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 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3 D SESS.-CHS. 31, 32-MAR. 1, 2 , 1940 [CHAPTER 31] JOINT RESOLUTION Making available for the fiscal year 1940 an additional amount from the special funds heretofore set up for the payment of compensation benefits authorized by certain Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the paragraph of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1940, under the heading "Employees' Compensation Fund, Emergency Relief", is hereby amended by striking out the sum "$3,200,000" and inserting in lieu thereof the sum "$4,700,000". Approved, March 1, 1940. [CHAPTER 32] AN ACT To authorize the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to transfer by quitclaim deed to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, for right-of-way purposes, a small strip of land at Veterans' Administration facility, Coatesville, Pennsylvania. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Adminis- trator of Veterans' Affairs be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to transfer by quitclaim deed to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the following-described property located at Veterans' Administration facility, Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania: Beginning at a point, said point being marked by an iron pin and set in the southwest corner of the Veterans' Administration Reserva- tion as now constituted, said point also being in the northerly right- of-way line of the Pennsylvania Railroad right-of-way and fifty feet distant from the center thereof; said point also being directly opposite center line station 1972 plus 28.5 of the eastern region, Eastern Penn- sylvania Division Philadelphia Division of the Pennsylvania Rail- road; thence north, no degrees fifty minutes no seconds west along the westerly boundary line of the Government Reservation, a distance of forty-two and forty one-hundredths feet to a point; thence, along a curve to the left having a radius of five thousand six hundred and forty feet, a distance of six hundred and thirty-one and ninety-seven one-hundredths feet, the chord of which curve bears south seventy- four degrees thirty-four minutes six seconds east, a distance of six hundred and thirty-one and sixty-four one-hundredths feet; thence south thirty-four degrees fifty-one minutes and no seconds west along one of the boundary lines of the Government Reservation, a distance of forty-three and thirty-one one-hundredths feet to a point, said point being in the northerly right-of-way line of the Pennsylvania Railroad right-of-way and fifty feet distant from the center thereof, said point also being directly opposite center line station 1966 plus 17.55; thence, along a curve to the right having a radius of five thousand six hundred and eighty feet a distance of six hundred and five and sixty-five one-hundredths feet the chord of which curve bears north seventy-four degrees thirty-three minutes twenty seconds west, a distance of six hundred and five and thirty-six one-hundredths feet; said curve being the south boundary line of the Government Reserva- tion and the north boundary line of the Pennsylvania Railroad right- of-way to the point of beginning, containing in all an area of five hundred and sixty-eight one-thousandths acre, more or less. Approved, March 2, 1940. 37 March 1, 1940 [H. J. Res. 456] [Pub. Res., No. 66] Employees' Com- pensation Fund, Emergency Relief. 53 Stat. 531 . Amount for 1940 in- creased. March 2,1940 Is. 2867] IPublic, No. 418] Coatesville, Pa. Certain property lo- cated at, transfer to Pennsylvania Rail- road Company. Description.

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