An Act to provide benefits under the laws administered by the Veterans Administration based upon service in the Womens Army Auxiliary Corps under certain conditions
PL 83-650 (H.R.8041), enacted 08/24/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 651-AUG. 24, 1954 
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United States of America in Congress assembled., That the Legislature 
of the Territory of Hawaii, notwithstanding any provisions of the 
Hawaiian Organic Act, any laws of the Territory of Hawaii or of any 
Act of this Congress to the. contrary, may authorize the city and county 
of Honolulu, a municipal corporation of the Territory of Hawaii, to 
issue bonds in the sum of $1,000,000, for the purpose of enabling it to 
construct flood-control and drainage systems in the city and county of 
Honolulu. 
SEC. 2. The bonds issued under authority of this Act shall be serial 
bonds, payable in substantially equal annual installments, the first 
installment to mature not later than five years and the last installment 
to mature not later than thirty years from the date of such issue. Such 
bonds may be issued without the approval of the President of the 
United States. 
SEC. 3. Sections 3 and 4 of Act 254 of the Session Laws of Hawaii 
1953, pertaining to the issuance of public improvement bonds, as 
authorized by this Act, are hereby ratified and confirmed subject to the 
provisions of this Act. 
Approved August 24, 1954. 
Ho n o l 
waii. 
Im p r o 
bonds. 
31 Stat. 
48 use 
u 1 u, Hai-
V e me nt 
141. 
491. 
Public Law 650 
CHAPTER 899 
AN ACT 
To provide benefits under the laws administered by the Veterans' Administration 
based upon service in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps under certain 
conditions. 
August 24, 1954 
[H. R. 8041] 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That any person who 
served for at least ninety days in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps 
who prior to the establishment of the Women's Army Corps was 
honorably discharged for disability incurred in line of duty rendering 
her physically unfit to perform further service in the Women's Army 
Auxiliary Corps or in the Women's Army Corps, established under 
Public Law 110, Seventy-eighth Congress, shall be deemed to have 
been in the active military service during such period of service for 
the purposes of laws administered by the Veterans' Administration. 
No monetary benefits shall accrue by reason of this Act for any period 
prior to the date of enactment and compensation or pension shall not 
be payable by virtue of this Act concurrently with United States 
employees' compensation baaed on the same service. 
Any person 
eligible for compensation or pension by reason of this Act who is 
also eligible for compensation benefits provided by the United States 
Employees' Compensation Act of 1917, as amended, shall elect which 
benefit she shall receive. 
Approved August 24, 1954. 
Women's 
Army 
Auxiliary Corps. 
Veterans b e n e -
fits. 
57 Stat. 371. 
10USC316note, 
39 Stat. 742. 
5 u s e 751-793. 
Public Law 651 
CHAPTER 900 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue patents for certain lands 
in Wisconsin bordering upon inland lakes or rivers. 
August 24, 1954 
[H. R. 8006] 
Be it CTMcted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That, whenever tit*iir°"'^" ^^"'^ 
it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior 
R^^er and lake 
that a tract of public land, lying between the meander line of an *
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