An Act to amend Public Law 551, chapter 616, 83d Congress, 2d session
PL 84-924 (S.3556), enacted 08/02/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 924-AUG. 2, 1956 
[70 ST A T . 
Appropriation. 
SEC. 4. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may 
be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act: Provided^ That 
the Secretary of the Interior may expend any funds made available 
by other Federal agencies or the Territory of Alaska to carry out the 
provisions of this Act. 
Approved August 2, 4956. 
Public Law 924 
August 2, 1956 
IS. 3556] 
Irrigation works. 
Movable prop-
erty. 
CHAPTER 884 
AN ACT 
To amend Public Law 551, chapter 616, Eighty-third Congress, second session. 
Be it enacted hy the SeTiate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress a^semhled^ That the Act of 
July 29, 1954 (68 Stat. 580, 43 U. S. C. 499a) is amended by adding 
thereto a new sentence reading as follows: "In order to encourage 
the assumption by irrigation districts and water users' organizations 
of the operation and maintenance of irrigation works, the Secretary 
is authorized to use appropriated funds available for the project in-
volved to acquire movable property for transfer at the time operation 
and maintenance is assumed under the terms and conditions herein-
before provided." 
Approved August 2, 1956. 
Public Law 925 
CHAPTER 885 
August 2, 1956 
AN ACT 
[H. R. 5299] 
rjQ authorize the estal)lishment of the Virgin Islands National Park, and for 
other purposes. 
v i r g i n Islands 
National Park. 
Administration. 
39 Stat. 535. 
Conditions and 
limitations. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That a portion of 
the Virgin Islands of the United States, containing outstanding scenic 
and other features of national significance, shall be established, as 
prescribed in section 2 hereof, as the "Virgin Islands National Park". 
The national park shall be administered and preserved by the Sec-
retary of the Interior in its natural condition for the public benefit and 
inspiration, in accordance with the laws governing the administration 
of the national parks (16 U. S. C. 1, and the following). 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, subject to 
the following conditions and limitations, to proceed in such manner as 
he shall find to be necessary in the public interest to consummate the 
establishment of the Virgin Islands National Park: 
(a) The acreage of the national park shall be limited to a total of 
not more than nine thousand five hundred acres of land area, such 
total to be comprised of not more than fifteen acres on the island of 
Saint Thomas, and not more than nine thousand four hundred and 
eighty-five additional acres to be comprised of portions of the island 
of Saint John and such small islands, rocks, and cays not in excess 
of five huridred acres in the general vicinity thereof as may be desirable 
for inclusion within the park; 
(b) Tentative exterior boundary lines, to include land not in excess 
of the aforesaid acreage limitations, may be selected for the park in 
order to establish the particular areas in which land may be acquired 
pursuant to this Act, such tentative boundaries to be selected and 
adjusted as may be necessary by the Secretary of the Interior;