An Act to amend the copyright law to permit, in certain classes of works, the deposit of photographs or other identifying reproductions in lieu of copies of published works
PL 84-452 (H.R.5876), enacted 03/29/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 452-MAR. 29, 1966 
Secretary of the Interior, to execute a mortgage or deed of trust to 
such huid. 
Such land sliall be subject to foreclosure or sale pursuant 
to the terms of such mortgage or deed of trust in accordance with 
the laws of the Stiite or Territory in which the land is located. 
For 
the purpose of any foreclosure or sale proceeding the Indian owners 
shall be regarded as vested with an unrestricted fee simple title to the 
land, the United States shall not be a necessary party to the proceed-
ing, and any conveyance of the land pursuant to the proceeding shall 
divest the TTnited States of title to the land. 
All mortgages and 
deeds of trust to such land heretofore approved by the Secietary of 
the Interior are ratified and confirmed. 
Approved March 29, 1956. 
Public Law 451 
CHAPTERIOS 
AN ACT 
To repeal the requirement for heads of departments and afiencies to report to 
the Postmaster General the number of penalty envelopes and wrappers on 
hand at the close of each fiscal year. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 301 of 
the Penalty Mail Act of 1948, as amended (62 Stat. 1048; 39 U. S. C , 
sec. 321i), is hereby amended by striking out the second sentence 
thereof. 
Approved March 29, 1956. 
March 29, 1956 
[H. R. 5856] 
Penalty mail. 
Public Law 452 
CHAPTER 109 
AN ACT 
To amend the copyright law to permit, in certain classes of works, the deposit of 
photographs or other identifying reproductions in lieu of copies of published 
works. 
March 29, 1956 
[H. R. 5876] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Reptei^cntatires 
of the 
United States of Ameiica in Congress assemhled. That section 13 of 
copyrights, 
title 17, L^nited States Code, is amended to read as follows: 
6i stat. 656. 
"§ 13. Deposit of copies after publication; action or proceeding for 
infringement 
"After copyright has been secured by publication of the work with 
the notice of copyright as provided in section 10 of this title, there 
shall be promptly deposited in the Copyright Office or in the mail 
addressed to the Kegister of Copyrights, Washington, District of 
Columbia, two complete copies of the best edition thereof then pub-
lished, or if the work is by an author who is a citizen or subject of 
a foreign state or nation and lias been published in a foreign coun-
try, one complete co])y of the best edition then published in such 
foreign country, which copies or copy, if the work be a book or peri-
odical, shall have been produced in accordance with the manufacturing 
provisions specified in section 16 of this title; or if such work be a 
contribution to a ])eriodical. for which contribution special registra-
tion is requested, one co])y of the issue or issues containing such con-
tribution; or if the work belongs to a class specified in subsections (g), 
(h), (i) or (k) of section 5 of this title, and if the Register of Copy-
rights determines that it is impracticable to deposit copies because of 
their size, weight, fragility, or monetary value he may permit the 
deposit of photographs or other identifying reproductions in lieu of 
61 Stat. 657. 
61 Stat. 654. 
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61 Stat. 656. 
copies of the work as published under such rules and regulations as 
he may prescribe with the a])proval of the Librarian of Congress; 
or if the work is not reproduced in copies for sale there shall be 
deposited the copy, print, photograph, or other identifying repro-
duction provided by section 12 of this title, such copies or copy, print, 
photogi-aph, or other reproduction to be accompanied in each case by 
a claim of copyright. 
No action or proceeding shall be maintained 
for infringement of copyright in any work until the provisions of 
this title with respect to the deposit of copies and registration of such 
work shall have been complied with." 
Approved March 29, 1956. 
March 29. 1956 
[H. R. 6022] 
Public Law 453 
CHAPTER 110 
AN ACT 
To provide for the relocation of the Trenton Massacre Canyon Monument 
presently located near Trenton, Nebraska. 
Trenton 
Massa-
cre Canyon Monu-
ment, Nebr. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of the Interior shall relocate the Trenton Massacre Canyon Monument 
near Trenton, Nebraska, to a site near United States Highway Num-
bered 34 to be selected by the Chamber of Commerce of Trenton, 
Nebraska. 
SEC. 2. This Act shall not be construed to authorize the Secretary of 
the Interior to acquire real property. 
Approved March 29, 1956. 
March 29, 1956 
[H. R. 6112] 
Public Law 454 
CHAPTER 111 
AN ACT 
To authorize the construction of a sewage-disposal system to serve the Yorktown 
area of the Colonial National Historical Park, Virginia, and for other 
purposes. 
Yorktown 
a r e a , 
'Va. 
Sewage-disposal 
system. 
Appropriation. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purj30se 
of modernizing the sanitary facilities in the Yorktown area of 
Colonial National Historical Park, and in anticipation of the in-
creased need for such facilities in connection with the Jamestown-
Williamsburg-Yorktown celebration to be held in 1957, the Secretary 
of the Interior is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain, in 
such manner as he shall consider to be in the public interest, a sewage-
disposal system to serve Federal and non-Federal properties in the 
said Yorktown area: Provided, That non-Federal users of the system 
shall be charged rates sufficient to recover a pro rata share of deprecia-
tion and costs of operation and maintenance of the system. 
Funds 
obtained from such non-Federal users of the system shall be deposited 
in the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts, with 
the exception that the Secretary may consider as appropriation reim-
bursements, to be credited to the appropriation current at the time 
received, such amount of the aforesaid collections as may be necessary 
to reimburse, on a pro rata basis, appropriated operating funds 
expended for maintenance and operation costs of the system. 
SEC. 2. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for the con-
struction of these facilities the sum of not to exceed $250,000. 
Approved March 29, 1956.