An Act to provide for the conveyance of Camp Livingston, Camp Beauregard, and Esler Field, La., to the State of Louisiana, and for other purposes.
PL 84-521 (S.637), enacted 05/14/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 521-MAY 14, 1956 
[70 S T A T . 
32 Stat. 390. 
43 u s e 372,383. 
because sucli system has been constructed pursuant to this Act. 
The 
provisions of this Act shall apply only to irrigation purposes, including 
incidental domestic and stock water, and loans hereunder shall be 
interest free. 
Nothing in this Act shall be construed to repeal or limit 
the procedural and substantive requirements of section 8 of the Act of 
June 17,1902." 
Approved May 14, 1956. 
May 14, 1956 
[S. 637] 
Public Law 521 
CHAPTER 269 
AN ACT 
To provide for the conveyance of Camp Livingston, Camp Beauregard, and 
Esler Field, Louisiana, to tlie State of Louisiana, and for other purposes. 
Camp Livingston, 
etc. 
Conveyance 
to 
Louisiana. 
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, if he determines that the real 
property comprising Camp Livingston, (^amp Beauregard, and Esler 
Field, or any part thereof, is available for conveyance to the State 
of Louisiana for the training and support of the National Guard of 
Louisiana, to convey all the right, title, and interest of the United 
States in such property, together with improvements thereon and 
appurtenances thereunto belonging, to the State of Louisiana by quit-
claim deed, without monetary consideration therefor, but upon condi-
tion that it shall be used for the aforesaid purposes and if such real 
property shall ever cease to be used for such purposes, all the right, 
title, and interest in and to such real property shall revert to and 
become the property of the United States which shall have the imme-
diate right of entry thereon, and to be further subject to the reserva-
tion by the United States of all mineral rights, including oil and 
gas; the right of reentry and use by the United States in the event 
of need therefor during a national emergency; and such other reser-
vations, restrictions, terms, and conditions as the Secretary determines 
to be necessary to properly protect the interests of the United States. 
SEC. 2. The cost of any surveys necessary as an incident of the 
conveyance authorized herein shall be borne by the State of Tx)uisiana. 
Approved May 14, 1956. 
May 14, 1956 
[S.2267] 
Public Law 522 
CHAPTER 270 
AN ACT 
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain public lands in the State 
of Nevada to the city of Henderson, Nevada. 
H e n d e r s o n , 
Nevada. 
Conveyance. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary 
of the Interior shall issue to the city of Henderson, Nevada, upon the 
payment by the city into the Treasury of the United States, not more 
than five years after the Secretary has notified the city of the purchase 
price, of an amount equal to the fair market value of the lands to be 
conveyed as determined by the Secretary upon the appraisal of those 
lands, a patent for the following-described lands, situated in the State 
of Nevada and comprising approximately six thousand eight hundred 
and fifty-nine acres (all range references are to the Mount Diablo 
base and meridian) : 
(1) All of sections 2, 3, 4, and 24, township 22 south, range 62 east. 
(2) All of section 33, township 21 south, range 63 east. 
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(3) The east half of section 8; the east half of section 17; east half 
of section 20; west half of section 21; the east half and the northwest 
quarter of section 28; all of sections 30, 31, and 32; all in township 22 
south, range 63 east. 
SEC. 2. The conveyance authorized by this Act shall be made subject 
to any existing valid claims against the lands described in the first 
section of this Act, and to any reservations necessary to j^rotect con-
tinuing uses of those lands by the United States. 
Approved May 14, 1956. 
Public Law 523 
CHAPTER 271 
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May 14, 1956 
To authorize the construction and conversion of certain naval vessels, and for 
[H. R. 7993] 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the President 
is hereby authorized to undertake the construction of, or to acquire 
and convert, not to exceed twenty-eight hundred tons of patrol vessels. 
SEC. 2. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may 
be necessary for the construction or for the acquisition and conversion 
of the foregoing vessels. 
Approved May 14, 1956. 
Patrol vesaelii. 
Appropriation. 
Public Law 524 
CHAPTER 278 
AN ACT 
For the relief of certain rural carriers. 
May 18, 1956 
[H. R. 6622] 
64 StaU 103. 
3 9 u s e 888 note. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That each rural ruf^'cmiwl?'^*^*' 
carrier who served a heavily patronized route during the period be-
tween November 1, 1949, and February 16,1955, and who, as a result 
of administrative application of section 5 of the Act of May 3, 1950 
(64 Stat. 101), has received during such period total compensation 
in excess of the amount authorized under section 17 (d) of the Act of 
July 1, 1945, as amended (section 867 (d) of title 39, United States 
Code), is hereby relieved of all liability to refund to the United States 
the sum representing the dijfference between the amount of total com-
pensation allowable under section 17 (d) of the Act of July 1, 1945, 
as amended, and the amount of total compensation paid the carrier 
during such period. 
Approved May 18, 1956. 
59 Stat. 456: 
Stat. 625. 
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Public Law 525 
CHAPTER 279 
AN ACT 
To transfer certain lauds from the Veterans' Administration to the Department 
of the Interior for the benefit of the Yavapai Indians of Arizona. 
May 18, 1956 
[S.28S1] 
Be it enacted, hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, That jurisdiction of^lSmu^"*^*^" 
over one thousand three hundred and twenty acres of land, more or 
Tranter o
f landi. 
less, formerly a part of the Fort Whipple Military Reservation,