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LIST OF PUBLIC LAWS Date

Army, Navy, Marine Corps, claims. AN ACT To further amend the Act of January 2, 1942, entitled " A n Act to provide for the p r o m p t settlement of claims for damages occasioned by Army, Navy, and Marine Corps forces in foreign c o u n t r i e s ". _ _ _" July 28, 1956_,. 828 Foreign Service Act Amendments of 1956. AN ACT To am.end the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended, and for other purposes July 28, 1956.__ 829 National forest, use of lands. AN ACT To amend the Act of March 4, 1915 (38 Stat. 1086, 1101; 16 U.S.C. 497) July 28, 1956.. _ 830 Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act. AN ACT To confer upon Alaska a u to n o m y in the field of m,ental health, transfer from the Federal Government to the Territory the fiscal and functional responsibility for the hospitalization of committed mental patients, and for other purposes July 28, 1956 831 U.S. Code, title 18, amendment. AN ACT To aro,end sections 657 and 1006 of title 18 of the United States Code in order to include certain savings and loan associations within its provisions July 28, 1956__. 832 _.. Eleventh World Health Assembly, 1958. JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing an appropriation to enable the United States to extend an invitation to the World Health Organization to hold the Eleventh World Health Assembly in the United States in 1958 July 30, 1956 833 - - - Pan American games, 1959. JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing an appropriation for expenses of the P a n American gam.es to be held in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1959 July 30, 1956 834 Homestead entrymen. AN ACT To grant leaves of absence to hom.estead entry m e n and to permit suspension of cultivation and improvement operations on hom.estead and desert land entries, and for other purposes July 30, 1956 835. - _ Health Research Facilities Act of 1956. AN ACT To aro.end the Public Health Service Act, so as to provide for grantsin-aid to non-Federal public and nonprofit institutions for the constructing and equipping of facilities for research in the sciences related to health July 30, 1956 836 Postal employees, career appointments. AN ACT To provide in certain additional cases for the granting of the s t a t u s of regular substitute in the postal field service July 30, 1956 837 Indian lands, timber. AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to charge for special services to purchasers of timber from. Indian lands July 30, 1956:__ 838 Migratory water-fowl hunting stamp. AN ACT To provide for the redem.ption by the Post Office Department of certain unsold Federal ro.igratory-bird h u n t i n g stam.ps, and to clarify the requirements with respect to the age of h u n t e r s who m u s t possess Federal migratory-bird hunting s t a m p s - - July 30, 1956 839 Hawaii, sale of public lands. AN ACT To authorize the com, .: m.issioner of public lands to sell public lands located at Weliweli, Island of Kauai, to certain claim.ants July 30, 1956 — 840 Bankruptcy, priority of debts. AN ACT To amend the Bankr u p t c y Act with respect to the priority of debt s owed by a b a n k r u p t to workmen, servants, clerks, and certain salesmen July 30, 1956. - 841 Gwinnett County, Ga., water supply. AN ACT Relating to the use of storage space in the Buford Reservoir for the purpose of providing Gwinnett County, Georgia, a regulated water supply July 30, 1956 - - 842 Perishable agricultural commodities. AN ACT To amend the provisions of the Perishable Agricultural Coro,m.odities Act, 1930, relating to practices in the m a r k e t i n g of perishable agricultural commodities - July 30, 1956 — 843 Bartlesville, Okla., water supply. AN ACT Relating to the use of storage space in the H u l a h Reservoir to provide water for the city of Bartlesville, Oklahoma July 30, 1956. - 844 Hawaii, exchange of lands. AN ACT To authorize and direct the exchanges and sales of public lands within or adjacent to the district of Puna, county of Hawaii, Territory of Hawaii, for the relief of persons whose lands were destroyed by volcanic activity July 30, 1956 —

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