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PUBLIC LAW 87-699-SEPT. 25, 1962

[76 STAT.

"The stock of any corporation organized by the mixed-blood group for the purpose of empowering the officers of such corporation to act as the authorized representatives of said mixed-blood group in the joint management with the tribe and in the distribution and unadjudicated or unliquidated claims against the United States, all gas, oil, and mineral rights of every kind, and all other assets not susceptible to equitable and practicable distribution shall not be subject to mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, levy, execution, attachment or other similar process, while such stock remains in the ownership of the original stockholder or his heirs or legatees, but the interest of stockholders in any distribution by such corporation shall be subject to the usual processes of the law." Approved September 25, 1962.

Public Law 87-699 September 25, 1962 [S. 1307]

District court. Richland, Wash. 62 Stat. 894.

AN ACT To amend section 128 of title 28, United States Code, to constitute Richland, Washington, a place of holding court for the eastern district of Washington, southern division, and to waive section 142 of title 28, United States Code, with respect to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, southern division, holding court at Richland, Washington.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the second section of section 128(a)(2) of title 28, United States Code, is hereby amended to read as follows: "Court for the southern division shall be held at Yakima, Walla Walla, and Kichland"; That the limitations and restrictions contained in section 142, title 28, United States Code, shall be waived insofar as pertains to holding court by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, southern division, at Richland, Washington. Approved September 25, 1962.

Public Law 87-700 September 25, 1962

AN ACT

[S. 3315]

rp^j relieve owners of abutting property from certain assessments in connection with the repair of alleys and sidewalks in the District of Columbia.

D. c. A s s e s s m e n t of property, relief in certain cases.

Effective date.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the second sentence in the second paragraph under the caption "ASSESSMENT AND PERMIT WORK" in the first section of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes", approved August 7, 1894 (28 Stat. 247), as amended (sec. 7-608, D.C. Code, 1961 edition), is amended by striking "said property" and inserting in lieu thereof "said property: Provided, That no such assessment shall be levied against abutting property for the cost of repairing alleys or sidewalks when the damage requiring such repair is caused by the growth of roots of trees on public space or the cause of such damage is otherwise beyond the control of the owner of such property". SEC. 2. The amendment made by the first section of this Act shall apply to repairs to alleys or to sidewalks the completion of which repairs shall occur on or after the effective date of this Act. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect ten days after its approval. Approved September 25, 1962.

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