An Act to make certain increases in the annuities of annuitants under the Foreign Service retirement and disability system
PL 82-348 (H.R.3401), enacted 05/21/1952

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formed services shall be available for retroactive payments authorized 
under this Act. 
SEC. 5. Except as otherwise specifically provided, the provisions of 
Effecuve date, 
this Act shall be effective on the first day of the month in which this 
Act is enacted. 
Approved May 19, 1952. 
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Public Law 347 
CHAPTER 314 
AN ACT 
To retrocede to the State of Illinois jurisdiction over one hundred fifty-four and 
two-tenths acres of land used in connection with the Chain of Rocks Canal, 
Madison County, Illinois. 
May 21, 1952 
[H.R.1949] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United /States of America in Congress assembled, That the United 
States hereby retrocedes to the State of Illinois jurisdiction over the 
following described land: 
All that parcel of land, comprising approximately one hundred 
fifty-four and two-tenths acres, acquired by the United States for use 
in connection with the Granite City Engineer Depot over which juris-
diction was ceded to the United States by the Act of the General 
Assembly of Illinois approved June 30, 1923 (Laws of Illinois, 1923, 
page 628), as amended by the Act of the General Assembly of Illinois 
approved July 17, 1941 (Laws of Illinois, 1941, page 1302), and over 
which jurisdiction was accepted by communication dated April 16, 
1943, addressed to the Governor of the State of Illinois, signed by the 
Secretary of War, and received in the office of the Governor on 
April 19,1943, and which parcel of land, now used in connection with 
the Chain of Rocks Canal, is as shown on map designated as GC-1 and 
dated May 15, 1947, on file in the Office of the Chief of Engineers, 
Department of the Army. 
SEC. 2. The retrocession of jurisdiction provided for in section 1 
of this Act shall take effect upon acceptance thereof by the State of 
Illinois. 
Approved May 21, 1952. 
Illinois. 
Retrocession 
jurisdiction. 
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Public Law 348 
CHAPTER 315 
AN ACT 
To make certain increases in the annuities of annuitants under the Foreign 
Service retirement and disability system. 
May 21, 1952 
[H.R.3401] 
Be it enacted by the /Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That any Foreign 
Service officer who has retired before November 13, 1950, on annuity 
under the provisions of the Act of May 24, 1924 (43 Stat. 140), as 
amended, or under the provisions of the Foreign Service Act of 1946 
(60 Stat. 999), and who does not come within the purview of section 
2 of this Act shall have his annuity increased on the first day of the 
second month following the month in which this Act is enacted or on 
the date such annuity commences, whichever is later, in accordance 
with the following scale: 
(a) By 25 per centum or $300, whichever is the lesser, if retirement 
took place before November 13, 1946; 
(b) By 20 per centum or $240, whichever is the lesser, if retirement 
took place on or after November 13, 1946, and before November 13, 
1947; 
Foreign Service. 
Annuities. 
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(c) By 15 per centum or $180, whichever is the lesser, if retirement 
took place on or after November 13, 1947, and before November 13, 
1948; 
(d) By 10 per centum or $120, whichever is the lesser, if retirement 
took place on or after November 13, 1948, and before November 13, 
1949; and 
(e) By 5 per centum or $60, whichever is the lesser, if retirement 
took place on or after November 13, 1949, and before November 13, 
1950: Provided, That in no case shall an annuity increased under this 
Act exceed the largest annuity payable under section 821 (a) of the 
Foreign Service Act of 1946. 
SEC. 2. Any Foreign Service officer who has retired before November 
13,1950, and who has elected or may elect to receive a reduced annuity 
under the provisions of section 18 of the Act of May 24, 1924 (43 Stat. 
144), as amended, or the provisions of sections 821 and 1112 of the 
Foreign Service Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 1020, 1035), and any widow or 
other beneficiary of such officer who is receiving or who shall receive 
a survivorship annuity, shall have the amount of such annuity 
increased in an amount equal to the percentage differential between 
the full annuity which the officer would have received prior to the pass-
age of this Act if he had elected to take a full annuity and the amount 
of the increased full annuity provided for in the first section of this 
Act. The increase in annuities provided for in this section shall be 
effective on the first day of the second month following the month in 
which this Act is enacted or on the effective date such annuities com-
mence, whichever date is later. 
Approved May 21, 1952. 
May 21, 1952 
[H.R.4902] 
Public Law 349 
CHAPTER 316 
AN ACT 
To permit the importation free of duty of racing sliells to be used in connection 
with preparations for the 1952 Olympic Games. 
Racing shells. 
46 Stat. 630. 
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par. 412. 
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Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Repi'esentatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the duty im-
posed by paragraph 412 of section 1 of the Tariff Act of 1930 shall not 
apply with respect to any racing shell— 
(1) which is entered or withdrawn from warehouse for con-
sumption after December 31, 1951, for the purpose of enabling 
any athletic team or association in the United States to prepare 
for competition in the 1952 Olympic Games (including anj^ com-
petition to determine representatives of the United States in the 
1952 Olympic Games); and 
(2) with respect to which the person so entering or withdrawing 
has filed with the collector of customs a statement under oath 
that such entry or withdrawal was for a purpose set forth in 
clause (1) of this section. 
SEC. 2. In the case of any racing shell entered or withdrawn from 
warehouse for consumption after December 31, 1951, and before the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the first section of this Act shall 
apply, but only if the statement required by clause (2) of the first 
section of this Act is filed within one year after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act. If the liquidation of the entry or withdrawal has 
become final under section 514 of the Tariff Act of 1930, such entry 
or withdrawal may be reliquidated and the appropriate refund of duty 
may be made. 
Approved May 21. 1952.