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PUBLIC LAW 919-AUG. 2, 1956

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amended (5 U.S.C. sec. 790), as though he were an employee, as ^3 Stat. seo. defined in such Act, who had sustained such injury in the performance of such duty, but shall not receive benefits under that Act for any period for which he elects to receive similar benefits from a State agency. SEC. 5. Appropriations of the Department shall be available, in Travel expenses.. accordance with Standardized Government Travel Kegulations, as amended, for the expenses of travel of employees assigned to States on either a detail or leave basis, expenses of transportation of their immediate families and expenses of transportation of their household goods and personal effects to the location of the posts of assignment and for such expenses for the return of employees to their official stations, but shall not be available for expenses of travel of the employees during such period of assignment. SEC. 6. Employees of States who are assigned to the Department State employees.. under authority of this Act may (1) be given appointments in the Department covering the periods of such assignments, or (2) be considered to be on detail to the Department. Appointments of persons so assigned may be made without regard to the civil-service laws or regulations. Persons given appointment in the Department shall be paid at rates of compensation in accordance with the Classification Act of 1949, as amended. State employees who are assigned to the 63 Stat., 954. 5 USC 1071 note. Department without appointment shall not be considered to be employees of the Department, except as provided in section 7, nor shall they be paid a salary or wage by the Department during the period of their detail. The supervision of the duties of such employees during the assignment may be governed by agreement between the Department and the State involved. SEC. 7. (a) Any State employee who is assigned to the Department without appointment shall nevertheless be subject to the provisions of sections 281, 283, 284, 434, 1902, 1905, and 1914 of title 18 of the ^g62stat.697,703. United States Code and section 99, title 5, of the United States Code. (b) Any State employee who is given an appointment while assigned to the Department or who is assigned to the Department without appointment and who suffers disability or death as a result of personal injury arising out of and in the course of such assignment, or sustained in the performance of duties in connection therewith shall be treated, for the purpose of the Federal Employees' Compensation Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. sec. 790), as though he were an employee, as 63 Stat. 860. defined in such Act, who had sustained such injury in the performance of such duty, but shall not receive benefits under that Act for any period for which he elects to receive similar benefits as a State employee. SEC. 8. The appropriations of the Department shall be available in Travel expenses. accordance with the Standardized Government Travel Regulations, as amended, for the payment of expenses of travel of persons assigned to, but not given appointments by, the Department under authority of this Act during the periods of such assignments on the same basis as if they were employees of the Department. Approved August 2, 1956. Public Law 919

CHAPTER 879

AN ACT To further protect and assure the privacy of grand or petit juries in the courts of the United States while such juries are deliberating or voting. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That chapter 73 o:^

August 2, 1956 IS. 2887]

Grand or petit 62 Stat. 769.

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