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PUBLIC LAW 168-JULY 14, 1955

SEC. 634. During the current fiscal year, appropriations of the Department of Defense shall be available for reimbursement to the Post Office Department for payment of costs of commercial air transportation of military mail between the United States and foreign countries. SEC. 635. Appropriations of the Department of Defense available for the payment of rental allowances shall be available for the leasing of quarters in foreign countries constructed under the authority of section 302 of Public Law 534, approved July 14, 1952, for assignment as public quarters to military personnel of the Department of Defense. SEC. 636. Appropriations contained in this Act shall be available for providing furnishings, without charge, in other than public quarters occupied by military or civilian personnel of the Department of Defense on duty outside the continental United States or in Alaska, upon a determination, under regulations approved by the Secretary of Defense, that such action is advantageous to the Government. SEC. 637. During the current fiscal year, appropriations available to the Department of Defense for pay of civilian employees shall be available for uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by the Act of September 1, 1954 (68 Stat. 1114). SEC. 638. No part of the funds appropriated in this Act may be used for the disposal or transfer by contract or otherwise of work that has been for a period of three years or more performed by civilian personnel of the Department of Defense unless justified to the Appropriations Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives, at least ninetydays in advance of such disposal or transfer, that its discontinuance is economically sound and the work is capable of performance by a contractor without danger to the national security: Provided, That no such disposal or transfer shall be made if disapproved by either committee within the ninety-day period by written notice to the Secretary of Defense. SEC. 639. This Act may be cited as the "Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1956". Approved July 13, 1955. Public Law 158

mail

Foreign quarters.

66 Stat. 622.

Furnishings.

Uniforms.

5 USC 2131 note. Contract restriction.

Short title.

CHAPTER 359

AN ACT To amend section 2 of the Act of January 27, 1905 (33 Stat. 616), as amended (48 U.S.C. 1952 edition, sec. 322). Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the third sentence of section 2 of the Act of January 27, 1905 (33 Stat. 616), as amended (48 U.S.C. 1952 edition, sec. 322), is further amended to read as follows: "The Secretary of the Interior, or such officer, or officers as may be designated by him, shall, upon his own motion or upon petition, locate, lay out, construct, and maintain roads, trails, and bridges from any point on the navigable waters of Alaska to and through any town, mining or other industrial camp or settlement, or between and through any such town, camps, or settlements therein, if in his judgment such roads, trails, or bridges are needed and will be of pernianent value for the development of Alaska: Provided, That within incorporated towns only roads and bridges which are designated by the Secretary of the Interior as part of the through highway system of the Territory of Alaska may be constructed under this section: Provided fwrther, That no roads or bridges within incorporated towns shall be maintained under this section." Approved July 14, 1955. 54402 O - 55 - 21

Military costs.

July 14. 1955 [H.R. 245]

Alaska. Roads and trails.

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