An Act to provide for the relief of certain members of the Armed Forces who were required to pay certain transportation charges covering shipment of their household goods and personal effects upon return from overseas, and for other purposes
PL 84-823 (H.R.2121), enacted 07/27/1956

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Exemption. 
60 Stat. 237. 
5 u s e 1001 note. 
N o n a pplicabil-
Ity. 
61 Stat. 652. 
(c) Action by the Postmaster General in issuing the interim order 
provided for herein and petitioning for a continuance of such order 
under this Act, shall not be subject to the requirements of the Admin-
istrative Procedure Act (ch. 19, title 5, U. S. C ) . 
SEC. 2. The provisions of this Act shall not apply to mail addressed 
to publishers or distributors of publications which have entry as 
second-class matter under the Act of March 3, 1879, as amended 
(ch. 180, 20 Stat. 358; 39 U. S. C. 221, et. seq.), or to publishers or 
distributors of copyrighted books and other publications as to which 
certificate of registration of copyright has been issued under the copy-
right laws of the United States (title 17 U. S. C.). 
Approved July 27, 1956. 
Public Law 822 
CHAPTER 756 
JUly 27, 1956 
AN ACT 
[H. R. 8617] 
f
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Q validate certain payments made to members and former members of the 
naval service. 
Naval service. 
A d d i t i o n a l pay 
for sea service. 
C r e d i t s in ac-
counts. 
Be it enacted hy the Sermte and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That all payments 
of additional pay for sea duty made to enlisted members of the naval 
service who served on the United States Ship Sequoia (AG-23) from 
November 1,1950, through February 28,1954, and to those who served 
on vessels operating on the Great Lakes from November 1, 1950, 
through October 31,1953, are hereby validated. 
Any such member or 
former member who has made repayment to the United States of any 
amount so paid to him as additional pay for sea duty is entitled to 
have refunded to him the amount repaid. 
SEC. 2. The Comptroller General of the United States, or his desig-
nee, shall relieve disbursing officers, including special disbursing 
agents, of the United States from accountability or responsibility for 
any payments described in section 1 of this Act, and shall allow credits 
in the settlement of the accounts of those officers or agents for payments 
which are found to be free from fraud and collusion. 
SEC. 3. Appropriations available to the military department con-
cerned for the pay and allowances of military personnel are available 
for payments under this Act. 
Approved July 27, 1966. 
July 27,1956 
^ . R. 2121] 
Public Law 823 
CHAPTER 757 
AN ACT 
To provide for the relief of certain members of the Armed Forces who were 
required to pay certain transportation charges covering shipment of their 
household goods and personal effects upon return from overseas, and for other 
purposes. 
Armed Forces. 
Transportation 
charges. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That any member of 
the Armed Forces who was transferred to a duty station outside the 
continental LTnited States or in Alaska under orders which relieved 
him from a duty station within the United States before July 10,1952, 
and who— 
(1) was transferred to any one or more other duty stations 
outside the continental United States or in Alaska after July 9, 
1952, and before his transfer back to the United States; or 
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(2) was transferred back to the United States under orders 
which relieved him from a duty station outside the continental 
United States or in Alaska after July 9, 1952, and before July 1, 
1953, 
is entitled, for each of those transfers, to transportation, packing, 
crating, temporary storage, drayage, and unpacking of his household 
goods and personal effects without regard to the w^eight limitations 
of section 632 of the Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1953 
(66 Stat. 537). Any member who has made a repayment to the United 
States because the net weight of his household goods and personal 
effects in such transfer or transfers exceeded the weight limitations 
of section 632 may be paid the amount involved, if otherwise proper. 
SEC. 2. The Comptroller General of the United States, or his desig-
nee, shall relieve disbursing officers, including special disbursing 
agents, of the Armed Forces from accountability or responsibility for 
any payments relating to shipments described in this Act, and shall 
allow credits in the settlement of the accounts of those officers or agents 
for payments which appear to be free from fraud and collusion. 
SEC. 3. Any appropriations available to the military department 
concerned for the pay and allowances of military personnel are avail-
able for payments under this Act without regard to any weight limita-
tions upon the shipment of household goods and personal effects which 
may be contained in the appropriation Act concerned. 
Approved July 27, 1956. 
C r e d i t s in ac-
counts. 
Appropriations 
avaUable. 
Public Law 824 
CHAPTER 758 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Granting the consent of Congress to the State of New York to negotiate and enter 
into an agreement or compact with the Government of Canada for the estab-
lishment of the Niagara Frontier Port Authority with power to take over, 
maintain, and operate the present highway bridge over the Niagara River 
between the city of Buffalo, New York, and the city of Fort Erie, Ontario, 
Canada. 
July 27,1956 
[H. J. Res. 549] 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Congress hereby 
consents to the negotiation and entering into of a compact or agree-
ment between the State of New York and the Government of Canada 
providing for (1) the establishment of the Niagara Frontier Port 
Authority substantially in accordance with the provisions of chapter 
870 of the laws of 1955 of the State of New York as amended or supple-
mented; (2) the transfer of the operation, control, and maintenance 
of the present highway bridge (the Peace Bridge) over the Niagara 
River between the city of Buffalo, New York, and the city of Fort Erie, 
Ontario, Canada, to the Niagara Frontier Port Authority; (3) the 
transfer of all of the property, rights, powers, and duties of the Buffalo 
and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority acquired by such authority 
under the compact consented to by the Congress in Public Resolution 
22 of the Seventy-third Congress, approved May 3,1934 (48 Stat. 662), 
to the Niagara Frontier Port Authority; and (4) the consolidation 
of the Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority with the 
Niagara Frontier Port Authority and the termination of the corporate 
existence of the Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority. 
SEC. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this joint resolution is 
hereby expressly reserved. 
Approved July 27, 1956. 
Niagara Frontier 
Port Authority.