An Act to provide for the conveyance of certain lands by the United States to the county of Cumberland, State of North Carolina, without remuneration
PL 83-677 (H.R.6658), enacted 08/27/1954

68 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 677-AUG. 27, 1954 
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such property in any case except where it shall appear that the loss, 
damage, or destruction of property was due to carelessness or neglect, 
or that its loss, damage, or destruction could have been avoided by the 
exercise of reasonable care, in which case the money value of such 
property shall be charged to the accountable State, Territory, the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Kico, or District of Columbia to be paid 
from State, Territory, Commonwealth, or District funds, or any funds 
other than Federal, 
If the articles so surveyed are found to be 
unserviceable or unsuitable, the appropriate Secretary or his desig-
nated representative shall direct what disposition by sale or other-
wise shall be made of them; and if sold, the proceeds of such sale, as 
well as stoppages against officers and enlisted men, and the net pro-
ceeds of collections made from any person oi* from any State, Terri-
tory, the Commonwealth of Puerto Kico or the District of Columbia 
to reimburse the (jovernment for the loss, damage, or destruction of 
any property, shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States: 
Provided^ That if any State, Territory, the Commonwealth of Puerto 
Kico, or the District of Columbia shall neglect or refuse to pay, or to 
cause to be paid, the money equivalent of any loss, damage, or destruc-
tion of property charged against such State, Territory, the Common-
wealth of Puerto Rico, or the District of Columbia by the appro-
priate Secretary after survey by a disinterested officer appointed as 
hereinbefore provided, the appropriate Secretary is hereby author-
ized to debar such State, Territory, the Commonwealth of Puerto 
Rico, or the District of Columbia from further participation in any 
and all appropriations for the National Guard or Air National Guard, 
as appropriate, until such payment shall have been made: Provided 
further^ That property issued to the National Guard and Air National 
Guard and w^hich has become unserviceable through fair wear and 
tear in service, may, after inspection thereof and finding to that effect 
made by an officer of the Army of the United States, Air Force of the 
United States, or the National Guard or Air National Guard detailed 
by the appropriate Secretary, be sold or otherwise disposed of, and 
the State, Territory, the Commonwealth of Puerto Kico, or the Dis-
trict of Columbia accountable shall be relieved from further account-
ability therefor; such inspection, and sale or other disposition, to be 
made under regulations prescribed by the appropriate Secretary, and 
to constitute as to such property a discretional substitute for the 
examination, report, and disposition provided for elsewhere in this 
section." 
Approved August 27, 1954. 
Public Law 677 
CHAPTER 1015 
AN ACT 
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August 27, 1954 
To provide for the conveyance of certain lands by the United States to the county 
[«« R. 6658] 
of Cumberland, State of North Carolina, without remuneration. 
C u mb e r l a n d 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That the Admin- ^.^^^ 
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istrator of General Services is authorized and directed to con- 
c^nveymce. 
vey by deed to the county of Cumberland, State of North Caro-
lina, without remuneration, all the right, title, and interest of the 
United States in and to that tract of land situated in Carvers Creek 
Township, Cumberland County, North Carolina, described in the plat 
prepared by D. A. Buie in July 1953 containing fifty-seven and eight-
tenths acres, more or less, and more particularly described as follows: 
39777 O—55—pt. 1——58 
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Beginning at a stake on the bank of the Cape Fear River, the 
same being the southeast corner of the tract of which this is a part, 
and running thence with the southern line of the said tract, south 
eighty-eight degrees no minutes two thousand two hundred and ninety-
seven feet to a stake in the old canal; thence with the said old canal 
north twenty-five degrees forty-one minutes east one thousand six 
hundred and fourteen feet to a stake in said canal, also in the northern 
line of the tract of which this is a part; thence with the northern line 
of said tract south seventy-eight degrees fifty-five minutes east one 
thousand six hundred and forty-three feet to a stake on the bank 
of the Cape Fear River, the northeast corner of the tract of which 
this is a part; thence with the Cape Fear River, a calculated course, 
south thirty minutes east one thousand one hundred and twenty-two 
feet to the beginning, containing fifty-seven and eight-tenths acres 
more or less, being the eastern part of a tract of land described in a 
deed from Alexander E. Cook and wife, Frances W. Cook, to the 
United States of America, dated December 31, 1938, recorded in Book 
409, page 300, in the office of the Register of Deeds for Cumberland 
County, North Carolina. 
SEC. 2. The property herein described shall not be used for any pur-
pose which is detrimental to the Veterans' Administration for a period 
of twenty years. 
Approved August 27,1954. 
Public Law 678 
CHAPTER 1016 
August 27, 1954 
[H.R. 8155] 
Metal scrap. 
67 Stat. 487. 
19 u s e 
100 1, 
par. 301 note. 
65 Stat. 44. 
26 u s e 
3 4 2 5 
note. 
AN ACT 
August 27, 1954 
[H. R. 8634] 
Guam. 
D i s t r i c t Court 
procedure. 
48 u s e 1424. 
To continue until the close of June 30, 1955, the suspension of duties and import 
taxes on metal scrap, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the first sen-
tence of section 2 of the Act of September 30, 1950 (Public Law 869, 
Eighty-first Congress), is hereby amended by striking out "June 30, 
1954" and inserting in lieu thereof "June 30, 1955": Provided^ That 
this Act shall not apply to lead scrap or zinc scrap (other than zinc 
scrap purchased under a written contract entered into before July 1, 
1954). 
SEC. 2. The amendment made by the first section of this Act shall 
not be construed to affect in any way the application of Public Law 
38, Eighty-second Congress, to copper scrap. 
Approved August 27, 1964. 
Public Law 679 
CHAPTER 1017 
AN ACT 
To amend section 22 of the Organic Act of Guam. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (b) 
of section 22 of the Organic Act of Guam (64 Stat. 389), is amended 
by striking out the period at the end of such subsection and inserting 
in lieu thereof the following: "; except that no provisions of any such 
rules which authorize or require trial by jury or the prosecution of 
offenses by indictment by a grand jury instead of by information shall 
be applicable to the District Court of Guam unless and until made so 
applicable by laws enacted by the Legislature of Guam, and except 
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