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August 4, 1945
The following Message of the President has been delivered to the
Clerk of the House of Representatives.
EBEN A. AYERS
Assistant to CHARLES G. ROSS
TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:
I return herewith, without my approval, H. R. 3549, "To provide
for the conveyance of certain Weather Bureau property to Norwich University,
Northfield, Vermont.
FRUMAD
2000
NARA
The bill authorizes the return to Norwich University, Northfield,
Vermont, of land which the University heretofore conveyed to the United
States for a nominal consideration, and provides for the donation to the
University of a two-story building and the weather station equipment therein,
which the Government erected on such land at a cost of approximately $13,000,
and which is now surplus to the needs of the Department of Commerce after
many years use as a Weather Bureau station.
By the adoption of the Surplus Property Act of 1944, the Federal
Government provided, within the frame-work of 2 single enactment, a
for
coordinated system of disposal of its surplus properties under uniform
policies and procedures. If the Government is to succeed in its efforts
to maintain a fair and impartial program for the disposal of its surpluses
in the days ahead, I think it is important that the operating principles
and standards of action governing such disposals should be kept confined
within a single instrument. If we should, discover from experience with
the statute that its present policies are too narrow or inadequate, any
changes found desirable should be accomplished by amendment of the act
itself, so that all properties similarly situated or in particular cate-
gories may be disposed of under general prescriptions of the law. Indi-
vidual enactments to provide relie in specific situations, or to govern
special cases, which in effect are exceptions or amendments to the present
law, it seems to me should be discouraged as detrimental to a sound public
policy in a Government program of this character.
For these reasons, I feel obliged to not lend my approval to this
measure.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
THE WHITE HOUSE,
July 31, 1945.