An Act to provide in certain additional cases for the granting of the status of regular substitute in the postal field service
PL 84-836 (S.3592), enacted 07/30/1956

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(b) The Act of Jul^ 1, 1944 (58 Stat. 682), as amended, is further 
amended by renumbering title VII (as in effect prior to the enactment 
of this Act) as title VIII, and by renumbering sections 701 through stSt° 4
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714 (as in effect prior to the enactment of this Act), and references 
thereto, as sections 801 through 814, respectively. 
Approved July 30, 1956. 
Public Law 836 
CHAPTER 780 
AN ACT 
To provide in certain additional cases for the granting of the status of regular 
substitute in the postal field service. 
July 30, 1956 
[S. 3592] 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the appoint-
ment of each employee of the Post Office Department who— 
(1) on the effective date of this Act and on the date of applica-
tion prescribed in this section is on the rolls under an indefinite 
or temporary appointment in a position in the competitive civil 
service for which the salary is fixed by the Postal Field Service 
Compensation Act of 1955 (Public Law 68, Eighty-fourth 
Congress); 
(2) during each of the three consecutive years ending on the 
date of his application, has been paid for not less than seven 
hundred hours of satisfactory work in a position or positions for 
which the salary is fixed by said Act; and 
(3) meets such noncompetitive examination standards as the 
United States Civil Service Commission shall prescribe with 
respect to the position held at the time he makes application; 
shall, upon application by such employee made within one year after 
the effective date of this Act to the Postmaster General, or to such 
officials as he may designate, and upon recommendation by the Post-
master General or his designated representative, be converted to a 
career appointment subject to applicable law. 
SEC. 2. Any person who would meet the conditions of section 1 
except for absence in the Armed Forces of the United States on the 
effective date of this Act and is reemployed in the postal field service 
in accordance with United States Civil Service Commission regula-
tions, shall, upon application made within one year of reemployment, 
have his former appointment converted in accordance with this Act. 
SEC. 3. This Act shall not apply to positions of rural carrier and 
postmaster. 
SEC. 4. The United States Civil Service Commission is hereby 
authorized and directed to promulgate regulations to carry out the 
provisions of this Act. 
SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect on the ninetieth day following the 
date of its enactment. 
Approved July 30, 1956. 
Po s t a 1 employ-
ees. 
Career 
appoint-
ments. 
69 Stat. 88. 
39 u s e 951 note. 
Absence in Armed 
Forces. 
N o n a pp licabil-
ity. 
Regulations. 
Effective date. 
Public Law 837 
CHAPTER 781 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to charge for special services to 
purchasers of timber from Indian lands. 
July 30. 1956 
[S.3926] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assernhled. That the Secretary laniSf 
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of the Interior is authorized to charge purchasers of timber on Indian " service charges. 
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lands that are held by the United States in trust, or that are subject 
to restrictions against alienation or encumbrance imposed by the 
United States, for special services requested by the purchasers in 
connection with scaling, timber marking, or other activities under 
the contract of purchase that are in addition to the services otherwise 
provided by the Secretary, and the proceeds derived therefrom shall 
be deposited to the credit of the appropriation from which the special 
services were or will be provided. 
Approved July 30, 1956. 
July 30, 1956 
[H. R. 5256] 
Public Law 838 
CHAPTER 782 
AN ACT 
To provide for the redemption by the Post Office Department of certain unsold 
Federal migratory-bird hunting stamps, and to clarify the requirements with 
respect to the age of hunters who must possess Federal migratory-bird hunting 
stamps. 
Migratory water-
fowl nuntlng stamp. 
Exp iration; re-
demption. 
Collectors' sup-
ply. 
De s t r u c t i o n of 
surplus. 
Repeal. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of the 
Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act of March 16, 1934, as amended 
by section 1 of the Act of June 15, 1935 (49 Stat. 378; 16 U. S. C , 
1952 edition, sec. 7l8a), is hereby amended by striking out the words 
"no person over sixteen years of age", and by inserting in lieu thereof 
the words "no person who has attained the age of sixteen years". 
SEC. 2. The last two sentences of section 2 of said Act of March 16, 
1934, as amended by section 2 of said Act of June 15, 1935 (49 Stat. 
379; 16 U. S. C , 1952 edition, sec. 7l8b), are hereby amended so as 
to read as follows: "Each such stamp shall expire and be void after 
the thirtieth day of June next succeeding its issuance. The Post-
master General, pursuant to regulations to be prescribed by him, shall 
provide for the redemption, on or before the thirtieth day of June 
of each fiscal year, of blocks composed of two or more attached unused 
stamps issued for such year that were sold on consignment to retail 
dealers for resale to their customers and that have not been resold by 
such dealers. 
As used in this section, the term 'retail dealers' means 
persons regularly engaged in the business of retailing hunting or fish-
ing equipment, and persons duly authorized to act as agents of a State 
or political subdivision thereof for the sale of State or county hunting 
or fishing licenses." 
SEC. 3. (a) Hereafter such quantity of migratory-bird hunting 
stamps, not sold at the end of the fiscal year for which issued, as 
determined by the Postmaster General to be (1) required to supply 
the market for sale to collectors, and (2) in suitable condition for 
such sale to collectors, shall be turned over to the Philatelic Agency 
and therein placed on sale. Any surplus stock of such migratory-bird 
hunting stamps may be destroyed in such manner as the Postmaster 
General shall direct. 
(b) The fourth sentence of section 2 of the Act of March 16, 1934, 
as amended (48 Stat. 451; 16 U. S. C , sec 7l8b), is hereby further 
amended to read as follows: "Such stamps shall be usable as migra-
tory-bird hunting stamps only during the fiscal year for which issued." 
(c) The first and second provisos in the paragraph under the head-
ing "Migratory Bird Conservation Fund" in the Act of June 28, 1941 
(55 Stat. 356; 16 IT. S. C , sec. 718i) are hereby repealed." 
Approved July 30, 1956.