An Act to amend the Bankruptcy Act with respect to the priority of debts owed by a bankrupt to workmen, servants, clerks, and certain salesmen.
PL 84-840 (H.R.256), enacted 07/30/1956

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SEC. 3. The commissioner may, ^rior to executing such quitclaim Twrltory.^**"* *
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deeds, require that claimants quitclami to the Territory any claim they 
may have in and to the roadways hereinabove described, and the ease-
ment hereinabove referred to. 
SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on and after the date of its approval. 
Approved July 30, 1966. 
Effective date.. 
Public Law 840 
CHAPTER 784 
AN ACT 
To amend the Bankruptcy Act with respect to the priority of debts owed by a 
bankrupt to workmen, servants, clerks, and certain salesmen. 
July 30, 1956 
[H. R. 256] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United /States of America in Congress assembled^ That clause (2) of 
subsection (a) of section 64 of the Bankruptcy Act (11 U. S. C, sec. 
104 (a)) is amended to read as follows: "(2) wages and commissions, 
not to exceed $600 to each claimant, which have been earned within 
three months before the date of the commencement of the proceeding, 
due to workmen, servants, clerks, or traveling or city salesmen on 
salary or commission basis, whole or part time, whether or not selling 
exclusively for the bankrupt; and for the purposes of this clause, the 
term 'traveling or city salesman' shall include all such salesmen, 
whether or not they are independent contractors selling the products 
or services of the bankrupt on a commission basis, with or without a 
drawing account or formal contract;". 
SEC. 2. The amendment made by the first section of this Act shall 
apply only with respect to proceedings commenced on or after the 
date of the enactment of this Act. 
Approved July 30, 1966. 
Bankraptcy. 
Priority of debUa. 
52 Stat. 874. 
Public Law 841 
CHAPTER 785 
AN ACT 
Relating to the use of storage space in the Buford Reservoir for the pui-pose of 
providing Gwinnett County, Georgia, a regulated water supply. 
July 30, 1956 
[H. R. 8265] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of the Army is hereby authorized to contract with Gwinnett County, 
Georgia, upon such terms and for such period not to exceed fifty year^ 
as he may deem reasonable for the use of storage space in the Buford 
Reservoir for the purpose of providing said county a regulated water 
supply in an amount not to exceed eleven thousand two hundred acre-
feet of water annually, and is authorized to grant to Gwinnett County^ 
at no cost, easement over Government lands at Buford Reservoir for 
the sole purpose of constructing, repairing, and maintaining necessary 
pipelines and pumping station to remove such water from said reser-
voir, and the project for Buford Dam authorized by the Act, entitled 
"An Act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of 
certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes," 
being Public Law 525, Seventy-ninth Congress, second session, 
approved July 24, 1946, is hereby modified accordingly: Provided, 
That all moneys received shall be deposited in the Treasury of the 
United States as miscellaneous receipts: Provided further. That noth-
ing herein contained shall affect water rights under State law. 
Approved July 30, 1956. 
Gwinnett County, 
Ga. 
Storage in Buford 
Reservoir. 
60 Stat. 634.