An Act to amend the act entitled ""An Act relating to the levying and collecting of taxes and assessments, and for other purposes,"" approved June 25, 1938.
PL 86-46 (S.643), enacted 06/17/1959

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Committee on Aeronauticjil and Space Sciences of the Senate of the 
cost of such construction, expansion, or modification including those 
real estate actions pertaining thereto: Provided further^ That no such 
funds shall be used for such construction, expansion, or modification 
if authorization for such construction, expansion, or modification has 
been j^reviously denied by the Congress; and additional appropria-
tions are hereby authorized for purposes of this section in the amount 
of $5,000,000. 
SEC. 4. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, no appro-
priation may be made to the National Aeronautics and Space Admin-
istration unless previously authorized by legislation hereafter enacted 
by the Congress. 
Approved June 15, 1959. 
Legislative aur 
thorizations. 
Public Law 86-46 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act entitled "An Act relating to the levying and collecting of 
taxes and assessments, and for other purposes", approved June 25, 1938. 
June 17, 1959 
[S. 643] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, That the first para-
graph of subsection (a) of section 3 of the Act entitled "An Act re-
lating to the levying and collecting of taxes andT assessments, and 
for other purposes", approved June 25, 1938 (52 Stat. 1199; sec. 47-
1103, D.C. Code, 1951 edition), is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 3. (a) (1) When any special assessment for a public improve-
ment, with the exception of assessments levied in condemnation 
proceedings, is levied by the District of Columbia upon any lot or 
parcel of land, notice of the levying of such assessment shall be served 
upon the record owner thereof in the manner herein provided, and if 
there be more than one record owner of such lot or parcel of land notice 
served on one of the owners shall be sufficient. 
Such notice shall be 
deemed to have been served when served by any of the following 
methods: (a) when forwarded to the last known address of the owner 
as recorded in the real estate assessment records of the District of 
Columbia by registered or certified mail, with return receipt, and such 
receipt shall constitute prima facie evidence of service upon such 
owner if such receipt is signed either by the owner or by a person of 
suitable age and discretion located at such address: Provided, That 
valid service upon the owner shall be deemed effected under this clause 
(a) if such notice shall be refused by the owner and not delivered for 
that reason; or (b) when delivered to the person to be notified; or 
(c) when left at the usual residence or place of business of the person 
to be notified with a person of suitable age and discretion then resident 
or employed therein; or (d) if no such residence or place of business 
can be found in the District of Columbia by diligent search, then if 
left with any person of suitable age and discretion employed at the 
office of aiiy agent of the person to be notified, which agent has any 
authority or duty with reference to the land or tenement to which said 
notice relates; or (e) if any such notice forwarded by registered or 
certified mail be returned for reasons other than refusal, or if personal 
service of such notice cannot be effected, then if published on three 
consecutive days in a daily newspaper published in the District of 
Columbia; or (f) if by reason of an outstanding unrecorded transfer 
of title the name of the owner cannot, by diligent search, be ascer-
tained, then if served on the owner of record in a manner hereinbefore 
provided. 
Any notice to a corporation shall, for the purposes of this 
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Act, be deemed to have been served on such corporation if served on 
the president, secretary, treasurer, general manager, or any principal 
officer of such corporation in a manner hereinbefore provided for the 
service of notices on natural persons holding property in their own 
right; and notices to a foreign corporation shall, for the purposes 
of this Act, be deemed to have been served if served personally on any 
agent of such corporation, or if left with any person of suitable age 
and discretion residing at the usual residence or employed at the 
usual place of business of such agent in the District of Columbia. 
The cost of publication, if any, shall be paid out of the general revenues 
of the District. 
The notice herein provided for shall be in lieu of 
any and all other notice now required by law. 
" (2) In case such notice is served by any method other than personal 
service, a copy of such notice shall also be sent to the owner by ordi-
nary mail." 
SEC. 2. The amendments made by the first section of this Act shall 
apply to all special assessments for public improvements (other than 
assessments in condemnation proceedings) notice of which has not 
been served prior to the approval of this Act. 
SEC. 3. The second paragraph of subsection (a) of section 3 of the 
Act entitled "An Act relating to the levying and collecting of taxes 
and assessments, and for other purposes", approved June 25, 1938 
(sec. 47-1103, D.C. Code, 1951 edition), is hereby repealed. 
Approved June 17, 1959. 
June 17, 1959 
[S. 949] 
L a d i e s 
of the 
Grand Army of the 
Republic; incorpo-
ration. 
Public Law 86-47 
AN ACT 
For the incorporation of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhJed^ That the following-
named persons, to wit: Gussie Laile Morin, Seattle, Washington; 
Margaret Hopkins Worrell, Ironton, Ohio; Twannette Paull, Kansas 
City, Missouri; Nellie D. Howe, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Sarah J. 
Ehrmann, Orange City, Florida; Mpbel S. Taylor, Providence, Rhode 
Island; Edwina P. Trigg, Kansas City, Missouri; Cora M. Rowling, 
Indianapolis, Indiana; Irene Mangle, Woodruff, Wisconsin; Cath-
erine G. Schroeder, Los Angeles, California; Mabel Y. Coffey, Colo-
rado Springs, Colorado; 
Helen M. Lehman, Jersey City, New Jersey; Margaret Grandle, 
Pittsburg, Kansas; Frances M. Kuhns, Greensbur^, Pennsylvania; 
Gladys W. Newton, Charleston, AVest Virginia; Olive Vanwagenen, 
AVashington, District of Columbia; Luella Orr, Tulsa, Oklahoma; 
Edna S. Lindsey, Portland, Oregon; Rosalie E. Leonard, Boise, 
Idaho; Lura B. Frye, Peoria, Illinois; Theo McCallum, Neenah, 
Wisconsin; Eloise E. Whitmer, Washington, District of Columbia; 
Harriet E. Hughes, New York City, New York; Margaret G. LTrban, 
Oakmont, Pennsylvania; 
Bertha Hunt, Des Moines, Iowa; Marie E. Godda, Omaha, Ne-
braska; Anna Hausman, Washington, District of Columbia; Frances 
C. Linnell, Plymouth, Massachusetts; Alma M. Blitz, Minneapolis, 
Minnesota; Lila Lovett, Portland, Maine; Eveh M. Ervin, Keene, 
New Hampshire; Mildred Puckett, Louisville, Kentucky; Ada Ander-
son, Wilmington, Delaware; and all past national presidents, and 
their successors, are hereby created and declared to be a body cor-
porate of the District of Columbia, where its legal domicile shall be, 
by the name of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic (here-