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PUBLIC LAW 677-AUG. 27, 1954

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such property in any case except where it shall appear that the loss, damage, or destruction of property was due to carelessness or neglect, or that its loss, damage, or destruction could have been avoided by the exercise of reasonable care, in which case the money value of such property shall be charged to the accountable State, Territory, the Commonwealth of Puerto Kico, or District of Columbia to be paid from State, Territory, Commonwealth, or District funds, or any funds other than Federal, If the articles so surveyed are found to be unserviceable or unsuitable, the appropriate Secretary or his designated representative shall direct what disposition by sale or otherwise shall be made of them; and if sold, the proceeds of such sale, as well as stoppages against officers and enlisted men, and the net proceeds of collections made from any person oi* from any State, Territory, the Commonwealth of Puerto Kico or the District of Columbia to reimburse the (jovernment for the loss, damage, or destruction of any property, shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States: Provided, That if any State, Territory, the Commonwealth of Puerto Kico, or the District of Columbia shall neglect or refuse to pay, or to cause to be paid, the money equivalent of any loss, damage, or destruction of property charged against such State, Territory, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or the District of Columbia by the appropriate Secretary after survey by a disinterested officer appointed as hereinbefore provided, the appropriate Secretary is hereby authorized to debar such State, Territory, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or the District of Columbia from further participation in any and all appropriations for the National Guard or Air National Guard, as appropriate, until such payment shall have been made: Provided further, That property issued to the National Guard and Air National Guard and which has become unserviceable through fair wear and tear in service, may, after inspection thereof and finding to that effect made by an officer of the Army of the United States, Air Force of the United States, or the National Guard or Air National Guard detailed by the appropriate Secretary, be sold or otherwise disposed of, and the State, Territory, the Commonwealth of Puerto Kico, or the District of Columbia accountable shall be relieved from further accountability therefor; such inspection, and sale or other disposition, to be made under regulations prescribed by the appropriate Secretary, and to constitute as to such property a discretional substitute for the examination, report, and disposition provided for elsewhere in this section." Approved August 27, 1954.

Public Law 677

CHAPTER 1015 AN ACT

To provide for the conveyance of certain lands by the United States to the county of Cumberland, State of North Carolina, without remuneration.

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August 27, 1954

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the C u United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Admin- ^.^^^ m b e^r l and ^ istrator of General Services is authorized and directed to con- c^nveymce. vey by deed to the county of Cumberland, State of North Carolina, without remuneration, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to that tract of land situated in Carvers Creek Township, Cumberland County, North Carolina, described in the plat prepared by D. A. Buie in July 1953 containing fifty-seven and eighttenths acres, more or less, and more particularly described as follows:

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