An Act relative to employment for certain adult Indians on or near Indian reservations
PL 84-959 (S.3416), enacted 08/03/1956

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A m e n d m e n t of 
prior insurance. 
64 Stat. 773. 
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1294. 
46 u s e 1289. 
shall be paid, as a tentative advance only, 75 per centum of the 
amount so determined and shall be entitled to sue the United States 
to recover such amount as would equal just compensation therefor, 
in the manner provided for by section 24, paragraph 20, and section 
145 of the Judicial Code (U. S. C, 1946 edition, title 28, sees. 41 (20) 
and 250) : Provided^ hmoever^ That in the event of an election to 
reject the amount determined by the Commission and to sue in 
the courts, the excess of any amounts advanced on account of just 
compensation over the amount of the court judgment will be required 
to be refunded." 
SEC. 4. All war-risk insurance issued under title X I I of the 
Merchant Marine Act, 1936, which is in force on the date of the enact-
ment of this Act shall, as of the beginning of such date, be deemed 
to have been amended to conform to the requirements of section 1209 
of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended by this Act unless 
the insured, within ten days after such date, objects to such 
amendment. 
SEC. 5. The first sentence of section 1206 of the Merchant Marine 
Act, 1936, as amended (46 U. S. C. 1286), is amended by striking out 
the words "during any time the United States is at war or during 
any period of emergency declared to exist by the President of the 
United States." 
Approved August 3, 1956. 
August 3, 1956 
[S. 3416] 
Public Law 959 
CHAPTER 930 
AN ACT 
Relative to employment for certain adult Indians on or near Indian reservations. 
Indians. 
Vocational train-
ing. 
Appropriation. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to 
help adult Indians who reside on or near Indian reservations to 
obtain reasonable and satisfactory employment, the Secretary of the 
Interior is authorized to undertake a program of vocational training 
that provides for vocational counseling or guidance, institutional 
training in any recognized vocation or trade, apprenticeship, and on 
the job training, for periods that do not exceed twenty-four months, 
transportation to the place of training, and subsistence during the 
course of training. 
The program shall be available primarily to 
Indians who are not less than eighteen and not more than thirty-five 
years of age and who reside on or near an Indian reservation, and the 
program shall be conducted under such rules and regulations as the 
Secretary may prescribe. 
For the purposes of this program the 
Secretary is authorized to enter into contracts or agreements with any 
Federal, State, or local governmental agency, or with any private 
school which has a recognized reputation in the field of vocational 
education and has successfully obtained employment for its graduates 
in their respective fields of training, or with any corporation or as-
sociation which has an existing apprenticeship or on-the-job training 
program which is recognized by industry and labor as leading to 
skilled employment. 
SEC. 2. There is authorized to be appropriated for the purposes 
of this Act the sum of $3,500,000 for each fiscal year, and not to 
exceed $500,000 of such sum shall be available for administrative 
purposes. 
Approved August 3, 1956.