An Act to provide for the conveyance of part of Ethan Allen Air Force Base, Colchester, Vt., to the State of Vermont, and for other purposes.
PL 84-706 (S.1961), enacted 07/14/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 706-JULY 14, 1956 
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Library of Con-
gress. 
61 Stat. 652. 
49 Stat. 859. 
Effective date. 
" (2) Section 3 of the Act entitled 'An Act to apply a portion of the 
proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and sup-
port of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts 
established under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July 
second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two', approved August 30, 1890 
(26 Stat. 418; 7 U. S. C, sec. 325) ; and ^ 
" (3) The proviso contained in the third paragraph under the head-
ing 'General Expenses, Office of Experiment Stations' under the cap-
tion 'Office of Experiment Stations' in the Act entitled 'An Act mak-
ing appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal 
year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen', approved 
June 30,1914 (38 Stat. 438; 39 U. S. C, sec. 330). 
"SEC. 5. There shall be paid to the Post Office Department, as postal 
revenue, out of appropriations made to the Library of Congress for 
such purpose, the equivalent amount of postage, as determined pursu-
ant to regulations prescribed by the Postmaster General, for matter 
sent in the mails without prepayment of postage under authority of 
section 15 of title 17 of the United States Code." 
SEC. 2. (a) The first sentence of section 306 of the Penalty Mail Act 
of 1948 (62 Stat. 1049; 39 U. S. C , sec. 321n), is amended by striking 
out", free of postage," and inserting in lieu thereof "as penalty mail'. 
(b) The second sentence of such section 306 is amended to read as 
follows: "Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to pro-
hibit (1) the transmission in the mail, as penalty mail, of such books, 
reports, periodicals, bulletins, pamphlets, lists, articles, or documents 
to educational institutions, to public libraries, or to Federal, State, or 
other public authorities and (2) the transmission in the mail, as pen-
alty mail, of lists of agricultural bulletins, lists of public documents 
which are offered for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Gov-
ernment Printing Office, or announcements of publications of maps, 
atlases, and statistical and other reports offered for sale by the Federal 
Power Commission under authority of section 312 of the Federal 
Power Act (16 U. S. C, sec. 825k)." 
SEC. 3. The amendments made by this Act shall take effect on 
July 1,1956. 
Approved July 14, 1956. 
July 14, 1956 
[S. 1961] 
Ethan Allen Air 
Force Base, Col-
chester, Vt. 
Conveyance. 
Public Law 706 
C H A P T E R 592 
AN ACT 
To provide for the conveyance of part of Ethan Allen Air Force Base, Colchester, 
Vermont, to the State of Vermont, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted l>y the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary 
of the Air Force is authorized and directed to convey to the State of 
Vermont all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to 
certain land comprising a part of the Ethan Allen Air Force Base, 
together with improvements thereon, and appurtenances thereto be-
longing; such property being more particularly described as follows: 
Parcel Numbered 1: Beginning at a brick masonry pillar, such pillar 
being at the intersection of the southwesterly property line of Ethan 
Allen Air Force Base and the northwesterly side of Vermont Highway 
Numbered 15 and running thence north 45 degrees 30 minutes west 
243.6 feet more or less along such property line; thence north 44 
degrees 30 minutes east 55 feet more or less across a road to a bound; 
thence north 81 degrees 43 minutes east 176.9 feet more or less to a 
bound; thence south 44 degrees 14 minutes east 47.7 feet more or less 
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to a bound; thence south 7 degrees 50 minutes east 162.9 feet more 
or less to a brick masonry pillar on the northwesterly side of Vermont 
Highway Numbered 15; and thence in a southwesterly direction along 
such highway to the place of beginning. 
Parcel numbered 2: Being a strip of land 55 feet wide adjacent to 
and on the northeasterly side of the southwesterly property line of the 
Ethan Allen Air Force Base, beginning on such property line at a 
point 243.6 feet more or less northwesterly from the beginning point 
in parcel numbered 1 and extending in a northwesterly direction along 
such property line for a distance of 2,785 feet, more or less. 
The 
property authorized to be conveyed herein shall include the hydrant 
line along Feigle Street. 
SEC. 2. The property authorized to be conveyed by the first section 
of this x4.ct shall be used for the training of the National Guard of 
Vermont and for other military purposes, and the conveyance author-
ized herein shall be made without monetary consideration therefor, 
but shall be subject to the reservation by the United States of all 
mineral rights, including oil and gas; the right of reentry and use by 
the United States in the event of need therefor during a national 
emergency declared by the President or the Congress; and the con-
dition and limitation that if the property shall fail or cease to be used 
for the training of the National Guard of Vermont or for other 
military purposes, the title to the property so conveyed shall revert 
to and revest in the United States, and all improvements made thereon 
during its occupancy by the State of Vermont shall vest in the United 
States without payment of compensation therefor. 
SEC. 3. The costs of any surveys necessary as an incident of the con-
veyance authorized herein shall be borne by the State of Vermont. 
Approved July 14, 1956. 
National G u a r d 
training, etc. 
Public Law 707 
CHAPTER 593 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of Defense to lend certain Army, Navy, and Air Force 
equipment and to provide transportation and other services to the Boy Scouts 
of America in connection with the World Jamboree of Boy Scouts to be held 
in England in 1957; and for other purposes. 
July 14, 1956 
[S. 2772] 
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 Defense is hereby authorized, under such regulations as he may 
prescribe, to lend to the National Council, Boy Scouts of America, for 
the use and accommodation of the approximately fifteen hundred 
Scouts, Scouters and officials who are to attend the World Jamboree, 
Boy Scouts, to be held in England in July and August 1957, such tents, 
cots, blankets, commissary equipment, flags, refrigerators, and other 
equipment and services as may be necessary or useful to the extent that 
items are in stock and available and their issue will not jeopardize the 
national defense program. 
(b) Such equipment is authorized to be delivered at such time prior 
to the holding of such jamboree, and to be returned at such time after 
the close of such jamboree, as may be agreed upon by the Secretary of 
Defense and the National Council, Boy Scouts of America. 
No 
expense shall be incurred by the United States Government for the 
delivery, return, rehabilitation, or replacement of such equipment. 
(c) The Secretary of Defense, before delivering such property, 
shall take from the National Council, Boy Scouts of America, good 
and sufficient bond for the safe return of such property in good order 
and condition, and the whole without expense to the United States. 
World Jamboree 
of Boy Scouts. 
Equipment. 
Delivery and re-
turn. 
Bond.