Joint resolution approving certain additional powers conferred upon the Bi-State Development Agency by the States of Missouri and Illinois
PL 86-303 (H.J.Res.465), enacted 09/21/1959

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PUBLIC LAW 86-303-SEPT. 21, 1959 
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SEC. 2. The consent of Congress granted pursuant to this joint 
resolution is subject to the following conditions or requirements: 
(a) The right to alter, amend, or repeal this joint resolution is 
hereby expressly reserved. 
(b) Any long-range plan, when adopted by concurrent legislation of 
the compacting statis, shall be submitted to Congress for its consent 
before such long-range plan becomes effective. 
(c) Any concurrent legislation enacted by the compacting states 
amending or supplementing this compact shall be submitted to Con-
gress for its consent before such legislation becomes effective, except 
that this subsection shall not apply to article 4.6 of this compact. 
(d) The New York-New Jersey Transportation Agency Compact 
shall submit to Congress the same periodic reports it is required to 
make to the governors and legislatures of the compacting states, pur-
suant to and under tlie same conditions of section 3.8 of the compact. 
(e) The right is hereby reserved to the Congress to require the dis-
closure and furnishing of such information or data as is deemed 
appropriate by the Congress. 
Congress shall have access to all books, 
records or papers of the New York-New Jersey Transportation Agency 
as well as the ri^ht of inspection of any facility being used or under 
the control of said Agency. 
(f) Nothing contained in this joint resolution or the Compact set 
out herein shall be construed as impairing or in any manner affecting 
any right or jurisdiction of any department, agency, bureau or other 
office of the United States Government having regulatory or adminis-
trative powers over or concerning interstate or foreign commerce. 
Approved September 21, 1959. 
Public Law 86-303 
September 21, 1959 
[H. J. Res. 465] 
Approvin? 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
certain additional powers conferred upon tlie Bi-State Development 
Agency by the States of Missouri and Illinois. 
64 Stat. 568. 
B i - S t a t e 
D e -
velopment Agency, 
Mo .-111. 
Additional pow-
ers. 
Whereas the Congress in consenting to the compact between Missouri 
and Illinois creating the Bi-State Development Agency and the 
Bi-State Metropolitan District in Public Law 743, Eighty-first 
Congress, approved August 31, 1950, provided that no power or 
powers shall be exercised by the Bi-State Agency under that cer-
tain portion of article I I I of such compact which reads: 
"8. To exercise such additional powers as shall be conferred 
on it by the legislature of either state concurred in by the legis-
lature of the other or by Act of Congress." 
unless and until such power or powers shall have been conferred 
upon the Bi-State Agency by the legislature of one of the States to 
the compact and concurred in by the legislature of the other and 
shall have been approved by an Act of Congress; and 
Whereas such States have now enacted certain legislation in order 
to confer certain additional powers on such Bi-State Development 
Agency: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Congress hereby 
approves the additional powers conferred on the Bi-State Develop-
ment Agency by senate bill numbered 364, Daws of Illinois 1953; 
senate bill numbered 97, Laws of Illinois 1959; senate bill numbered 
11, Laws of Missouri 1957, second extra session; and senate bill num-
bered 25, Laws of Missouri 1959. 
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SEC. 2. The provisions of Public Law 743, Eighty-first Congress, 
approved August 31, 1950 (64 Stat. 568), shall apply to the additional 
powers approved under this joint resolution to the same extent as if 
such additional powers were conferred under the provisions of the 
compact consented to in such public law. 
SEO. 3. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this joint resolution is 
expressly reserved. 
SEO. 4. The right is hereby reserved to the Congress and to its 
standing committees to require the disclosure and furnishing of such 
information or data by the Bi-State Development Agency as is deemed 
appropriate by the Congress or any such committee. 
Approved September 21, 1959. 
F urn i s. h ing of 
data. 
Public Law 86-304 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Designating the 17th day of December 1959 as "Wright Brothers Day". 
September 21, 195S 
[H. J. Res. 513] 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled., That the I7th day of Decem-
ber 1959 is hereby designated as "Wright Brothers Day", in commemo-
ration of the first successful flights in a heavier-than-air, mechanically 
propelled airplane, which were made by Orville and Wilbur Wright on 
December 17,1903, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The President 
is authorized and requested to issue a proclamation inviting the people 
of the United States to observe such day with appropriate ceremonies 
and activities. 
Approved September 21, 1959. 
"Wright Brothers 
Day." 
Proclamation au-
thorization. 
Public Law 86-305 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Establishing that the second regular session of the Eighty-sixth Congress con-
vene at noon on Wednesday, .January 6, 1960. 
September 21, 1959 
[H. J. Res. 531] 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assemhled., That the second regular 
session of the Eighty-sixth Congress shall begin at noon on Wednes-
day, January 6,1960. 
Approved September 21, 1959. 
86th Congress. 
Second session. 
Public Law 86-306 
AN A C T 
September 21, 1959 
To amend the Civil Service Retirement Act with respect to the crediting of 
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service of United States commissioners for purposes of such Act. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled., That section 3(i) 
of the Civil Service Retirement Act (5 U.S.C. 2253 (i)) is amended— 
(1) by striking out in the first sentence thereof "on the basis 
of one three-hundred-and-thirteenth of a year for each day on 
which such United States Commissioner renders service in such 
capacity" and inserting in lieu thereof "on the basis of one three-
hundred-and-thirteenth of a year for each day prior to July 1, 
1945, and one two-hundred-and-sixtieth of a year for each day 
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sioners. 
Service 
70 Stat. 
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credit. 
746.