An Act to authorize a preliminary examination and survey for flood control and allied purposes of Las Vegas Wash and its tributaries, Las Vegas, Nevada, and vicinity
PL 82-479 (S.1020), enacted 07/09/1952

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PUBLIC LAW 178-JULY 9, 1952 
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S T A T , 
July 9, 1952 
[S.2909] 
Public Law 478 
CHAPTER 610 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the establishment of the 
Coronado International Memorial, in the State of Arizona", approved August 
18, 1&41 (55 Stat. 630). 
C o r o n a d o Na-
t i o n a 1 Memorial, 
Ariz. 
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4S0y-4. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the words 
"Coronado National Memorial" are hereby substituted in lieu of the 
words "Coronado International Memorial" wherever such words 
occur in the Act of August 18,1941 (55 Stat. 630). 
SEC. 2. That section 1 of the aforesaid Act is hereby amended by 
striking out ": Provided, That said proclamation shall not be issued 
until the President of the United States shall have been advised 
through official channels that the Government of Mexico has estab* 
lished, or provided for the establishment of, an area of similar type 
and size adjoining the area described herein". 
Approved July 9, 1952. 
July 9, 1952 
[S. 1020] 
Public Law 479 
CHAPTER 612 
AN ACT 
To authorize a preliminary examination and survey for flood control and allied 
purposes of Las Vegas Wash and its tributaries. Las Vegas, Nevada, and 
vicinity. 
Las Vegas, Nev. 
Flood control. 
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 cause a preliminary exami-
nation and survey for flood control and allied purposes of Las Vegas 
Wash and its tributaries, Las Vegas and vicinity, Nevada, to be made 
under direction of the Chief of Engineers, and the Secretary of Agri-
culture is authorized and directed to cause a preliminary examination 
and survey to be made for runoff and water-flow retardation and soil-
erosion prevention on such drainage area, the cost thereof to be paid 
from appropriations heretofore or hereafter made for such purposes. 
Approved July 9, 1952. 
Public Law 480 
CHAPTER 613 
Julys. 1952 
AN ACT 
[s. 2393] 
For the relief of the State of New Hampshire and the town of New Boston, 
New Hampshire. 
New Hampshire; 
New Boston, N.H. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assenxhled, That the Secretary 
of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money 
in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the State of New 
Hampshire the sum of $2,295,96, and to the town of New Boston, 
New Hampshire, the sum of $2,295.96, in full satisfaction of their 
respective claims for reimbursement of expenditures made by such 
State and such town in combating a forest fire on a United States 
Army bombing range located near the town of New Boston, New 
Hampshire, on May 2, 1942, and for three days thereafter: 
Provided, 
That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 
10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any 
agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with 
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this claim, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the con-
trary notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions of this 
Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction 
thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. 
Approved July 9, 1952. 
Public Law 481 
CHAPTER 614 
AN ACT 
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To withdi"aw and restore to its previous status under the control of the Terri- 
[H. R.4197] 
tory of Hawaii certain Hawaiian home lands required for the use of the 
Board of Water Supply of the city and county of Honolulu for the location 
of a water shaft, pump station, and tunnel, and to amend section 203 of the 
Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, so as to confer upon certain lands 
of Auwaiolimu, Kewalo-Uka, and Kalawahine, on the island of Oahu, Terri-
tory of Hawaii, the status of Hawaiian home lands. 
Be it enacted hy^ the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of 
"teuis"of certain 
section 203 (4) of title 2 of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, ^^"^8. 
1920, as amended, as designates the land hereinafter described as use 697.° 
available lands wdthin the meaning of that Act, is hereby repealed 
and the land is hereby restored to its previous status under the control 
of the Territory of Hawaii. On the island of Oahu: 
(III) Portion of the land of Kalawahine situate mauka or north-
east of Roosevelt High School, Honolulu, Oahu. 
Being portion of L. C. award 11215, Apana 2, to Keliiahonui con-
veyed by W. M. Giffard to the Territory of Hawaii by deed dated 
February 1,1907, and recorded in liber 291, page 1. 
(Being portion of the lands set aside for the Hawaiian Homes 
Commission by the Seventy-third Congress by Act Numbered 227, ^| u«:*697^' 
approved May 16, 1934.) 
704a. 
Beginning at the south corner of this parcel of land near the east 
corner of Roosevelt High School lot, the coordinates of said point 
of beginning referred to Government Survey Triangulation Station 
"Punchbowl", being twenty-five and two one-hundredths feet south 
and four thousand one hundred seventeen and thirty-nine one-
hundredths feet east as shown on Government Survey registered 
map numbered 2985 and running by azimuths measured clockwise 
from true south: 
1. One hundred and twenty-eight degrees fifty-four minutes seven 
hundred and six and thirteen one-hundredths feet along Roosevelt 
High School lot, and passing over a pipe at six hundred eighty-four 
and thirteen one-hundredths feet; 
2. Thence up along the middle of stream in all its turns and wind-
ings along the land of Kewalo-uka to the south corner of Hawaiian 
Home Land (Presidential Executive Order Numbered 5561), the 
direct azimuth and distance being two hundred and thirteen degrees 
forty-eight minutes forty seconds one thousand one hundred twelve 
and twenty one-hundredths feet; 
3. Thence continuing up along the middle of stream in all its turns 
and windings along the land of Kewalo-uka (Presidential Executive 
Order Numbered 5561) to the south side of Tantalus Drive realinement, 
the direct azimuth and distance being two hundred and twenty-eight 
degrees twenty-nine minutes ten seconds one thousand three hundred 
and ninety-one feet; 
4. Thence on a curve to the right with a radius of one hundred 
twenty and seventy-eight one-hundredths feet along the southerly 
side of Tantalus Drive realinement (sixty feet wide), the direct 
48 use 697, 701,