An Act to provide for the conveyance of a tract of land in Dane County, Wis., to the Wisconsin State Armory Board
PL 83-268 (H.R.1245), enacted 08/14/1953

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PUBLIC LAW 268-AUG. 14, 1953 
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other purposes, the Hidalgo Bridge Company, its heirs, legal repre-
sentatives, and assigns, be, and is hereby, authorized to construct, 
maintain, and operate a railroad toll bridge and approaches thereto 
across the Rio Grande, so far as the United States has jurisdiction 
over the waters of such river, at a point suitable to the interests of 
navigation, at or near Hidalgo, Texas, in accordance with the pro-
visions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of 
bridges over navigable waters", approved March 23, 1906, subject to 
the conditions and limitations contained in this Act, and subject 
further to the approval of the International Boundary and Water 
Commission, United States and Mexico, and also subject to the 
approval of the proper authorities in the Republic of Mexico to the 
construction, operation, and maintenance of such bridge. 
SEC. 2. There is hereby conferred upon the Hidalgo Bridge 
Company, its heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, all such rights 
and powers to enter upon lands and to acquire, occupy, possess, and 
use real estate and other property in the State of Texas needed for 
the location, construction, operation, and maintenance of such bridge 
and its originally designed approaches, as are possessed by railroad 
corporations for railroad purposes or by bridge corporations for 
bridge purposes, upon making just compensation therefor to be ascer-
tained and paid according to the laws of such State of Texas. 
SEC. 3. The said Hidalgo Bridge Company, its heirs, legal repre-
sentatives, and assigns, is hereby authorized to fix and charge tolls 
for transit over such bridge in accordance with any laws of the State 
of Texas or the United States applicable thereto, and the rates of toll 
so fixed shall be the legal rates until changed under the authority 
contained in the Act of March 23,1906. 
SEC. 4. The right to sell, assign, transfer, and mortgage all the 
rights, powers, and privileges conferred by this Act to any public 
agency, or to an international bridge authority or commission, is 
hereby granted to the Hidalgo Bridge Company, its heirs, or legal 
representatives; and any such public agency, international bridge 
authority, or international bridge commission to which such rights, 
powers, and privileges may be sold, assigned, or transferred, or which 
shall acquire the same by mortgage foreclosure or otherwise, is hereby 
authorized and empowered to exercise the same as fully as though 
conferred herein directly upon such public agency, international 
bridge authority, or international bridge commission. 
SEC. 5. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby 
expressly reserved. 
Approved August 14, 1953. 
34 Stat. 84. 
33 u s e 491-498. 
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Public Law 268 
CHAPTER 482 
AN ACT 
To provide for the conveyance of a tract of land in Dane County, Wisconsin, 
to the Wisconsin State Armory Board. 
August 14, 1953 
[H. R. 1245] 
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 donate and convey to the 
Wisconsin State Armory Board, for the use of the Wisconsin Army 
National Guard, all the right, title, and interest of the United States 
in and to a tract of land (together with all buildings and improve-
ments thereon) located in Truax Field, Dane County, Wisconsin. 
Such tract of land contains approximately eight.and eight-tenths acres 
and is more particularly described as follows: 
Wisconsin State 
Armory Board. 
Conveyance. 
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64 Stat. 830. 
50 u s e 882, 883. 
50 u s e 881 note. 
Commencing at a point in the east line of section 29, township 8 
north, range 10 east, fourth principal meridian, said point being the 
center line of Bowman Street; thence west one thousand three hundred 
and ten feet to a point, said point being the west line of Wright Street, 
which is the point of beginning; thence north four hundred and fifty 
feet more or less along the west line of Wright Street to a point in 
the center line of Sullivan Street; thence west along the center line 
of Sullivan Street to a point in the east line of Hoffman Street; 
thence south four hundred and fifty feet more or less to a point in the 
center line of Bowman Street; thence east along the center line of 
Bowman Street to the point of beginning. 
SEC. 2. Any contribution of funds by the Secretary of Defense to 
the State of Wisconsin, for the construction of facilities as provided 
in section 3 (c) of the National Defense Facilities Act of 1950 (Public 
Law 783, Eighty-first Congress) shall, in addition to the limitation 
provided in section 4 (d) of said Act, be reduced in an amount equiva-
lent to the fair value of the real estate described in section 1, excluding 
the improvements thereon, as determined by the Department of the 
Army: Provided^ That funds contributed by the Federal Government 
for the construction of a National Guard Armory shall be conditioned 
upon joint construction and joint utilization within the meaning of 
Public Law 783, Eighty-first Congress, as may be necessary to house 
other reserve component units in the area: And provided 
fwther^ 
That the conveyance herein authorized shall be made subject to the 
condition and limitation that if the property shall cease to be used 
for the training and maintaining of reserve component units, the title 
to the land so conveyed shall revert to and revest in the United States. 
Approved August 14, 1953. 
August 14, 1953 
[H. R. 4151] 
Public Law 269 
CHAPTER 483 
AN ACT 
To provide wage credits under title II of the Social Security Act for military 
service before July 1, 1955, and to extend the time for filing application for 
lump-sum death payments under such title with respect to the death of certain 
individuals dying in the service who are reinterred. 
death 
Veterans 
payments. 
66 Stat. 774. 
42 u s e 417. 
64 Stat. 487. 
42 u s e 402(i). 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That section 217 
(e) of the Social Security Act relating to "Benefits in Case of Vet-
erans" is amended by striking out "January 1, 1954" each place it 
appears and inserting in lieu thereof "July 1, 1955". 
SEC. 2. Section 202 (i) of such Act is amended by adding at the 
end thereof the following new sentence: "In the case of any individual 
who died outside the forty-eight States and the District of Columbia 
after December 1953 and before July 1955, whose death occurred 
while he was in the active military or naval service of the United 
States, and who is returned to any of such States, the District of 
Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands for 
interment or reinterment, the provisions of the preceding sentence 
shall not prevent payment to any person under the second sentence of 
this subsection if application for a lump-sum death payment with 
respect to such deceased individual is filed by or on behalf of such 
person (whether or not legally competent) prior to the expiration of 
two years after the date of such interment or reinterment." 
Approved August 14, 1953.