An Act to amend section 401 (e) of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended
PL 84-38 (H.R.2225), enacted 05/19/1955

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and town to convey to the Salt Kiver Project Agricultural Improve-
ment and Power District, a ])olitical subdivision of such State, such 
property as a site for an office building (including facilities and 
improvements related thereto) to be used by such district: 
All that portion of the north half of section 9, township 1 north, 
range 4 east, Gila and Salt River base and meridian, Arizona, bounded 
on the north by the south right-of-way line of Van l^uren Street, 
on the east by the right-of-way of the State of Arizona at the inter-
section of Washington Boulevard and Van Buren Street, on the south 
by the north right-of-way line of Washington lioulevard and on the 
west by a line parallel to and fifty feet east of a line described as 
follows: 
Beginning at a point on the center line of East Washington lioule-
vard from which point the north and south midsection line of said 
section 9 bears south 81 degrees 52 minutes :i() seconds east a distance 
of 554,5 feet; thence north 21 degrees ;57 minutes P
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0 seconds east a 
distance of 1,116.12 feet to a point; thence on a curve to the right, 
having a radius of 655.73 feet, a distance of 198.57 feet, as measured 
along the arc of said curve, to a point; thence north 38 degrees 58 
minutes east a distance of 96.74 feet to a point; thence on a curve to 
the left having a radius of 221.5 feet a distance of 153.51 feet, as 
measured along the arc of said curve, to a point; thence north (K) 
degrees 44 minutes 30 seconds west a distance of 210.2 feet to a point 
on the center line of East Van Buren Street from which the point of 
intersection of said center line of East Van Buren Street and the 
north-south midsection line of said section 9 bears north 33 degrees 
51 minutes west a distance of 160.98 feet. 
Approved May 13, 1955. 
Public Law 37 
CHAPTER 40 
AN ACT 
To amend section 402 of the Federal Emploj-ees Uniform Allowance Act, approved 
September 1,19i>4. 
May 13. 1955 
[S. 1094] 
Be it enacted hy the Seriate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,^ That section 402 of 
the Federal Employees Uniform Allowance Act, approved September 
1, 1954 (68 Stat. 1114), is amended by striking from the first sentence 
thereof the words "existing on the date of enactment of this Act*'. 
Approved May 13, 1955. 
5 u s e 2131. 
Public Law 38 
CHAPTER 41 
AN ACT 
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To amend section 401 (e) of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended. —[H. R. 2225] 
Be it enojcted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhied. That section 401 (e) 
of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended (49 U. S. C. 487 (e) ; 
52 Stat. 987), is amended by adding at the end tliereof the following: 
" (3) If any applicant who makes application for a certificate within 
one hundred and tAventy days after the date of enactment of this 
paragi'aph shall show that, from January 1, 1953, to the date of its 
application, it or its predecessor in interest, was an air carrier furnish-
ing, within the continental limits of the United States, local or feeder 
service consisting of the carriage of persons, property, and mail, 
C i v i l Aeronau-
tics Act of 1938. 
amendment* 
49 u s e 481 (e). 
P u b l i c conven-
ience certificates. 
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under a temporary certificate of public convenience and necesvsity 
issued by the Civil Aeronautics Board, continuously operatinjr as such 
(except as to interruptions of service over which the applicant or 
its predecessors in interest have no control) the Board, upon proof of 
such fact only, shall, unless the service rendered by such applicant 
during the period since its last certification has been inadequate and 
inefficient, issue a certificate or certificates of unlimited duration, 
authorizing such applicant to engage in air transportation between 
the terminal and intermediate jjoints within the continental limits of 
the United States between which it, or its predecessor, so continu-
ously operated between the date of enactment of this paragraph and 
the date of its application: Provided. That the Board in issuing the 
certificate is empowered to limit the duration of the certificate as to 
not over one-half of the intermediate points named therein, which 
points it finds have generated insufficient traffic to warrant a finding 
that the public convenience and necessity requires i>ermanent certifica-
tion at such time." 
Approved May 19, 1955. 
Public Law 39 
CHAPTER 42 
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y 19, 1955 
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[Vj. R. 2679] 
Xo amend the Act to protect scenic values along Oak Creek Canyon and certain 
tributaries thereof within the Coconino National Forest, Arizona. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
tioSaf "FS^esT, United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Act of 
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May 24, 1949 (68 Stat. 75; 16 IT. S. C, 1952 edition, 482n and the 
following), is hereby amended by adding the following section: 
"SEC. 4. The provisions of sections 1, 2, and 3 of this Act are ex-
tended to the following-described lands within the Coconino National 
Forest, Coconino and Yavapai Counties, Arizona : 
"Sections 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 2i, 22, 28, 26, 27, 28, 29, 80, 81, 
82, 38, 84, 35, 86, and the southwest quarter of section 25, township 18 
noith, range 4 east; 
"Sections 18, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 28, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 31, 32, 83, 34, 
35, 86, and the east half of the east half of section 29, township 18 
north, range 5 east; 
"Sections 18, 19, 29, 80, 31, and 82, township 18 north, range 6 
east; 
"Sections 1 to 86, inclusive, township 17 north, range 5 east; 
"Sections 5, 6, 7, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 
80, 31, 32, 88, 84, 85, and all of section 8 except the southeast quarter, 
township 17 north, range 6 east; 
"Sections 11,12, 13, 14, 28, and 24, township 16 north, range 5 east. 
"Sections 7, 8, 9, 10, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20, toAvnship 16 north, range 
Effective date, 
g east, Gila aiul Salt River Base and meridian: Provided, 
however. 
That as applied to any lands described in this section, the word 'here-
inafter" in sections 1 and 2 of this Act, and the words 'date of the 
enactment of this Act" in section 8, shall be deemed to relate to the 
date of the enactment of this section 4.'" 
Approved May 19, 1955.