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PUBLIC LAW 86-369-8EPT. 23, 1969

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SEC. 4. SAVING PROVISIONS. (a) The position of the Assistant General Counsel serving as Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service shall continue to exist until such time as the Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service first appointed pursuant to the amendment made by section 1 of this Act qualifies and takes office, and at such time such position is hereby abolished. (b) Except as provided in subsection (a), this Act shall not be construed to abolish, terminate, or otherwise change, any office or position, or the appointment or employment of any officer or employee, existing immediately preceding the enactment of this Act, but the same shall continue unless and until changed by lawful authority. (c) Any delegation of authority made pursuant to Reorganization Plan Numbered 26 of 1950 or Reorganization Plan Numbered 1 of s^ Stat. 128O; 1952, including any redelegation of authority made pursuant to any 5 t?s 0^1332-is such delegation of authority, and in en'ect immediately preceding the "^**enactment of this Act shall, notwithstanding the amendment made by section 1 of this Act, remain in effect unless distinctly inconsistent or manifestly incompatible with such amendment. The preceding sentence shall not be construed as limiting in any manner the power to amend, modify, or revoke any such delegation or redelegation of authority. Approved September 22, 1959.

Public Law 86-369 AN ACT

September 23, 1959

For the relief of the State of Oklahoma.

[H. R. 7605]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the State of Oklahoma, for the sole use of highway projects of such State, the sum of $652,019.71. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of the State of Oklahoma against the United States by reason of an agreement, made by the United States through the Works Projects Administration, under a stipulation filed on February 25, 1941, in the case of United States versus Phillips and others (civil action numbered 351 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma), for the Works Projects Administration to participate in certain highway projects in the Grand River Dam Reservoir area undertaken by the State Highway Commission of the State of Oklahoma and necessitated by reason of the construction of the Grand River Dam. The payment provided for herein is in accordance with the recommendation of the Court of Claims in its decision dated June 3, 1959, in congressional case numbered 10-55, a congressional reference case resulting from H. Res. 278, Eighty-fourth Congress, first session: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with this claim, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary, notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved September 23, 1959.

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