Joint resolution granting the consent of Congress to the State of New York to negotiate and enter into an agreement or compact with the Government of Canada for the establishment of the Niagara Frontier Port Authority with power to take over, maintain, and operate the present highway bridge over the Niagara River between the city of Buffalo, New York, and the city of Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada
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(2) was transferred back to the United States under orders 
which relieved him from a duty station outside the continental 
United States or in Alaska after July 9, 1952, and before July 1, 
1953, 
is entitled, for each of those transfers, to transportation, packing, 
crating, temporary storage, drayage, and unpacking of his household 
goods and personal effects without regard to the w^eight limitations 
of section 632 of the Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1953 
(66 Stat. 537). Any member who has made a repayment to the United 
States because the net weight of his household goods and personal 
effects in such transfer or transfers exceeded the weight limitations 
of section 632 may be paid the amount involved, if otherwise proper. 
SEC. 2. The Comptroller General of the United States, or his desig-
nee, shall relieve disbursing officers, including special disbursing 
agents, of the Armed Forces from accountability or responsibility for 
any payments relating to shipments described in this Act, and shall 
allow credits in the settlement of the accounts of those officers or agents 
for payments which appear to be free from fraud and collusion. 
SEC. 3. Any appropriations available to the military department 
concerned for the pay and allowances of military personnel are avail-
able for payments under this Act without regard to any weight limita-
tions upon the shipment of household goods and personal effects which 
may be contained in the appropriation Act concerned. 
Approved July 27, 1956. 
C r e d i t s in ac-
counts. 
Appropriations 
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Public Law 824 
CHAPTER 758 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Granting the consent of Congress to the State of New York to negotiate and enter 
into an agreement or compact with the Government of Canada for the estab-
lishment of the Niagara Frontier Port Authority with power to take over, 
maintain, and operate the present highway bridge over the Niagara River 
between the city of Buffalo, New York, and the city of Fort Erie, Ontario, 
Canada. 
July 27,1956 
[H. J. Res. 549] 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Congress hereby 
consents to the negotiation and entering into of a compact or agree-
ment between the State of New York and the Government of Canada 
providing for (1) the establishment of the Niagara Frontier Port 
Authority substantially in accordance with the provisions of chapter 
870 of the laws of 1955 of the State of New York as amended or supple-
mented; (2) the transfer of the operation, control, and maintenance 
of the present highway bridge (the Peace Bridge) over the Niagara 
River between the city of Buffalo, New York, and the city of Fort Erie, 
Ontario, Canada, to the Niagara Frontier Port Authority; (3) the 
transfer of all of the property, rights, powers, and duties of the Buffalo 
and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority acquired by such authority 
under the compact consented to by the Congress in Public Resolution 
22 of the Seventy-third Congress, approved May 3,1934 (48 Stat. 662), 
to the Niagara Frontier Port Authority; and (4) the consolidation 
of the Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority with the 
Niagara Frontier Port Authority and the termination of the corporate 
existence of the Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority. 
SEC. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this joint resolution is 
hereby expressly reserved. 
Approved July 27, 1956. 
Niagara Frontier 
Port Authority.