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PUBLIC LAW 562-JULY 16, 1952

Public Law 562 July 16, 1952 [H. R. 6521]

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AN ACT To amend section 4472 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, to further provide for the safe loading and discharging of explosives in connection with transportation by vessel.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Expiosives on United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 4472 of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the Act of October 9, 1940 54 Stat. 1023. (46 U.S.C. sec. 170), is further amended by adding the followingparagraph to subsection (7) thereof: Loading and dis"(e) The United States Coast Guard shall issue no permit or authorcharging. ization for the loading or discharging to or from any vessel at any point or place in the United States, its territories or possessions (not including Panama Canal Zone) of any explosives unless such explosives, for which a permit is required by the regulations promulgated pursuant to this section, are packaged, marked, and labeled in conformity with regulations prescribed by the Interstate Commerce Commission under section 835 of title 18 of the United States Code, and 62 Stat. 739. unless such permit or authorization specifies that the limits as to maximum quantity, isolation and remoteness established by local, municipal, territorial, or State authorities for each port shall not be exceeded. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to limit or restrict the shipment, transportation, or handling of military explosives by or for the Armed Forces of the United States." Approved July 16, 1952.

Public Law 563 July 16, 1952 [H. R. 7126]

Richmond, Calif. Conveyance.

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AN ACT To authorize and direct the Secretary of Commerce to convey certain land and grant certain easements to the State of California for highway-construction purposes in IJichmond, California.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the Secretary of Commerce is authorized and directed to donate and convey to the State of California all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to certain land (hereinafter referred to as "Parcel A") located between Railroad Avenue and Castro Street in the city of Richmond, California. Such land, which contains approximately two hundred and fifty-seven one-thousandths acre (eleven thousand one hundred and seventy-eight square feet), comprises a portion of lots 22 and 23 in section 14, township 1 north, range 5 west. Mount Diablo base and meridian, as shown on the map entitled "Map No. 1, Salt Marsh and Tide Lands situate in the County of Contra Costa, State of California, 1872" (on file in the oiRce of the surveyor general), and is more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the northeasterly corner of lot 2 in block 14 as said lot and block are shown on the map of Osborne's Addition, filed in map book "E", at page 107, in the office of the County Recorder of Contra Costa County; thence along the northerly and northeasterly line of said block 14, north seventy-seven degrees fourteen minutes twentyeight seconds west, nineteen and seventy-nine one-hundredths feet and north forty degrees forty minutes four seconds west, one hundred fifty-eight and seventy-seven one-hundredths feet to the property line common to the lands, now or formerly, of United States of America

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