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fifty-eight feet to the point where the line leaves Hancock Creek); thence running in a northerly direction along the meanders of the east bank of Hancock Creek to a point; thence leaving the east bank of Hancock Creek and running north seventy-two degrees no minutes east a distance of one thousand two hundred and eighty-nine feet to a point; thence south thirty-eight degrees forty-eight minutes east a distance of one thousand eleven and three-tenths feet to the point of the beginning. The above-mentioned tract being more fully shown on a map entitled Runway 32, Land Acquisition Map, U. S. Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, North Carolina, dated April 20, 1951 and by Albert R. Bell, C. E. of New Bern, N. C. Approved August 8, 1953. Public Law 235

CHAPTER 389

AN ACT To authorize additional appropriations for the Lower San Joaquin River project.

August 8, 1953 [H. R. 4305]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in addition to previous authorizations, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $2,500,000 for the prosecution of the plan of improvement approved in the Act of December 22, 1944, for the Lower San Joaquin River and tributaries, including the Tuolumne and Stanislaus Rivers, with such modifications thereof as in the discretion of the Chief of Engineers may be advisable. Approved August 8, 1953.

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Public Law 236

CHAPTER 390

AN ACT To authorize the sale of Army, Navy, and Air Force stores at military establishments to civilian employees of the Government, 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 Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force may by regulation provide for the procurement and sale of such stores as may be designated by them to such civilian oflficers and employees of the United States and such other persons as they deem proper at military establishments beyond the continental limitations of the United States or in Alaska, and at military establishments within the continental United States where they find that it is impracticable for such civilian officers and employees and other persons to procure such stores from private agencies without impairing the efficient operation of the military activities: Provided, That sales to civilian officers and employees within the continental United States as authorized herein shall be made only to those residing within military establishments. SEC. 2. The second proviso appearing in the paragraph entitled, "Bureau of Supplies and Accounte", of the Act of March 3, 1909 (35 Stat. 753, 768), as amended (34 U.S.C. 533), is further amended to read as follows: "Such stores as the Secretary of the Navy may designate may be procured and sold to officers and enlisted men of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, and to the widows of such officers and enlisted men." Approved August 8, 1953.

August 8, 1953 [H. R. 5258]

Armed Force Sale of store s to civilian e m p l oyees.

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