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PUBLIC LAW 4 60-JUNE 30, 1954

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appointment, was credited with less than three years' service under the second sentence of subsection 506(c) of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947, shall, for promotion, seniority, and promotion-list-position purposes, be credited as of the date of appointment with three years' service: Provided, That no back pay or allowances shall be held to have accrued as the result of the enactment of this subsection for any period prior to the date of enactment thereof. Approved June 30, 1954. Public Law 460 June 30, 1954 [S.3481]

Bank premises* 48 Stat. 183; 49 Stat. 717.

48 Stat. 184.

48 Stat. 162. 12 USC 221a.

AN ACT To amend sections 23A and 24A of the Federal Reserve Act, as amended.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the third paragraph of section 23A of the Federal Reserve Act, as amended (U.S.C. 1952 edition, title 12, sec. 37lc), is amended by deleting therefrom the words "on June 16, 1934," and substituting in lieu thereof the word "solely"; and by deleting therefrom the words "or in maintaining and operating properties acquired for banking purposes prior to such date". SEC. 2. Section 24A of the Federal Reserve Act, as amended (U.S.C. 1952 edition, title 12, sec. 37ld), is amended by inserting after the words "investments and loans" a comma and the words "together with the amount of any indebtedness incurred by any such corporation which is an aifiliate of the bank, as defined in section 2 of the Banking Act of 1933, as amended,". Approved June 30, 1954. Public Law 461

June 30, 1954 [H. R. 3413]

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AN ACT To grant oil and gas in lands and to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue patents in fee on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana, to individual Indians in certain cases.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Fort P e c k Indian United States of America in Congress assembled, That the oil and gas Reservation, Mont. O i l and g a s in land located within the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana, grants. allotted on or after March 3, 1927, which is now reserved to the Indians having tribal rights on such reservation by the first section of the Act of March 3, 1927 (44 Stat. 1401), relating to oil and gas in certain tribal lands within the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana, is hereby granted to the allottee of such lands, or, if such Indian Lieu allotments, is deceased, to his heirs or devisees: Provided, That if the allottee or his heirs or devisees, relinquished such allotment and received a lieu allotment of other lands in the said reservation or transferred title to such allotment to the Fort Peck Tribe and, in exchange therefor, received an assignment of the same or other lands in the said reservation, the oil and gas hereby granted shall be only that in the land in the lieu allotment or the exchange assignment, as the case may be. SEC. 2. If on or after March 3, 1927, the allottee or his heirs or devisees, relinquished an allotment made prior to March 3, 1927, and received a lieu allotment of other lands in the said reservation or transferred title to such allotment to the Fort Peck Tribe and, in exchange therefor, received an assignment of the same or other lands