Joint resolution to authorize the Texas Hill Country Development Foundation to convey certain land to Kerr County, Texas
PL 84-291 (H.J.Res.276), enacted 08/09/1955

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witliin the meaning of the Constitution and laws of the United States. 
SEC. 2. The line hereinbefore described shall be established as a 
combined pierhead and bulkhead line of the West River. 
SEC. 3. Any project heretofore authorized by an Act of Congress, 
insofar as such project relates to the above-described portion of the 
West River, is hereby abandoned. 
SEC. 4. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby 
exj^ressly reserved. 
Approved August 9, 1955. 
Public Law 290 
CHAPTER 650 
AN ACT 
To amend title 14, United States Code, so as to provide for compensatory absence 
of Coast Guard military personnel serving at isolated aids to navigation, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Hou,^e of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, That section 432 (f) 
of title 14, United States Code, is amended by inserting the words 
"as amended" following the words "Federal I^mployees Pay Act of 
1945". 
SEC. 2. Section 432 (g) of title 14, United States Code, is amended 
by amending the first sentence thereof to read as follows: "The head 
of the department in which the Coast (hiard is operating, under regu-
lations prescribed bj^ him, may regulate the hours of duty and the pay 
of civilian keepers of lighthouses and civilians employed on lightships 
and other vessels of the Coast Guard, but such ])ersonnel may be called 
upon for duty in emergency circumstances or otherwise at any time 
or all times". 
SEC. 3. The analysis of chapter 13 of title 14, United States Code, 
is amended by inserting in such analysis the following item: 
"511. Compensatory absence of military personnel at isolated aids to navigation." 
SEC. 4. Chapter 13 of title 14, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting a new section as follows: 
"§51l. Compensatory absence of military personnel at isolated aids 
to navigation. 
"The head of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, 
under regulations prescribed by him, may grant compensatory absence 
from duty to military personnel of the Coast Guard serving in light-
ships and at lighthouses and other isolated aids to navigation of the 
Coast Guard when conditions of duty result in confinement because 
of isolation or in long periods of continuous duty." 
Approved August 9, 1955, 
August 9, 1955 
[S. 2566] 
Coast Guard. 
63 Stat. 526. 
63 Stat. 529. 
Public Law 291 
CHAPTER 651 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
August 9. 1955 
To authorize the Texas Hill Country Development Foundation to convey certain 
[H.J. Res. 276] 
land to Kerr County, Texas. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That, notwithstanding the 
second paragraph of the joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution to 
provide for the conveyance to the Texas Hill Country Development 
Foundation of certain surplus land situated in Kerr County, Texas", 
approved June 28, 1954 (Private Law 480, P]ighty-third Congress), or 
Texas Hill Coun-
try D e v e l o p m e n t 
Foundation* 
Conveyance. 
68 Stat. A98. 
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any term, reservation, restriction, or condition placed in the deed of 
conveyance (dated February 1,1955) granted by the Administrator of 
General Services under authority of such joint resolution, the Texas 
Hill Country Development Foundation is hereby authorized to convey 
to Kerr County, Texas, all of the land described in such deed of 
February 1, 1955. 
SEC. 2. Any deed of conveyance granted under authority of this Act 
shall be subject to the same terms and conditions, and the land conveyed 
thereby shall be used for the same purposes, as required by such joint 
resolution of June 28, 1954, and the deed granted under authority 
thereof. 
Approved August 9, 1955. 
Public Law 292 
CHAPTER 652 
AN ACT 
^^'^^^ 
To amend the rice marketing quota provisious of the Agricultural Adjustment 
Act of 1938, as amended. 
August 9. 1955 
Is. 
Rice. 
52 Stat. 61. 
7 u s e 1353. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, That section 353 (b) 
of the Agricultural xA^djustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended 
by inserting in the first sentence thereof the words "in the State" 
immediately following the words "on the basis of past production of 
rice" and immediately following the words "taking into considera-
tion the acreage allotments previously established". 
Approved August 9, 1955. 
Public Law 293 
CHAPTER 653 
August 9, 19 55 
[H.R. 46] 
Anniston, Ala. 
Conveyance. 
AN ACT 
To authorize the conveyance to the city of Anniston, Alabama, of certain real 
property within Fort McC'lellan, Alabama. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of A/tierica in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of the Army is authorized, if he determines that the real property 
described in section 2 of this Act is excess to the requirements of the 
Department of Defense, to convey to the city of Anniston, Alabama, 
at the then fair market value thereof, all right, title, and interest of 
the United States in and to such real property subject to (1) the con-
dition that if the real property conveyed under authority of this Act 
shall not be utilized for municipal purposes prior to the expiration 
of a period of two years from the date of the conveyance made pursu-
ant to this Act, all the right, title, and interest, in and to such property, 
shall revert to and become the property of the United States who shall 
have the immediate right of entry thereon, and (2) subject to such 
other terms and conditions as he may prescribe. 
SEC. 2. The real property referred to in the first section is a parcel 
of land in the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section 32, 
township 15 south, range 8 east, and a parcel of land in the southwest 
quarter of section 29, township 15 south, range 8 east, and lying west 
of the Anniston-Fort McClellan Highw^ay, more particularly described 
as follows: 
Beginning at the point of intersection of the Anniston city limits 
line and the west right-of-way line of Anniston-Fort McClellan High-
way, said point being 740 feet east of and 253 feet south of the south-