Volume 69 · 496
Public Law 84–236
To authorize the Secretary of Defense to lend certain Army, Navy, and Air Force equipment, and to provide certain services to tile Girl Scouts of the United States of America for use at the Girl Scout Senior Roundup Encampment, and for other purposes.
Approved August 4, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the Secretary of Defense to lend certain Army, Navy, and Air Force equipment, and to provide certain services to tile Girl Scouts of the United States of America for use at the Girl Scout Senior Roundup Encampment, 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 Secretary of Defense is hereby authorized, under such regulations as he may prescribe, to lend to the Girl Scouts of the United States of
America, a corporation created under the Act of March 16, 1950, for the use and accommodation of the approximately five thousand Girl Scouts and officials who are to attend the Girl Scout Senior Roundup Encampment to be held during the period beginning in June 1956 and ending in July 1956, at the Highland State Recreation Area in the State of Michigan, such tents, cots, blankets, commissary equipment, flags, refrigerators, and other equipment and services as may be necessary or useful.
Such equipment is authorized to be delivered at such time
Equipment.
prior to the holding of such encampment and to be returned at such time after the close of such encampment as may be agreed upon by the Secretary of Defense and the Girl Scouts of the United States of America. No expense shall be incurred by the United States Government for the delivery, return, rehabilitation, or replacement of such equipment.
The Secretary of Defense, before delivering such property, shall
Bond.
take from the Girl Scouts of the United States of America a good and sufficient bond for the safe return of such property in good order and condition, and the whole without expense to the United States.
Approved August 4, 1955.