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transfer, or the changing of the direction of any charitable trust involved in such action." SEC. 2. Such Act is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: "SEC. 7. The Administrator, upon application of any private agency )articipating under the provisions of this Act, with respect to any ien or encumbrance of the United States created prior to June 28, 1941, under authority of the Act of March 3, 1893 (27 Stat. 552; title 32, D. C. Code, 1950 edition, sec. 1003), or similar statutory provision including but not limited to the Act of February 25, 1885 (23 Stat. 310), the Act of March 2, 1889 (25 Stat. 807), the Act of March 4, 1907 (34 Stat. 1295, 1350), and the Act of July 28, 1866 (14 Stat. 310, 317), as amended and supplemented, existing upon or against any lands acquired or buildings or improvements constructed thereon, with moneys in whole or in part appropriated or expended under authority of any Act of Congress, which lands and improvements are now held by any nonprofit private hospital agencies operating hospital facilities in the District of Columbia and participating in the District of Columbia Hospital program under the provisions of this Act, and which are determined by the Administrator to be no longer required for hospital purposes, shall equitably determine the amount to which the United States would be entitled to reimbursement in the event of the dissolution of any such private agency or in the event of the disposal of such property by any such private agency, by ascertaining as near as may be practicable the proportionate amount which any such lien bears to any other contribution or fund used for such purposes; and the lien in the amount so determined, upon acceptance by any such agency, shall be transferred from and in discharge of the old hospital site to and become a lien against the land upon which the new hospital facilities have been constructed or otherwise provided for any such private agency under the provisions of this Act, as amended: Provided, That any such lien so transferred shall be consolidated with the lien created upon the acceptance of any grant of funds from the Administrator of General Services Administration under authority of this Act, as amended and the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1893 (27 Stat. 552), and shall be subordinate to any deed of trust, mortgage, or other security or encumbrance on such property then existing, or hereafter created for the purpose of providing new or additional hospital facilities." Approved September 4, 1957.

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Public Law 85-286 AN ACT

September 4, 1957

To further amend the Reorganization Act of 1949, as amended, so that such Act will apply to reorganization plans transmitted to the Congress at any time before June 1, 1959.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection AC^ of°1949?im°end^ (b) of section 5 of the Eeorganization Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 205; ments. 5 U.S.C. 133 z-3), as last amended by the Act of March 25, 1955 (69 Stat. 14), is hereby further amended by striking out "June 1, 1957" and inserting in lieu thereof "June 1, 1959". SEC. 2. Subsection (a) of section 6 of the Reorganization Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 205; 5 U.S.C. 133 z-4) is amended by striking out ", by the affirmative vote of a majority of the authorized membership of that House,". Approved September 4, 1957.