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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 49 STAT. · June 30, 1936 · Public Law 769

Public Law 769.

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(/us/bill/74/pl/768).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of American in Congress assembled*,Traffic conditions.Study, etc., of, and measures for improving, authorized.*Ante*, pp. 272, 1447. That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to use during the fiscal years ending June 30, 1936, and June 30, 1937, such part as may be necessary of the administrative fund of the Bureau of Public Roads, but not to exceed a total of $75,000, for study and research Cooperation with States, etc.of traffic conditions and measures for their improvement, and to cooperate with Federal, State, District of Columbia, and municipal authorities, and other agencies, in coimection with such study and *Proviso*.Amount for printing.research: *Provided*, That not to exceed $5,000 of the said sum may be used for printing necessary for the purposes of the work authorized and directed by this paragraph.
Sec. 2. Preliminary and complete reports to Congress. The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to make a preliminary report to Congress within the next nine months of the results of the above study and research, and of the status of uniform motor-vehicle traffic laws throughout the country, and not later than J une 30, 1937, to make a complete report with his recommendations, including suggestions for legislation, which will promote the necessary uniformity in such laws.
Approved, June 23, 1936. Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Interior to sell to the city of Los Angeles, California, certain public lands in California; and granting rights-of-way over public lands and reserve lands to the city of Los Angeles in Mono County in the State of California. 1936-06-23 733 Chapter 49 Stat. 1892 74 2 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 733.] AN ACT Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Interior to sell to the city of Los Angeles, California, certain public lands in California; and granting rights-of-way over public lands and reserve lands to the city of Los Angeles in Mono County in the State of California. June 23, 1936.[[H. R. 12033](/us/bill/74/hr/12033).][[Public, No. 769](/us/bill/74/pl/769).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of American in Congress assembled*, Los Angeles, Calif.Certain lands granted to, for designated purposes.
That there is hereby granted to the city of Los Angeles a municipal corporation of the State of California, all lands belonging to the United States1893 situated in Mono County, California, which may be necessary, as found by the Secretary of the Interior, for any or all of the following purposes: Rights-of-way; buildings and structures; construction and maintenance camps; dumping grounds; flowage, diverting, or storage dams; pumping plants; power plants; canals, ditches, pipes, and pipe lines; flumes, tunnels, and conduits for conveying water for domestic, irrigation, power, and other useful purposes; poles, towers, and lines for, the conveyance and distribution of electrical energy; poles and lines for telephone and telegraph purposes; roads, trails, bridges, tramways, railroads, and other means of locomotion, transmission, or communication; for obtaining stone, earth, gravel, and other materials of like character; or any other necessary purposes of said city, together with the right to take for its own use, free of cost, from any public lands, within such limits as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, stone, earth, gravel, sand, and other materials of like character necessary or useful in the construction, operation, and maintenance of aqueducts, reservoirs, dams, pumping plants, electric plants, and transmission, telephone, and telegraph lines, roads, trails, bridges, tramways, railroads, and other means of locomotion, transmission, and communication, or any other necessary purposes of the city of Los Angeles.
That there is hereby excepted and reserved unto the United States,Minerals reserved; exception. from said grant, minerals, other than sand, stone, earth, gravel, and other materials of like character: *Provided, however*, That such*Proviso*.Regulations. minerals so excepted and reserved shall be prospected for, mined, and removed only in accordance with regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. This grant shall be effective upon
(1)the filing by said granteeConditions. at any time after the passage of this Act, with the register of the United States local land office in the district where said lands are situated, of a map or maps showing the boundaries, locations, and extent of said lands and of said rights-of-way for the purposes hereinabove set forth;
(2)the approval of such map or maps by the Secretary of the Interior, with such reservations or modifications as he may deem appropriate;
(3)the payment of $1.25 per acrePurchase price. for all Government lands conveyed under this Act other than for the right-of-way for the Mono Basin aqueduct: *Provided*, That said*Provisos*.Rights-of-way; location, width, etc. lands for rights-of-way shall be along such location and of such width, not to exceed two hundred and fifty feet, as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior may be required for the purposes of this Act: *And provided further*, That said lands for any of saidMono Basin aqueduct, rights-of-way. purposes other than rights-of-way for the Mono Basin aqueduct may be of such width or extent as may be determined by the Secretary of the Interior as necessary for such purposes. Sec. 2. That where any of the lands to which the city of LosNational forest lands. Angeles seeks to acquire title under section 1 of this Act, are in a national forest, the said map or maps shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture so far as national-forest lands are affected; and upon such approval and the subsequent approval by the Secretary of the Interior, title to said lands shall vest in the grantee upon the date of such subsequent approval. Sec. 3. Said grants are to be made subject to rights-of-way, easements,Provisions of grants. and permits heretofore granted or allowed to any person or corporation in accordance with any Act or Acts of Congress and subject to the rights of all claimants or persons who shall havePrior rights. filed or made valid claims, locations, or entries on or to said lands, or any part thereof prior to the effective date of any conflicting grant hereunder, unless prior to such effective date proper relinquishments1894 or quitclaims have been procured and caused to be filed in the propei- land office. Sec. 4. Reversionary provision. That, whenever the land granted herein shall cease to be used for the purposes for which it is granted, the estate of the grantee or of its assigns shall terminate and revest in the United Restriction on assignment.States. That any grants made hereunder shall not be assigned to any private individual, association of such individuals, or a private corporation. Approved, June 23, 1936. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to create a Library of Congress Trust Fund Board, and for other purposes”, approved March 3, 1925. 1936-06-23 734 Chapter 49 Stat. 1894 74 2 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 734.] AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act to create a Library of Congress Trust Fund Board, and for other purposes”, approved March 3, 1925. June 23, 1936.[[H. R. 12353](/us/bill/74/hr/12353).][
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