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[71 Stat. 290]
PUBLIC LAW 000—MMMM. DD, 1957
[71 Stat. 290]

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PUBLIC LAW 85.96-JULY 10, 1957

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Architect of the Capitol, under the direction of the Senate Office Building Commission, is authorized to enter into contracts and to make such other expenditures, including expenditures for personal and other services, as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. Approved July 10, 1957.

Public Law 85-96 July 10, 1957 [H. J. R e s. 172]

Cotton. Withdrawal from stockpile.

60 Stat. 596. 50 USC 98note.

63 Stat. 1055; 70 Stat. 6. 7 USC 1427.

JOINT RESOLUTION Relating to the stockpile of extra long staple cotton under the Strategic and Critical Materials Stockpiling Act.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, fifty thousand bales of domestically grown extra long staple cotton in the stockpile (including any cotton which does not meet current stockpile specifications) established pursuant to the Strategic and Critical Materials Stockpiling Act, as amended (50 U.S.C. 98), shall be withdrawn and transferred to the Commodity Credit Corporation for sale at not less than the prices at which the Commodity Credit Corporation may sell its stocks under the minimum pricing provision of section 407 of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended. Proceeds from such sale, less costs incurred by Commodity Credit Corporation, including administrative expense, as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts. Approved July 10, 1957.

Public Law 85-97 J"l3

11, 1957 1396]

Wyoming. Public b u i l d ings land grants.

26 Stat. 222.

Effective date.

AN ACT To amend section 6 of the Act approved July 10, 1890 (20 Stat. 222), relatin,ir to the udmission into the Union of the State of Wyominjr by providing for the use of public lands granted to said State for the purpose of construction, reconstruction, repair, renovation, ftirnishing, equipment, or other permanent improvement of puhlic buildings at the capital of said State.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 6 of the Act of July 10, 1890 (26 Stat. 222, 223), providing for the admission into the Union of the State of Wyoming, is amended to read as follows: "'SEC. 6. That fifty sections of the unappropriated public lands within said State, to be selected and located in legal subdivisions as provided in section 4 of this Act, shall be, and are hereby, granted to said State for the purpose of erecting public buildings at the capital of said State, including construction, reconstruction, repair, renovation, furnishing, equipment; and any other permanent improvement of such buildings, and the acquisition of necessary land for such buildings, and the payment of principal and interest on bonds issued for any of the above purposes. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect as of July 10, 1890. Approved July 11, 1957.