An Act to amend section 4 of the act of March 2, 1933 (47 Stat. 1423), as amended, so as to provide that a mess operated under the direction of a Supply Corps officer can be operated either on a quantity or on a monetary-ration basis
PL 82-102 (H.R.1201), enacted 08/02/1951

65 STAT.1 
PUBLIC LAW 102—AUG. 2, 1951 
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or parcels of land abut each other and one of such lots or parcels 
belongs to the District of Columbia, the Commissioners of the Dis-
trict of Columbia, with the approval of the National Capital Park 
and Planning Commission, are hereby authorized and empowered, 
when in their judgment and discretion it is for the best interest 
of the District of Columbia, to exchange such District-owned land, 
or part thereof, for the abutting lot or parcel of land, or part thereof: 
Provided^ That no such exchange shall be made unless the Commis-
sioners of said District shall, thirty days prior thereto, publish in 
a newspaper of general circulation in the said District a notice of their 
intention to make such exchange and such notice shall include a 
description by lot or parcel number or otherwise of all lots or parcels 
to be exchanged and the appraised value thereof. 
The said Commis-
sioners are hereby authorized to execute a proper deed of conveyance 
for the land belonging to the District to be conveyed and to accept a 
proper deed of conveyance from the owner of such abutting real estate. 
If, in the opinion of the Commissioners, the value of the land to 
be conveyed to the District is in excess of the value of the land to be 
conveyed by the District, the Commissioners are authorized to pay, 
within the limitation of appropriations therefor, to the abutting prop-
erty owuier the amount of such excess as determined by the Commis-
sioners, on the basis of an appraisal, and, if the value of the land to 
be conveyed by the District is in excess of the value of the land to be 
conveyed to the District, the Commissioners shall require the abutting 
property owner to pay such excess as determined by the Commission-
ers, on the basis of an appraisal, as part of the consideration for the 
said exchange. 
Approved August 1, 1951. 
Public Law 101 
CHAPTER 286 
AN ACT 
To amend the existing law to provide the privilege of renewing expiring five-year 
level-premium-term policies of United States Government life insurance. 
August 2, 1951 
[H. R. 1072] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That the second 
proviso of the first paragraph of section 301 of the World War Vet-
erans' Act, 1924, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: 
'•'•Provided further^ That at the expiration of any five-year period a 
five-year level-premium-term policy may be renewed for a successive 
five-year period at the premium rate for the attained age without 
medical examination." 
Approved August 2, 1951. 
World War Veter-
ans' Act, 1924, amend-
ment. 
57 Stat. 41. 
38 U. S. C. § 512. 
Public Law 102 
CHAPTER 287 
AN ACT 
To amend section 4 of the Act of March 2, 1933 (47 Stat. 1423), as amended, so 
as to provide that a mess operated under the direction of a Supply Corps officer 
can be operated either on a quantity or on a monetary-ration basis. 
August 2, 1951 
[H. R. 1201] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 4 of the 
Act entitled "An Act to effect needed changes in the Navy ration", 
approved March 2, 1933 (47 Stat. 1423), as amended, is further 
amended by striking out the words "limit of the cost of rations on 
destroyers, submarines, mine sweepers, tugs, aircraft, and other vessels 
and stations subsisted under the direction of commanding officers" and 
substituting in lieu thereof the words "monetary limit of the cost of 
Navy ration. 
34 U. S. C. § 902d. 
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34 U. S. C. § 902a. 
ration aboard such ships and at such stations where in his opinion it 
is not desirable to administer the mess under the quantity allowances 
stated in section 1". 
Approved August 2, 1951. 
Public Law 103 
CHAPTER 288 
August 2, 1951 
[H. R. 3018] 
K l a m a t h 
Falls, 
Greg. 
Conveyance. 
AN ACT 
Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the city of Klamath Falls, 
Oregon, all right, title, and interest of the United States of America in certain 
lands in Klamath County, Oregon, and for other purposes. 
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 the Interior is authorized and directed to convey to the city of 
Klamath Falls, Oregon, all right, title, and interest of the United 
States of America in and to the following-described land in Klamath 
County, Oregon: 
(1) The right-of-way for the A-3-n lateral from the central quar-
ter corner of section 22, township 39 south, range 9 east, Willamette 
meridian, to a point one thousand three hundred and thirty-six feet 
east of said quarter corner, as acquired from Charles E. Worden on 
August 6,1912, and recorded on page 83, volume 38, of deed records of 
Klamath County, Oregon, and from E. E. Henry on December 27, 
1912, and recorded on page 33 of volume 38 of deed records in Klam-
ath County, Oregon. 
(b) There shall be reserved to the United States, in the conveyance 
of the above-described lands, rights of ingress and egress over roads 
in the above-described lands serving buildings or other works oper-
ated by the United States or its successors or assigns in connection 
with the Klamath project. 
There shall be further reserved in said 
lands all rights-of-way for water lines, sewer lines, telephone and tele-
graph lines, power lines, and such other utilities as now exist, or may 
be or become necessary to the operation of said Klamath project. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to 
relinquish and surrender to the city of Klamath Falls, Oregon, all 
right, title, and interest of the United States in the right-of-way for 
the 1-E drain over and across the southwest quarter northeast quarter 
and the east half southeast quarter of section 22, township 39 south, 
range 9 east, Willamette meridian, and the west half southwest quar-
ter of section 23 of aforesaid township and range, as described in the 
easements from Ernest J. Lang and Mary J. Lang, dated August 28, 
1918, and from John N. Moore and Frances Moore, dated November 
15, 1915, and from Mary L. Moore, dated October 27, 1918, recorded 
respectively, on page 430 of volume 49, page 235 of volume 45, and 
page 393 of volume 49 of deed records of Klamath County, Oregon. 
SEC. 8. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed 
to convey to the city of Klamath Falls, Oregon, a perpetual easement 
for highway purposes over a strip of land one hundred feet in width, 
or as near to that width as is practicable, immediately adjacent and 
parallel to the west boundary line of the existing Southern Pacific 
Railroad right-of-way across the south half northwest quarter and 
the northeast quarter southwest quarter of section 22, township 39 
south, range 9 east, Willamette meridian. 
Such easement shall be 
subject to the prior right of the United States to construct, operate, 
and maintain ditches and canals, telephone, telegraph, and power 
transmission and distribution lines along and across said strip of 
land.