An Act to amend the charter of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America so as to limit membership on the National Council of Girl Scouts to citizens of the United States, to authorize meetings of the national council as provided in the constitution, and to authorize an annual report based upon the preceding fiscal year.
PL 83-272 (H.R.6252), enacted 08/14/1953

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PUBLIC LAW 272-AUG. 14, 1953 
[67 ST A T . 
5 IJSC 857. 
Effective date. 
SEC. 2. The first proviso in section 8 of the Veterans' Preference Act 
of 1944 is amended by striking out the word "considered" and inserting 
in lieu thereof the words "shall be complied with". 
SEC, 3. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to take away from 
any preference eligible who files an application before the date on 
which this Act takes effect any preference in connection with such 
application which he would have been entitled to under provisions of 
law in effect immediately prior to such date. 
SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after the date 
of its enactment. 
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Approved August 14, 1953. 
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August 14, 1953 
[H. R. 6252] 
Public Law 272 
CHAPTER 486 
AN ACT 
To amend the charter of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America so as 
to limit membership on the National Council of Girl Scouts to citizens of the 
United States, to authorize meetings of the national council as provided in the 
constitution, and to authorize an annual report based upon the preceding 
fiscal year. 
National Council 
of Girl Scouts. 
64 Stat. 23. 
36 u s e 34, 35. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Refresentatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That sections 4 and 
5 of the Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Girl Scouts of the 
United States of America, and for other purposes", approved March 
16, 1950, are hereby amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 4. There shall be a National Council of Girl Scouts (herein-
after referred to as the 'national council'), which shall have power 
to make and amend a constitution and bylaws, and to elect a board of 
directors, and officers and agents. The number, qualifications, and 
terms of office of members of the national council shall be prescribed 
by the constitution, except that they shall be citizens of the United 
States. The constitution may prescribe the number of members of 
the national council necessary to constitute a quorum, which number 
may be less than a majority of the whole number. The affairs of the 
corporation between meetings of the national council shall be man-
aged by a board of directors, except that the bylaws may provide for 
an executive committee to exercise the powers of the board of directors 
in the interim between its meetings, and for other committees to 
operate under the general supervision of the board of directors. The 
number, qualifications, and terms of office of members of the board 
of directors shall be prescribed by the constitution. The constitution 
may prescribe the number of members of the board of directors 
necessary to constitute a quorum which number shall not be less than 
twenty, or two-fifths of the whole number. Tlie board of directors, 
to the extent provided in the constitution and bylaws, shall have 
the powers of the national council, in the interim between its meet-
ings. The national council, or between meetings thereof, the board 
of directors, may authorize and cause to be executed leases, mort-
gages, and liens upon, and sales and conveyances of, any of the prop-
erty of the corporation; and the proceeds arising therefrom shall be 
applied or invested for the use and benefit of the corporation. 
"SEC. 5. Meetings of the national council shall be held as provided 
in the constitution, for elections, and to receive the reports of the 
officers and board of directors. 
Special meetings may be called as 
prescribed in the constitution. The national council and the board 
of directors shall have power to hold meetings and keep the seal, 
books, documents, and papers of the corporation within or Without 
the District of Columbia." 
67 S T A T . ] 
PUBLIC LAW 274-AUG. 14, 19S3 
583 
SEC. 2. Section 7 of such Act is hereby amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 7. On or before the first day of April of each year the cor-
poration shall make and transmit to Congress a report of its proceed-
ings for the preceding fiscal year, including a full, complete and 
itemized report of receipts and expenditures of whatever kind." 
Approved August 14, 1953. 
36 u s e 37. 
Report. 
Public Law 273 
CHAPTER 487 
AN ACT 
To authorize the utilization of a limited amount of storage space in Lake Texoma 
for the purpose of water supply for the City of Denison, Texas. 
August 14, 1953 
[H. R. 6813] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Chief of 
Engineers is hereby authorized to contract with the City of Denison, 
Texas, upon such terms and for such period, not exceeding fifty years, 
as he may deem reasonable, for the use of not to exceed 21,300 acre-feet 
of storage space in Lake Texoma, for the purpose of providing said 
city a regulated water supply in an amount not to exceed 13,000 acre-
feet annually: Provided, That the project for Denison Dam authorized 
by the Flood Control Act of June 28, 1938, as modified by section 4 
of the River and Harbor Act of October 17, 1940, is hereby further 
modified accordingly: Provided 
further, 
That all moneys received 
shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous 
receipts: Provided further. That nothing in this Act shall affect water 
rights under State law. 
Approved August 14, 1953. 
Denison, Tex. 
Water 
s t o r a g e 
space. 
52 Stat. 1219. 
54 Stat. 1200. 
Public Law 274 
CHAPTER 488 
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August 14, 1953 
To provide for abatement of jeopardy assessments when jeopardy does not exist. 
[H. R. 6402] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and. House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) section 273 
of the Internal Revenue Code (relating to the abatement of jeopardy 
assessments of income taxes) is hereby amended by adding at the end 
thereof the following new subsection: 
" (a) ABATEMENT IF JEOPARDY DOES NOT EXIST.—The Secretary may 
abate the jeopardy assessment if he finds that jeopardy does not exist. 
Such abatement may not be made after a decision of The Tax Court of 
the United States in respect of the deficiency has been rendered, or, if 
no petition is filed with The Tax Court of the United States, after the 
expiration of the period for filing such petition. 
The period of limita-
tion on the making of assessments and the beginning of distraint or a 
proceeding in court for collection, in respect of any deficiency, shall be 
determined as if the jeopardy assessment so abated had not been made, 
except that the running of such period shall in any event be suspended 
for the period from the date of such jeopardy assessment until the 
expiration of the tenth day after the day on which such jeopardy 
assessment is abated." 
(b) Sections 872 and 1013 (relating to the abatement of jeopardy 
assessments of estate and gift taxes, respectively) are hereby amended 
by adding at the end of each of such sections the following new sub-
section : 
53 Stat. 84. 
26 u s e 273. 
26 u s e 
1013. 
872,