An Act to authorize the execution of mortgages and deeds of trust on individual Indian trust or restricted land
PL 84-450 (H.R.4802), enacted 03/29/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 449-MAR. 29, 1956 
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Transfer. 
may be, in order to make an equal exchange. Tlie Secretary is author-
ized to use any land acquisition funds relating to the National Park 
System for such purposes. 
The Secretary may consununate land 
exchanges herein authorized upon such terms, conditions, and pro-
cedures as he may tind to be necessary or desirable in carrying out 
the pin-poses of this Act: and in evaluating non-Federal properties 
to l)e acquired hereunder, he is authorized to make such allowance as 
he may find to be equitable for the value of any residential properties 
that may be situated upon land to be acquired pursuant to this Act. 
If expedient and in the public interest to do so, he may assist in the 
removal of structures from ])roperty to be acquired hereunder through 
the exchange procedure, and he may coo])erate with public or private 
agencies and persons in the securing of housing for the aforesaid 
grantoi-s who may require new housing acconnnodations or facilities 
as a result of the land exchanges herein authorized. 
SKC. 2, The Secretary is further authorized to transfer without com-
pensation up to fifteen acres of the Colonial National Historical Park, 
Virginia, to the (\mnnonwealth of Virginia for use by agencies of the 
Commonwealth in the establishment of a State Park in furtherance of 
the purposes of the (\)lonial National Historical Park. 
Approved March 29, 1956. 
March 29, 1956 
[H. R. 4680] 
Public Law 449 
CHAPTER 106 
AN ACT 
Affirming that title to a certain tract of land in California vested in tlie State of 
California on .Tannary 21, 1897. 
Be it enacted ^y the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United' States of America in Congress assenihled, That all right, title, 
and interest of the United States in and to tract 39, township 4 north, 
range 18 east, Mount Diablo meridian, California, as identined on the 
plat of survey approved August 5, 1931, by the United States Super-
visor of Surveys and accepted on March 2,1932, by the Assistant (Com-
missioner of the General Land Office of the Department of the 
Interior, vested in the State of California on January 21, 1897, the 
date on which the original plat of survey of such lands was accepted 
by the Commissioner of the General Land Office of such Department 
under the school land grant made to such State by the Act entitled 
"An Act to provide for the Survey of the Public Lands in California, 
the granting of Preemption Rights therein, and for other purposes'", 
approved March 3,1853 (10 Stat. 244), and that the United States has 
not held any interest in such lands since the date on Avhich title to it 
so vested in the State of California. 
Approved March 29, 1956. 
March 29, 1956 
[ H. R. 4802] 
Public Law 450 
CHAPTER 107 
AN ACT 
To authorize the execution of mortj?ages and deeds of trust on indi\idual Indian 
trust or restricted land. 
Indians. 
Mortgages 
and 
deeds of trust. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the individual 
Indian owners of any land which either is held by the United States 
in trust for them or is subject to a restriction against alienation im-
posed by the United States are authorized, subject to approval by the 
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PUBLIC LAW 452-MAR. 29, 1966 
Secretary of the Interior, to execute a mortgage or deed of trust to 
such huid. 
Such land sliall be subject to foreclosure or sale pursuant 
to the terms of such mortgage or deed of trust in accordance with 
the laws of the Stiite or Territory in which the land is located. 
For 
the purpose of any foreclosure or sale proceeding the Indian owners 
shall be regarded as vested with an unrestricted fee simple title to the 
land, the United States shall not be a necessary party to the proceed-
ing, and any conveyance of the land pursuant to the proceeding shall 
divest the TTnited States of title to the land. 
All mortgages and 
deeds of trust to such land heretofore approved by the Secietary of 
the Interior are ratified and confirmed. 
Approved March 29, 1956. 
Public Law 451 
CHAPTERIOS 
AN ACT 
To repeal the requirement for heads of departments and afiencies to report to 
the Postmaster General the number of penalty envelopes and wrappers on 
hand at the close of each fiscal year. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 301 of 
the Penalty Mail Act of 1948, as amended (62 Stat. 1048; 39 U. S. C , 
sec. 321i), is hereby amended by striking out the second sentence 
thereof. 
Approved March 29, 1956. 
March 29, 1956 
[H. R. 5856] 
Penalty mail. 
Public Law 452 
CHAPTER 109 
AN ACT 
To amend the copyright law to permit, in certain classes of works, the deposit of 
photographs or other identifying reproductions in lieu of copies of published 
works. 
March 29, 1956 
[H. R. 5876] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Reptei^cntatires 
of the 
United States of Ameiica in Congress assemhled. That section 13 of 
copyrights, 
title 17, L^nited States Code, is amended to read as follows: 
6i stat. 656. 
"§ 13. Deposit of copies after publication; action or proceeding for 
infringement 
"After copyright has been secured by publication of the work with 
the notice of copyright as provided in section 10 of this title, there 
shall be promptly deposited in the Copyright Office or in the mail 
addressed to the Kegister of Copyrights, Washington, District of 
Columbia, two complete copies of the best edition thereof then pub-
lished, or if the work is by an author who is a citizen or subject of 
a foreign state or nation and lias been published in a foreign coun-
try, one complete co])y of the best edition then published in such 
foreign country, which copies or copy, if the work be a book or peri-
odical, shall have been produced in accordance with the manufacturing 
provisions specified in section 16 of this title; or if such work be a 
contribution to a ])eriodical. for which contribution special registra-
tion is requested, one co])y of the issue or issues containing such con-
tribution; or if the work belongs to a class specified in subsections (g), 
(h), (i) or (k) of section 5 of this title, and if the Register of Copy-
rights determines that it is impracticable to deposit copies because of 
their size, weight, fragility, or monetary value he may permit the 
deposit of photographs or other identifying reproductions in lieu of 
61 Stat. 657. 
61 Stat. 654.