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61 Stat. 652.

49 Stat. 859. Effective date.

PUBLIC LAW 706-JULY 14, 1956

Ethan Allen Air Force B a s e, Colchester, Vt. Conveyance.

ST A T.

" (2) Section 3 of the Act entitled 'An Act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts established under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two', approved August 30, 1890 (26 Stat. 418; 7 U.S.C. sec. 325); and ^ " (3) The proviso contained in the third paragraph under the heading 'General Expenses, Office of Experiment Stations' under the caption 'Office of Experiment Stations' in the Act entitled 'An Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen', approved June 30, 1914 (38 Stat. 438; 39 U.S.C. sec. 330). "SEC. 5. There shall be paid to the Post Office Department, as postal revenue, out of appropriations made to the Library of Congress for such purpose, the equivalent amount of postage, as determined pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Postmaster General, for matter sent in the mails without prepayment of postage under authority of section 15 of title 17 of the United States Code." SEC. 2. (a) The first sentence of section 306 of the Penalty Mail Act of 1948 (62 Stat. 1049; 39 U.S.C. sec. 321n), is amended by striking o u t ", free of postage," and inserting in lieu thereof "as penalty m a i l '. (b) The second sentence of such section 306 is amended to read as follows: "Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prohibit (1) the transmission in the mail, as penalty mail, of such books, reports, periodicals, bulletins, pamphlets, lists, articles, or documents to educational institutions, to public libraries, or to Federal, State, or other public authorities and (2) the transmission in the mail, as penalty mail, of lists of agricultural bulletins, lists of public documents which are offered for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, or announcements of publications of maps, atlases, and statistical and other reports offered for sale by the Federal Power Commission under authority of section 312 of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. sec. 825k)." SEC. 3. The amendments made by this Act shall take effect on July 1, 1956. Approved July 14, 1956. Public Law 706

July 14, 1956 [S. 1961]

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C H A P T E R 592

AN ACT To provide for the conveyance of part of Ethan Allen Air Force Base, Colchester, Vermont, to the State of Vermont, and for other purposes. Be it enacted l>y the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Air Force is authorized and directed to convey to the State of Vermont all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to certain land comprising a part of the Ethan Allen Air Force Base, together with improvements thereon, and appurtenances thereto belonging; such property being more particularly described as follows: Parcel Numbered 1: Beginning at a brick masonry pillar, such pillar being at the intersection of the southwesterly property line of Ethan Allen Air Force Base and the northwesterly side of Vermont Highway Numbered 15 and running thence north 45 degrees 30 minutes west 243.6 feet more or less along such property line; thence north 44 degrees 30 minutes east 55 feet more or less across a road to a bound; thence north 81 degrees 43 minutes east 176.9 feet more or less to a bound; thence south 44 degrees 14 minutes east 47.7 feet more or less

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