An Act to preserve the eligibility of certain veterans to dental outpatient care and dental appliances
PL 83-494 (H.R.6412), enacted 07/15/1954

68 S T A T . ] 
PUBLIC LAW 494-JULY 15, 1954 
477 
emergency such use of the State land shall cease in favor of the board 
and such land shall be restored in accordance with the usual conditions 
contained in the United States Standard Form of Lease. 
(4) In the event that the State of Florida or board shall at any time 
use for other than military purposes, sell, convey, or otherwise dispose 
of, or shall attempt to sell, convey, or otherwise dispose of, all or any 
part of the State or Federal land, all of the right, title, and interest 
in and to the Federal land shall revert to the United States without 
cost: Provided^ however. That nothing herein contained shall prevent 
the State of Florida or board from disposing of interests or rights 
in land by lease, license, or easement or by contract of sale of timber 
or timber products, each of which shall be terminable at will in the 
event of need of the land involved during any national emergency and, 
insofar as these grants or sales affect Federal lands, shall be entered 
into only after the State of Florida or board and the United States, 
by and through the Secretary of the Army, or his designee, shall have 
reached an agreement within nine months subsequent to the date of 
enactment of this Act whereby revenues received by the State of 
Florida from any such lease, license, easement, or sale shall be expended 
for the management of natural resources at Camp Blanding and its 
maintenance and preservation as a military installation and the shar-
ing of any residual revenue by the State of Florida or board and the 
United States: Provided further^ That exploitation of minerals by 
strip mining or similar operations shall be confined to the following 
Federal lands: In township 5 south, range 23 east, sections 19, 30, and 
31; in township 6 south, range 23 east, sections 6, 7, that part of section 
8 lying southwest of State Highway Numbered 121'; those parts of 
sections 17 and 20 now owned by the United States and sections 18, 
19, 29, 30, 31, and 32: Provided further, That exploitation of minerals 
by strip mining or similar operations shall be confined to the following 
State lands: In township 7 south, range 23 east, sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 17, 
18, 19, all of section 20, except the northv/est quarter of the southeast 
quarter, section 29, and the east half of section 30: And 
provided 
further, 
That in event of breach by the Armory Board, State of 
Florida, of any of the provisions of this Act or of the provisions of 
the agreement pursuant to the Act, title to the Federal lands will revert 
to the United States. 
Approved July 14, 1954. 
Use for o t h e r 
t h a n military pur-
poses, etc. 
Mineral exploita-
tion. 
R e v e r s i o n 
to 
United States. 
Public Law 494 
CHAPTER 506 
AN ACT 
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July 15,1954 
To preserve the eligibility of certain veterans to dental out-patient care and 
[H. R. 6412] 
dental appliances. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, Tliat veterans of 
the Spanish-American War, including the Philippine Insurrection 
and the Boxer Rebellion, and veterans in training under Public Law 
16, Seventy-eighth Congress, as amended and extended, shall not be 
subject to the limitation on out-patient dental care contained in the 
first proviso of the provision under the heading "Out-patient care" 
appearing under the heading "Veterans' Administration" in the 
Second Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1954, or in the first 
proviso under the same heading in the Independent Offices Appro-
priation Act, 1955 (Public Law 428, Eighty-third Congress, second 
session). 
Approved July 15, 1954. 
Veterans. 
Dental care. 
57 Stat. 43. 
38 u s e 701, ch, 
12A. 
67 Stat. 191. 
Ante, p. 290.