General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Third Called Session of the Fifty-Seventh Legislature and the Regular Session of the Fifty-Eighth Legislature Page: 58
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58TH LEGISLATURE-REGULAR SESSION
Railroad Commission of Texas, shall become effective. It is the inten-
tion of the Legislature of the State of Texas that the use of said land for
this purpose be carried out in such a manner as to not unreasonably
interfere with the use of said land for park purposes.
Sec. 4. The Commissioner of the General Land Office shall prepare
a list of the lands now owned in said area by the State of Texas or its
instrumentalities for any purpose and deliver a certified copy of such list
to the School Land Board for its records.
Sec. 5. Any deed executed pursuant to the authority hereinabove
set out shall be null and void and of no force and effect and any and all
rights, titles, and interests granted and conveyed thereby shall revert
to the State of Texas upon the initiation by any agent, agency, officer,
department, or employee of the Federal Government of the United States,
whether appointed or elected, of a suit at law or in equity in any Federal
Court of the United States to enlarge or expand the titles, rights, or
interests granted by said deed or deeds.
Sec. 6. The United States of America, through the Secretary of the
Interior, is hereby authorized to purchase, condemn, receive, hold and
acquire title to the surface estate of any land not owned by the state in
the area above-described as the Padre Island National Seashore for use
as a recreational park; provided that the acquisition of lands in such
area shall not deprive the grantor or successor in title of the right of
ingress and egress for the purpose of exploring for, developing, process-
ing, storing and transporting minerals from beneath said lands and
waters with the right of housing employees for such purposes. The same
reservations and regulations enumerated in Section 3 hereof, relating
to civil and criminal jurisdiction, process, levy and collection of taxes,
mineral development, and voting rights, shall apply to all lands acquired
by the United States of America under this Section.
Sec. 7. The surface estate in and to the lands, spoil banks, ease-
ments or rights-of-way owned, leased or otherwise controlled by the Wil-
lacy County Navigation District may be acquired for inclusion in Padre
Island National Seashore with the consent of the District. All such
surface estates in and to lands, spoil banks, easements and rights-of-way
owned, leased or otherwise controlled by the Willacy County Navigation
District located in the Padre Island National Seashore shall be used
solely for public purposes.
Sec. 8. The Secretary of the Interior is requested to provide for
roadways from the north and south boundaries of such public recreation
area to the access highways from the Mainland to Padre Island. For
the purpose of this Section, the south boundary shall be considered the
Port Mansfield cut.
Sec. 9. If the United States of America (1) fails to acquire the
surface estate in two-thirds of the total privately-owned land located
within the Padre Island National Seashore Area as defined in Section 1
of this Act within ten (10) years from the date of acquisition by the
United States of America of the state-owned portion of the land de-
scribed in Section 1 hereof, or (2) after such ten-year period ceases to
use the surface estate of the privately-owned land so acquired under
the authority of this Act for a national seashore area as contemplated
herein, then in either event, all state-owned lands conveyed to the United
States of America under the authority of Section 3 hereof shall ipso
facto and without further action by any of the parties hereto revert to
the State of Texas and to the fund to which they belonged prior to the
passage of this Act, unless such reversion shall be waived by the Legisla-
ture of the State of Texas during the biennium following the happening
of either of the conditions of reversion.
58Ch. 38
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Texas. Legislature. General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Third Called Session of the Fifty-Seventh Legislature and the Regular Session of the Fifty-Eighth Legislature, legislative document, 1963; [Austin, Texas]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth221759/m1/394/?q=+date%3A1945-1972: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.