An Act to Provide for the Conveyance of Approximately 80 Acres of Land to the Heirs of Adam Jones, Creek Indian Not Enrolled.
PL 89-25 (H.R.70), enacted 08/03/1965

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PUBLIC LAW 89-25-MAY 22, 1965 
[79 STAT. 
May 22, 1965 
[H. J. Res. 195] 
Public Law 89-25 
J O I N T RESOLUTION 
To authorize the Coiumissioners of the District of Columbia to promulgate special 
regulations for the period of the American Legion National Convention of 
1966, to be held in Washington, District of Columbia ; to authorize the granting 
of certain permits to The American Legion 1966 Convention Corporation of 
the District of Columbia on the occasion of such convention, and for other 
purposes. 
D.c. 
American Legion 
National Conven-
tion, 1966. 
Special regula-
tions. 
Definitions. 
Appropriation. 
Use of grounds, 
conditions. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Re present at 
ices of the United 
States of Amerka 
in Congress assembled. That for tlie period of the 
American Legion National Convention of 196(), to be held in the 
District of (Columbia on August 29, 30, and 31, and September 1, 
1966, the Commissioners are authorized and directed to make all 
rea,sonab1e regulations necessary to secure the preservation of public 
order and protection of life, health, and property; to make special reg-
ulations respecting tlie standing, movement, and operation of vehicles 
of whatever character or kind during said period; and to grant, under 
such conditions as they may impose, special licenses to peddlers and 
vendors for the privilege of selling goods, wares, and merchandise in 
such places in the District of Columbia, and to charge such fees for 
such privilege, as they deem proper. 
SEC. 2. For tlie purposes of this Act— 
(a) "Commissioners" means the Commissioners of the District of 
Columbia, or their designated agent or agents; 
(b) "Corporation'' means the American Legion 1966 (Convention 
Corporation of the District of Columbia, or its designated agents; 
(c) "Convention" means the American Legion National Convention 
of 1966, to be held in the District of Columbia on August 29, 80, and 
31, and September 1, 1966; 
(d) "Period*' and "convention period" mean the ten-day period 
beginning August 25, 1966; 
(e) "Secretary of Defense'' means the Secretary of Defense, or his 
designated agents; and 
(f) "Seci^tary of the Interior' means the Secretary of the Interior, 
or his designated agents. 
SKC. 3. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may 
be necessary, payable in like manner as other appropriations for the 
expenses of the District of Columbia, to enable the Commissioners to 
advance to the corporation's guaranty fund $25,000, for the reimburse-
ment of which the District shall have a prior claim on any moneys 
available to the corporation for repayment to guarantors, and to pro-
vide additional municipal services in said District during the conven-
tion period, including employment of personal services without regard 
to the civil service and classification laws; travel expenses of enforce-
ment personnel, including sanitarians, from other jurisdictions; hire 
of means of transportation; meals for police, firemen, and other 
municipal employees; construction, rent, maintenance, and expenses 
incident to the operation of temporary public comfort stations, first-
aid stations, and information booths; and other incidental expenses 
in the discretion of the Commissioners. 
SKC. 4. The Secretary of the Interior, with the approval of such 
officer as may exercise jurisdiction over any of the Federal reservations 
or grounds in the District of Columbia, is authorized to grant to the 
corporation permits for the use of such reservations or grounds during 
the convention period, including a reasonable time prior and subse-
quent thereto; and the Commissioners are authorized to grant like 
|)ei'mits for the use of public space under their jurisdiction. Each such 
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permit shall be subject to such restrictions, terms, and conditions as 
may be imposed by the grantor of such permit. With respect to public 
space, no reviewing stand or any stand or structure for the sale of 
goods, wares, merchandise, food, or drink shall be built during the 
convention period on any sidewalk, street, park, reservation, or other 
public grounds in the District of Columbia, except with the approval 
of the corf>oration, and with the approval of the Secretary of the 
Interior or the Commissioners, as the case may be, depending on the 
location of such stand or structure. The reservation, ground, or pub-
lic space occupied by any such stand or structure shall, within ten days 
after the end of the convention period, be restored to its previous 
condition. The corporation shall indemnify and save harmless the 
District of Columbia, the United States, and the appropriate agencies 
of the United States against any loss or damage to such property 
and against any liability arising from the use of such property, either 
by the corporation or a licensee of the corporation. 
SEC. 5. The Commissioners are authorized to permit the corporation 
to install suitable overhead conductors and install suitable lighting or 
other electrical facilities, with adequate supports, for illumination 
or other purposes. If it should be necessary to place wires for illumi-
nating or other purposes over any park, reservation, or highway in 
the District of Columbia, such placing of wires and their removal 
shall be under the superv^ision of the official in charge of said park, 
reservation, or highway. Such conductors, with their supports, shall 
be removed within five days after the end of the convention period. 
The Commissioners, or such other officials as may have jurisdiction 
in the premises, shall enforce the provisions of this joint resolution, 
take needful precautions for the protection of the public, and insure 
that the pavement of any street, sidewalk, avenue, or alley which 
is disturbed or damaged is restored to its previous condition. 
No 
expense or damage from the installation, operation, or removal of 
said temporary overhead conductors or said illumination or other 
electrical facilities shall be incurred by the United States or the 
District of Columbia, and the corporation shall indemnify and save 
harmless the District of Columbia, the United States and the appro-
priate agencies of the United States against any loss or damage 
and against any liability whatsoever arising from any act of the corpo-
ration or any agent, licensee, servant, or employee of the corporation. 
SEC. 6. The Secretary of Defense is authorized to lend to the corpo-
ration such hospital tents, smaller tents, camp appliances, hospital 
furniture, ensigns, flags, ambulances, drivers, stretchers, and Red Cross 
flags and poles (except battle flags) as may be spared without detri-
ment to the public service, and under such conditions as he may pre-
scribe. Such loan shall be returned within five days after the end of 
the convention period, the corporation shall indemnify the United 
States for any loss or damage to any such property, and no expense 
shall be incurred by the United States Government for the delivery, 
return, rehabilitation, replacement, or operation of such equipment. 
The corporation shall give a good and sufficient bond for the safe 
return of such property in good order and condition, and the whole 
without expense to the United States. 
SEC. 7. The Commissioners, the Secretary of the Interior, and the 
corporation are authorized to permit electric lighting, telegraph, tele-
phone, radio broadcasting, and television companies to extend over-
head wires to such points along and across the line of any parade as 
shall be deemed convenient for use in connection with such parade and 
other convention purposes. 
Such wires shall be removed within ten 
days after the end of the convention period. 
Lighting, etc. 
Equipment, 
loans. 
Overhead wiring, 
etc. 
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[79 STAT. 
Enforcement of 
regulations, etc. 
Newspaper pub-
lication. 
Liability. 
SEC. 8. The regulations and licenses authorized by this Act shall 
be in full force and effect only during the convention period, but the 
expiration of said period shall not prevent the arrest or trial of any 
person for any violation of such regulations committed during the 
time they were in force and effect. Such regulations shall be j)ublished 
in one or more of the daily newspapers published in the District of 
Columbia and no penalty prescribed for the violation of any such 
regulation shall be enforced until five days after such publication. 
Any person violating any regulation promulgated by the Commis-
sioners under the authority of this Act shall be fined not more than 
$100 or imprisoned for not more than thirty days. Each and every 
day a violation of any such regulation exists shall constitute a separate 
offense, and the penalty prescribed shall be applicable to each such 
separate offense. 
SEC. 9. Whenever any provision of this Act requires the corporation 
to indemnify and save harmless the District of Columbia and the 
Federal Government or any agency thereof against loss, damage, or 
liability arising out of the acts of the corporation or its licensee, or to 
give bond to an agency of the Federal Government guaranteeing the 
safe return of property belonging to such agency, the requirements of 
any such provision shall be deemed satisfied upon the submission by 
the corporation to the Commissioners and the Secretary of the Interior 
on behalf of the several agencies of the Federal Government, of an 
insurance policy or bond, or both an insurance policy and bond, in 
such amount or amounts and subject to such terms and conditions, as 
the said officials in their discretion approve as being necessary to pro-
tect the interests of the respective governments. 
SEC, 10. Nothing in this Act shall be applicable to the United States 
Capitol Buildings or Grounds or other properties under the jurisdic-
tion of the Congress or any committee, commission, or officer thereof. 
Approved May 22, 1965. 
May 22, 1965 
[H. R. 3043] 
Public Law 89-26 
AN ACT 
To amend title 37, United States Code, to authorize payment of special allow-
ances to dependents of members of the uniformed services to offset expenses 
incident to their evacuation, and for other purposes. 
Uniformed Serv-
ices. 
Dependents, 
evacuation allow-
ances. 
76 Stat. 473. 
Definition. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That title 37, United 
States Code, is amended as follows: 
(1) The following new section is inserted after section 405: 
"§ 405a. Travel and transportation allowances: evacuation allow-
ances 
"(a) Under regulations prescribed by the Secretaries concerned, 
when dependents of members of the uniformed services are ordered 
evacuated by competent authority from places outside the United 
States to places inside the United States, they may be authorized 
such allowances as the Secretary concerned determines necessary to 
offset the expenses incident to the evacuation. Allowances authorized 
by this section are in addition to those authorized by any other section 
of this title. For the purposes of this section, a dependent 'ordered 
evacuated by competent authority' includes— 
"(1) a dependent who is present at or in the vicinity of the 
member's duty station when the evacuation of dependents is 
ordered by competent authority and who actually moves to an 
authorized safe haven designated by that authority, whether such