An Act to amend certain provisions of law in order to provide for the reimbursement of the Post Office Department by Government agencies in certain additional cases for the transmission of mail matter
PL 84-705 (S.1871), enacted 07/14/1956

70 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 705-JULY 14, 1956 
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SEC. 5. Whenever any board, commission, or committee, other than 
the Commissioners, is mentioned in this Act, such board, commission, 
or committee shall be deemed to be the board, commission, or com-
mittee or other agency succeeding to the functions of the board, com-
mission, or committee, so mentioned, pursuant to Reorganization Plan , °- ^' ^°^^' *^"* 
Numbered 5 of 1952. 
SEC. 6. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of the 
Appropriation. 
revenues of the District of Columbia such sums as may be necessary 
to pay the expenses of administering the Acts listed in section 2 of this 
Act, including the expenses of the Department of Occupations and 
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Approved July 14, 1956. 
Public Law 705 
CHAPTER 591 
AN ACT 
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To amend certain provisions of law in order to provide for the reimbursement of 
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tlie Post Offlce Department by Government agencies in certain additional cases 
for the transmission of mail matter. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America m Congress assembled. That the Act entitled 
Government mail. 
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An Act to reimburse the Post Omce Department tor the transmission for transmission, 
of official Government-mail matter'', approved August 15, 1953 (67 
Stat. 614; Public Law 286, Eighty-third Congress), is amended by ^^^^ "^^ 32ii and 
adding at the end thereof the following new sections: 
"SEC. 3. There shall be paid to tlie Post Office Department, as postal 
revenue, out of any appropriations or funds available to each depart-
ment, agency, establishment, or Government corporation concerned 
and as a necessary expense of such appropriations and funds and of 
the activities concerned, the equivalent amount of postage or registry 
fees, as determined pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Post-
master General, for matter sent in the mails, without prepayment of 
postage or without prepayment of registry fees, by or to such depart-
ment, agency, establishment, or corporation, for which the Post Office 
Department does not o'^herwise receive compensation, under authority 
of the following provisions of law : 
"(1) Section 3932 of the Revised Statutes (39 V. S. C., sec. 385) ; 
"(2) The proviso added by section 2 of the Act of May 1, 1928 
(45 Stat. 469; 39 U. S. (\, sec."321a), to section 29 of the Act of March 
3, 1879, as amended (20 Stat. 362; 23 Stat. 158; 28 Stat. 412; 29 Stat. 
590) ; 
"(3) Section 10 of title 13 of the Tljiited States Code; 
es stat. lou. 
"(4) The second sentence of section 306 of the Penalty Mail Act 
of 1948 (62 Stat. 1049; 39 U. S. C., sec. 321n) ; and 
"(5) Section 345 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (66 Stat. 
266;8U.S.C., sec. 1456). 
"SEC. 4. There shall be paid to the Post Office Department, as postal tu?ef 
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revenue, out of appropriations made to the Department of Agricul-
ture for sucli purpose, the equivalent amount of postage, as determined 
pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Postmaster General, for 
matter sent in the mails without prepayment of postage under author-
ity of the following provisions of law : 
" (1) Section 6 of the Act entitled 'An Act to establish agricultural 
experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the 
several States under the provisions of an Act approved July second, 
eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary 
thereto', approved March 2,1887, as amended (69 Stat. 673; 7 U. S. C , 
^4 stat. 441. 
sec. 361f) ; 
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Library of Con-
gress. 
61 Stat. 652. 
49 Stat. 859. 
Effective date. 
" (2) Section 3 of the Act entitled 'An Act to apply a portion of the 
proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and sup-
port of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts 
established under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July 
second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two', approved August 30, 1890 
(26 Stat. 418; 7 U. S. C, sec. 325) ; and ^ 
" (3) The proviso contained in the third paragraph under the head-
ing 'General Expenses, Office of Experiment Stations' under the cap-
tion 'Office of Experiment Stations' in the Act entitled 'An Act mak-
ing appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal 
year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen', approved 
June 30,1914 (38 Stat. 438; 39 U. S. C, sec. 330). 
"SEC. 5. There shall be paid to the Post Office Department, as postal 
revenue, out of appropriations made to the Library of Congress for 
such purpose, the equivalent amount of postage, as determined pursu-
ant to regulations prescribed by the Postmaster General, for matter 
sent in the mails without prepayment of postage under authority of 
section 15 of title 17 of the United States Code." 
SEC. 2. (a) The first sentence of section 306 of the Penalty Mail Act 
of 1948 (62 Stat. 1049; 39 U. S. C , sec. 321n), is amended by striking 
out", free of postage," and inserting in lieu thereof "as penalty mail'. 
(b) The second sentence of such section 306 is amended to read as 
follows: "Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to pro-
hibit (1) the transmission in the mail, as penalty mail, of such books, 
reports, periodicals, bulletins, pamphlets, lists, articles, or documents 
to educational institutions, to public libraries, or to Federal, State, or 
other public authorities and (2) the transmission in the mail, as pen-
alty mail, of lists of agricultural bulletins, lists of public documents 
which are offered for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Gov-
ernment Printing Office, or announcements of publications of maps, 
atlases, and statistical and other reports offered for sale by the Federal 
Power Commission under authority of section 312 of the Federal 
Power Act (16 U. S. C, sec. 825k)." 
SEC. 3. The amendments made by this Act shall take effect on 
July 1,1956. 
Approved July 14, 1956. 
July 14, 1956 
[S. 1961] 
Ethan Allen Air 
Force Base, Col-
chester, Vt. 
Conveyance. 
Public Law 706 
C H A P T E R 592 
AN ACT 
To provide for the conveyance of part of Ethan Allen Air Force Base, Colchester, 
Vermont, to the State of Vermont, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted l>y the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary 
of the Air Force is authorized and directed to convey to the State of 
Vermont all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to 
certain land comprising a part of the Ethan Allen Air Force Base, 
together with improvements thereon, and appurtenances thereto be-
longing; such property being more particularly described as follows: 
Parcel Numbered 1: Beginning at a brick masonry pillar, such pillar 
being at the intersection of the southwesterly property line of Ethan 
Allen Air Force Base and the northwesterly side of Vermont Highway 
Numbered 15 and running thence north 45 degrees 30 minutes west 
243.6 feet more or less along such property line; thence north 44 
degrees 30 minutes east 55 feet more or less across a road to a bound; 
thence north 81 degrees 43 minutes east 176.9 feet more or less to a 
bound; thence south 44 degrees 14 minutes east 47.7 feet more or less