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B-65104 1 (1947-05-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadiwz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL'OF THE UNITED STATES / WASHINGTON 25 MAY 1 9 1947 j B-65104 M~r, M. R. Scott, Authorized Certifying Officer, Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Bankers Securities Building, Walnut and Juniper Streets, Philadelphia 7, Pennsylvania. Dear Mr. Scott: Reference is made to your letter of March 26, 1947 (your file, A DISBURSLENTW, R-7 Vouchers General), as followea There has been presented to me for certification for payment the attached voucher in favor of 0. 0. Lugar, Treasurer of Craig County, New Castle, Virginia, covering taxes, interest and penal- ties on mineral righte for the years 1944 and 1945 in the amount of U1o.43. On June 22, 19140 the lands in question were acquired by the Government through condemnation proceedings and subject to a 25-year mineral reservation running from March 1, 1938. The grantor sub- sequently was wi ing to relinquish the mineral righto and donated them to the Government (under Act of June 7, 1924, 16 USC 569) by deed recorded December 12, 1945. Subsequently it was learned that taxes on mineral righte for the years 1944 and 1945 had not been paid, and while the grantor was willing to donate the mineral righto without compensation, he is not willing to pay the taxeo and the interest or other amounto due by reason of their nonpayment. The land was acquired under the Act of March 1, 1911 (36 Stat. 961). Costs of acquisition were paid from 1291111.001 Acquisition of Lands for Protection of W7atersheds of Navigable Streams, Acquisi- tion of Forest Lands, 1939. The act permits the purchase of land with or without reservationo and presumably would permit the later purchase of reservation rights where their acquisition is in the .interest of the Government. The act provides also that the Secretary of Agriculture may do all things necessary to secure

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