An Act to extend the authority of the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to appoint and employ retired officers without affecting their retired status
PL 82-230 (H.R.5062), enacted 10/29/1951

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PUBLIC LAW 229—OCT. 29, 1951 
[65 STAT. 
Inter-agency func-
tion, property, etc., 
transfers. 
Appropriation 
tborized. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to trans-
fer to the United States Department of Agriculture such part of the 
functions, property, personnel, records, and unexpended balances 
of appropriations of the agricultural experiment stations in the Virgin 
Islands as may be agreed upon between the Secretary of the Interior 
and the Secretary of Agriculture. 
SEC. 3. There is authorized to be appropriated such amounts as 
may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. The moneys 
appropriated in pursuance of this Act shall also be available for 
the purchase and rental of land and the construction or acquisition 
of buildings, for the equipment and maintenance of such buildings, 
purchase and rental of passenger-carrying automobiles, employment 
of persons in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and for printing 
and disseminating the results of research, and such other expenditures 
as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. Sums ap-
propriated in pursuance of this Act shall be in addition to, and not 
in substitution for, sums appropriated or otherwise made available 
to the Department of Agriculture, and may be allocated to such agen-
cies of the Department as are concerned with the administration of 
the program of the Virgin Islands. 
Approved October 29, 1951. 
October 29,1961 
[H. B. 4808] 
Public Law 229 
CHAPTER 604 
AN ACT 
To provide for the granting of an easement for a public road througli the Pea 
Island National Wildlife Refuge in Dare County, North Carolina. 
North Carolina. 
Conveyance. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary of 
the Interior is authorized to convey to the State of North Carolina 
a permanent easement for the construction of a public road (together 
with rights for such other uses as may be customary or necessary in 
the State of North Carolina in connection with the construction or 
operation of such a road) through the Pea Island National Wildlife 
Refuge in Dare County, North Carolina, and to accept in return 
therefor the conveyance of any rights-of-way, easements, or other 
rights in or claims to land owned by the State of North Carolina not 
needed for use in the construction or operation of such road. 
Approved October 29, 1951. 
October 29,1951 
[H. R. 5062] 
Public Law 230 
CHAPTER 605 
AN ACT 
To extend the authority of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to appoint 
and employ retired oflScers without affecting their retired status. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 2 of 
6U.s.c.§ 6
4
a note. Public Law 718, Seventy-ninth Congress, approved August 10, 1946 
(60 Stat. 978), is hereby amended by striking the word "five" pre-
ceding the word "years" and substituting therefor the word "ten". 
Approved October 29, 1951.