An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, rehabilitate, operate, and maintain the lower Rio Grande rehabilitation project, Texas, La Feria division
PL 86-357 (H.R.4279), enacted 09/22/1959

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politan Police force or to the surviving spouse of such officer or 
member. 
Appropriations for the operations of the Metropolitan 
Police Department are made available for this purpose. 
Annuities 
authorized by this section shall be computed on the basis of com-
pensated service rendered after July 11, 1947. 
"SEC. 4. The person who is the Director of the Metropolitan 
Police force band on the date of approval of this Act shall, upon his 
retirement from such position, be retired under the provisions of this 
Act and not under the Civil Service Retirement Act, and the moneys 
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to his credit in the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund 
created under the authority of the Civil Service Retirement Act of 
May 29, 1930, as amended, on the date of such retirement, together 
with such moneys in such fund as may have been contributed by the 
District of Columbia toward the cost of his annuity under such Act, 
shall be transferred to the credit of the general revenues of the 
District of Columbia. 
"SEC. 5. Section 3 of said Act approved July 11, 1947, as amended, 
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Approved September 22, 1959. 
Public Law 86-357 
A N A C T 
September 22, 1959 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, rehabilitate, operate, 
[H. R. 4279] 
and maintain the lower Rio Grande rehabilitation project, Texas, La Feria 
division. 
Rio G r a n d e re-
habUitation 
proj-
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary 
of the Interior, acting pursuant to the Federal reclamation laws (Act 
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of June 17,1902, 32 Stat. 388 and Acts amendatory thereof or supple- so4^ ^ 
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mentary thereto, including the last sentence of Section 1 of the Act 
of October 7, 1949 (63 Stat. 724), but subject to exceptions herein 
contained) is authorized to undertake the rehabilitation and better-
ment of the works of the La Feria Water Control and Improvement 
District, Cameron County numbered 3, Texas, and to operate and 
maintain the same. Such undertaking which shall be known as the 
La Feria division of the lower Rio Grande rehabilitation project, 
shall not be commenced until a repayment contract has been entered 
into by said district under the Federal reclamation laws, subject to 
exceptions herein contained, which contract shall provide for pay-
ment of the capital cost of the La Feria division over a basic period 
of not more than thirty-five years and shall, in addition, in lieu of 
the excess-land provisions of the Federal reclamation laws, require 
the payment of interest on that pro rata share of the capital cost, 
which is attributable to furnishing benefits in each particular year 
to land held in private ownership by any one owner in excess of one 
hundred and sixty irrigable acres, said interest to be at a rate deter-
mined by the Secretary of the Treasury by estimating the average 
annual yield to maturity, on the basis of daily closing market bid 
quotations or prices during the month of May preceding the fiscal year 
in which the repayment contract is entered into, on all outstanding 
marketable obligations of the United States having a maturity date 
of fifteen or more years from the first day of such month of May, 
and by adjusting such estimated average annual yield to the nearest 
one-eighth of 1 per centum. 
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Land title. 
Appropriat ion. 
SEC. 2. Title to all lands and works of the division, to the extent 
an interest has been vested in the United States, shall pass to the 
La Feria Water Control and Improvement District, Cameron County 
numbered 3 or its designee or designees upon payment to the United 
States of all obligations arising under this Act or incurred in connec-
tion with this division of the project. 
SEC. 3. Thene is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the work 
to be undertaken pursuant to the first section of this Act the sum 
of $6,000,000 (January 1959 costs), plus such amount, if any, as 
may be required by reason of changes in costs of work of the types 
involved as shown by engineering indices. 
Approved September 22, 1959. 
Public Law 86-358 
September 22, 1959 
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A C T 
[H. R. 4938] 
rp^ amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to extend for two years the 
definition of "peanuts" which is now in effect. 
Peanuts. 
71 Stat. 344. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the last para-
graph of the Act entitled "An Act to amend the peanut marketing 
quota provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as 
amended, and for other purposes", approved August 13,1957 (7 U.S.C. 
1359 note), is amended by striking the word "and" and inserting after 
the figure "1959" the words ", 1960 and 1961". 
Approved September 22, 1959. 
September 22. 1959 
[H. R. 5004] 
Migratory fish. 
Research. 
Public Law 86-359 
AN ACT 
Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Interior to undertake continuing 
research on the biology fluctuations, status, and statistics of the migratory 
marine si)ecies of game fish of the United States and contiguous waters. 
Be it en/icted hy the Senxite and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of the Interior is hereby directed to undertake a comprehensive con-
tinuing study of the migratory marine fish of interest to recreational 
fishermen of the United States, including species inhabiting the off-
shore waters of the United States and species which migrate through 
or spend a part of their lives in the inshore waters of the United 
States. The study shall include, but not be limited to, research on 
migrations, identity of stocks, growth rates, mortality rates, variations 
in survival, environmental influences, both natural and artificial, in-
cluding pollution, and effects of fishing on the species, for the purpose 
of developing wise conservation policies and constructive management 
activities. 
SEC. 2. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act, 
the Secretary of the Interior is authorized (1) to acquire lands, con-
struct laboratory or other buildings, purchase boats, acquire such 
other equipment and apparatus, and to employ such officers and em-
ployees as he deems necessary; (2) to cooperate or contract with State 
and other institutions and agencies upon such terms and conditions as 
he determines to be appropriate; and (3) to make public the results 
of such research conducted pursuant to the first section of this Act.