An Act for the relief of the Jefferson and Plaquemines Drainage District and certain persons whose properties abut on the Federal Governments right-of-way for Harvey Canal in Louisiana
PL 84-392 (H.R.1768), enacted 01/25/1956

PUBLIC LAW 392-JAN. 26, 1956 
[70 S T A T . 
The Commission may in such decision redraft the issues urged by the 
protestant in accordance with the facts or substantive matters alleged 
in the protest, and may also specify in such decision that the applica-
tion be set for hearing upon such further issues as it may prescribe, 
as well as whether it is adopting as its own any of the issues resulting 
from the matters specified in the protest. In any hearing subsequently 
held upon such application issues specified by the Commission upon 
its own initiative or adopted by it shall be tried in the same manner 
provided in subsection (b) hereof, but with respect to issues resulting 
from facts set forth in the protest and not adopted or specified by the 
Commission, on its own motion, both the burden of proceeding with 
the introduction of evidence and the burden of proof shall be upon 
the protestant. 
The hearing and determination of cases arising under 
this subsection shall be expedited by the Commission and pending 
hearing and decision the effective date of the Commission's action to 
which protest is made shall be postponed to the effective date of the 
Commission's decision after hearing, unless the authorization involved 
is necessary to the maintenance or conduct of an existing service, or 
unless the Commission affirmatively finds for reasons set forth in the 
decision that the public interest requires that the grant remain in 
effect, in which event the Commission shall authorize the applicant 
to utilize the facilities or authorization in question pending the 
Commission's decision after hearing." 
Approved January 20, 1956. 
Public Law 392 
CHAPTER 2 
AN ACT 
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For the relief of the .lefEerson and Plaquemines Drainage District and certain 
persons whose properties abnt on the Federal Government's right-of-way 
for Harvey Canal in Louisiana. 
January 25, 1956 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
jeffersion^nd United States of America in Congress assembled, That jurisdiction is 
Dra^in^gV^Dis- hereby conferred on the United States District Court for the Eastern 
trict, La. 
District of Louisiana, New Orleans Division, to hear, determine, and 
render judgment fixing the boundary between the east right-of-way 
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line for Harvey Canal (a segment of the Intracoastal Canal in Loui-
siana) , south of the eighty-arpent line, and the abutting properties 
and the easement, servitude and ri^ht of use for levee purposes adja-
cent to said right-of-way line, claimed by the Jefferson and Plaque-
mines Drainage District, and which said right-of-way was conveyed 
to the United States by act of sale from Harvey Canal Land and 
Improvement Company on March 10, 1924, and registered in the 
records of the parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, on March 10, 
1924, in conveyance book 61, folio 443. In the determination of such 
matter all defenses of the United States based upon laches, lapses of 
time, statutes of limitation, prescriptive periods, and estoppel arising 
out of the issuance of permits for any activities or constructions along 
said Harvey Canal, are hereby waived. 
SEC. 2. Such suit may be instituted at any time within one year after 
the enactment of this Act by Jefferson and Plaquemines Drainage 
District or any of said abutting property owners, and any of said 
other parties may join or intervene in such action. 
Nothing in this 
Act shall be construed as an inference of liability on the part of the 
United States. 
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PUBLIC LAW 394-JAN.28, 1956 
SEC. 3. No monetary benefits or claims against the United States 
shall accrue as a result of the determination of the said boundary 
under this Act. 
Approved January 25, 1956. 
Public Law 393 
CHAPTER 12 
AN ACT 
To amend section 6 of the Act of August 30, 1S90, as amended, and section 2 of 
the Act of February 2, 1903, as amended. 
January 28, 1955 
[S. 1166] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United /States of America in Congress assembled, That section 6 of 
the Act of August 30, i890 (26 Stat. 414, 416; 21 IT. S. C. 104), "An 
Act providing for an ins;^ ection of meats for exportation, prohibiting 
the importation of adulterated articles of food or drink, and author-
izing the President to make proclamation in certain cases, and for 
other purposes", as amended, is further amended by deleting the words 
"and the admission into the Virgin Islands" immediately following 
the word "Texas" in the first sentence of such section; deleting the 
period at the end of such sentence; and adding the follow^ing clause 
after the word "therefrom" in such sentence: ", and the admission 
from the British Virgin Islands into the Virgin Islands of the United 
States, for slaughter only, of cattle which have been infested with or 
exposed to ticks upon being freed therefrom.". 
SEC. 2. That section 2 of the Act of February 2, 1903 (32 Stat. 791, 
792; 21 U. S. C. I l l ) , "An Act to enable the Secretary of Agriculture 
to more effectually suppress and prevent the spread of contagious and 
infectious diseases of livestock, and for other purposes", as amended, 
is further amended by deleting the proviso reading: ^'•Provided, That 
no such regulations or measures shall pertain to the introduction of 
live poultry into the Virgin Islands of the United States". 
Approved January 28, 1966. 
Virgin Islands* 
Ad m i s s i o n of 
cattle and poultry. 
68 Stat. 510. 
68 Stat. 510. 
Public Law 394 
CHAPTER 13 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to execute a repayment contract 
with the Yuma Mesa Irrigation and Drainage District, Gila project, Arizona, 
and for other purposes. 
January 28, 1956 
[S. 1689] 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of the Interior is authorized to execute a contract with the Yuma 
Mesa Irrigation and Drainage District, Gila project, Arizona, on 
such terms and conditions as the Secretary deems appropriate, which 
shall provide, among other things, for repayment by the District to 
the United States over a period of not exceeding sixty years from 
the end of the development period for each irrigation block estab-
lished by the Secretary for lands situate within said district of (1) 
an average of $200 per acre for lands in said district for which irri-
gation facilities have been constructed, to be allocated as determined 
to be appropriate by the Secretary among the twelve thousand twenty-
three and six-tenths acres of class 2 lands and the seven thousand 
nine hundred forty-six and four-tenths acres of class 3 lands in the 
district, as classified in the Bureau of Reclamation report titled 
Yuma Mesa Ini-
gatlon D i s t r i c t , 
Ariz. 
Repayment co;n> 
tract.