An Act to amend section 1870 of title 28, United States Code, to authorize the district courts to allow additional peremptory challenges in civil cases to multiple plaintiffs as well as multiple defendants.
PL 86-282 (H.R.2978), enacted 09/16/1959

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Public Law 86-282 
AN ACT 
September 16, 1959 
To amend section 1870 of title 28, United States Code, to authorize the district 
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courts to allow additional peremptory challenges in civil cases to multiple 
plaintiCfs as well as multiple defendants. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatwes 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1870 
Additional chai-
of title 28, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: 
lenges. 
"§ 1870. Challenges 
"In civil cases, each party shall be entitled to three peremptory 
challenges. Several defendants or several plaintiffs may be considered 
as a single party for the purposes of making challenges, or the court 
may allow additional peremptory challenges and permit them to be 
exercised separately or jointly. 
"All challenges for cause or favor, whether to the array or panel 
or to individual jurors, shall be determined by the court." 
Approved September 16, 1959. 
Public Law 86-283 
AN ACT 
To jjraiit minerals, including oil and gas, on certain lands in the Crow Indian 
Reservaticm, Montana, to certain Indians, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 6 of the 
Act of June 4, 1920 (41 Stat. 751), as amended by the Act of May 26, 
1926 (44 Stat. 658), is hereby amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 6. (a) Any and all minerals, including oil and gas, on any 
of the lands to be allotted hereunder are reserved for the benefit of the 
members of the tribe in common and may, with the consent of the 
tribal council, be leased for mining purposes in accordance with the 
provisions of the Act of May 11,1938 (52 Stat. 347; 25 U.S.C. 396 a-f), 
under such rules, regulations, and conditions as the Secretary of the 
Interior may prescribe: Provided, That when any land is leased for 
mining purposes and development thereunder shall indicate the pres-
ence of minerals, including oil and gas, in paying quantities, the lessee 
or lessees shall proceed with all reasonable diligence to complete the 
development under said lease to extract the mineral, including oil and 
<?as, from the land leased and to bring the product mined or extracted 
into market as speedily as possible unless the extraction and sale 
thereof be withheld with the consent of the Crow Tribe of Indians: 
Provided further, That allotments hereunder may be made of lands 
classified as valuable chiefly for coal or other minerals which may be 
patented as herein provided with a reservation, set forth in the patent, 
of the coal, oil, gas, or other mineral deposits for the benefit of the 
Crow Tribe: Provided further. That at the expiration of fifty years 
from the date of approval of this Act, unless otherwise ordered by 
Congress, the coal, oil, gas, or other mineral deposits upon or beneath 
the surface of said allotted lands shall become the property of the in-
dividual allottee or his heirs or devisees, or their heirs or devisees, 
subject to any outstanding leases, regardless of any prior conveyance 
by such allottee, heirs, or devisees of the lands overlying such min-
erals and regardless of the form of reference in such conveyance, or 
lack of reference, to the minerals reserved by this Act and made sub-
ject to further order of Congress. 
September 16. 1959 
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Crow Indians. 
Mineral lands. 
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Titieto minerals. 
"(b) Title to the miiierals so granted shall be held by the United 
States in trust for the Indian owners, except that if upon the expira-
tion of said fifty years, the entire Indian interest in the minerals 
within any allotment or parcel thereof is granted by this Act to a per-
son or persons who at that time hold an unrestricted title to the lands 
overlying such minerals, then the Secretary of the Interior shall 
by fee patent transfer to such person or persons the unrestricted fee 
simple title to such minerals, which title shall vest in such person or 
persons as of the date of the patent." 
Approved September 16, 1959. 
Public Law 86-284 
September 16, 1959 
AN A C T 
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rp^ provide additional time witliin which certain State agreements under sec-
tion 218 of the Social Security Act may be modified to secure coverage for 
nonprofessional school district employees, and to permit the States of Cali-
fornia, Kansas, North Dakota, and Vermont to obtain social security coverage, 
under State agreement, for policemen and firemen in positions covered by a 
retirement system. 
Social Security. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate a/nd House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 104(f) 
s c h o o 1 employ- ^f ^^g Soclal SecuHty Amendments of 1956 is amended by striking 
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out "prior to July 1, 1957," and inserting in lieu thereof "prior to 
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42 use 418. 
SEC. 2. Subsection (p) of section 218 of the Social Security Act is 
amended by inserting "California," after "Alabama,"; "Kansas," after 
"Georgia,"; "North Dakota," after "North Carolina," and "Ver-
mont," after "Tennessee,". 
SEC. 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (d) (5) (A) 
of section 218 of the Social Security Act and the references thereto 
in subsections (d) (1) and (d) (3) of such section 218, the agreement 
with the State of Oklahoma heretofore entered into pursuant to such 
section 218 may, at any time prior to 1962, be modified pursuant to 
subsection (c) (4) of such section 218 so as to apply to services per-
formed by any individual employed by such State (or any political 
subdivision thereof) in any policeman's position covered by a retire-
ment system in effect on the date of enactment of this Act if (1) in 
the case of an individual performing such services on such date, such 
individual is ineligible to become a member of such retirement system, 
or, in the case of an individual who prior to such date has ceased to 
perform such services, such individual was, on the last day he did 
perform such services, ineligible to become a member of such retire-
ment system, and (2) such State has, prior to 1959, paid to the Sec-
retary of the Treasury, with respect to any of the services performed 
by such individual in any such position, the sums prescribed pur-
suant to subsection (e) (1) of such section 218. Notwithstanding the 
provisions of subsection (f) of such section 218, such modification 
shall be effective with respect to (i) all services performed by such 
individual in any such position on or after the date of enactment of 
this Act, and (ii) all such services, performed before such date, with 
respect to which such State has paid to the Secretary of the Treasury 
the sums prescribed pursuant to subsection (e) of such section 218, at 
the time or times established pursuant to such subsection. 
Approved September 16, 1959.