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PUBLIC LAW 340-,AUG. 11, 1955

of the Texas Declaration of Independence and the Battles of the Alamo, Goliad, and San Jacinto in the year 1836 the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to strike and furnish to the Texas Heritage Foundation, Incorporated, two thousand medals one and five-sixteenths inches in diameter, with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions to be determined by the Secretary. The medals shall be considered to be national medals within the meaning of section 3551 of the Revised Statutes. SEC. 2. (a) The Secretary of the Treasury shall cause such medals to be struck and furnished at not less than the estimated cost of manufacture, including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses; and security satisfactory to the Director of the Mint shall be furnished to indemnify the United States for the full payment of such cost. (b) Upon authorization from the Texas Heritage Foundation, Incorporated, the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause duplicates in bronze of such medal to be coined and sold, under such regulations as he may prescribe, at a price sufficient to cover the cost thereof (including labor). Approved August 9, 1955.

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CHAPTER 777 AN ACT For the relief of the State of Illinois.

August 11, 1955 [S. 125]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Stale of Illinois shall have the exclusive right in interstate commerce to use, manufacture, and to control the right to manufacture the emblematic design heretofore published by the secretary of state of the State of Illinois consisting of a profile of the head of Abraham Lincoln superimposed upon an outline map of the State of Illinois which is surmounted by the name "Illinois" and overlaid by the caption "Land of Lincoln". SEC. 2. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to confer any right to recover damages for violation of this exclusive right, by any act performed before the date of enactment of this Act, or to prevent the use of any matter utilized before that date. Approved August 11, 1955. Public Law 340

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Illinois. U s e of Lincoln emblem.

CHAPTER 778

AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the States of Kansas and Oklahoma to negotiate and enter into a compact relating to their interests in, and the apportionment of, the waters of the Arkansas River and its tributaries as they affect such States.

August 11, 1955 [S. 730]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the River. United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Arkansasof Con^ Consent Congress is hereby given to the States of Kansas and Oklahoma to gress'to'interstate negotiate and enter into a compact relating to the interests of such '=°'"P^'=*' States in the development and protection from pollution of the water resources of the Arkansas River and its tributaries, and providing for an equitable apportionment amon» them of the waters of the Arkansas River and its tributaries flowing between such States, and for matters

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