An Act to extend the grounds of the Custis-Lee Mansion in Arlington National Cemetery
PL 86-170 (H.R.5138), enacted 08/18/1959

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PUBLIC LAW 86-169-AUG. 18, 1959 
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Effective date. 
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(c) This title shall become effective January 1,1960. 
Approved August 18, 1959. 
August 18, 1959 
[H. R. 4644] 
Public Law 86-169 
AN ACT 
To credit to postal revenues certain amounts in connection with postal activities, 
and for other purposes. 
Postal Service. 
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credit. 
V e n ue s. 
Effective date. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the first 
sentence of section 4050 of the Revised Statutes (39 U.S.C. 782) is 
amended by inserting immediately following the last semicolon in 
such sentence the following: "all commissions on toll telephones located 
in buildings under the custody of the Post Office Department or the 
Postal Field Service; all amounts collected from officers and employees 
of the Post Office Department or the Postal Field Service on account 
of payments to them by courts of witness fees and allowances for 
expenses of travel and subsistence in cases in which such officers and 
employees have been subpenaed to testify in private litigation in their 
official capacities or to produce official records;". 
(b) The second sentence in the seventh paragraph under the heading 
"Office Of The Third Assistant Postmaster-General." in the Act of 
May 27, 1908 (35 Stat. 415; 39 U.S.C. 784), is amended by inserting 
"as part of the postal revenue" immediately before the period at the 
end of such sentence. 
SEO. 2. The amendments made by the first section of this Act shall 
become effective on such date as msLj be specified by the Postmaster 
General but not later than the sixtieth day following the date of 
enactment of this Act. 
Approved August 18, 1959. 
August 18, 1959 
[H. R. 5 138] 
Public Law 86-170 
AN ACT 
To extend the grounds of the Custis-Lee Mansion in Arlington National 
Cemetery, 
C u s t i s-L e e 
Mansion. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That to make possible 
the restoration and preservation of a portion of the historic grounds 
associated with the Custis-Lee Mansion which, pursuant to the Act of 
June 29, 1955 (69 Stat. 190), has been dedicated as a permanent 
memorial to Robert E. Lee, the Secretary of the Army is authorized 
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and directed to transfer to the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the 
Interior, without remuneration, for addition to the Custis-Lee 
Mansion, approximately 0.76 acre of land within the Arlington 
National Cemetery lyin^ immediately south of the Custis-Lee Mansion, 
more particularly described as follows: 
Beginning at a bronze disc in the east curb of Sherman Avenue at 
the southwest corner of the present Custis-Lee Mansion grounds 
marked C L 3, thence with the east curb of Sherman Avenue in a 
southwesterly direction 117.03 feet along the arc of a curve whose 
radius is 175.98 feet and whose long chord bears south 36 degrees 49 
minutes 12 seconds west for 114.89 feet to a bronze disc in the curb 
marked C L 4, thence leaving Sherman Avenue, east 121.33 feet to a 
bronze disc set in concrete and marked C L 5, thence south 00 degrees 
59 minutes 04 seconds east 135.03 feet to a bronze disc set in concrete 
and marked C L 6, thence north 88 degrees 33 minutes 40 seconds 
east 103.75 feet to a bronze disc set in concrete and marked C L 7, 
thence north 47 degrees 10 minutes 49 seconds east 10.03 feet to a 
bronze disc set in concrete and marked C L 8, thence north 1 degree 
12 minutes 50 seconds east 217.61 feet to a bronze disc set in concrete 
and marked C L 9 in the south line of the present Custis-Lee Mansion 
grounds (the last three courses being 4 feet north, northwest, and 
west, respectively, from rows of existing headstones), thence with 
the south line of the present Custis-Lee Mansion grounds and along 
the south side of an existing brick wall, west 170.46 feet to the place 
of beginning, containing 33,151 square feet or 0.76106 acre of land more 
or less, in accordance with a plat of survey made by National Park 
Service, National Capital Parks dated September 20,1955, and bearing 
file number NCP 2.3-94. 
Approved August 18, 1959. 
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Public Law 86-171 
AN ACT 
To amend the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, with 
respect to the payment of compensation in cases where third persons are 
liable. 
August 18, 1959 
[H. R. 451] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatwes 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 33 of and °i?^bo?* wo?k-
the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act is ers' compensa-
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Act, 
amend-
amended to read as lollows: 
tnent. 
44 Stat. 1440. 
33 u s e 933. 
"COMPENSATION FOR INJURIES WHERE THIRD PERSONS ARE LIABLE 
"SEC. 33. (a) If on account of a disability or death for which com-
pensation is payable under this Act the person entitled to such com-
pensation determines that some person other than the employer or a 
person or persons in his employ is liable in damages, he need not elect 
whether to receive such compensation or to recover damages against 
such third person. 
"(b) Acceptance of such compensation under an award in a com-
pensation order filed by the deputy commissioner shall operate as an 
assignment to the employer of all ri^ht of the person entitled to 
compensation to recover damages against such third person unless 
such person shall commence an action against such third person within 
six months after such award.