An Act to amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Defense to lend certain equipment and to provide transportation and other services to the Boy Scouts of America in connection with Boy Scout Jamborees, and for other purposes
PL 92-249 (H.R.11738), enacted 03/10/1972

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PUBLIC LAW 92-249-MAR. 10, 1972 
[86 STAT. 
March 10, 1972 
[H.R. 11738] 
Public Law 92-249 
AN ACT 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Defense 
to lend certain equipment and to provide transportation and other services 
to the Boy Scouts of America in connection with Boy Scout Jamborees, and 
for other purposes. 
Boy Scout 
Jamborees. 
Equipment and 
services, loans. 
70A Stat. 142. 
10 u s e 2541. 
Bond. 
Transportation 
services. 
Bond, 
Reimbursement. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representaf}ee.s of the 
United States of Ainerica in Congress assembled. Thut chapter 151 
of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding tlie following 
new section, and a corresponding item in tlie analysis. 
"§2544. Equipment and other services: Boy Scout Jamborees 
"(a) The Secretary of Defense is hereby authorized, under such 
regulations as he may prescribe, to lend to the Boy Scouts of America, 
for the use and accommodation of Scouts, Scouters, and officials who 
attend any national or world Boy Scout Jamboree, such cots, blankets, 
commissary equipment, flags, refrigerators, and other equipment and 
without reimbursement, furnish services and expendable medical sup-
plies, as may be necessary or useful to the extent that items are in stock 
and items or services are available. 
"(b) Such equipment is authorized to be delivered at such time 
prior to the holding of any national or world Boy Scout Jamboree, 
and to be returned at such time after the close of any such jamboree, 
as may be agreed upon by the Secretary of Defense and the Boy Scouts 
of America. No expense shall be incurred by the United States (jovern-
ment for the delivery, return, rehabilitation, or replacement of such 
e(piipmeMt. 
"(c) The Secretary of Defense, before delivering such property, 
shall take from the Boy Scouts of America, good and sufficient bond 
for the safe return of such property in good order and condition, and 
the whole without expense to the United States. 
"(d) The Secretary of Defense is hereby authorized under such 
regulations as he may prescribe, to provide, without expense to the 
United States Government, transportation from the United States 
or military commands overseas, and return, on vessels of the Mili-
tary Sealift Command or aircraft of the Military Airlift Command 
for (1) those Boy Scouts, Scouters, and officials certified by the Boy 
Scouts of America, as representing the Boy Scouts of America at any 
national or world Boy Scout Jamboree, and (2) the equipment and 
property of such Boy Scouts, Scouters, and officials and the property 
loaned to the Boy Scouts of America, by the Secretary of Defense 
pursuant to this section to the extent that such transportation will 
not interfere with the requirements of military operations. 
"(e) Before furnishing any transportation under subsection (d), 
the Secretary of Defense shall take from the Boy Scouts of America, 
a good and sufficient bond for the reimbursement to the United States 
by the Boy Scouts of America, of the actual costs of transportation 
furnished under this section. 
"(f) Amounts paid to the United States to reimburse it for expenses 
incurred under subsection (b) and for the actual costs of transpor-
tation furnished under subsection (d) shall be credited to the current 
applicable appropriations or funds to which such expenses and costs 
were charged and shall be available for the same purposes as such 
appropriations or funds. 
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PUBLIC LAW 92-252-MAR. 17, 1972 
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"(g) Other departments of the Federal Government are authorized, 
under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretaiy thereof, 
to provide to the Boy Scouts of America, e{][uipment and other serv-
ices, under the same conditions and restrictions prescribed in the 
preceding subsections for the Secretary of Defense." 
Approved March 10, 1972. 
Public Law 92-250 
AN A C T 
March 15, 1972 
To provide for a temporary increase in the public debt limit. 
[H. R. 12910] 
Public debt 
limit. 
Be it enacted hy the Seriate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assernbled, That during the 
period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending '^Temporary 
on June 30, 1972, the public debt limit set forth in the first sentence increase. 
of section 21 of the Second Liberty Bond Act, as temporarily increased 
^i use 757b. 
by section 2(a) of Public Law 92-5, shall be further temporarily 
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increased by $20,000,000,000. 
Approved March 15, 1972. 
Public Law 92-251 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
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To provide for an extension of the term of the Commission on the Bankruptcy 
[S. j . Res. 190] 
Laws of the United States, and for other purposes. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That the joint resolution 
commission on 
entitled "Joint resolution to create a commission to study the bank- LawsTf d^e*u!s. 
ruptcy laws of the United States", approved July 24, 1970 (84 Stat. 
Term extension. 
468),'is amended— 
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(1) in subsection (c) of the first section, by striking out 
"within two years after the date of enactment of the joint resolu-
tion'' and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "prior to June 
30,1973"; and 
(2) in section 6, by striking out "$600,000" and inserting in lieu 
Appropriation 
thereof "$826,000". 
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Approved March 17, 1972. 
increase. 
Public Law 92-252 
AN ACT 
March 17, 1972 
To amend the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1970, to authorize 
[S.3244] 
additional funds for the conduct of an international aeronautical exposition. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That section 709 international 
of the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1970, as amended expollti'on^ 
(83 Stat. 317, 84 Stat. 1224), is further amended by deleting from 
Additional 
the penultimate sentence thereof "$3,000,000" and inserting in its place ^'^'^^^ 
"$5,000,000". 
Approved March 17, 1972.