Joint resolution approving the relinquishments of the consular jurisdiction of the United States in Morocco
PL 84-856 (S.J.Res.165), enacted 08/01/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 856-AUG. 1, 1956 
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CHAPTEE X 
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS AND SUITS 
For the payment of claims in excess of $250, approved by the Com-
missioners in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Februarv 
11,1929, as amended (45 Stat. 1160; 46 Stat. 500; 65 Stat. 131), $10,000. to^'i'iosf 
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DIVISION OF EXPENSES 
The sum appropriated in this Act for the District of Columbia shall 
be paid out of the general fund of the District of Columbia, as defined 
in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for fiscal year 1957. 
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CHAPTEE X I 
LEGISLATIVE 
BEANCH 
HOUSE OF EEPRESENTATIVES 
CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE HOUSE 
Joint Committee on Internal Eevenue Taxation: For an additional 
amount for the Joint Committee on Internal Eevenue Taxation, 
$50,000. 
CHAPTEE X I I 
CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES, AUDITED CLAIMS, AND JUDGMENTS 
For payment of claims for damages as settled and determined by 
departments and agencies in accord with law, audited claims certified 
to be due by the General Accounting Office, and judgments rendered 
against the United States by United States district courts and the 
United States Court of Claims, as set forth in Senate Document Num-
bered 143, Eighty-fourth Congress, $1,312,538, together with such 
amounts as may be necessary to pay interest (as and when specified in 
such judgments or in certain of the settlements of the General Account-
ing Office or provided by law) and such additional sums due to in-
creases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in for-
eign currency: Provided, That no judgment herein appropriated for 
shall be paid until it shall have become final and conclusive against the 
United States by failure of the parties to appeal or otherwise: Pro-
vided further, That, unless otherwise specifically required by law or 
by the judgment, payment of interest wherever appropriated for herein 
shall not continue for more than thirty days after the date of approval 
of this Act. 
Approved July 31, 1956. 
Public Law 856 
CHAPTER 807 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
August I. 1956 
Approving the relinquishments of the consular jurisdiction of the United States 
[s. j . Res. 16;>] 
in Morocco. 
Whereas the laws of the United States invest the ministers and consuls 
of the United States in certain countries, including Morocco, with 
judicial authority so far as the exercise of the same is allowed by 
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PUBLIC LAW 8 57-AUG. 1, 1956 
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8 Stat. 484. 
34 Stat. 2905. 
Rel inquishment 
of consular juris-
diction in 
CO. 
Moroc-
22 u s e 141-183. 
treaty with such countries and in accordance with usage in such 
countries; and 
Whereas the consuls of the United States in Morocco are permitted 
to exercise jurisdiction over American nationals under the treaty 
between the United States and Morocco signed September 16, 1836, 
and the Act of Algeciras signed April 7, 1906; and the exercise by 
custom and usage the same jurisdiction over subjects of Morocco or 
others who may be designated as "proteges" under the Convention 
of Madrid signed July 3, 1880; and 
Whereas Morocco is now the only foreign country where the consuls 
of the United States exercise such jurisdiction; and 
Whereas it is the policy of the United States to discontinue the exercise 
of extraterritorial jurisdiction in Morocco at such time as it becomes 
appropriate: Therefore be it 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That the relinquishment by 
the President, at such time as he considers this appropriate, of the con-
sular jurisdiction of the United States in Morocco is hereby approved 
and sections 1693, 4083 to 4091, inclusive, 4097 to 4122, inclusive, and 
4125 to 4130, inclusive, of the Revised Statutes, as amended, are re-
pealed eifective upon- the date which the President determines to be 
appropriate for the relinquishment of such jurisdiction, except so far 
as may be necessary to dispose of cases then pending in the consular 
courts in Morocco. 
Approved August 1, 1956. 
August 1, 1956 
[S. 3658] 
Public Law 857 
CHAPTER 808 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act of May 11, 1938 (52 Stat. 347), so as to authorize, by agree-
ment, the subsurface storage of oil or gas in restricted Indian lands, tribal 
or allotted. 
Indian lands. 
Subsurface stor-
age of oil or gas. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of AineHca in Congress assembled, That the Act of May 
11, 1938 (52 Stat. 347), is amended by adding at the end thereof (25 
U. S. C. 396d) a new section 8 as follows: 
"The Secretary of the Interior, to avoid waste or to promote the 
conservation of natural resources or the welfare of the Indians, is 
hereby authorized in his discretion to approve leases of lands that are 
subject to lease under section 1 of this Act or the Act of March 3,1909 
(35 Stat. 783, 25 U. S. V. 396), for the subsurface storage of oil and 
gas, irrespective of the lands from which initially produced, and the 
Secretary is hereby authorized, in order to provide for the subsurface 
storage of oil or gas, to approve modifications, amendments, or exten-
sions of the oil and gas or other mining lease (s), if any, in effect as 
to restricted Indian lands, tribal or allotted, and may promulgate rules 
and regulations consistent with such leases, modifications, amendments, 
and extensions, relating to the storage of oil or gas thereunder. Any 
such leases may provide for the payment of a storage fee or rental 
on such stored oil or gas or, in lieu of such fee or rental, for a royalty 
other than that prescribed in the lease when such stored oil or gas is 
produced in conjunction with oil or gas not previously produced. 
It 
may be provided that any oil and gas lease under which storage of oil 
or ^as IS so authorized shall be continued in effect at least for the 
period of such storage use and so long thereafter as oil or gas not 
previously produced is produced in paying quantities." 
Approved August 1, 1956.