An Act to amend the act entitled ""An Act to authorize the establishment of a band in the Metropolitan Police force"" so as to provide retirement compensation for the present director of said band after 10 or more years of service
PL 86-356 (H.R.3030), enacted 09/22/1959

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PUBUC LAW 86-356-8EPT. 22, 1969 
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injury or property damage resulting from use of the premises; that 
the lease shall be revocable at will by the Secretary of the Army; 
and that the school district will on or before expiration or earlier 
termination of the lease vacate the premises, remove all its property, 
and restore the premises to a condition satisfactory to the aforemen-
tioned district engineer. 
SEC. 3. Upon acceptance by the school district of the lease author-
ized by this Act, the Secretary of the Army is further authorized 
and directed to cancel lease (DA-21-019-eng-2100) under which 
the school district is occupying the property described in section 1 
of this Act. 
SEC. 4. The Secretary of the Army, or his designee, may also include 
in the lease authorized by this Act such other terms and conditions 
as he considers to be in the public interest. 
SEC. 5. The lease authorized by this Act shall be conditional upon 
the Independent School District Numbered 16 paying to the Secre-
tary of the Army as consideration for such lease an amount equal to 
50 per centum of its fair market value as determined by the Secretary 
after appraisal of such lease. 
Approved September 22, 1959. 
Public Law 86-356 
September 22, 1959 
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[H. R. 3030] 
rpQ amend the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the establishment of a band in 
the Metropolitan Police force" so as to proA-ide retirement compensation for 
the present director of said band after ten or more years of service. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatkies 
of the 
ii<?l**f*?'r°c^e^band" ^^^'^^^ States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Act en-
D. c. Retirement titled "An Act to authorizc the establishment of a band in the Metro-
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politan Police force", approved July 11,1947, as amended, is amended 
D.c.code 4-182 by inserting after section 2 thereof the following new sections: 
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"SEC. 3. Notwithstanding the limitations of existing law, the person 
who is the director of the Metropolitan Police force band on the ef-
fective date of this section may elect to retire after having served ten 
or more years in such capacity and having attained the age of seventy 
years. Upon such retirement, whether for age and service or for 
disability, said director and his surviving spouse shall be entitled to 
receive annuities in amounts equivalent to, and under the conditions 
applicable to, the annuities which a captain in the Metropolitan Police 
force and his surviving spouse may be entitled to receive after such 
captain has retired from said force for substantially the same reason 
as that for which said director may retire, whether for age and service 
or for disability, as the case may be. If the said director shall apply 
for retirement for disability, he shall not be eligible to retire under 
71 Stat. 394. 
gectiou 12(g) of the Act approved September 1, 1916 (39 Stat. 718), 
as amended (sec. 4-527, D.C. Code, 1951 edition, Supp. VI), but he 
shall be eligible to apply for retirement under section 12(f) of such 
Act, as amended (sec. 4-526, D.C. Code, 1951 edition, Supp. VI), in 
like manner as if the said director were an officer or member of the 
Metropolitan Police force. The annuities hereby authorized shall be 
in addition to any pension or retirement compensation which said 
director may be entitled to receive from any other source, whether 
from the United States or otherwise. The annuities payable to said 
director and his surviving spouse pursuant to this Act shall be pay-
able from District of Columbia appropriations, but shall not be con-
sidered as annuities payable to an officer or member of the Metro-
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politan Police force or to the surviving spouse of such officer or 
member. 
Appropriations for the operations of the Metropolitan 
Police Department are made available for this purpose. 
Annuities 
authorized by this section shall be computed on the basis of com-
pensated service rendered after July 11, 1947. 
"SEC. 4. The person who is the Director of the Metropolitan 
Police force band on the date of approval of this Act shall, upon his 
retirement from such position, be retired under the provisions of this 
Act and not under the Civil Service Retirement Act, and the moneys 
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to his credit in the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund 
created under the authority of the Civil Service Retirement Act of 
May 29, 1930, as amended, on the date of such retirement, together 
with such moneys in such fund as may have been contributed by the 
District of Columbia toward the cost of his annuity under such Act, 
shall be transferred to the credit of the general revenues of the 
District of Columbia. 
"SEC. 5. Section 3 of said Act approved July 11, 1947, as amended, 
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is renumbered '4'." 
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Approved September 22, 1959. 
Public Law 86-357 
A N A C T 
September 22, 1959 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, rehabilitate, operate, 
[H. R. 4279] 
and maintain the lower Rio Grande rehabilitation project, Texas, La Feria 
division. 
Rio G r a n d e re-
habUitation 
proj-
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary 
of the Interior, acting pursuant to the Federal reclamation laws (Act 
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of June 17,1902, 32 Stat. 388 and Acts amendatory thereof or supple- so4^ ^ 
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mentary thereto, including the last sentence of Section 1 of the Act 
of October 7, 1949 (63 Stat. 724), but subject to exceptions herein 
contained) is authorized to undertake the rehabilitation and better-
ment of the works of the La Feria Water Control and Improvement 
District, Cameron County numbered 3, Texas, and to operate and 
maintain the same. Such undertaking which shall be known as the 
La Feria division of the lower Rio Grande rehabilitation project, 
shall not be commenced until a repayment contract has been entered 
into by said district under the Federal reclamation laws, subject to 
exceptions herein contained, which contract shall provide for pay-
ment of the capital cost of the La Feria division over a basic period 
of not more than thirty-five years and shall, in addition, in lieu of 
the excess-land provisions of the Federal reclamation laws, require 
the payment of interest on that pro rata share of the capital cost, 
which is attributable to furnishing benefits in each particular year 
to land held in private ownership by any one owner in excess of one 
hundred and sixty irrigable acres, said interest to be at a rate deter-
mined by the Secretary of the Treasury by estimating the average 
annual yield to maturity, on the basis of daily closing market bid 
quotations or prices during the month of May preceding the fiscal year 
in which the repayment contract is entered into, on all outstanding 
marketable obligations of the United States having a maturity date 
of fifteen or more years from the first day of such month of May, 
and by adjusting such estimated average annual yield to the nearest 
one-eighth of 1 per centum.