An Act to authorize the Postmaster General to enter into agreements for the transportation of mail by passenger common carriers by motor vehicle, and for other purposes
PL 88-239 (H.R.5179), enacted 12/23/1963

476 
PUBLIC LAW 88-239-DEC. 23, 1963 
[77 STAT. 
Effective date. 
Appropriations, 
availability. 
"(1) oHiiceled, revoked, or modified lo direct him to return to 
the station from which he was beiii^ transferred; or 
"(2) modified to direct him to make a different change of 
station." 
(2) The following new item is inserted in the analysis: 
•'406a. Travel and transportation allowances: authorized for travel i»erformed 
under orders that are ganceled, revoked, or modified." 
SEC. 2. This Act becomes effective on October 1,1949. Any member 
or former member of the uniformed services who, after September 30, 
1949, but before the date of enactment of this Act, has not been paid, 
or has repaid the United States, an amount to which he otherwise 
would have been entitled had section 1 of this Act been in effect during 
that period is entitled to be paid or repaid that amount, if the pay-
ment or repayment is otherwise proper and he applies for the payment 
or repayment within one year after the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 3. Any appropriations available to the departments concerned 
for the pay and allowances of members of the uniformed services are 
available for payments under this Act. 
Approved December 23, 1963. 
Public Law 88-239 
December 23, 1963 
AN A C T 
[H. R. 5179] 
'p(> authorize the Postiua«ter Geaiernl to enter into atjreeuients for the trans-
portation of mail by passenjfer conunon carriers by motor vehicle, and for 
other puiix)ses. 
Postal Service. 
Motor vehicle 
common carriers. 
Agreements. 
74 Stat. 696. 
39 u s e 6401-
6440. 
74 Stat. 696; 
76 Stat. 855. 
Be It enacted hy the Senate and Ilou-se of liepresentaticeti 
of the 
rnited 
States of Amenca 
in Congress asHenihled^ That chapter 101 
of title 39, United States (^ode, is amended by adding immediately 
following section (>402 tliereof the following new section : 
"§ 6402a. Agreements with passenger common carriers by motor 
vehicle 
"The Postmaster (xeneral may enter into agreements, under such 
terms and conditions as he shall prescribe and without advertising 
for bids and without bond, for the transportation of mail, in pas-
senger-cany 
ing motor vehicles, by passenger conunon carriers by 
motor vehicle over the regular routes on which the carrier is per-
mitted by law to transport passengers."'. 
SEC. 2. The table of contents ofChapter 101 of title 39, United States 
Code, is amended by insei-ting 
'6402a. Agreements witli passenger conunon carriers by niotor vehicle." 
immediately below 
'•6402. Authority to contract for mail transix)rtation." 
SEC. 3. Section 6402 (a) of title 39, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) by striking out the word "'and" immediately following the 
semicolon in subparagraph (4) thereof; 
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(2) by striking out the period at the end of subparagrapli (5) 
thereof and inserting in lieu tliereof a semicolon and the Avord 
"and";and 
(3) by adding at tlie end thereof the following new sub-
paragraph : 
"(6) transi>ortation of mail, in passenger-carrying motor 
vehicles, by j)assenger common carriers by motor vehicle shall be 
procured as provided in section 6402a of this title.". 
SEO. 4. Section 4851)(e) (2) of title 39, United States Code, is 
amended by inseiting after the word "highway" the words "or 
development". 
Approved December 23, 1963. 
74 Stat. 669; 
76 Stat. 833. 
Public Law 88-240 
AN ACT 
December 23, 1963 
To anieiid rnhlic Lsnv 15)3. Eighty-third Congress, relating to the C'orregidor- 
[H. R. 7044] 
Bataaii Memorial Comniission. 
Be '/f enacted by the Semite <tnd House of Reprei^entativeH of the 
United Sfate-s of Amsriea m (•ongreaii a^S8e7nbled. That the Act entitled 
"An Act to create a Commission to be known as the Corregidor-Bataan 
Memorial Commission" approved August 5, 1953 (67 Stat. 366), as 
amended, is amended by inserting immediately after subparagraph 
(h) the following new subparagraph: 
"(i) The plans for the memorial shall include the following: Twin 
flagpoles at a high point on Corregidor Island, illuminated at night, 
from which the nags of the United States of America and the Republic 
of the Philippines would fly; a suitable building, or buildings, for use 
as an auditorium and tourist center; and a contiguous battlefield park 
of appropriate size in which may be placed historical markers and 
mementos of the Pacific phase of World War II. For showing in the 
auditorium and in other appropriate places, the United States may 
participate in the preparation, in cooperation with the Philippine 
authorities, of a documentary film commemorating the story of Bataan 
and Corregidor, and other appropriate films of the Pacific phase of 
World War II. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated, to 
the Veterans' Administration, without fiscal year limitation, such sums 
of money, but not to exceed $1,500,000, as may be necessary to carry 
out the purposes of this subparagraph (i). Nothing in this subpara-
graph (i) shall be considered to prevent the construction of such 
additional components as may be hereinafter authorized, or as may be 
provided for from public contributions." 
SEC. 2. The Corregidor-Bataan Memorial Commission shall cease to 
exist upon completion of the construction authorized by this Act, or 
on May 6, 1967, whichever shall first occur. 
Approved December 23, 1963. 
Corregidor-
Bataan Memorial 
Commission. 
69 Stat. 589; 
71 Stat. 457. 
36 u s e 426. 
Appropriation. 
Expiration date.