182 Electric-utility contracts.
31 USC 665.
Repeal. 66 Stat. 643.
PUBLIC LAW 138-JULY 20, 1953
Me c k l e n b ur g County, Va. Conveyance.
D. C. firemen. Pay period.
CHAPTER 230
AN ACT Relating to the disposition of certain former recreational demonstration project lands by the Commonwealth of Virginia to the School Board of Meclclenburg County, Virginia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, notwithstanding section 3 of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the disposition of recreational demonstration projects, and for other purposes", approved June 6, 1942 (56 Stat. 326; 16 U.S.C. 1946 edition, sec. 459t), the Commonwealth of Virginia is hereby authorized to convey to the School Board of Mecklenburg County for school, recreational, or highway-widening purposes, that portion of the former Mecklenburg wayside recreational demonstration project which is situated on the west and north side of United States Highway Numbered 1, comprising approximately forty acres. Any conditions providing for a reversion of title to the United States that may be contained in the conveyance of such lands by the United States to the Commonwealth of Virginia are hereby released as to the particular lands herein authorized to be transferred. Approved July 20, 1953. Public Law 139
July 20, 1953 [S. 2394]
STA T,
" (d) The Atomic Energy Commission is authorized in connection with the construction or operation of the Oak Ridge, Paducah, and Portsmouth installations of the Commission, without regard to section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, to enter into new contracts or modify or confirm existing contracts to provide for electric-utility services for periods not exceeding twenty-five years, and such contracts shall be subject to termination by the Commission upon payment of cancellation costs as provided in such contracts, and any appropriation presently or hereafter made available to the Commission shall be available for the payment of such cancellation costs. Any such cancellation payments shall be taken into consideration in determination of the rate to be charged in the event the Commission or any other agency of the Federal (jovernment shall purchase electric-utility services from the contractor subsequent to the cancellation and during the life of the original contract." SEC. 2. The first proviso under the appropriation to the Commission for "Plant and equipment" in the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1953, is hereby repealed. Approved July 17, 1953. Public Law 138
July 20, 1953 [H. R. 4072]
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AN ACT To amend the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1953.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That subsection (c) of section 405 of the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1953 (67 Stat. 77) is amended by adding after the word "workweeks" the following: "except that with respect to employees of the Fire Department the first pay period shall be for the period July 1 to July 11, 1953, inclusive". SEC. 2. Section 405 of such Act is amended by adding thereto the following:
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