An Act to authorize the Attorney General to admit persons committed by State courts to Federal penal and correctional institutions when facilities are available
PL 82-333 (S.2160), enacted 05/09/1952

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PUBLIC LAW 333-MAY 9, 1952 
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Public Law 333 
CHAPTER 253 
May 9, 1952 
[S. 2160] 
T i t l e 18, U.S. 
Code, amendment. 
64 Stat. 1090. 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Attorney General to admit persons coinmitted by State courts 
to Federal penal and correctional institutions when facilities are available. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That chapter 401 
of title 18 of the United States Code is hereby amended by adding at 
the end thereof, immediately after section 5002, a new section as 
follows: 
"§ 5003. 
Custody of State offenders. 
"(a) The Attorney General, when the Director shall certify that 
proper and adequate treatment facilities and personnel are available, 
is hereby authorized to contract with the proper officials of a State or 
Territory for the custody, care, subsistence, education, treatment, and 
training of persons convicted of criminal offenses in the courts of such 
State or Territory: Provided, That any such contract shall provide 
for reimbursing the United States in full for all costs or other expenses 
involved. 
"(b) Funds received under such contract may be deposited in the 
Treasury to the credit of the appropriation or appropriations from 
which the payments for such service were originally made. 
"(c) Unless otherwise specifically provided in the contract, a person 
committed to the Attorney General hereunder shall be subject to all 
the provisions of law^ and regulations applicable to persons committed 
for violations of laws of the United States not inconsistent with the 
sentence imposed." 
SEC. 2. The analysis of chapter 401 of said title 18 of the United 
States Code is amended bv inserting at the end of such analysis a new^ 
item, "5003. Custody of State offenders." 
Approved May 9, 1952. 
Public Law 334 
CHAPTER 261 
May 13, 1952 
[S. 1650] 
Savannah, Ga. 
Conveyance. 
42 Stat. 1450. 
AN ACT 
To provide for the release of the right, title, and interest of the United States 
in a certain tract or parcel of land conditionally granted by it to the city of 
Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of the Army is authorized and directed to convey, relinquish, and 
release to the city of Savannah, Chatham County, State of Georgia, 
all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to a certain 
tract or parcel of land conditionally granted to such city under the 
Act entitled "An Act authorizing the sale of real property no longer 
required for military purposes", approved March 4, 1923. Such land 
is situated in such city and is more particularly described as follows: 
All of the land known as Fort Jackson (formerly Fort Oglethorpe), 
Georgia, being the property conveyed to Thomas Jefferson, President 
of the United States, and his successors in office, by deed dated May 
16, 1808, from Nichol Turnbull, recorded in the clerk's office of 
Chatham County, in book BB, folio 162, May 17, 1808, said property 
being described therein as follows: "All that wharf lot known by 
the number 12 situate in New Deptford, formerly known by the name 
of Five Fathom Hole on the Savannah River, east of the city of 
Savannah, containing two hundred feet front on said river, three 
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hundred and forty-five feet running nearly a southeast course from 
the front to the back line adjoining a lane of twenty-five feet which 
divides the aforesaid lot from lot 11, two hundred feet on the said back 
line and on the northeast side of said lot adjoining lot number 13 and 
two hundred and ninety-two feet from the aforesaid back line to low-
water mark; bounded southeastwardly by land of the said Nichol 
Turnbull, northeastwardly by lot number 13 and southwestwardly by 
the aforesaid lane of twenty-five feet dividing the aforesaid lot num-
ber 12 from lot number 11 and northwestwardly by Savannah River, 
which said lot number 12 is designated on a general plan of the same 
by the remains of Mail-fort, as will more fully appear reference being 
had to the said general plan on record in the surveyor general's office 
of the State of Georgia, taken and laid off by the county surveyor the 
9th day of May 1798, as will further appear by reference to a plat 
of record in the office of the clerk of superior court, Chatham County, 
Georgia, bearing the legend, 'Fort Jackson Military Reservation, 
photostatic copy of map on file with the National Archives and Rec-
ords Service, Washington, District of Columbia, RG 77. 
Records 
of the Office of the Chief of Engineers. Fortifications Map File, map: 
Dr. 189, Ga. 5-5.'." 
Approved May 13, 1952. 
Public Law 335 
CHAPTER 262 
AN ACT 
May 13 1952 
To authorize and direct the Administrator of General Services to transfer to 
[s. 2223] 
the Department of the Navy the Government-owned magnesium foundry at 
Teterboro, New Jersey. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Houne of Representatwes 
of the 
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Vnited States of America in Congress assemhled^ That the Adminis-
trator of General Services is authorized and directed to transfer to the 
Department of the Navy, without reimbursement or exchange of funds, 
the facility at Teterboro, New Jersey, known as the Government-owned 
magnesium foundry, comprising Plancors 8 and 132. 
Approved May 13, 1952. 
Public Law 336 
CHAPTER 263 
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ACT 
To authorize tlie transfer of certain lands of the Blue Ridge Parkway from the 
[H. R.4199] 
jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior to the jurisdiction of the Secretary 
of Agriculture. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, That, w'hen in his ^Biue Ridge Park-
judgment the public interest will be served thereby, the Secretary of 
the Interior is hereby authorized, upon concurrence of the Secretary 
of Agriculture, to transfer to the jurisdiction of the Secretary of 
Agriculture for national forest purposes lands or interests in lands 
acquired for or in connection with the Blue Ridge Parkway. Lands 
transferred under this Act shall become national forest lands subject 
to all laws, rules, and regulations applicable to lands acquired pursuant 
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to the Weeks Law of March 1, 1911 (36 Stat. 961), as amended. 
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Approved May 13, 1952.