An Act to declare the portion of the waterway of West Haven and New Haven, Conn., known as the West River, northerly of a line running north 85 degrees 54 minutes 43.5 seconds east from a point whose coordinates in the Corps of Engineers Harbor Line System are north 4,616.76 and west 9,450.80, a nonnavigable stream
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PUBLIC LAW 288-AUG. 9, 1955 
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after shall include the following described land comprising approxi-
mately one hundred and fifty-five acres, which the Secretary of the 
Interior is authorized to procure in such manner as he shall find to be 
in the public interest: 
SIXTH PRINCIPAL, MERIDIAN 
Township 53 north, range 65 west, section 18, south half northeast 
quarter, southeast quarter northwest quarter, north half southeast 
quarter, those parts lying north of and within a loop of the left bank 
of the Belle Fourche Eiver; southwest quarter northwest quarter, that 
part lying west of the left bank of the Belle Fourche River; 
Township 53 north, range 66 west, section 13, south half northeast 
quarter. 
SEC. 2. For land exchange purposes, the Secretary of the Interior 
is authorized to accept title to any land or interests therein situated 
within the area added to the national monument by this Act, and, in 
exchange for land or interests therein so accepted, to convey any 
national monument land or interests therein of approximately equal 
value situated in the northeast quarter of section 18, township 53 
north, range 65 west, and lying east of the Belle Fourche River. 
National monument lands so conveyed for exchange purposes shall be 
excluded from the national monument. 
Approved August 9, 1955, 
August 9, 1955 
[S. 2511] 
Rice. 
52 Stat. 60. 
7 u s e 1352. 
Public Law 288 
CHAPTER 648 
AN ACT 
To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 as amended. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of AmeHca in Congress assembled, That section 352 
of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended 
by striking out the period at the end of the first sentence thereof and 
inserting: ": Provided, however. That for 1956 no national acreage 
allotment shall be established which is less than 85 per centum of the 
final allotment established for the immediately preceding year.". 
Approved August 9, 1955. 
August 9, 1955 
[S. 2514] 
West River. 
N o n n a v i g able 
stream. 
Public Law 289 
CHAPTER 649 
AN ACT 
To declare the portion of the waterway of West Haven and New Haven, Connecti-
cut, liuown as the West River, northerly of a line running north 85 degrees 
54 minutes 43.5 seconds east from a point whose coordinates in the Corps of 
Engineers Harbor Line System are north 4,616.76 and west 9,450.80, a non-
navigable stream. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That the portion of 
the waterway in which is located the West River in the town of West 
Haven, Connecticut, and the city of New Haven, Connecticut, lying 
northerly of a line extending north 85 degrees 54 minutes 43.5 seconds 
east, from a point (1,158.535 feet from the most westerly corner of the 
existing bulkhead and pier line) whose coordinates in the Corps of 
Engineers Harbor Line System are north 4,616.76 and west 9,450.80, 
is hereby declared to be a nonnavigable water of the LTnited States