An Act to amend the Civil Service Retirement Act with respect to crediting of service of U.S. commissioners for purpose of such act
PL 86-306 (H.R.163), enacted 09/21/1959

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SEC. 2. The provisions of Public Law 743, Eighty-first Congress, 
approved August 31, 1950 (64 Stat. 568), shall apply to the additional 
powers approved under this joint resolution to the same extent as if 
such additional powers were conferred under the provisions of the 
compact consented to in such public law. 
SEO. 3. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this joint resolution is 
expressly reserved. 
SEO. 4. The right is hereby reserved to the Congress and to its 
standing committees to require the disclosure and furnishing of such 
information or data by the Bi-State Development Agency as is deemed 
appropriate by the Congress or any such committee. 
Approved September 21, 1959. 
F urn i s. h ing of 
data. 
Public Law 86-304 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Designating the 17th day of December 1959 as "Wright Brothers Day". 
September 21, 195S 
[H. J. Res. 513] 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled., That the I7th day of Decem-
ber 1959 is hereby designated as "Wright Brothers Day", in commemo-
ration of the first successful flights in a heavier-than-air, mechanically 
propelled airplane, which were made by Orville and Wilbur Wright on 
December 17,1903, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The President 
is authorized and requested to issue a proclamation inviting the people 
of the United States to observe such day with appropriate ceremonies 
and activities. 
Approved September 21, 1959. 
"Wright Brothers 
Day." 
Proclamation au-
thorization. 
Public Law 86-305 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Establishing that the second regular session of the Eighty-sixth Congress con-
vene at noon on Wednesday, .January 6, 1960. 
September 21, 1959 
[H. J. Res. 531] 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assemhled., That the second regular 
session of the Eighty-sixth Congress shall begin at noon on Wednes-
day, January 6,1960. 
Approved September 21, 1959. 
86th Congress. 
Second session. 
Public Law 86-306 
AN A C T 
September 21, 1959 
To amend the Civil Service Retirement Act with respect to the crediting of 
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service of United States commissioners for purposes of such Act. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled., That section 3(i) 
of the Civil Service Retirement Act (5 U.S.C. 2253 (i)) is amended— 
(1) by striking out in the first sentence thereof "on the basis 
of one three-hundred-and-thirteenth of a year for each day on 
which such United States Commissioner renders service in such 
capacity" and inserting in lieu thereof "on the basis of one three-
hundred-and-thirteenth of a year for each day prior to July 1, 
1945, and one two-hundred-and-sixtieth of a year for each day 
u. s. c 
sioners. 
Service 
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after June 30, 1945, on which such United States Commissioner 
renders service in such capacity", and 
(2) by striking out in the second sentence thereof "for more 
than three hundred and thirteen days in any one year'- and 
inserting in lieu thereof "for more than three hundred and thir-
teen days in any one year prior to July 1,1945, or for more than 
two hundred and sixty days in any one year after June 30,1945". 
SEO. 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, benefits ]jay-
able by reason of the amendments made by the first section of this 
Act shall be paid from the civil service retirement and disability fund. 
Approvea September 21, 1959. 
September 2 I, 1959 
[H. R. 616] 
Public Law 86-307 
AN ACT 
To designate the dam across the Lampasas River in Texas as Stillhouse Hollow 
Dam. 
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low Dam, Tex. 
68 Stat. 1259. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the dam across 
the Lampasas River in Bell County, Texas, authorized to be con-
structed by section 11 of the Flood Control Act of 1954, is hereby 
designated as Stillhouse Hollow Dam. 
Any law, regulation, map, 
document, record, or other paper of the United States in which such 
dam is referred to shall be held to refer to such dam by the name of 
Stillhouse Hollow Dam. 
Approved September 21, 1959. 
September 21, 1959 
[H. R. 1778] 
Public Law 86-308 
AN ACT 
To amend section 17(b) of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939. 
53 Stat. 1198. 
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note. 
C o n s t r u c t i o n 
charges. 
D e f e r m e n t 
of 
payments. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 17, 
subsection (b), of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939, as amended, is 
liereby further amended to read as follows: 
"The Secretary is hereby authorized, subject to the provisions of this 
subsection, to defer the time for the payment of such part of any 
installments of construction charges under any repayment contract 
or other form of obligation as he deems necessary to adjust such 
installments to amounts within the probable ability of the water users 
to pay. Any such deferment shall be effected only after findings by 
the Secretary that the installments under consideration probably can-
not be paid on their due date without undue burden on the water 
users, considering the various factors which in the Secretary's judg-
ment bear on the ability of the water users so to pay. 
"The Secretary may effect the deferments hereunder subject to such 
conditions and provisions relating to the operation and maintenance 
of the project involved as he deems to be in the interest of the United 
States. If, however, any deferments would affect installments to ac-
crue more than twelve months after the action of deferment, they shall 
be effected only by a formal supplemental contract. 
Such a contract 
shall provide by its terms that, it being only an interim solution of 
the repayment problems dealt with therein, its terms are not, in them-