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PUBLIC LAW 3 3 3 - M A Y 9, 1952

Public Law 333 May 9, 1952 [S. 2160]

Title 18, U. S. Code, amendment. 64 Stat. 1090.

Savannah, Ga. Conveyance.

42 Stat. 1450.

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AN ACT To authorize the Attorney General to admit persons coinmitted by State courts to Federal penal and correctional institutions when facilities are available.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That chapter 401 of title 18 of the United States Code is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof, immediately after section 5002, a new section as follows: "§ 5003. Custody of State offenders. " (a) The Attorney General, when the Director shall certify that proper and adequate treatment facilities and personnel are available, is hereby authorized to contract with the proper officials of a State or Territory for the custody, care, subsistence, education, treatment, and training of persons convicted of criminal offenses in the courts of such State or Territory: Provided, That any such contract shall provide for reimbursing the United States in full for all costs or other expenses involved. " (b) Funds received under such contract may be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation or appropriations from which the payments for such service were originally made. "(c) Unless otherwise specifically provided in the contract, a person committed to the Attorney General hereunder shall be subject to all the provisions of law and regulations applicable to persons committed for violations of laws of the United States not inconsistent with the sentence imposed." SEC. 2. The analysis of chapter 401 of said title 18 of the United States Code is amended by inserting at the end of such analysis a new item, "5003. Custody of State offenders." Approved May 9, 1952.

Public Law 334 May 13, 1952 [S. 1650]

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AN ACT To provide for the release of the right, title, and interest of the United States in a certain tract or parcel of land conditionally granted by it to the city of Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Army is authorized and directed to convey, relinquish, and release to the city of Savannah, Chatham County, State of Georgia, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to a certain tract or parcel of land conditionally granted to such city under the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the sale of real property no longer required for military purposes", approved March 4, 1923. Such land is situated in such city and is more particularly described as follows: All of the land known as Fort Jackson (formerly Fort Oglethorpe), Georgia, being the property conveyed to Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, and his successors in office, by deed dated May 16, 1808, from Nichol Turnbull, recorded in the clerk's office of Chatham County, in book BB, folio 162, May 17, 1808, said property being described therein as follows: "All that wharf lot known by the number 12 situate in New Deptford, formerly known by the name of Five Fathom Hole on the Savannah River, east of the city of Savannah, containing two hundred feet front on said river, three

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