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PUBLIC LAW 651-AUG. 24, 1954

United States of America in Congress assembled., That the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii, notwithstanding any provisions of the Hawaiian Organic Act, any laws of the Territory of Hawaii or of any Act of this Congress to the. contrary, may authorize the city and county of Honolulu, a municipal corporation of the Territory of Hawaii, to issue bonds in the sum of $1,000,000, for the purpose of enabling it to construct flood-control and drainage systems in the city and county of Honolulu. SEC. 2. The bonds issued under authority of this Act shall be serial bonds, payable in substantially equal annual installments, the first installment to mature not later than five years and the last installment to mature not later than thirty years from the date of such issue. Such bonds may be issued without the approval of the President of the United States. SEC. 3. Sections 3 and 4 of Act 254 of the Session Laws of Hawaii 1953, pertaining to the issuance of public improvement bonds, as authorized by this Act, are hereby ratified and confirmed subject to the provisions of this Act. Approved August 24, 1954. Public Law 650

CHAPTER 899 AN ACT

To provide benefits under the laws administered by the Veterans' Administration based upon service in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps under certain conditions. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person who served for at least ninety days in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps who prior to the establishment of the Women's Army Corps was honorably discharged for disability incurred in line of duty rendering her physically unfit to perform further service in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps or in the Women's Army Corps, established under Public Law 110, Seventy-eighth Congress, shall be deemed to have been in the active military service during such period of service for the purposes of laws administered by the Veterans' Administration. No monetary benefits shall accrue by reason of this Act for any period prior to the date of enactment and compensation or pension shall not be payable by virtue of this Act concurrently with United States employees' compensation baaed on the same service. Any person eligible for compensation or pension by reason of this Act who is also eligible for compensation benefits provided by the United States Employees' Compensation Act of 1917, as amended, shall elect which benefit she shall receive. Approved August 24, 1954.

Public Law 651

Ho n o l u 1 u, Haiwaii. Im p r o V e me n t bonds. 31 Stat. 141. 48 USC 491.

August 24, 1954 [H. R. 8041]

W o m e n ' s Army Auxiliary Corps. Veterans b e n e fits.

57 Stat. 3 7 1. 10 USC 316note,

39 Stat. 742. 5 USC 751-793.

CHAPTER 900

AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue patents for certain lands in Wisconsin bordering upon inland lakes or rivers.

August 24, 1954 [H. R. 8006]

Be it CTMcted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, whenever tit*iir°"'^" ^^"'^ it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior R^^er and lake that a tract of public land, lying between the meander line of an *""°^®*" ^*

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