An Act to amend title 14, United States Code, so as to provide for compensatory absence of Coast Guard military personnel serving at isolated aids to navigation, and for other purposes
PL 84-290 (S.2566), enacted 08/09/1955

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PUBLIC LAW 291-AUG. 9, 1955 
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witliin the meaning of the Constitution and laws of the United States. 
SEC. 2. The line hereinbefore described shall be established as a 
combined pierhead and bulkhead line of the West River. 
SEC. 3. Any project heretofore authorized by an Act of Congress, 
insofar as such project relates to the above-described portion of the 
West River, is hereby abandoned. 
SEC. 4. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby 
exj^ressly reserved. 
Approved August 9, 1955. 
Public Law 290 
CHAPTER 650 
AN ACT 
To amend title 14, United States Code, so as to provide for compensatory absence 
of Coast Guard military personnel serving at isolated aids to navigation, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Hou,^e of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, That section 432 (f) 
of title 14, United States Code, is amended by inserting the words 
"as amended" following the words "Federal I^mployees Pay Act of 
1945". 
SEC. 2. Section 432 (g) of title 14, United States Code, is amended 
by amending the first sentence thereof to read as follows: "The head 
of the department in which the Coast (hiard is operating, under regu-
lations prescribed bj^ him, may regulate the hours of duty and the pay 
of civilian keepers of lighthouses and civilians employed on lightships 
and other vessels of the Coast Guard, but such ])ersonnel may be called 
upon for duty in emergency circumstances or otherwise at any time 
or all times". 
SEC. 3. The analysis of chapter 13 of title 14, United States Code, 
is amended by inserting in such analysis the following item: 
"511. Compensatory absence of military personnel at isolated aids to navigation." 
SEC. 4. Chapter 13 of title 14, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting a new section as follows: 
"§51l. Compensatory absence of military personnel at isolated aids 
to navigation. 
"The head of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, 
under regulations prescribed by him, may grant compensatory absence 
from duty to military personnel of the Coast Guard serving in light-
ships and at lighthouses and other isolated aids to navigation of the 
Coast Guard when conditions of duty result in confinement because 
of isolation or in long periods of continuous duty." 
Approved August 9, 1955, 
August 9, 1955 
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Coast Guard. 
63 Stat. 526. 
63 Stat. 529. 
Public Law 291 
CHAPTER 651 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
August 9. 1955 
To authorize the Texas Hill Country Development Foundation to convey certain 
[H.J. Res. 276] 
land to Kerr County, Texas. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That, notwithstanding the 
second paragraph of the joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution to 
provide for the conveyance to the Texas Hill Country Development 
Foundation of certain surplus land situated in Kerr County, Texas", 
approved June 28, 1954 (Private Law 480, P]ighty-third Congress), or 
Texas Hill Coun-
try D e v e l o p m e n t 
Foundation* 
Conveyance. 
68 Stat. A98. 
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