An Act to provide for the conveyance of all right, title, and interest of the United States in a certain tract of land in Macon County, Ga., to the Georgia State Board of Education
PL 84-116 (H.R.2973), enacted 06/30/1955

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higher grade while 
on active duty. 
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qualified for promotion. 
A nonunit officer so removed from a recom-
mended list shall, for the purposes of section 311 be deemed to have 
been considered and not recommended for promotion." 
SEC. 8. Section 314 is amended by inserting the words "other than 
the Judge Advocate General's Corps" after the words "special branch" 
appearing in subsection (a) and by substituting "sections 303, 311, 
or 333" for "section 311" appearing m subsection (d). 
SEC. 9. Section 325 is amended by inserting a colon after the words 
"Eetired Reserve", by deleting that portion of the section following 
such colon, and by adding the following new subsections: 
"(a) If not on active duty, within ninety days after the second selec-
tion board submits its report to the convening authority; or 
"(b) If on active duty, one hundred twenty days after being notified 
of his second nonselection." 
SEC. 10. Section 333 is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 333. (a) A Reserve officer on active duty who is promoted to a 
grade higher than that in which he is serving shall continue to serve 
on active duty in the grade in which he was serving immediately 
before that promotion and shall, unless he expressly declines such 
promotion, be deemed to have accepted, effective on the date of such 
promotion, a temporary appointment in the grade in which serving. 
If he does not desire to continue on active duty in the grade in which 
serving, he may. except as provided in subsection (b) hereof, elect to 
be relieved from active duty and shall be promoted on the day subse-
quent to such relief or on the day he would have been promoted had 
he remained on active duty, whichever is the later. If his relief from 
active duty occurs subsequent to the date he would have been promoted 
had he remained on active duty, he shall be credited with the amount 
of promotion service that he would have had if he had remained on 
active duty and been promoted. 
"(b) A Reserve officer on active duty who is recommended or 
found qualified for promotion and who has not completed his period 
of required active duty as a member of a reserve component under 
any provision of law or regulation shall not have the election of relief 
from active duty as provided in subsection (a) hereof but may decline 
a promotion if he does not desire to serve on active duty in a grade 
lower than his permanent grade. A person who so declines a promo-
tion shall, if he applies therefor, be promoted upon being temporarily 
promoted to that higher grade or, subject to subsection (a), ui^on 
completing his period of required active duty." 
SEC. 11. Section 337 of such Act is hereby repealed. 
Approved June 30,1955. 
June 30, 1955 
[H. R. 2973] 
Public Law 116 
CHAPTER 248 
AN ACT 
To provide for the conveyance of all right, title, and interest of the United States 
in a certain tract of land in Macon County, Georgia, to the Georgia State Board 
of Education. 
M a c o n County, 
Ga. 
Conveyance. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Home of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America 
in Congress assembled, That upon the 
written consent of the Georgia Livestock Development Authority, 
the United States of America, acting through the Administrator of 
the Farmers Home Administration, is authorized and directed to con-
vey by quitclaim deed to the Georgia State Board of Education, its 
successors and assigns, all of the right, title, and interest retained by 
the United States of America in its quitclaim deed to the Georgia State 
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Board of Education, dated December 18, 1945, and recorded on Janu-
ary 28, 1946, in deed record book WW, page 156, in the office of the 
clerk of the Superior Court of Macon County, Georgia, covering a 
tract of land containing two hundred twenty-six and one hundred 
forty-eight one-thousandths acres more or less, in Macon County, 
Georgia, and more particularly described as follows: 
That certain tract or parcel of land known as the Barrow Place in 
the Ninth District of Macon County (formerly Houston County), 
Georgia, and described on the plat of said county as lot 161 in said 
district and county, and more particularly described as follows: 
"Beginning at the northeast corner of the said land lot, said corner 
being an iron axle and thence along the east line of said road south 
one degree sixteen minutes fifty-eight seconds east 3,263.79 feet to an 
iron pipe, thence north eighty-nine degrees eleven minutes forty-three 
seconds west 3,056.88 feet to an iron pipe, thence north zero degrees 
fifteen minutes eight seconds west 3,246.16 feet to an iron pipe, thence 
south eighty-nine degrees thirty minutes four seconds east 2,998.04 
feet to the point of beginning, containing 226.148 acres, more or less." 
Approved June 30, 1955. 
Public Law 117 
CHAPTER 249 
AN ACT 
To amend I'ublic Law 727, Kighty-third Coiigi-ess, 8
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» as to extend the period 
for the making of emergency loans for agricultural purposes. 
June 30, 1955 
[S. 15^82] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Houne of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first sen-
tence of the Act entitled "An Act to provide emergency credit", 
approved August 31, 1954 (Public Law 727, Pjighty-third Congress), 
is amended by striking out "1955" and inserting in lieu thereof "1957"'. 
Approved June 30, 1955. 
Agriculture. 
E m e r g e n c y 
loans. 
68 Stat. 999. 
12 u s e 1148a-l 
note. 
Public Law 118 
CHAPTER 250 
AN ACT 
To further amend the Universal Military Training and Service Act by extending 
the authority to induct certain individuals and by extending the authority to 
require the special registration, classification, and induction of certain medical, 
dental, and allied specialist categories, and for other purposes. 
June 30, 19S5 
[H. R. 3005] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That this Act may 
be cited as the "1955 Amendments to the Universal Military Training 
and Service Act''. 
TITLE I 
1 9 5 5 
A m e n d -
ments to the Uni-
versal 
M i l i t a r y 
Training and Serv-
ice Act. 
SEC. 101. (a) Subsection (a) of section 6 of the Universal Military 
Training and Service Act, as amended, is amended by inserting at the 
end thereof the following new sentence: "Any person who subsequent 
to June 24, 1948, serves on active duty for a period of not less than 
eighteen months in the armed forces of a nation with which the 
United States is associated in mutual defense activities as defined 
by the President, may be exempted from training and service, but 
not from registration, in accordance with regulations prescribed by 
the President, except tliat no such exemption shall be granted to any 
person who is a national of a country which does not grant reciprocal 
Exemptions and 
deferments. 
65 Stat. 83. 
SOUSCapp. 456.