Chapter 264. To provide for conveyance of certain lands in the State of Alabama to vocational or other educational uses or to dispose of the lands upon condition that they shall be used for such purposes
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CHAP. 264.— An Act To provide for conveyance of certain lands in the State of Alabama to vocational or other educational uses or to dispose of the lands upon condition that they shall be used for such purposes. February 21, 1931.[[H. R. 12094](/us/bill/71/hr/12094).][[Public, No. 706](/us/pl/71/706).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the SecretaryAlabama.Conveyance of land for educational purposes, authorized. of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed, upon payment of $1.25 per acre, to transfer and convey to the State of Alabama, subject to valid existing rights, including rights heretofore granted to Henry T.
Henderson and associates by Act of Congress approved June 30, 1906, the following-described parcels of land: In township 8 south, range 9 east, Huntsville meridian, lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, section 1; lots 1, 2, and 3, section 2; lots 1 and 2, section 10; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, section 11; lot 1, section 12; lots 1, 2, and 3, section 14; lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, section 15; lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, section 22; lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, section 23; lots 1 and 2, section 26; east half northeast quarter and lots 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, section 27; lot 1, section 28; lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, section 33; and lots 1 and 2, section 34, containing one thousand six hundred and twenty-five and nineteen one-hundredths acres, more or less, the same to be held and made available permanently by said State, its transferees or lessees, for vocational or other educational purposes: *Provided*, That should the State of Alabama or its*Provisos*.Reversion for non user. transferees or lessees fail to keep and hold the said land for vocational or other educational purposes, or devote it to any use inconsistent with such purposes, then at the option of the Secretary of the Interior, after due notice to said State and such proceedings as he shall determine, title to said lands shall revert to and be reinvested in the United States: *Provided*, That there shall be reserved to the UnitedReservation of mineral rights.
States all gas, oil, coal, or other mineral deposits found at any time in the said lands and the right to prospect for, mine and remove the same: *Provided further*, That there is expressly reserved to theOf user, etc., for power purposes. United States, its permittees or licensees, the right to enter upon, take, or use any or all of the said lands for power purposes in accordance with the terms and conditions of section 24 of the FederalVol. 41, p. 1075.Reversion of certain lands.Vol. 44, p. 1104, repealed.
Water Power Act (Forty-first Statutes, page 1063). Sec. 2. The Act entitled “An Act to provide for conveyance ofcertain lands in the State of Alabama for State park and game preserve purposes,” approved February 17, 1927, is hereby repealed. Approved, February 21, 1931.