An Act to provide for the conveyance of a portion of the Fort Devens Military Reservation, Mass., to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
PL 84-142 (S.107), enacted 07/11/1955

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mated cost of any building included in such project shall be $10,000. 
2. For all other programs, the maximum currently estimated cost 
of any project shall be $500,000 and the maximum currently estimated 
cost of any building included in such a project shall be $100,000. 
3. The total cost of all projects undertaken under subsection 101 
(1) shall not exceed the estimated cost set forth in that subsection by 
more than 10 per centum. 
SEC. 103. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated funds for 
advance planning, construction design, and architectural services, in 
connection with projects which are not otherwise authorized by law, 
and the Atomic Energy Commission is authorized to use funds cur-
rently or otherwise available to it for such purposes. 
SEC. 104. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated funds 
necessary to restore or to replace plants or facilities destroyed or other-
wise seriously damaged, and the Atomic Energy Commission is 
authorized to use funds currently or otherwise available to it for such 
j)urposes. 
SEC. 105. In addition to the sums authorized to be appropriated to 
the Atomic Energy Commission by section 101 of this Act, there are 
hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Atomic Energy Commis-
sion to accomplish the purposes of this Act such sums of money as may 
be currently available to the Atomic Energy Commission. 
SEC. 106. Funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act may be used to start any other new project for 
which an estimate was not included in this Act if it be a substitute for 
a project authorized in subsections 101 (a), 101 (d), or 101 (f), and 
the estimated cost thereof is within the limit of cost of the project for 
which substitution is to be made, and the Commission certifies that— 
(a) the new project is essential to the common defense and 
security; and 
(b) the new project is required by changes in weapon charac-
teristics or weapon logistic operations; 
(c) it is unable to enter into a contract with any person, includ-
ing a licensee, on terms satisfactory to the Commission to furnish 
from a privately owned plant or facility the product or services 
to be provided in the new project. 
Approved July 11, 1955. 
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Replacement 
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Public Law 142 
CHAPTER 305 
AN ACT 
To provide for the conveyance of a portion of the Fort Devens Military Reser-
vation, Massachusetts, to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
July 11, 1955 
[S. 107] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assernbled^ That the Secretary 
of the Army is authorized to convey to the Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and 
to a tract of land comprising sixty-six acres, more or less, together 
with buildings and improvements thereon, being a portion of Fort 
Devens Military Reservation and being the same property now utilized 
by the Massachusetts National Guard under a license granted by the 
Secretary of the Army, subject, however, to reservation in the United 
States of all mineral rights, including gas and oil, in the land author-
ized to be conveyed by this Act. 
SEC, 2. The conveyance of the property identified in section 1 of 
this Act to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts shall be made without 
consideration therefor and upon condition that it shall be used for 
Fort 
D e v e n s 
Military Reserva-
tion, Mass. 
Conveyance. 
Use. 
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gency. 
Cost of surveys. 
training of the National Guard and the Air National Guard and for 
other military purposes, and in the event it shall not be used for such 
purposes title thereto shall immediately revert to the United States, 
and, in addition, title to all improvements made by the Commonwealth 
of Massachusetts during its occupancy shall vest in the United States 
without payment of compensation therefor. The deed of conveyance 
shall also provide for such reservations and joint use of facilities as 
the Secretary of the Army determines as necessary for the use and 
maintenance of Fort Devens and contain the further provision that 
whenever the Congress of the United States shall declare a state of 
war or other national emergency, or the President declares a state 
of emergency to exist, and upon the determination by the Secretary 
of Defense that the property so conveyed is useful or necessary for 
military, air, or naval purposes, or in the interest of national defense, 
the United States shall have the right without charge to reenter upon 
the property and use the same or any part thereof, including any and 
all improvements made by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for 
a period not to exceed the duration of such state of war or national 
emergency plus six months and upon cessation of such use, such prop-
erty shall revert to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, together 
with any or all improvements thereon and appurtenances appertaining 
thereto. 
SEC. 3. The cost of any surveys necessary as an incident of the con-
veyance authorized herein shall be borne oy the grantee. 
Approved July 11, 1955, 
July 11, 1955 
[S. 1725] 
Public Law 143 
CHAPTER 306 
AN ACT 
To repeal two provisions of law requiring that certain military personnel shall 
be paid monthly. 
10 u s e 861. 
Be it cTiacted iy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 1268 
of the Revised Statutes is repealed. 
SEC. 2. The last proviso in subtitle "PAY" of the Act of August 30, 
1890 (26 Stat. 400), is repealed. 
Approved July 11, 1955. 
July 12, 1955 
[S. 804] 
Public Law 144 
CHAPTER 325 
AN ACT 
To amend section 201 (d) of the Career Compensation Act of 1949, as amended, 
to provide for advance payments of certain pay and allowances of members 
of the uniformed services, and for other purposes. 
Uniformed se 
ices. 
Advance pay. 
Ante, 
p. 19. 
37 u s e 232. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Career 
Compensation Act of 1949, as amended, is further amended by adding 
at the end of subsection 201 (d) the following provision: "Any pay 
and allowances authorized by this Act which will lawfully accrue to 
members for their return home incident to release from active duty 
or training duty may be paid to such members prior to their departure 
from their last duty station incident to such release, without regard to 
the actual performance of such travel.". 
Approved July 12, 1955,