Volume 75 · 387
Public Law 87–149
To authorize the Secretary of Defense to lend certain Army, Navy, and Air Force equipment and provide certain services to the Girl Scouts of the United States of America for use at the 1962 Girl Scouts senior roundup encampment, and for other purposes.
Approved August 17, 1961
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the Secretary of Defense to lend certain Army, Navy, and Air Force equipment and provide certain services to the Girl Scouts of the United States of America for use at the 1962 Girl Scouts 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
Girl Scouts U.S.A.
Senior roundup encampment.
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 approximately ten thousand Girl Scouts and officials who are to attend the Girl Scouts senior roundup encampment to be held in July 1962, at Button Bay State Park, Vermont, such tents, cots, blankets, commissary equipment, flags, refrigerators, vehicles, and other equipment as may be necessary or useful to the extent that items are in stock and available and their issue will not jeopardize the national defense program.
Such equipment is authorized to be delivered at such time 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 and return of such equipment and the Girl Scouts of the United States of America shall pay for the cost of the actual rehabilitation and repair 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.
Sec. 2.
The Secretary of Defense is hereby authorized, under such
Special services.
regulations as he may prescribe, to provide to the Girl Scouts of the United States of America, in support of the encampment referred to in subsection (a) of the first section of this Act, such communication, medical, engineering, protective, and other logistical services as may be necessary or useful to the extent that such services are available and the providing of them will not jeopardize the national defense program.
Sec. 3.
Each department of the Federal Government is hereby authorized under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary thereof to assist the Girl Scouts of the United States of America in the carrying out and the fulfillment of the plans for the encampment referred to in subsection (a) of the first section of this Act.
Approved August 17, 1961.