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[CITE: 22USC277d-1]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
           CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
 
       SUBCHAPTER IV--INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION
 
Sec. 277d-1. Authorizations for Mexican treaty projects; 
        acquisition of lands for relocation purposes; contracts and 
        conveyances
        
    The Secretary of State, acting through the United States 
Commissioner, International Boundary and Water Commission, United States 
and Mexico (herein referred to as the ``Commission''), in connection 
with any project under the jurisdiction of the United States Section, 
International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, 
is authorized: (a) to purchase, or condemn, lands, or interests in 
lands, for relocation of highways, roadways, railroads, telegraph, 
telephone, or electric transmission lines, or any other properties 
whatsoever, the relocation of which, in the judgment of the said 
Commissioner, is necessitated by the construction or operation and 
maintenance of any such project, and to perform any or all work involved 
in said relocations on said lands, or interests in lands, other lands, 
or interests in lands, owned and held by the United States in connection 
with the construction or operation and maintenance of any such project, 
or properties not owned by the United States; (b) to enter into 
contracts with the owners of the said properties whereby they undertake 
to acquire any, or all, property needed for said relocation, or to 
perform any, or all, work involved in said relocations; and (c) for the 
purpose of effecting completely said relocations, to convey, or exchange 
Government properties acquired or improved under clause (a) of this 
section, with or without improvements, or other properties owned and 
held by the United States in connection with the construction or 
operation and maintenance of said project, or to grant term or perpetual 
easements therein or thereover. Grants or conveyances hereunder shall be 
by instruments executed by the Secretary of State without regard to 
provisions of law governing the patenting of public lands.

(Sept. 13, 1950, ch. 948, title I, Sec. 101, 64 Stat. 846.)


                               Short Title

    Section 1 of act Sept. 13, 1950, provided that: ``This Act [enacting 
this section and sections 277d-2 to 277d-9 of this title] may be cited 
as the `American-Mexican Treaty Act of 1950'.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 277d-5 of this title.
