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62 STAT.] 80TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CHS. 484-486 -JUNE 16, 1948 [CHAPTER 484] AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to convey to the Mystic River Bridge Authority, an instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, an easement for the construction and operation of bridge approaches over and across lands comprising a part of the United States Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Massachusetts. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to convey to the Mystic River Bridge Authority, an instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without cost to said authority, and subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary of the Navy may deem proper, a perpetual easement for the construction, maintenance, repairs, and operation of approaches to a high level toll bridge crossing Mystic River over and across certain lands comprising a part of the United States Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Massachusetts, metes and bounds description of which is on file in the Navy Department. Approved June 16, 1948. [CHAPTER 485] AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to convey to the Commonwealth of Virginia a right-of-way for public-highway purposes in certain lands at Pungo, Virginia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he hereby is, authorized to convey to the Common- wealth of Virginia, without cost to the said Commonwealth, and upon such terms and conditions as he may deem proper, a perpetual easement for public-highway purposes in, over, and across a strip of land contiguous to the former naval auxiliary air station, Pungo, Virginia, being approximately one thousand five hundred and ninety-five feet long and containing one and fifty-eight one-hundredths acres, more or less, metes and bounds description of which is on file in the Navy Department. Approved June 16, 1948. [CHAPTER 486] AN ACT To amend Public Law Numbered 432, Seventy-sixth Congress, to include an allowance of expenses incurred by Veterans' Administration beneficiaries and their attendants in authorized travel for vocational-rehabilitation purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of Public Law Numbered 432, Seventy-sixth Congress, approved March 14, 1940 (54 Stat. 49), as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: "That the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs is hereby authorized, under regulations to be prescribed by the President, to pay the actual necessary expenses of travel, including lodging and subsistence, or in lieu thereof an allowance based upon the mileage traveled, of any person to or from a Veterans' Administration facility or other place in connection with vocational rehabilitation or for the purpose of exam- ination, treatment, or care: Provided, That payment of mileage in connection with vocational rehabilitation or upon termination of exam- ination, treatment, or care may be made prior to completion of such travel: And providedfurther, That when any such person requires an June 16. 1948 [S. 2553] [Public Law 658] Mystic River. Bridge, Chelsea, Mass. June 16, 1948 [8. 2593] [Public Law 659] Pungo, Va. Easement. June 16, 1948 [H. R. 5134] [Public Law 660] Veterans' Admin- istration. 38U.S.C.§76 Ane, p. 160. Travel expense. Expenes of ttad- ant.