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PUBLIC LAW 477-APR. 6, 1956

Public Law 477 April 6, 1956 [H. R. 6461]

Hawaii> Lands in irrigation projects. 48 USC 670.

Effective date«

Hawaii. R a t i f i cation of sales.

Effective date.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That section 73(i) of the Hawaiian Organic Act is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph thereto: "The Commissioner may include in any patent, agreement, or lease a condition requiring the inclusion of the land in any irrigation project formed or to be formed by the Territorial agency responsible therefor and making the land subject to assessments made or to be made for such irrigation project, which assessment shall be a first charge against the land. For failure to pay the assessments or other breach of the condition the land may be forfeited and sold pursuant to the provisions of this Act, and, when sold, so much of the proceeds of sale as are necessary therefor may be used to pay any unpaid assessments/' SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on and after the date of its approval. Approved April 6, 1966.

D. C. motor vehicle registration fee.

CHAPTER 181

AN ACT To ratify and confirm section 4r)39, Revised Laws of Hawaii 1945, section 1(b), act 12, Session Laws of Hawaii 1951, and the sales of public lands consummated pursuant to the terms of said statutes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Co'ngress assembled, That section 4539, Revised Laws of Hawaii 1945, is hereby ratified and confirmed. SEC. 2. Section 1(b), act 12, Session Laws of Hawaii 1951, is hereby ratified and confirmed. SEC. 3. All sales of public lands to abutting landowMiers consummated pursuant to the terms of the foregoing statutes are hereby ratified and confirmed and shall be deemed and held to be perfect and valid as of the date of the sales. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on and after the date of its approval. Approved April 6, 1956. Public Law 479

April 6, 1956 [H. R. 6574]

CHAPTER 180

AN ACT To amend section 73(i) of the Hawaiian Orjianic Act.

Public Law 478 April 6, 1956 [H. R. 6463]

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CHAPTER 182

AN ACT To amend section 2 of title IV of the Act entitled "An Act to provide additional revenue for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved August 17, 1937 (50 Stat. 680), as amended. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 2 of title IV of the Act entitled "An Act to provide additional revenue for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved August 17, 1937 (50 Stat. 680), as amended (sec. 40-102, D. C. Code, 1951 edition), is amended by inserting immediately after the first sentence of subsection (d) of said section the following: "The owner selling or otherwise transferring such vehicle or trailer may register

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