An Act to exempt from taxation certain property of the National Womans Party, Inc., in the District of Columbia.
PL 86-706 (S.2306), enacted 09/06/1960

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PUBLIC LAW 86-706-SEPT. 6, 1960 
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thousand six hundred eighty acres in any one State without respect 
to the number of leases." 
(b) Section 21 of said Act is further amended by inserting the 
designation (a) immediately after the term "section 21" and by adding 
two new subsections to read as follows: 
"(b) If an offer for a lease under the provisions of this section for 
deposits other than oil shale is based upon a mineral location, the 
validity of which might be questioned because the claim was based 
on a placer location rather than on a lode location, or vice versa, the 
offeror shall have a preference right to a lease if the offer is filed not 
more than one year after the enactment of the Mineral leasing Act 
Revision of 1960. 
"(c) With respect to native asphalt, solid and semisolid bitumen, 
and bituminous rock (including oil-impregnated rock or sands from 
which oil is recoverable only by special treatment after the deposit 
is mined or quarried) a lease under the multiple use principle may 
issue notwithstanding the existence of an outstanding lease issued 
under any other provision of this Act." 
SEC. 8. No amendment made by this Act shall affect any valid right 
in existence on the effective date of the Mineral Leasing Act Revision 
of 1960. 
Approved September 2, 1960. 
P r o t e ction 
o f 
valid rights. 
Public Law 86-706 
AN ACT 
To exempt from taxation certain property of the National Woman's Party, Inc., 
in the District of Columbia. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That certain prop-
erty in the District of Columbia, known in the sixteen hundreds and 
seventeen hundreds as. Ceme Abbey Manor; later the property of 
members of the distinguished Carroll and Sewall families; still later 
the office and residence of Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury, 
1801-1813, who here directed the financing of the Louisiana Purchase; 
since 1929 the headquarters of the National Woman's - Party and 
known as the Alva Belmont House—described as lots numbered 863, 
864, and 885 in square numbered 725, together with improvements 
thereon and outbuildings, and the furniture, furnishings, and other 
personal property therein, owned by the National Woman's Party, 
Inc., a nonprofit corporation organized and existing under the laws 
of the District of Columbia—shall be exempt from taxation, in recog-
nition of the patriotic efforts made by the National Woman's Party, 
Inc., to preserve this historic monument, so long as the same property 
is owned by said National Woman's Party, Inc., and is not used for 
commercial purposes or for the purpose of securing a rent or income, 
subject to the proviso that said corporation shall maintain the said 
property as historical buildings which shall be preserved for their 
architectural, historical, and educational significance, which buildings 
shall be accessible to members of the general public without charge or 
payment of a fee of any kind at such reasonable hours and under such 
regulations as may from time to time be prescribed by said corpora-
tion, subject to the provisions of sections 2, 3, and 5 of the Act entitled 
"An Act to define the real property exempt from taxation in the Dis-
trict of Columbia", approved December 24, 1942 (56 Stat. 1091; D.C. 
Code, sees. 47-801b, 47-801c, and 47-801e). 
SEC. 2. The tax exemption authorized by this Act shall take effect 
on July 1, 1960. 
Approved September 6, 1960. 
September 6, 1960 
[S. 2306] 
National 
Wom-
an's 
Party, Inc., 
D. C. 
Tax exemption.