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PUBLIC LAW 42-MAY 29, 1953 CHAPTER 75

Public Law 41 AN ACT

To retrocede to the State of Oklahoma concurrent jurisdiction over the right-ofway for United States Highways 62 and 277 within the Fort Sill Military Reservation, Oklahoma.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby granted to the State of Oklahoma a retrocession of jurisdiction oyer that part of the Fort Sill Military Reservation for which permission to use as a highway right-of-way for United States Highways 62 and 277, eighty feet in width, with necessary borrow pits, was granted to the State of Oklahoma by the Assistant Secretary of W a r by permit dated October 13, 1932. This retrocession of jurisdiction is granted to the extent that all laws of the State and all laws of the United States shall be applicable within the entire area included within the said permit and the United States and the State shall exercise concurrent jurisdiction thereover. SEC. 2. The retrocession of jurisdiction granted shall be effective upon the acceptance thereof by the Legislature of the State of Oklahoma. Approved May 27, 1953. Public Law 42

May 27, 1953 [S. 1641]

Ft. Sill Military Reservation, Okla.

CHAPTER 84 AN ACT

To amend Veterans Regulation Numbered 2 (a), as amended, to provide that the amount of certain unnegotiated checks shall be paid as accrued benefits upon the death of the beneficiary-payee, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemblsd, That paragraph V (2), part I, Veterans Regulation Numbered 2 (a), as added by the Act of Julv 13, 1943 (57 Stat. 557; 38 U.S.C. ch. 12, note), is amended to read as follows: " (2) A check received by a payee in payment of pension, compensation, retirement pay, subsistence allowance, or education and training allowance shall, in the event of the death of the payee on or after the last day of the period covered by said check and unless negotiated by the payee or the duly appointed representative of his estate, be returned to the Veterans' Administration and cancelled. The amount represented by any check returned and cancelled pursuant to the foregoing or any amount recovered by reason of improper negotiation of any such check shall constitute accrued benefits payable pursuant to the provisions of paragraph V (1): Provided, That the one-year limitations of paragraph V (1) shall not apply: Provided further, That any amount not so paid shall be paid upon settlement by the General Accounting Office to the estate of the deceased payee, if such estate will not escheat: And provided further, That the provisions of this subparagraph in effect prior to the date of approval of this amendment shall be applicable in the case of any payee dying prior to said date." SEC. 2. The following provisions of law are hereby repealed (together with the punctuation mark immediately preceding the language in each case): (a) That portion of section 4 of the Act of May 1, 1926 (44 Stat, 383), as amended (38 U.S.C. 364c), section 5 of the Act of July 3, 1926 (44 Stat. 807), as amended (38 U.S.C. 321a), and section 5 of the Act of June 2, 1930 (46 Stat. 493), as amended (38 U.S.C. 365d),

May 29, 1953 [H. R. 1563]

Veterans.

C h e c k s of de c e a s e d payee.

Repeals.

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