indian Adult Vocational Training Act (PL 84-959)

PUBLIC L A W 959-bAUG. 3, 1956
shall be paid, as a tentative aclvance only, 7'5 per centum of the
amount so determined and shall be elltitleti to sue the United States
to recover such amount as ~voulclequal just compensation therefor,
in the mailner provided for b section 24, paragraph 20, and section
145 of the Judicial Code (U. C., 1946 edition, title 28, sees. 41 (80)
and 250) : Prmided, however, That in the event of an election to
reject the amount determined by the Con~mission and to sue in
the courts, the excess of ally amounts advanced on account of just
compensation over the amolint of the court judgment will be required
to be refunded."
SEC.4. All war-risk insurance issued under title XI1 of the
Merchant Marine Act, 1936, which is in force on the date of the enactment of this Act shall, as of the beginning of such date, be deemed
to have been amended to conform to the requirements of section 1209
of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended by this Act unless
the insured, within ten days after such date, objects to such
amendment.
SEC.5. The first sentence of section 1206 of the Merchant Marine
Act, 1936, as amended (46 U. S. C. 1286), is amended by striking out
the words "during any time the United States is at war or during
any period of emergency declnrecl to exist by the President of the
United States."
Approved August 3, 1956.

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Public Law 959
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Indians
Vocational training.

Appropriation.

CHAPTER

930

AN ACT
Relative to employment for certain adult Indians on or near Indian reservations.

B e it enacted b y the S m a t e and H o m e of Representatives of the
United States of AmerGca in Congress assembled, That in order to
help adult Indians who reside on or near Indian reservations to
obtain reasonable and satisfactory employment, the Secretary of the
Interior is authorized to undertake a program of vocational training
that provides for vocational counseling or guidance, institutional
training in any recognized vocation or trade, apprenticeship, and on
the job training, for periods that do not exceed twenty-four months,
transportation to the place of training, and subsistence during the
course of training. The program shall be available primarily to
Indians who are not less than eighteen and not more than thirty-five
years of age and who reside on or near an Indian reservation, and the
program shall be conducted under such rules and regulations as the
Secretary may prescribe. For the purposes of t h ~ sprogram the
Secretary is authorized to enter into contracts or agreements with any
Federal, State, or local governmental agency, or with any private
school which has a recognized reputation in the field of vocational
education and has successfully obtained employment for its graduates
in their respective fields of training, or with any corporation or association which has an existing apprenticeship or on-the-job training
program which is recognized by industry and labor as leading to
skilled employment.
SEC.2. There is authorized to be appropriated for the purposes
of this Act the sum of $3,500,000 for each fiscal year, and not to
exceed $500,000 of such sum shall be available for administrative
pur oses.
&proved August 3, 1956.