An Act for the relief of the State of Oklahoma
PL 86-369 (H.R.7605), enacted 09/22/1959

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PUBLIC LAW 86-369-8EPT. 23, 1969 
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SEC. 4. SAVING PROVISIONS. 
(a) The position of the Assistant General Counsel serving as Chief 
Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service shall continue to exist until 
such time as the Chief Counsel for the Internal Eevenue Service first 
appointed pursuant to the amendment made by section 1 of this Act 
qualifies and takes office, and at such time such position is hereby 
abolished. 
(b) Except as provided in subsection (a), this Act shall not be 
construed to abolish, terminate, or otherwise change, any office or 
position, or the appointment or employment of any officer or employee, 
existing immediately preceding the enactment of this Act, but the 
same shall continue unless and until changed by lawful authority. 
(c) Any delegation of authority made pursuant to Reorganization 
Plan Numbered 26 of 1950 or Reorganization Plan Numbered 1 of 
s^ stat. 128O; 
1952, including any redelegation of authority made pursuant to any 
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such delegation of authority, and in en'ect immediately preceding the "^**-
enactment of this Act shall, notwithstanding the amendment made by 
section 1 of this Act, remain in effect unless distinctly inconsistent or 
manifestly incompatible with such amendment. 
The preceding 
sentence shall not be construed as limiting in any manner the power 
to amend, modify, or revoke any such delegation or redelegation of 
authority. 
Approved September 22, 1959. 
Public Law 86-369 
A N A C T 
September 23, 1959 
For the relief of the State of Oklahoma. 
[H. R. 7605] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money 
in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the State of Oklahoma, 
for the sole use of highway projects of such State, the sum of $652,-
019.71. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all 
claims of the State of Oklahoma against the United States by reason 
of an agreement, made by the United States through the Works Proj-
ects Administration, under a stipulation filed on February 25, 1941, 
in the case of United States versus Phillips and others (civil action 
numbered 351 in the United States District Court for the Northern 
District of Oklahoma), for the Works Projects Administration to 
participate in certain highway projects in the Grand River Dam Res-
ervoir area undertaken by the State Highway Commission of the State 
of Oklahoma and necessitated by reason of the construction of the 
Grand River Dam. The payment provided for herein is in accordance 
with the recommendation of the Court of Claims in its decision dated 
June 3, 1959, in congressional case numbered 10-55, a congressional 
reference case resulting from H. Res. 278, Eighty-fourth Congress, 
first session: Provided, That no part of the amount appropriated in 
this Act shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or at-
torney on account of services rendered in connection with this claim, 
and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary, not-
withstanding. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall 
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall 
be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. 
Approved September 23, 1959.