Joint resolutioin to reserve a site in the District of Columbia for the erection of a memorial  to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to provide for a competition for the design of such memorial, and to provide additional funds for holding the competition
PL 86-214 (H.J.Res.115), enacted 09/01/1959

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PUBLIC LAW 86-214-SEPT. 1, 1959 
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
INVESTMENT I N INTER-AMERICAN DEVEIX>PMENT BANK 
To finance the participation of the United States in the Inter-
American Development Bank, to remain available until expended, 
$280,000,000, of which, $230,000,000 is for the purchase of capital stock 
in said bank (including $200,000,000 for callable capital stock and 
$30,000,000 for the first installment on the paid-in capital stock) and 
$50,000,000 is for payment of the first installment of the subscrip-
tion of the United States to the fund for special operations of said 
bank. 
BUREAU OF ACCOUNTS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and Expenses", $25,000. 
CLAIMS 
FOR 
DAMAGES 
AND JUDGMENTS 
For payment of claims for damages as settled and determined by 
departments and agencies in accord with law and judgments rendered 
against the United States by the United States Court of Claims, as 
set forth in Senate Document Numbered 42 and House Document 
Numbered 185, Eighty-sixth Congress, $443,438, together with such 
amounts as may be necessary to pay interest (as and when specified in 
such judgments or provided by law) and such additional sums due to 
increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in 
foreign currency: Provided^ That no judgment herein appropriated 
for shall be paid until it shall have become final and conclusive against 
the United States by failure of the parties to appeal or otherwise: 
Provided further^ That, unless otherwise specifically required by law 
or by the judgment, payment of interest wherever appropriated for 
herein shall not continue for more than thirty days after the date of 
approval of this Act. 
Approved September 1, 1959. 
Public Law 86-214 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
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To reserve a site in the District of Columbia for the erection of a memorial 
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to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to provide for a competition for the design of 
such memorial, and to provide additional funds for holding the competition. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That, in furtherance of the 
Frankiin Delano 
joint resolution approved August 11, 1955 (69 Stat. 694), providing nlt^^.^S. **^'"°" 
for the establishment of a Commission to formulate plans for a 
memorial to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and of the interim report of 
the said Commission made to the President and to Congress, on Janu-
ary 2, 1959, recommending a site for the memorial and a competition 
for the design thereof, there is hereby reserved that portion of West 
Potomac Park, in the District of Columbia, which lies between Inde-
pendence Avenue and the inlet bridge, being twenty-seven acres more 
or less, to be used as a site for the proposed Franklin Delano Roosevelt 
Memorial. 
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PUBLIC LAW 86-215-SEPT. 1, 1959 
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Proposed memo-
rial competition. 
Reports to Pres-
i d e n t and Con-
gress. 
Appropriation. 
69 Stat. 694. 
SEC. 2. The Commission is authorized to hold a competition or 
competitions for the proposed memorial, and to award a suitable 
prize or prizes in connection therewith, but may refuse to employ any 
successful competitor if it deems that his design should not be used. 
The competition for the proposed memorial shall be carried out so as 
to insure that it will be harmonious as to location, design, and land 
use with the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial, and the 
Lincoln Memorial. 
In holding the competition the Commission shall 
avail itself of the assistance and advice of the Commission of Fine 
Arts, of the National Capital Planning Commission, and of the 
National Park Service, and such Commissions and Service shall, upon 
request, render such assistance and advice. 
SEC. 3. The Commission shall report the result of the competition, 
together with its recommendations, to the President and Congress at 
the earliest practicable date. 
SEC. 4. There is authorized to be appropriated not more than 
$150,000 to be expended by the Franklin Delano Koosevelt Memorial 
Commission in organizing the competitions for plans for the design 
of the memorial, as authorized by subsection (c) of section 2 of the 
joint resolution, approved August 11, 1955. 
Approved September 1, 1959. 
September 1, 1959 
[S. 900] 
Public Law 86-215 
AN ACT 
To amend section 204(b) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services 
Act of 1949 to extend the authority of the Administrator of General Services to 
pay direct expenses in connection with the utilization of excess real property 
and related personalty, and for other purposes. 
utilization of ex-
cess property, ex-
penses. 
68 Stat. 1051. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United /States of Ainerica in Congress assembled^ That the second 
sentence of subsection (b) of section 204 of the Federal Property and 
Administrative Services Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 388, as amended; 40 
IT.S.C. 485 (b)) is further amended by deleting the word "dispositions" 
from the second sentence of said subsection (b) and inserting in lieu 
thereof the words "utilization of excess property and the disposal". 
Approved September 1, 1959. 
Public Law 86-216 
September 1. 1959 
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[H. R. 303] 
IJIQ provide for the conveyance of certain real property in the District of Colum-
bia to the Association of the Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia. 
A s s o c i a t i o n of 
the Oldest Inhabi-
tants of the Dis-
trict of Columbia. 
Conveyance. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Board of 
Commissioners of the District of Columbia is authorized and directed 
to convey to the Association of the Oldest Inhabitants of the District 
of Columbia, all right, title, and interest of the District of Columbia 
in and to the real property in the District of Columbia described in 
section 2 of this Act: Provided^ That whenever the said real property 
no longer is occupied by the said association for the purposes of said 
association, all right, title, and interest of the said association in and 
to such property shall revert to the District of Columbia. 
As used in this section, the term "purposes of said association", 
means substantially the purposes of the said association as they were