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PUBLIC LAW 4 4 1 - J U L Y 3, 1952

Public Law 441 [uly 3, 1952 [H. R. 5599]

Centre Hill Mansion, Petersburg, Va. Conveyance.

P o s t a l service. 59 Stat. 455. 39 USC 867.

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To provide for the convej'ance of the Centre Hill Mansion, Petersburg, Virginia, to the Petersburg Battlefield Museum Corporation, and for other purposes. 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 convey, without cost, to the Petersburg Battlefield Museum Corporation, Petersburg, Virginia, the property situated in Petersburg, Virginia, known as the Centre Hill Mansion, and the land on which such property is situated, which is the property as conveyed to the United States of America by Edgar S. Bowling by deed dated May 29, 1937, and recorded in deed book numbered 137, page 159, in the clerk's office of the Hustings Court of the city of Petersburg, Virginia: Provided, That such conveyance shall be made on condition that the mansion property shall be administered and maintained in the public interest as a public museum and that such revenues as may be obtained from the administration or operation of the said museum shall be used to continue its administration and preservation in the public interest. The transfer may be effected subject to any additional terms and conditions which the Secretary of the Interior may consider to be advisable in carrying out the purpose of this Act. Approved July 3, 1952.

CHAPTER 551

AN ACT To provide that salaries of rural carriers serving heavily patronized routes shall not be reduced by reason of increases in the length of such routes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 17(d) of the Act of July 6, 1945 (Public Law 134, Seventy-ninth Congress), as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "In case any such heavily patronized route is extended in length, the regular or temporary rural carrier assigned to such route at the lime of such extension shall not be reduced in pay." Approved July 3, 1952. Public Law 443

July 3, 1952 [ H. R; 7758]

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Public Law 442 Jiily 3, 1952 [H. R. 6754]

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CHAPTER 552

AN ACT To revise certain laws relating to the mail-messenger service. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the part of the Act of July 28, 1916, entitled "An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes'' (ch. 261, 39 Stat. 418), and the part of the Act of June 3, 1924, entitled "An Act authorizing the Postmaster General to contract for mailmessenger service" (ch, 237, 43 Stat. 356), as codified in section 579^ title 39, United States Code, is hereby amended to read as follows: "In the discretion of the Postmaster General, postmasters, assistant postmasters, clerks, and rural carriers at post offices of the third and

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