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Public Law 85-125 Vugust 13, 1957 IS. 1063]

AN ACT Vesting in the American Battle Monuments Commission the care and maintenance of the Surrender Tree site in Santiago, Cuba.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the American Battle Monuments Commission is responsible for the care and maintenance of the Surrender Tree site in Santiago, Cuba. This Act takes effect on the next July 1 after the date of its enactment. Approved August 13, 1957. Public Law 85-126 August 13, 1957 [H. R. 4511]

Back Cove, Portland, Maine.

AN ACT To declare a certain portion of Back Cove at Portland, Maine, to be nonnavigable water of the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and Rouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,^ That (a) that portion of Back Cove at Portland, Maine, lying southerly of a line across the twelve-foot Federal project channel m Back Cove twenty-five hundred feet upstream from the Tukey Bridge, to the head of Back Cove, is declared to be a nonnavigable water of the United States within the meaning of the Constitution and laws of the United States. (b) That portion of the twelve-foot Federal project channel in Back Cove lying southerly of a line across the channel twenty-five hundred feet upstream from the Tukey Bridge, to the head of Back Cove, a distance of approximately thirty-five hundred feet, is hereby abandoned. (c) The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is expressly reserved. Approved August 13, 1957.

Public Law 85-127 August 13, 1957 [H. R. 6570]

AN ACT To amend the peanut marketing quota provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 359 (c) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended (7 56 Stat. 654; 61 xj. S. C. 1359 (c)), be amended to read as follows: Stat. 722. "(c) The word 'peanuts' for the purposes of this Act shall mean all peanuts produced, excluding any peanuts which it is established by the producer or otherwise, in accordance with regulations of the Secretary, were not picked or threshed either before or after marketing from the farm, or were marketed by the producer before drying or removal of moisture from such peanuts either by natural or artificial means for consumption exclusively as boiled peanuts." Effectivity. This amendment shall be effective for "the 1957, 1958, and 1959 crops of peanuts. Approved August 13, 1957. Peanuts.