An Act to provide for the conveyance of certain real property in the District of Columbia to the Association of the Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia
PL 86-216 (H.R.303), enacted 09/01/1959

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PUBLIC LAW 86-215-SEPT. 1, 1959 
[73 ST A T . 
Proposed memo-
rial competition. 
Reports to Pres-
i d e n t and Con-
gress. 
Appropriation. 
69 Stat. 694. 
SEC. 2. The Commission is authorized to hold a competition or 
competitions for the proposed memorial, and to award a suitable 
prize or prizes in connection therewith, but may refuse to employ any 
successful competitor if it deems that his design should not be used. 
The competition for the proposed memorial shall be carried out so as 
to insure that it will be harmonious as to location, design, and land 
use with the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial, and the 
Lincoln Memorial. 
In holding the competition the Commission shall 
avail itself of the assistance and advice of the Commission of Fine 
Arts, of the National Capital Planning Commission, and of the 
National Park Service, and such Commissions and Service shall, upon 
request, render such assistance and advice. 
SEC. 3. The Commission shall report the result of the competition, 
together with its recommendations, to the President and Congress at 
the earliest practicable date. 
SEC. 4. There is authorized to be appropriated not more than 
$150,000 to be expended by the Franklin Delano Koosevelt Memorial 
Commission in organizing the competitions for plans for the design 
of the memorial, as authorized by subsection (c) of section 2 of the 
joint resolution, approved August 11, 1955. 
Approved September 1, 1959. 
September 1, 1959 
[S. 900] 
Public Law 86-215 
AN ACT 
To amend section 204(b) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services 
Act of 1949 to extend the authority of the Administrator of General Services to 
pay direct expenses in connection with the utilization of excess real property 
and related personalty, and for other purposes. 
utilization of ex-
cess property, ex-
penses. 
68 Stat. 1051. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United /States of Ainerica in Congress assembled^ That the second 
sentence of subsection (b) of section 204 of the Federal Property and 
Administrative Services Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 388, as amended; 40 
IT.S.C. 485 (b)) is further amended by deleting the word "dispositions" 
from the second sentence of said subsection (b) and inserting in lieu 
thereof the words "utilization of excess property and the disposal". 
Approved September 1, 1959. 
Public Law 86-216 
September 1. 1959 
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[H. R. 303] 
IJIQ provide for the conveyance of certain real property in the District of Colum-
bia to the Association of the Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia. 
A s s o c i a t i o n of 
the Oldest Inhabi-
tants of the Dis-
trict of Columbia. 
Conveyance. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Board of 
Commissioners of the District of Columbia is authorized and directed 
to convey to the Association of the Oldest Inhabitants of the District 
of Columbia, all right, title, and interest of the District of Columbia 
in and to the real property in the District of Columbia described in 
section 2 of this Act: Provided^ That whenever the said real property 
no longer is occupied by the said association for the purposes of said 
association, all right, title, and interest of the said association in and 
to such property shall revert to the District of Columbia. 
As used in this section, the term "purposes of said association", 
means substantially the purposes of the said association as they were 
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set forth in the constitution and bylaws of the said association as of 
January 1, 1957, and such purposes shall be deemed to include the 
housing and care of such firefighting equipment belonging to the Dis-
trict of Columbia or to said association as was being housed and 
cared for by said association as of January 1, 1956. No conveyance 
pursuant to this Act shall be effective until such time as there shall 
be filed with the Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia a 
certified copy of said constitution and bylaws, and an itemization of 
said firefighting equipment approved by the said Board of Commis-
sioners : Provided^ That the said Board of Commissioners may, with-
out effecting a reverter, withdraw from the custody of said association 
such of the firefighting equipment as is the property of the District 
of Columbia. 
SEC. 2. The property referred to in the first section of this Act is 
part of lot 47 in square 1200 described as follows: 
Beginning for the same at a point on the south line of M Street, 
said point of beginning bein^ 127.50 feet west of the west line of 
Wisconsin Avenue; and running thence east along the south line of 
M Street 38.38 feet to the centerline of the west wall of the premises 
3208 M Street northwest; thence in a southerly direction along the 
centerline of said wall and a continuation thereof 90.0 feet; thence 
in a westerly direction along a line parallel to the south line of M 
Street 38.88 feet, more or less, to a point 127.50 feet west of the west 
line of Wisconsin Avenue; thence in a northerly direction 90.0 feet 
to the point of beginning: all as shown on plat of survey recorded 
in the Office of the Surveyor of the District of Columbia in survey 
book 51, page 66. 
SEC. 3. The conveyance authorized by this Act shall be conditional 
upon the Association of the Oldest Inhabitants of the District of 
Columbia paying to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia 
as consideration for the property conveyed an amount equal to 50 
per centum of its fair market value as determined by the Commis-
sioners after appraisal of such property. 
Approved September 1, 1959. 
Description. 
F a i r 
m a r k e t 
value. 
Public Law 86-217 
AN ACT 
To amend section 7 of "An Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses 
of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 
thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes", approved 
•July 1, 1902, as amended, so as to provide for the bonding of persons licensed 
to engage in a business, trade, profession, or calling involving the collection 
of money for others. 
September 1, 1959 
[H. R. 2;il7] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That paragraph 
numbered 46 of section 7 of the Act entitled "An Act making appro-
priations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District 
of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred 
and three, and for other purposes", approved July 1,1902, as amended 
(sec. 47-2345, D.C. Code, 1951 edition), is amended by adding thereto 
the following subparagraph: 
"(c) The Commissioners may in their discretion require that any 
class or subclass of licensees licensed under the authority of this section 
to engage in a business, trade, profession or calling involving an ex-
press or implied agreement to collect money for others shall give bond 
to safeguard against financial loss those persons with whom such 
class or subclass of licensees may so agree. 
C o l l e c t i o n 
agencies, D, C, 
Licensing, 
47 Stat. 5()3. 
B o n d 
ments. 
require-