Joint resolution Authorizing the purchase of certain property in the District of Columbia and its conveyance to the Pan American Health Organization for use as a headquarters site
PL 86-395 (S.J.Res.115), enacted 03/28/1960

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PUBLIC LAW 86-395-MAR. 28, 1960 
(b) Upon aiitlioiizatioii t'lom the Kansas Centennial Commission, 
the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause duplicates in silver or bronze 
or both of such medal to be coined and sold, under such regulations as 
he may prescribe, at a price sufficient to cover the cost thereof (includ-
ing labor). 
Approved March 18, 1960. 
Public Law 86-394 
AN ACT 
To pr»)vi(le for tlie striking of medals in conmiemoration of the one hundredth 
anniversary of the founding of the Pony Express. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That in the com-
memoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the 
Pony Express, which was founded and operated by the Kussell, 
Majors, and Waddell Company between Saint Joseph, Missouri, and 
Sacramento, California, in the years 1860-1861, the Secretary of the 
Treasury is authorized and directed to strike and furnish to the 
National Pony Express Centennial Association not more than five 
hundred thousand medals with suitable emblems, devices, and inscrip-
tions to be determined by the National Pony Express Centennial 
Association subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. 
The medals shall be made and delivered at such times as may be 
required by the Association in quantities of not less than two thousand, 
but no medals shall be made after December 31, 1961. The medals 
shall be considered to be national medals within the meaning of sec-
tion 3551 of the Revised Statutes, 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury shall cause such medals to be 
struck and furnished at not less than the estimated cost of manufac-
ture, including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead 
expenses; and security satisfactory to the Director of the Mint shall 
be furnished to indemnify the United States for the full payment of 
such cost. 
SEC. 3. The medals authorized to be issued pursuant to this Act 
shall be of such size or sizes and of such metals as shall be determined 
by the Secretary of the Treasury in consultation with such Asso-
ciation. 
Approved March 18, 1960. 
March 18, 1960 
[S. 2454] 
P ony E x p r e s s 
Centennial. 
Medals, 
31 u s e 368. 
Public Law 86-395 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Authorizing the purchase of certain property in the District of Columbia and its 
conveyance to the Pan American Health Organization for use as a head-
quarters site. 
Whereas the Government of the United States has a vital interest in 
the health of the peoples of the Americas; and 
Whereas the Pan American Health Organization is the oldest continu-
ing international health organization in the world; and 
Whereas the Government of the United States has taken a leading 
role in the work of the Pan American Health Organization, which 
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Pan A m e r i c a n 
Health Org aniza-
tlon. 
Head q u a r t e r s 
site. 
also serves as the regional organization of the World Health 
Organization; and 
Whereas the Government of the United States, at the X I I I Pan Amer-
ican Sanitary Conference in 1950, invited the Pan American Health 
Organization to make its permanent headquarters in the United 
States and offered a site for this purpose; and 
Whereas there are many advantages for locating the Organization 
headquarters in Washington, where it can continue to enjoy close 
and mutually profitable working relations with the United States 
Public Health Service and other governmental, academic, and 
research organizations: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That there is hereby author-
ized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other-
wise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary for the Adminis-
trator of General Services to acquire by purchase, condemnation, or 
otherwise, including any expenses of such acquisitions, the land in 
the northwest section of the District of Columbia, known as square 59, 
bounded on the north and south by Virginia Avenue and E Street, 
and on the east and west by Twenty-second and Twenty-third Streets, 
together with any building and improvements thereon. 
SEC, 2. The Administrator of General Services is hereby author-
ized to convey, without consideration, the property acquired under 
section 1 of this Act to the Pan American Health Organization, for-
merly known as the Pan American Sanitary Bureau and the Pan Amer-
ican Sanitary Organization, for use as a headquarters site, subject 
to the condition that the site development plan be coordinated with 
the National Capital Planning Commission. 
Approved March 28, 1960. 
March 28, 1960 
[S. 1712] 
Public Law 86-396 
AN ACT 
To extend the application of the Motorboat Act of 1940 to certain possessions 
of the United States. 
46 u s e 526u. 
54 Stat. 163. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (c) 
of section 6 of the Federal Boating Act of 1958, approved Septem-
ber 2,1968 (72 Stat. 1754), is amended to read as follows: 
"(c) Such Act of April 25, 1940 (46 U.S.C. 526-526t), is further 
amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: 
" 'SEC. 22. (a) This Act shall ajpply to every motorboat or vessel 
on the navigable waters of the United States, Guam, the Virgin Is-
lands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the District of Colum-
bia, and every motorboat or vessel owned in a State and using the 
high seas. 
"'(b) As used in this Act— 
" 'The term "State" means a State of the United States, Guam, 
the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the 
District of Columbia.' " 
Approved March 28, 1960.