An Act to require the recordation of scrip, lieu selection, and similes rights
PL 84-247 (H.R.2972), enacted 08/05/1955

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54 Stat. 1207. 
Gifts, etc. 
Employees. 
63 Stat. 954. 
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lend themselves best to the advancement of the preparation of such 
history and to the employment of distinguished scholars qualified to 
achieve the desired standards and independence in the work which 
they undertake. 
(b) To finance an annual lecture or series of lectures, at times and 
places determined by the Committee, to be given each year at a differ-
ent institution of higher learning in various parts of the country by a 
lecturer of distinction engaged by the Committee on a subject of his 
choice. The lectures shall be known as the Oliver Wendell Holmes 
Lectures. 
(c) To finance the preparation and publication of the memorial 
volume contemplated by section 2 of the Act of October 22, 1940 (54 
Stat. 1206) containing Justice Holmes' writings and other material. 
SEC. 5. The Committee is authorized to accept, receive, hold, and ad-
minister such gifts or bequests of money, securities, or other personal 
property as may be approved by the Committee, and it may sell or 
otherwise dispose of such securities or other personal property. 
All 
moneys received shall be paid into, administered, and expended as a 
part of the fund. 
SEC. 6. The Committee may employ, without regard to the civil-
service laws or the Classification Act of 1949, such employees as may 
be necessary in carrying out its functions. 
SEC. 7. The Committee may accept and utilize services of voluntary 
and uncompensated personnel and pay any such personnel when en-
gaged in the work of the Committee necessary travel and subsistence 
expenses or in the alternative, transportation and not to exceed $20 
per diem in lieu of subsistence; cooperate with legal, philosophical, 
and historical societies and institutions of learning; and call upon 
Federal agencies for their advice and assistance in carrying out its 
functions. 
Any Federal agency furnishing advice or assistance to 
the Committee may expend its own funds for this purpose, with or 
without reimbursement from the Committee as may be agreed upon 
by the Committee and the agency. 
The Committee, to such extent as 
it finds to be necessary, may, without regard to the laws or procedures 
applicable to Federal agencies, procure transportation, supplies, serv-
ices and property, and make contracts, and may exercise those powers 
that are necessary to enable it to carry out efficiently and in the public 
interest the purposes of this Act. 
SEC. 8. The Chairman, w^ith the approval of the Committee, is au-
thorized to determine the character and necessity of expenditures 
from the fund and the manner in which such expenditures are 
incurred, allowed and paid. 
Disbursements from the fund shall be 
made through the disbursing facilities of the Treasury Department. 
SEC. 9. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of 
this Act are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency. 
Approved August 5, 1955. 
August 5, 1955 
[H. R. 2972] 
Public Law 247 
CHAPTER 573 
AN ACT 
To require the recordation of scrip, lieu selection, and similar rights. 
Land scrips. 
Recordation. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That any owner of, 
and any person claiming rights to, Valentine scrip, issued under the 
Act of April 5, 1872 (17 Stat. 649) ; Sioux Half-Breed scrip, issued 
under the Act of July 17, 1854 (10 Stat. 304) ; Supreme Court scrip, 
issued under the Acts of June 22, 1860 (12 Stat. 85), March 2, 1867 
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(14 Stat. 544), and June 10, 1872 (17 Stat. 378); Surveyor-General 
scrip, issued under the Act of June 2, 1858 (11 Stat. 294); a soldier's 
additional homestead right, granted by sections 2306 and 2307 of the 
Revised Statutes; a forest lieu selection right, assertable under the Act 
of March 3, 1905 (33 Stat. 1264); a lieu selection right conferred by 
the Act of July 1, 1898 (30 Stat. 597) ; a bounty land warrant issued 
under the Act of March 3,1855 (10 Stat. 701); or any lieu selection or 
scrip right or bounty land warrant, or right in the nature of scrip 
issued under any Act of Congress not enumerated herein (except the 
indemnity selection rights of any State, or the Territory of Alaska), 
shall, within two years from the effective date of this Act, present his 
holdings or claim for recordation by the Department of the Interior. 
SEC. 2. In the case of a transfer after the effective date of this Act, 
by assignment, inheritance, operation of law, or otherwise of a holding 
or claim of any right recorded under this Act, the holding or claim of 
right so transferred shall be presented to the Department of the 
Interior within six months after such transfer, for recordation by it; 
except that where such transfer occurs within the period of two years 
from the effective date of this Act and the prior owner has not com-
plied with provisions of this Act, the owner or claimant by transfer 
shall have the remainder of such period or a period of six months, 
whichever is the longer, within which to present his claims or holdings 
for recordation. 
SEC. 3. There shall be endorsed on the evidence of the right or war-
rant each recordation thereof. 
SEC. 4. Claims or holdings not presented for recordation, as 
prescribed herein, shall not thereafter be accepted by the Secretary 
of the Interior for recordation or as a basis for the acquisition of 
lands. 
SEC. 5. Within thirty days after the effective date of this Act, the 
Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be published in the Federal 
Register a notice setting forth the recordation requirements of this 
Act. Within one year after the effective date of this Act the Secretary 
shall also cause notices of the recordation requirements of this Act 
to be published in such newspapers, posted in such public offices, and 
given publicity by such other means as he deems feasible and appro-
priate for the dissemination of information concerning the recorda-
tion requirements of this Act to persons who may have holdings or 
claims that are subject to such requirements. 
SEC, 6. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make rules 
and regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act. 
Approved August 6, 1955. 
43 u s e 274, 278. 
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Public Law 248 
CHAPTER 574 
AN ACT 
To amend section 8a (4) of the Commodity Exchange Act, as amended. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Umted States of Ameiica in Congress assemhled. That section 8a (4) 
of the Commodity Exchange Act, as amended (7 U. S. C. 12a (4)), 
is amended to read as follows: 
"(4) to fix and establish from time to time reasonable fees and 
charges for registrations and renewals thereof and for copies of 
registration certificates; and". 
Approved August 5, 1955, 
August 5, 1955 
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changes. 
R e g i s t r a t i on 
fees. 
49 Stat. 1500.