An Act granting the consent and approval of Congress to the participation of certain Provinces of the Dominion of Canada in the Northeastern Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact, and for other purposes
PL 82-340 (H.R.4764), enacted 05/13/1952

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PUBLIC LAW 340-MAY 13, 1952 
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appurtenant facilities, known as a portion of former Walsh-Kaiser 
Shipyard, and located at Providence, Rhode Island. 
SEC. 2. The Administrator of General Services is authorized to 
accept on behalf of the United States of America, at a cost not exceed-
ing $1, the conveyance by the Port of Portland, Oregon, of a building 
known as the Child Care Center Building and located on land leased 
from the Port of Portland, at Portland, Oregon, and to transfer with-
out reimbursement the custody and control over such building to the 
Department of the Navy. 
SEC. 3. The Administrator of General Services is authorized to 
convey, without cost and on behalf of Reconstruction Finance Cor-
poration, to the United States of America, one and eighteen one-
hundredths acres of land, known as the remaining portion of the 
former Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Plant, Plancor 1644, located at 
Allentown, Pennsylvania, and to transfer custody and control thereof 
to the Department of the Navy without reimbursement. 
SEC. 4. The transfers and acceptance of conveyances authorized by 
sections 1, 2, and 3 hereof shall not include any inventories of raw 
material or work in progress. 
Approved May 13, 1952. 
Public Law 340 
CHAPTER 267 
AN ACT 
Granting the consent and approval of Congress to the participation of certain 
Provinces of the Dominion of Canada in the Northeastern Interstate Forest 
Fire Protection Compact, and for other purposes. 
May 13, 1952 
[H.R. 4 764] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representativen 
of the 
United States of America in Congress ossenMed^ That the consent 
and approval of Congress is hereby given to the participation in the 
Northeastern Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact in the manner 
provided in, and as a party to, such compact of any Province of the 
Dominion of Canada which is contiguous to any State which is a party 
to such compact, heretofore approved by the Act entitled "An Act 
granting the consent and approval of Congress to an interstate forest 
fire protection compact", approved June 25, 1949 (63 Stat. 271). 
SEC. 2. In order to assist in carrying out the terms of such compact, 
and notwithstanding any other provisions of law— 
(a) the Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with other 
appropriate Federal departments and agencies, may prescribe 
such procedures as he shall deem necessary for the purposes of 
such compact for the entry to the United States of articles of any 
kind. He may also prescribe regulations which permit, for such 
purposes, the return to United States customs territory of any 
articles temporarily exported, and the importation for temporary 
storage or use of any other articles, without entry and without the 
payment of any duty or tax imposed upon or by reason of 
importation; 
(b) the head of any Federal agency, other than the Treasury 
Department, exercising by law any authority with respect to 
imports or exports of any kind, may make such special rules and 
regulations relating to the exercise of such authority as he shall 
deem necessary for the purposes of such compact; and 
(c) the Attorney General, in the case of the immigration laws, 
and the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service with the 
approval of the Federal Security Administrator in the case of the 
Canada. 
Forest Fire Pro-
tection Compact. 
Consent of Con-
gress. 
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^ " public health laws, may make such special rules and regulations 
as they shall deem necessary for the temporary entry of persons 
to the United States for the purposes of such compact. 
SEC. 3. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is expressly 
reserved. 
Approved May 13, 1952. 
May 13, 1952 
[H.R.56S2] 
Public Law 341 
CHAPTER 268 
AN ACT 
To authorize the construction of a dam and dike to prevent the flow of tidal 
waters into North Slough, Coos County, Oregon. 
Oregon. 
Dam and dike. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America 
in Congress assembled^ That authority 
is hereby granted to the State of Oregon, acting through its high-
way department, to construct, maintain, and operate, at a point 
suitable to the interests of navigation, a dam and dike for pre-
venting the flow of tidal waters into North Slough in Coos County, 
in township 24 south, range 13 west, Willamette meridian. 
SEC. 2, Work shall not be commenced on such dam and dike until 
the plans therefor, including plans for all accessory works, are sub-
mitted to and approved by the Chief of Engineers and the Secretary 
of the Army, who may impose such conditions and stipulations as they 
deem necessary for the protection of the United States. 
SEC. 3. The authority granted by this Act shall terminate if the actual 
construction of the dam and dike hereby authorized is not commenced 
within one year and completed within three years from the date of 
the passage of this Act, 
The right to alter, amend, or repeal this 
Act is hereby expressly reserved. 
Approved May 13, 1952. 
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May 15, 1952 
[S. 1365] 
Public Law 342 
CHAPTER 289 
AN ACT 
To assist Federal prisoners in their rehabilitation. 
T i t l e 18, U.S. 
Code, amendment. 
62 Stat. 856. 
48 Stat. 1234. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That chapter 315 
of title 18 of the United States Code is amended by adding the follow-
ing new section: 
"§ 4284. Advances for rehabilitation. 
': 
"(a) The Attorney General, under such regulations as he pre-
scribes, acting for himself or through such officers and employees as 
he designates, may use so much of the trust funds designated as 
'Commissary Funds, Federal Prisons' (31 U. S. C. 725s (22)), as may 
be surplus to other needs of the trust, to provide advances to prison-
ers at the time of their release, as an aid to their rehabilitation. 
"(b) An advance made hereunder shall in no instance exceed $150 
except with the specific approval of the Attorney General, and shall 
in every case be secured by the personal note of the prisoner condi-
tioned to make repayment monthly when employed, or otherwise 
possessed of funds, with interest at a rate not to exceed 6 per centum 
per annum and subject to an agreement on the j^art of the prisoner 
that the funds so advanced shall be expended only for the purposes 
designated in the loan agreement. 
Repayments of principal and