An Act to provide for an agricultural program in the Virgin Islands
PL 82-228 (H.R.4027), enacted 10/29/1951

65 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 228—OCT. 29, 1951 
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SEC. 5. Any teacher or attendance officer who after the enactment of 
this Act is granted leave without pay by the Superintendent of 
Schools or the Board of Education shall be reinstated to the position 
from which leave was granted or to an equivalent position when said 
employee is ready to resume his duties in accordance with the rules of 
the Board of Education existing at the time such leave was granted. 
SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect on the first day of the second month 
following its enactment. 
Approved October 29, 1951. 
Eflective date. 
Public Law 227 
CHAPTER 602 
AN ACT 
To provide that payment to States and Territories for care given to certain 
disabled soldiers and sailors of the United States shall be effective from 
the date such care commenced. 
October 29.1951 
[H. R. 3548] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United 
States 
of America 
in Congress assembled, That the last 
proviso to section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to increase tem-
porarily the amount of F'ederal aid to State or Territorial homes 
for the support of disabled soldiers and sailors of the United 
States", approved May 18, 1948, is hereby amended to read as 
follows: '"''Provided further, 
That no such payment to a State or 
Territory shall be made until the Administrator of Veterans' 
Affairs determines that the veteran, on whose account such payment 
is requested, is eligible for such care in a Veterans' Administration 
facility, and after such determination of eligibility such payment 
shall be made covering the period of eligibility from the date such 
care commenced, except that no such payment shall be made 
effective prior to the date of receipt by the Veterans' Administra-
tion of an appropriate request for determination of eligibility 
in the case of any eligible veteran with respect to whom such 
request is not received within ten days following the date such care 
commenced". 
SEC. 2. The amendment made by this Act shall apply to pay-
ments with respect to care given to disabled soldiers and sailors 
on and after the first day of the month next following the month 
during which this Act is enacted. 
Approved October 29, 1951. 
Disabled soldiers 
and sailors. 
Support. 
62 Stat. 237. 
24U.S.C.§ 134 note. 
Effective date. 
Public Law 228 
CHAPTER 603 
AN ACT 
To provide for an agricultural program in the Virgin Islands. 
October 29,1951 
[H. R. 4027] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the. 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
Ig'icufturatpro-
of Agriculture is authorized to establish and maintain in the Virgin gram. 
Islands of the United States an agricultural research and extension 
service program. 
In carrying out the program authorized by this 
Act the Secretary shall utilize the agencies, facilities, and employees 
of the Department of Agriculture, and may cooperate with the govern-
ment of the Virgin Islands, and other public and private organizations 
and individuals in the Virgin Islands and elsewhere. 
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PUBLIC LAW 229—OCT. 29, 1951 
[65 STAT. 
Inter-agency func-
tion, property, etc., 
transfers. 
Appropriation 
tborized. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to trans-
fer to the United States Department of Agriculture such part of the 
functions, property, personnel, records, and unexpended balances 
of appropriations of the agricultural experiment stations in the Virgin 
Islands as may be agreed upon between the Secretary of the Interior 
and the Secretary of Agriculture. 
SEC. 3. There is authorized to be appropriated such amounts as 
may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. The moneys 
appropriated in pursuance of this Act shall also be available for 
the purchase and rental of land and the construction or acquisition 
of buildings, for the equipment and maintenance of such buildings, 
purchase and rental of passenger-carrying automobiles, employment 
of persons in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and for printing 
and disseminating the results of research, and such other expenditures 
as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. Sums ap-
propriated in pursuance of this Act shall be in addition to, and not 
in substitution for, sums appropriated or otherwise made available 
to the Department of Agriculture, and may be allocated to such agen-
cies of the Department as are concerned with the administration of 
the program of the Virgin Islands. 
Approved October 29, 1951. 
October 29,1961 
[H. B. 4808] 
Public Law 229 
CHAPTER 604 
AN ACT 
To provide for the granting of an easement for a public road througli the Pea 
Island National Wildlife Refuge in Dare County, North Carolina. 
North Carolina. 
Conveyance. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary of 
the Interior is authorized to convey to the State of North Carolina 
a permanent easement for the construction of a public road (together 
with rights for such other uses as may be customary or necessary in 
the State of North Carolina in connection with the construction or 
operation of such a road) through the Pea Island National Wildlife 
Refuge in Dare County, North Carolina, and to accept in return 
therefor the conveyance of any rights-of-way, easements, or other 
rights in or claims to land owned by the State of North Carolina not 
needed for use in the construction or operation of such road. 
Approved October 29, 1951. 
October 29,1951 
[H. R. 5062] 
Public Law 230 
CHAPTER 605 
AN ACT 
To extend the authority of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to appoint 
and employ retired oflScers without affecting their retired status. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 2 of 
6U.s.c.§ 6
4
a note. Public Law 718, Seventy-ninth Congress, approved August 10, 1946 
(60 Stat. 978), is hereby amended by striking the word "five" pre-
ceding the word "years" and substituting therefor the word "ten". 
Approved October 29, 1951.