Second Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1957. AN ACT
Making appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1957, and for other purposes -
Alaska International Rail and Highway Commission. ΑΝ
ACT To provide that the Delegate from Alaska in the
House of Representatives of the United States may be a
member of the Alaska International Rail and Highway
Commission..

U. S. savings bonds.

AN ACT To amend the Second Liberty
Bond Act to increase the maximum interest rate permitted
on United States savings bonds..
National Mental Health Week, 1957. JOINT RESOLU-
TION Requesting the President to proclaim the week April
28 to May 4, 1957, inclusive, as National Mental Health
Week
Additional appropriations, 1957. JOINT RESOLUTION
Making additional appropriations for the fiscal year 1957,
and for other purposes.

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Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, portrait, etc. JOINT RESO-
LUTION Authorizing the procurement of an oil portrait
and marble bust of the late Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson. Apr. 20, 1957---
Anglo-American Financial Agreement, signature. JOINT
RESOLUTION To implement further the Act of July 15,
1946, by approving the signature by the Secretary of the
Treasury of an agreement amending the Anglo-American
Financial Agreement of December 6, 1945-
Washington State Sixth International Trade Fair. JOINT
RESOLUTION To permit articles imported from foreign
countries for the purpose of exhibition at the Washington
State Sixth International Trade Fair, Seattle, Washington,
to be admitted without payment of tariff, and for other
purposes
Merrimack River Flood Control Compact. AN ACT Granting
the consent and approval of Congress to the Merrimack
River Flood Control Compact..
Veterans, pension prohibition. AN ACT To prohibit the
payment of pensions to persons confined in penal institu-
tions for periods longer than sixty days.
Agriculture, grazing program. AN ACT To establish a
deferred grazing program as part of the relief available to
drought stricken areas under Public Law 875, Eighty-first
Congress, and for other purposes.
Blind, State aid. AN ACT To provide a temporary extension
of certain special provisions relating to State plans for aid
to the blind.

Metal Scrap. AN ACT To continue until the close of June
30, 1958, the suspension of duties and import taxes on
metal scrap, and for other purposes..
Cotton price support. AN ACT To amend the Agricultural
Act of 1949 with respect to price support for extra long
staple cotton...
Chicagoland Commerce and Industry Exposition. AN ACT
To permit articles imported from foreign countries for the
purpose of exhibition at the Chicagoland Commerce and
Industry Exposition, to be held at Chicago, Illinois, to be
admitted without payment of tariff, and for other purposes.
Armed Forces, free entry of gifts. AN ACT To extend for a
period of two years the privilege of free importation of
gifts from members of the Armed Forces of the United
States on duty abroad..

Indians, conveyance of school lands. AN ACT To amend the
Act of June 4, 1953 (67 Stat. 41), and for other purposes..
National Defense Transportation Day. JOINT RESOLU-
TION Requesting the President to designate the third
Friday of May of each year as National Defense Trans-
portation Day.

Shoshone reclamation project, Wyoming. JOINT RESOLU-
TION Permitting the Secretary of the Interior to continue
to deliver water to lands in the Heart Mountain division,
Shoshone Federal Reclamation project, Wyoming....

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85-34 Rock Hills, S. C., acquisition of certain Indian lands. AN ACT To authorize the city of Rock Hill, South Carolina, to acquire certain tribal lands on the Catawba Indian Reservation, South Carolina..

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Spearfish, S. Dak., reconveyance of land. AN ACT To pro-
vide for the reconveyance of certain land to the city of
Spearfish, South Dakota..
Federal Plant Pest Act. AN ACT To facilitate the regulation,
control, and eradication of plant pests....
Treasury-Post Office Appropriation Act, 1958. AN ACT
Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office
Departments and the Tax Court of the United States for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1958, and for other purposes.
San Diego aqueduct, Calif. AN ACT To amend the Act
entitled "An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to
enlarge existing water-supply facilities for the San Diego,
California area in order to insure the existence of an ade-
quate water supply for naval installations and defense
production plants in such area", approved October 11, 1951. May
Wyoming, conveyance of land. AN ACT To authorize the
conveyance to the State of Wyoming of about thirty-seven
and seventy-five one-hundredths acres of land comprising
a part of Francis E. Warren Air Force Base...
Naval Academy and Postgraduate School, civilian teachers'
annuities. AN ACT To increase the retired annuities of
the civilian members of the teaching staffs of the United
States Naval Academy and the United States Naval Post-
graduate School..

Confederate Cemetery, Springfield, Mo. AN ACT To amend
the Act of March 3, 1911 (36 Stat. 1077), to remove
restrictions on the use of a portion of the Springfield Con-
federate Cemetery, Springfield, Missouri, and for other
purposes.

Clint and Fabens Independent School Districts, Tex. AN
ACT To provide for the conveyance of the reversionary
interest of the United States in certain lands to the Clint
Independent School District and the Fabens Independent
School District in the State of Texas, or to either of them,
and for other purposes..

Navy, sale of degaussing equipment. AN ACT To authorize
the sale of degaussing equipment by the Department of the
Navy to the owners or operators of privately owned
merchant ships of United States registry
Armed Forces, terminal services. AN ACT To amend title 10,
United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of a military
department to furnish stevedoring and terminal services
and facilities to commercial steamship companies, and for
other purposes. . - -

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D. C. Reformatory, Lorton, Va. AN ACT To permit any
State of the United States or any political subdivision of
any such State to purchase from the District of Columbia
Reformatory at Lorton, Virginia, gun mountings and car-
riages for guns for use at historic sites and for museum
display purposes..

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National Archives, transfer of agency records. AN ACT To
amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services
Act of 1949, as amended, and for other purposes.
Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriation
Act, 1958. AN ACT Making appropriations for the
Department of Commerce and related agencies for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1958, and for other purposes. June 13, 1957___
AN ACT To fix the
Library of Congress, certifying officers.

responsibilities of certifying officers and disbursing officer
of the Library of Congress-
AN ACT To amend the Legislative
House of Representatives.
Appropriation Act, 1955, with reference to official office
expenses of Members of Congress_
Export-Import Bank of Washington. AN ACT To extend the
period within which Export-Import Bank of Washington
may make loans.

AN ACT To consolidate into
Veterans' Benefits Act of 1957.
one Act, and to simplify and make more uniform, the laws
administered by the Veterans' Administration relating to
compensation, pension, hospitalization, and burial benefits,
and to consolidate into one Act the laws pertaining to the
administration of the laws administered by the Veterans'
Administration___.

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Bridge, Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, Va.
ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to permit
the construction of a bridge and road across Chincoteague
National Wildlife Refuge, and for other purposes.
AN ACT
Third Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1957.
Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1957, and for other purposes
AN ACT To authorize
University of Missouri, conveyance.
and direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to the
University of Missouri, for agricultural purposes, certain
real property in Callaway County, Missouri
Norwegian claim, adjudication. JOINT RESOLUTION To
implement the convention between the United States of
America and Norway, which entered into force on Nov-
ember 9, 1948, for disposition of the claim against the
Government of the United States of America asserted by
the Government of Norway on behalf of Christoffer
Hannevig
District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1958. AN ACT
Making appropriations for the government of the District
of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in
part against the revenues of said District for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1958, and for other purposes.
AN ACT To amend the Universal
Doctors, dentists, etc.
Military Training and Service Act, as amended, as regards
persons in the medical, dental, and allied specialist catego-
ries.
Armed Forces, personnel strengths. AN ACT To amend the
Act of August 3, 1950, as amended, to continue in effect
the provisions relating to the authorized personnel strengths
of the Armed Forces.
Post Office Department, supplemental appropriation, 1958.
JOINT RESOLUTION Making supplemental appropri-
ations for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year
1958, and for other purposes

Civil Service retirement. AN ACT Relating to the charging
of interest on deposits to the credit of the civil service
retirement and disability fund, and for other purposes-
Voluntary Home Mortgage Credit Program. JOINT RES-
OLUTION To provide an interim extension for the Vol-
untary Home Mortgage Credit Program..
Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare
AN ACT Making appropria-
Appropriation Act, 1958.
tions for the Departments of Labor, and Health, Education,
and Welfare, and related agencies, for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1958, and for other purposes.

Mining claims, assessment work. AN ACT To amend the
Act of August 11, 1955, to extend the time during which
annual assessment work on unpatented mining claims
subject to that Act may be made.

Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1958. AN ACT
Making appropriations for sundry independent executive
bureaus, boards, commissions, corporations, agencies, and
offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1958, and for
other purposes..
War-risk hazard and detention benefits. AN ACT To amend
the Act of December 2, 1942, and the Act of August 16,
1941, relating to injury, disability, and death resulting
from war-risk hazards and from employment, suffered by
employees of contractors of the United States, and for
other purposes.-

War-risk hazards and detention benefits. AN ACT To amend
the Federal Employees' Compensation Act to provide
compensation for employees of the United States suffering
injuries from war-risk hazards or during detention by a
hostile force or person..

Klamath County, Oreg. AN ACT To amend the law with
respect to the recoupment of funds expended in cooperation
with the school board of Klamath County, Oregon, because
of the attendance of Indian children, and for other pur-
poses.

D. C. Hospital Center. AN ACT To increase the authoriza-
tion for appropriations for the Hospital Center and facilities
in the District of Columbia and for other purposes..
Armed Forces, certain tax exemption. AN ACT Relating to
the exemption of furlough travel by service personnel from
the tax on the transportation of persons..
Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1958. AN ACT
Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1958, and for other purposes..
Rochambeau Memorial Bridge. AN ACT To designate the
east Fourteenth Street highway bridge over the Potomac
River at Fourteenth Street in the District of Columbia as
the Rochambeau Memorial Bridge_
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriation
Act, 1958. AN ACT Making appropriations for the
Department of the Interior and related agencies for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1958, and for other purposes.
Temporary appropriations, 1958. JOINT RESOLUTION
Making temporary appropriations for the fiscal year 1958,
and for other purposes..

Atomic Energy Act of 1954, amendments. AN ACT To
amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and for
other purposes--
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the U. S., tax
exemption. AN ACT To exempt from taxation certain
property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
in the United States in the District of Columbia__
Philippine Republic, transfer of records. AN ACT To au-
thorize and direct the Administrator of General Services
to donate to the Philippine Republic certain records
captured from insurrectos during 1899-1903__
War memorials, D. C., sales tax exemption. AN ACT To
exempt the sale of materials for certain war memorials in
the District of Columbia from the District of Columbia
Sales Tax Act.

American Historical Association, D. C. AN ACT To
eliminate the financial limitation on real and personal
estate holdings of the American Historical Association and
to exempt from taxation certain property of such associa-
tion in the District of Columbia.
Idaho, public buildings land grants. AN ACT To amend
section 6 of the Act approved July 3, 1890 (26 Stat. 215),
relating to the admission into the Union of the State of
Idaho by providing for the use of public lands granted
therein for the purpose of construction, reconstruction,
repair, renovation, furnishings, equipment, or other
permanent improvements of public buildings at the capital
Senate Office Building. AN ACT Increasing the limit of cost
fixed for construction and equipment of an additional office
building for the United States Senate...
Indian livestock. AN ACT To repeal section 1157 of title 18
of the United States Code, as amended...

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AN ACT To

AN ACT
To authorize the transfer of the Coyote Valley Indian Ran-
cheria to the Secretary of the Army, and for other purposes. July
Tobacco marketing quotas. AN ACT Relating to marketing
quotas and price supports for fire-cured, dark air-cured,
and Virginia sun-cured tobacco.......
Senate Office Building, furniture, etc. AN ACT To authorize
furniture and furnishings for the additional office building
for the United States Senate..

D. C. family support. AN ACT To improve and extend,
through reciprocal legislation, the enforcement of duties
of support in the District of Columbia..
Senate Office Building. AN ACT Authorizing the enlarge-
ment and remodeling of Senators' suites and structural,
mechanical, and other changes and improvements in the
existing Senate Office Building, to provide improved
accommodations for the United States Senate....
Cotton. JOINT RESOLUTION Relating to the stockpile
of extra long staple cotton under the Strategic and Critical
Materials Stockpiling Act.
Wyoming, public buildings land grants. AN ACT To amend
section 6 of the Act approved July 10, 1890 (26 Stat. 222),
relating to the admission into the Union of the State of
Wyoming by providing for the use of public lands granted
to said State for the purpose of construction, reconstruc-
tion, repair, renovation, furnishing, equipment, or other
permanent improvement of public buildings at the capital
of said State.
Central, N. Mex., conveyance of land. AN ACT To author-
ize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell to the village of
Central, State of New Mexico, certain lands administered
by him formerly part of the Fort Bayard Military Reser-
vation, New Mexico..

Common carriers. AN ACT To amend section 4 of the
Interstate Commerce Act, as amended..
85-100 Vincennes University, Indiana. AN ACT To authorize the
Administrator of General Services to quitclaim all inter-
est of the United States in and to a certain parcel of land
in Indiana to the board of trustees for the Vincennes
University, Vincennes, Indiana..

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85-101 Performance ratings, nonapplicability to certain Army and
Navy employees. AN ACT To amend section 2 (b) of the
Performance Rating Act of 1950, as amended.......
Sockeye Salmon Fishery Act of 1947, amendments. AN ACT
To amend the Sockeye Salmon Fishery Act of 1947-
Canadian vessels. AN ACT To provide transportation on
Canadian vessels between ports in southeastern Alaska,
and between Hyder, Alaska, and other points in south-
eastern Alaska or the continental United States, either
directly or via a foreign port, or for any part of the
transportation...

85–104. Housing Act of 1957. AN ACT To extend and amend laws
relating to the provision and improvement of housing, to
improve the availability of mortgage credit, and for other
purposes

85-105 Peanut statistics. AN ACT To amend the Act of June 24, 1936, as amended (relating to the collection and publication of peanut statistics), to delete the requirement for reports from persons owning or operating peanut picking or threshing machines, and for other purposes