An Act to authorize the Secretary of Defense to lend certain Army, Navy, and Air Force equipment and to provide transportation and other services to the Boy Scouts of America in connection with the World Jamboree of Boy Scouts to be held in England in 1957; and for other purposes
PL 84-707 (S.2772), enacted 07/14/1956

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to a bound; thence south 7 degrees 50 minutes east 162.9 feet more 
or less to a brick masonry pillar on the northwesterly side of Vermont 
Highway Numbered 15; and thence in a southwesterly direction along 
such highway to the place of beginning. 
Parcel numbered 2: Being a strip of land 55 feet wide adjacent to 
and on the northeasterly side of the southwesterly property line of the 
Ethan Allen Air Force Base, beginning on such property line at a 
point 243.6 feet more or less northwesterly from the beginning point 
in parcel numbered 1 and extending in a northwesterly direction along 
such property line for a distance of 2,785 feet, more or less. 
The 
property authorized to be conveyed herein shall include the hydrant 
line along Feigle Street. 
SEC. 2. The property authorized to be conveyed by the first section 
of this x4.ct shall be used for the training of the National Guard of 
Vermont and for other military purposes, and the conveyance author-
ized herein shall be made without monetary consideration therefor, 
but shall be subject to the reservation by the United States of all 
mineral rights, including oil and gas; the right of reentry and use by 
the United States in the event of need therefor during a national 
emergency declared by the President or the Congress; and the con-
dition and limitation that if the property shall fail or cease to be used 
for the training of the National Guard of Vermont or for other 
military purposes, the title to the property so conveyed shall revert 
to and revest in the United States, and all improvements made thereon 
during its occupancy by the State of Vermont shall vest in the United 
States without payment of compensation therefor. 
SEC. 3. The costs of any surveys necessary as an incident of the con-
veyance authorized herein shall be borne by the State of Vermont. 
Approved July 14, 1956. 
National G u a r d 
training, etc. 
Public Law 707 
CHAPTER 593 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of Defense to lend certain Army, Navy, and Air Force 
equipment and to provide transportation and other services to the Boy Scouts 
of America in connection with the World Jamboree of Boy Scouts to be held 
in England in 1957; and for other purposes. 
July 14, 1956 
[S. 2772] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That (a) the Secre-
tary of Defense is hereby authorized, under such regulations as he may 
prescribe, to lend to the National Council, Boy Scouts of America, for 
the use and accommodation of the approximately fifteen hundred 
Scouts, Scouters and officials who are to attend the World Jamboree, 
Boy Scouts, to be held in England in July and August 1957, such tents, 
cots, blankets, commissary equipment, flags, refrigerators, and other 
equipment and services as may be necessary or useful to the extent that 
items are in stock and available and their issue will not jeopardize the 
national defense program. 
(b) Such equipment is authorized to be delivered at such time prior 
to the holding of such jamboree, and to be returned at such time after 
the close of such jamboree, as may be agreed upon by the Secretary of 
Defense and the National Council, Boy Scouts of America. 
No 
expense shall be incurred by the United States Government for the 
delivery, return, rehabilitation, or replacement of such equipment. 
(c) The Secretary of Defense, before delivering such property, 
shall take from the National Council, Boy Scouts of America, good 
and sufficient bond for the safe return of such property in good order 
and condition, and the whole without expense to the United States. 
World Jamboree 
of Boy Scouts. 
Equipment. 
Delivery and re-
turn. 
Bond. 
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Transportation. 
Bond. 
Payments, 
Passport fees. 
SEC. 2. (a) The Secretary of Defense is hereby authorized, under 
such regulations as he may prescribe, to provide, without expense to 
the United States Government, transportation from the United States 
and return on a vessel of the Military Sea Transportation Service for 
(1) those Boy Scouts, Scouters and officials certified by the National 
Council, Boy Scouts of America, as representing the National Coun-
cil, Boy Scouts of America, at the jamboree referred to in the first 
section of this Act, and (2) the equipment and property of such Boy 
Scouts, Scouters and officials and the property loaned to the National 
Council, Boy Scouts of America, by the Secretary of Defense pur-
suant to this Act to the extent that such transportation will not inter-
fere with the requirements of military operations, 
(b) Before furnishing any transportation under this section, the 
Secretary of Defense shall take from the National Council, Boy Scouts 
of America, a good and sufficient bond for the reimbursement to the 
United States by the National Council, Boy Scouts of America, of 
the actual costs of transportation furnished under this section. 
SEC, 3, Amounts paid to the United States to reimburse it for 
expenses incurred under the first section and for the actual costs of 
transportation furnished under section 2 shall be credited to the current 
applicable appropriations or funds to which such expenses and costs 
were charged and shall be available for the same purposes as such 
appropriations or funds. 
SEC. 4. Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of State, no 
fee shall be collected for the application for a passport by or the 
issuance of a passport to, any Boy Scout, Scouter or official who is 
certified by the National Council, Boy Scouts of America, as represent-
ing the National Council, Boy Scouts of America, at the jamboree 
referred to in the first section of this Act. 
Approved July 14, 1956. 
July 14, 1956 
[S. 2896] 
Public Law 708 
CHAPTER 594 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act relating to cemetery associations. 
D. C. 
cemetery 
associations. 
Land. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate atid House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assetnbled, That, without regard 
to the provisions of section 27-114 of the District of Columbia Code 
(Act of March 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1295, ch. 854, sec. 670), the Commis-
sioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to license 
for cemetery purposes any parcel of land in the District of Columbia 
which does not exceed one acre in size, and which, except for a one-side 
frontage of less than 100 feet on a public street or highway, is other-
wise completely bounded by land dedicated to cemetery purposes. 
Approved July 14, 1956. 
Public Law 709 
CHAPTER 595 
July 14, 1956 
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rp^j punish the willful damaging or destroying of aircraft or motor vehicles, and 
their facilities, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
c7di"amendn^ent' United States of America in Congress assembled^ That title 18 of the 
62^staT.*686',*" * United States Code is amended by inserting immediately after section 
14 thereof the following new chapter: