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 [55 STAT. PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 594-596-DEC. 19, 1941 Utilization of Government agencies. SEC. 4. The commission is authorized, in carrying out its functions under this joint resolution, to utilize the services, information, facili- ties, and personnel of the departments and agencies of the Government. Approved, December 19, 1941. [CHAPTER 595] AN ACT December 19, 1941 [H. R. 4854] To facilitate and simplify the administration of the Federal reclamation laws and [Public Law 356] the Act of August 11, 1939, as amended. Administration of Federal reclamation laws. 43U..C., ch.12. Delegationofpowers and duties. 16U.S. C. §§590y- 590z-10. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the pur- pose of facilitating and simplifying the administration of the Fed- eral reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388 and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto) and the Act of August 11, 1939 (53 Stat. 1418), as amended, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to delegate, from time to time and to the extent and under such regulations as he deems proper, his powers and duties under said laws to the Commissioner of Reclamation, an Assistant Commissioner, or the officer in charge of any office, divi- sion, district, or project of the Bureau of Reclamation. Approved, December 19, 1941. [CHAPTER 596] AN ACT December 19, 1941 [H. R. 5305] Authorizing the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to grant easements in certain [Public Law 357] lands to the town of Bedford, Massachusetts, for road-widening purposes. Bedford, Mass. Grant of easements for road-widening pur- poses. 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 is authorized and directed to grant ease- ments, subject to any rights which the Boston and Maine Railroad Company may have in and over tract numbered 2, to the town of Bedford, Massachusetts, for road-widelling purploses, in two small strips of land of the Veterans' Adnilnistration facility in such town, described as follows: TRACT NUMBERED 1 Beginning at a point in the northeasterly line of Page or Pine Hill Road at the southerly corner of the property of the United States of America and known as Veterans' Administration Facility, Bed- ford, Massachusetts, north twenty-six degrees twenty-six minutes and thirty seconds west one hundred and seventeen and ninety-six one- hundredths feet along the northeasterly line of said road to a point in the new northeasterly street line as laid out by the county com- missioners of Middlesex County on December 20. 1940: thence south twenty-eight degrees ten minutes and five seconds east one hundred and sixteen and forty-four one-hundredths feet along the said new northeasterly street line to a point in the southeasterly property line of the United States of America; thence south thirty-nine degrees twenty-three minutes and forty seconds west three and eighty-five one- hundredths feet along the southeasterly property line of the United States of America to the point of beginning, containing five one- hundredths acre, more or less. 842

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