An Act to authorize an examination and survey of the coastal and tidal areas of the eastern and southern United States, with particular reference to areas where severe damages have occurred from hurricane winds and tides.
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25 per centum of said sums for rural electrification loans may be 
employed in any one State or in all of the Territories." 
SEC. 2. Section 4 of such Act is amended by striking out "10 per 
centum" and inserting "25 per centum". 
Approved June 15, 1955. 
June 15. 1955 
[S. 4143 
Public Law 71 
CHAPTER 140 
AN ACT 
To authorize an examination and survey of the coastal and tidal areas of the 
eastern and southern United States, with particular reference to areas where 
severe damages have occurred from hurricane winds and tides. 
Hurricanes. 
Survey. 
Appropriation. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Houne of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That in view of the 
severe damage to the coastal and tidal areas of the eastern and south-
ern United States from the occurrence of hurricanes, particularly the 
hurricanes of August 31, 1954, and September 11, 1954, in the New 
England, New York, and New Jersey coastal and tidal areas, and the 
hurricane of October 15,1954, in the coastal and tidal areas extending 
south to South Carolina, and in view of the damages caused by other 
hurricanes in the past, the Secretary of the Army, in cooperation with 
the Secretary of Commerce and other Federal agencies concerned 
with hurricanes, is hereby authorized and directed to cause an ex-
amination and survey to be made of the eastern and southern seaboard 
of the United States with respect to hurricanes, with particular refer-
ence to areas where severe damages have occurred. 
SEC. 2. Such survey, to be made under the direction of the Chief 
of Engineers, shall include the securing of data on the behavior and 
frequency of hurricanes, and the determination of methods of fore-
casting their paths and improving warning services, and of possible 
means of preventing loss of human lives and damages to property, 
with due consideration of the economics of proposed breakwaters, sea-
walls, dikes, dams, and other structures, warning services, or other 
measures which might be required. 
SEC. 3. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. 
Approved June 15, 1955. 
June 15, 1955 
[H. R. 3825] 
Public Law 72 
CHAPTER 141 
AN ACT 
To make retrocession to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts of jurisdiction 
over certain land in the vicinity of Fort Devens, Massachusetts. 
Massachusetts. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembJed, That the United 
1 J^^«"*i*="'»" °^ States hereby makes retrocession to the Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts of concurrent jurisdiction over the following-described land: 
Parcel "A": A parcel of land in the tow^n of Harvard, comprising 
a portion of the original reservation of Fort Devens, shown on sheet 
numbered 1 of a plan on file in the Office of the Corps of Engi-
neers, New England Division, at Boston, Massachusetts, as number 
MED-PA-638, dated May 1946, said parcel being located in the 
northernmost portion of said original reservation and being bounded 
and described as follows: