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PUBLIC LAW 705-JULY 14, 1956

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SEC. 5. Whenever any board, commission, or committee, other than the Commissioners, is mentioned in this Act, such board, commission, or committee shall be deemed to be the board, commission, or committee or other agency succeeding to the functions of the board, commission, or committee, so mentioned, pursuant to Reorganization Plan, °- ^' ^°^^' *^"* Numbered 5 of 1952. SEC. 6. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of the Appropriation. revenues of the District of Columbia such sums as may be necessary to pay the expenses of administering the Acts listed in section 2 of this Act, including the expenses of the Department of Occupations and Professions, established pursuant to authority contained in Reorgani- i ^pp^- *-^°*^®' *"^® zation Plan Numbered 5 of 1952. Approved July 14, 1956. Public Law 705

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To amend certain provisions of law in order to provide for the reimbursement of the Post Offlce Department by Government agencies in certain additional cases for the transmission of mail matter.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America m Congress assembled. That the Act entitled

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An Act to reimburse the Post Omce Department tor the transmission for transmission, of official Government-mail matter'', approved August 15, 1953 (67 Stat. 614; Public Law 286, Eighty-third Congress), is amended by ^^^^ "^^ 32ii and adding at the end thereof the following new sections: "SEC. 3. There shall be paid to the Post Office Department, as postal revenue, out of any appropriations or funds available to each department, agency, establishment, or Government corporation concerned and as a necessary expense of such appropriations and funds and of the activities concerned, the equivalent amount of postage or registry fees, as determined pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Postmaster General, for matter sent in the mails, without prepayment of postage or without prepayment of registry fees, by or to such department, agency, establishment, or corporation, for which the Post Office Department does not o'^herwise receive compensation, under authority of the following provisions of law: "(1) Section 3932 of the Revised Statutes (39 V. S. C., sec. 385); "(2) The proviso added by section 2 of the Act of May 1, 1928 (45 Stat. 469; 39 U. S. ( \, sec."321a), to section 29 of the Act of March 3, 1879, as amended (20 Stat. 362; 23 Stat. 158; 28 Stat. 412; 29 Stat. 590); "(3) Section 10 of title 13 of the Tljiited States Code; es Stat. lou. "(4) The second sentence of section 306 of the Penalty Mail Act of 1948 (62 Stat. 1049; 39 U.S.C., sec. 321n); and "(5) Section 345 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (66 Stat. 2 6 6; 8 U.S.C., sec. 1456). "SEC. 4. There shall be paid to the Post Office Department, as postal tu?ef ^''^^ Agricuirevenue, out of appropriations made to the Department of Agriculture for such purpose, the equivalent amount of postage, as determined pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Postmaster General, for matter sent in the mails without prepayment of postage under authority of the following provisions of law: " (1) Section 6 of the Act entitled 'An Act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States under the provisions of an Act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto', approved March 2, 1887, as amended (69 Stat. 673; 7 U.S.C. ^4 Stat. 441. sec. 361f);

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