An Act for the relief of the State of Illinois.
PL 84-339 (S.125), enacted 08/11/1955

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of the Texas Declaration of Independence and the Battles of the 
Alamo, Goliad, and San Jacinto in the year 1836 the Secretary of the 
Treasury is authorized and directed to strike and furnish to the Texas 
Heritage Foundation, Incorporated, two thousand medals one and 
five-sixteenths inches in diameter, with suitable emblems, devices, and 
inscriptions to be determined by the Secretary. The medals shall be 
considered to be national medals within the meaning of section 3551 
of the Revised Statutes. 
SEC. 2. (a) The Secretary of the Treasury shall cause such medals 
to be struck and furnished at not less than the estimated cost of 
manufacture, including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, and 
overhead expenses; and security satisfactory to the Director of the 
Mint shall be furnished to indemnify the United States for the full 
payment of such cost. 
(b) Upon authorization from the Texas Heritage Foundation, 
Incorporated, the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause duplicates in 
bronze of such medal to be coined and sold, under such regulations 
as he may prescribe, at a price sufficient to cover the cost thereof 
(including labor). 
Approved August 9, 1955. 
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Public Law 339 
CHAPTER 777 
AN ACT 
For the relief of the State of Illinois. 
August 11, 1955 
[S. 125] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Stale of 
Illinois shall have the exclusive right in interstate commerce to use, 
manufacture, and to control the right to manufacture the emblematic 
design heretofore published by the secretary of state of the State of 
Illinois consisting of a profile of the head of Abraham Lincoln super-
imposed upon an outline map of the State of Illinois which is sur-
mounted by the name "Illinois" and overlaid by the caption "Land 
of Lincoln". 
SEC. 2. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to confer any right 
to recover damages for violation of this exclusive right, by any act 
performed before the date of enactment of this Act, or to prevent 
the use of any matter utilized before that date. 
Approved August 11, 1955. 
Illinois. 
U s e of Lincoln 
emblem. 
Public Law 340 
CHAPTER 778 
AN ACT 
Granting the consent of Congress to the States of Kansas and Oklahoma to 
negotiate and enter into a compact relating to their interests in, and the 
apportionment of, the waters of the Arkansas River and its tributaries as they 
affect such States. 
August 11, 1955 
[S. 730] 
Arkansas River. 
Consent of Con^ 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of 
Congress is hereby given to the States of Kansas and Oklahoma to gress'to'interstate 
negotiate and enter into a compact relating to the interests of such '=°'"P^'=*' 
States in the development and protection from pollution of the water 
resources of the Arkansas River and its tributaries, and providing for 
an equitable apportionment amon» them of the waters of the Arkansas 
River and its tributaries flowing between such States, and for matters