An Act to amend section 2734 of title 10, United States Code, so as to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to settle claims arising in foreign countries incident to noncombat activities of the Coast Guard
PL 86-223 (H.R.2741), enacted 09/01/1959

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PUBLIC LAW 86-223-SEPT. 1, 1959 
453 
SEC. 3. (a) Chapter 61 of title 38, United States Code, is amended 
by adding at the end thereof the following: 
"§ 3505. Forfeiture for subversive activities 
"(a) Any individual who is convicted after the date of enactment of 
this section of any offense listed in subsection (b) of this section shall, 
from and after the date of commission of such oifense, have no right 
to gratuitous benefits under laws administered by the Veterans' 
Administration based on periods of military, naval, or air service 
commencing before the date of the commission of such offense and 
no other person shall be entitled to such benefits on account of such 
individual. After receipt of notice of the return of an indictment 
for such an offense the Veterans' Administration shall suspend pay-
ment of such gratuitous benefits pending disposition of the criminal 
proceedings. 
If any individual whose right to benefits has been 
terminated pursuant to this section is granted a pardon of the offense 
by the President of the United States, the right to such benefits shall 
be restored as of the date of such pardon. 
"(b) The offenses referred to in subsection (a) of this section are 
those offenses for which punishment is prescribed (1) in the following 
provisions of title 18, United States Code: sections 792, 793, 794, 798, 
2381, 2382, 2383, 2384, 2385, 2387, 2388, 2389, 2390, and chapter 105; 
(2) in the Uniform Code of Military Justice, articles 94,104, and 106; 
(3) in the following sections of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954: 
sections 222, 223, 224, 225, and 226; and (4) in the following sections 
of the Internal Security Act of 1950: sections 4, 112, and 113. 
•'(c) The Attorney General shall notify the Administrator in each 823" 
case in which an individual is indicted or convicted of an offense listed 
in clauses (1), (3), or (4) of subsection (b) of this section. 
The 
Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the Treasury, as may be 
appropriate, shall notify the Administrator in each case in which an 
individual is convicted of an offense listed in clause (2) of subsection 
(b) of this section." 
(b) The table of sections for such chapter 61 is amended by adding 
at the end thereof the following: 
•'."i.'O.j. Forfeiture for subversive activities." 
Approved September 1, 1959. 
18 u s e 
2151-
2157. 
10 u s e 894,904, 
906. 
68 Stat. 958. 
42 u s e 
2272-
2276. 
64 S t a t . 
99 1, 
1029. 
s o u s e 783, 822, 
38 U S C 3501-
3504, 
Public Law 86-223 
A N A C T 
September 1, 1959 
To amend section 2734 of title 10, United States Code, so as to authorize the 
[H. R. 2741] 
Secretary of the Treasury to settle claims arising in foreign countries inci-
dent to noncombat activities of the Coast Guard. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That title 10 of the ^
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C
_ o a s t Guard, 
United States Code is amended as follows: 
72 st'at. i46i. 
(1) Section 2734 is amended as follows: 
(A) The catchline is amended to read as follows: 
"§ 2734. Property loss; personal injury or death : incident to noncom-
bat activities of the armed forces; foreign countries." 
(B) Subsection (a) is amended as follows: 
(i) by striking out the words "of a military department" and 
inserting in place thereof the word "concerned"; and 
(ii) by striking out the words "the department concerned" 
and inserting in place thereof the words "the military depart-
ment concerned or the Coast Guard, as the case mav be." 
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(C) Subsections (c) and (d) are amended by striking out the 
words "of the military department." 
(D) Subsection (f) is amended as follows: 
(i) by striking out the words "a military department" and 
inserting in place thereof the words "the department concerned"; 
and 
(ii) by striking out the word "military". 
(E) Subsection (g) is amended to read as follows: 
"(g) Payment of claims against the Coast Guard arising while it 
is operating as a service in the Department of the Treasury shall be 
made out of the appropriation for the operating expenses of the Coast 
Guard." 
(2) The analysis of chapter 163 is amended by striking out the 
following item: 
"2734. Property loss; personal injury or death: incident to noncombat activities 
of the Department of Army, Navy, or Air Force; foreign countries." 
and inserting the following item in place thereof: 
"2734. Property loss; personal injury or death: incident to noncombat activities 
of the armed forces; foreign countries." 
Approved September 1, 1959. 
10 U S C 2731-
2735. 
September 3, 1959 
[H. J. Res. 510] 
Ante, p. 266. 
Public Law 86-224 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
.Unending a joint resolution making temporary appropriations for the fiscal 
year 1960, and for other purposes. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of the Act 
of July 31,1959 (Public Law 86-118), is hereby amended by striking 
out "August 31, 1959" and inserting in lieu thereof "September 30, 
1959". 
SEC. 2. The amounts appropriated by section 2 of Public Law 
86-118 are hereby increased as follows: Mutual security programs 
from "$300,000,000" to "$430 000,000". 
Approved September 3, 1959. 
Public Law 86-225 
September 8, 1959 
[s. 4 17] 
To place in trust status certain lands on the Standing KtK-k Sioux Reservation 
in North Dakota and South Dakota. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
ifand^^in trust. 
United Statcs of America in Ooiigress assembled, That all the right, 
title, and interest in and to the west half northeast quarter, section 
23, township 130 north, range 80 west, fifth principal meridian, Sioux 
County, North Dakota, containing 80 acres, more or less, on the 
Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota, purchased by 
the United States with funds derived from the "Indian Moneys, 
Proceeds of Labor, Standing Rock Boarding School" account, shall 
hereafter be held by the United States in trust for the benefit of 
tlie Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North Dakota and South Dakota. 
Approved September 8, 1959.