An Act to provide for the free entry of an electron microscope for the use of William Marsh Rice University of Houston, Texas, an electron microscope for the use of the University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver, Colorado, and for other purposes
PL 86-774 (H.R.11573), enacted 09/13/1960

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PUBLIC LAW 86-774-SEPT. 13, 1960 
[74 ST A T . 
Retroactive com-
pensation. 
64 Stat. 395. 
5 u s e 61f-61k. 
68 Stat. 736. 
5 u s e 209 1 note. 
"An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, 
and other employees of the Board of Education of the District of 
Columbia, and for other purposes", approved August 5, 1955 (69 
Stat. 521, ch. 569), as amended, shall receive, in addition to the com-
pensation already provided by such Act, compensation at the rate of 
7.5 per centum of the aggregate compensation provided by such Act; 
except that the provisions of this section shall not be applicable with 
respect to (A) any employee whose salary is fixed by the salary sched-
ule for service step 1 of class 18, or (B) the superintendent and the 
deputy superintendent of schools. 
SEC. 3 (a) Retroactive compensation or salary shall be paid by rea-
son of this Act only in the case of an individual in the service of the 
Board of Education of the District of Columbia (including service in 
the Armed Forces of the United States) on the date of enactment of 
this Act, except that such retroactive compensation or salary shall be 
paid (1) to any employee covered in this Act who retired during the 
period beginning on the day following the first day of the first pay 
period which began on or after July 1,1960, and ending on the date of 
enactment of this Act for services rendered during such period and (2) 
in accordance with the provisions of the Act of August 3,1950 (Public 
Law 636, 81st Congress), as amended, for services rendered during the 
period beginning on the first day of the first pay period which began 
on or after July 1, 1960, and ending on the date of enactment of this 
Act by any such employee who dies during such period. 
(b) For the purposes of this section, service in the Armed Forces of 
the United States in the case of an individual relieved from training 
and service in the Armed Forces of the United States or discharged 
from hospitalization following such training and service, shall in-
clude the period provided by law for the mandatory restoration of 
such individual to a position in or under the municipal government of 
the District of Columbia. 
SEC. 4. For the purpose of determining the amount of insurance for 
which an individual is eligible under the Federal Employees' Group 
Life Insurance Act of 1954, as amended, all changes in rates of com-
pensation or salary which result from the enactment of this Act shall 
be held and considered to be effective as of the date of enactment of 
this Act. 
SEC. 5. The provisions of this Act shall become effective as of July 1, 
1960. 
Approved September 13, 1960. 
September 13, i960 
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H R. 11573] 
Public Law 86-774 
AN ACT 
T{) provide for the free entry of an electron microscope for the use of William 
Marsh Rice University of Houston, Texas, an electron microscope for the use 
of the University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver, Colorado, and for other 
purposes. 
Electron n 
scopes. 
Free entry. 
Grain 
m i l l i n g 
equipment. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary 
of the Treasury is authorized and directed to admit free of duty one 
electron microscope imported for the use of William Marsh Rice 
University of Houston, Texas, and one electron microscope imported 
for the use of the University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver, 
Colorado. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed 
to admit free of duty grain milling equipment and appurtenances im-
ported for the use of Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, 
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in the building now under construction for the department of flour 
and feed milling industries at such university. 
SEC. 3. Section 809(g) of the National Housing Act is amended to 
read as follows: 
" (g) (1) -^ mortgage secured by property which is intended to pro-
vide housing for a person (i) employed or assigned to duty at a re-
search or development installation of the National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration and which is located at or near such installa-
tion, where such installation was a research or development installa-
tion of one of the military departments of the United States (on or 
after June 13, 1956) before its transfer to the jurisdiction of such Ad-
ministration, or (ii) employed at the research and development in-
stallation of the Atomic Energy Commission in Los Alamos County, 
New Mexico, and which is located at or near such installation, may 
(if the mortgage otherwise meets the requirements of this section) be 
insured by the Commissioner under the provisions of this section. 
The Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis-
tration (or his designee), in the case of any mortgage secured by 
property intended to provide housing for any person employed or 
assigned to duty at any such installation of the National Aeronautics 
and Space Administration, or the Chairman of the Atomic Energy 
Commission (or his designee), in the case of any mortgage secured 
by property intended to provide housing for any person employed at 
such installation of the Atomic Energy Commission, is authorized to 
guarantee and indemnify the Armed Services Housing Mortgage In-
surance Fund against loss to the extent required by the Commissioner, 
in accordance with the provisions of subsection (b) of this section. 
"(2) For purposes of this subsection— 
"(i) The terms 'Armed Forces', 'one of the military departments 
of th" United States', 'military department', 'Secretary or his designee', 
and 'Secretary', when used in sul^ections (a) and (b) of this section, 
shall be deemed to refer to the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration (or the Administrator thereof), or the Atomic Energy 
Commission (or the Chairman thereof), as may be appropriate; 
"(ii) The term 'Secretary of the Army, Navy, or Air Force', when 
used in section 805, shall be deemed to refer to the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration or the Administrator thereof, as 
may be appropriate; 
"(iii) The terms 'civilian employee', 'civilians', and 'civilian per-
sonnel', as used in this section, shall be deemed to refer to (A) 
employees of such Administration or a contractor thereof or to 
military personnel assigned to duty at an installation of such Admin-
istration, or (B) persons employed in connection with the Atomic 
Energy Commission's installation at Los Alamos, New Mexico, as 
the case may be; and 
"(iv) The term 'military installation' when used in section 805 
shall be deemed to refer to an installation of the National Aeronautics 
and Space Administration." 
Approved September 13, 1960. 
National H o u s -
ing Act,, amend-
ment. 
Ante, p. 314. 
12 u s e 1748h-l. 
Definitions. 
12 use 1748d. 
12 use I748d. 
Public Law 86-775 
AN ACT 
To authorize the exchange of certain property within Shenandoah National Park, 
in the State of Virginia, and for other purposes. 
September 13, 1960 
[S. 3399] 
Be it enacted hy the Semite and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary tilnarp"tk" va!'"" 
of the Interior may accept title to approximately 37.44 acres of land 
Land exchange.