An Act to transfer certain lands from the Veterans Administration to the Department of the Interior for the benefit of the Yavapai Indians of Arizona.
PL 84-525 (S.2851), enacted 05/18/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 525-MAY 18, 1966 
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(3) The east half of section 8; the east half of section 17; east half 
of section 20; west half of section 21; the east half and the northwest 
quarter of section 28; all of sections 30, 31, and 32; all in township 22 
south, range 63 east. 
SEC. 2. The conveyance authorized by this Act shall be made subject 
to any existing valid claims against the lands described in the first 
section of this Act, and to any reservations necessary to j^rotect con-
tinuing uses of those lands by the United States. 
Approved May 14, 1956. 
Public Law 523 
CHAPTER 271 
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May 14, 1956 
To authorize the construction and conversion of certain naval vessels, and for 
[H. R. 7993] 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the President 
is hereby authorized to undertake the construction of, or to acquire 
and convert, not to exceed twenty-eight hundred tons of patrol vessels. 
SEC. 2. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may 
be necessary for the construction or for the acquisition and conversion 
of the foregoing vessels. 
Approved May 14, 1956. 
Patrol vesaelii. 
Appropriation. 
Public Law 524 
CHAPTER 278 
AN ACT 
For the relief of certain rural carriers. 
May 18, 1956 
[H. R. 6622] 
64 StaU 103. 
3 9 u s e 888 note. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That each rural ruf^'cmiwl?'^*^*' 
carrier who served a heavily patronized route during the period be-
tween November 1, 1949, and February 16,1955, and who, as a result 
of administrative application of section 5 of the Act of May 3, 1950 
(64 Stat. 101), has received during such period total compensation 
in excess of the amount authorized under section 17 (d) of the Act of 
July 1, 1945, as amended (section 867 (d) of title 39, United States 
Code), is hereby relieved of all liability to refund to the United States 
the sum representing the dijfference between the amount of total com-
pensation allowable under section 17 (d) of the Act of July 1, 1945, 
as amended, and the amount of total compensation paid the carrier 
during such period. 
Approved May 18, 1956. 
59 Stat. 456: 
Stat. 625. 
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Public Law 525 
CHAPTER 279 
AN ACT 
To transfer certain lauds from the Veterans' Administration to the Department 
of the Interior for the benefit of the Yavapai Indians of Arizona. 
May 18, 1956 
[S.28S1] 
Be it enacted, hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, That jurisdiction of^lSmu^"*^*^" 
over one thousand three hundred and twenty acres of land, more or 
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f landi. 
less, formerly a part of the Fort Whipple Military Reservation, 
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PUBLIC LAW 526-MAY 18, 1956 
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Arizona, and subsequently transferred to the Veterans' Administra-
tion by section 6 of the Act of March 4,1931 (46 Stat. 1550), is hereby 
transferred to the Secretary of the Interior, and the title to sucli 
lands shall be held by the United States in trust for the Yavapai 
Indians, subject to any valid and existinj;^ rights in such lands. 
The description of the lands hereby transferred shall be determined 
by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs and the Secretary of the 
Interior, jointly, and in the event a survey is required to make such 
determination, the Department of the Interior shall bear the expense 
thereof. The transfer shall be subject to such terms, conditions, 
reservations, and restrictions as the Administrator of Veterans' 
Affaii'S, after consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, deter-
mines to be necessary to protect the interest of the Veterans' Admin-
istration Center, Whipple, Arizona. 
Approved May 18, 1956. 
Public Law 526 
CHAPTER 280 
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y 18, 1956 
AN ACT 
|Ti. R. 4051]— IJIQ provide for the relief of certain Army and Air Force nurses, and for other 
purposes. 
Armed Forces. 
Army and Air 
Fprce nurses. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That all payments 
of longevity pay heretofore made to Army and Air Force nurses for 
service after April 15,1947, and before October 1,1949, are validated 
to the extent that those payments were based upon service performed 
by the persons concerned as nurses or as commissioned officers of the 
Army Nurse Corps, Navy Nurse Corps, or Public Health Service. 
Any Army or Air Force nurse who has made a repayment to the 
United States of the amount so paid to her as longevity pay is entitled 
to be paid the amount involved, if otherwise proper. 
SEC. 2. The Comptroller General of the United States, or his 
designee, shall relieve disbursing officers, including special disbursing 
agents, of the Army and the Air Force from accountability or respon-
sibility for any payments described in section 1 of the Act, and shall 
allow credits in the settlement of the accounts of those officers or 
agents for payments which appear to be free from fraud and collusion. 
Approved May 18, 1956. 
Public Law 527 
CHAPTER 281 
May 18, 1956 
[H. R. 5787] 
PHS ho s p i t a l , 
C a r v i l l e , La. 
Claims. 
AN ACT 
To authorize settlement of claims for residential structures heretofore erected 
at the expense of patients on the grounds of the Public Health Service hospital, 
Carville, Louisiana. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That there is hereby 
authorized to be appropriated not to exceed $25,0(X), to remain avail-
able until June 30,1958, to enable the Secretary of Health, Education, 
and Welfare to settle or compromise all claims by various persons of 
right or title to or interest in certain structures (including furniture 
and fixtures therein) which were erected prior to January 1, 1954, 
by patients of the Public Health Service Hospital at Carville, Louisi-
ana, at their own expense on the grounds of the hospital. 
Sucii 
claims may be settled or compromised, with the approval of the Ad-
ministrator of General Services, for such amounts as may be arrived