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PUBLIC L,AW 830-JULY 28, 1956

they appear as a part of the term "United States Veterans' Bureau facility" in section 6 of the Act of October 14, 1942, shall not be struck. (2) The amendment, by this subsection, of any Act or part of Act specified in subsection (a) shall take effect on the two hundred and tenth day after the date of enactment of this Act and shall cease to be effective upon the repeal of the Act or part of Act which it amends, as provided in subsection (a). (c) Effective upon the date of enactment of this Act, section 3 of the Act approved August 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 512; see 48 U.S.C. 24), entitled "An Act to create a legislative assembly in the Territory of Alaska, to confer legislative power thereon, and for other purposes", is amended by inserting the following at the end of the first sentence of such section, immediately before the period: "or to prevent the legislature from altering, amending, modifying, or repealing section 8 (relating to commitment of insane persons) of the aforesaid Act approved January twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and five". (d)(1) Any vested rights or liabilities existing, and any commitment proceeding commenced, under any Act or part thereof prior to the effective date of the amendment or repeal of such Act or part thereof by this section shall not be affected by such amendment or repeal. (2) With respect to the money or property of any patient who has died or eloped prior to the enactment of this Act, or who will have died or eloped prior to the two hundred and tenth day following such enactment, the functions of the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of April 24, 1926, as amended (48 U.S.C. 50, 50a), and the requirement of certification of the claim to Congress if established more than five years after such death or elopement, shall remain in effect notwithstanding the amendment or repeal of such Act by this section.

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EXISTING CONTRACT A N D APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 302. (a) Within two hundred and ten days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior, with the concurrence of the Governor of Alaska, may either (i) assign all of his rights and duties under contract numbered 14-04-001-81, entered into on June 18, 1953, between the Secretary of the Interior on behalf of the United States, and the Sanitarium Company of Portland, Oregon, to the Territory of Alaska, such assignment to become effective on the two hundred and tenth day after the date of enactment of this Act, or (ii) terminate the said contract in accordance with the terms thereof. Upon the effective date of any such assignment, such contract shall have the same binding effect upon the Territory as it had upon the United States prior to such assignment. (b) On the two hundred and tenth day after the date of enactment of this Act, so much of all unexpended balances of appropriations as are available to the Department of the Interior for the care of the Alaska insane shall be transferred to the Governor of Alaska to be available for expenditure by him for the administration of the Acts specified in, and in part amended by, section 301 and for the administration of the laws of the Territory of Alaska enacted pursuant to section 101 of this Act, and the Secretary of the Interior shall, upon such transfer or as soon as practicable thereafter, transfer to the Governor of Alaska all papers and documents used primarily in the administration of all laws pertaining to the Alaska insane. For the remainder of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1957, there are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of the Interior for transfer to the Governor of Alaska such additional sums as may be necessary for the care of the Alaska insane during that fiscal year.

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