Joint resolution to amend the joint resolution providing for membership and participation by the United States in the American International Institute for the Protection of Childhood and authorizing an appropriation therefor
PL 84-816 (H.J.Res.664), enacted 07/27/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 816-JULY 27, 1956 
[70 S T A T . 
July 27, 1956 
[H.J. Res. 664] 
Public Law 816 
CHAPTER 750 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To amend the joint resolution providing for membership and participation by the 
United States in the American International Institute for the Protection of 
Childhood and authorizing an appropriation therefor. 
22 u s e 269b. 
Resolved T)y the Senate arid House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That Public Kesolution 31, 
approved May 3, 1928 (45 Stat. 487), as revised by section 1 (a) of 
Public Law 806, approved September 21,1950 (64 Stat. 902), is hereby 
amended to read as follows: "That in order to meet the obligations of 
the United States as a member of the American International Insti-
tute for the Protection of Childhood, there is hereby authorized to be 
appropriated annually to the Department of State such sums, not to 
exceed $25,000 per annum, as may be necessary for the payment by the 
United States of its share of the expenses of the Institute, as appor-
tioned in accordance with the statutes of the Institute." 
Approved July 27, 1956, 
July 27, 19S6 
[H. R. 8047] 
Public Law 817 
CHAPTER 751 
AN ACT 
Granting authority to the Secretary of the Army to renew the license of the 
Ira D. MacLachlan Post Numbered 3, The American Legion, Sault Sainte 
Marie, Michigan, to use a certain parcel of land in Saint Marys Falls Canal 
project. 
Ira D. MacLach-
lan Post, American 
Legion. 
License to u s e 
land. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of the Army is hereby authorized and directed to renew, for the fifteen-
year period immediately following the expiration of the lease now 
m effect, the license to use a certain parcel of land and the building 
thereon situated in Saint Marys Falls Canal project granted to the Ira 
D. MacLachlan Post Numbered 3, The American Legion, Sault Sainte 
Marie, Michigan, pursuant to the Act of June 5, 1986 (49 Stat. 1481). 
The terms and conditions applicable with respect to the renewed 
license shall be the same as those applicable with respect to the Act 
of June 5,1936 (49 Stat. 1481). 
Approved July 27, 1956. 
July 27,1956 
IH. R. 10679] 
Public Law 818 
CHAPTER 752 
AN ACT 
Granting the consent of Congress to the establishment by the States of Mis-
sissippi and Arkansas of a bi-State commission to investigate the possibilities 
of constructing a railroad bridge across the Mississippi River. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and. House of Repi'esentatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That the consent 
of the Congress is hereby given to the States of Mississippi and 
Arkansas to establish a bi-State commission to investigate the possi-
bility of constructing a railroad bridge across the Mississippi River 
at or near Greenville, Mississippi, and Lake Village, Arkansas. 
Approved July 27, 1956.