Joint resolution making temporary appropriations for the fiscal year 1957, and for other purposes
PL 84-658 (H.J.Res.671), enacted 07/03/1956

496 
PUBLIC LAW 668-JULY 3, 1956 
[70 STAT. 
Requiramente. 
SEC, 2. Such convejaiice shall be made subject to the requirements 
of section 13 (h) of the Surplus Property Act of 1944 (58 Stat. 770) 
as added by Public Law 616, Eightieth Congress, (62 Stat. 350), 
(50 U. S. C. App. 1622 (h)) : Provided^ however, That in computa-
tion of the amount to be paid by said Commission as consideration 
for the transfer hereby authorized the sum of $10,000 shall be deducted, 
such sum representing the amount contributed by the Charlotte Cham-
ber of Commerce to the United States toward original acquisition of 
the aforementioned 32.5 acre tract. 
Approved July 3, 1956. 
Public Law 658 
CHAPTER 516 
July 3, 1956 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
[H. J. Re«. 671] Making temporary appropriations for the fiscal year 1957, and for other purposes. 
Resolved by the Senate a/nd House of Representatives 
of the United 
propriations T95?r /^tates of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums 
are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, and out of applicable corporate or other revenues, 
receipts, and funds, for the several departments, agencies, corpora-
tions, and other organizational units in the executive branch of the 
Government, namely: 
Such amounts as may be necessary for continuing projects or activi-
ties which were conducted in the fiscal j^ear 1956 and listed in this 
section (a) at a rat^ for operations not m excess of the current rate 
or the rate provided for in the budget estimate, whichever is lower, or 
(b) in the amount or at the rate specified herein: 
Funds appropriated to the President, President's special interna-
tional program (emergency fund for international affairs) ; 
Atx)mic Energy Commission; 
Department of State, International Fisheries Commission (sea 
lamprey control and research activities); 
Department of Commerce, export control; 
Department of Defense—Civil functions. Department of the Army, 
government and relief in occupied areas; Militar;^ construction. Army; 
Military construction. Navy; Military construction, Air Force; 
Export-Import Bank of Washington; 
Mutual security programs, $200,000,000, to be expended in accord 
with provisions of law applicable to such programs during the fiscal 
year 1956 and at a rate for any individual program not in excess of 
the current rate therefor: Provided, That administrative expenses for 
such programs shall not exceed the current rate. 
Avauabuity. 
guc. 102. Appropriations and funds made available and authority 
granted pursuant to this Act shall remain available until (a) enact-
ment into law of an appropriation for any project or activity provided 
for in this Act, or (b) enactment of the applicable appropriation 
Act by both Houses without any provision for such project or activity, 
or (c) July 31,1956, whichever first occurs. 
SEC. 103. Appropriations and funds made available and authority 
panted pursuant to this Act may be used without regard to the time 
31 use 665. 
limitations set forth in subsection (d) (2) of section 3679, Revised 
Statutes, and expenditures therefrom shall be charged to the applicable 
appropriation, fund, or authorization whenever a bill in which such 
applicable appropriation, fund, or authorization is contained is enacted 
into law. 
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PUBLIC LAW 659-JULY 9, 1956 
497 
SEC. 104. No appropriation or fund made available or authority 
granted pursuant to this Act shall be used to initiate or resume any 
project or activity which was not being conducted during the fiscal 
year 1956, except military construction projects otherwise authorized 
by law. Appropriations made and authority granted pursuant to this 
Act shall cover all obligations or expenditures incurred for any 
project or activity during the period for which funds or authority 
for such project or activity are available under this Act. 
Approved July 3, 1956. 
Public Law 659 
CHAPTER 517 
AN ACT 
To amend title 28, United States Code, witli respect to dtities of judges of the 
United States Court of Claims. 
July 9, 1956 
[S. »77] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress asserrwled, That (a) subsection 
291 (a) of title 28, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: 
"(a) The Chief Justice of the United States may designate and 
assign temporarily any circuit judge to act as circuit judge in another 
circuit, or any judge of the Court of Claims to serve as a circuit judge 
in any circuit, upon presentation of a certificate of necessity by the 
chief judge or circuit justice of the circuit wherein the need arises." 
(b) Section 292 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by add-
ing at the end thereof the following new subsection: 
"(e) The Chief Justice of the United States may designate and 
assign any judge of the Court of Claims to serve as a judge of any 
district court, when requested so to do, upon presentation of a cer-
tificate of necessity by the chief judge or circuit justice of the circuit 
wherein the need arises." 
(c) Subsection 294 (b) of title 28, United States Code, is amended 
by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: 
"Any retired judge of the Court of Claims (1) may be designated 
and assigned by the Chief Justice of the United States to perform such 
judicial duties in any circuit as he is willing to undertake, and (2) 
may be called upon by the chief judge of the Court of Claims to 
perform such judicial duties in such court as he is willing to undertake." 
(d) Section 331 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by insert-
ing, immediately after the second paragraph thereof, the following 
new paragraph: 
"The Cliief Justice of the United States shall also summon the chief 
judge of the Court of Claims, or if he is unable to attend, another 
judge of such court, to participate in the conference. 
Any judge 
summoned shall attend, and, unless excused by the Chief Justice, shall 
remain throughout the conference and advise as to the needs of such 
court and as to any matters in respect of which the administration of 
justice in the courts of the United States may be improved." 
(e) The second paragraph of section 605 of title 28, United States 
Code, is amended to read as follows: 
"Such estimates shall be approved, before presentation to the Bureau 
of the Budget, by the Judicial Conference of the United States, except 
that estimates with respect to the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals 
and the Customs Court shall be approved by such courts, respectively." 
Approved July 9, 1956. 
Court of Claims. 
62 Stat. 900. 
62 Stat. 901. 
62 Stat. 901. 
Retired judges. 
62 Stat. 902. 
Judicial Confet» 
enee. 
62 Stat. 915. 
B u d g e t 
e s t i ' 
mates, approval. 
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