An Act to amend the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act so as to extend the coverage of such Act to employees of the municipal government of the District of Columbia employed in District of Columbia institutions located in Maryland and Virginia
PL 84-795 (H.R.10670), enacted 07/25/1956

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respectively, under the provisions of this Act shall be available for 
expenditure or for advance to the tribe for such purposes as may be 
requested by the tribal council and approved by the Secretary of the 
Interior or such official as may be designated by him: Provided^ That 
commencing with the quarterly period beginning April 1, 1956, 85 
per centum of all sums credited to said trust funds during the period 
ending May 19, 1959, shall be paid on the first day of September, the 
first day of December, the first day of March, and the first day of June 
each year, per capita, to the individual members of said tribes: Pro-
vided further^ That said per capita payments shall not be subject to 
any lien or claim of any nature against any of the members of said 
tribes unless the tribal council of such member shall consent thereto in 
writing, except as to reimbursable Treasury loans made to individual 
members of either tribe which may be due to the United States, and 
except as to irrigation charges owed by individual Indians to the 
United States with respect to lands for which water is requested and 
received by said individual Indians, and with respect to lands that are 
determined by the Secretary of the Interior to be properly classified 
under existing law on the basis of a survey to be undertaken by the 
Secretary after the date of the enactment of this Act: Provided 
fur-
ther^ That nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit the existing 
authority of the Secretary to protect and conserve the per capita funds 
payable to members of the tribes Avho are minors, non compos mentis, 
or who, in the opinion of the Secretary, are in need of assistance in 
conducting their affairs." 
SEC. 2. As a basis for determining the conditions under which per 
capita payments may be authorized after May 19, 1959, the Secretary 
of the Interior is requested to report to the Congress before January 
1,1958, (1) his recommendations regarding any new authority, if any, 
that he believes is needed in order to protect adequately the interests of 
minors and incompetent Indians, (2) the results of a survey and 
reclassification of the lands that should be removed from the irrigation 
project, and (3) the adequacy of the tribal contribution to the cost of 
administering the reservation. 
Approved July 25, 1956, 
Report to C o n -
gress. 
Public Law 795 
CHAPTER 724 
AN ACT 
To amend the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act so as to 
extend the coverage of such Act to employees of the municipal government 
of the District of Columbia employed in District of Columbia institutions 
located in Maryland and Virginia. 
July 25, 1956 
[H. R. 10670] 
D. 
301. C. Code 461-
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That section 1 (b) 
D. c , unempioj«-
(8) of the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act, tion. 
approved xlugust 28, 1935 (49 Stat. 946), as amended (title 46, ch. 
3, D. C. Code; 68 Stat. 988), is amended by adding at the end thereof 
the following subsection: 
"(iii) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 1 (b) (2) of 
this Act, service performed in the employ of the municipal govern-
ment of the District of Columbia but not localized within the District 
may, if said government elects, be covered employment." 
SEC. 2. This amendatory Act shall take effect as of 12:01 ante-
meridian on the first day of the next succeeding calendar quarter fol-
lowing the enactment of this amendatory Act. 
Approved July 25, 1956. 
Effective date.