for any damages whatsoever that may at any time occur to the improvements or property of the State of Oklahoma on said lands: *And provided further,* Approval of plans etc., by Secretary of War.That the exercise of the rights hereby granted and the execution of any work on said lands hereby authorized shall be in accordance with such plans and specifications as may be approved by the Secretary of War, and subject to such further stipulations and conditions Revocation.as he may prescribe: *Provided further,* That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to revoke the permission herein granted, if in his judgment it is necessary for the use of such military reservation by the War Department.
Amendment. Sec. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, March 17, 1916.