An Act to further protect and assure the privacy of grand or petit juries in the courts of the United States while such juries are deliberating or voting.
PL 84-919 (S.2887), enacted 08/02/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 919-AUG. 2, 1956 
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Travel expenses.. 
State employees.. 
63 Stat., 954. 
5 u s e 1071 note. 
amended (5 U. S. C , sec. 790), as though he were an employee, as 
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defined in such Act, who had sustained such injury in the performance 
of such duty, but shall not receive benefits under that Act for any 
period for which he elects to receive similar benefits from a State 
agency. 
SEC. 5. Appropriations of the Department shall be available, in 
accordance with Standardized Government Travel Kegulations, as 
amended, for the expenses of travel of employees assigned to States 
on either a detail or leave basis, expenses of transportation of their 
immediate families and expenses of transportation of their household 
goods and personal effects to the location of the posts of assignment 
and for such expenses for the return of employees to their official 
stations, but shall not be available for expenses of travel of the 
employees during such period of assignment. 
SEO. 6. Employees of States who are assigned to the Department 
under authority of this Act may (1) be given appointments in the 
Department covering the periods of such assignments, or (2) be con-
sidered to be on detail to the Department. 
Appointments of persons 
so assigned may be made without regard to the civil-service laws or 
regulations. 
Persons given appointment in the Department shall be 
paid at rates of compensation in accordance with the Classification 
Act of 1949, as amended. 
State employees who are assigned to the 
Department without appointment shall not be considered to be 
employees of the Department, except as provided in section 7, nor shall 
they be paid a salary or wage by the Department during the period 
of their detail. 
The supervision of the duties of such employees dur-
ing the assignment may be governed by agreement between the Depart-
ment and the State involved. 
SEC. 7. (a) Any State employee who is assigned to the Department 
without appointment shall nevertheless be subject to the provisions 
of sections 281, 283, 284, 434, 1902, 1905, and 1914 of title 18 of the ^g62stat.697,703. 
United States Code and section 99, title 5, of the United States Code. 
(b) Any State employee who is given an appointment while assigned 
to the Department or who is assigned to the Department without 
appointment and who suffers disability or death as a result of personal 
injury arising out of and in the course of such assignment, or sus-
tained in the performance of duties in connection therewith shall be 
treated, for the purpose of the Federal Employees' Compensation Act, 
as amended (5 U. S. C, sec. 790), as though he were an employee, as 
defined in such Act, who had sustained such injury in the performance 
of such duty, but shall not receive benefits under that Act for any 
period for which he elects to receive similar benefits as a State 
employee. 
SEC. 8. The appropriations of the Department shall be available in 
accordance with the Standardized Government Travel Regulations, 
as amended, for the payment of expenses of travel of persons assigned 
to, but not given appointments by, the Department under authority 
of this Act during the periods of such assignments on the same basis 
as if they were employees of the Department. 
Approved August 2, 1956. 
63 
Stat. 860. 
Travel 
expenses. 
Public Law 919 
CHAPTER 879 
AN ACT 
To further protect and assure the privacy of grand or petit juries in the courts 
of the United States while such juries are deliberating or voting. 
August 2, 1956 
IS. 2887] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That chapter 73 o:^ 
Grand or petit 
62 Stat. 769. 
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PUBLIC LAW 920-AUG. 2, 1956 
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title 18 of the United States Code is amended by adding at the end 
thereof the following new section: 
"§ 1508. Recording, listening to, or observing proceedings of grand or 
petit juries while deliberating or voting 
"Whoever knowingly and willfully, by any means or device whatso-
ever— 
"(a) records, or attempts to record, the proceedings of any 
grand or petit jury in any court of the United States while such 
jury is deliberating or voting; or 
"(b) listens to or observes, or attempts to listen to or observe, 
the proceedings of any grand or petit jury of which he is not a 
member in any court of the United States while such jury is 
deliberating or voting— 
"shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not 
more than one year, or both. 
"Nothing in paragraph (a) of this section shall be construed to pro-
hibit the taking of notes by a grand or petit juror in any court of the 
United States in connection with and solely for the purpose of 
assisting him in the performance of his duties as such juror." 
SEC. 2. The analysis of chapter 73 of title 18 of the United States 
Code is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: 
"1508. Recording, listening to, or observing proceedings of grand or petit juries 
while deliberating or voting." 
Approved August 2, 1956. 
August 2, 1956 
[S. 3779] 
Public Law 920 
CHAPTER 880 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act of August 27, 1954 (68 Stat. 868), with respect to the Uintah 
and Ouray Reservation in Utah. 
Indians. 
Uintah and Ouray 
Tribes. 
68 Stat. 869. 
68 Stat. 876. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate cmd House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 5 of the 
Act of August 27, 1954 (68 Stat. 868), is amended by adding at the 
end thereof the following sentence: "New membership in the tribe 
shall thereafter be controlled and determined by the constitution and 
bylaws of the tribe and ordinances enacted thereunder." 
" SEIC. 2. Section 8 of said Act of August 27, 1954, is amended by 
changing the period at the end thereof to a comma and by adding 
the following: "but this Act shall not be construed as granting any 
inheritable interest in tribal assets to full-blood members of the tribe 
or as preventing future membership in the tribe, after the date of 
enactment of this Act, in the manner provided in the constitution and 
bylaws of the tribe." 
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. Section 17 of said Act of August 27,1954, is amended as fol-
lows: After "except that" delete the word "any" and insert in lieu 
thereof: "any corporation organized by the mixed-blood members 
for the purpose of aiding in the joint management with the tribe and 
in the distribution of unadjudicated or unliquidated claims against the 
United States, all gas, oil, and mineral rights of every kind, and all 
other assets not susceptible to equitable and practicable distribution 
shall not be subject to corporate income taxes. 
Any". 
Approved August 2, 1956.