An Act granting the consent o; Congress to the States of Illinois and Wisconsin to enter into a compact relating to interstate public-school districts where an educational community extends into both such States.
PL 84-950 (H.R.9314), enacted 08/03/1956

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CHAPTER 916 
AN ACT 
August 3, 1956 
Granting the consent of Congress to the States of Illinois and Wisconsin to 
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enter into a compact relating to interstate public school districts where an 
educational community extends into both such States. 
Be it eTiacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That the consent of aLa^int«t^*ta.tl 
Congress is hereby given to the States of Illinois and Wisconsin to •chooi compact, 
enter into the following compact and agreement relative to interstate 
public school districts where an educational community extends into 
both such States. 
The compact reads as follows: 
"ARTICLE I—PURPOSE 
"The purpose of this compact is to create a pattern of organizations 
through which all the people of an educational community which 
crosses State lines may participate in the government of such unit. 
"ARTICLE II—ORGANIZATION 
"The State superintendent of public instruction or similarly titled 
officer of the respective party States designated in the enabling Acts 
approving this compact may by agreement provide for the establish-
ment and operation of interstate public school districts for the opera-
tion of elementary and secondary schools. 
"ARTICLE III—SCOPE or THE AGREEMENTS 
"Such agreements may cover— 
" f a) the establishment of an interstate school district; 
" (b) the allocation of costs of operation and capital expenditure 
between the portions of the district in each State; 
" (c) the scope of the educational program; 
"(d) the procedures whereby the electors in each State may 
participate in the formation of school policy; 
" ^e) the allocation of State school aids; 
"(f) the determination of the State's laws under which the 
contracts for the purchase of materials, supplies, and personal 
services will be made so as to prevent all conflict as to the applica-
ble statutes. Arrangements shall be made for the employment of 
persons by one State only and for the pro rata reimbursement of 
that State for services rendered to citizens of another State, but 
no such agreement shall require that all employees be hired by a 
particular State; and 
"(g) all other matters as are reasonably necessary to carry out 
the purposes set forth in article I. 
"ARTICLE IV—^EFFECTIVE DATE 
"This compact shall become operative between any State and an-
other State when, following the adoption of the compact by the legis-
latures of both such States, the appropriate officers of two States 
execute an agreement. 
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"ARTICLE V — R E N U N C I A T I O N 
"This compact shall continue in effect and remain binding upon each 
executing party State until six months after any such State has given 
written notice of renunciation by the same authority which executed 
the agreement. 
"ARTICLE VI—SEVERABILITY 
"The provisions of this compact are severable." 
SEC. 2. The right to alter, amend or repeal this Act is hereby ex-
pressly reserved. 
Approved August 3, 1956. 
Public Law 951 
CHAPTER 917 
August 3,1956 
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Vigo Covinty, Ind. 
Conveyance. 
AN ACT 
To provide lor the conveyance of certain land of the United States to the 
State of Indiana. 
Be it mulcted hy the Senate cmd House of Representatives 
of the 
United Statesj)f 
America in Congress assembled, That the Attorney 
General is authorized and directed to convey to the State of Indiana 
all of the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to 
certain real property located in Vigo County, Indiana, containing 
approximately six acres, and more particularly described in section 2 
of this Act. 
Such conveyance shall be made on the payment of con-
sideration by such State to the Attorney General in an amount equal 
to the fair appraised market value of such real property determined 
by the Attorney General upon an independent appraisal at the time of 
such conveyance, such value to reflect any reservation, exception, 
restriction, or condition to which the conveyance is made subject. 
Such amount shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States 
as miscellaneous receipts. 
Such conveyance shall reserve to the United 
States all minerals, including gas and oil in the property to be con-
veyed under this Act, and shall provide that if the property shall be 
used for anj purpose other than for a State police barracks or other 
use which m the opinion of the Attorney General is incompatible 
with the use of the adjoining premises by the United States for a 
penal institution, all right, title, and interest in and to such real 
property shall revert to and become the property of the United States, 
which shall have the immediate right of entry thereon. 
SEC. 2. The real property referred to in the first section of this Act 
is located in the northeast quarter of section 27, township 11 north, 
range 9 west in Vigo County, Indiana, and is more particularly 
described as follows: Commencing at the stone at the northeast corner 
of section 27, township 11 north, range 9 west, and running thence 
south on the east line of said section a distance of 836.79 feet; thence 
west at an angle of 90 degrees, a distance of 806.80 feet to intersect the 
westerly right-of-way line of United States Highway Numbered 41 
at a point in the centerline of the Wabash Road, and said intersection 
point being the place of beginning; thence southwardly and to the left 
at an angle of 90 degrees and 50 minutes from the last given course 
above a distance of 75.0 feet; thence left 68 degrees and 54 minutes a 
distance of 165.0 feet; thence right 44 degrees and 53 minutes along the 
westerly right-of-way line of said United States Highway Numbered 
41, a distance of 583.0 feet; thence right at an angle of 114 degrees 
and 43 minutes a distance of 563.40 feet; thence right at an angle of 
89 degrees and 37 minutes a distance of 661.50 feet to the centerline of 
the Wabash Road; thence eastwardly along and with the centerline of