An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to acquire certain real property in the county of Solano, Calif., to transfer certain real property to the county of Solano, Calif., and for other purposes
PL 86-161 (H.R.697), enacted 08/14/1959

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SEC. 3. Section 221(a) of the Public Health Service Act, as 
amended (42 U.S.C. 213a(a)), is amended— 
(1) by redesignating clauses (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), and 
(7) as clauses "(2)", "(3)", "(4)", "(5)", "(6)", "(7)", and 
"(8)", respectively; and 
(2) by inserting the following new clause at the beginning: 
"(1) Section 1036, Escorts for dependents of members: trans-
portation and travel allowances." 
SEC. 4. Travel and transportation allowances paid before the effec-
tive date of this Act to persons ordered by competent authority to 
escort dependents of members of the uniformed services are hereby 
validated, if they would have been authorized under section 1 of this 
Act. 
SEC. 5. Any person who was ordered by competent authority after 
January 1, 1950, and before the effective date of this Act to escort 
dependents of members of the uniformed services and who has not 
been paid travel and transportation allowances, or who has repaid the 
United States the amount so paid to him, is entitled to be paid the 
amount otherwise authorized by section 1 of this Act, if application 
for such payment is'made not later than one year after the effective 
date of this Act. 
SEC. 6. The Comptroller General of the United States, or his 
designee, shall relieve disbursing officers, including special disbursing 
agents, from accountability or responsibility for any payments de-
scribed in section 4 of this Act, and shall allow credits in the settle-
ment of the accounts of those disbursing officers or agents for payments 
which are found to be free from fraud or collusion. 
SEC. 7. No regulations under section 1 of this Act relating to the 
military departments shall be prescribed by the Secretary of a military 
department unless such regulations are first approved under pro-
cedures prescribed by the Secretary of Defense. Regulations of the 
Secretaries of the Treasury, Commerce, and Health, Education, and 
Welfare under section 1, 2, or 3 of this Act shall, to the extent prac-
ticable, agree with regulations so approved. 
Approved August 14, 1959. 
70A Stat. 619; 72 
Stat. 1547. 
Payments v a l i -
dated. 
A p p 1 ication for 
payment. 
Disbursing 
cers, relief. 
offi-
Approval of reg-
ulations. 
Public Law 86-161 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to acquire certain real property in the 
county of Solano, California, to transfer certain real property to the county 
of Solano, California, and for other purposes. 
August 14^ 1959 
[H. R. 697] 
Be it eTiacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That the Secretary 
of the Navy is authorized to acquire on behalf of the United States, 
by gift, purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, the real property de-
scribed in section 3 of this Act, for the purpose of relocating thereon 
certain railroad tracks located on the date of enactment of this Act on 
the real property described in section 4 of this Act. 
SEC. 2. Upon acquisition of the real property described in section 3 
of this Act, the Secretary shall convey to the county of Solano, Cali-
fornia, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the 
real property described in section 4 of this Act, upon payment to the 
United States by such county of all expenses incurred by the United 
States under the first section of this Act, including expenses incurred 
Solano, Calif. 
Property 
acqui-
sition and ( 
ance. 
convey-
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by the United States in relocating the railroad tracks referred to in 
such first section. Any public works funds appropriated now, or here-
after available to the Department of the Navy, may be obligated for 
this purpose. Reimbursements to the Government on account of pay-
ments made pursuant to this Act shall be made to the appropriation 
against which such payments were charged. 
SEC. 3. The real property to be acquired by the Secretary under 
the first section of this Act is situated in the county of Solano, Cali-
fornia, and is more particularly described as follows: 
A PORTION OF PARCEL NUMBERED 1 
Beginning at a point 15.00 feet easterly and at right angles to engi-
neers station 130-^ 78.26, said engineers station being in the center of 
the existing United States Navy railroad tracks; thence along a curve 
to the right of radius 286.56 feet, central angle 17 degrees 03 minutes 
20 seconds, and length 87.18 feet, to the true point of beginning, said 
point being north 0 degrees 06 minutes 33 seconds west, 152.70 feet 
distant from the northwest corner of parcel numbered 2 described 
in book 385 at page 190 of official records of Solano County; thence 
north 0 degrees 06 minutes 33 seconds west, 76.10 feet; thence along a 
curve to the right of radius 316.56 feet, central angle 15 degrees 46 
minutes 42 seconds, and length 87.17 feet to a point, said point being 
south 11 degrees 45 minutes 08 seconds east, 20.30 feet distant from 
the southeast corner of parcel numbered 2 described in book 385 at 
page 190 of official records of Solano County; thence south 11 degrees 
45 minutes 08 seconds east, 36.28 feet; thence along a curve to the left 
of radius 286.56 feet, central angle 24 degrees 57 minutes 46 seconds, 
and length 124.85 feet to the true point of beginning. 
A PORTION OF PARCEL NUMBERED 2 
Begimiing at a point 15.00 feet easterly and at right angles to engi-
neers station 130+78.26, said engineers station being in the center of 
existing United States Navy railroad tracks; thence along a curve to 
the right of radius 286.56 feet; central angle 61 degrees 54 minutes 05 
seconds and length 309.59 feet to the true point of beginning; thence 
north 11 degrees 45 minutes 08 seconds west, 31.14 feet to a point, said 
point being south 11 degrees 45 minutes 08 seconds east, 8.86 feet 
distant from the Hans Adler property as said property is described 
in book 109 at page 374 of official records of Solano County; thence 
along curve to the right of radius 316.56 feet, central angle 13 degrees 
35 minutes 13 seconds, and length 75.07 feet; thence along a line tan-
gent to the curve north 77 degrees 02 minutes 44 seconds east, 198.27 
feet, said line being a portion of the south line of the Hans Adler 
property described in book 109 in page 374 of official records of 
Solano County, thence along a curve to the left of radius 286.56 feet, 
central angle 42 degrees 24 minutes 56 seconds, and length 212.14 feet 
to the south line of lot numbered 4 of El Campo Gardens subdivision 
recorded in book 14 at page 15 of official records of Solano County, 
thence along the south line of lot numbered 4 north 77 degrees 02 
minutes 44 seconds east, 36.14 feet to the west line of the Southern 
Pacific Railroad Company right-of-way; thence along said right-of-
way line south 5 degrees 16 minutes 03 seconds west, 6.06 feet; thence 
along a curve to the right of radius 316.56 feet central angle 46 degrees 
35 minutes 01 seconds and length 257.39 feet; thence south 77 degrees 
02 minutes 44 seconds west, 198.27 feet to a curve to the left, along 
said curve of radius 286.56 feet, central angle 15 degrees 10 minutes 
36 seconds a distance of 75.91 feet to the true point of beginning. 
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A PORTION o r PARCEL NUMBERED 
3 
Beginning at a point 15.00 feet easterly and at right angles to 
engineers station 130 + 78.26, said engineers station being in the center 
of the existing United States Navy railroad tracks; thence along a 
curve to the right of radius 286.56, central angle 77 degrees 04 minutes 
41 seconds, and length 385.50 feet; thence north 77 degrees 02 minutes 
44 seconds east, 198.27 feet; thence along a curve to the left of radius 
316.56 feet, central angle 46 degrees 35 minutes 01 seconds, and length 
257.39 feet; thence along the Southern Pacific Eailroad Company 
right of way north 5 degrees 16 minutes 03 seconds west, 6.06 feet, to 
the true point of beginning; thence south 77 degrees 02 minutes 44 
seconds west 36.14 feet along the south line of lot numbered 4, El 
Campo Garden Subdivision, said subdivision is recorded in book 14 
at page 15 of official records of Solano County; thence northeasterly 
along a curve to the left of radius 286.56 feet, central angle 13 degrees 
45 minutes 44 seconds, and length 68.83 feet; thence along the east line 
of lot numbered 4 south 5 degrees 16 minutes 03 seconds east, 52.20 feet 
to the true point of beginning. 
PARCEL NUMBERED 4 
A permanent easement for railroad purposes beginning at a point 
15.00 feet easterly and at right angles to engineers station 130 + 78.26, 
said engineers station being in the center of the existing United 
States Navy railroad tracks; thence along a curve to the right of 
radius 286.56 feet, central angle 42 degrees 01 minutes 06 seconds 
length 215.03 feet, to a point on the westerly right-of-way line of 
Solano County Road Numbered 1070, said point being the true point 
of beginning; thence along said right-of-way line north 11 degrees 
45 minutes 08 seconds west 36.28 feet; thence along a curve to the 
right of radius 316.56 feet central angle 17 degrees 34 minutes 24 
seconds length 97.19 feet to a point on the easterly right-of-way line 
of Solano County Road Numbered 1070; thence along said right-of-
way line south 11 degrees 45 minutes 08 seconds east 31.14 feet; thence 
along a curve to the left of radius 286.56 feet central angle 19 degrees 
50 minutes 59 seconds length 99.28 feet to the true point of beginning. 
SEC. 4. The real property of the United States to be conveyed by 
the Secretary under section 2 of this Act is situated in the county of 
Solano, California, and is more particularly described as follows: 
PARCEL NUMBERED 2 3 
In the county of Solano, State of California, that portion of County 
Road Numbered 85 occupied in the year 1955 by the roadbed of the 
San Francisco and Napa Valley Railroad extending approximately 
from engineers' railroad centerline station 138 + 00 to 203 + 00; being 
the railroad right-of-way franchise granted by Ordnance Numbered 
55, Solano County, California, adopted April 7,1902. 
PARCEL NUMBERED 24 
That part situate in Solano County, California, only of the land 
conveyed by Mary Victoria Hamilton to the Vallejo, Benicia and Napa 
Valley Railroad Company by deed dated March 6,1904, and recorded 
March 16, 1904, in book 145 of deeds, page 210, in the Office of the 
Recorder, Solano County. 
The land conveyed by said deed being 
described therein as follows: 
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Being a portion of the land formerly of D. and L. Mini and the 
Rutan estate distant about two miles southerly from Napa Junction, 
lying upon the west side of the Napa Road adjoining the lands for-
merly owned by John Mullin on the south and of D. and L. Mini on 
the north, said portion of land being more particularly described as 
follows, to wit: 
Being in part a strip of triangular-shaped piece of land fronting 
upon the Napa Road for a distance of about eight hundred and sixty-
four feet, described as follows, to wit: Said triangle of land having its 
apex at the intersection of the west line of Napa Road and an existing 
subdivision fence extending westerly from said Napa Road, said fence 
being distant about six hundred feet south of the residence on said 
property, the base of said triangle being a straight line extending 
northerly from said apex for a distance of about eight hundred and 
sixty-seven feet to a point on an existing corral fence, which point is 
sixty feet west of the west line of Napa Road, being also the west side 
of the right-of-way of the Southern Facific Railroad Company; 
Thence easterly along said corral fence distant sixty feet to an 
intersection with the said west line of the Napa Road. Said right-of-
way also including a strip or tract of land parallel with and adjacent 
to the right-of-way of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company on the 
west side thereof, described as follows: 
Beginning at a point on an existing corral fence, distant sixty feet 
west of the west line of the Southern Pacific Railroad right-of-way 
(coincident with said point above mentioned); 
Thence northerly for a distance of about eight hundred and eighty-
five feet to a point on an existing fence (which extends westerly from 
the west line of the right-of-way of the Southern Pacific Railroad 
Company and is hereby designated as Mini's fence) distant seventy-
five feet west of the west line of the right-of-way of the Southern 
Pacific Railroad; 
Thence easterly for a distance of 75 feet to the said west line of said 
Southern Pacific Railroad right-of-way; 
Thence southerly on the said west line of said Southern Pacific 
Railroad Company right-of-way for a distance of about eight hundred 
and eighty-one feet to the said corral fence; thence westerly distant 
sixty feet to the point of beginning; said right-of-way also including 
a strip of land seventy-five feet wide, parallel with and adjacent to the 
said right-of-way of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company on the 
west side thereof, said strip extending from the north line of said 
property (adjoining the property of I), and L. Mini) southerly for a 
distance of about two thousand six hundred and fifty-four feet, to said 
existing fence (above designated as Mini's fence) which extends 
westerly from the west line of the right-of-way of the Southern Pacific 
Railroad Company. The three strips of land herein separately de-
scribed being one continuous strip or tract. 
Approved August 14, 1959. 
Public Law 86-162 
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J O I N T RESOLUTION 
August 18, 1959 
[s. J. Res. 118] 
Authorizing and requesting the President of the United States to issue a procla-
mation calling for the flag of the United States to be flown at half-staff on the 
occasion of the death of the last surviving veteran of the War Betv^^een the 
States. 
P r o c 1 a m ation, 
authorization. 
ReHolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That the President of the