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[70 Stat. 537]
PUBLIC LAW 000—MMMM. DD, 1956
[70 Stat. 537]

70

STAT.]

537

PUBLIC LAW 707-JULY 14, 1956

to a bound; thence south 7 degrees 50 minutes east 162.9 feet more or less to a brick masonry pillar on the northwesterly side of Vermont Highway Numbered 15; and thence in a southwesterly direction along such highway to the place of beginning. Parcel numbered 2: Being a strip of land 55 feet wide adjacent to and on the northeasterly side of the southwesterly property line of the Ethan Allen Air Force Base, beginning on such property line at a point 243.6 feet more or less northwesterly from the beginning point in parcel numbered 1 and extending in a northwesterly direction along such property line for a distance of 2,785 feet, more or less. The property authorized to be conveyed herein shall include the hydrant line along Feigle Street. SEC. 2. The property authorized to be conveyed by the first section of this x4.ct shall be used for the training of the National Guard of Vermont and for other military purposes, and the conveyance authorized herein shall be made without monetary consideration therefor, but shall be subject to the reservation by the United States of all mineral rights, including oil and gas; the right of reentry and use by the United States in the event of need therefor during a national emergency declared by the President or the Congress; and the condition and limitation that if the property shall fail or cease to be used for the training of the National Guard of Vermont or for other military purposes, the title to the property so conveyed shall revert to and revest in the United States, and all improvements made thereon during its occupancy by the State of Vermont shall vest in the United States without payment of compensation therefor. SEC. 3. The costs of any surveys necessary as an incident of the conveyance authorized herein shall be borne by the State of Vermont. Approved July 14, 1956. Public Law 707

National G u a r d training, etc.

CHAPTER 593

AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of Defense to lend certain Army, Navy, and Air Force equipment and to provide transportation and other services to the Boy Scouts of America in connection with the World Jamboree of Boy Scouts to be held in England in 1957; and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the Secretary of Defense is hereby authorized, under such regulations as he may prescribe, to lend to the National Council, Boy Scouts of America, for the use and accommodation of the approximately fifteen hundred Scouts, Scouters and officials who are to attend the World Jamboree, Boy Scouts, to be held in England in July and August 1957, such tents, cots, blankets, commissary equipment, flags, refrigerators, and other equipment and services as may be necessary or useful to the extent that items are in stock and available and their issue will not jeopardize the national defense program. (b) Such equipment is authorized to be delivered at such time prior to the holding of such jamboree, and to be returned at such time after the close of such jamboree, as may be agreed upon by the Secretary of Defense and the National Council, Boy Scouts of America. No expense shall be incurred by the United States Government for the delivery, return, rehabilitation, or replacement of such equipment. (c) The Secretary of Defense, before delivering such property, shall take from the National Council, Boy Scouts of America, good and sufficient bond for the safe return of such property in good order and condition, and the whole without expense to the United States.

July 14, 1956 [S. 2772]

W o r l d Jamboree of Boy Scouts. Equipment.

Delivery and return.

Bond.