An Act to authorize additional appropriations for the lower San Joaquin River project
PL 83-235 (H.R.4305), enacted 08/08/1953

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fifty-eight feet to the point where the line leaves Hancock Creek); 
thence running in a northerly direction along the meanders of the 
east bank of Hancock Creek to a point; thence leaving the east bank 
of Hancock Creek and running north seventy-two degrees no minutes 
east a distance of one thousand two hundred and eighty-nine feet to 
a point; thence south thirty-eight degrees forty-eight minutes east a 
distance of one thousand eleven and three-tenths feet to the point of 
the beginning. The above-mentioned tract being more fully shown 
on a map entitled Runway 32, Land Acquisition Map, U. S. Marine 
Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, North Carolina, dated April 20, 
1951 and by Albert R. Bell, C. E. of New Bern, N. C. 
Approved August 8, 1953. 
Public Law 235 
CHAPTER 389 
AN ACT 
August 8,1953 
To authorize additional appropriations for tlie Lower San Joaquin River project. 
[H. R. 4305] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in addition 
to previous authorizations, there is hereby authorized to be appro-
priated the sum of $2,500,000 for the prosecution of the plan of 
improvement approved in the Act of December 22, 1944, for the 
Lower San Joaquin River and tributaries, including the Tuolumne 
and Stanislaus Rivers, with such modifications thereof as in the 
discretion of the Chief of Engineers may be advisable. 
Approved August 8, 1953. 
58 Stat. 901. 
Public Law 236 
CHAPTER 390 
AN ACT 
To authorize the sale of Army, Navy, and Air Force stores at military establish-
ments to civilian employees of the Government, and for other purposes. 
August 8,1953 
[H. R. 5258] 
Be it en/icted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That, the Secretaries 
of the Army, Navy, and Air Force may by regulation provide for the 
procurement and sale of such stores as may be designated by them 
to such civilian oflficers and employees of the United States and such 
other persons as they deem proper at military establishments beyond 
the continental limitations of the United States or in Alaska, and 
at military establishments within the continental United States where 
they find that it is impracticable for such civilian officers and em-
ployees and other persons to procure such stores from private agencies 
without impairing the efficient operation of the military activities: 
Pravided, That sales to civilian officers and employees within the 
continental United States as authorized herein shall be made only to 
those residing within military establishments. 
SEC. 2. The second proviso appearing in the paragraph entitled, 
"Bureau of Supplies and Accounte", of the Act of March 3, 1909 (35 
Stat. 753, 768), as amended (34 U. S. C. 533), is further amended to 
read as follows: "Such stores as the Secretary of the Navy may 
designate may be procured and sold to officers and enlisted men of 
the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, and to the widows of such 
officers and enlisted men." 
Approved August 8, 1953. 
Armed Force 
Sale of store 
civilian empl 
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