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PUBLIC LAW 86-691-SEPT. 2, 1960

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SEC. 3. The Indian Claims Commission is directed to determine in accordance with the provisions of section 2 of the Act of August 13, 1946 (60 Stat. 1050), the extent to which the value of the title conveyed by this Act should or should not be set off against any claim against the United States determined by the Commission. Approved September 2, 1960. Public Law 86-691

September 2, 1960 [S. 2932]

Criminal procedure. Amendment.

Credit for time in custody.

Effective date.

AN ACT To provide for credit for service of sentence for time spent in custody for want of bail prior to the imposition of sentence by the sentencing court where the statute requires the imposition of a minimum mandatory sentence.

Be it enacted by the S'enate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemMed^ That (a) section 3568 of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: "§3568. Effective date of sentence; credit for time in custody prior to the imposition of sentence. "The sentence of imprisonment of any person convicted of an offense in a court of the United States shall commence to run from the date on which such person is received at the penitentiary, reformatory, or jail for service of said sentence: Provided, That the Attorney General shall give any such person credit toward service of his sentence for any days spent in custody prior to the imposition of sentence by the sentencing court for want of bail set for the offense under which sentence was imposed where the statute requires the imposition of a minimum mandatory sentence. "If any such jperson shall be committed to a jail or other place of detention to await transportation to the place at which his sentence is to be served, his sentence shall commence to run from the date on which he is received at such jail or other place of detention. "No sentence shall prescribe any other method of computing the term." (b) Item 3568 of the analysis of chapter 227, immediately preceding section 3561 of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: '•M568. Effective date of sentence; credit for time in custody prior to imposition of sentence." SEC. 2. The amendments made by the first section of this Act shall be effective only with respect to persons sentenced to imprisonment on or after the thirtieth day after the date of enactment of this Act. Approved September 2, 1960.

Public Law 86-692 September 2, 1960 [S. 3053]

state of Connecticut, relief.

AN ACT For the relief of the State of Connecticut.

Be it emicted 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 Connecticut, the sum of $10,000. The payment of such sum shall be in full satisfaction of all claims of the State of Connecticut against the United States for reimbursement of an amount paid by such State to certain persons as compensation for personal injuries and property losses which they sustained on September 24, 1957, when a wing fuel tank fell from a Connecticut Air National Guard F-94 jet aircraft while it was being operated by a United States Air Force Reserve

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