An Act to amend the act for the protection of walruses
PL 84-625 (S.3778), enacted 06/29/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 625-JUNE 29, 1956 
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Short title. 
mittees of the House of Representatives shall be transferred to the 
House Studio. 
(4) A sufficient reserve shall be set aside from the Joint Senate and 
House Recording Facility Revolving Fund to liquidate any outstand-
ing accounts payable. 
(5) After appropriate adjustments for the value of assets assigned 
or transferred to the Senate and House of Representatives, respec-
tively, the balance in the Joint Senate and House Recording Facility 
Revolving Fund shall be distributed equally to the Senate and House 
of Representatives for deposit to the respective revolving funds 
authorized by this section. 
(j) Pending acquisition of the stock, supplies, materials, and equip-
ment necessary to properly equip both studios, the present services 
and facilities shall be made available to both studios in order that 
each studio may carry out its duty. 
(k) No person shall be an officer or employee of the House or 
Senate Recording Studio while he is engaged in any other business, 
profession, occupation, or employment which involves the perform-
ance of duties which are similar to those which would be performed 
by him as such an officer or employee of such studio unless approved 
in writing by the committee in the case of the House Recording Studio 
Jind the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration in the case 
of the Senate Recording Studio. 
(1) The Joint Recording Facility positions and salaries established 
pursuant to the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1948, and all 
subsequent Acts are hereby abolished. 
(m) Effective with the completion of the transfer provided for by 
subsection (i) hereof the joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution 
establishing in the Treasury of the United States a revolving fund 
within the contingent fund of the House of Representatives", approved 
August 7,1953 (2 U. S. C , sec. 123), is repealed. 
(n) The Director of the House Recording Studio shall give bond 
to the Clerk of the House of Representatives with one or more sureties 
in the penal sum of $20,000, with condition for the faithful perform-
ance of his duties and the preservation and security of all property in 
his care. The Director of the Senate Recording Studio shall give bond 
to the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate with one or more sureties in the 
penal sum of $20,000, with condition for the faithful performance of 
his duties and the preservation and security of all property in his care. 
(o) Such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of 
this section are hereby authorized to be appropriated. 
SEC. 106. This Act may be cited as the "Legislative Branch x\ppro-
priation Act, 1957". 
Approved June 27, 1956. 
June 29, 1956 
[S. 3778] 
Public Law 625 
CHAPTER 460 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act for the protection of walruses. 
Alaska. 
Walruses. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 1 of 
the Act of August 18, 1941 (ch. 368, 55 Stat. 632; 48 U. S. C. 248), 
is amended by changing the colon at the end of the first proviso to a 
comma and by inserting thereafter: "and said skins or hides may be 
exported from the Territory subject to such limitations on numbers 
and sizes of skins or hides exported as the Secretary of the Interior 
may prescribe for the purpose of protecting and conserving the walrus 
herds:". 
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SEC, 2. Section 1 of said Act of August 18, 1941, is further amended 
by changing the period at the end thereof to a colon and by inserting 
thereafter: ^''Provided further^ That the Secretary of the Interior 
is authorized to prescribe by regulations the extent to which, the times 
when, and the means by which, walruses may be taken for purposes 
other than food and clotliing and the extent to which such walruses 
or the parts thereof may be possessed, sold, bartered, purchased, or 
exported. Any regulations so prescribed shall prohibit the hunting 
of walruses witli the use of airplanes and helicopters and shall prohibit 
the taking of any walrus by a nonnative other than one bull walrus per 
year which may be taken only when the nonnative is accompanied by a 
native guide. The meat of any walrus taken by a nonnative shall 
be given to natives, and the Secretary of the Interior is directed to 
prohibit the taking of walruses by nonnatives whenever he determines 
that such taking may endanger the food supply of the natives. No 
nonnative shall take any walrus under any regulations prescribed 
by the Secretary of the Interior without first having procured a walrus 
hunting license which shall be issued in the manner prescribed by sub-
division I, section 10, of the Alaska game law of January 13, 1925, 
as amended (43 Stat. 744; 48 U. S. C. 199). The fee for such license 
shall be $25 for nonnative residents of the Territory of Alaska and $50 
for nonresidents. For the purposes of this Act, residence shall be 
governed by the conditions prescribed in section 3 of said Alaska 
game law. After deducting the amount that may be retained as 
compensation by persons authorized to sell such licenses, the amount 
of such retained compensation to be determined in accordance with 
subdivision K of section 10 of said Alaska game law, the proceeds 
from the sale of walrus hunting licenses shall be accounted for and 
disposed of in the manner prescribed by the said subdivision K." 
Approved June 29, 1956. 
Public Law 626 
CHAPTER 461 
AN ACT 
June 29, 1956 
To provide for the relief of certain members of the uniformed services. 
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Armed Forces. 
R e e n l i s t m e n t 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assenibled^ That all payments 
of reenlistment bonuses heretofore made under the provisions of sec- bomTseir 
tion 208 of the Career Compensation Act of 1949, as added by section 
2 of the Act of July 16, 1954 (68 Stat. 488), are hereby validated to 
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the extent that such bonuses were computed on the basis that reenlist-
ments entered into by the member concerned subsequent to September 
30, 1949, for which he did not receive a reenlistment bonus under sec-
tion 207 of the Career Compensation Act of 1949, were not counted in g^^a S|a t. 811; 68 
determining the reenlistment involved. Any member who has made 
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repayment to the United States of any amount so paid to him as a 
reenlistment bonus is entitled to have refunded the amount repaid. 
SEC. 2. The Comptroller General of the United States, or his desig-
nee, shall relieve disbursing officers, including special disbursing 
agents, of the United States, from accountability for any payments 
described in section 1 of this Act, and shall allow credits in the settle-
ment of the accounts of those officers or agents for payments which 
are found to be free from fraud and collusion. 
SEC. 3. Appropriations available for the pay and allowances of 
members of the uniformed services, as defined in the Career Com-
pensation Act of 1949, are available for refunds under this Act. 
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Approved June 29, 1956.