An Act to increase the fees of witnesses in the United States courts and before United States commissioners, and for other purposes.
PL 84-875 (H.R.11653), enacted 08/01/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 875-AUG. 1, 1956 
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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-
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turning from the place of attendance: Provided^ That in lieu of the 
mileage allowance provided for herein, witnesses who are required to 
travel between the Territories and possessions, or to and from the con-
tinental United States, shall be entitled to the actual expenses of 
travel at the lowest first-class rate available at the time of reservation 
for passage, by means of transportation employed: Promded 
further^ 
That this section shall not appl}^ to Alaska. 
"When a witness is detained in prison for want of security for his 
appearance, he shall be entitled, in addition to his subsistence, to a 
compensation of $1 per day." 
Approved August 1, 1956. 
Public Law 876 
CHAPTER 827 
AN ACT 
To amend section 104, title 4, United States Code. 
August 1, 195(> 
[H. R. 11254] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 104 of 
title 4, United States Code, is hereby amended by adding at the end 
thereof the following new subsection, to be designated subsection (c) 
and to read as follows: 
"(c) As used in this section, the term 'Territory' shall include 
Guam." 
Approved August 1, 1956. 
T a x on m ot o r 
fuel, 
61 Stat. 641. 
Public Law 877 
CHAPTER 828 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to execute a contract with the Tule 
Lake Irrigation District, California, and for other purposes. 
August 1,1956 
[H. R. 12034] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That the Secretary 
of the Interior is authorized to execute, on behalf of the United States, 
a repayment contract with the Tule Lake Irrigation District, Cali-
fornia, substantially in the form in which said contract was negotiated 
pursuant to section 7 of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 
1187, 1192, 43 U. S. C , sec. 485f) and approved at an election of the 
district held on July 2,1956. 
SEC. 2. In aid of the administration of said contract and for other 
purposes— 
(a) credits may be given and payments made to the Tule Lake 
Irrigation District and the Klamath Irrigation District in accord-
ance with said contract without further appropriation but, not-
withstanding any other provision of the Federal reclamation laws 
(Act of June 17,1902 (32 Stat. 388), and Acts amendatory thereof 
or supplementary thereto), said credits and payments shall be the 
only credits given or payments made to the Tule Lake Irrigation 
District. 
(b) repayment of those portions of the costs of the works of 
the Klamath project heretofore or hereafter constructed serving 
lands within the boundaries of the Tule Lake Irrigation District 
which are allocated by the Secretary to said lands shall be ac-
counted for by application of the construction charge payments 
required to be made under the aforesaid contract and, to the ex-
tent to which the payments so required do not account in full for 
Tule Lake Irriga-
t l o n 
D i s t r i c t , 
Calif. 
43 u s e ch. 12.