Joint resolution Authorizing the National Geographic Society to erect a memorial on public grounds in the State of Virginia to honor Hear Admiral Richard E. Byrd
PL 86-290 (S.J.Res.103), enacted 09/21/1959

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(c) The first sentence of subsection (a) of section 7 of said Act 
(68 Stat. 500; 48 U.S.C. 1573) is amended to read as follows: "Regular 
sessions of the legislature shall be held annually, conimencing on the 
second Monday in January (unless the legislature shall by law fix a 
different date), and shall continue in regular session for not more than 
sixty consecutive calendar days in any calendar year: Provided-, hoio-
6ver^ That the regular annual session for each of the years 1959, 1960, 
and 1961, respectively, shall commence on the second Monday in 
April and shall continue in regular session for not more than sixty 
consecutive calendar days." 
SEC. 3. The second sentence of section 16(a) of the Revised Organic 
Act of the Virgin Islands (68 Stat. 504) as amended (48 U.S.C. 1597) 
is further amended to comprise two sentences to read as follows: "The 
head of each executive department other than the department of law 
shall be designated as the commissioner thereof, and the commissioner 
of finance shall be bonded. 
The head of the department of law shall 
be known as the attorney general of the Virgin Islands." 
SEC. 4. Section 27 of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands 
(48 U.S.C. 1617) is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 27. The President shall, by and with the advice and consent 
of the Senate, appoint a United States attorney for the Virgin Islands 
to whose office the provisions of chapter 31 of title 28, United States 
Code, shall apply, except that the Attorney General shall not appoint 
more than one assistant United States attorney for the Virgin Islands. 
Except as otherwise provided by law it shall be the duty of the United 
States attorney to prosecute all offenses against the United States and 
to conduct all legal proceedings, civil and criminal, to which the 
Government of the United States is a party in the district court and 
in the inferior courts of the Virgin Islands. He shall also prosecute 
in the district court in the name of the government of the Virgin 
Islands all offenses against the laws of the Virgin Islands which are 
cognizable by that court unless, at his request or with his consent, the 
prosecution of any such case is conducted by the attorney general of 
the Virgin Islands. The United States attorney may, when requested 
by the Governor or the attorney general of the Virgin Islands, con-
duct any other legal proceedings to which the government of the Vir-
gin Islands is a party in the district court or the inferior courts of the 
Virgin Islands. In the case of a vacancy in the office of United States 
attorney, the District Court of the Virgin Islands may appoint a 
United States attorney to serve until the vacancy is filled. The order 
of appointment by the court shall be filed with tne clerk of the court." 
Approved September 16, 1959. 
R e g u l a r 
sions. 
Commissioners. 
D e p a r t m ent of 
law. 
U. S. attorney. 
Appointment, 
62 Stat. 909. 
28 u s e 501. 
Public Law 86-290 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
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September 21, 1959 
Authorizing the National Geographic Society to erect a memorial on public 
[s. J.Res. 103] 
grounds in the State of Virginia to honor Hear Admiral Richard E. Byrd. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That the National Geo- _^ 
graphic Society is authorized to erect a memorial on public grounds ^i^. 
along Memorial Avenue, Arlington County, Virginia (such grounds 
being now owned by the United States), the purpose of which will 
be to honor Rear Admiral Eichard E. Byrd. 
Rear Adm. Rich-
ard E. Byrd memo-
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SEG. 2. (a) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed 
to select, with the approval of the Commission on Fine Arts and the 
National Capital Planning Commission, a suitable site on public 
grounds along Memorial Avenue, Arlington County, Virginia, upon 
which may be erected the memorial authorized in the first section. 
(b) The design and materials for such memorial shall be subject 
to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, the Commission on 
Fine Arts, and the National Capital Planning Commission. 
Such 
memorial shall be erected without expense to the United States. 
SEC. 3. The authority granted in the first section of this joint reso-
lution shall cease to exist unless (1) the erection of the memorial 
authorized by such section is commenced within five years from the 
date of the enactment of this joint resolution, and (2) the Secretary 
of the Interior finds that, prior to the commencement of the erection 
of such memorial, sufficient funds are available to insure its completion. 
SEC. 4. The maintenance and care of the memorial erected under the 
provisions of this joint resolution shall be the responsibility of the 
Secretary of the Interior. 
Approved September 21, 1959. 
September 21, 1959 
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Emblems and in-
signia. 
Misuse. 
62 Stat. 731. 
Effective date. 
Public Law 86-291 
AN ACT 
To amend title 18 of the United States Code so as to prohibit the misuse by 
collecting agencies or private detective agencies of names, emblems, and 
insignia to indicate Federal agency. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That chapter 33 of 
title 18 of the United States Code is amended by adding at the end 
thereof the following new section: 
"§ 712. Misuse of names by collecting agencies or private detective 
agencies to indicate Federal agency 
"Whoever, being engaged in the business of collecting or aiding 
in the collection of private debts or obligations, or being engaged in 
furnishing private police, investigation, or other private detective 
services, uses as part of the firm name of such business, or employs 
in any communication, correspondence, notice, advertisement, or cir-
cular the words 'national', 'Federal', or 'United States', the initials 
'U.S.', or any emblem, insignia, or name, for the purpose of convey-
ing and in a manner reasonably calculated to convey the false im-
pression that such business is a department, agency, bureau, or in-
strumentality of the United States or in any manner represents the 
United States, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not 
more than one year, or both.*' 
SEC. 2. The provisions of this section shall become effective sixty 
days from the enactment thereof. 
SEC. 3. The analysis of chapter 33 of title 18 of the United States 
Code which immediately precedes section 701 of such title is amended 
by adding at the end thereof the following: 
"Sec. 712. Misuse of names by collecting agencies to indicate Federal agency.". 
Approved September 21, 1959.