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§167j Land conveyance in Potter County, Texas

Title 50 › Chapter CHAPTER 10— - HELIUM GAS › § 167j

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior must transfer all United States ownership of a specific 331‑acre parcel in Potter County, Texas, to the Texas Plains Girl Scout Council for $1. The United States keeps any easements it needs for pipeline rights‑of‑way. The land is the East 331 acres of Section 78, Block 9, B.S. & F. Survey (sometimes called the G.D. Landis pasture) in Potter County. It is identified by certificate No. 1/39 and by letters patent Nos. 411 and 412 dated November 23, 1937, and recorded in Vol. 66A of the Patent Records of the State of Texas. The law includes detailed boundary descriptions.

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Title 50, §167j

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(a)The Secretary of the Interior shall transfer all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the parcel of land described in subsection (b) to the Texas Plains Girl Scout Council for consideration of $1, reserving to the United States such easements as may be necessary for pipeline rights-of-way.
(b)The parcel of land referred to in subsection (a) is all those certain lots, tracts or parcels of land lying and being situated in the County of Potter and State of Texas, and being the East Three Hundred Thirty-One (E331) acres out of Section Seventy-eight (78) in Block Nine (9), B.S. & F. Survey, (some times known as the G.D. Landis pasture) Potter County, Texas, located by certificate No. 1/39 and evidenced by letters patents Nos. 411 and 412 issued by the State of Texas under date of November 23, 1937, and of record in Vol. 66A of the Patent Records of the State of Texas. The metes and bounds description of such lands is as follows:
(1)One Hundred Seventy-one (171) acres of land known as the North part of the East part of said survey Seventy-eight (78) aforesaid, described by metes and bounds as follows: Beginning at a stone 20 x 12 x 3 inches marked X, set by W.D. Twichell in 1905, for the Northeast corner of this survey and the Northwest corner of section 59; Thence, South 0 degrees 12 minutes East with the West line of said section 59, 999.4 varas to the Northeast corner of the South 160 acres of East half of section 78; Thence, North 89 degrees 47 minutes West with the North line of the South 150 acres of the East half, 956.8 varas to a point in the East line of the West half section 78; Thence, North 0 degrees 10 minutes West with the East line of the West half 999.4 varas to a stone 18 x 14 x 3 inches in the middle of the South line of section 79; Thence, South 89 degrees 47 minutes East 965 varas to the place of beginning.
(2)One Hundred Sixty (160) acres of land known as the South part of the East part of said survey No. Seventy-eight (78) described by metes and bounds as follows: Beginning at the Southwest corner of section 59, a stone marked X and a pile of stones; Thence, North 89 degrees 47 minutes West with the North line of section 77, 966.5 varas to the Southeast corner of the West half of section 78; Thence, North 0 degrees 10 minutes West with the East line of the West half of section 78; Thence, South 89 degrees 47 minutes East 965.8 varas to a point in the East line of section 78; Thence, South 0 degrees 12 minutes East 934.6 varas to the place of beginning. Containing an area of 331 acres, more or less.

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1996—Pub. L. 104–273 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, section related to Secretary’s authority under Federal helium refining program to obtain loans and issue obligations to carry out program.

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50 U.S.C. § 167j

Title 50War and National Defense

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

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