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66 S T A T. ] Public Law 513

PUBLIC LAW 514-JULY 12, 1952

589 CHAPTER 678

^^ ^ ^ ' ^ To authorize the modernization and enlargement of the Mail Equipment Shops in Washington, District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster General is hereby authorized and. directed to have prepared the necessary plans and specifications, and to enter into a contract or contracts, for the remodeling, modernization, and enlargement of the Mail Equipment Shops in Washington, District of Columbia, and to acquire by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, the tracts of land located in the District of Columbia and known for the purposes of assessment and taxation as parcel 131/99, and lot 805 in square 3620, comprising a parcel of land thirty feet wide and approximately six hundred feet long lying adjacent to the lands owned by the United States Government upon which the Mail Equipment Shops' facilities are now situated. Title to the land authorized to be acquired by this section shall be approved by the Attorney General, and any proceedings in court to acquire such land or any interest therein shall be conducted by the Attorney General. SEC. 2. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the Post Office Department, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amount not exceeding $500,000 as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act, and such amount may be available until expended. Approved July 11, 1952.

Public Law 514

July 11, 1952 [H. R. 7471]

[ Equ Shops. D.C.

Appropriation.

CHAPTER 695

AN ACT To confer Federal jurisdiction to prosecute certain common-law crimes of violence when such crimes a r e committed on an American airplane in flight over the high seas or over w a t e r s within the a d m i r a l t y and m a r i t i m e jurisdiction of the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 7 of title 18, United States Code, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof a new subsection reading as follows: "(5) Any aircraft belonging in whole oi in part to the United States, or any citizen thereof, or to any corporation created by or under the laws of the United States, or any State, Territory, district, or possession thereof, while such aircraft is in flight over the high seas, or over any other waters within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States and out of the jurisdiction of any particular State." Approved July 12, 1952.

July 12, 1952 [S. 2149]

Title 18. U.S. Code, amendment. 62 Stat. 685.