An Act to amend section 2 of the Act of January 27,1905 (33 Stat. 616), as amended (48 U. S. C, 1952 edition, sec. 322
PL 84-158 (H.R.245), enacted 07/14/1955

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PUBLIC LAW 168-JULY 14, 1955 
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SEC. 634. During the current fiscal year, appropriations of the De-
partment of Defense shall be available for reimbursement to the Post 
Office Department for payment of costs of commercial air transporta-
tion of military mail between the United States and foreign countries. 
SEC. 635. Appropriations of the Department of Defense available 
for the payment of rental allowances shall be available for the leasing 
of quarters in foreign countries constructed under the authority of 
section 302 of Public Law 534, approved July 14, 1952, for assign-
ment as public quarters to military personnel of the Department of 
Defense. 
SEC. 636. Appropriations contained in this Act shall be available 
for providing furnishings, without charge, in other than public quar-
ters occupied by military or civilian personnel of the Department of 
Defense on duty outside the continental United States or in Alaska, 
upon a determination, under regulations approved by the Secretary 
of Defense, that such action is advantageous to the Government. 
SEC. 637. During the current fiscal year, appropriations available 
to the Department of Defense for pay of civilian employees shall be 
available for uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by the 
Act of September 1,1954 (68 Stat. 1114). 
SEC. 638. No part of the funds appropriated in this Act may be used 
for the disposal or transfer by contract or otherwise of work that has 
been for a period of three years or more performed by civilian person-
nel of the Department of Defense unless justified to the Appropriations 
Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives, at least ninety-
days in advance of such disposal or transfer, that its discontinuance 
is economically sound and the work is capable of performance by a 
contractor without danger to the national security: Provided^ That no 
such disposal or transfer shall be made if disapproved by either com-
mittee within the ninety-day period by written notice to the Secretary 
of Defense. 
SEC. 639. This Act may be cited as the "Department of Defense 
Appropriation Act, 1956". 
Approved July 13, 1955. 
M i l i t a r y 
mail 
costs. 
Foreign quarters. 
66 Stat. 622. 
Furnishings. 
Uniforms. 
5 u s e 2131 note. 
Contract restric-
tion. 
Short title. 
Public Law 158 
CHAPTER 359 
AN ACT 
To amend section 2 of the Act of January 27,1905 (33 Stat. 616), as amended (48 
U. S. C, 1952 edition, sec. 322). 
July 14. 1955 
[H.R. 245] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the third sen-
tence of section 2 of the Act of January 27, 1905 (33 Stat. 616), as 
amended (48 U. S. C, 1952 edition, sec. 322), is further amended to 
read as follows: "The Secretary of the Interior, or such officer, or offi-
cers as may be designated by him, shall, upon his own motion or upon 
petition, locate, lay out, construct, and maintain roads, trails, and 
bridges from any point on the navigable waters of Alaska to and 
through any town, mining or other industrial camp or settlement, or 
between and through any such town, camps, or settlements therein, if 
in his judgment such roads, trails, or bridges are needed and will be 
of pernianent value for the development of Alaska: Provided, 
That 
within incorporated towns only roads and bridges which are desig-
nated by the Secretary of the Interior as part of the through highway 
system of the Territory of Alaska may be constructed under this 
section: Provided fwrther, That no roads or bridges within incorpo-
rated towns shall be maintained under this section." 
Approved July 14, 1955. 
Alaska. 
Roads and trails. 
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