An Act to designate the bridge to be constructed over the Potomac River near 14th Street in the District of Columbia, under the act of July 16, 1946, as the George Mason Memorial Bridge, and for other purposes.
PL 86-86 (H.R.5534), enacted 07/13/1959

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PUBLIC LAW 86-85-JULY 13, 1959 
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the expenses of vocational training of prisoners, both amounts to be 
available for services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 
60 Stat. 810. 
-^Q^Q ^5 U.S.C. 55a), and to be computed on an accrual basis and to 
be determined in accordance with the corporation's prescribed account-
ing system in effect on July 1,1946, and shall be exclusive of deprecia-
tion, payment of claims, expenditures which the said accounting sys-
tem requires to be capitalized or charged to cost of commodities 
acquired or produced, including selling and shipping expenses, and 
expenses in connection with acquisition, construction, operation, main-
tenance, improvement, protection, or disposition of facilities and other 
property belonging to the corporation or in which it has an interest. 
T I T L E VI—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
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^^1. No part of any appropriation coutaiucd iu this Act shall 
be used for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized by the 
Congress. 
This Act may be cited as the "Departments of State and Justice, the 
Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1960". 
Approved July 13, 1959. 
Public Law 86-85 
July 13, 1959 
AN ACT 
[H. R. 6662] 
(JIQ amend the District of Columbia Hospital Center Act in order to extend the 
time during which appropriations may be made for the purposes of such Act. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate arid House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 6 of the 
72 Stat. 15. 
j^Q^^ Qf ^.ugust 7, 1946, as amended, is further amended by striking 
out "1959" and inserting in lieu thereof "1961". 
Approved July 13, 1959. 
Public Law 86-86 
AN ACT 
July 13, 1959 
[H. R. 5534] 
To designate the bridge to be constructed over the Potomac River near Fourteenth 
Street in the District of Columbia, under the Act of July 16, 1946, as the 
George Mason Memorial Bridge, and for other purposes. 
G e o r g e 
Mason 
Memo r i a l Bridge 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the bridge to be 
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" ' constructed over the Potomac River from a point near Fourteenth 
onstruct on. 
gtrcct in the District of Columbia to a point in Virginia, under author-
ity of the Act entitled "An Act authorizing and directing the Com-
missioners of the District of Columbia to construct two four-lane 
bridges to replace the existing Fourteenth Street or Highway Bridge 
across the Potomac River, and for other purposes", approved July 16, 
1946 (60 Stat. 566), shall be known and designated as the "George 
Mason Memorial Bridge". 
Any law, regulation, map, document, rec-
ord, or other paper of the United States in which such bridge is 
referred to shall be held to refer to such bridge as the "George Mason 
Memorial Bridge". 
SEC. 2. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall— 
(1) place on the George Mason Memorial Bridge a name plaque 
of suitable and appropriate design; and 
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(2) in connection with the opening of such bridge to the public, 
provide for suitable ceremonies honoring George Mason, the 
American statesman of the Eevolutionary War period from the 
State of Virginia, who drafted the renowned Virginia Declara-
tion of Rights which became the basis for the first ten amendments 
to the Constitution of the United States. 
Approved July 13, 1959. 
Public Law 86-87 
AN ACT 
July 13, 1959 
To provide for payment of annuities to widows and dependent children of 
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Comptrollers General. 
Co m p t r o l l e r s 
General. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Budget 
and Accounting Act of 1921 (42 Stat. 20-27), as amended, is further "^uio"w8 and de-
amended by adding after section 318 a new section designated as ^ufuls.' 
section 319 and reading as follows: 
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"SEC. 319. (a) Any Comptroller General of the United States, with-
in six months of the date on which he takes office, or in the case of the 
Comptroller General currently in office and any retired Comptroller 
General, within six months after enactment of this section, may in 
writing elect a reduction in his salary and retirement pay for purposes 
of survivorship benefits as hereinafter provided. 
"(b) There shall be deducted from the salary and retirement pay 
of any Comptroller General or retired Comptroller General making 
an election to receive survivorship benefits a sum equal to 3 per centum 
of his salary and retirement pay. 
"(c) Each Comptroller General, or retired Comptroller General, 
making an election to receive survivorship benefits, shall deposit with 
the General Accounting Office for covering into the general fund of 
the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts a sum equal to 3 per centum 
of his salary and retirement pay received by him as Comptroller Gen-
eral prior to the date current deductions begin from his salary and 
retirement pay, and of his basic salary, pay, or compensation for serv-
ice as a Senator, Representative, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner 
in the Congress of the United States and for any other civilian service 
which may form the basis of a widow's annuity as provided in sub-
section (n) of this section, with interest thereon at the rate of 4 per 
centum per annum to December 31,1947, and 3 per centum per annum, 
thereafter, compounded on December 31 of each year. The current 
deductions from salary or retirement pay shall be regarded as effective 
as of the date the election of reduced salary and retirement pay for 
purposes of survivorship benefits is made. 
"(d) Notwithstanding the failure of a Comptroller General or a 
retired Comptroller General to make the deposit under subsection (c), 
credit shall be allowed for the service rendered, but the annuity of 
the widow shall be reduced by 10 per centum of the amount of such 
deposit, computed as of the date of death of a Comptroller General 
or retired Comptroller General, unless such widow shall elect to elimi-
nate such service entirely from credit under subsections (n) and (o) 
of this section. 
"(e) In case any Comptroller General or retired Comptroller Gen-
eral who has elected to bring himself within the purview of this sec-
tion shall die while in office, or die while in receipt of retirement pay