An Act to amend chapter 3 of title 18, United States Code, relating to animals, birds, and fish.
PL 84-874 (H.R.11636), enacted 08/01/1956

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ing to or in use by the Corporation and necessary to facilitate the audit 
shall be made available to the person or persons conducting the audit; 
and full facilities for verifying transactions with the balances or secu-
rities held by depositors, fiscal agents, and custodians shall be afforded 
to such person or persons. 
(b) A report of such audit shall be made by the Corporation to the 
Congress not later than May 15 of each year. The report shall set 
forth the scope of the audit and shall include a verification by the 
person or persons conducting the audit of statements of (1) assets and 
liabilities, (2) capital and surplus or deficit, (3) surplus or deficit 
analysis, (4) income and expense, and (5) sources and application of 
funds. 
Such reports shall not be printed as public documents. 
SEC. 15. Upon final dissolution or liquidation of the Corporation and 
after the discharge or satisfaction of all outstanding obligations and 
liabilities, the remaining assets of the Corporation shall be used by 
the board of directors for the purposes stated in section 3 above or be 
be transferred to some recognized educational foundation. 
SEC. 16. The Corporation shall have the sole and exclusive right to 
use the name of National Music Council as representing such Corpora-
tion and such seals, emblems, and badges as the Corporation may 
lawfully adopt. 
SEC. IT. A S a condition precedent to the exercise of any power or 
privilege granted to the Corporation under this Act, the Corporation 
shall file in the office of the Secretary of State, or in the office of another 
appropriate officer, in each State and in each Territory or possession 
of the United States in which the Corporation is doing business, the 
name and post office address of an authorized agent in such State, 
Territory, or possession upon whom legal process or demand against 
the Corporation may be served. 
SEC. 18. The Corporation may acquire the assets of National Music 
Council, Incorporated, a corporation organized under the laws of the 
State of New York, upon discharging or satisfactorily providing for 
the payment and discharge of all the liabilities of such corporation, 
and upon complying with all laws of the State of New York applicable 
thereto. 
SEC, 19. The provisions of this Act shall take effect on the filing in 
the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court in and for 
the Southern District of New York of affidavits signed by five of the 
incorporators named in the first section of this Act to the effect that 
National Music Council, Incorporated, referred to in section 18 of this 
Act, has been dissolved in accordance with the laws of the State of 
New York, but only if such affidavits are filed within three years after 
the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 20. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby 
expressly reserved. 
Approved August 1, 1956. 
L i q u i datiori of 
Corporation. 
Name; seals. 
Filing of names 
and addresses. 
A s s e t s of Na-
tional Music Coun-
cil, Inc., acquisi-
tion. 
Effective date. 
R e s e r vatlon of 
rights. 
Public Law 874 
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August 1, 1956 
To amend chapter 3 of title 18, United States Code, relating to animals, birds, 
[H. R. 11636] 
and fish. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That chapter 3 of codilamendmentf! 
title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding the following sec- 
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tion: 
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"§ 46. Transportation of water hyacinths. 
"(a) Whoever knowingly delivers or receives for transportation, or 
transports, in interstate commerce, alligator grass (alternanthera 
philoxeroides), or water chestnut plants (trapa natans) or water 
hyacinth plants (eichhornia crassipes) or the seeds of such grass or 
plants; or 
"(b) Whoever knowingly sells, purchases, barters, exchanges, gives, 
or receives any grass, plant, or seed which has been transported in 
violation of subsection (a); or 
"(c) Whoever knowingly delivers or receives for transportation, 
or transports, in interstate commerce, an advertisement, to sell, pur-
chase, barter, exchange, give, or receive alligator grass or water chest-
nut plants or water hyacinth plants or the seeds of such grass or 
plants— 
"Shall be fined not more than $500, or imprisoned not more than 
six months, or both. 
"SEC. 2. (a) The analysis of part I of title 18, United States Code, 
is amended by striking out 
" 'Chapter 3. Animals, birds, and fish' 
and inserting in lieu thereof 
" 'Chapter 3. Animals, birds, fish, and plants'. 
"(b) The analysis of chapter 3 of title 18 is amended by striking out 
the heading 
" 'CHAPTER 3. ANIMALS, BIRDS, AND FISH' 
and inserting in lieu thereof 
" 'CHAPTER 3. ANIMALS, BIRDS, FISH, AND PLANTS'; 
and by adding the following: 
" '46. Transportation of water hyacinths.' " 
Approved August 1, 1956. 
Public Law 875 
CHAPTER 826 
August 1, 1956 
[H. R. 11653] 
Witness fees. 
62 Stat. 950. 
AN ACT 
To increase the fees of witnesses in the United States courts and before United 
States commissioners, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 1821 of 
title 28, United States Code, is hereby amended to read as follows: 
"§ 1821. Per diem and mileage generally; subsistence 
"A witness attending in any court of the United States, or before 
a United States commissioner, or before any person authorized to take 
his deposition pursuant to any rule or order of a court of the United 
States, shall receive $4 for each day's attendance and for the time 
necessarily occupied in going to and returning from the same, and 8 
cents per mile for going from and returning to his place of residence. 
Regardless of the mode of travel employed by the witness, computation 
of mileage under this section shall be made on the basis of a uniform 
table of distances adopted by the Attorney General. Witnesses who 
are not salaried employees of the Government and who are not in 
custody and who attend at points so far removed from their respective 
residence as to prohibit return thereto from day to day shall be en-
titled to an additional allowance of $8 per day for expenses of sub-
sistence including the time necessarily occupied in going to and re-