STATUTES AT LARGE
CONTAINING THE
LAWS AND CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS
ENACTED DURING THE FIRST SESSION OF THE
SEVENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
1937
AND
TREATIES, INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER
THAN TREATIES, AND PROCLAMATIONS
COMPILED, EDITED, AND INDEXED BY AUTHORITY OF CONGRESS
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
V
IN TWO PARTS
P
PUBLIC LAWS
UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON: 1937
For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C. ＿ ＿ ＿ ＿ ＿ Price $5.00 (Buckram)
The original of every act and joint resolution printed in this volume has the following heading:
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, the fifth day of January,
one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven.
All bills and joint resolutions presented to the President of the United States bear the signatures of the Speaker (or of the Speaker pro tempore) of the House of Representatives and of the Vice President and President of the Senate (or of the President of the Senate pro tempore); those signatures accordingly appear on the originals of all acts and joint resolutions.
The signature of the President of the United States appears on the originals of all approved acts and joint resolutions.
The original of every act and joint resolution has endorsed thereon a certificate of origin, signed, as the case may be, by the Clerk of the House of Representatives or by the Secretary of the Senate and reading “I certify that this Act (or Joint Resolution) originated in the House of Representatives (or Senate).” The origin of each act and resolution contained in this volume is indicated in the margin at the beginning of each enactment; thus, for example, H. R. 1545 or H. J. Res. 81 indicates origin in the House of Representatives; and S. 416 or S. J. Res. 3 indicates origin in the Senate.
PUBLIC LAWS
enacted during the
FIRST SESSION OF THE SEVENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
That during the existence Exportation of arms and war Implements to Spain; prohibition during present civil strife. Arms, etc., defined.
Licenses heretofore issued under existing law for the exportation Existing licenses.
Whoever in violation of any of the provisions of this Resolution Penalty for violation.
When in the judgment of the President the conditions described Termination of provisions.
Inaugural ceremonies, 1937.
Temporary quartering of troops in public buildings during, authorized.
Inaugural admission tickets.
Payments for, exempt from admissions tax.
[S. 416]
Gold Reserve Act of 1934, amendments.
Stabilization fund.
Duration of emergency powers of President concerning, extended.
Fixing weight of gold dollar.
Specified powers defined.
Expiration.
[S. 415]
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Authority to function continued.
Liquidation, etc., postponed.
Proviso.
Temporary suspension of lending authority.
Designated agencies continued.
Post, pp. 347, 348.
Incurring obligations after June 30, 1937.
Loans to farmers for crop production, etc., during 1937.
Conditions prescribed.
Applicant unable to procure elsewhere.
Security.
Maximum amount.
Proviso.
Distressed emergency areas.
interest rate.
Proceeds of loans impressed with a trust.
Recording. etc., fees.
Fees for releasing liens, etc.
Officers and employees authorized; pay, duties, etc.
Use of designated agencies, facilities, etc.
Other facilities and services.
Payment therefor.
Unlawful acts.
False representation, etc.
Fee for preparing application.
Penalty for violation.
Appropriation authorized.
Post, p. 11.
Use of designated moneys for loans and expenses.
Printing and binding.
Joint Committee on Government Organization, establishment.
Composition and appointment.
Duties.
Investigations.
Reports and recommendations.
Hearings.
Subpenas.
Expenses.
Post, p. 9.
Officers, experts, and employees.
Details from Government offices; compensation.
First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937.
[S. 1439]
That there is hereby Disaster Loan Corporation; establishment, capital stock, etc. Subscription by Reconstruction Finance Corporation. 15 U. S. C., Supp. II, § 605k. Management.
Such Disaster Loan Corporation shall be empowered to make, upon Loans authorized for flood, etc., relief Post, p. 211.
The Disaster Loan Corporation shall have succession until dissolved Corporate powers.
Greater Texas and Pan American Exposition.
President authorized to invite certain countries to participate.
Post, p. 58.
Federal Housing
Administration.
Guaranty of debentures of, extended.
[S. 974]
Capital Auditorium Commission; creation, composition, etc.
That there is hereby created a Commission to consist of the chairman and the ranking minority member of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the House of Representatives, the chairman and the ranking minority member of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the Senate, and the Secretary of the Interior, said Commission Authority to investigate sites.
Ascertainment of cost of site and construction thereon. Report to Congress.
[S. 466]
White River.
Barry County, Mo., may bridge, at Eagle Rock.
Construction.
Amendment.
[S. 715]
Delaware River.
Time extended for bridging, at Trenton, N. J.
Proviso.
Resubmission of plans.
Amendment.
That the President is hereby Health and sanitation, flood-stricken areas. Funds authorized for designated activities in. 49 Stat. 1608; Ante, p. 10. Grants to States. Services in the District of Columbia. Reimbursement for emergency expenditures. Supplies and equipment.
The allocations made by authority of this joint resolution shall Allocations not exclusive.
International Exposition of Paris, 1937.
Additional authority for housing, etc., U. S. exhibits.
Contracts, etc.
Transportation of material, etc.
Personal services.
Effective date.
Functions and authority.
Expenditures, accounts, etc.
Antideficiency provision.
Appropriation.
Availability.
Return of exhibits, etc., at close.
Disposition of unused property, etc.
Certain tax levies upon carriers and their employees extended.
[S. 417]
Federal Reserve Act, amendment.
“Any Federal Reserve bank may make application to the local Federal Reserve notes: issue to Federal Reserve bank. Provisos. Time extended during which direct obligations may be used as collateral security. Retirement of, on expiration. Security. Daily notices of withdrawals, etc. Additional security.
Justices of the Supreme Court.
Retirement provisions.
Appointment of successors.
Recall to service.
Foreign-trade agreements.
Authority of President to enter into, extended.
Postal Service.
Award of star-route contracts deferred.
[S. 62]
Missouri River.
Time extended for bridging, at Atchison, Kans.
Amendment.
[S. 1128]
Office of Naval Records and Library, Navy Department.
Acceptance of gifts, etc., authorized.
Deposits of money as trust funds.
Tax exemption.
Investments of trust funds.
Interest.
[S. 1130]
That the Secretary San Diego, Calif. Exchange of certain lands authorized. Tract ceded by city.
Lands transferred to city.
[S. 206]
Snake River.
Survey of, and tributaries, directed for controlling floods.
Fishing Industry products.
Purchase and distribution of, authorized.
Postp. 61.
Time limitation on acquisition.
proviso.
Extension on distribution permitted.
Columbia River.
Time extended for bridging, at The Dalles. Oreg.
Amendment.
Coosa River.
Alabama, etc., may bridge, at Gilberts Ferry.
Construction.
Amendment.
Savannah River.
Time extended for bridging, at Lincolnton, Ga.
Amendment.
Missouri River.
Time extended for bridging, at Brownville, Nebr.
Amendment.
Turtle Bay and Turtle Bayou in Chambers County, Tex., declared non-navigable.
Turtle Bayou, Tex., improvement abandoned.
Amendment.
Tax on unjust enrichment.
Extensions of time for filing returns.
26 U. S. C., Supp. II, §§ 345–345e.
Proviso.
Limitation.
Technical Tripartite Textile Conference.
Appropriation for aid to international Labor Office incident to expenses of.
Proviso.
Allocations.
Contracts without advertising.
[S. 936]
District of Columbia Uniform Sales Act.
Effective date.
Formation of the contract.
Contracts to sell and sales.
Term defined.
Types.
Between one part owner and another.
Capacity.
Capacity to buy and sell is regulated by the general law concerning capacity to contract, and to transfer and acquire property.
Liability for necessaries.
“Necessaries” defined.
Formalities of the contract.
Form of contract or sale.
Statute of frauds.
Scope.
Acceptance of goods.
Subject matter of contract.
Existing and future goods.
Undivided shares.
Fungible goods.
Destruction of goods sold.
Destruction of goods contracted to be sold.
The price.
Definition and ascertainment.
Payment in personal property.
Transfer of interest in real estate.
If price is not determined.
Sale at a valuation.
Where third person prevented from fixing price, etc.
Post, pp. 41, 44.
Conditions and warranties.
Effect of.
Express warranty defined.
Implied warranties of title.
Implied warranty in sale by description.
Implied warranties of quality.
Sale by sample.
Implied warranties.
Part II.
Transfer of property as between seller and buyer.
No property passes until goods are ascertained.
Property in specific goods passes when parties so intend.
Rules for ascertaining intention.
Reservation of right of possession or property when goods are shipped.
Sale by auction.
Risk of loss.
Transfer of title.
Sale by other than owner.
Provisions not affected.
Sale by one having a voidable title.
Sale by seller in possession of goods already sold.
Creditors’ rights against sold goods in seller’s possession.
Definition of negotiable documents of title.
Negotiation of negotiable documents by delivery.
Where by the terms of the document the carrier, warehouseman, or other bailee issuing the same, undertakes to deliver the goods to the order of a specified person, and such person or a subsequent endorsee of the document has endorsed it in blank or to the bearer.
Where by the terms of a negotiable document of title the goods are deliverable to bearer or where a negotiable document of title has been endorsed in blank or to bearer, any holder may endorse the same to himself or to any specified person, and in such case the document shall thereafter be negotiated only by the endorsement of such endorsee.
By endorsement.
Negotiable documents of title marked “Not negotiable.”
Transfer or nonnegotiable documents.
Who may negotiate a document.
Rights of person to whom document has been negotiated.
Rights of person to whom document has been transferred.
A person to whom a document of title has been transferred, but not negotiated, acquires thereby, as against the transferor, the title to the goods, subject to the terms of any agreement with the transferor.
If the document is nonnegotiable, such person also acquires the right to notify the bailee who issued the document of the transfer thereof, and thereby to acquire the direct obligation of such bailee to hold possession of the goods for him according to the terms of the document.
Prior to the notification of such bailee by the transferor or transferee of a nonnegotiable document of title, the title of the transferee to the goods and the right to acquire the obligation of such bailee may be defeated by the levy of an attachment or execution upon the goods by a creditor of the transferor, or by a notification to such bailee by the transferor or a subsequent purchaser from the transferor of a subsequent sale of the goods by the transferor.
Transfer of negotiable document without endorsement.
Warranties on sale of document.
Endorser not a guarantor.
When negotiation not impaired by fraud, etc.
Attachment or levy upon goods for which a negotiable document bas been issued.
Creditors’ remedies to reach negotiable documents.
Part III.
Performance at the contract.
Seller must deliver and buyer accept goods.
Delivery and payment are concurrent conditions.
Place, time, and manner of delivery.
Delivery of wrong quantity.
Delivery in installments.
Delivery to a carrier on behalf of the buyer.
Right to examine the goods.
What constitutes acceptance.
Acceptance does not bar action for damages.
Buyer is not bound to return goods wrongly delivered.
Buyer’s liability for failing to accept delivery.
Part IV.
Rights of unpaid seller against the goods.
Definition of unpaid seller.
Remedies.
Unpaid seller’s lien.
When right of lien may be exercised.
Lien after part delivery.
When lien is lost.
Stoppage in transit.
Seller may stop goods on buyer’s insolvency.
When goods are in transit.
When no longer in transit.
Delivery to chartered ship.
Part delivery.
Ways of exercising right to stop.
Resale by seller.
When and how resale may be made.
Rescission by seller.
When and how seller may rescind the sale.
Notice, etc., of intention to rescind.
Effect of sale of goods subject to lien or stoppage in transitu.
Subject to the provisions of this Act, the unpaid seller’s right of lien or stoppage in transitu is not affected by any sale, or other disposition of the goods which the buyer may have made, unless the seller has assented thereto.
If, however, a negotiable document of title has been issued for goods, no seller’s lien or right of stoppage in transitu shall defeat the right of any purchaser for value in good faith to whom such document has been negotiated, whether such negotiations be prior or subsequent to the notification to the carrier, or other bailee who issued such document, of the seller’s claim to a lien or right of stoppage in transitu.
Part V.
Action for breach of the contract; remedies of the seller.
Action for the price.
Action for damages for nonacceptance of the goods.
When seller may rescind contract or sale.
Remedies of the buyer.
Action for converting or detaining goods.
Action tor failing to deliver goods.
Specific performance.
Remedies for breach of warranty.
Ante, p. 41.
Interest and special damages.
Part VI.
Interpretation.
Variation of implied obligations.
Rights may be enforced by action.
Rule for cases not herein provided for.
Interpretation, effect.
Provisions not applicable to mortgages.
In this Act, unless the context or subject Definitions.
“Action” includes counterclaim, set-off, and suit in equity.
“Buyer” means a person who buys or agrees to buy goods or any legal successor in interest of such person.
“Defendant” includes a plaintiff against whom a right of set-off or counterclaim is asserted.
“Delivery” means voluntary transfer of possession from one person to another.
“Divisible contract to sell or sale” means a contract to sell or a sale in which by its term the price for a portion or portions of the goods less than the whole is fixed or ascertainable by computation.
“Document of title to goods” includes any bill of lading, dock warrant, warehouse receipt or order for the delivery of goods, or any other document used in the ordinary course of business in the sale or transfer of goods, as proof of the possession or control of the foods, or authorizing or purporting to authorize the possessor of the document to transfer or receive, either by endorsement or by delivery, goods represented by such document.
“Fault” means wrongful act or default.
“Fungible goods” means goods of which any unit is from its nature or by mercantile usage treated as the equivalent of any other unit.
“Future goods” means goods to be manufactured or acquired by the seller after the making of the contract of sale.
“Goods” include all chattels personal other than things in action and money. The term includes emblements, industrial growing crops, and things attached to or forming part of the land which are agreed to be severed before sale or under the contract of sale.
“Order” in sections of this Act relating to documents of title means an order by endorsement on the documents.
“Person” includes a corporation or partnership or two or more persons having a joint or common interest.
“Plaintiff” includes defendant asserting a right of set-off or counterclaim.
“Property” means the general property in goods, and not merely a special property.
“Purchaser” includes mortgagee and pledgee.
“Purchases” includes taking as a mortgagee or as a pledgee.
“Quality of goods” includes their state or condition.
“Sale” includes a bargain and sale as well as a sale and delivery.
“Seller” means a person who sells or agrees to sell goods, or any legal successor in the interest of such person.
“Specific goods” means goods identified and agreed upon at the time a contract to sell or a sale is made.
“Value” is any consideration sufficient to support a simple contract. An antecedent or preexisting claim, whether for money or not, constitutes value where goods or documents of titles are taken either in satisfaction thereof or as security therefor.
Act not applicable to existing sales or contracts to sell.
Inconsistent legislation repealed.
Effective date.
Name of Act.
[S. 361]
Missouri River.
Time extended for bridging, at Garrison, N. Dak.
Amendment.
[S. 996]
Missouri River.
Time extended for bridging. Decatur, Nebr., to Onawa, Iowa.
Amendment.
[S. 997]
Missouri River.
Time extended for bridging, South Sioux City, Nebr,, to Sioux City, Iowa.
Amendment.
Merchant seamen.
Continuous discharge book or certificate of identification.
Contents.
Issuance by shipping commissioners, etc.
Unauthorized entries, etc.
Penalty.
Citizenship requirements.
Employment without certificate, etc., forbidden.
Proviso.
Foreign ports; requirement.
Entry on seaman’s discharge.
Data required.
Certificate of discharge.
Records of service to contain no reference to character or ability of seaman.
Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation; records to be kept by.
Not open for public inspection.
Unlawful acts.
Any person, partnership, company, or corporation who shall require any seaman employed or applying for employment to possess, produce, or carry a continuous discharge book, if and when such seaman possesses or carries an identification certificate, or to carry an identification certificate, if and when such seaman possesses and carries a continuous discharge book, or who shall exchange or give to any other person, partnership, company, or corporation information to cause discrimination against a seaman for electing to carry either an identification certificate or a continuous discharge book, or to prevent a seaman from obtaining employment on that account, Penalty.
False statements.
Issuance of duplicate in case of loss.
Exemptions.
Administrative provisions.
Effective dates.
Proviso.
Temporary certificates.
National Gallery of Art.
Site.
Construction; donor.
Future additions.
Approval of plans, etc.
Trustees of the National Gallery of Art.
Duty, functions, etc.
Composition.
Ineligibility of Federal officers, etc.
General trustees; appointment, terms, etc.
Successors; filling of vacancies.
Acceptance, etc., of gift from donor.
Funds pledged for upkeep, etc.
Exhibit open to public.
Appropriations authorized.
Acceptance of gifts, etc.
Administration of trust funds.
Officers and employees.
Appointment, pay, etc.
Compensation payable from trust funds.
Qualifications.
Review of board actions.
Powers of board.
Maintenance of high standard of collection.
Powers and obligations as trustee of trust funds.
Annual report of board.
Sixth Street, North west, to be closed within limits of site.
Building lines, approaches, etc.
George Washington Memorial Building.
Provisions for erection of, repealed.
Designation of present national gallery of art changed.
Existing construction provisions repealed.
Henry Ford and wife.
Acceptance of certain real property donated by, authorized.
That the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to accept on behalf of the United States title to a triangular tract of land bounded by Southfield Road, Snow or Pepper Road and Outer Drive, in Ecorse Township, Wayne County, State of Michigan, containing approximately thirty-eight acres, to be Use as a Veterans’ Administration facility. Reversionary provision.
Description.
Commencing at the point of intersection of the easterly line of Southfield (formerly known as Town Line) Road, of two hundred and four foot width and the northerly line of Outer Drive of one hundred and fifty foot width; thence easterly along the northerly line of said Outer Drive one hundred and ninety-three and forty-eight one-hundredths feet along the arc of a curve of radius two hundred and seventy-four and twenty one-hundredths feet to a point which is south seventy-eight degrees nineteen minutes thirty seconds east one hundred and eighty-nine and forty-five one-hundredths feet from the last previously mentioned point; thence north eighty-one degrees twenty-seven minutes fifty seconds east one thousand seven hundred and ninety and sixty-four one-hundredths feet along the said northerly line of Outer Drive; thence easterly one hundred and fifty-six and eighty-nine one-hundredths feet measured along the arc of a curve of five hundred and seventy-five and fifty-four one-hundredths feet radius to a point on the center line of Snow (formerly Pepper) Road, which bears north eighty-nine degrees sixteen minutes twenty seconds east one hundred and fifty-six and fourteen one-hundredths feet from the last previously mentioned point; thence northwesterly along the center line of said Snow Road, north thirty-seven degrees four minutes no seconds west one thousand five hundred and sixty-six and ninety-six one-hundredths feet and north twenty-seven degrees three minutes ten seconds west two hundred and fifty-three and sixty one-hundredths feet to the point of intersection with the said easterly line of Southfield Road; thence southerly along the said easterly line of Southfield Road south thirty-one degrees forty-four minutes no seconds west two thousand and three and sixty-nine one-hundredths feet to the point of commencement, containing thirty-eight and nine hundred and thirty one-thousands1
Greater Texas and Pan-American Exposition, Dallas, Tex.
Dutiable articles, imported for exhibition purposes, etc., admitted free, under regulations.
Post, p. 58.
Deterioration allowance.
Marking requirements.
Provisos.
Duty on articles withdrawn.
Articles abandoned.
Transfer privilege.
Exposition deemed sole consignee of merchandise.
Incurred Federal expenses reimbursable.
Deposit of, as refunds.
Communications Act of 1934, amendment.
Operation of transmitting apparatus.
Requirement.
Provisos.
Exceptions.
Automatic radio devices, etc.
Alameda, Calif.
Act authorizing acquisition of certain lands in, amended.
District of Columbia.
Certain Government and District employees to receive pay for January 20, 1937.
United States Maritime Commission.
Joseph P. Kennedy declared eligible for appointment as a member of.
Merchant Marine Act of 1936, amendment.
46 U. S. C., Supp. II, § 1194.
Charter or sale of vessels acquired by Commission.
Temporary operation in foreign commerce, by private operators; time limitation.
Provisos.
Completion of voyages begun before expiration date.
Sale provisions not affected.
Insect pest and plant disease control.
Appropriation authorized for.
Post, pp. 120, 514.
Personal services, etc.
Additional sums for annual replenishment of fund.
Provisos.
Administration.
Use restricted.
Greater Texas and Pan American Exposition.
Commission established; composition, purpose, etc.
Ante, pp. 19, 55.
Commissioner General; appointment.
Payment of expenses, and staff.
Duties and powers of Commissioner General.
Personnel: appointment, salaries, etc.
Cooperation of Government agencies.
Loan of exhibits.
Contracts for labor, etc.
Return of property at close of exposition.
Preparation of reports.
Disposition of property not returned.
Expenditures authorized.
Rental of space.
Allocation of funds.
Personal services, etc.
Provisos.
Salary restriction.
Furniture, supplies, etc.
Payments in advance.
Printing and binding.
Supervision of expenditures.
Delegation of powers.
Allotment of funds to executive departments, etc.
Approval of vouchers.
Prevailing wages for construction work.
Acceptance of contributions.
Disposal of material, etc.
Proviso.
Public sale.
Transfer of certain contracts.
Transfer of functions, funds, etc.
Use of balances.
Disposition of monuments, etc.
Effective date of section; final report.
Transfer of funds allocated to Commission of Control for Texas Centennial Celebrations.
Report to Congress.
Termination of Commission.
Fishing industry products.
Designated funds made available for purchase and distribution of.
Ante, p. 27,
Great Lakes Exposition.
Federal participation in, continued.
Provisions extended.
Appropriation authorized.
Post, pp. 215, 753.
Approved, April 12, 1937.
[S. 1500]
Classification provisions.
Transportation, tags, and containers.
Samples, disposition of proceeds of sales.
Market news service.
Rules and regulations.
General Pulaski’s Memorial Day.
President authorized to invite observance of.
District of Columbia, bowling alleys.
Sunday closing hours.
[S. 1133]
Navy.
Extension of commissary privileges authorized.
Foreign Service officers.
[S. 1285]
Arms and ammunition for protecting public money and property.
“That upon the request of the head of any department or independent Issue of, authorized. Delivery and accounting. Return. Proviso. Transfer of funds for incidental costs.
[S. 1550]
Ninth Judicial circuit.
Appointment of two additional judges authorized.
[S. 462]
Government departments.
Certain equipment exchanges permitted.
[S. 1125]
Anastasia Island Lighthouse Reservation, Fla.
Quitclaim deed of conveyance extended to heirs or assigns of holders of record title thereto.
Conveyance of portion to city of Saint Augustine for park purposes.
Easement reserved.
[S. 1442]
Coast Guard.
Sales of ordnance property extended to officers of.
[S. 1470]
Oakland, Calif.
Disposition of post office building and sale of site.
Proceeds of sale covered into Treasury.
Proviso.
Conveyance of portions of site to city.
[S. 1684]
Pennsylvania.
Issue of duplicate check to Treasurer of, in lieu of lost original.
Postage on matter for the blind.
Special rates on certain publications provided.
[S. 1441]
U. S. Coast Guard Academy.
Appointment of heads of departments.
Original appointments, probationary period.
Proviso.
Appointment of certain instructors without examination.
Professors; rank, pay, and allowances.
Command limited.
Civilian instructora; appointment, pay, etc.
Credit for prior service.
Retirement.
Provisos.
Service computation.
Retirement for disability; restriction.
Advisory committee; appointment, composition, etc.
Visits, meetings, expenses, etc.
Congressional Board of Visitors.
Annual visits to be made.
Reimbursement of members’ expenses.
Assignment of officers, etc., to instruction duty.
Funds available for expenses.
Existing provision repealed.
Proviso.
Restriction on present appointees
[S. 1901]
Quapaw Indians, Oklahoma.
State gross production tax on lead and zinc produced on lands of.
Exemption from other State taxes.
Proviso.
Not a lien on property of Indian.
[S. 1473]
Boy Scouts of America.
Loan of Army equip ment to, for World Jamboree, in the Netherlands.
Provisos.
No Federal expense (or delivery, etc.
Bond.
Remission of tax on steamship tickets.
Issue of passports without fee.
District of Columbia.
Additional annual appropriation for vocational rehabilitation, authorized.
Post, p. 765.
Proviso.
Equal amount from District funds.
District of Columbia.
Additional annual appropriation for vocational rehabilitation, authorized.
Post, p. 765.
Proviso.
Equal amount from District funds.
Santa Rosa Band of Mission Indians, California.
Acquisition of land for use of, authorized.
Appropriation authorized.
Post, p. 763.
Los Angeles, Calif.
Exchange of certain lands and water rights with, for benefit of Indians.
Proviso.
Reservation of minerals and easements.
Exchange of lands covered by trust patent, etc.
Proviso.
Indian to receive area of equal value.
No tribal lands involved except with consent.
[S. 1228]
National Housing Act, amendment.
12 U. S. C., Supp. II, § 1706a.
Insurance of financial institutions, eligible for credit insurance, against loss; provisions extended.
Financing rehabilitation of property damaged by catastrophe during years designated.
Maximum amount.
Limitation on liability.
[H. R. 77]
Postmasters, third- or fourth-class post offices.
Compensation for ad interim service.
Proviso.
Payment for service rendered since June 1930.
Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians.
Reservation of certain lands for benefit of.
Proviso.
Prior rights not affected.
Books, etc., for the adult blind.
Annual appropriation for, increased. Proviso. Division of amount.
Applicability.
Bituminous Coal Act of 1937.
Declaration of policy and necessity of regulation.
National Bituminous Coal Commission.
Establishment, composition, etc.
Post, p. 507.
There is hereby established in the Department of the Interior a National Bituminous Coal Commission (herein referred to as Commission), which shall be composed of seven members Chairman; official seal. Vacancies. Principal office. Qualifications of members. Geographical limitations. Removal. Secretary and other personnel. Kinship provisions. Voluntary, etc., services. Member’s compensation. Administrative rules, etc. Quorum. Orders subject to judicial review or rules having effect of law. Post, p. 85. Establishment of divisions; powers, etc. Proviso. Review upon written petition. Reference to an individual Commissioner. etc. Powers. Contracts for personal services.
Researches for improving standards and methods.
Office of Consumers’ Counsel established.
Appointment of counsel.
Financial, business, etc., restrictions.
Compensation and expenses.
Duties of counsel.
Rights before Commission.
Information to be furnished.
Technical, clerical, etc., assistants.
Expenditures authorized.
Annual report to Congress.
Tax on coal.
There is hereby imposed upon the sale or other disposal Levy on bituminous, sold by producer.
The term “disposal” as used in this section includes consumption “Disposal” defined
Additional, coal subject to code.
Tax exemption, code members.
Payments.
Coal disposed of other than by sale at the mine, etc.; determining market value.
United States or political subdivision thereof.
Sales to be tax exempt if for sole use of.
Credits heroin, allowed producer's vendee.
Right of producer to contest code provisions.
Bituminous coal code.
Commission to promulgate provisions.
The provisions of this section shall be promulgated by the Commission as the “Bituminous Coal Code”, and are herein referred to as the code.
Code members construed.
Conditions, provisions, and obligations.
Organization.
District boards of code members; number.
Board membership.
Twenty-three district boards of code members shall be organized. Each district board shall consist of not less than three nor more than seventeen members. The number of members of the district board shall, subject to the approval of the Commission, be determined by the majority vote of the district tonnage during the calendar year 1936 represented at a meeting of the code members of the district called for the purpose of such determination and for the Notice of meeting. District board, composition, etc. Elections. Proviso. Restriction. Employee representative. Term of board members. Removals.
Powers of district boards. Service without compensation; expenses allowed. Territorial boundaries of districts. Post, p. 91.
Whenever the Commission upon investigation instituted upon its Limits of a district or minimum price area. Changes, consolidations, etc.
Code administration expenses.
Collection of assessments.
Liability of board members.
Antitrust laws not to apply to actions complying with code.
Marketing.
Minimum and maximum prices, etc.
All code members shall report all spot orders to such statistical Reports and records by code members. Confidential nature of records.
For each district there shall be established by the Commission a Statistical bureaus; establishment, operation, etc.
Minimum price proposals. Computation of total costs.
Minimum-price-area table.
Enumeration.
Factors in determining minimum prices.
Submission of schedule of proposed prices to Commission. Provisos. Requirements of minimum prices. Antidumping provision.
As soon as possible after its creation, each district board shall determine, Determination of costs of tonnage produced in 1936, by district boards. Adjustments to reflect changes. Submission of determination to Commission. Determination of weighted average of total costs. Use as basis in establishing minimum prices. Changes. Availability of figures.
Each district board shall, on its own motion or when directed by Rules respecting sale and distribution. Action by Commission.
Coordination of minimum prices and rules in market areas.
Requirements of minimum prices.
Effect of coordinated minimum prices.
Submission to Commission.
Establishment of minimum prices and rules and regulations.
Maximum prices; establishment by Commission to protect consumer.
Proviso.
Maintenance of fair return.
Complaints by code member, district board, etc.
Notice and hearing.
Preliminary or temporary orders.
Code prices, prohibition on sales below minimum or above maximum.
No coal subject to the provisions of this section shall be sold or delivered or offered for sale at a price below the minimum or above the maximum therefor established by the Commission, and the sale or delivery or offer for sale of coal at a price below such minimum or above such maximum shall constitute a violation of the code: Proviso. Contracts prior to June 18, 1933.
Unenforceable, etc., contracts.
Restriction on contracts until prices established.
Sale below minimum or above maximum price prohibited.
The minimum prices established in accordance with the provisions Coal shipped outside domestic market exempt. Area included. Bunker coal. Shipments outside continental United States.
Availability of Information.
Price provision evasion prohibited.
Administrative rules, etc.
Resales in cargo or carload lots.
Unfair methods of competition.
Specified practices deemed code violations.
Consignment of unordered coal.
Proviso.
Exception.
Secret concessions. etc.
Prepaying freight charges resulting in discriminatory credit allowance.
Price discriminations.
Predating or post-dating invoices.
Discriminatory payments, etc.
Bribery, etc.
Misrepresenting character, etc., of coal.
Unauthorized use of competitor’s trademarks, etc.
Inducing breach of competitor’s contract.
Splitting commissions, etc.
Selling to agent of retailer or industrial consumer, etc.
Compensation obviously disproportionate to services rendered.
Sales through farmers’ cooperative organizations.
Sales through an intervening, etc., agency.
Rebates for purchases in wholesale, etc., quantities.
Jurisdiction of Commission over code violations.
Rules respecting bearings.
Adjustments.
Review of orders.
Reports, etc., required.
Review of orders.
Coal consumed by producer.
Whenever the Commission upon investigation instituted Transactions tn Intrastate commerce affecting Interstate commerce, subject to code.
Any producer believing that any commerce in coal is not subject Exemptions. Application. Suspension of exemption if likely to permit evasion of Act. Ruling subject to review.
Organization of the code.
Commission to promulgate code and assist In organizing district boards.
Revocation of code membership and right to tax exemption.
The membership of any such coal producer in such code and his right to an exemption from the taxes imposed by section 3 (b) of this Act, may be revoked by the Commission upon written complaint by any code member or district board, or any State or Hearing. Proviso. Cease and desist orders. Enforcement.
Record of proceedings, etc.
Findings, upon revoking membership.
Restoration to membership.
Ante, p. 75.
Suits by code member for code violations, etc.
Damages and costs.
Review of district board’s actions.
Action by Commission upon failure of district board to act.
Arbitration.
Any person aggrieved by an order issued by the Commission Appeal from Commission’s order. Petition to be filed. Service of copy on Commission. Filing transcript of record. Court jurisdiction. Finding of facts, etc. Additional evidence. Modification of findings of facts. Finality of judgment and decree. Review.
Commencement of proceedings not to stay Commission’s order.
Enforcement of Commission’s order.
If any code member fails or neglects to obey any order of the Commission while the same is in effect, the Commission in its discretion may apply to the Circuit Court of Appeals of the United States within any circuit where such code member resides or carries on business, for the enforcement of its order, and shall certify and file with its application a transcript of the entire record in the proceeding, including all the testimony taken and the report and order o Jurisdiction of court. Findings of fact. Additional evidence.
Modification of findings of fact. Finality of judgment and decree.
Review.
Laws applicable to tax provisions.
General authority of Commission.
Refusals to obey subpena.
Contempt; punishment.
Testimony, records, etc., required.
Labor, etc., provisions.
Policy declared.
Employees’ right to organize and bargain collectively.
Exercise of rights without restraint.
Employee not compelled to join producer-controlled union.
United States, etc., purchasing from producer failing to comply with requirements.
Hearings on complaint of employee.
Certifying findings to agency concerned.
Termination of contract.
Designated Acts not affected.
Reports and accounts of producers.
Information considered confidential.
Penalty fer violation.
Failing to file report; penalty.
Recovery of fine by civil suit.
Duties of district attorneys.
State laws.
Combination creating marketing agency for disposal of competitive coals in interstate commerce.
Any combination between producers creating a marketing agency for the disposal of competitive coals in interstate commerce or in intrastate commerce directly affecting interstate commerce in coal at prices to be determined by such agency, or by the agreement of the producers operating through such agency, shall, after promulgation of the code provided for in section 4, be unlawful as a restraint of interstate trade and commerce within the provisions of the Act of Congress of July 2, 1890, known as the Sherman Act, and Acts amendatory and supplemental thereto, unless such producers have accepted the code provided for in section 4 and shall comply with its provisions.
Cooperative marketing provisions. Proviso. Conditions stipulated.
The Commission may, by order, upon complaint of any code Commission may suspend or revoke approval for violations.
Separability provisions.
Other duties of Commission.
Studies and investigations.
Reports of investigations.
Complaints respecting excessive coal prices.
Correction of abuses.
Complaints to Interstate Commerce Commission respecting transportation costs.
Definitions.
“Coal.”
“Bituminous coal.”
“Producer.”
“Interstate commerce.”
“United States.”
Effective date of Section 3.
Ante, p. 75.
Of other sections.
Duration.
Liabilities, etc., not affected.
Bituminous Coal Conservation Act of 1935 repealed.
Appropriation authorized.
Availability of other funds.
Transfer of records, etc.
Short title.
Annex to Act—Schedule of districts.
The following counties in Pennsylvania: Bedford, Eastern Pennsylvania.
Armstrong County, including mines served by the P. & S. R. R. on the west bank of the Allegheny River, and north of the Conemaugh division of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Fayette County, all mines on and east of the line of Indian Creek Valley branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Indiana County, north of but excluding the Saltsburg branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad between Edri and Blairsville, both exclusive.
Westmoreland County, including all mines served by the Pennsylvania Railroad, Torrance, and east.
All coal-producing counties in the State of Maryland.
The following counties in West Virginia: Grant, Mineral, and Tucker.
The following counties in Pennsylvania: Allegheny, Western Pennsylvania.
Armstrong County, west of the Allegheny River and exclusive of mines served by the P. & S. R. R.
Indiana County, including all mines served on the Saltsburg branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad north of Conemaugh River.
Fayette County, except all mines on and east of the line of Indian Creek Valley branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Westmoreland County, including all mines except those served by the Pennsylvania Railroad from Torrance, east.
The following counties in West Virginia: Barbour, Northern West Virginia.
That part of Nicholas County including mines served by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and north.
Ohio.
Michigan.
Panhandle.
Southern numbered 1.
The following counties in West Virginia : Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Pocahontas, Summers.
Fayette County, east of Gauley River and including the Gauley River branch of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad and mines served by the Virginian Railway.
McDowell County, that portion served by the Dry Fork branch of the Norfolk and Western Railroad and east thereof.
Raleigh County, excluding all mines on the Coal River branch of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.
Wyoming County, that portion served by the Gilbert Branch of the Virginian Railway lying east of the mouth of Skin Fork of Guyandot River and that portion served by the main line and the Glen Rogers branch of the Virginian Railway.
The following counties in Virginia : Montgomery, Pulaski, Wythe, Giles, Craig.
Tazewell County, that portion served by the Dry Fork branch to Cedar Bluff and from Bluestone Junction to Boissevain branch of the Norfolk and Western Railroad and RichlandsJewell Ridge branch of the Norfolk and Western Railroad.
Buchanan County, that portion served by the RichlandsJewell Ridge branch of the Norfolk and Western Railroad and that portion of said county on the headwaters of Dismal Creek, east of Lynn Camp Creek (a tributary of Dismal Creek).
Southern numbered 2.
The following counties in West Virginia: Boone, Clay, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mason, Mingo, Putnam, Wayne, Cabell.
Fayette County, west of, but not including mines of the Gauley River branch of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.
McDowell County, that portion not served by and lying west of the Dry Fork branch of the Norfolk and Western Railroad.
Raleigh County, all mines on the Coal River branch of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad and north thereof.
Nicholas County, that part south of and not served by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Wyoming County, that portion served by Gilbert branch of the Virginian Railway lying west of the mouth of Skin Fork of Guyandot River.
The following counties in Virginia: Dickinson, Lee, Russell, Scott, Wise.
All of Buchanan County, except that portion on the headwaters of Dismal Creek, east of Lynn Camp Creek (tributary of Dismal Creek) and that portion served by the RichlandsJewell Ridge branch of the Norfolk and Western Railroad.
Tazewell County, except portions served by the Dry Fork branch of Norfolk and Western Railroad and branch from Bluestone Junc-
The following counties in Kentucky: Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clay, Elliott, Floyd, Greenup, Harlan, Jackson, Johnson, Knott, Knox, Laurel, Lawrence, Lee, Leslie, Letcher, McCreary, Magoffin, Martin, Morgan, Owsley, Perry, Pike, Rockcastle, Wayne, Whitley.
The following counties in Tennessee: Anderson, Campbell, Claiborne, Cumberland, Fentress, Morgan, Overton, Roane, Scott.
The following counties in North Carolina: Lee, Chatham, Moore.
West Kentucky.
Illinois.
Indiana.
Iowa.
All coal-producing counties in Alabama. Southeastern.
The following counties in Georgia: Dade, Walker.
The following counties in Tennessee: Marion, Grundy, Hamilton, Bledsoe, Sequatchie, White, Van Buren, Warren, McMinn, Rhea.
The following counties in Arkansas: All counties Arkansas-Oklahoma.
The following counties in Oklahoma : Haskell, Le Flore, Sequoyah.
All coal-producing counties in Kansas. All coal-producing Southwestern.
The following counties in Oklahoma: Coal, Craig, Latimer, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner.
Northern Colorado.
The following counties in Colorado: All counties not Southern Colorado.
The following counties in New Mexico: All coal-producing counties in the State of New Mexico, except those included in the New Mexico district.
The following counties in New Mexico: Grant, Lincoln, New Mexico.
The following counties in Arizona: Pinal, Navajo, Graham, Apache, Coconino.
All coal-producing counties in California.
Wyoming.
All coal-producing counties in Wyoming.
The following counties in Idaho: Fremont, Jefferson, Madison, Teton, Bonneville, Bingham, Bannock, Power, Caribou, Oneida, Franklin, Bear Lake.
Utah.
North Dakota-South Dakota.
Montana.
Washington.
All coal-producing counties in Washington. All coalproducing counties in Oregon.
The Territory of Alaska.
[S. 1280]
Transfer of deteriorated explosives for agricultural purposes; Act repealed.
[S. 1897]
Mississippi River.
Time extended for bridging, at La Crosse, Wis.
Amendment.
[S. 1173]
Flood Control Act of 1936, amendment.
Post, p. 880.
“Reservoir system for the protection of Pittsburgh: Construction Ohio River Basin. Reservoir system for protection of Pittsburgh and reduction of flood heights in, authorized. Estimated costs.
[S. 1705]
Springfield Armory, Mass.
Release of certain right-of-way at, authorized.
District of Columbia.
Central Heating Plant to furnish steam to buildings in Judiciary Square.
Provisos.
Payment.
Installation expenses.
Navy Department and naval service appropriations for fiscal year 1938.
Naval Establishment.
Secretary’s office.
Miscellaneous expenses.
Experts.
Courts martial, etc.
Accident prevention, shore establishments.
Living quarters, etc.
Damage claims.
Provisos.
Restriction on use in certain naval districts.
Group IV (b) employees.
Contingent, Navy.
Lepers, etc.
Care, etc., Guam and Culion, P. I.
Research Labora tory.
Work of, for naval service.
Provisos.
Temporary employment of scientists, etc.
Group IV (b) employees.
Group IV (b) employees.
Naval petroleum reserves.
Conservation and operation.
Provisos.
Protective work on Reserve No. 1.
Group IV (b) employees.
Agreement with adjoining landowners not to drill offset wells.
Prison farms and prison personnel.
Operation, etc.
Proviso.
Limitation on expenditures.
Bureau of Navigation.
Training, education, etc.
Naval War College, maintenance, etc.
Naval training stations, maintenance, etc.
Fleet training, gunnery, etc., prizes.
Instruction expenses. Retirement annuities. Proviso. Restriction on special courses of instruction. Exception.
Libraries.
Welfare and recreation: For welfare and recreation of the Navy, Welfare and recreation.
Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps: For all expenses incident Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, operation. Proviso. Uniforms, equipment, etc.
In all, training, education, and welfare, Navy, $1,627,269: Proviso. Group IV (b) employees.
State Marine Schools.
Reimbursing designated States for expenses.
Maintenance, etc., of vessels loaned.
Instruments and supplies.
Proviso.
Group IV (b) employees.
Ocean and lake surveys.
Proviso.
Group IV (b) employees.
Naval Reserve.
Organizing, recruiting, etc., of, and Naval Militia.
Fleet Naval Reserve.
Subsistence, etc.
Pay, mileage, etc.
Flight training.
Armories, wharfage, etc.
Group IV (b) employees.
Aviation material, hangars, etc.
Aviation, Naval and Marine Corps Reserve.
Provisos.
Reserve officers performing active duty.
Limitation.
Pay, allowances, etc., restrictions.
Naval Academy.
Pay, Naval Academy: For pay of professors and instructors, Pay of professora, etc. Annuities. 34 U. S. C., Supp, II, §§ 1073–1073e. Proviso. Swordsmanship Instruction, etc.
For pay of other employees, $609,821, of which $2,474 shall be Employees. H. H. Rogers collection of ship models. Post, p. 102. Proviso. Group IV (b) employees.
Current and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Academy: For text Current, etc., expenses. Lectures, etc. Library. Board of Visitors.
Maintenance and repairs. Horses, vehicles, etc. Provisos. Group IV (b) employees. H. H. Rogers bequest, acceptance expenses. Ante, p. 101.
Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pa.
Personal services. Proviso. Group IV (b) employees.
Maintenance. Employment of beneficiaries.
In all, Naval Home, $190,000.
Bureau of Engineering.
Engineering, repairs, machinery, etc.
Equipment, supplies, etc.
Annapolis, Md., engineering experiment station.
Proviso.
Group IV (b) employees.
Bureau of Construction and Repair.
Construction and repair of vessels.
Field force.
Proviso.
Group IV (b) employees.
Bureau of Ordnance.
Procuring, etc., ordnance and ordnance stores.
Schools at designated stations.
Proviso.
Group IV (b) employees.
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.
Pay of naval personnel. Officers. Aerial flights, increased pay restriction. Rent and subsistence. Retired officers. Hire of quarters. Enlisted men. Prizes, etc. Outfits, clothing, etc. Reimbursement for certain losses. Nurse Corps. Fleet Naval Re serve. Property losses. Proviso. Enlisted men ashore as household servants. Voluntary, etc., sendees. Sale of meals to officers on shore duty.
Subsistence of naval personnel: For provisions and commuted Subsistence. Provisions, commutation of rations, etc. Unavoidable absences. Detached duty. Naval Reserve, etc.
Transportation. Attendance at meetings. Midshipmen, etc. Proviso. Limitation increased. Enlisted men. Apprehending deserters, etc. Recruiting. Transporting dependents. Funeral escorts.
Aggregate; amount immediately available. Accounting. Provisos. Additional medical detail, Veterans’ Administration patients in naval hospitals. Restriction on admissions to Naval Academy after January 30, 1937. Appointments at large from enlisted men not affected. Sea service requirements of appointees from enlisted men.
Maintenance.
Freight, etc. charges.
Provisos.
Supply or replacement of kitchen, etc., ware for officers’ quarters ashore forbidden.
Group IV (b) employees.
Use of certain receipts for current expenses; accounting.
Clothing and small stores fund.
Strategic and critical materials.
Procurement and transportation.
Provisos.
Use restricted.
Determination of.
Fuel and transportation.
Provisos.
Issue to be charged to applicable appropriation.
Price for fuel on hand.
Restriction on use, etc., of foreign fuel oil.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Surgeons’ necessa ries.
Civil establishment.
Vehicles, etc.
Care, etc., of insane on Pacific coast.
Proviso.
Group IV (b) employees.
Care of the dead.
Interment or transportation expenses.
Civilian employees dying abroad.
Proviso.
Retired officers, etc., on active duty included.
Bureau of Yards and Docks.
General maintenance, etc.
Vehicles.
Group IV (b) employees.
Provisos.
Limitation on vehicle purchases.
Maintenance, operation, repair, etc.
Contingent.
Public works, etc. Provisos. Personal services. Construction of authorized projects.
Charleston, S. C.
Washington, D. C.
Mare Island, Calif.
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Norfolk, Va.
Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands.
San Diego, Calif.
Alameda, Calif., air station; sito and buildings.
Model Testing Plant: Toward the model testing plant, authorized Model testing plant. Proviso. Use restricted.
Naval Air Station, San Diego, California: Barracks for enlisted San Diego, Calif., air station.
Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island: Addition to library Naval War College, Newport, R. I.
Bureau of Aeronautics.
Designated aviation expenses.
Helium.
Post, p. 602.
Developing aircraft types, etc.
New construction, etc.
Incurred obligations.
Aggregate; accounting.
Provisos.
Group IV (b) employees.
Contracts for new airplanes, etc.
Transfer of sums for traveling expenses.
Number of coast stations limited.
Airplane factory construction forbidden.
Adjustment of damage claims.
Marine Corps.
Pay, etc., officers on active list. Active duty pay, etc., to retired officers; restriction.
Retired officers. Enlisted men, active list.
Pay of enlisted men, active list: For pay and allowances of noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, as prescribed by law, and for the expenses of clerks of the United States Marine Corps traveling under orders, including not to exceed $250 for the expenses of attendance upon meetings of technical, professional, scientific, and other organizations, when, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, such attendance would be of benefit in the conduct of the work of the Marine Corps, and including additional compensation for enlisted men of the Marine Corps qualified as expert riflemen, sharpshooters, marksmen, or regularly detailed as gun captains, gun pointers, cooks, messmen, including interest on deposits by enlisted men, post-exchange debts of deserters, and of men discharged or sentenced to terms of imprisonment while in debt to the United States, under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, and the authorized travel allowance of discharged enlisted men, and for prizes for excellence in gunnery exercises and target practice, and communication competitions, and for pay of enlisted men designated as Navy mail clerks and assistant Navy mail clerks both afloat and ashore, and for gratuities to enlisted men discharged not under Pay and allowances.
Retired enlisted men.
Undrawn clothing.
Marine Corps Reserve.
For mileage and actual and necessary expenses and per diem in Mileage, etc.
In all, $18,300,000, and the money herein specifically appropriated Aggregate; accounting.
Pay of civil force: For personal services in the District of Columbia, Civil force at head quarters.
Offices of the Major General Commandant and adjutant inspector, $114,180;
Office of paymaster, $47,260;
Office of the quartermaster, $125,020; in all, $286,460: Proviso. Number of enlisted men at headquarters. Vacancies to be filled by civilians. Pay rates.
General expenses.
For every expenditure requisite for, and incident to, the authorized Authorized work.
For provisions, subsistence, board and lodging of enlisted men, Provisions, etc.
For clothing for enlisted men, $900,000; Clothing.
For fuel, neat, light, and power, including sales to officers, Fuel, etc.
For military supplies and equipment, including their purchase, Military supplies, etc. Purchase, preservation, etc. Prizes, badges, etc.
For transportation of troops and applicants for enlistment, including Transportation, etc. Dependents.
For repairs and improvements to barracks, quarters, and other Repairs, etc., to barracks, quarters, etc.
For forage and stabling of public animals and the authorized number Forage, etc.
For miscellaneous supplies, material, equipment, personal and Miscellaneous supplies, etc. Vehicles, etc. Horses, etc. Funeral expenses. Proviso. Purchase of vehicles.
Marine Corps Reserve.
Accounting. Proviso. Group IV (b) employees.
Replacement of naval vessels.
Construction and machinery. Post, p. 767. Destroyers and submarines. 48 Stat. 503. Provisos. Group IV (b) employees. Test boilers for navy yards. Technical services.
Armor, armament, and ammunition for vessels. Proviso. Group IV (b) employees.
The appropriations made in this Act for the purchase or manufacture Purchase of letters patent, etc.
No part of any appropriation made for the Navy shall be expended Department use limited. Provisos. Details to Bureau Of Navigation. Designated services not regarded as details.
No part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available No pay to officer, etc., using time-measuring device on work of employee. Cash rewards prohibited. Repairs, etc., other than at navy yards, etc., restricted. Proviso. Construction, first and alternate vessels at Government yards, factories, etc., required.
No part of the funds herein apropriated 1 Contractors to furnish estimates.
Navy Department.
Salaries.
Secretary, Assistant, and civilian personnel in offices, etc., designated.
American Ephemeris, etc.
Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act. Exception. Proviso. Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service. No reduction in fixed salaries. Transfers without reduction. Payment under higher rate. If only one position in a grade.
Department contingent expenses.
Naval records of the World War.
Naval service appropriations not to be used for Department expenses.
Printing and binding.
Historical and naval documents.
Balance reappropriated.
Proviso.
Copies to Library of Congress.
Hydrographie Office.
For purchase and printing of nautical hooks, charts, and sailing Contingent and miscellaneous expenses. Charts, etc.
Branches.
For services of necessary employees at branch offices, $47,220.
Naval Observatory.
Library.
Apparatus, etc.
Postal Service, mail matter.
Postage rate, bills or statements produced by mechanical process.
Florida Southern Judicial District.
Orlando, courtrooms, etc.
Simplification of accounting.
Payments for metered services.
District of Columbia.
Prevention of blindness in infants born in.
Health officer to furnish prophylactic.
Administration at birth.
Eye inflammation attended by discharge; transmission of information to health officer.
Duties of health officer.
Hospital care where parents unable to pay.
Treatment by other than registered physician.
Penalty provision.
Insect pest and plant disease control.
Appropriation for expenses.
Ante, p. 57.
Post, p. 614.
Availability.
Provisos.
State cooperation.
Supervision of expenditures.
Transportation of control materials.
Open market purchases.
Neutrality Act of 1935, amendments.
Arms, ammunition, and implements of war.
Export embargo upon, during a state of war.
Extension to other states.
Civil strife within a foreign state.
Export to a neutral state for transshipment, etc.
Enumeration of prohibited exports.
Categories included.
Raw materials, etc., excluded.
Punishment for violation.
Seizure and forfeiture.
Disposition of forfeited arms, etc.
Revocation of proclamation.
Export of other articles and materials.
Restriction on, after state of war proclaimed.
American vessel prohibited from carrying, to belligerent state or state where civil strife exists; exceptions.
Enumeration of articles and materials.
Additional exportation and transportation restrictions; exceptions.
Transfer of title to foreign government, etc.
Sworn declaration by shipper.
Declaration an estoppel against American claims, etc.
Insurance provisions.
Extension of restrictions to other states.
Modification, etc., of proclamations.
Duration of section, etc.
Financial transactions.
Dealing in obligations of belligerent, etc., state, unlawful.
Civil strife, etc.
Proviso.
Discretionary exceptions.
Unofficial solicitations to relieve human suffering.
Approval required.
Existing indebtedness, etc.
Penalty provision.
Provisions inapplicable on revocation of proclamation; exception.
Exceptions.
American republics.
National Munitions Control Board.
Establishment, composition, etc.
Administration of Act.
Rules and regulations.
Board meetings.
Registration of persons engaged in manufacture or traffic in arms, etc.
Requirements.
Registration fee.
Issue of certificate.
Renewals.
Refunds of certain excess fees.
Exporting or importing arms, etc., without license, unlawful.
Maintenance of records.
Issuance of licenses.
Authority to export arms, etc., to cease upon issuance of proclamation.
Restriction on purchases from person failing to register.
Sale of ordnance, etc., to Cuba; certain provisions repealed.
Annual report of Board.
Contents.
Proclamation of articles considered arms, etc.
American vessels prohibited from carrying arms, etc., to belligerent states.
Penalty provision.
Use of American ports as base of supply.
Bond requirement.
Vessel delivering cargo to warship, etc., of a belligerent state.
Submarines and armed merchant vessels.
Restriction on entry and departure of, of a foreign state.
Proclamation.
Revocation of proclamation.
Travel on vessels of belligerent states; restriction.
Provisos.
Citizens in transit.
Citizens returning to United States.
Revocation of proclamation.
Arming of American merchant vessels prohibited.
Regulations.
General penalty provision.
Definitions.
“United States.”
“Person.”
“Vessel.”
“American vessel.”
“Vehicle.”
“State.”
Separability of provisions.
Appropriations.
Post, pp. 266, 770.
Fort Niagara, N. Y.
Appropriation authorized for reconstruction expenses.
Post, p. 452.
Great Britain.
Payment to, as indemnity for personal injuries to N. J. Moosa, authorized.
Post, p. 768.
The Netherlands.
Payment to, for death of Miguel Paula, authorized.
Post, p. 768,
France.
Payment to, as indemnity for personal injuries to Henry Bor day, authorized.
Post, p. 768.
Great Britain.
Payment to, for losses sustained by Shanghai Electric Construction Company, Limited, authorized.
Post, p. 768.
Canada.
Payment to, for injury to Janet Hardcastle Ross, authorized.
Post, p. 768.
Chile.
Payment to, for the account of Enriqueta Koch v. de Jeanneret, authorized
Past, p. 769.
China.
Payment to, as indemnity for injuries to Li Po-tien, authorized.
Post, p. 768.
China.
Payment to, as indemnity for injuries to certain citizens, authorized.
Post, p. 768.
Mexico.
Payment to, in settlement of claim of General Higinio Alvarez and others, authorized.
Post, p. 769.
Proviso.
Condition.
Validity of title.
Deed.
China.
Payment to, in settlement of claims of certain citizens, authorized.
Post, p. 768.
China.
Payment to, in settlement of claims of certain citizens, authorized.
Post, p. 768.
Dominican Republic.
Payment to, as compensation to widow of Emeterio Sanchez in recognition of meritorious services, authorized.
Post, p, 769.
China.
Payment to, as indemnity for injuries, etc., to Ling Mau Mau, authorized.
Post, p. 768.
China.
Payment to, as indemnity for losses of certain citizens, authorized.
Post, p. 768.
Nicaragua.
Payment to, for the account of Mercedes V. do Williams and others, authorized.
Past, p. 769.
Great Britain.
Payment to, as indemnity for death of Samuel Richardson, authorized.
Post, p. 768.
Chapman Field, Fla.
Settlement of outstanding claims against, authorized.
Appropriation authorized
Emergent appropriations for certain Federal activities, fiscal year 1937.
Senate.
Nathan L. Bachman.
Pay to widow.
Federal Trade Commission.
Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for five Commissioners, Salaries and expenses.
Printing and binding: For an additional amount for all printing and binding Printing and binding.
Interstate Commerce Commission.
Air mail: For an additional amount to enable the Interstate Commerce Air mail. Proviso. Amount for services in the District increased.
Motor transport regulation, expenses. Provisos. Automobiles, price limitation. Use of transportation requests.
Railroad Retirement Board.
Salaries and expenses.
Vehicles.
Department of Commerce.
Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation.
Departmental salaries.
Departmental salaries: For an additional amount for the Director and other personal services in the District of Columbia, fiscal year 1937, $60,460.
Salaries and general expenses. Overtime pay, local inspectors.
Treasury Department.
Bureau of the Mint.
Mints and assay offices.
Motorbus.
Proviso.
Maintenance, etc.
Post, p. 151.
Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriation Act, 1938.
Executive departments, etc.
Amount for travel, etc.
Proviso.
Transfer for convenience of officers.
Restrictions on expenditures.
Cost limitation on automobiles.
Maintenance, etc., automobiles not used for official purposes.
“Official purposes” construed.
Limitations not applicable.
Maintenance, up keep, etc., limitation.
Appointments alter Senate rejection.
House of Representatives, majority floor leader’s office.
Pay for certain positions in.
[H. R. 26]
Immigration Act of 1917, amendment.
Removal at Government expense of certain aliens who apply for deportation.
Ineligibility for readmission.
[H. R. 28]
Immigration Act of 1924, amendments.
Nonquota immigrants, restriction on entry.
Preference-quota immigrants.
Exclusion from the United States.
“No immigrant shall be admitted to the United States unless he Immigrants excepted from.
That any alien who at any time after entering the United Deportation of aliens for unlawful securing of visas through marriage. Retroactive operation of section.
When it appears that the immigrant fails or refuses to fulfill his Breach of marital agreement.
Scajaquada Creek.
Declared non-navigable in Buffalo, N. Y.
Amendment.
Emigration of Filipinos from the United States.
Time extended for filing application for benefits, etc.
Santa Maria River, Calif.
Survey directed for controlling floods.
Army ammunition storage facilities.
Appropriation authorized for improvements at designated depots.
Post, p. 452.
Civilian personnel stationed abroad.
Allotment of pay by, permitted.
[S. 1472]
National Council, Boy Scouts of America.
Disposal of obsolete, etc., Army material to, authorized.
[S. 1571]
Flood Control Act of 1936, amendment.
Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers, Calif.
Flood control project extended.
Estimated costs.
Missouri River.
Time extended for bridging al Rulo, Nebr.
Amendment.
Civil Service Commission.
Applications for examinations. Certificate of residence to accompany. Promotion or transfer.
Merrimack River.
Essex County, Mass., may bridge, between Haverhill and Groveland.
Construction.
Amendment.
Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Loan of Army tents, etc., for encampment of, Buffalo and Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Proviso.
No Federal expense.
Bond.
[S. 2160]
Counselor of the Department of State.
Office created; appointment, salary.
Lake Pontchartrain, La.
Establishment of Coast Guard station on, authorized.
Pass-a-Grille Beach, Fla.
Establishment of Coast Guard station authorized.
Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1938.
Senate.
Senators.
Compensation.
Mileage.
Officers, clerks, messengers, etc.
Vice President’s office.
Secretary to, and clerks.
Chaplain.
Secretary’s office.
Secretary, assistants, clerks, etc.
Document Room.
Superintendent, etc.
Post, p. 755.
Committee employees.
Clerks and messengers.
Post, p. 325.
Senate Manual.
Clerical assistants to Senators.
Allowance to Senators not chairmen of specified committees.
Ex-officio committee clerks.
Office of Sergeant at Arms, etc.
Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, secretaries, etc. Post, p. 755. Clerks, messengers, etc. Laborers, etc. Superintendent, press gallery. Pages.
Police, Senate Office Building.
Post Office.
Postmaster, assistant, etc.
Folding Room.
Salaries.
Legislative Pay Act of 1929, amended.
contingent expenses
For purchase, exchange, driving, maintenance, and operation of Automobile for Vice President.
For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, payable Reporting debates.
For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, Furniture; cleaning, repairing, etc.
For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, Inquiries and investigations. Proviso. Per diem and subsistence.
For payment of one-half of the salaries and other expenses of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation; one-half expenses. Post, p. 177. Folding, etc.
For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $18,000.
For materials for folding, $1,500.
For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, exclusive of labor, Fuel, oil, advertising, etc.
For repairs, improvements, equipment, and supplies for Senate Senate kitchens and restaurants. Proviso. Increase in prices authorized. Outside service.
For maintaining, exchanging, and equipping motor vehicles for Motor vehicles.
For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $200,000. Miscellaneous items. Packing boxes. Postage stamps.
For packing boxes, $970.
Postage stamps: For office of Secretary, $250; office of Sergeant at Arms, $100; in all, $350.
For the purchase of furniture, $5,000. Furniture; purchase, etc.
For materials for furniture and repairs of same, exclusive of labor, $3,000.
For stationery for Senators and for the President of the Senate, Stationery.
For rent of warehouse for storage of public documents, $2,000. Warehouse rent.
For payment to Honorable John H. Overton, a Senator from the Honorable John H. Overton. Contested election expenses.
House of Representatives.
Members, etc.
For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives, Compensation.
Mileage.
Officers, clerks, messengers, etc.
Speaker’s office.
Secretary, etc.
Speaker’s table.
Parliamentarian, etc.
Preparing Digest of Rules.
Chaplain.
Clerk’s office.
Clerk of the House, clerks, etc.
Post, p. 756.
Committee employees.
Clerks, messengers, and janitors. Post, p. 756.
Office of Sergeant at Arms.
Salaries: Sergeant at Arms, $8,000; Deputy Sergeant at Arms, Sergeant at Arms, Deputy, cashier, etc.
Police force, House Office Building, under the Sergeant at Arms: Police, House Office Building.
Doorkeeper’s office.
Doorkeeper, special employee, etc.
Post, p. 756.
Janitors, messengers, etc.
Folding room.
Pages.
Document room.
Post, p. 756.
Special and minority employees.
Minority employees.
Special employees.
Appointment of successors.
Majority floor leader.
Conference minority.
Caucus rooms, messengers.
Post Office.
Postmaster, assistant, etc.
Motor vehicles.
Official reporters, etc.
Stenographers to committees, etc.
Whenever the words “during the session” occur in the foregoing “During the session” construed.
Members, etc.
Clerk hire, etc.
Contingent expenses.
For furniture and materials for repairs of the same, including Furniture, etc.
For packing boxes, $3,500. Packing boxes.
For miscellaneous items, exclusive of salaries unless specifically Miscellaneous items.
For stenographic reports of hearings of committees other than Reports of committee hearings.
For expenses of special and select committees authorized by the Special and select committees.
For payment of one-half of the salaries and other expenses of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation; one-half expenses. Ante, p. 173. Expenditures restricted.
No part of the appropriations contained herein for the contingent expenses of the House of Representatives shall be used to defray the expenses of any committee consisting of more than six persons (not more than four from the House and not more than two from the Senate), nor to defray the expenses of any other person except Funeral expenses limited.
For telegraph and telephone service, exclusive of personal services, Telegraph and telephone service.
For stationery for Representatives, Delegates, and the Resident Stationery.
For medical supplies, equipment, and contingent expenses for the Emergency room.
Postage stamps: Postmaster, $250; Clerk, $450; Sergeant at Arms, Postage stamps.
For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 Folding, etc.
For preparation and editing of the laws as authorized by the Act United States Code, preparation, etc.
Assistants to Clerk of House. Specified objects, etc. Political committees, etc., recording of statements. Proviso. Restriction.
Automobile for Speaker.
Capitol Police.
Salaries. Proviso. Standards prescribed.
Uniforms, etc.
Division of disbursement.
Joint Committee on Printing.
Clerk, assistant, etc.
Congressional Directory.
Office of Legislative Counsel.
Salaries and expenses.
Statement of Appropriations.
Preparation, first session of Seventy fifth Congress.
Architect of the Capitol.
Architect, assistant, and office personnel.
Capitol Buildings: For necessary expenditures for the Capitol Capitol Buildings and grounds. Maintenance, repair, etc.
Appropriations under the control of the Architect of the Capitol Travel, etc., expenses.
Capitol Grounds: For care and improvement of grounds surrounding Improving Capitol grounds.
Legislative garage: For maintenance, repairs, alterations, personal Legislative garage.
Subway transportation, Capitol and Senate Office Buildings: For Subway, Capitol and Senate Office Buildings.
Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items and Senate Office Building, maintenance, etc.
House Office Buildings, maintenance, etc. Capitol power plant, maintenance, etc.
Capitol power plant: For lighting, heating, and power for the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, Supreme Court Building, Congressional Library Buildings, and the grounds about the same, Botanic Garden, legislative garage, and folding and storage rooms of the Senate; for heating the Government Printing Office and Washington City post office and for light and power therefor whenever available; personal and other services, engineering instruments, fuel, oil, materials, labor, advertising, and purchase of waterproof wearing apparel in connection with the maintenance and operation of the heating, lighting, and power plant, $947,870, of which sum $462,250 shall be immediately available.
Purchases Independent of Procurement Division, Treasury Department. Reimbursement for heat, etc., to designated buildings.
The Government Printing Office and the Washington City post office shall reimburse the Capitol power plant for heat, light, and power whenever any such service is furnished during the fiscal year 1938, and the amounts so reimbursed shall be covered into the Treasury.
Library Building and grounds.
Salaries.
Salaries: For chief engineer and all personal services at rates of pay provided by law, $47,920.
Sunday opening.
Maintenance, repair, etc. Proviso. Maintenance, etc., of elevators.
Furniture, etc.
Annex, construction, equipment, etc.
Botanic Garden.
Salaries: For personal services (including not exceeding $3,000 Salaries.
Maintenance, operation, repairs, and improvements: For all necessary Maintenance, repairs, etc.
The sum of $300 may be expended at any one time by the Botanic Minor purchases without advertising.
No part of the appropriations contained herein for the Botanic Distribution of nursery stock.
The purchase of supplies and equipment and the procurement of Open-market purchases of supplies, etc.
Library of Congress.
Salaries.
For the Librarian, Chief Assistant Librarian, and other personal Librarian and personnel.
For the Register of Copyrights, assistant register, and other Register of Copyrights, etc.
Legislative Reference Service.
Personnel.
Card indexes.
Distribution, etc.
Temporary services.
State legislation.
Preparation of index and digest of.
Temporary service.
Sunday, etc., opening, expenses.
Union Catalogues.
Development, maintenance, etc.
Increase of the Library.
Purchase of books, etc.
For the purchase of books and for periodicals for the law library, Law books, etc. Availability.
For the purchase of books and periodicals for the Supreme Court, Reference books for Supreme Court.
To enable the Librarian of Congress to carry out the provisions Books tor adult blind.
For miscellaneous printing and binding for the Library of Congress, Printing and binding.
For the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the Copyright Catalogue of Title Entries.
For the printing of catalog cards, $150,000. Catalog cards.
For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, stationery, office supplies, Contingent expenses. Attendance at meetings.
For paper, chemicals, and miscellaneous supplies necessary for the Photoduplicating expenses.
Library Building.
Salaries: For the superintendent, disbursing officer, and other personal Salaries.
For extra services of employees and additional employees under Sunday, etc., opening.
For special and temporary services in connection with the custody, Special and temporary services.
For mail, delivery, and telephone services, rubber boots, rubber Incidentals, etc.
For any expense of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board Trust Fund Board, expenses.
Government Printing Office.
Printing and binding. Public Printer, Deputy, etc. Leaves of absence, etc. Vehicles. Machinery, etc. Indexes, Congressional Record. Federal Register. Proviso. Working capital, return of portion as unexpended balance.
Printing and binding for Congress chargeable to the foregoing Congressional work.
During the fiscal year 1938 any executive department or independent Payment for work ordered by departments, etc. Proviso. Adjustments of accounts. Sums paid for work to be credited to working capital.
All amounts in the Budget for the fiscal year 1939 for printing Estimates for departments, etc., to be incorporated in a single item. Proviso. Engraving and Printing Bureau excepted.
No part of any money appropriated in this Act shall be paid to Restriction on paying detailed employees.
Office of Superintendent of Documents.
Superintendent and personnel.
Pay rates.
For the Superintendent of Documents, assistant superintendent, and other personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and compensation of employees paid by the hour who shall be subject to the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate and fix rates of pay for employees and officers of the Government Printing Office”, approved June 7, 1924 (U. S. C., Proviso. Item a separate unit.
For furniture and fixtures, typewriters, carpets, labor-saving Contingent expenses. Proviso. Supplying depository libraries, restriction.
Printing reports of departments. Proviso. Originals to be kept on file.
Purchases independent of Procurement Division, Treasury Department.
Private vehicle restriction.
Average salaries in designated offices not to be exceeded.
Proviso.
Not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.
Transfers without reduction.
Higher salary rates allowed.
If only one position in a grade.
Short title.
Golden Gate International Exposition.
Dutiable articles imported for exhibition, etc., purposes, admitted free under regulations.
Sales permitted.
Provisos.
Duty on articles withdrawn.
Deterioration allowance.
Marking provisions.
Abandonment permitted and duties remitted.
Articles previously entered and in continuous customs custody, etc., transfer privileges.
Exposition deemed sole consignee of merchandise.
Expenses reimbursable.
Deposit of receipts.
Cooperative Farm Forestry Act.
Federal cooperation in developing farm forestry in the States and Territories.
Investigations and advice.
Cooperative agreements.
Nursery sites, etc.
Land to be planted to be made available without charge.
Annual appropriation authorized.
Title of Act.
[S. 150]
Indian lands.
Homesteads purchased from trust, etc., funds to be nontaxable.
Provisos.
Restrictions against alienation, etc.
Optional selection of lands.
[S. 595]
Communications Act of 1934, amendments.
Purposes extended.
Definitions.
“Ship” or “vessel.”
Passenger ship.
Cargo ship.
Passenger.
“Auto-alarm”, foreign ships.
Ships of the United States.
Post, p. 192.
Ships of country not a party to safety convention, etc.
Post, p. 192.
“Qualified operator” or “operator”, foreign ships.
Ships of the United States.
“Harbor” or “port.”
“Safety convention.”
Post, p. 1121.
Annual reports to Congress.
Recommendations.
Investigations and studies.
General powers of Commission.
Suspension of license of operator for designated acts.
Notice, stating cause, etc., to be given.
Effective date.
Hearing.
Inspection of installations.
Rules and regulations, etc.
Communications or distress signals; transmission of.
Intercommunication in mobile service.
Proviso.
No distinction in exchanges.
Administrative assistance, etc.
Proviso.
Approval required.
Heading of title III modified.
Equipment and operators.
Ship radio installations and operations.
Exceptions.
Operators, watches, auto-alarm.
Continuous watch required.
Proviso.
Cargo ship watch.
Technical requirements.
Ante, p. 192.
Radio installation.
Proviso.
Cargo ship installations.
Technical requirements—Continued.
Lifeboats.
Approval of installations.
Transmission of information.
Authority of master.
Certificates.
Inspections.
Control by Commission.
Forfeitures.
Commission’s orders; enforcement.
Suspending radio operator's license excepted.
Appeals.
By suspended operator.
Filing of evidence.
Provisions relating to forfeitures.
Proviso.
Recovery.
Costs and expenses.
Remission, mitigation, etc.
Proviso.
Restriction.
Repeals and amendments.
Special study of radio requirements, Great Lakes, etc.
Post, p. 758.
Report to Congress.
Effective date of Act: exceptions.
[S. 2225]
Trail smelter arbitration.
Certain limitations of Penal Code waived with respect to U. S. agent.
Tenth Pan American Sanitary Conference.
Appropriation authorized for participation expenses.
Contract services.
Reimbursement of other appropriations.
[S. 1607]
Japan.
Payment to, as share of expenses of deportation of enemy aliens from China during World War.
Sum authorized.
Post, p. 769.
Congressional employees, etc.
December salaries to be paid December 20 of each year; exception.
[S. 2084]
Merchant seamen.
Graduates of approved school ships rated as able seamen upon graduation.
Engine department.
[S. 1247]
Fort Snelling Military Reservation, Minn.
Post cemetery not included in national cemetery.
[S. 1330]
United Confederate Veterans’ Reunion, Jackson, Miss.
Attendance of Marino Band authorized.
Appropriation authorized.
Post, p. 250.
Proviso.
Allowances.
[S. 1724]
Fort Reno Quartermaster Depot Military Reservation, Okla.
Portion transferred as permanent site of U. S. Southwestern Reformatory.
[S. 1904]
Park River.
Declared nonnavigable in Hartford County, Conn.
Amendment.
[S. 2076]
Missouri River.
Time extended for bridging, at Arrow Rock, Mo.
Amendment.
[S. 2077]
Missouri Hiver.
Time extended for bridging, at Saint Charles, Mo.
Amendment.
Hudson Falls, N.Y.
Exchange of land for post-office site authorized.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to convey to the owner of the land abutting the easterly side of the post-office site at Hudson Falls, New York, the following-described piece or parcel of land forming a part of said post-office site:
Description.
In consideration of the conveyance to the United States of the following-described piece or parcel of land as an addition to the said postoffice site:
Lying and being in the city of Hudson Falls, county of Washington, State of New York, and described as follows: Beginning at a point eighty-five feet north and one hundred and forty-five feet east of the intersection of the easterly side of Main Street with the northerly side of Pearl Street, said point being the northeast corner of the present post-office site; running thence north eighty-one degrees fifty-seven minutes east a distance of twelve and fifty-nine one-hundredths feet to a point; thence south five degrees forty-eight minutes east a distance of forty-six and eighteen one-hundredths feet to a point in the easterly side of the present post-office site; thence along the easterly side of said post-office site north twenty-one degrees twelve minutes west a distance of forty-seven and thirty-eight one-hundredths feet to the point or place of beginning.
National Aviation Day.
President authorized to issue proclamation designating May 28, 1937, as.
[S. 210]
Army.
Soldiers discharged during Spanish-American War, etc., because of minority or age misrepresentation deemed honorably discharged.
Provisos.
No back pay, etc.
Issuance of discharge certificate.
[S. 1212]
Virginia.
Conveyance of portion of Fort Myer Military Reservation to, for highway purposes.
Proviso.
Deviations in descriptions permitted.
Disposal of certain detached portion.
[S. 1769]
Maine.
Release of accountability for certain Federal property.
[S. 1943]
Flood Control Act of 1936 amendment.
Connecticut River Valley reservoir system; plans modified.
[S. 1124]
Red-cedar shingles.
Director of the Census to collect and publish statistics concerning.
Imports from Canada.
Monthly statements to be made.
To be furnished producers, etc., on request, and to press.
Reports to State Department.
Use of Information.
Penalty provision.
Persons required to furnish information.
Written request as evidence of demand.
Penalty provision.
Appropriation authorized.
[S. 1189]
Tybee Island, Ga.
Establishment of Coast Guard station at, authorized.
[S. 1586]
Holabird Quartermaster Depot, Md.
Sale of part authorized.
Provisos.
Appraisal.
Minimum sale price.
Dallas, Tex.
Exchange of certain lande in connection with Parcel Post Building site authorized.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to convey by the usual quitclaim deed to The Union Terminal Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Texas, upon such terms and conditions as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem to be to the best interests of the United States, the following-described piece or parcel of land forming a part of the Dallas (Texas) Parcel Post Building site:
Parcel conveyed. Land acquired.
Beginning at the intersection of the westerly line of Houston Street with the center line of what was formerly Jackson Street; thence westerly along the center line of what was formerly Jackson Street
Beginning at the point of intersection of the center line of what was formerly Broadway Street with a straight line extending from the point of intersection of the southerly line of Commerce Street with the west line of what was formerly Broadway Street to the point of intersection of the east line of what was formerly Broadway Street, with the center line of what was formerly Jackson Street; thence in a northwesterly direction in a straight line one hundred and twenty-six and forty-nine one-hundredths feet to the point of intersection of the southerly line of Commerce Street with the westerly line of what was formerly Broadway Street; thence easterly with the southerly line of Commerce Street forty feet to the center line of what was formerly Broadway Street; thence southerly with the center line of what was formerly Broadway Street one hundred and twenty feet to the place of beginning;when a valid title to the last-described two parcels of land has become vested in the United States and has been approved by the Attorney General.
[S. 1973]
Puerto Rico.
Transfer of part of San Juan Military Reservation to, authorized.
Acceptance of Manicomio property.
Pere Jacques Marquette.
Preamble.
President requested to invite observance of tercentenary of birth.
[S. 2172]
Grand Coulee Dam project, Wash.
Construction expenditure conditional upon designated provisions.
Appraisal of lands before irrigation.
Repayment contracts.
Terms and conditions.
Provisos.
Excess land, exclusion from receiving water.
Refusal to sell excess lands; penalty.
Disposal of excess holdings a condition precedent to receiving water.
Size of farm units.
Sale above appraised value.
Payment to United States; application to construction installments.
Scope extended.
Filing objections.
Renunciation of water rights.
Lands excepted.
Ratification, etc., by State of Washington.
Use of portion of allotted funds for surveys, etc.
Post, p. 597.
Rules and regulations.
Sale of school, etc., lands.
Yakima Indian Reservation , Wash.
Extension of period of trust on allotted lands.
Proviso.
Further extension permitted.
District of Columbia public schools.
Proviso in existing law relating to teaching, etc., communism repealed.
Proviso.
Permission to advocate not given.
Hawaii, bond issues.
Legislature may alter list of authorized improvements.
That the Act entitled “An Disaster Loan Corporation. Lending authority extended. Ante, p. 19.
By striking out of the second paragraph thereof “
That the Librarian of Congress Golden Gate International Exposition. Protection of copyrights and patents of foreign exhibitors. Branch copyright, etc., offices at Exposition. Certificates of proprietorship to be issued. Registers to be kept.
Deposit at close of exposition. Certified copies of certificates.
Infringement of rights protected, unlawful.
Liabilities.
Injunction.
Pecuniary damages.
Delivery of articles that infringe.
Destruction of.
Infringement, penalty for.
Terms of protection.
Copyright , etc., actions.
Duration of protection.
Reimbursement of incurred expenses.
Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937.
Social Security Board.
Appropriation for old-age assistance payments.
Availability.
[S. 2049]
San Francisco Bay, Calif.
Establishment of naval air station, authorized.
Site.
Construction, etc.
Appropriation authorized.
Provisos.
In lieu of former authorization.
Restriction on expenditure.
Availability of funds.
Kanosh Indian Reservation, Utah.
Area enlarged.
Proviso.
Stock driveway.
Prior rights not affected.
Shivwitz Indian Reservation, Utah.
Area enlarged.
Proviso.
Stock driveway.
Prior rights not affected. Exchange of lands.
Great Lakes Exposition, Cleveland, Ohio.
Dutiable articles im ported for exhibition, etc., admitted free, under regulations.
Sales permitted.
Provisos.
Duty on articles withdrawn.
Deterioration allowance.
Marking requirements.
Abandoned articles.
Transfer privileges.
Exposition deemed sole consignee of merchandise.
Reimbursement of Federal expenses.
Deposit of receipts from, as refunds.
Koosharem Indian Reservation, Utah.
Area enlarged.
Prior rights not affected.
Potomac River.
Time extended for bridging, at Dahlgren, Va.
Amendment.
World War Veterans’ Act, amendment.
Five-year level-premium term policies; renewals for further period.
Renewal of expired policy.
Notice to be given.
June 1, 1937.
Certificate of the House of Representatives.
That the said bill pass, two-thirds of the House of Representatives agreeing to pass the same.
June 1, 1937.
Certificate of the Senate.
That the bill do pass, two-thirds of the Senate agreeing to pass the same.
Ohio River.
Time extended for bridging, Rockport, Ind., to Owensboro, Ky.
Amendment.
Hot Springs National Park, Ark.
Jurisdiction accepted.
Benton Harbor Canal.
Declared nonnavigable, Benton Harbor, Mich.
Improvement project abandoned.
Amendment.
Mississippi River.
Time extended for bridging, Saint Louis, Mo., to East Saint Louis, Ill.
Amendment.
Pearl River.
Mississippi may bridge, at Jackson.
Construction.
Amendment.
Lake Michigan.
Bridge construction; time extended.
Opposite mouth of Chicago River.
Ogden Slip, Chicago, Ill.
Amendment.
Allegheny County, Pa., bridge construction.
Time extended, designated projects.
Monongahela River, Pittsburgh to Homestead.
Allegheny River, Pittsburgh to O’Hara Township.
Monongahela River, at Pittsburgh.
Dravosburg to McKeesport.
Youghiogheny River at McKeesport.
Monongahela River, Boroughs of Rankin and Whitaker.
Amendment.
Government-owned establishments.
Obligation of funds for work at, authorized.
Orders placed at, considered same as those placed with private contractors.
Availability of appropriations.
Amoy, China.
Sale, etc., of lot authorized.
Proviso.
Use of receipts.
Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937.
Designated provisions of Agricultural Adjustment Act reenacted, etc.
12 U. S. C. § 781; Supp. II, § 781.
Post, p. 563.
Declaration.
Establishing, etc., orderly marketing conditions.
District Courts; jurisdiction.
Milk price adjustments.
Allotments.
Section added.
Milk prices.
Adjustments.
Producer referendum.
Cooperative association representation.
Conversion factors; provision repealed.
Geographical application.
“Interstate or foreign commerce” defined.
Agricultural commodity, etc., marketing transaction.
“State” construed.
Appropriations.
Arbitration of milk disputes.
Conduct of meetings.
Approval of award.
Agreements, etc., not deemed violation of antitrust laws.
Agreements, orders, etc., under Agricultural Adjustment Act ratified.
Agricultural Adjustment Act.
No processing, etc., taxes to be levied under.
Provisions affected.
Applicability.
Short title.
Eleventh International Dairy Congress.
Appropriation authorized for participation expenses.
Post, p. 770.
Services in the District.
Contracts without advertising.
Reimbursement of other appropriations.
Report to Congress.
Marine Band.
Appropriation for attendance, Confederate Veterans’ Reunion, 1937.
Ante, p. 200.
Mobile Bay.
Time extended for bridging, Cedar Point to Dauphin Island, Ala.
Proviso.
Resubmission of plans.
Amendment.
Potomac River.
Maryland and Virginia may bridge, Point of Rocks, Md., to Loudoun County, Va.
Right to acquire real estate, etc., for location, etc.
Condemnation proceedings.
Amendment.
Columbia River.
Wahkiakum County, Wash., may bridge, Puget Island to Cathlamet.
Amendment.
Mississippi River.
Time extended for bridging, Saint Louis, Mo., to Stites, Ill.
Amendment.
Coast Guard.
Rank of certain retired officers.
Commandant; retirement, pay, etc.
Subsequent appointment as captain; grade, if not appointed.
Captains.
Grade above to be that of rear admiral (lower half).
Commodore, retired list; rank abolished.
American Legion Museum, Newport News, Va.
Loan or gift of certain World War relics, etc., authorized.
List to be furnished.
Custody of returned property.
No Federal expense.
Joint Committee on Tax Evasion and Avoidance; establishment.
Post, p. 469.
Composition, appointment, etc.
Vacancies, effect of; filling.
Duties prescribed.
Report, etc.
Powers.
Taking testimony.
Subpenas.
Refusal to testify, etc.
Data to be furnished by Treasury Department.
Inspection of returns of income, etc.
Submission of information to designated Committees.
Reference to respective Houses.
Restriction on publicity.
Personal services.
Utilization of other facilities. etc.
Delegation of authority.
Duration.
New York World’s Fair, 1939.
Protection of copyrights and patents of foreign exhibitors.
Branch copyright, etc., offices on grounds.
That the Librarian of Congress and the Commissioner of Patents are hereby authorized and directed to establish branch offices under the direction of the Register of Copyrights and the Commissioner of Patents, respectively, in suitable quarters on the grounds of the New York World’s Fair, to be held at New York City, New York, under the direction of the New York World’s Fair Corporation, Incorporated, a New York corporation, said quarters to be furnished free of charge by said corporation, said offices to be established at such time as may, upon sixty days’ advance notice, in writing, to the Register of Copyrights and the Commissioner of Patents, respectively, be requested by said New York World’s Fair Corporation, but not earlier than January 1, 1939, and to be maintained until the close to the general Certificate of proprietorship to be issued. Registers to be kept.
At the close of said New York World’s Fair the register of certificates Deposit at close of Fair. Certified copies of certificates.
Infringement of rights unlawful.
Liabilities.
Injunction.
Pecuniary damages.
Delivery of articles that infringe.
Destruction.
Infringement; penalty provisions.
Terms of protection.
Copyright, etc., actions.
Duration of protection.
Reimbursement of incurred expenses.
San Francisco, Calif.
Acquisition of land near, for cemeterial purposes.
Appropriation authorized.
[S. 790]
Interstate, etc., shipment of petroleum products.
Existing provisions continued.
[S. 709]
National Education Association of the United States; charter amendments.
Membership; qualifications, etc., as prescribed in by laws.
Officers.
Powers, duties, etc.
Numbers and names of officers, boards, etc.
Board of trustees.
Vacancies.
Invested fund.
Restriction on expenditure.
Use of income from, limited.
Secretary.
Meetings; provision amended.
Municipal corporation bonds, Alaska.
Submission and approval, provisions modified.
Illinois Waterway, Ill.
Project for improvement modified.
Calumet River.
Designated portion, in Chicago, declared nonnavigable.
That the portion of the Calumet River, in the city of Chicago, County of Cook, State of Illinois, lying between the intersections of this river with the two lines described below, be declared by Congress to be a nonnavigable stream within the meaning of the Constitution and laws of the United States:
Description.
Beginning at a point five hundred and eighty-five feet east of the west line and seven hundred and thirty-two feet north of the south line of section 31, township 37 north, range 15 east, of the third principal meridian ; thence north forty-six degrees and thirty minutes east along a straight line to the easterly water’s edge of said river.
Amendment.
[S. 1120]
United States ship Tulip.
Sum authorized for memorial to officers, etc., Saint Inigoes Bay, Md.
Post, p. 767.
Site.
[S. 1967]
Department of Labor.
Special statistical studies by, continued.
Maine coast.
Establishment of Coast Guard stations authorized.
Washington eastern judicial district.
Whitman County transferred to northern division.
Indian reservations within, included.
San Francisco Bay.
Acquisition of site for establishing Coast Guard air station, west shore of, authorized.
Construction, etc,, of requisite facilities and accessories.
Albert Gallatin statue, Washington, D. C.
Selection of site and erection of pedestal for, authorized.
Approval required.
Appropriation authorized.
Appropriations for Departments of State and Justice, the Judiciary, and Departments of Commerce and Labor, fiscal year 1938.
Payment forbidden persons after nomination rejected by Senate.
[S. 329]
Homestead, etc., entrymen.
Time extended for offering final proof.
Customs.
Dispatch of vessels from certain ports of call at night, on Sundays, etc.
Clearance.
Proviso.
Bond required.
Olmedo Alfaro, a citizen of Ecuador.
Admission to U. S. Military Academy.
Provisos.
No expense.
Conditions.
Waiver of oath, etc., requirement.
Criminal Code, amendment.
Death penalty; State law to govern manner of infliction.
Use of local facilities, etc.
Where State has no provision for infliction of death penalty.
Inland Waterways Corporation.
Services and operations extended to the Savannah River.
Federal Register Act, amendment.
44 U. S. C., Supp. II, §§ 301–314.
Codification of documents to be filed by Federal agencies with Administrative Committee.
Report of Committee; publication of codification.
Codification Board; establishment, composition, etc.
Codification to be prima-facie evidence of text, etc.
Administrative regulations.
Reserve officers and members of Enlisted Reserves.
Provisions of pension laws for peacetime service extended to.
Proviso.
Reserves in active service, including training, given a pensionable status.
Pension not paid concurrently with active duty pay, etc.
Choice where also eligible to disability compensation.
Effective date.
[S. 102]
Battle of Antietam.
Coinage of 50-cent pieces commemorating 75th anniversary of, authorized.
No Federal expense for dies, etc.
Date, issue, number, etc.
Disposition.
Coinage laws applicable.
[S. 187]
Public lands.
Mining claims assessment work suspended, fiscal year 1937.
Provisos.
Claimant not exempt from Federal income tax, excluded.
Notice to be filed.
Number of lode mining claims limited.
Placer-mining claims.
Railroad Retirement Act of 1937.
Definitions.
“Employer.”
Proviso.
Street, interurban, or suburban electric railways.
“Employee.”
Service defined.
Proviso.
Place of employment.
Person in employment relation.
Proviso.
Status of person employed within, for a business without United States.
“United States” defined.
“Years of service.”
Proviso.
Service included.
“Annuity.”
“Compensation.”
Tips, etc.
“Board.”
“Enactment date.”
“Company.”
“Employee.”
“Carrier.”
“Person.”
Annuities.
Classes eligible.
Attaining 65 years.
Attaining 60 years and completing 50 years of service; total disability, etc.
Reduction, under 65 years.
Individuals, without regard to age, who on or after the enactment Total disability, after 30 years; service regardless of age.
“Such satisfactory proof of the permanent total disability and Periodic examinations. Discontinuance of annuity if employee fails to comply. Annuity discontinued on recovery; reduction, if paid thereafter.
Payment conditional upon reemployment.
Accrual of annuity.
Payment in any month in which compensated service rendered.
Report thereof.
Computation of annuities.
Determination of “years of service”.
Proviso.
Where principal part of business was outside United States.
Where principal part of business was within.
“Monthly compensation,” computation of.
Annuity to employee representative.
Employee attaining 65 and with 20 years of service.
Proviso.
Basis, if compensation less than $50.
Minimum annuity.
Payments upon death.
Recomputation on account of service rendered.
If annuity less than $2.50.
Joint and survivor annuity.
Proviso.
Marital, etc., provisions.
Death benefits.
If the deceased should be survived by a widow or widower entitled to an annuity under an election made pursuant to the provisions of section 4, there shall, on the death of the widow or widower, be paid to such person or persons as the deceased may have designated by a writing filed with the Board prior to his death, or if there be no designation, to the legal representative of the deceased, the amount, if any, by which 4 per centum of the aggregate compensation earned by the deceased after December 31, 1936, exceeds the sum of the total of the annuity payments actually made to the deceased plus the total of the annuity payments actually made to the widow or widower under an election made pursuant to the provisions of section 4 and under the provisions of section 3 (f), plus the total of the annuity payments due the widow or widower but not yet paid at death. If the person or persons designated to receive the death benefit do not survive the widow or widower, the death benefit shall be paid to the legal representative of the deceased.
“In computing the aggregate compensation for the purpose of this section, no part of any month’s earnings in excess of $300 shall be recognized.
Pension or gratuity rolls of employers.
Pensions to individuals on.
Provisos.
Limitation.
Where principal part of business is without United States.
Persons eligible for annuities not to be carried as pensioners.
Adjudication.
Proviso.
Double payments forbidden.
Adjustment of differences.
Additional payments by employers.
Conclusiveness of returns of compensation and of failure to make returns, etc.
Erroneous payments.
Retirement Board.
Personnel.
Establishment as an independent agency.
Composition, terms of office, vacancies, etc.
Representation of employees and carriers on Board.
Chairman, term of office; qualifications.
Board vacancies.
Salary, expenses, etc.
Duties and powers of Board.
Enforcement of laws; effect of decisions.
Awards to applicants entitled to annuity.
Certification of those entitled to receive payments.
Rules and regulations.
Approval required.
Records and data.
Authority to compel furnishing of information, etc.
Annual report.
Witness fees.
Delegation of authority.
Proviso.
Right of appeal.
Court jurisdiction.
Exemption.
Penalties.
Failure to make report or furnish information.
False, etc., statement.
Penalty.
Separability of provisions.
Railroad Retirement Account.
Annual appropriations authorized.
Post, p. 470.
Annual estimate.
Investments.
Sale, etc., of obligations.
Actuarial Advisory Committee.
Duties, etc.
Annual statements.
Sums authorized for administrative expenses.
Social Security Act.
“Employment”, term modified.
Free transportation to annuitants, etc., not unlawful.
Citations of titles.
Conditions of eligibility for annuities.
Provisos.
No reduction because of continuance in service after 65.
Prior services included.
Unpaid annuity due at death.
Person relinquishing employment and ineligible for annuity under Act of 1935, adjudication of right thereto.
Proviso.
No prior annuity.
Rights under former Act.
Railroad Retirement Board, personnel of.
Civilian Conservation Corps.
Establishment, purpose, etc.
Provisos.
Educational and vocational training.
Duration of Act.
Director; appointment, salary, authority.
Employment of Corps in protection, etc., of natural resources.
Provisos.
Cooperation with municipalities, etc.; restriction.
Maintenance, etc., after completion.
Emergency Conservation Work.
Transfer of personnel, property, etc., to Corps.
Camp exchange.
Proviso.
Sales restricted.
Civilian personnel.
Detail of officers to Corps.
Maximum enrollment; number of war veterans.
Proviso.
Additional Indian, etc., enrollees.
Qualifications of enrollees.
Provisos.
Right to exclude; exception.
Enrollment and reenrollment periods.
Attendance at educational institutions.
Certificates of proficiency and merit.
Compensation of enrollees.
Allotments to dependents.
Deposits by other enrollees; repayment.
Provisos.
Exclusion of Indians from regulations.
Pay rates.
Leaders.
Allowances.
Provisos.
Burial, etc., expenses.
Disability or death compensation.
Chief of Finance, War Department, to act as fiscal agent.
Provisos.
Expenditure of allocated funds.
Minor purchases.
Government agencies, use of services, etc., of.
Cooperative agreements with States, etc.
Expenditures for supplies, etc.
Disposal of surplus property.
Proviso.
Unserviceable property.
Adjustment, etc., of claims arising out of Corps operations.
Provisos.
Personal injury allowance.
Exception.
Restriction.
Acceptance deemed full settlement.
Appropriations authorized.
Post, p. 470.
Provisos.
Camp exchanges.
Monthly certificate of compliance.
Effective date.
[S. 4]
Norfolk, Va.
Commemorative coins authorized.
No Federal expense for dies, etc.
Date, issue, etc.
Number.
Disposition.
Coinage laws applicable.
[S. 2439]
That in carrying Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation, continuation of. Transfer of funds. Proviso. Use in effectuating purposes of section. Administrative, etc., expenses.
In carrying out clause (2) of section 32, the funds appropriated Purchase and donation of agricultural commodities for relief purposes.
[S. 2242]
Territorial papers of the United States.
Amount authorized for collecting, editing, etc., increased.
Limitation on annual appropriations.
World War memorials in Europe.
Appropriation for defraying dedication expenses.
Official delegation.
Transfer of funds.
Committee to Audit and Control Contingent Expenses of the Senate.
Salary of assistant clerk.
Ante, p. 170.
Stinson Aircraft Corporation.
Payment to.
[S. 119]
Menominee, Mich.
Establishment of Coast Guard station at, authorized.
[S. 1374]
Manistique, Mich.
Establishment of Coast Guard station at, authorized.
[S. 1984]
Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1937.
Citation.
Definitions.
“Convention.”
“Commission.”
“Person.”
“Territorial waters of the United States.”
“Territorial waters of Canada.”
“Convention waters.”
“Halibut.”
“Vessel.”
Unlawful acts.
Person other than national, etc., catching halibut in U. S. territorial waters.
Use of vessel of non-signatory nation.
Catches in violation of Convention or Act.
Catches, etc., by national, etc., in violation of Convention or Act.
Outfitting vessels, etc.
Unlawful possession, etc.
Departure in vessel which departs in violation of Convention, etc.
Halibut caught incidentally to fishing for other species.
License or permit.
Unlawful possession, etc.
Records and reports to be maintained.
Inspection.
Enforcement of provisions.
Boarding vessel to address inquiries, inspect, etc.
Arrest and seizure.
Detention and delivery.
National aboard Canadian vessel.
Attendance of Coast Guard, etc., personnel as witnesses; production of records, etc.
Punishment for violation.
Forfeiture of cargo.
Second violation.
Third and subsequent violations.
Procedure relative to seizure, etc.
Proviso.
Powers conferred on Secretary of Commerce.
Penalty provision.
Exemptions.
Joint rules and regulations to be made.
Effective date.
Northwest Territory Celebration Commission.
Publication and sale of historical, etc., material authorized.
Receipts to create a revolving fund tor continuance of publication, etc.
Printing, etc., other than at Government Printing Office.
Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, amendments.
Powers of Secretary of Agriculture extended, where State plan inoperative.
Apportionments for carrying out State plans continued until 1942.
Annual reports to Congress.
Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1938.
Executive Office.
Compensation.
For compensation of the President of the United States, $75,000. President.
For compensation of the Vice President of the United States, Vice President.
Office of the President.
Salaries. Proviso. Temporary details.
Contingent expenses.
Printing and binding.
Traveling, etc., expenses.
Total, Executive Office proper, $301,380.
Executive Mansion and Grounds.
Care, repair, etc. Post, p. 757.
Total, Executive Office, $494,478.
Independent Establishments.
American Battle Monuments Commission.
All expenses.
Acquisition of land abroad.
Services in the District.
Living quarters.
Uniforms for caretakers.
Vehicles.
Printing, binding, etc.
Continuing appropriations.
Provisos.
Technical, etc., work abroad.
Minor purchases.
Traveling expenses.
Delegation of authority permitted.
Board of Tax Appeals.
For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the All expenses.
For all printing and binding for the Board of Tax Appeals, Printing and binding.
Total, Board of Tax Appeals, $529,000.
Central Statistical Board.
All expenses.
Printing and binding.
Civil Service Commission.
For three Commissioners and other personal services in the District Commissioners, and office personnel. Attendance at meetings. etc. Provisos. Actuarial services. Details from departments, etc., forbidden. Emergency transfers, etc., permitted.
Printing and binding.
Civil-service retirement and disability fund.
Contribution.
Canal Zone retirement and disability fund.
Contribution.
Alaska Railroad retirement and disability fund.
Contribution.
For financing of the liability of the United States created by the Act entitled “An Act for the retirement of employees of the Alaska Railroad, Territory of Alaska, who are citizens of the United States”, approved June 29, 1936 (49 Stat., p. 2017), $175,000, which amount
Total, Civil Service Commission, $75,502,000.
District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Authority.
Funds for, continued available.
Employees’ Compensation Commission.
Salaries and expenses.
For three Commissioners and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including not to exceed $1,000 for temporary experts and assistants in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, to be paid at a rate not exceeding $8 per day, and for personal services in the field; for furniture and other equipment and repairs thereto; law books, books of reference, periodicals; stationery and supplies; traveling expenses; fees and mileage of witnesses; contract stenographic reporting services; rent at the seat of government and elsewhere; and miscellaneous items; $466,450.
For all printing and binding for the Employees’ Compensation Printing and binding.
Employees’ compensation fund: For the payment of compensation Employees’ compensation fund. Burial, etc., expenses.
Employees’ compensation fund, civil works.
Administrative expenses, compensation payments, etc.
Provisions extended.
Employees’ compensation fund, Emergency Conservation Work.
Administrative expenses and compensation payments.
Employees’ compensation fund, emergency relief.
Administrative expenses and compensation payments.
For administrative expenses and the payment of compensation in connection with the administration of the benefits authorized by section 2 of the Act entitled “Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935”, approved April 8, 1935 (49 Stat. 115–119), and by the “Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936”, approved June 22, 1936 (49 Stat. 1608), $2,582,360 of the special funds set upon the books of the Treasury pursuant to the provisions of the said Acts shall be available for expenditure during the fiscal year 1938.
Total, Employees’ Compensation Commission, $5,124,450.
Federal Communications Commission.
Salaries and expenses. Post, p. 757. Post, p. 1146. Minor purchases. Maintenance, etc.
Printing and binding.
Total, Federal Communications Commission, $1,629,000.
Federal Power Commission.
Expenses. Vehicles. Transferring effects, etc. Consultants, etc. Proviso. Minor purchases.
For all printing and binding for the Federal Power Commission, Printing and binding.
Total, Federal Power Commission, $1,525,000.
Federal Trade Commission.
For five commissioners, and for all other authorized expenditures Commissioners, and other expenses. Attendance at meetings. Witness fees, etc. Proviso. Minor purchases.
For all printing and binding for the Federal Trade Commission, Printing and binding.
Total, Federal Trade Commission, $1,981,000.
Foreign Service Pay Adjustment.
Losses due to foreign currency appreciation.
General Accounting Office.
Salaries: For Comptroller General, Assistant Comptroller General, Comptroller General, Assistant, and office personnel.
Contingent expenses: For traveling expenses, materials, supplies, Contingent expenses. Proviso. Minor purchases.
Printing and binding.
Total, General Accounting Office, $5,306,540.
Interstate Commerce Commission.
Salaries and expenses.
Commissioners, etc. Services in the District. Books, furniture, etc.
Enforcing accounting by railroads. 34 Stat. 593; 36 Stat. 555; 41 Stat. 493. Special examiners.
Safety of employees, etc. Reports and investigations of accidents. Safety signals. Testing appliances. Services in the District.
Signal safety systems. Automatic train-control devices. Post, p. 835. Services in the District.
Locomotive inspection: For all authorized expenditures under the Locomotive Inspection. 36 Stat. 913; 38 Stat. 3192; 40 Stat. 616; 43 Stat. 659; 46 Stat. 822. Additional inspectors. Services in the District.
Valuation of property of carriers: To enable the Interstate Commerce Valuation of property of carriers. Emergency Railroad Transportation Act, 1933.
Air mail: To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to perform Air mail. Services in the District.
Motor transport regulation: For all authorized expenditures necessary Motor transport regulation, expenses. Proviso. Use of Government transportation requests.
Attendance at meetings.
In all, salaries and expenses, Interstate Commerce Commission, Proviso. Minor purchases.
Printing and binding. Proviso. Schedule of Sailings excluded.
Total, Interstate Commerce Commission, $7,939,500.
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
All expenses, scientific research, etc.
For scientific research, technical investigations, and special reports in the field of aeronautics, including the necessary laboratory and technical assistants; contracts for personal services in the making of special investigations and in the preparation of special reports; traveling expenses of members and employees; including not to exceed $1,000 for expenses, except membership fees, of attendance upon meetings of technical and professional societies; office supplies and other miscellaneous expenses, including technical periodicals and books of reference; equipment, maintenance, and operation of the Langley Laboratory. Allowances.
Printing and binding.
Total, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, $1,280,850.
National Archives.
Salaries and expenses. Apparatus, materials, etc. Membership fees. Attendance at meetings. Proviso. Minor purchases.
Printing and binding: For all printing and binding for the Printing and binding.
Total, The National Archives, $717,000.
National Capital Park and Planning Commission.
All expenses.
Personal services.
Acquisition of land.
Vehicles.
National Labor Relations Board.
Salaries and expenses: For three Board members, and for all Salaries and expenses. Proviso. Minor purchases.
Printing and binding: For all printing and binding for the Printing and binding. Post, p. 758.
Total. National Labor Relations Board, $785,000.
National Mediation Board.
Salaries and expenses.
Arbitration boards.
Emergency boards.
Printing and binding.
National Railroad Adjustment Board.
Expenses.
Printing and binding.
Total, National Railroad Adjustment Board, $242,565.
Total, National Mediation Board, $385,765.
Oil lands in former naval reserves.
Expenses, protection of interests in matters affecting.
Proviso.
Compensation restriction.
Railroad Retirement Board.
Salaries and expenses. Attendance at meetings. Details of officers in an advisory capacity. Supplies, etc. Membership, etc., fees. Proviso. Minor purchases.
For the payment of annuities to employees, representatives, Annuities. 45 U. S. C., Supp. II, §§ 217–219. Balance continued available.
For printing and binding for the Railroad Retirement Board, $25,000.
Total, Railroad Retirement Board, Printing and binding.
Rural Electrification Administration.
Salaries and expenses: For administrative expenses and expenses Salaries and expenses. Proviso. Minor purchases, etc.
Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the Rural Printing and binding.
Loans and purchase of property.
Total, Rural Electrification Administration, $31,520,000.
Securities and Exchange Commission.
Commissioners, and other expenses. Proviso. Minor purchases, etc.
Printing and binding.
Total, Securities and Exchange Commission, $3,895,000.
Smithsonian Institution.
Administrative expenses, etc.
International exchanges.
American ethnology.
Astrophysical Observatory.
National Museum.
Equipment, etc.
Preservation of collections: For continuing preservation, exhibition, Preservation of collections.
National Gallery of Art.
Administrative expenses.
For all printing and binding for the Smithsonian Institution, Printing and binding. American Historical Association report.
Total, Smithsonian Institution, $1,023,665, of which amount not to exceed $846,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
Social Security Board.
Salaries and expenses: For all authorized and necessary Salaries and expenses. 49 Stat. 620–629, 635, 639, 645. 42 U. S. C., Supp. II, § 301–. Post, p. 759. Travel expenses. Details for advisory purposes. Supplies. Vehicles. Balance reappropriated. Provisos. Minor purchases, etc. Special accounting, etc., services. Salary restriction. Board members excepted. Experts and attorneys, appointment restriction.
Printing and binding. Grants to States. Old-age assistance.
Grants to States for old-age assistance: For grants to States for assistance to aged needy individuals, as authorized in title I of the Social Security Act, approved August 14, 1935, $132,000,000, of which sum such amount as may be necessary shall be available for grants under such title I for any period in the fiscal year 1937 Proviso. Payments restricted.
Unemployment compensation administration. Balance available.
Aid to dependent children. Availability. Proviso. Payments restricted.
Grants to States for aid to the blind: For grants to States for Aid to the blind. Availability. Proviso. Payments restricted.
The appropriations herein made for “Grants to States for old-age Designated funds interchangeable.
Total, Social Security Board, $226,100,000.
Tariff Commission.
For salaries and expenses of the Tariff Commission, including personal Salaries and expenses. Reporting services. Attendance at meetings. Living quarters. Provisos. Minor purchases, etc. Salary restriction.
For all printing and binding for the Tariff Commission, $20,000. Printing and binding.
Total, Tariff Commission, $945,000.
Veterans’ Administration.
Administration, medical, hospital, and domiciliary services: For Administration, medical, hospital, and domiciliary services. Salaries and expenses. Provisos. Attendance at meetings, etc. Services, rentals, traveling expenses, etc. Wearing apparel. Vehicles. Transporting employees’ children to schools. Actuarial services. Transfer of applicable funds. Recreational facilities, etc. Burial, etc., expenses. Purchase of tobacco. Aid to State, etc., homes.
No part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase Restriction on new construction, etc. Improving facilities.
For printing and binding for the Veterans’ Administration, including Printing and binding.
Pensions: For the payment of compensation, pensions, gratuities, Pensions.
For military and naval insurance accruing during the fiscal year Military and naval Insurance.
Adjusted service and dependent pay: For payment of adjusted-service Adjusted service and dependent pay.
Total, Veterans’ Administration, $585,832,000: Proviso. Butter substitutes.
Emergency Agencies.
Commodity Credit Corporation.
Funds available for administrative expenses.
Ante, p. 3.
Proviso.
Designated services, etc., deemed nonadministrative.
Electric Home and Farm Authority.
Funds available for administrative expenses.
Post, p. 757.
Ante, p. 5.
Proviso.
Designated services, etc., considered nonadministrative.
Export-Import Bank of Washington.
Funds available for administrative expenses.
Ante, p. 5.
Proviso.
Designated services, etc., considered nonadministrative.
Federal Home Loan Bank Board.
Administrative expenses.
Supplies, etc.
Use of other services and facilities.
Provisos.
Designated Services, etc., considered nonadministrative.
Payment of administrative, etc., expenses.
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation.
Salaries and expenses.
Printing and binding.
Supplies.
Use of designated services.
Provisos.
Designated services, etc., deemed nonadministrative.
Allowances for expenses.
Federal Housing Administration.
Administrative expenses.
Post, p. 758.
Supplies, etc.
Attendance at meetings.
Provisos.
Designated services, etc., considered nonadministrative.
Payment of administrative, etc., expenses.
Amount for Public Relations and Education Division.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
Administrative expenses.
Printing and binding.
Provisos.
Designated expenses considered nonadministrative.
Payment of administrative, etc., expenses.
Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works.
Administrative expenses.
Post, p. 358.
Labor-saving devices.
Proviso.
Payment of administrative, etc., expenses.
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation.
Administrative expenses.
Travel expenses.
Printing and binding.
Use of services, etc., of designated agencies.
Provisos.
Designated expenses deemed nonadministrative.
Payment of administrative, etc., expenses.
Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.
Proviso.
Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.
No reduction in fixed salary.
Transfers without reduction.
Higher rates permitted.
If only one position in a grade.
Interstate Commerce Commission and Tariff Commission; salary rates of Commissioners.
Short title.
Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1937.
Revenue Act of 1932.
Certain excise and miscellaneous taxes continued.
47 Stat. 259, 270–276; 49 Stat. 431.
Postage rates.
Gasoline tax.
District of Columbia.
Appropriation for expenses of, fiscal year 1938, from District revenues and $5,000,000 from the Treasury.
General expenses.
Executive office.
For personal services, $48,060, plus so much as may be necessary Office personnel. Additional, for Engineer Commissioner. Provisos. Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act; exceptions. 42 Stat. 1488. If only one position in a grade. Advances In meritorious cases. Restrictions not applicable to clerical-mechanical service. No reduction in fixed salaries. Transfers without pay reduction. Higher rates permitted. If only one position in a grade.
Purchasing division: For personal services, $57,000. Purchasing division. Building inspection division. Plumbing Inspection division.
Building inspection division: For personal services, $121,360.
Plumbing inspection division: For personal services, $43,160; two members of plumbing board at $150 each; in all, $43,460.
Smoke and boiler regulation.
Poundmaster's office.
Proviso. Salary rate.
Public convenience stations.
Maintenance.
Care of District buildings.
Operating force.
For personal services, including temporary labor, and service of cleaners as necesssary at not to exceed 48 cents per hour, $96,700: Proviso. Employment of additional assistant engineers or watchmen.
Operating supplies.
Assessor’s office.
Collector’s office.
Auditor's office.
Personal services.
Examination of estimates of appropriations.
Disbursing officer permitted other compensation.
Corporation Counsel’s office.
Corporation counsel: extra pay, Public Utilities Commission.
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.
Personal services and expenses.
Coroner’s office.
Personal services.
Morgue, etc., expenses.
Office of Superintendent of Weights, Measures, and Markets.
Personal services.
Contingent expenses.
Purchase of commodities.
Post, p. 760.
For personal services, $53,800.
For contingent expenses, and maintenance and repairs to markets, including not to exceed $1,000 for purchase of commodities and for personal services in connection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles, and not exceeding $750 for the purchase including exchange, of one motor vehicle equipped for making investigations of sales of gasoline and oil by short measure, $9,175.
Engineer Department.
Chief Clerk’s office.
Safety inspector.
Municipal Architect's office.
For personal services, $57,980. Personal services.
All apportionments of appropriations for the use of the municipal Apportionments.
Public Utilities Commission.
For two commissioners, people’s counsel, and for other personal Commissioners, people's counsel, etc. Experts.
For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorized Incidental, etc., expenses.
No part of the appropriations contained in this Act shall be used Issuance of orders requiring meters in taxicabs forbidden.
Examiners, steam engineers.
Salaries; boiler inspector.
Insurance department.
Surveyor's office.
For personal services, $79,000. Personal services.
For completing the rebinding and repairing of record books in the Record books, repair, etc.
Minimum Wage Board.
Personal services.
Contingent expenses.
Employees' compensation fund.
Payments for injuries.
Administrative expenses, compensation to injured employees. Transfer to Commission.
Retirement Act; contribution from District revenues.
Department of Vehicles and Traffic.
Personal services.
Expenses, etc. Proviso. Not available for street car loading platforms, etc.
Identification plates.
Register of Wills.
For personal services, $74,940.
For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, telephone bills, printing, typewriters, photostat paper and supplies, including laboratory coats and photographic developing-room equipment, towels, towel service, window washing, street-car tokens, furniture and equipment and repairs thereto, and purchase of books of reference, law books, and periodicals, $10,500.
Recorder of Deeds.
Personal services.
Contingent expenses.
For rent of offices of the recorder of deeds, $14,000, to be expended Rent. Post, p. 394.
Contingent and miscellaneous expenses.
Objects specified.
For checks, books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, newspapers, stationery; surveying instruments and implements; drawing materials; binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records; ice; traveling expenses not to exceed $2,000, including payment of dues and traveling expenses in attending conventions when authorized by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; expenses Removing unsafe, etc., buildings. Settlement of claims. Proviso. Printing, etc., list of supplies forbidden.
For postage for strictly official mail matter, including the rental Postage.
For judicial expenses, including witness fees, and expert services Judicial expenses. Provisos. Contract reporting services. No court costs, etc., in District Court for D. C. required.
For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for General advertising. Proviso. Outside advertising.
For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July 1, 1937, as required Taxes in arrears. Proviso. Advertising delinquent tax list in news papers.
Printing and binding. Proviso. Approval of requisitions required.
Conference on Uniform State Laws.
Central Garage.
Automobiles, maintenance, etc.
Private vehicle allowances. Proviso. Restriction.
Use of District-owned vehicles restricted. Transportation between domicile and place of employment. Proviso. Purchase, etc., restrictions. Transfers forbidden.
Fire-insurance premiums forbidden.
Street-car and bus fares. Proviso. Limitation. Fire and police departments excepted.
Employment service.
Emergency fund, expenses; restriction.
Proviso.
Voucher for expenditure.
Refund of erroneous collections.
To enable the Commissioners, in any case where special assessments, Payments authorized. Building permits.
For payment of amounts collected by the District erroneously on Erroneously collected taxes, fines, etc. Proviso. Availability.
Wharves.
Reconstruction, maintenance, etc.
Loan from Public Works Administration.
Reimbursement.
Proviso.
Amount of deposit, 1938.
Free Public Library.
For personal services, and for substitutes and other special and Personal services.
Miscellaneous: For books, periodicals, newspapers, and other Miscellaneous. Proviso. Advances for purchases of books, etc. Accounting.
For binding, including necessary personal services, $20,000. Binding.
For maintenance, alterations, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting up Contingent expenses.
Chevy Chase and Woodridge branches.
Petworth branch, completing construction. Proviso. Limit of cost increased.
Sewers.
Personal services.
Cleaning, repair, etc. Motor trucks.
Main and pipe, etc.
Suburban. Motor trucks.
Oxon Run Interceptor, construction.
Assessment and permit work.
Mosquito control. Proviso. Transfer to Public Health Service.
Sewage treatment plant.
City refuse.
Personal services.
Sweeping, cleaning, etc.
Garbage, dead animate, ashes, etc. Proviso. Collection restriction.
Public playgrounds.
For personal services, $127,780: Personal services. Proviso. Employments restricted.
For general maintenance, repairs, and improvements, equipment, Maintenance, etc.
For the maintenance and contingent expenses of keeping open during Public school playgrounds, during summer.
For temporary services, including superintendence, supplies, Swimming or bathing pools, operation.
Electrical Department.
For personal services, $145,000. Personal services.
For general supplies, Supplies, contingent expenses, etc.
For placing wires or fire alarm, police patrol, and telephone services Placing wires underground. police patrol and fire alarm systems, etc. Replacing sections of main trunk cables.
Lighting: For purchase, installation, and maintenance of public Lighting streets, etc. Airway lights. Provisos. Rates, limitation. Awards to lowest bidder.
Public schools.
Administrative and supervisory officers.
Personal services.
School attendance and work permits department.
Teachers, librarians, etc. Health and physical education teachers. Advancement provisions. Provisos. Assignment of kindergarten teachers in grades 1 to 4. Placing unassigned teachers of special, etc., subjects. Librarians, pay restriction.
Vacation schools, instruction, etc.
Night schools.
Salaries.
Contingent expenses.
Americanization work.
Instruction of foreigners of all ages.
For contingent and other necessary expenses, including books, Contingent expenses.
For carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 19, 1934 (U. S. Instruction of children of veterans who lost their lives during World War.
For the development of vocational education in the District Development of vocational education.
Community Centers.
Salaries and expenses.
Care of buildings and grounds.
Salaries.
Smaller buildings and rented rooms.
Miscellaneous.
For the maintenance of schools for tubercular and crippled pupils, Schools for tubercular and crippled pupils. Transportation.
For transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercular pupils, sight conservation pupils, and crippled pupils, $22,500: Proviso. Car, etc., fares.
For purchase and repair of furniture, tools, machinery, material, Manual, etc., training.
For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $325,000. Fuel, light, and power. Contingent expenses.
For contingent expenses, including United States flags, furniture and repairs of same, including not exceeding $10,000 for the purchase of furniture and equipment for the Phelps Vocational School, stationery, ice, paper towels, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, and including not exceeding $13,000 for books of reference and periodicals, of which $5,000 shall be available for the purchase Books for Wilson Teachers College. Proviso. No bond for Army supplies to cadets.
For completely furnishing and equipping buildings and additions Furnishings, etc., for designated buildings.
Supplies to pupils.
Kindergartens.
Supplies for general science departments.
School gardens, utensils, etc.
Repairs, etc., to buildings. Proviso. Contracts, etc.
Equipment for school yard playgrounds. Proviso. Hours open.
Annuities.
Deaf, dumb, and blind.
Maintenance and Instruction.
Colored deaf mutes. Tuition of, under contract. Proviso. Supervision of expenditures.
Blind children. Tuition of, under contract. Proviso. Supervision of expenditures.
No part of any appropriation made in this Act shall be paid to Soliciting subscriptions, etc.
No money appropriated in this Act for the purchase of furniture Requisitions for equipment subject to Commissioners’ approval.
The Board of Education is authorized to designate the months in Nature study, etc., teachers.
The children of officers and men of the United States Army, Navy, Children of Army, Navy officers, etc., admitted to schools free.
Buildings and grounds.
For completing the construction of a vocational school for girls, Vocational school for girls, replacing old Dennison Building. Proviso. Limit of cost increased.
For beginning the construction of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Thomas Jefferson Memorial Junior High and Library, construction. Post, p. 760. Personal services. Proviso. Library administration.
For the construction of an eight-room addition to the Bundy Bundy School, addition.
For beginning the construction of a vocational school to replace Vocational school, to replace Lenox.
For the construction of a third-story addition to the Cleveland Cleveland School, addition.
For beginning the construction of a new senior high school on a Senior high, Fifth and Sheridan Streets Northwest. Personal services. Contracts.
Junior high, Banneker playground site. Contracts.
Shepherd, completion or second floor.
Aggregate; accounting. Proviso. Use restricted.
For the purchase of school building and playground sites as follows:
For the purchase of land adjoining the site of the old Dennison School, to provide for the construction of an elementary school building;
Not exceeding $17,500 for the purchase of land for elementary school purposes in the vicinity of First and Pierce Street Northwest;
Sites designated.
For the purchase of additional land for an extension to the Margaret Murray Washington Vocational School;
For the purchase of additional land for the new Lenox Vocational School, adjacent to the site for said school now owned by the District of Columbia at Potomac Avenue between Thirteenth and Fourteenth Streets Southeast;
In all, $242,500.
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Junior High and Library. Sum available for acquiring site.
Under age instruction prohibited. Proviso. Webster School, Americanization work excepted.
Building contracts, requirements. Proviso. Right to reject bids.
The plans and specifications for all buildings provided for in this Preparation of plans.
The school buildings authorized and appropriated for herein shall Exit, etc., requirements.
Metropolitan Police.
For the pay and allowances of officers and members of the Metropolitan Salaries, etc.
For personal services, $138,730. Personal services.
Miscellaneous.
For fuel, $7,300. Fuel.
For repairs and improvements to police stations and station Repairs, etc.
For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including rewards for Contingent expenses. Radio systems, etc. Proviso. Speedometer repairs.
Motor vehicles, etc.
Uniforms.
House of Detention.
Maintenance, etc.
Policemen and Firemen’s Relief Fund.
Payments from.
Fire Department.
Salaries.
Salaries.
Personal services.
Miscellaneous.
Repairs, etc., to buildings. Uniforms.
Uniforms: For furnishing uniforms and other official equipment prescribed by department regulations as necessary and requisite in the performance of duty to officers and members of the fire department, including cleaning, alteration, and repair of articles transferred from one individual to another, $23,000.
Repairs to apparatus, etc. Proviso. Construction at repair shop.
Hose.
Fuel.
Contingent expenses.
New apparatus.
Health Department.
Salaries.
Personal services.
Prevention of contagious diseases.
For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of the provisions Contingent expenses. Tuberculosis registration. Infantile paralysis. Venereal diseases. Disinfecting service. Proviso. Bacteriological examination of milk, etc.
For the maintenance of a dispensary or dispensaries for the treatment Tuberculosis and venereal dispensaries. Provisos. Volunteer services. Compensation restriction.
Nursing service: For maintaining a nursing service, including personal Nursing service. Provisos. Volunteer services. Compensation restriction.
For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for the Drainage of lots, etc.
Hygiene, etc., public schools. Free dental clinics. Provisos. Medical inspectors and public-school nurses, division of.
Laboratories, maintenance.
Enforcing food, drugs, candy, etc., adulteration Act. Milk regulation. Proviso. Dairy farm inspection, vehicle allowance.
Motor vehicles.
Child welfare and hygiene. Provisos. Volunteer services. Compensation restriction.
Tuberculosis sanatoria; hereafter directed by Health Department.
Personal services.
Expenses.
Repairs and improvements.
Gallinger Hospital, personal services.
For maintenance of the hospital; for maintenance of the quarantine Maintenance, etc.
For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $4,500. Repairs, etc.
Purchase of books, musical instruments and music, expense of commencement Incidental expenses.
Medical charities: For care and treatment of indigent patients Medical charities. Care, etc., indigent patients at designated hospitals.
Children’s Hospital, $40,000.
Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, $65,000.
Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, $40,000.
Washington Home for Incurables, $10,000.
Health Center: For the construction on the site of the Jones Health Center, construction, etc. Plans. Proviso. Jurisdiction over buildings.
Courts.
Juvenile Court.
Salaries: For personal services, $65,800. Salaries.
Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, $2,000. Miscellaneous.
For fuel, ice, gas, laundry work, stationery, books of reference, Contingent expenses.
The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized Advances for returning absconding probationers.
Police Court.
Salaries: For personal services, $114,530. Salaries.
For law books, books of reference, directories, periodicals, stationery, Contingent expenses.
Witness fees and Jurors’ compensation. New building, completion.
For completing construction of a building in Judiciary Square to house the Police Court of the District of Columbia, including furniture and equipment, and inspection, $450,000.
Municipal Court.
Salaries.
Jurors. Proviso. Deposits for jury trial earned unless new date set, etc.
Contingent expenses.
District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.
District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.
Salaries.
Salaries: For the chief justice, eight associate justices, nine stenographers (one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice), and other personal services, $137,300.
Jurors and witnesses.
Bailiffs, etc,
Probation system.
Courthouse, care, etc.
Repairs, etc.
Court of Appeals.
Salaries. Proviso. Sale of reports.
Building: For personal services for care and protection of the Care, etc., of building. Proviso. Custodian.
For mops, brooms, buckets, disinfectants, removal of refuse, electrical Incidental expenses.
For repairs and improvements to the United States Court of Appeals Building repairs, etc.
Miscellaneous.
Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportation Support of convicts.
Writs of lunacy: For expenses attending the execution of writs de Lunacy writs. Expenses of execution. etc.
Miscellaneous court expenses: For such miscellaneous expenses as Miscellaneous court expenses.
Printing and binding: For printing and binding for the District Printing and binding.
Public Welfare.
Board of Public Welfare.
Child Welfare Division.
Administration: For administrative expenses, including placing Administrative expenses. Restriction on expenditure.
Board, etc., of children.
Home care of dependent children. Proviso. Apportionment restrictions.
Receiving home for children under seventeen. Maintenance, etc.
Advances to director. Limitation.
Jail.
Salaries.
Maintenance, etc., of prisoners.
Workhouse and Reformatory.
Personal services.
Maintenance, etc.
For repairs to buildings and grounds, and maintenance of utilities, Repairs to buildings, etc.
For replacing defective electric wiring and equipment of distribution Electric system, improvements.
To provide a working capital fund for such industrial enterprises Working capital fund. Proviso. Purchase of services and products. Receipts deposited as a revolving fund. Availability.
For continuing construction of permanent buildings for women, Buildings for women, construction, etc.
The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized Advances for returning escaped prisoners.
National Training School fur Boys.
Care, etc., of boys committed to.
National Training School for Girls.
Salaries: For personal services, $31,500. Salaries and expenses.
For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, clothing, shoes, forage and farm supplies; medicine, medical service, including not to exceed $2,000 for medical care and not to exceed $600 for dental care; transportation, maintenance of non-passenger-carrying vehicles; equipment, fixtures, books, magazines, and other educational supplies; recreational equipment and supplies, including rental of Foster home placement. Securing homes for paroled girls.
Buildings, construction, repair, etc.
Columbia Hospital, etc.
Repairs, etc.
District Training School.
Personal services.
Maintenance, etc.
Repairs, etc.
Truck.
New building, construction.
Industrial Home School for Colored Children.
Salaries.
Salaries: For personal services, $37,760; temporary labor, $500; in all, $38,260.
Maintenance, etc.
Repairs, etc.
Vocational building, construction.
Industrial Home School.
Salaries.
Maintenance.
Repairs, etc.
Home for Aged and Infirm.
Salaries.
For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles and repairs to Contingent expenses.
For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, such Repairs, etc.; day labor.
For the purchase, including exchange, of one three-ton dump Truck.
For purchase and installation of an additional boiler for the heating Heating plant, improvements.
Municipal Lodging House.
Public assistance.
For the purpose of affording relief to residents of the District Relief of the unemployed, etc. From District revenues. Proviso. Supervision of accounts, etc.
Assistance against old-age want: To carry out the provisions of Old-age assistance. Post, p. 760.
Pensions for needy blind persons: To carry out the provisions of Pensions for the needy blind.
Temporary home for former soldiers and sailors.
Personal services, maintenance, etc.
Florence Crittenton Home.
Southern Belief Society, for needy Confederate veterans, etc.
National Library for the Blind.
Columbia Polytechnic Institute.
Saint Elizabeths Hospital.
Support of District insane.
Deportation of nonresident insane.
Advances authorized to Director of Public Welfare. Limit.
Ex-service men.
Burial of indigent.
Transportation of indigent persons.
Vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents.
Militia.
For the following, to be expended under the authority and direction Expenses authorised, tinder commanding general.
For personal services, $21,500; temporary labor, $5,800; for expenses Personal services. Expenses of camps, etc.
Anacostia Park,
Continuing development.
National Capital Parks.
Personal services.
Public parks.
Maintenance and general expenses.
Proviso.
Minor auxiliary structures.
Park police.
Salaries.
Uniforms, equipment, etc.
National Capital Park and Planning Commission.
Reimbursement to United States for lands acquired.
Incidental expenses. Provisos. Minor purchases. Statement of expenditures to Congress.
National Zoological Park.
Expenses.
Street and road improvement.
Personal services; payable from gasoline tax fund.
Gasoline tax, road and street fund.
For paving, repaving, grading, and otherwise improving streets, Paving, etc., streets and roads from.
For paving, repaving, and surfacing, including curbing and gutters Improvements designated.
Southeast: Branch Avenue, Alabama Avenue to Denver Street, $26,000;
Southeast: Minnesota Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue to Twenty-seventh Street, $10,000;
Northeast: Fenwick Street, New York Avenue to West Virginia Avenue, $18,000;
Northeast: Franklin Street, Michigan Avenue to Lincoln Road, $16,500;
Northwest: New Hampshire Avenue, Buchanan Street to North Capitol Street, $96,000;
Northwest: For widening to seventy feet and repaving the roadway Seventeenth Street, N. W. Widening, Pennsylvania Avenue to H Street. Proviso. Assessment of cost. Modification of vaults under sidewalks, etc.
Southeast: Denver Street, Branch Avenue to Thirty-fourth Street, Southeast.
Southeast: Sixteenth Street, Ridge Place to Q Street, $10,500;
Southeast: Nineteenth Street, Minnesota Avenue to P Street, $10,500;
Southeast: R Street, Sixteenth Street to Seventeenth Street, $8,300;
Southeast: Q Street, Sixteenth Street to Seventeenth Street, $8,300;
Southeast: Q Street, Nineteenth Street to Minnesota Avenue, $3,800;
Southeast: P Street, Eighteenth Place to Nineteenth Street, $4,500;
Southeast: Eighteenth Place, Fairlawn Avenue to P Street, $7,500;
Northeast: Seventeenth Street, C Street to E Street, $12,000; Northeast.
Northeast: D Street, Seventeenth Street to Eighteenth Street, $9,000;
Northeast; Eighteenth Street, C Street to D Street, $7,500;
Northeast: E Street, Sixteenth Street to Seventeenth Street, $4,800;
Northeast: Holbrook Street, Morse Street to Neal Street, $6,100;
Northeast: Seventeenth Place, K Street to L Street, $5,400;
Northeast: Seventeenth Street, K Street to M Street, $15,000;
Northeast: Lang Street, Seventeenth Street eastward, $3,000;
Northeast: Lyman Street, Seventeenth Street eastward, $3,600;
Northeast: R Street, Bladensburg Road eastward, $10,500;
Northeast: Evarts Street, Twenty-second Street to Twenty-fourth Street, $8,300;
Northeast: Nineteenth Street, South Dakota Avenue to Bunker Hill Road, $14,000;
Northeast: Randolph Street, Eighteenth Street to Twentieth Street, $16,500;
Northeast: South Dakota Avenue, Eighteenth Street to Nineteenth Street, $21,900;
Northeast: South Dakota Avenue, Fourteenth Street southward, $14,000;
Northeast: Thirteenth Place, Taylor Street to Michigan Avenue, $5,300;
Northeast: Taylor Street, Michigan Avenue to Fourteenth Street, $10,000;
Northwest.
Northwest: Third Place, Crittenden Street to Decatur Street, $4,600;
Northwest: Decatur Street, New Hampshire Avenue to Fourth Street, $9,000;
Northwest: Fourth Street, Decatur Street to Emerson Street, $6,800;
Northwest: Delafield Place, Third Street to Fourth Street, $6,800;
Northwest: Third Street, New Hampshire Avenue to Emerson Street, $10,500;
Northwest: Third Street, Farragut Street to Kansas Avenue, $28,500;
Northwest: Gallatin Street, Third Street to Fourth Street, $7,500;
Northwest: Hamilton Street, New Hampshire Avenue to Kansas Avenue, $20,500;
Northwest: Second Street, New Hampshire Avenue to Hamilton Street, $11,300;
Northwest: Farragut Street, New Hampshire Avenue to First Street, $4,500;
Northwest: First Street, Concord Avenue to Longfellow Street, $10,500;
Northwest: Powhatan Place, Fifth Street to Seventh Street, $9,100;
Northwest: Sixth Street, Tuckerman Street to Van Buren Street, $8,200;
Northwest: Seventh Street, Tewksbury Place to Whittier Street, $17,300;
Northwest: Oglethorpe Street, Seventh Street to Eighth Street, $6,800;
Northwest: Gallatin Street, Georgia Avenue to Ninth Street, $7,500;
Northwest: Western Avenue, Rittenhouse Street to Broad Branch Road, $24,200;
Northwest: Elder Street, Seventh Street to Eighth Street, $6,000;
Grading; culverts.
For paving the unpaved center strips of paved roadways, $5,000; Paving centerstrips.
For minor changes in roadway and sidewalks on plans to be approved Minor changes in roadways, etc.
For construction of curbs and gutters, or concrete shoulders in Curbs and gutters, shoulders, etc.
For the surfacing and resurfacing or replacement of asphalt, Surfacing, etc., pavements.
For construction, maintenance, operation, and repair of bridges, Bridges, construction, repair, etc.
For current work of repairs to streets, avenues, roads, and alleys, Street, etc., repairs. Provisos. Snow removal. Purchase of asphalt plant authorized.
This appropriation shall be available for the construction Street railways, pavements. Proportion of expenses chargeable to railway company.
For completing the replacement of the superstructure, and such Chain Bridge, replacement of superstructure, etc. Contracts authorized.
For the preparation of studies, preliminary plans and surveys, estimates, and investigations of foundation conditions (1) for a Surveys, etc., for designated highways and bypasses.
0pening streets, etc., permanent highway system. Proviso. Alley Improvements, building lines, etc.
Assessment and per mitwork.
For personal services, trees and parkings, $26,600;
Trees and parkings.
Disbursements, etc. Provisos. Assessments under existing law. Use, grade crossing elimination projects.
Minor changes in sidewalks and roadways.
Open competition for street Improvement contracts.
Repairs for inferior work by contractors required for additional period.
No part of the appropriations contained in this Act shall be used Use for testing laboratory, etc,, forbidden.
Water Service.
From water revenues.
Washington Aqueduct.
For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, Maintenance, etc., of, and accessories. Meters on Federal services. Emergency repairs.
Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendence Superintendence of Secretary of War not affected.
For revenue and inspection and distribution branches: For personal Revenue inspection and distribution branches.
For the maintenance of the water department distribution system, Operating expenses.
Extension of distribution system.
Meters.
Hydrants.
Replacement of old mains, etc.
Investment of water funds.
New mains.
Refunds of erroneous charges. Proviso. Availability.
Survey of water system, expenses.
Construction work, etc., under Commissioners.
That the services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers, transitmen, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, overseers, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with sewer, water, street, street-cleaning, or road work, or construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners, and all such necessary expenditures for the proper execution of said work shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the Commissioners in their Budget estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services, and their work, and the Provisos. Limitation. Maximum period of employment.
Appropriations in this Act shall be available for payment by the D. C. Unemployment Compensation Act, contributions.
The Commissioners, or their duly designated representatives, are Temporary labor, etc.
Horses, vehicles, etc.
Proviso.
Temporary work, etc.
Miscellaneous trust fund deposits.
Expenses payable from.
Proviso.
Employment of labor.
Material, supplies, vehicles, etc.
Purchase of.
Surplus articles, price basis.
Proviso.
Transfers under Executive order.
Limitation on rentals.
Proviso.
Prior leases.
Unexpended balances to be covered in.
Pay increase by reallocation of position forbidden.
Proviso.
Exceptions.
Issuance of congressional tags limited.
Credit allowed for designated disbursements.
Department of Agriculture and Farm Credit Administration appropriations, fiscal year 1938.
Carriers Taxing Act of 1937.
Definitions.
“Employer.”
Proviso.
Street, etc., electric railways excluded.
Line operated by electric power.
Inclusive of designated associations, bureaus, agencies, etc.
“Employee.”
Proviso.
Status of local lodge employee, etc.
Persons not deemed in employment relationship.
Relationship, if on furlough, etc.
“Employee representative.”
Persons deemed in service of employer.
Proviso.
Employer not con ducting principal business in United Stales.
“Compensation.”
Tips, etc., not included.
Tax return.
“United States.”
“Company.”
“Employee” to include officer, etc.
“Carrier.”
“Person.”
Income tax on employees.
Additional to other taxes.
Rates.
Collection by employer.
Compensation paid by more than one employer.
Liability for payment.
Adjustments.
Excise tax on employers.
Proviso.
Compensation paid by more than one employer.
Liability for payment.
Rates.
Adjustments.
Refunds and deficiencies.
Rules governing.
Income tax on employee representatives.
Additional to other taxes.
Rates.
With respect to compensation earned after December 31, 1948, the, rate shall be 7½ per centum.
Determination of compensation.
Deductibility from income tax.
Restrictions.
Ante, pp. 437, 438.
Collection and payment of taxes.
Procedure.
Interest charge on defaulted payment.
Provisions of law applicable.
Fraction of cent.
Adjustments.
Court Jurisdiction in connection with enforcement of obligations imposed.
Social Security Act.
“Employment” as defined in.
Periodical estimates of reduction in tax collections.
Separability provisions.
Repeal of prior tax Act.
Moneys due under repealed Act and not heretofore paid.
Deductions by employers from employees’ pay for taxes; repayments.
Rules and regulations.
Short title.
Sioux Indians of Pine Ridge Reservation, S. Dak.
Payment to.
Post, p. 763.
Proviso.
Attorneys’ fees.
International Congress of Architects.
President requested to invite participation by foreign governments.
Appropriation authorized for holding Fifteenth Congress in the United States.
Services in the District.
Reimbursement of other appropriations.
Military Appropriation Act, 1938.
War Department, salaries.
Services in the District of Columbia.
Secretary, Assistant, and other personal services.
Proviso.
Use of field-service funds restricted.
Designated offices.
World War personnel records.
Provisos.
Draftsmen, etc., payable from other appropriations.
Maximum expenditures, 1938.
Report to Congress.
Chief of Ordnance.
Provisos.
Technical, etc., services.
Maximum expenditures.
In all, salaries, War Department, $4,762,167: Proviso. Details not to be increased. Civilians to fill vacancies. Post, p. 445. Funds available.
In expending appropriations or portions of appropriations, contained Restriction on exceeding average salaries. Exception. Proviso. Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service. No reduction in fixed salaries. Transfers without reduction. Higher rates permitted. If only one position in a grade.
Department contingent expenses.
Surgeon General’s office.
Library expenses.
Army Medical Museum.
Preservation of specimens, etc.
Printing and binding.
Proviso.
Medical bulletins.
Amount for Chief of Engineers.
Military activities.
Army contingencies.
General Staff Corps.
Military Intelligence Division.
Contingent expenses.
Observing operations of foreign armies.
Proviso.
Conditions waived.
Field exercises; participation by National Guard, etc.
Supplies and services.
Private property damage claims.
Army War College.
Instruction expenses.
Adjutant General’s Department.
Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kans.
Welfare of enlisted men.
Equipment and conduct of clubs, libraries, etc.
Finance Department.
Pay, etc., of the Army.
Officers.
For pay of not to exceed an average of twelve thousand three hundred and fifty commissioned officers, $34,532,895: Provisos. Commissioned strength increased. National Guard. Aviation increase. Flights by nonflying officers. Longevity. Enlisted men. National Guard. Aviation Increase. Philippine Scouts. Longevity. Retired officers, etc. Civil-service messengers at headquarters. Contract surgeons, nurses, etc. Rent, subsistence, etc. Loss by exchange. Accounted for as one fund. Provisos. No allowance to officers owning mounts. Citizenship requirements. Post, p. 696. No pay beyond enlistment period, etc. Language instruction. Receipts of public moneys, use of.
Pay forbidden to a retired officer selling supplies to Army.
No appropriation for the pay of the Army shall be available for Engaging in issuing certain service publications. Proviso. Exemption.
Travel allowances, etc.
Recruiting expenses.
Commutation of quarters, rations, etc.
Civilians.
Increases, by transfers, allowed.
Restriction.
Provisos.
Travel allowance, expert accountant.
Attendance at meetings, etc.
“Travel of the Army” to include dependents.
Courts martial, expenses.
Deserters, etc.
Apprehension of.
Finance Service.
Clerks, etc.
Privates property damages.
Payment of claims.
Proviso.
Settlement by General Accounting Office.
Destruction of private property of officers, etc.
Payment of claims.
Quartermaster Corps.
Subsistence of the Army. Purchase of supplies for issue as rations. Army Transport Service. Sales to officers, etc. Commutation allowance. Prizes, etc. Subsistence supplies. Proviso. Butter substitutes, restriction.
Regular supplies of the Army: Regular supplies of the Quartermaster Regular supplies of the Army. Field cooking appliances, etc. Furniture, school supplies, etc. Periodicals, technical books, etc. Forage, etc. Seeds and implements. Bedding, stationery, etc.
Clothing and equipage. Purchase, manufacture, etc. Laundries, etc. Repair shops. Toilet kits. Citizen’s outer clothing. Indemnity for destroyed clothing, etc. Fuel. Proviso. Laundry charges.
Incidental expenses. Living quarters. Recruiting. Rifle competition, fees. Tests, etc. Inspection service, etc. Operation expenses.
Army transportation: For transportation of Army supplies; of Army transportation. Supplies. Privately owned automobiles. Boats, etc. Proviso. Amount for purchase or construction increased. Vehicles, Travel allowances, National Guard. Fuel. Motor vehicles, etc. Ambulances and motorcycles. Not available for designated vehicles, except for salvaging. Exceptions. Transportation costs, supplies, equipment, etc.
Horses, draft and pack animals.
Purchase.
Encouraging breeding of riding horses.
Military posts.
Construction, maintenance, etc.
Technical, etc., services.
Public works.
Fort Niagara, N. Y. Ante, p. 128.
Ante, p. 166.
Camp Stanley, Tex.
Bolling Field, D. C., etc.
Acquisition of land.
Mitchel Field, N. Y. Proviso. Additional land. Kelly Field, Tex., etc. Bombing and gunnery range.
West Point, N. Y. Additional land. Availability. Provisos. Additional sum for acquisition of land. Authorization modified.
Barracks, quarters, etc.
Construction, maintenance, etc.
Rentals.
Water, roads, etc.
Target practice, etc.
Warehouse and fuel handling equipment.
Stoves and cooking appliances.
Heat, light, etc.
Recreation buildings.
Fuel.
Provisos.
Fort Monroe, Va., wharf, etc.
Moffett Field, Sunnyvale, Calif.
Funds transferred.
Rentals for military attachés.
Construction restricted.
Stabling rental.
Hospitals.
Construction, repair, etc.
Temporary hospitals, etc.
Signal Corps.
Signal Service.
Telegraph and telephone systems.
Purchase, operation, etc.
Exceptions.
Electrical installations, etc.
Civilian employees.
Experimental investigation, etc.
Air Corps.
Designated purposes.
Aircraft operation, etc.
Landing, etc., runways.
Helium gas.
Civilian employees.
Purchase, construction, etc., of aircraft.
Marking military airways.
Consulting engineers.
Printing plants, etc.
Settlement of claims.
New airplanes, equipment, etc.
Provisos.
Helium.
Post, p. 602.
New airplanes.
Contracts authorised.
Crissy Field, Calif.
Use of, as air station.
Sums available for incurred obligations.
Medical Department.
Supplies.
Private treatment.
Proviso.
Not applicable, if on furlough.
Contagious, etc., diseases, treatment.
Insane Filipino soldiers.
Nurses.
Hot Springs, Ark., hospital.
Canal Zone garrisons.
Hospital care of troops.
Proviso.
Subsistence payments.
Engineer Corps.
Equipment, instruments, etc.
Engineer School, maintenance, etc.
Maps, surveys, etc.
Rent.
Operating, etc., expenses.
Ordnance Department.
Ordnance service and supplies.
Manufacture, issue, etc.
Current expenses.
Vehicles.
Ammunition for military salutes.
Gages, dies, and jigs.
Publications.
Consulting engineers.
Rock Island, Ill.
Operating bridges, etc.
Arsenals.
Repairs, etc.
Chemical Warfare Service.
Purchase, manufacture, etc., of gases.
Part-time employment of scientists, etc.
Vehicles.
Plants, buildings, machinery, etc.
Civilian employees.
Special gas troops; organization, training, etc.
Current expenses.
Chief of Infantry
Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga.
Instruction expenses.
Chief of Cavalry.
Cavalry School, Fort Riley, Kans.
Instruction expenses.
Chief of Field Artillery.
Field Artillery activities.
Instruction expenses.
Chief of Coast Artillery.
Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe.
Instruction expenses.
Printing and binding.
Seacoast defenses.
All expenses.
United States, $2,443,410, of which not less than $200,000 shall be applied to the procurement of mobile antiaircraft guns and mounts;
Insular departments, $1,092,710,.of which not less than $300,000 shall be applied to the procurement of mobile antiaircraft guns and mounts;
Panama Canal, $1,467,200, of which not less than $300,000 shall be applied to the procurement of mobile antiaircraft guns and mounts;
In all, $5,003,320.
Military Academy.
Pay.
Cadets. Provisos. Army detail, pay restriction. Retired Army officer as librarian.
Civilians.
Maintenance, etc.
Designated expenses.
Board of Visitors.
Proviso.
Liquidating certain debts to cadet store.
National Guard.
Arming, etc.
For procurement of forage, bedding, and so forth, for animals used Forage, etc.
For compensation of help tor care of materials, animals, and equipment, Care of animals, materials, etc.
For expenses, camps of instruction, field and supplemental training, Instruction expenses. Proviso. Settlement of claims.
For expenses, selected officers and enlisted men, military service Service schools, instruction, etc.
For pay of property and disbursing officers for the United States, Property and disbursing officers.
For general expenses, equipment, and instruction, National Guard, Equipment, etc. Medical, etc., treatment. Burial expenses.
For travel of officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the Travel, Army officers, etc. Proviso. War Department General Staff.
For transportation of equipment and supplies, $217,000. Transporting supplies. Army enlisted men, detail.
For expenses of enlisted men of the Regular Army on duty with the National Guard, including payment of an allowance for quarters at the rate of $35 per month to each man not furnished quarters in kind, $298,688.
Pay, armory drills.
No pay to National Guard officer, etc., drawing pension. Provisos. Provisions waived if pension surrendered. Adjutants general continued in present status without pay.
Field service.
Procuring arms and equipment. Requisitions from Governors, etc. Motor trucks, field ambulances, etc. Increasing strength of National Guard. Accounting. Provisos. Camps of instruction, increase. Specifications for motor vehicles. Replacement of damaged property. Clothing, equipment, etc., from Army surplus stores. Issue without charge against fund.
No appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for any No increase of mounted units, etc. Provisos. Participation in national matches. Travel and subsistence. Post, p. 467. Reserve officers. Caretakers of ranges.
Organized Reserves.
For pay and allowances of members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps Officers’ Reserve Corps. Provisos. Mileage allowance. Enlisted Reserve Corps. Correspondence, etc., courses. Training manuals. Headquarters and training camps. Vehicles. Travel, etc., expenses. New airplanes. Baggage transportation. Medical and hospital treatment. Flight-training restriction. Divisional, etc., headquarters.
Restriction on use of other funds. Use of available supplies, etc.
No pay to officer drawing pension, etc. Proviso. Provision waived if pension, etc., surrendered.
Reserve officer on active duty; pay restriction. General Staff detail excepted. Other details. Proviso. Medical Reserve Corps, for Veterans’ Administration patients in Army hospitals.
Citizens’ Military Training.
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.
Quartermaster supplies for units of.
Training camps, etc.
Travel allowance.
Expenses of supplies, etc.
Subsistence commutation, senior division.
Medical treatment.
Baggage transportation.
Vehicles.
Provisos.
Issue of Army horses.
Uniforms, etc., from Army surplus stock.
Current price to govern.
Additional units forbidden.
No additional students in designated units.
Restriction on use of other funds.
Schools and colleges.
Military supplies and equipment.
Citizens’ Military Training Camps.
Uniforms, transportation expenses, etc. Maintenance. Medical and hospital treatment. Burials. Provisos. Age limitation. Restriction on use of other funds. Uniforms, etc., from Army surplus stocks. Current price to govern.
Under the authorizations contained in this Act no issues of reserve Restriction on use of reserve supplies.
Promotion of rifle practice.
Promotion of rifle practice: For construction, equipment, and Instruction expenses. Supplies, etc.
No part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available No pay to officer, etc., using time-measuring device. Cash rewards restricted.
Private use of Government vehicles.
Post exchange restriction.
Provisos.
Report required.
Isolated posts.
Short title.
Extension of Appropriations Act, 1938.
Appropriations for last fiscal year for certain unprovided for operations extended.
Post, p. 514.
Appropriation of necessary sums for first half of July 1937.
Proportionate amounts only to be expended.
Total expenditures not to exceed in aggregate sums Anally appropriated.
Duplications, etc., restricted.
Not to apply to operations already provided for.
Available only until pending supply bills become law.
Availability of appropriations.
Terms defined.
Short title.
Appropriations for Civilian Conservation Corps, etc., fiscal year 1938.
Legislative.
Joint Committee on Tax Evasion and Avoidance, expenses.
Ante, p. 253.
Division of disbursement.
Pages.
Executive.
Civilian Conservation Corps.
Expenses.
Ante, p. 319.
Rents in the District.
Vehicles.
Printing and binding.
Director’s office, salary. etc., restriction.
Post, p, 767.
Provisos.
Payments for blood transfusions.
Continuance of designated employees without reappointment.
Railroad Retirement Board.
Railroad retirement account.
49 Stat. 969; Ante, p. 307.
49 Stat. 1178; Ante, p. 341.
Provisos.
Availability.
Investments.
Ante, p. 316.
Accounting.
49 Stat. 1178; Ante, p. 340.
Department of Agriculture.
Rent in District of Columbia.
Treasury Department.
Government losses in shipment fund.
Post, p. 479.
Retroactive provision.
[S. 2156]
Missouri River.
Time extended for bridging, at Omaha, Nebr.
Commencement recognized.
Location.
Bridge deemed Federal instrumentality.
Acquisition, etc., of other bridges.
Amortization of incurred obligations.
Toll rates.
Bond issue.
Provisos.
Operation not to Impair earnings of any other bridge, etc.
Power to acquire any other bridge conditional upon State approval.
Regulation of toll rates.
Acquisition authorized by States, cities, and counties designated.
Conveyance by Board of Trustees.
Right to acquire, etc., property.
Location, approaches, etc.
Federal aid.
Expenditure.
Amendment.
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Representation of, at annual conference of senior circuit Judges.
Time and place.
Substitute for senior circuit judge.
Attendance required.
Iowa judicial districts.
Crawford County transferred to western division of northern judicial district.
Puget Bound.
Time extended for bridging, at The Narrows, Wash.
Amendment.
Montana Judicial district.
Post, p. 837.
“The State of Montana shall constitute one judicial district, to Terms of court; Livingston added. Proviso. Rooms to be furnished free at places designated. Transfer of causes.
Wabash River.
Time extended for bridging, at Merom, Ind.
Amendment.
Interstate Commerce Act, amendment.
Seeing-eye, etc., dogs accompanying blind persons, transportation.
Potomac River.
Construction of bridge authorized across, Shepherdstown, W. Va., to a point opposite in Maryland.
Construction.
Right to acquire real estate, etc.
Condemnation proceedings.
Amendment.
Potomac River.
Construction of bridge authorized across, Hancock, Md., to a point opposite in West Virginia.
Construction.
Right to acquire real estate, etc.
Condemnation proceedings.
Amendment.
Missouri River.
Time extended for bridging, at Niobrara, Nebr.
Snake River.
Time extended for bridging, between Clarkston, Wash., and Lewiston, Idaho.
Amendment.
Passenger vessels.
Time extended for installing sprinkler systems on certain.
Naval, Military, and Coast Guard Academies.
Degree of bachelor of science may be conferred on living graduates.
Fort Niagara Military Reservation, N. Y.
Portions of, leased to Old Fort Niagara Association.
Proviso.
Consideration.
Panama Canal, employees.
Superannuation pay for certain, not qualifying under Retirement Act.
Proviso.
Limitation on amount.
Annual appropriation authorized.
Government Losses in Shipment Act.
Shipments of valuables by Federal departments, agencies, etc.
Sum authorized for replacement of losses.
Ante, p. 471.
Annual appropriations authorized.
Revolving fund established.
Amount for administrative expenses.
Procedure for satisfying claims.
Decisions of Secretary of the Treasury.
Provisos.
Fund not to be resorted to if replacement effected by credit in accounts.
Certification to Comptroller General,
Shipments of valuables by Public Debt Service.
Fund not available for losses adjusted by Postmaster General.
Fund unavailable where shipments made at risk of private individuals.
Credit for recoveries and repayments.
Insuring of shipments forbidden; exception.
Special cases authorized by Secretary.
Officer, etc., making shipment in accordance with regulations.
Rules and regulations by Secretary of Treasury.
Terms defined—
“Valuables.”
“United States.”
‘Shipment.”
“Wholly owned corporation.”
“Replacement.”
Powers of Secretary in designated cases.
Loss, destruction, etc., of interest-bearing security.
Registered, etc., securities.
Issuance of duplicate.
Indemnity bond.
Payment, if security has matured.
Provisos.
Interim certificates.
Attached interest coupons.
Indemnity bond to be filed.
Provisos.
Corporate surety required if security payable to bearer, etc.
Bond not required in cases designated.
Loss, etc., while in custody of United States.
Postal Service excepted.
Where entire security presented and surrendered.
Where security is transferable only by operation of law.
Owner is a State, etc.
Proviso.
Exception.
“Interest-bearing security of the United States” or “security”, defined.
Administrative rules, etc.
Sections of Revised Statutes repealed.
Section amended.
Lost, destroyed, etc., checks, duplicates to be issued.
Indemnity bond.
Condition of payment.
Proviso.
Time limitation waived in specified cases.
Indemnity bond not required in cases des ignated.
Loss, without fault of owner, and while check in U. S. custody, etc.
Substantially entire check presented, etc.
Original check not negotiable.
Check less than $50 and giving bond would be undue hardship.
Owner is a State, etc.
Proviso.
Indemnity bond.
Rules and regulations.
Post Office Department.
Duplicates for lost, etc., original checks of.
Indemnity bond.
Proviso.
Affidavit permitted in lieu, if sum less than $50.
Payment of substitutes.
“Original check” defined.
Short title.
Effective date.
Girl Guides and Girl Scouts Silver Jubilee Camp, 1937.
Temporary entry of alien participants, etc.
Exemption from tax, etc.
Visa, etc., fees waived.
Passports.
Provisos.
Identification required.
Compliance with prescribed regulations.
Obtaining of visas by aliens.
Free entry of personal effects.
Montana.
Certain mineral patents heretofore issued, validated and confirmed.
Description.
Yosemite National Park, Calif.
Lands added.
Condemnation proceedings.
Post, p. 764.
Description.
Additions to become part of park.
Proviso.
Existing rights not affected.
Federal Water Power Act of 1920.
Provisions not to apply.
Canal Zone Code, amendments.
Air navigation.
Control over aviation activities.
President to make rules, etc., governing aircraft, facilities, etc.
Penalty for violation.
Administration of oaths.
Personnel; appointment, removal, compensation, service, etc.
and such persons shall be employed and shall serve under such conditions of employment, including matters relating to transportation, medical care, quarters, leave and the commutation thereof, and office hours and hours of labor, as have been or shall hereafter be prescribed by the President: Provisos. Salary restriction. Weekly compensation of mechanics.
Federal Credit Union Act, amendment.
Space in Federal buildings for Federal employee credit unions.
Internal revenue. Bottling of distilled spirits in bond.
Bottle stamps.
Regulations.
Accounting.
Issuance of stamps.
Brands, etc., on cases.
Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939.
Preamble.
Commission established.
Name, composition, service, etc.
United States Commissioner.
Appointment, salary, etc.
Assistant Commissioner.
Funds for expenses.
Duties and powers of Commissioner.
Exhibits of executive departments, etc.
Powers of Commission enumerated.
Appointment of personnel.
Contract services.
Proviso.
Limitation.
Building construction, landscaping, etc.
Proviso.
Prevailing rate of wages to be paid.
Rent.
Decoration, maintenance, etc.
Salaries of detailed employees; limitation.
Books of reference, periodicals, etc.
Vehicles.
Printing and binding.
Entertainment.
Insurance.
Allotments.
Delegation of powers, etc.
Cooperation of executive departments, etc.
Loan of exhibits.
Draftsmen, etc.
Return of property at close.
Preparation of reports.
Disposition of property.
Sum authorized.
Post, p. 759.
Balances covered in.
Building construction, landscaping, etc.
Rental of space.
Decorations, maintenance of buildings, etc.
Provisos.
Preparation of plans, etc.; assistance of Procurement Division.
Transfer of funds permitted.
Authorized funds available for desig nated expenses.
Salary limitation.
Miscellaneous expenses.
Payments in advance.
Supervision of expenditures, etc.
Delegation of functions.
Allotment of funds to executive departments, etc.
Approval of vouchers, etc.; exception.
Audits.
Wage rate for construction work.
Acceptance of contributions.
The Commissioner, with the approval of the Commission, may receive contributions from any source to aid in carrying out the purposes of this joint resolution, but such contributions shall be expended and accounted for in the same manner as the funds authorized to be appropriated by this joint resolution. The Commissioner is also authorized to receive contributions of material, or to borrow material or exhibits, and to accept the services of any skilled and unskilled labor that may be available through State or Federal relief organizations, to aid in carrying out the general purposes of Disposal of material etc., at close. Provisos. Auction sales. Discretionary transfer of buildings to city, etc.
The Commissioner, with the approval of the Commission and in Participation by In dian citizens.
Report to Congress.
Termination of Commission.
New York World’s Fair 1939.
Preamble.
Commission established.
Name, composition, service, etc.
United States Commissioner, Assistants, and staff.
Funds for salaries and expenses.
Duties and powers of Commissioner.
Exhibits of executive departments, etc.
Services, materials, etc.
Contract services.
Proviso.
Delegation of powers.
Cooperation of executive departments, etc.
Loan of exhibits.
Draftsmen, etc.
Return of property after close.
Preparation of reports.
Disposition of property.
Appropriation authorized.
Post, p. 759.
Building construction. landscaping, etc.
Rental of space.
Decoration, maintenance of buildings, etc.
Authorized funds available for designated expenses.
Provisos.
Salary limitation.
Miscellaneous expenses.
Advance payments.
Printing and binding.
Supervision of purchases, etc.
Delegation of powers.
Allotment of funds to executive departments, etc.
Approval of vouchers, etc.; exception.
Audit, etc., requirements.
Wage rate for construction work.
Acceptance of contributions.
Disposal of material, etc., at close.
Provisos.
Auction sales.
Federal Exhibits Building, transfer to city of New York.
Report to Congress.
Termination of Commission.
[S. 2254]
Alaska code of criminal procedure, amendments.
“Freight and passenger transportation lines, propelled by License tax on shipping, paragraphs repealed.
Powers of Territorial Legislature not curtailed, etc.
[S. 2620]
Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, amendments.
Island of Hawaii, designated parcels added to jurisdiction of Commission.
Description.
Parcel I
“Now set aside as Keaukaha Beach Park by Executive Order Numbered 421, and being a portion of the Government land of Waiakea, South Hilo, Hawaii.
“Beginning at the southeast corner of this parcel of land, on the north side of Kalanianaole Road, the coordinates of said point of beginning referred to Government survey triangulation station ‘Halai’ being five thousand six hundred and eighty-one and twelve one-hundredths feet north and seventeen thousand nine hundred and thirty-three and fifteen one-hundredths feet east, as shown on Government Survey Registered Map Numbered 2704, and running by true azimuths.
Parcel II
“Being a portion of the Government land of Waiakea South Hilo, Hawaii, and located on the north side of Kalanianaole Road and adjoining parcel I, hereinbefore described.
“Beginning at the south corner of this parcel of land, on the north side of Kalanianaole Road, the coordinates of said point of beginning referred to Government survey triangulation station ‘Halai’, being five thousand six hundred and eighty-one and twelve one-hundredths feet north and seventeen thousand nine hundred and thirty-three and fifteen one-hundredths feet east and running by true azimuths:
Portion of the Government land at Auwaiolimu, Punchbowl Auwaiolimu, Punchbowl Hill, Honolulu, Oahu.
“Beginning at a pipe at the southeast corner of this tract of land, on the boundary between the lands of Kewalo and Auwaiolimu. the coordinates of said point of beginning referred to Government survey triangulation station ‘Punchbowl’, being one thousand one hundred and thirty-five and nine-tenths feet north and two thousand five hundred and fifty-seven and eight-tenths feet east as shown on Government Survey Registered Map Numbered 2692, and running by true azimuths:
Kewalo, Punchbowl Hill, Honolulu, Oahu.
“Beginning at the northeast corner of this lot, at a place called ‘Puu Ea’ on the boundary between the lands of Kewalo and Auwaiolimu, the coordinates of said point of beginning referred to Government survey triangulation station ‘Punchbowl’, being three thousand two hundred and fifty-five and six-tenths feet north and five thousand two hundred and forty-four and seven-tenths feet east, as shown on Government Survey Registered Map Numbered 2692 of the Territory of Hawaii, and running by true azimuths:
Parcel northeast of Roosevelt High School.
“Being portion of L. C. award 11215, Apana 2, to Keliiahonui conveyed by W. M. Giffard to the Territory of Hawaii by deed dated February 1, 1907, and recorded in Liber 291, page 1.
“(Being portion of the lands set aside for the Hawaiian Homes
“Beginning at the south corner of this parcel of land and near the east corner of Roosevelt High School lot, the coordinates of said point of beginning referred to Government survey triangulation station ‘Punchbowl’, being twenty-five and two one-hundredths feet south and four thousand one hundred and seventeen and thirty-nine one-hundredths feet east as shown on Government survey registered map numbered 2985 and running by azimuths measured clockwise from true south:
Portion of Hawaiian Experiment Station.
“Being a portion of the land of Kewalo-uka conveyed by the Territory of Hawaii to the United States of America by proclamations of the Acting Governor of Hawaii, Henry E. Cooper, dated June 10, 1901, and August 16, 1901, and a portion of the United States Navy hospital reservation described in Presidential Executive Order Numbered 1181, dated March 25, 1910.
“Beginning at the west corner of this parcel of land, on the Auwaiolimu-Kewalo-uka boundary and on the northeast side of Auwaiolimu Street, the coordinates of said point of beginning referred to Government survey triangulation station ‘Punchbowl’, being one thousand two hundred and thirty and fifty-eight one-hundredths feet north and two thousand six hundred and seventy-five and six one-hundredths feet east as shown on Government Survey Registered Map Numbered 2985 and running by azimuths measured clockwise from true south:
Portion of Kewalo-uka Quarry Reservation.
“Being land reserved by the Territory of Hawaii within the Hawaii Experiment Station under the control of the United States Department of Agriculture, as described in proclamations of the Acting Governor of Hawaii, Henry E. Cooper, dated June 10, 1901.
“Beginning at the northwest corner of this parcel of land and on. the northeast side of Auwaiolimu Street, the coordinates of said point of beginning referred to Government survey triangulation station ‘Punchbowl’, being eight hundred and ninety-three and sixty-six one-hundredths feet north and two thousand nine hundred and thirty-three and fifty-nine one-hundredths feet east as shown on Government Survey Registered Map Numbered 2985 and running by azimuths measured clockwise from true south:
Leased lands.
Withdrawal clause modified.
Proviso.
Minimum period to be stated in lease.
Leases to natives.
Agricultural and pastoral lands, acreage limits.
Proviso.
Residence lots.
Public utilities, easements.
Conditions imposed.
Transfer, etc., restrictions.
Not subject to attachment, etc.
Payment of taxes.
Other conditions.
Proviso.
Tax exemption provisions.
Succession to interests of deceased lessees.
Upon the death of the lessee his interest in the tract and the improvements thereon, including growing crops, either on the tract or in any collective contract or program, shall vest and Sequence of succession.
“In the absence of such designation the Commission shall choose Commission to choose in absence of designation.
“Upon the death of a lessee, or the cancelation of a lease by the Appraisal of improvements, crops, etc.
Cancelations for violations of conditions; transfer or issuance of new lease.
Use of land by successor upon death of lessee.
Appointment of guardian if successor be a minor.
Proviso.
Requirements.
Loan contracts.
Proviso.
Appraisal and payment upon death of lessee, etc.
Amortization.
Use of receipts.
Postponement permitted.
Provisions in case of borrower’s death, etc.
Insurance of property.
The Commission may require the borrower to insure, in each amount as the Commission may by regulation prescribe, all livestock and dwellings and other permanent improvements upon his tract, purchased or constructed out of any moneys loaned from the fund; or in lieu thereof the Commission may directly take out such insurance and add the cost thereof to the amount of annual Hearings on violation of conditions. Immediate payment if proved. Lien on property.
Enforcement of lien. Land to revest in Commission. Proviso. Payment of difference to borrower.
Water and other development projects.
Legislature authorized to appropriate necessary funds.
Bonds authorized.
[S. 2621]
Hawaii.
Legislature may authorize Honolulu to issue sewer bonds.
Amount.
Character of bonds maturity, etc.
Approval of President not required.
Confirmation of legislative acts.
Proviso.
Changes allowed; disposition of balances.
[S. 2622]
Hawaii.
Legislature may create public corporate authority to engage in slum clearance.
Members, powers, etc., of authority.
Loans, donations, etc., authorized.
Bonds.
Not to constitute public indebtedness, etc.
48 U. S. C., Supp. II, §§ 562d, e.
Confirmation of Legislature’s acts.
[S. 2652]
Hawaii.
Bond issue, amount, purposes, etc.
That the Territory of Hawaii, any provision of the Hawaiian Organic Act or of any Act of this Congress to the contrary notwithstanding, is authorized and empowered to issue bonds in the sum of not to exceed $4,029,000 of the character and in the manner provided in that certain act of the legislature of said Territory, enacted at its regular session of 1937, entitled “An act to provide for public improvements.”
Character of bonds, maturity, payments, etc. Legislative art confirmed. Proviso. Changes allowed; disposition of balances.
[S. 2653]
Hawaii.
Bond issue for public works.
Time limitation modified.
Canal Zone Code, amendments.
Offenses in relation to entry, etc., of articles or merchandise.
Violate any of the rules and regulations established under the authority of the next preceding section;
“Shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100 or by imprisonment Penalty.
Roads, highways, and vehicles.
Violation of regulations; punishment.
Marriages.
Application for and issuance of license; fee.
Loan of money.
Interest of judgments.
Textual correction.
Process in divorce actions.
Service of summons by publication.
Motor vehicles.
Reckless driving causing bodily injury.
Bail upon being held to answer before information.
Admission to.
Public defender.
Compensation, etc.
Panama Railroad Company.
Carriage of insurance by.
Proviso.
Shipments of own funds, etc.
Panama Railroad Company.
Preamble.
That the Panama Railroad Lands held by, on Manzanillo Island; sale authorized.
Beginning at the point where the Canal Zone-Republic of Panama Description.
Board of appraisers, designation of.
Periodic appraisements.
Grant of certain lands to United States to effect exchange with Republic of Panama.
Conveyance to release reversionary rights.
Deposit of net proceeds from sales.
Civil Service Retirement Act, amendments.
Benefits of, extended to certain employees in the legislative and judicial branches.
Provisions inapplicable unless notice of acceptance given.
The provisions of such Act of May 29, 1930, shall not be applicable to any employee in the legislative branch who is brought within its scope by section 1 of this Act until such employee gives notice in writing to the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, and shall not be applicable to any officer or employee of any court of the United States who is brought within its scope by section 1 of this Act until such officer or employee gives notice in writing to the disbursing officer by whom the salary of such officer or employee is paid that Time limitation. Proviso. Employees paid by Senate disbursing officer; acceptance and when effective.
No such employee whose salary or any part thereof is paid by Deposit, salary deduction, etc., contingent upon service period. Provisos. Deposits. Total disability after 5 years’ service.
Automatic separation.
Exemption from designated provisions.
“Employee in the legislative branch” construed.
Computing annuitable service.
Employment as clerk to Representative, etc., prior to July 1, 1919, recognized in.
Effective date.
Extension of Appropriations Act, 1938, provisions continued in force during last half of July 1937.
Ante, p. 468.
Proviso.
Proportionate amounts only to be expended.
Insect pest control.
Appropriation for.
Ante, pp. 57, 120.
Availability.
Provisos.
State cooperation.
Supervision of expenditures.
Transporting control materials.
Procurements.
War Department Civil Appropriation Act, 1938.
Quartermaster Corps.
National cemeteries.
Maintenance, improvement, etc.
Vehicles.
Arlington, Va.
Plot in Congressional Cemetery, D. C.
Roadways; restriction.
Headstones.
Recovery of bodies.
Monuments, etc., in Cuba and China.
Confederate cemeteries, etc.
Sum immediately available.
Provisos.
Encroachments forbidden.
Repairs restricted.
Signal Corps.
Alaska Communication System.
Operation, improvement, etc.
From receipts.
Proviso.
Report to Congress.
Insular Affairs Bureau.
Philippine Islands.
United States High Commissioner’s office.
Salaries and expenses.
Travel, etc.
Vehicles.
Household, etc., expenses.
Provisos.
Legal adviser and financial expert.
Minor purchases.
Engineer Corps.
Rivers and harbors.
Availability.
Maintenance of existing works. Boundary, etc., waters, survey. New York harbor. California Débris Commission. Protection of Collinsville, Ala. Student officers at institutions. Surveys, etc. Printing. Provisos. Unauthorized projects forbidden. Maintenance of harbor channels, outside of harbor lines. Power-driven boats, restriction on use. Permanent International Commission of the Congresses of Navigation.
Flood control.
Flood control: For the construction of certain public works on Public works on rivers and harbors. 33 U. S. C., Supp. II, §§ 701a–702k. Printing and binding. Vehicles. Preliminary examinations, etc. Ante, p. 352. Provisos. Allocation provisions waived. Soil erosion, etc., watersheds of floodcontrol projects. Services in the District.
Projects authorized to be prosecuted. Local contributions. Reservoir project plans; modification to increase storage. Return of excess contributions to States, etc.
Mississippi River and tributaries. Funds available. Division of expenditure. Proviso. Allocation provisions waived. Ante, p. 352.
Emergency fund for flood control.
Sacramento River, Calif.
Flood control, Lowell Creek, Alaska: For maintenance of floodcontrol Lowell Creek, Alaska.
Flood control, Salmon River, Alaska: For maintenance repairs to Salmon River, Alaska.
United States Soldiers’ Home.
Maintenance. etc.
Proviso.
Administration, etc., of funds.
The Panama Canal.
For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the maintenance All expenses. Objects specified. Printing and binding. Vehicles. Damage claims. Emergencies. Public funds and securities, transportation and insurance.
For maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal: Salary of Maintenance and operation. Governor’s salary. Supplies, equipment, etc. Payment to alien cripples.
Sanitation, etc. Support of insane, lepers, etc. Deportation expenses. Chief quarantine officer.
Civil government expenses.
Availability.
Additional sums. Net profits.
Water, sewers, pavements, etc., Panama and Colon.
Major General George W. Goethals. Memorial, erection, etc., expenses. Availability.
Inland Waterways Corporation, capital stock; repeal of appropriation.
Appropriations, etc., available from and including July 1, 1937.
Incurred obligations confirmed.
Short title.
Federal land-bank loans.
Extension of reduced Interest rate.
Time limit on payments by U. S. to land banks extended.
Loans by Land Bank Commissioner.
“Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, the rate Interest rate limitation.
July 13, 1937.
The House of Representatives having proceeded to reconsider the Certificate of the House of Representatives.
That the said bill pass, two-thirds of the House of Representatives agreeing to pass the same.
July 22, 1937.
Certificate of the Senate.
That the said bill, pass, two-thirds of the Senators present having voted in the affirmative.
The Bankhead Jones Farm Tenant Act.
That jurisdiction Mississippi River, locks and dams; construction, etc. Claims of contractors for excess costs submitted to Court of Claims. Judgment.
This Act shall not be interpreted as raising any presumption or Presumption, etc., of fact or law not raised.
Review of such judgment may be had by either party in the same Review of judgment.
Civil Service Act, amendment.
No discrimination because of marital status.
[S. 2295]
Military Academy cadets.
Selections by Governor of Panama Canal.
[S. 1762]
Rogue River National Forest, Oreg.
Transfer of certain revested Oregon and California Railroad grant lands to.
Proviso.
Appraisal.
Credit of sum transferred.
[S. 1972]
War Department.
Samples of supplies, etc., to prospective manufacturers authorized.
[S. 2662]
Piscataqua River.
Bridge construction authorized, between Portsmouth, N. H., and Kittery, Maine.
Construction.
Right to acquire real estate, etc.
Condemnation proceedings.
Toll charges.
Tolls to be applied to operation, sinking fund, etc.
Maintenance as free bridge after amortizing costs, etc.
Record of expenditures and receipts.
Amendment.
[S. 1806]
Papago Indian Reservation, Ariz.
Area enlarged.
Lands added.
Prior rights not affected.
Mexican boundary strip.
Proviso.
Acquisitions to remain tribal lands, etc.
Purchase of lands for use of Indians.
Manager Dam property.
Tracts relinquished by State; lieu selections.
[S. 2521]
Marine Corps.
Assignment of line officers to assistant quartermaster and paymaster duty.
Provisos.
Lineal position, etc., retained.
Assignment based on fitness.
Designated promotions to be carried as additional numbers.
Number assigned.
[S. 2587]
Chickasaw Indians, Okla.
Sale of certain dormitory properties authorized.
Proceeds to credit of Indians.
Attorneys, compensation.
Proviso.
Preference to State to purchase properties.
[S. 2661]
Maine-New Hampshire interstate Bridge Authority.
Consent granted Maine and New Hampshire for creation of.
Portsmouth-Kittery bridge, etc.
Compact relative to bridge construction across Piscataqua River.
Now therefore, the said states of New Hampshire and Maine do hereby agree and pledge each to the other as follows:
Definitions. “Transportation facility” shall include railroads, steam or electric, motor truck or other street or highway vehicles, bridges, highways and every kind of transportation facility now in use or hereafter designed for use for the transportation or carriage of persons or property. “Facility” shall include all works, buildings structures, stations, appliances and appurtenances necessary and convenient for the proper construction, equipment, maintenance and operation of such facility or facilities or any one or more of them. “Real property” shall include land under water, as well as uplands, and all property either now commonly or legally defined as real property or which may hereafter be so defined. “Personal property” shall include choses in action and all other property now commonly or legally defined as personal property or which may hereafter be so defined. “To lease” shall include to rent or to hire. “Rule or regulation” shall include charges, rates, rentals or tolls fixed or established by the Bridge Authority. Wherever action by the legislature of either state is herein referred to, it shall mean an act of the legislature duly adopted in accordance with the provisions of the constitution of the state. Plural or singular. The singular wherever used herein shall include the plural. Consent, approval or recommendation of municipality, how given. Wherever herein the consent, approval or recommendation of a “municipality” is required, the word “municipality” shall be taken to include any city, town or village district. Such consent, approval or recommendation whenever required in the case of the city of Portsmouth shall be deemed to have been given whenever the city council of the city of Portsmouth or any body hereafter succeeding to its duties shall by majority vote pass a resolution expressing such consent, approval or recommendation; and in the case of the town deemed to have been given whenever at a regular town meeting, or special meeting called for that purpose shall by majority of votes of persons present and voting therefor; and in all other cases whenever the body authorized to grant consent to the use of the streets or highways of such municipality shall by a majority vote pass such a resolution.
In Witness Whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals under chapter 18 of the Private and Special Laws of 1937 of the State of Maine and chapter 4 of the Laws of the Special Session of 1936 of the State of New Hampshire this 14th day of April, 1937.
In the presence of:
Amendment.
Missouri River.
Bridge authorized across, at Poplar, Mont.
Construction.
Amendment.
Wabash River.
Carroll County, Ind., may bridge, at Lockport.
Construction.
Amendment.
Merrimack River.
Bridge authorized across, at Lowell, Mass.
Construction.
Amendment.
Grand Army Encampment, 1937.
Attendance of Marine Band authorized.
Sum authorized for expenses.
Post, p. 768.
Proviso.
Allowance for members; additional to pay.
Investigation of marine casualties.
Incompetency or misconduct, investigation of.
Notice to accused, hearing, etc.
Determination of guilt by Director.
Suspension or revocation of license.
Appeal to Secretary of Commerce.
Counsel.
Decision, limitations.
[S. 2193]
Navy.
Construction of specified auxiliary vessels authorized.
Post, p. 767.
Types.
Ratio of construction in Government yards, etc.
Provisos.
Changes allowed in public interests.
Contract provisions.
Construction on Pacific coast, differential.
Twin River Point Lighthouse Reservation, Wis.
Conveyance of portion to State authorized.
Description.
Reversionary provision.
Rights reserved.
Lease of other section.
Judicial Code, amendment.
Accommodations for holding court at Columbia, Tenn.
Cayuga, Buffalo, and Cazenovia Creeks, N. Y.
Survey directed for flood control.
Beaver Bay, Minn.
Establishment of Coast Guard station authorized.
Saint Augustine, Fla.
Establishment of Coast Guard station authorized.
Green Bay and Mississippi Canal Company.
Release of easement granted by.
Louisville, Ky., post office, etc.
Limitation on sale price of old building repealed.
Coast Guard, enlistments.
Term.
Regulations governing.
Proviso.
Requirements for completing term.
Extension, by voluntary written agreement.
Pay and allowances.
Temporary detention beyond term of enlistment.
Public Health Service, hospitals.
Admittance of Coast Guard personnel.
Dependents, etc.
Collections for hospitalization, use of.
Act repealed.
Admission to citizenship.
Filipinos in Coast Guard.
Distinguished flying cross.
Provisions of awarding, extended to Coast Guard.
Coast Guard cadets.
Initial clothing, etc., allowance.
Duplication of offices.
Exception to restrictions on, extended to Coast Guard.
Palisades Interstate Park, N. Y.
Conveyance of certain property to.
Reversionary provision.
Property transferred in exchange.
Rights-of-way reserved.
Coast Guard.
Pay of certain retired officers who held higher temporary rank during time of war.
Seventh World’s Poultry Congress and Exposition.
Sum authorized for expenses.
Post, p. 771.
Contracts without advertising.
Reimbursement of other appropriations.
Proviso.
Transfer permitted.
[S. 534]
Yellowstone River.
Consent given to compact by Montana and Wyoming for division of waters of.
Federal representative to participate; report to Congress.
Provisos.
Approval.
Not applicable to waters within, etc., Yellowstone National Park.
Marihuana Tax Act of 1937.
Definitions.
“Person.”
“Marihuana.”
“Producer.”
“Secretary;” “collector.”
“Transfer” or “transferred.”
Special occupational tax levied.
Nonprofessional, etc., use.
Proviso.
Registered dealers, etc.
Computation of tax.
More than one place of business.
More than one activity.
Registration requirements.
Furnishing of lists; payment of fee.
Employees of registered persons.
Public officials exempted.
Certain activities without registration and payment of tax, unlawful.
Presumptive evidence of production, and liability therefor.
Shipments, etc, except as prescribed, unlawful.
Proviso.
Exceptions.
Transfer except on written order from transferee unlawful.
Exemptions.
Professional use by physician, etc.
Proviso.
Record to be kept.
Issue on written prescription.
Proviso.
Details required.
Preservation.
Exportation to a country regulating entry.
Promulgation of rules.
Use by public officials.
Transfer of seeds to registered person.
Order forms; preparation, sale, etc.
Use of.
Tax on transfers.
Ante, p. 553.
Rates.
Payment by transferee; by transferor.
Payment by means of stamps.
Provisions of law made applicable.
Internal revenue stamps.
Narcotic Drug Act.
Transferee required to pay transfer tax failing to pay, etc.
Proof of possession.
No liability on enforcement officer.
Forfeiture of contraband marihuana.
Confiscation of seizures.
Destruction, etc.
Records, returns, etc.
Statements by registered persons.
Order forms, precriptions. etc.; inspection.
Copies of returns.
Penalty provisions.
Negativing exemption in indictment, etc.
Rules to be prescribed.
Post, p. 772.
Scope of Act.
Virgin Islands.
Saving clause.
Effective date.
Short title.
Shenandoah Memorial, Ava, Ohio.
Location modified.
Post, p. 775.
Alaska fisheries.
Leasing of bottoms for commercial cultivation of oysters, authorized.
[S. 2086]
Arch Hurley Conservancy District, N. Mex.
Construction of reclamation project authorized.
Proviso.
Feasibility to be first ascertained.
Contract.
Conditions imposed.
Payments from land sales.
[S. 2416]
Canal Zone or Republic of Panama.
Citizenship of person horn of an American parent on or after February 26, 1904.
Parent employed by U. S. or Panama Railroad Company.
[S. 744]
Marine Corps League.
Incorporators.
Purposes.
General corporate powers.
Annual report to Congress.
Amendment, etc.
[S. 2067]
National Cancer Instituto Act.
National Cancer Institute established as a division in the Public Health Service.
Surgeon General, authority and duties.
Researches, etc.
Coordination of, with other agencies, etc.
Radium, procurement, etc., of.
Instruction in technical matters.
Fellowships.
Consultations, etc.
Cooperation with State agencies.
National Advisory Cancer Council; creation, composition, etc.
Terms of office.
Service restrictions and provisions.
Compensation, etc.
Powers and duties of the Council.
Review of research projects, etc.
Collection and dissemination of information.
Review of applications of grants-in-aid for research projects.
Acceptance of conditional gifts.
Post, p. 561.
Administrative rec ommendations.
Purchase of radium without advertising.
Availability.
Use of, for study, etc.
Providing facilities for instruction.
Allowance permitted while receiving training, etc.
Research fellowships.
Experts, consultants, etc.
Grants in aid for research projects.
Adoption of additional moans of administration.
Unconditional gifts acceptable, for study, etc.
Conditional; money to be held in trusts, etc.
Investments.
Memorials to donors of $500,000 or over.
Sum authorized for building and facilities.
Acquisition of site.
Annual sums authorized for administrative purposes.
Post. p. 772.
Services in the District.
Miscellaneous.
Appointment of commissioned officers.
Existing laws not affected.
Rules and regulations.
Annual report to Congress.
Effective date.
Short title.
[S. 2116]
Mississippi River.
Time extended for bridging, at Natchez, Miss.
Amendment.
[S. 2147]
Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, amendments.
Ante, p. 248.
Provisions extended to include honeybees.
[S. 2305]
Columbia River.
Time extended for bridging, at Astoria, Oreg.
Amendment.
[S. 1115]
Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.
Establishment and operation.
Regulations for.
Provisos.
Powers of Secretary of Navy.
Specific appropriations for expenditures.
Eligibility of members as Naval Reserve officers.
Status.
Marine Corps included.
Personnel, limit increased.
Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1938.
Secretary’s office.
Salaries.
Secretary, Under Secretary, Assistants, and office personnel.
Provisos.
Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.
Exception.
Restriction not applicable to clerical- mechanical service.
No reduction In fixed salaries.
Transfers without reduction.
Payments under higher rates permitted.
It only one position in a grade.
Solicitor’s office.
Personal services.
Division of Territories and Island Possessions.
Personal services.
Division of Investigations.
Protecting timber and public lands.
Swamplands.
Traveling expenses.
Vehicles and motorboats.
Emergencies.
Division of Grazing.
For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to Salaries and expenses. 43 U. S. C. § 315; Supp. II, § 315. Classification, etc., of lands. Services in the District. Advisory committee expenses.
For construction, purchase, and maintenance of range Range improvements. Proviso. Limitation on ex penditure in any district.
For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the Department contingent expenses. Private property damages. Vehicles. Disbarment proceedings. Stationery, etc. Additional, from specified appropriations.
Professional, etc., books, periodicals, etc. Additional sums for designated offices.
Furniture, equipment, etc., new building. Purchases without advertising, etc.
Printing and binding. Restriction.
Commission of Fine Arts.
For expenses made necessary by the Act entitled “An Act Expenses. Periodicals, etc. Attendance at meetings, etc.
For all printing and binding for the Commission of Fine Arts, Printing and binding.
Total, Commission of Fine Arts, $10,000.
George Rogers Clark Sesquicentennial Commission.
Functions continued.
Balances available.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission.
Expenses.
Amount immediately available.
Proviso.
Restriction.
National Bituminous Coal Commission.
Salaries and expenses.
Ante, p. 72.
Salaries and expenses: For all necessary expenditures of the National Bituminous Coal Commission in performing the duties imposed upon said Commission by the Bituminous Coal Act of 1937, approved April 26, 1937 (Public, Numbered 48, Seventy-fifth Congress), including personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling expenses, including expenses of Attendance at meetings, etc. Stationery, etc. Printing and binding. witness fees. etc. Ante, p. 86. Vehicles.
Consumers’ Counsel’s office. Ante, p. 74. Services, etc., in the District.
Petroleum Conservation Division.
Salaries and expenses.
Attendance at meetings, etc.
Printing and binding.
War Minerals Relief Commission.
Administrative expenses.
General Land Office.
Salaries.
Commissioner, and office personnel.
Transcribing records.
Binding records.
General expenses.
For traveling expenses of officers and employees, including Traveling expenses, maps, etc. Restoration of lands to public domain. Hearings.
Surveying public lands: For surveys and resurveys of public lands, Surveying public lands. Vehicles. Provisos. Temporarily detailed employees. Other surveys; reimbursable. Oregon and California Railroad and Coos Bay Wagon Road lands.
Registers: For salaries and commissions of registers of district Registers.
Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and other Contingent expenses, land offices. Proviso. Restriction.
Payments to States of 5 per centum of proceeds from sales of public Payments to States from sales of public lands. Proviso. Expenditures limited.
Coos Bay Wagon Road lands, etc. Payment of proceeds of sales of. Proviso. Expenditures limited.
Payments in lieu of taxes. Oregon and California grant lands. Proviso. Limitation.
Oil and gas royalties. Payment to Oklahoma from. south half of Red River. In lieu of State, etc., taxes. Proviso. Limitation.
Indian Affairs Bureau.
Commissioner, and office personnel.
General expenses.
Traveling, etc., expenses. Radio, etc., tolls.
Supplies; purchase, transportation, etc. Proviso. Restriction on payments.
Judges, Indian police, etc.
For lease, purchase, construction, repair, and improvement of Agency buildings. Lease, purchase, etc. Proviso. Limit on construction costs.
For expenses of organizing Indian chartered corporations, or Tribal organisations, expenses. Services in the District. Proviso. Travel allowance. Expenditure in New Mexico.
Vehicles, Indian Service: Not to exceed $460,000 of applicable Vehicles, maintenance. etc. Transportation of Indian pupils. Vehicles, purchases limited.
Replacement of property destroyed by fire, flood, or storm: That Emergency replacement of property. Proviso. Report of diversions to Congress.
Authorization for attending health and educational meetings: Attendance at meetings.
Indian lands.
Purchase of land and water rights, and so forth, Pueblo Indians, Pueblo Indians, N. Mex. Land and water rights, etc. Reappropriation from tribal funds. Per-capita payments excepted.
Pueblo Indians, N. Mex., compensation to.
Pueblos designated. Proviso. Acquisition of lands, water rights, etc.
Compensation to non-Indian claimants, Pueblo lands. Awards. Apportionment. Proviso. Balance available.
Navajo Indians, Ariz. Purchase of lands. Reappropriation.
Navajo Indians, Ariz., purchase of improvements of.
Navajos in Utah, purchase of land.
Leasing lands and water rights.
For the acquisition of lands, interest in lands, water rights and Acquisition of lands, etc. Balance reappropriated. Provisos. Use outside reservation restricted. Contracts.
For payment of taxes, including penalties and interest, assessed Redemption of restricted Land subject to taxation.
For payment, pursuant to the provisions of the Act of May 15, Confederated Bands of Ute Indiana, payment to. Proviso. Acquisition of privately owned lands. Additional from tribal funds.
Purchase of land, Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota Cheyenne River Reservation, S. Dak., purchase of land, etc. Proviso. Title to land.
The unexpended balance of $5,004.25 of the appropriation Landless Indians in California, purchase of land for.
Industrial assistance and advancement.
Timber preservation, etc. Proviso. Forest land administration, from proceeds of sales, etc.
Timber sales, etc., expenses; reimbursable. Proviso. Rewards for information.
Suppression, etc., of forest fires. Proviso. Additional amount available. Report of diversions to Congress.
Geological Survey. Transfer of sum to, for supervising mining operations, etc.
Obtaining employment for Indians.
Agriculture and stock raising. Agricultural experiments and demonstrations. Navajo sheep-breeding station. Proviso. Balance reappropriated. Construction of employees’ quarters.
Encouraging industry, etc. Provisos. Conditions for repayment. Loans on irrigable lands. Limitation; exception. Advances to old, etc., allottees. Advances to young students; repayment. Purchase, disposition of sheep and other livestock.
Industrial assistance (tribal funds): For the construction of homes Industrial assistance. Constructing homes, purchase of seed. equipment, etc. Advances tools, etc., allottees. Provisos. Conditions for repayment. Loans on irrigable lands. Advances to young students. Reimbursement. Credits and avail ability. Tribal enterprises. Use of revenues.
Revolving fund for loans to Indian corporations. Making loans, etc. Services and supplies.
Indian arts and crafts. Indian Arts and Crafts Board, expenses. Printing and bind. Services in the District. Proviso. Salary restriction.
Water supply.
Developing and conserving, in Arizona and New Mexico.
Irrigation and drainage.
Construction, maintenance, etc.
Projects. Limitation.
For necessary miscellaneous expenses incident to the general Administrative expenses.
In all, for irrigation on Indian reservations, not to exceed $175,000, Total; reimbursable, Provisos. Amounts Interchangeable. Limitation. Apportionment of expenses on per-acre basis. Unpaid charges a first lien.
For operation and maintenance of the San Carlos project for the San Carlos project, Ariz. Maintenance, etc. Emergencies. Limitation.
For continuing subjugation and for cropping operations on the Pima Indians, Ariz. Subjugation and cropping operations on lands of. Irrigation operation, etc., charges. Employment of attorney and accountant.
Colorado River Reservation, Ariz. Maintenance, etc., of system. Reimbursable.
San Carlos Reservation, Ariz. Operation, etc., of pumping plants. Proviso. Reimbursement.
Yuma Reservation, Calif.-Ariz. Reclamation, etc., charges.
Fort Hall system, Idaho. Maintenance, etc.
Fort Belknap Reservation, Mont. Maintenance, etc., of system. Limitation.
Fort Peck project, Mont. Maintenance, etc. Limitation.
Flathead Reservation, Mont. Maintenance, etc.
Crow Reservation, Mont. Maintenance, etc.
Newlands project, Nev. Payment of charges against Paiute lands. Drains to Truckee-Carson district.
For operation and maintenance of the Hogback irrigation project Navajo Reservation, N. Mex. Operation of Hogback project.
For maintenance and operation of the Fruitlands irrigation project, Fruit lands project, N. Mex. Maintenance, etc.
For operation and maintenance assessments on newly reclaimed Middle Rio Grande conservancy district, N. Mex. Maintenance, etc.
For improvements, maintenance, and operation of miscellaneous Klamath Reservation, Oreg. Operation of projects on.
For continuing operation and maintenance and betterment of the Uncompahgre, etc., Utes, Utah. Irrigating allotted lands. Reimbursable.
For operation and maintenance of the Wapato irrigation and Yakima Reservation, Wash. Wapato system, maintenance, etc.
For reimbursement to the reclamation fund the proportionate Reimbursement of fund for water to reservation lands.
For operation and maintenance of irrigation systems within the Wind River Reservation, Wyo. Maintenance, etc. Riverton-Le Clair district. Big Bend district.
For the construction, repair, and rehabilitation of irrigation Irrigation and drainage. Construction, maintenance, etc.
Arizona. Contracts.
California.
Montana.
Nevada.
New Mexico.
Utah.
Washington.
Miscellaneous gar den tracts. Administrative expenses. Printing and binding.
For administrative expenses, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and not to exceed $3,000 for printing and binding, $60,000, reimbursable;
Availability. Proviso. Amounts interchangeable.
Education.
Support of schools. Provisos. Deaf and dumb or blind, etc. Subsistence, boarding schools. Vocational, etc., courses. Contracts. Pupils attending public schools.
Support of Indian schools from tribal funds: For the support of Support of schools from tribal funds. Chippewas in Minnesota. Proviso. Formal contracts not required.
Education, Osage Nation, Oklahoma (tribal funds): For the Saint Louis Mission Boarding Schools Okla. Osage pupils.
For reimbursable loans to Indians for the payment of tuition and Vocational and trade schools, educational loans; reimbursable. Unexpended balance, availability. Provisos. Liberal-arts courses. Advances; reimbursable.
For lease, purchase, repair, and improvement of buildings at Indian School buildings. Lease, improvement, etc.
Construction, enlargement, or improvement of public-school Construction, improvement, etc. Balance reappropriated.
Shannon County, 8. Dak. Appropriation continued available. Pine Ridge high school
Glacier County, Mont. Improvement and extension of school buildings.
Stevens County, Wash. School construction, etc. Provisos. Plans and specifications. Monthly payments. Recoupment.
Nonreservation boarding schools. Support, etc., of designated.
Phoenix, Ariz.
Sherman institute, Riverside, Calif.
Haskell institute, Lawrence, Kans.
Pipestone, Minn.
Carson City, Nev.
Albuquerque, New Mexico: For six hundred pupils, $204,000; for Albuquerque, N. Mex.
Santa Fe, New Mexico: For four hundred pupils, $142,000; for Santa Fe, N. Mex.
Wahpeton, North Dakota: For three hundred pupils, $97,250; Wahpeton, N. Dak.
Chilocco, Oklahoma: For six hundred and fifty pupils, including Chilocco, Okla.
Sequoyah Orphan Training School, near Tahlequah, Oklahoma: Sequoyah Orphan Training School, Okla,
Carter Seminary, Oklahoma: For one hundred and sixty-five Carter Seminary, Okla,
Euchee, Oklahoma: For one hundred and fifteen pupils, $41,025; Euchee, Okla,
Eufaula, Oklahoma: For one hundred and forty pupils, $48,650; Eufaula, Okla.
Jones Academy, Oklahoma: For one hundred and seventy-five Jones Academy. Okla.
Wheelock Academy, Oklahoma: For one hundred and thirty Wheelock Academy, Okla.
Chemawa, Salem, Oregon: For three hundred and fifty pupils, Chemawa, Salem, Oreg.
Flandreau, South Dakota: For four hundred and fifty pupils, Flandreau, S. Dak.
Pierre, South Dakota: For three hundred pupils, $97,750; for pay Pierre, S. Dak. Proviso. Acquisition of adjacent lands.
In all, for above-named nonreservation boarding schools, not to Total, nonreservation boarding schools. Proviso. Sums interchangeable. Report to Congress.
For tuition and for care and other assistance for Indian pupils Five Civilized Tribes, Okla. Pupils attending public or Indian day schools. Proviso. Employment of public school teachers where facilities inadequate.
Alaska natives, education.
Support, relief of destitution, etc. Miscellaneous expenses. Proviso. Report to Congress.
Conservation of health.
Designated expenses. Suppressing trachoma, etc. Allotments to specified hospitals.
Arizona.
California.
Colorado.
Idaho: Fort Lapwai Sanatorium, $90,000; Fort Hall Hospitals, Idaho.
Iowa: Sac and Fox Sanatorium, $75,000; Iowa.
Minnesota: Pipestone Hospital, $22,500; Cass Lake Hospital Minnesota.
Mississippi: Choctaw Hospital, $25,000; Mississippi.
Montana: Blackfeet Hospital, $40,000; Fort Peck Hospital, Montana.
Nebraska: Winnebago Hospital, $47,000; Nebraska.
Nevada: Carson Hospital, $23,000; Walker River Hospital, Nevada.
New Mexico: Albuquerque Sanatorium, $104,660; Jicarilla New Mexico.
North Carolina: Cherokee Hospital, $22,000; North Carolina.
North Dakota: Turtle Mountain Hospital, $41,600; Fort Berthold North Dakota.
Oklahoma: Cheyenne and Arapahoe Hospital, $36,000; Choctaw Oklahoma.
Oregon: Warm Springs Hospital, $20,000; Oregon.
South Dakota: Crow Creek Hospital, $22,000; Pine Ridge South Dakota.
Utah: Uintah Hospital, $30,000; Utah.
Washington: Yakima Sanatorium, $40,000; Tacoma Sanatorium, Washington.
Wisconsin: Hayward Hospital, $40,600; Tomah Hospital, $31,000; Wisconsin.
Wyoming: Shoshone, $28,000: Wyoming.
Provisos. Sums Interchangeable. Report to Congress Hospitalization of pupils.
Sioux Sanatorium and employees’ quarters, South Dakota: Funds Sioux Sanatorium. etc., S. Dak.
Medical relief in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, Medical relief in Alaska. Hospitals, etc. Availability.
General support and administration.
Sundry agencies and reservations.
General support, additional amount.
Metlakahtla Indians, Alaska, expenses. Proviso. Limitation.
Reindeer service.
Purchase, distribution, etc., to natives. Balance reappropriated.
Specified agencies, from tribal funds.
Arizona.
California.
Idaho.
Iowa.
Montana.
Nevada. Loans to Indians, etc.
North Carolina: Cherokee, $18,000, together with the unexpended North Carolina. Balance reappropriated. Oregon. Tribal council, traveling, etc., expenses.
Oregon: Klamath, $76,650, of which $4,000 shall be available only for traveling and other expenses, including not to exceed $5 per diem in lieu of subsistence, of members of the tribal council, or of representatives of the tribe engaged on business of the tribe at the seat of government; and $6,500 shall be available only for compensation and expenses of attorneys for services rendered and to be rendered during the fiscal years 1937 and 1938 under a contract approved by the Secretary of the Interior, in accordance with existing law;
Utah: Uintah and Ouray, $7,100, of which amount not to exceed Utah.
Washington: Puyallup, $1,000 for upkeep of the Puyallup Washington. Balance reappropriated. Indigent, etc., Indians, monthly allowances. Water supply.
Wisconsin: Keshena, $85,500, including $20,000 for monthly Wisconsin. Proviso. Attorneys’ fees, etc.
In all, not to exceed $434,400.
Support of Chippewa Indians in Minnesota (tribal funds): For Chippewas in Minnesota. General support, from tribal funds. Aiding indigent, etc.
For compensation and expenses of an attorney or attorneys Attorneys.
There is hereby authorized to be expended out of the fund Payments to attorneys for Creek Nation, from tribal funds. Proviso. Filing of claims by attorneys.
Five Civilized Tribes, Okla. Expenses of tribal officers, from tribal funds. Proviso. Limitation.
Osage Agency, Okla. Agency, etc., expenses. Provisos. “Tucker v. Mullendore”, appeal costs. Employment of curator for Museum.
Tuskahoma Council House, Pushmataha County, Okla. Acquisition, etc. Fund available.
Tribal councils, traveling, etc., expenses. Provisos. Limitation on ex penditures. Allowances for expenses of tribal councils when in Washington.
For compensation and expenses of William H. Fuller and Melven William H. Fuller and Melven Cornish. Compensation, etc.
Roads and bridges.
For maintenance and repair of that portion of the Gallup-Shiprock Highway, N. Mex., maintenance, etc. Proviso. Indian labor.
For construction, improvement, repair, and maintenance of Indian Reservation roads, construction, etc. 25 U. S. C. § 318a; Supp. II, §318b. Provisos. Services in the District. Structures for housing materials, etc.
For cooperation by the Indian Service in the construction of a Connecting highway through Owyhee Canyon, Nev.
Construction and repair.
School, agency, hospital, etc., buildings.
For the construction, repair, or rehabilitation of school, agency, hospital, or other buildings and utilities, including the purchase of land and the acquisition of easements or rights-of-way when necessary, and including the purchase of furniture, furnishings, and equipment, as follows:
Alaska: Day schools and quarters, including remodeling of Alaska.
Blackfeet, Montana: Remodeling and repairing school buildings, Blackfeet, Mont.
Carson, Nevada: Central heating plant, and rehabilitation of Carson, Nev.
Cheyenne and Arapahoe, Oklahoma: Improvement to heating Cheyenne and Arapahoe, Okla.
Cheyenne River, South Dakota: Classroom building, $90,600; Cheyenne River, S. Dak. Claremore Hospital, Okla. Colorado River, Ariz.
Claremore Hospital, Oklahoma: Employees’ quarters, $30,000;
Colorado River, Arizona: Telephone line, $8,500; improvement of water supply, $21.000;
Colville, Wash.
Consolidated Ute, Colo.
Crow, Mont.
Five Civilized Tribes, Okla.
Flandreau, S. Dak.
Flathead, Mont.
Fort Berthold, N. Dak.
Great Lakes, Wis.
Keshena, Wifi.
Kiowa, Okla.
Navajo, Ariz.
Pipestone, Minn.
Pueblos of New Mexico.
Red Lake, Minn.
Rosebud, S. Dak.
Seminole, Fla.
Shoshone, Wyo.
Tacoma Sanatorium, Wash.
Tongue River, Mont.
Turtle Mountain. N. Dak.
Truxton Canyon, Ariz.
Uintah and Ouray, Utah.
Wahpeton, N. Dak.
Western Shoshone, Nev.
Winnebago, Nebr.
Administrative expenses.
Annuities and per capita payments.
Senecas, N.Y.
Six Nations, N. Y.
Choctows, Okla.
For fulfilling treaties with Pawnees, Oklahoma: For permanent Pawnees, Okla.
For payment of Sioux benefits to Indians of the Sioux Indians of Sioux reservations.
The unexpended balances of appropriations made for the benefit Saint Croix Chippewas, Wis.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw Menominee Indians in Wisconsin. Per capita pay ments. Provisos. Payments in lieu of previously authorized payments. Installments.
For payment of interest on moneys held in trust for the several Interest on trust funds.
Appropriations herein made for the support of Indians and Central garages, etc.
When, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior, it is Field service employees. Funds for. available for supplies.
The appropriations for education of natives of Alaska and medical Traveling expenses, new appointees, etc.
Reclamation Bureau.
Payments, from reclamation fund.
Commissioner, office personnel, and other expenses. Printing and binding.
Administrative provisions and limitations. Vehicles. Property damages. Attendance at meetings, etc. Provisos. Medical services for employees. Restriction where district is in arrears.
Examination and inspection of projects and operation and Examination and inspection of projects. Maintenance, etc., of reserved works.
Yuma project, Arizona-California: For operation and Yuma project, Ariz. Calif. Proviso. Operating commercial system.
Orland project, California: For operation and maintenance, Orland, Calif.
Boise project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, $30,000; Boise, Idaho.
Minidoka project, Idaho: For operation and maintenance, reserved Minidoka, Idaho. Proviso. Operating commercial system. South side division, construction.
North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming: Not to exceed $60,000 North Platte, Nebr. Wyo. Operating commercial system. Payment to Farmers’ district for water.
Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas: For operation and Rio Grande, N. Mex.-Tcx. Provisos. Contract for title, etc., to dam. Water for power not to deplete use for irrigation. Use of earnings. Disposition of net earnings after meeting cost.
Owyhee, Oreg. Klamath, Oreg. Calif. Proviso. Revenues from Tule Lake division.
Klamath project, Oregon-California: For operation and maintenance, $54,000:
Yakima, Wash. Proviso. Power system.
Riverton, Wyo. Proviso. Operating commercial system.
Shoshone, Wyo. Proviso. Operating commercial system.
Secondary and economic investigations. Provisos. Expenses considered supplementary; accounting. Division of expenses for investigations.
Operation and maintenance administration. Information to settlers.
Limitation of expenditures.
Interchange of appropriations. Emergency flood repairs.
Construction: For continuation of construction of the following Construction of designated projects.
Gila project, Arizona, $700,000; said Gila project, including the waters to be diverted and used thereby and the lands and structures for the diversion and storage thereof, to be subject to the provisions of the Boulder Canyon Project Act of December 21, 1928, and subject to and controlled by the provisions of the Colorado River Compact signed at Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 24, 1922;
Salt River project, Arizona, $500,000;
Orland project, California: For construction and other work authorized by section 5 of the Act of June 24, 1936 (49 Stat. 1907), $35,000;
Colorado-Big Thompson project, Colorado: For construction in Colorado-Big Thompson, Colo. Proviso. Repayment of costs.
Pine River project, Colorado, $500,000; Pine River, Colo.
Boise project, Idaho, Payette division, $1,000,000; Boise, Payette division, Idaho.
Sun River project, Montana, $300,000; Sun River, Mont.
Carlsbad project, New Mexico, $200,000; Carlsbad, N. Mex.
Owyhee project, Oregon, $500,000; Owyhee, Oreg.
Klamath project, Oregon-California, $125,000; Klamath, Oreg. Calif.
Belle Fourche project, South Dakota, $130,000; Belle Fourche, 8. Dak.
Ogden River project, Utah, $250,000; Ogden River, Utah.
Provo River project, Utah, $750,000; Provo River, Utah.
Yakima project, Washington, Roza division, $1,500,000; Yakima, Roza division, Wash.
Casper-Alcova project, Wyoming, $650,000: Casper-Alcova, Wyo. Provisos. Rights of States recognized. Casper-Alcova project: designation changed to Kendrick.
Riverton, Wyo.
Shoshone, Wyo.
Colorado River Basin investigations. Administrative expenses. Ante, p. 592.
For administrative expenses on account of the above projects, including personal services and other expenses in the District of Columbia and in the field $750,000, in addition to and for the same objects of expenditure as are hereinbefore enumerated in paragraphs 2 and 3 under the caption “Bureau of Reclamation”; in all, $9,850,000: Proviso. Services in the District.
Construction, special fund. Balances reappropriated.
Total, from reclamation fund, $11,016,600.
Yuma project, Ariz. Calif. Colorado River front work and levee system. Balance reappropriated.
Boulder Canyon project. Construction, etc. Acquisition of lands, etc. Availability.
Boulder Canyon project (All-American Canal). Construction, etc. Acquisition of lands.
For continuation of construction of the following projects and for Construction and Investigations of specified projects, reimbursable.
Central Valley project, California, $12,500,000, together with the Central Valley, Calif.
Grand Coulee Dam, Washington: For continuation of Grand Coulee Dam, Wash. Ante, p. 210.
For general investigations, $200,000 to enable the Secretary of General investigations.
For administrative expenses on account of the above projects, Administrative expenses. Proviso. Services in the District.
The Public Works Administration allotments made available to Public Works Administration allotments etc., continued available.
Geological Survey.
For the Director of the Geological Survey and other personal Salaries.
General expenses. Vehicles. Traveling expenses. Attendance at meetings.
Topographie surveys. Provisos. Cooperation with States, etc. Allotment for cooperation.
Geologic surveys.
Alaska, mineral resources.
Gaging streams; investigations. Provisos. Division of expenses. Allotment for cooperation.
Classification of lands as to mineral character, etc.
Printing and binding, and so forth: For printing and binding, Printing and binding.
Mineral leasing: For the enforcement of the provisions of the Acts Nonmetallic Miner al Acts. Enforcing provisions.
During the fiscal year 1938 the head of any department or Cooperative work on scientific, etc., investigations for government agencies. Credit of funds. Provisos. Expenditure of transferred funds. Cooperative work; availability.
During the fiscal year 1938, upon the request of the Secretary of Aerial photographs for mapping projects. Contracts with civilians.
Transporting effects of employees.
Total, United States Geological Survey, $2,927,000.
Bureau of Mines.
Salaries and expenses.
Mine rescue cars and stations. Investigation of accidents, etc. Attendance at meetings, etc. Vehicles. Proviso. Rescue trophies.
Testing fuel.
Mineral mining investigations: For inquiries and scientific and Mineral mining investigations. Proviso. Private investigations, restriction.
Oil and gas investigations: For inquiries and investigations and Oil and gas investigations. Proviso. Purchase of newspapers, etc.
Mining experiment stations: For the employment of personal Mining experiment stations.
Buildings and grounds, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: For care and Pittsburgh, Pa., station, maintenance, etc.
Economics of mineral industries: For inquiries and investigations, Economics of mineral industries. Investigations, etc. Reports. Statistical inquiries. Services in the District.
Helium production and investigations. Ante, pp. 111, 456.
Gas production for helium plants. Proviso. Limitation on expenditures.
Scientific investigations for departments, etc. Transfer of sums. Proviso. Expenditure.
Minor purchases without advertising.
Traveling expenses; attendance at meetings, etc.
Persons employed during the fiscal year 1938 in field work outside Detail of field employees. Proviso. Payment of employees’ expenses. Report of details to Congress.
The Secretary of the Treasury may detail medical officers of the Details from, Public Health Service.
Appropriations for the fiscal year 1938 available for expenses of Traveling expenses, on transfer from one station to another. Transportation of household goods, etc.
Total, Bureau of Mines, $2,222,450.
National Park Service.
Director, and office personnel.
Accounting services.
Salaries: For the Director of the National Park Service and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including accounting services in checking and verifying the accounts and records of the various operators, licensees, and permittees conducting utilities and other enterprises within the national parks and monuments, and Specialists and experts. Proviso. Employment without reference to Classification. etc., Acts. Field employees.
General expenses: For every expenditure requisite for and incident General expenses. Proviso. Field employees attending meetings.
National Parks, administration, etc. Acadia, Maine. George B. Dorr. Vehicles.
Bryce Canyon, Utah.
Carlsbad Caverns, N. Mex.
Crater Lake, Oreg.
General Grant, Calif.
Glacier, Mont,
Grand Canyon, Ariz.
Grand Teton, Wyo.
Great Smoky Mountains, N. C. Tenn.
Hawaii National Park: For administration, protection, and Hawaii.
Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas: For administration, Hot Springs, Ark.
Lassen Volcanic National Park, California: For administration, Lassen, Calif.
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: For administration, Mesa Verde, Colo. Proviso. Water system, improvement.
Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska: For administration, Mount McKinley, Alaska.
Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For administration, Mount Rainier, Wash.
Platt National Park, Oklahoma: For administration, protection, Platt, Okla.
Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado: For administration, Rocky Mountain, Colo.
Sequoia National Park, California: For administration, Sequoia, Calif.
Shenandoah National Park, Virginia: For administration, Shenandoah, Va.
Wind Cave, S. Dak.
Yellowstone, Wyo.
Yosemite, Calif.
Zion, Utah.
National monuments, administration, etc.
Homestead National Monument of America. Nebr.
Oregon Caves, Oreg.
National historical parks and monuments, administration.
National military parks, battle of fields, etc.
Kennesaw Mountain, Ga.
Boulder Dam Recreational Area, Arizona and Nevada: For Boulder Dam Recreational Area, Ariz. Nev. Proviso. Six Companies, Inc., repayment.
Emergency reconstruction and fighting forest fires in national Emergency reconstruction and fighting forest fires. Balance continued available. Proviso. Restriction on allotment.
Forest protection and fire prevention: Fox the control and the Forest protection and fire prevention; Insect, etc., control.
The total of the foregoing amounts shall be available in one fund Accounting. Proviso. Sums interchangeable.
Appropriations herein made for the national parks, national Lectures, etc.
Appropriations herein made for the Department of the Interior Trucks, etc.
Appropriations herein made for the National Park Service shall Telephone installations, etc.
Roads and trails, construction, etc. Proviso. Services in the District.
Blue Ridge and Natchez Trace Parkways. Proviso. Allotments to designated States.
Historic sites and buildings.
Water rights, investigation, etc.
Public buildings and grounds, D. C. Maintenance, etc. Post, p. 765. Miscellaneous expenses. Vehicles. Services in the District. Proviso. Statement of Government meters.
Salaries and expenses, public buildings outside the District of Administration, etc., outside the District. Proviso. Services in the District.
Salaries and expenses, National Capital parks: For administration, National Capital parks. Salaries and expenses. Vehicles. Miscellaneous expenses.
Office of Education.
Salaries.
For the Commissioner of Education and other personal services Commissioner, and office personnel.
General expenses.
For necessary traveling expenses of the Commissioner and Travel, attendance at meetings, etc.
For making surveys, studies, investigations, and reports regarding Libraries of educational institutions. Surveys, reports, etc., of. Attendance at meetings, etc.
Agriculture and the mechanic arts. Further endowment of colleges of.
Vocational education.
Salaries and expenses. Further development in States and Territories.
Further development of vocational education: For carrying out the provisions of sections 1, 2, and 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the further development of vocational education in the several States and Territories”, approved June 8, 1936 (49 Stat., p. 1488-1490), $14,483,000.
Extending benefits to Hawaii.
Extending benefits to Puerto Rico. 20 U. S. C. §§ 11–18; 29 U. S. C. §§ 31–35; 20 U. S. C. § 30.
Cooperative vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry. Proviso. Basis of apportionment.
Salaries and expenses, vocational rehabilitation: For carrying out Salaries and expenses, vocational rehabilitation. Operation of stands In Federal buildings by blind persons.
Cooperative vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents of the Cooperative vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents of District of Columbia.
Promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in Provisions extended to Hawaii.
Promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in Extending benefits to Puerto Rico.
Not to exceed an aggregate of $3,000 of appropriations available Attendance at meetings.
Government in the Territories.
Alaska.
Salaries of the Governor anti of the secretary, $15,600. Governor and secretary. Incidental and contingent expenses.
For incidental and contingent expenses of the offices of the Governor and the secretary of the Territory, clerk hire, not to exceed $7,520; janitor service for the Governors office and the executive mansion, not to exceed $3,180; traveling expenses of the Governor while absent from the capital on official business and of the secretary of the Territory while traveling on official business under direction of the Governor; repair and preservation of Governor’s house and furniture; for care of grounds and purchase of necessary equipment; stationery, lights, water, and fuel; in all, $14,810, to tie expended under the direction of the Governor.
Public schools, establishment, etc. Proviso. Limitation on expenditures.
Care of insane. Provisos. Payments to institutions authorized. Ascertaining and returning inmates, not legal residents, to their legal residence, etc.
Roads, bridges, trails, etc., repair and maintenance.
Road, etc., construction. Proviso. Limitation on expenditures.
Alaska Railroad, maintenance, etc. Operation, etc., of vessels. Injury Compensation Act, payments under. Provisos. Services in the District. Salary restriction. Printing and binding Capital expenditures chargeable to capital account.
Hawaii.
Salaries of the Governor and of the secretary, $15,800. Governor and secretary. Contingent expenses.
For contingent expenses, to be expended by the Governor for stationery, postage, and incidentals, and for traveling expenses of the Governor while absent from the capital on official business, $2,000; private secretary to the Governor, $3,100; temporary clerk hire, $750; in all, $5,850.
Virgin Islands.
For salaries of the Governor and employees incident to the Governor, and other personal services. Miscellaneous expenses.
For salaries and expenses of the agricultural experiment station Agricultural experiment station and vocational school.
For defraying the deficits in the treasuries of the municipal Deficits of municipal governments.
Puerto Rican hurricane relief.
To enable the Division of Territories and Island Possessions to Administrative expenses. Loan adjustments. Use of balances.
Equatorial and South Sea Islands.
Administrative expenses.
Saint Elizabeths Hospital.
Maintenance, etc. Insane citizens in Canada. Vehicles. Repairs and improvements. Removal of patients to their friends. Provisos. Returning inmates no longer Federal charges. Mail facilities. Butter substitutes, restriction. Patients of the District, etc. Credit for payments.
For construction and equipment of a continuous-treatment Continuous-treatment building. Construction and equipment.
For an additional amount for construction and equipment of a Additional amount.
To furnish a driveway under Nichols Avenue, connecting two parts Driveway construction.
Columbia Institution for the Deaf.
For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental Maintenance, etc.
Howard University.
Salaries: For payment in full or in part of the salaries of the Salaries, etc.
General expenses: For equipment, supplies, apparatus, furniture, General expenses.
Total, Howard University, $700,000.
Freedmen’s Hospital.
For officers and employees and compensation for all other Salaries, etc. Contingent expenses. Division of expenses.
Field work appropriations available for work animals, etc.
Appropriations and authority made available from July 1, 1937.
Incurred obligations ratified.
Short title.
[S. 1281]
War Department.
Sale of designated cemetery properties authorized.
That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to sell or cause to be sold, in the manner and upon such terms as he shall deem expedient, the cemetery properties hereinafter designated and to execute and deliver in the name of the United States of America and in its behalf any and all contracts, conveyances, or other instruments necessary to effectuate such sale and conveyance, and that the expense of sale shall be paid from the proceeds thereof, and the net proceeds deposited in the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts:
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland, approximate area, five-tenths of an acre.
Confederate Lot, Greenlawn Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana, approximate area, five-tenths of an acre.
Point Lookout, Confederate Cemetery, Maryland (tracts numbered 1 and 2), approximate area, five and five-tenths acres.
Camp Dennison Cemetery, near Cincinnati, Ohio, approximate area, six hundred and twenty-eight one-thousandths of an acre.
Cave Hill National Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky (site of superintendent’s lodge), approximate area, twenty-two one-hundredths of an acre.
Mobile National Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama (Freedman’s Lot), approximate area, one and five-tenths acres.
Oil and gas conservation.
Consent given to extension of interstate compact concerning.
Text of compact.
The inefficient, excessive or improper use of the reservoir energy in producing any well.
“The enumeration of the foregoing subjects shall not limit the scope of the authority of any State.
“Each State joining herein shall appoint one representative to a commission hereby constituted and designated as The Interstate Oil Compact Commission, the duty of which said commission shall be to make inquiry and ascertain from time to time such methods, practices, circumstances and conditions as may be disclosed for bringing about conservation and the prevention of physical waste of oil and gas, and at such intervals as said commission deems beneficial it shall report its findings and recommendations to the several States for adoption or rejection.
“The Commission shall have power to recommend the coordination of the exercise of the police powers of the several states within their several jurisdictions to promote the maximum ultimate recovery from the petroleum reserves of said states, and to recommend measures for the maximum ultimate recovery of oil and gas. Said Commission shall organize and adopt suitable rules and regulations for the conduct of its business.
“No action shall be taken by the Commission except: (1) by the affirmative votes of the majority of the whole number of the compacting States, represented at any meeting and (2) by a concurring vote of a majority in interest of the compacting States at said meeting, such interest to be determined as follows: such vote of each State shall be in the decimal proportion fixed by the ratio of its daily average production during the preceding calendar half-year to the daily average production of the compacting States during said period.
“This compact shall expire September 1, 1937. But any State joining herein may, upon sixty (60) days notice, withdraw herefrom.
“The representatives of the signatory States have signed this agreement in a single original which shall be deposited in the
“This compact shall become effective when ratified and approved as provided in Article I. Any oil-producing State may become a party hereto by affixing its signature to a counterpart to be similarly deposited, certified and ratified.
“Done in the City of Dallas, Texas, this sixteenth day of February, 1935.
“And whereas, it is desired to extend and renew said Compact for the period of two (2) years from September 1, 1937, its expiration date;
“Now, therefore, this writing witnesseth:
“It is hereby agreed that the said Compact entitled ‘An interstate compact to conserve oil and gas’ executed in the City of Dallas, Texas, on the 16th day of February, 1935, and now on deposit with the Department of State of the United States, a correct copy of which appears above, be, and the same is hereby, extended for a period of two (2) years from September 1, 1937, its date of expiration, this agreement to become effective within those States joining herein when executed by any three of the States of Texas, Oklahoma, California, Kansas and New Mexico, and consent thereto is given by Congress.
“The signatory States execute this agreement in a single original which shall be deposited in the archives of the Department of State of the United States and a duly certified copy thereof shall be forwarded to the Governor of each of the signatory States.
“Executed as of this the 10th day of May, 1937, by the several undersigned States, at their several Capitols, through their proper officials thereunto duly authorized by resolutions or statutes of the several States.”
Rights reserved.
[S. 81]
Canal Zone Code, amendment.
“Any citizen of the United States separated from the service of Retirement annuities to certain former employees of Panama Canal, etc. Proviso.. No prior benefits.
[S. 1278]
Military reservations.
Exchange of certain lands authorized.
Jeffersonville Quartermaster Depot, Ind.
Plattsburg Barracks, N. Y.
Exchange in public interest.
[S. 2157]
Subsistence homesteads corporations.
Credits authorized to disbursing officers for expenses incident to creation of.
Healing Arts Practice Act, D. C. 1928, amendment.
Time limitation for filing application for license to practice repealed.
Marine schools.
“The port of Norfolk specified in the preceding paragraph shall “Port of Norfolk” construed.
Philippine Islands.
Administration of oaths, etc., by certain officials of the office of High Commissioner to.
Force and effect.
Proviso.
Existing previsions of law not replaced.
False, etc., statements, forgery, penalty for.
Authenticated documents, admissibility in evidence.
Columbia National Forest, Wash.
Lands added.
That, subject to any valid existing claim or entry, all lands of the United States within the areas hereinafter described be, and the same are hereby, added to and made parts of the Columbia National Forest, in the State of Washington, to be hereinafter administered under the laws Sale of timber.
Description.
Bankruptcy Act of 1898, amendment.
Reorganization, etc., of private corporations.
Power of Court to authorize lease or sale of debtor’s property.
Girl Scouts, Inc.
Patent on badge, renewed.
District court for New York Northern District.
Term at Malone.
Proviso.
Rooms, etc.
[S. 1266]
Chamberlain, S. Dak.
Construction, etc., tourist cabins on American Island by, authorized.
Operation of amusement, athletic, etc., facilities.
Lease of portion for Girl Scout, etc., encampments.
Provisos.
Enterprises; ownership, operation, etc.; use of profits.
Regulatory provisions.
[S. 1935]
Government disbursing officers, etc.
Credit for certain payments made by, during fiscal years 1934 and 1935.
Release of accountability.
Judicial Code, amendment.
Illinois judicial districts. Northern district. Terms. Offices. Southern district. Terms. Offices. Eastern district. Terms. Proviso. Accommodations at Benton.
Oklahoma Western Judicial District.
Court accommodations at Shawnee.
District of Columbia.
Age of consent for marriage Increased.
Issuance of license; time provision.
Effective date.
District of Columbia.
Protection of potato buyers.
U. S. grade to be indicated on each package.
Proviso.
Terms permitted.
Administration, rules, etc.
Sale, etc., otherwise than in packages.
Certified seed potatoes sold for seed purposes.
Penalty (or violation.
Narcotic laws.
Punishment for violations of.
Second offense; fine, Imprisonment.
Third offense.
Method by which previous conviction brought before court.
Procedure.
District of Columbia Code, amendments.
Offenses against property.
That subchapter 2 of chapter 19 of the Act to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia, approved March 3, 1901, and the Acts amendatory thereof (the same being title 6 of 1929 D. C. Code), be, and the same are hereby, amended as follows:
By striking out section 826 (title 6, sec. 60, 1929 D. C. Code) and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
Grand larceny.
By striking out section 827 (title 6, sec 61, 1929 D. C. Code) and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
Petit larceny; order of restitution.
By striking out section 842 (title 6, 85, 1929 D. C. Code) and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
False pretenses.
Defrauding inn keeper, etc.
By striking out section 847 (title 6, sec. 91, 1929 D. C. Code) and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
Malicious cutting down or destroying trees, etc.
By striking out section 848 (title 6, sec, 53, 1929 D. C. Code) and inserting in lien thereof the following:
Malicious burning, etc., of movable property.
By striking out section 851a and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
Penalties for designated offenses.
By striking out section 851b (title 6, sec. 98. 1929 D. C. Code) and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
Larceny after trust.
Proviso.
Existing provisions not affected.
Missouri River.
Dike to Farm Island in, near Pierre. S. Dak., legalized.
Proviso.
Changes by owner.
Amendment.
Missouri River.
Saline County, Mo., may bridge, at Arrow Rock.
Construction.
Tolls applied for operation, sinking fund, etc.
Maintenance as free bridge after amortizing costs.
Record of expenses and receipts.
Amendment.
Lake Sabine.
Time extended for bridging, at Port Arthur, Tex.
Amendment,
National safety and accident prevention.
Appropriation authorized for furthering work of conference on.
Proviso.
Travel expenses.
Mississippi River.
Time extended for bridging, between New Orleans and Gretna, La.
44 Stat. 1270; 45 Stat. 193, 1229; 46 Stat. 551; 47 Stat. 1415; 48 Stat. 396; 49 Stat. 321, 1542.
Proviso.
Construction by State, etc., permitted.
Amendment.
Saint Lawrence River.
Time extended for bridging, at Ogdensburg, N. Y.
Amendment.
Hawaii.
Exchange of certain lighthouse sites authorized.
That the Secretary of Commerce is hereby authorized to convey to the Kahului Railroad Company all that piece or parcel known as lot numbered 16, block “T”, of Kahului Townsite, Island of Maui, Territory of Hawaii, containing an area of seven thousand and sixty-four square feet: Proviso. Conveyance to United States.
Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Co., Ltd., conveyance of land to. Proviso. Parcels in exchange.
Burr Creek.
Portion of, Bridgeport, Conn., declared nonnavigable.
Projects abandoned.
Amendment, etc.
Cambridge Creek.
Maryland may bridge, at Cambridge.
Construction.
Right to acquire real estate, etc.
Condemnation proceedings.
Amendment.
Interstate minimum wage, etc., compact.
Ratification by designated States approved and declared effective.
[S. 1129]
Utah.
Exchange of land with, authorized.
Land reconveyed to become part of naval oil shale reserve.
Columbia River, Clark Fork.
Cabinet Gorge power project, plans for developing authorized.
Appropriation authorized.
Post, p. 764.
Tariff Act of 1930, amendment.
Formal entry of vessels arriving to take on ship stores, etc., not required.
Effective date.
Kentucky.
Designated land in Breckinridge County conveyed to State.
That the Secretary of War is authorized to convey to the Commonwealth of Kentucky for State road purposes, without expense to the United States, all
Beginning at a stone, in the southeast corner of the United States Description.
Such conveyance shall contain the express condition that if the Reversionary provision.
Alaska fisheries.
Bristol Bay.
Taking of salmon with stake net, etc., for commercial purposes, residence requirements.
Fort Myers. Fla.
Establishment of Coast Guard station near, authorized.
Executive departments, etc.
Renewal of oath of office not required in certain cases.
Dauphin Island, Ala.
Establishment of Coast Guard station authorized.
Toll bridges on Federal-aid highways.
Existing, becoming free of tolls prior to July 1, 1939; limited aid to, authorized.
Proviso.
Payment forbidden, if not according to Government standards, etc.
Maximum allowance.
Use of, by State.
U. S. employees in foreign countries.
Reimbursement to meet losses due to foreign currency appreciation.
Adjusted Compensation Payment Act, 1936, amendment.
Payments; escheat to United States, certain amounts which would otherwise escheat to State, etc.
Ohio River.
Owensboro Bridge Commission may bridge, Owensboro, Ky.
Construction.
Ferries; purchase, operation, etc.
Acquisition of real estate, etc.
Condemnation proceedings.
Toll charges.
Bond issue.
The Commission and its successors and assigns are hereby authorized to provide for the payment of the cost of the bridge and its approaches (including the approach highways which, in the judgment of the Commission, it is necessary or advisable to construct or cause to be constructed to provide suitable and adequate connection with existing improved highways) and the ferry or ferries and the necessary land, easements, and appurtenances thereto by an issue or issues of negotiable bonds of the Commission, bearing interest at not more than 6 per centum per annum, the principal and interest of which bonds and any premium to be paid for retirement thereof before maturity shall be payable solely from the sinking fund Form, maturity, denominations, etc. Repurchase, redemption, etc. Proviso. Refunding bonds, maturity. Trust agreement, provisions.
The bridge constructed under the authority of this Act shall be Bridge deemed instrumentality for interstate commerce. Tax exemption. Bond sale, price limitation. Financing costs, etc. Surplus fund placed in sinking fund. Temporary bond issue.
Tolls to be applied to operation, sinking fund, etc.
Record of expenditures and receipts.
Traffic classification.
Exemptions.
Commission not required to operate acquired ferry.
Ferry tolls, use of.
Record of expenditures and receipts.
Conveyance of Commission’s interest after liquidation to Indiana, Kentucky, etc.
Maintenance as free bridge; provision, if either State does not accept.
Disposition of ferry.
Extension of Federal aid, under designated Acts.
For the purpose of carrying into effect the objects stated Owensboro Bridge Commission created; powers.
The Commission shall consist of A. S. Griffin, James R. Wilson, Membership of Commission. Vacancies. Bond. Chairman and vice chairman; rules; quorum.
Commission to have no shares of interest, etc.; application of receipts.
Compensation, allowance, etc.
Secretary, and other employees.
Dissolution of Commission.
Division of moneys in hand, etc.
Contracts with States for construction, operation, etc.
Purpose declared.
Creation of other obligations, restriction on.
Enforcement of Act.
Amendment, etc.
United States courts.
Jurors, per diem fee restored.
Ante, p. 282.
Minor coin metal fund.
Amount authorized increased.
Postal Service.
“Clerks assigned to the office of division superintendent or chief Railway Mail Service. Promotion of clerks in offices of division superintendents, etc. Provisos. Stenographer grade, promotion. No salary reduction.
James Reuel Smith.
Acceptance of certain bequests of, authorized.
“Redemption of Liberty Bonds Issued in the Year 1918 from Bequest of James Reuel Smith.”
Credit of funds to.
Sale of real and personal property; disposition of proceeds.
Restriction on use.
[S. 607]
Columbia River.
Improvement of navigation facilities, Cascade Locks and Hood River, Oreg., authorized.
Reimbursement of owners for costs of alterations.
[S. 1047]
Pierre, S. Dak.
Construction, operation, etc., amusement and recreational facilities, Farm Island, authorized.
Tourist cabins.
Registration of vehicles.
Girl Scout and Boy Scout encampments, ground lease.
Proviso.
Authorization conditional.
Alcoholic beverages, other than beer; sale. etc., prohibited.
Municipal ownership of enterprises.
Island designated a wild-game refuge.
Trapshooting and skeetshooting.
Penalty for violation.
[S. 2520]
Bayou Savage.
Declared nonnavigable, in New Orleans, La.
Amendment.
[S. 1379]
Five Civilized Tribes of Indians.
Suits filed in Court of Claims under Jurisdictional Acts.
Amendment of petitions to conform to evidence, etc.
Jurisdiction conferred.
Reinstatement of certain dismissed claims.
Postal Service.
Substitutes in motor-vehicle service, time credits allowed.
Postal Service.
Shorter work week provisions extended to watchmen and messengers.
Tuscumbia, Ala.
Certain land relinquished to city or owners of equitable titles thereto.
Provisos.
United States title only relinquished.
Rights reserved.
Hunting Island Lighthouse Reservation, S. C.
Conveyance of, to Beaufort County, S. C., authorized.
Reversionary provision.
Sitka Cold Storage Company.
Conveyance of certain land to, authorized.
That the Territory of Alaska, through the Governor of Alaska, is hereby authorized to transfer and convey to the Sitka Cold Storage Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the Territory of Alaska, that certain portion of the land granted to the Territory by the provisions of Public Law Numbered 134, Seventy-third Congress, Reservation of minerals, etc.
Description.
Bankruptcy Act of 1898, amendment.
Additional jurisdiction.
Compositions of indebtedness of taxing agencies, etc.
Agricultural improvement districts.
Sewer, paving, etc., districts.
Highway, etc., districts.
Public-school districts.
Port, navigation, etc., districts.
Municipalities.
Proviso.
Separability provision.
Definitions.
The following terms as used in this chapter, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, shall be construed as follows:
“Petitioner.”
“Security.”
“Creditor.”
U. S. agency holding securities, etc., deemed a creditor.
“The term ‘security affected by the plan’ means a security as to “Security affected by the plan.”
“The singular number includes the plural and the masculine Number and gender.
Compositions.
Any petitioner may file a petition hereunder stating Petition for composition of debts. Filing fee. Contents of petition; plan to accompany; acceptance by majority of creditors. List of known creditors to be filed. Court order approving or dismissing petition.
“The ‘plan of composition’, within the meaning of this chapter, “Plan of composition”, provisions.
“No creditor shall be deemed to be affected by any plan of composition Class of creditors affected.
“For all purposes of this chapter any creditor may act in person Creditor may act in person or by agent, etc. Group representation; requirements. Compensation; approval by court.
Procedure when petition approved.
Upon approving the petition as properly filed, or at any time thereafter, the judge shall enter an order fixing a time and place for a hearing on the petition, which shall be held within Notice to creditors. Publication of notice; copy to each creditor.
Answer by creditor controverting allegations; objections. Extension of hearing. Decision on issues presented. Proviso. Payment of claim holders without preference. Preferential, etc., holders.
Reference to special master for consideration. Proviso. Assessment of fees, etc. Appeals from orders.
“On thirty days’ notice by any creditor to petitioner, the judge, Authority of judge. Dismissal of proceeding.
Stay of suits, etc.
Enforcement of assessments. etc.
Temporary operation of plan on securities affected.
Readjustment of securities.
Plan of composition.
Acceptance by creditors before confirmation.
Proviso.
Classes of creditors from whom acceptance not required.
Confirmation of plan, etc., by court.
Findings required.
At the conclusion of the hearing, the judge shall make written findings of fact and his conclusions of law thereon, and shall enter an interlocutory decree confirming the plan if satisfied that (1) it is fair, equitable, and for the best interests of the creditors and does not discriminate unfairly in favor of any creditor or class of creditors; (2) complies with the provisions of this chapter; (3) has been accepted and approved as required by the provisions of subdivision (d) of this section; (4) all amounts to be paid by the petitioner for services or expenses incident to the composition have been fully disclosed and are reasonable; (5) the offer of the plan and its acceptance are in good faith; and (6) the petitioner is authorized by law to take all action necessary to be taken by it to carry out the plan. If not so satisfied, the judge shall enter an order dismissing the proceeding.
Changes and modifications allowed. Rights and acts of creditor. Proviso. Conformity with provisions of chapter. Appeal. Running of time suspended on appeal.
Confirmatory decree binding upon all creditors.
Certified copy of decree or order as evidence of jurisdiction of court.
Order directing property transfer, effect of.
Provisions not to affect existing law. etc.
Proviso.
Initiating, etc., proceedings; effect of.
State control over political subdivisions not impaired.
Termination of jurisdiction.
That the Secretary Gaithersburg, Md. Acceptance of title to certain land in, authorized. Description.
Acquisition of the title to said property under this Act shall be Restriction on expense.
World War veterans.
Payment of compensation to widows and children of.
38 U. S. C. §§ 503–507; Supp. II, § 508.
Not denied if veteran was entitled to 20 per cent disability pay, etc.
Provisos.
Condition.
Beginning of payments.
Evidence and adjudication of claims.
Rates of death compensation.
That effective on the first day of the month next following the date of enactment of this Act, the rates of death compensation payable under the provisions of existing laws or veterans’ regulations to a surviving widow, child, or children, and/or dependent mother or father now on the rolls or hereafter to be placed on the rolls as a surviving widow, child, or children, and/or dependent mother or father of any World War veteran who died as the result of injury or disease incurred in or aggravated by active military or naval service in the World War, shall be as follows:
Widow, age under fifty years, $30; widow, age fifty to sixty-five years, $37.50; widow, age sixty-five years or over, $45; widow with one child, $10 additional for such child up to ten years of age, increased to $15 from age ten (with $8 for each additional child up to ten years of age, increased to $13 from age ten) (subject to apportionment regulations); no widow but one child, $20; no widow but two children, $33 (equally divided); no widow but three children, $46 (equally divided); (with $8 for each additional child; total amount to be equally divided; dependent mother or father, $45 (or Maximum compensation.
As to the surviving widow, child, or children, and/or dependent Effective date of awards.
“Widow of a World War veteran” defined.
Marital, etc., requirements.
Validity of marriage to be proven.
Remarried widows.
World War service, period defined.
Effective date of death compensation awards.
Permanent disability; definition, application of term.
Disappearance of incompetent veteran receiving; payment to dependents.
Proviso.
Amount limited.
Penal and forfeiture provisions.
District of Columbia.
Use of fraudulent tokens, slugs, etc., in operating merchandise vending machines, etc.
Receiving merchandise, etc., a misdemeanor.
Punishment for.
Manufacturing, etc., fraudulent tokens, etc.
Punishment for.
“Person” construed.
District of Columbia, public works.
“That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to construct Naval Hospital, etc., replacement. Naval Medical Center, etc., included. Provisos. Advice of National Capital Park and Planning Commission. Approval by National Park Service. Limit of cost; amount for site.
Acceptance of land.
Alaska unicameral legislature.
Referendum as to establishment of, authorized.
Form of ballot.
“(Place an (X) in square before your preference.)
“(Vote for one only)
“□ I favor a one-house legislature for Alaska.
“□ I do NOT favor a one-house legislature for Alaska.”
Preparation, etc., of ballots.
Payment of expenses.
Labor standards for apprentices.
Formulation and promotion of.
Encouraging inclusion of, in contracts.
Cooperation with State agencies, National Youth Administration, etc.
Publication of information.
Appointment of advisory committees.
National Youth Administration relieved of responsibility for promoting standards; transfer of records.
Personal services.
Proviso.
Employment of present personnel.
Effective date.
That the Secretary State of Washington. Conveyance of certain lands to, authorized.
A strip of land containing thirty-six one-hundredths acre, more Description.
Commence at the south one-quarter corner of said section 22 and run easterly along the south line of said section 22 a distance of exactly seven hundred and two feet to an intersection with the center line of State Road Numbered 9 (Olympic Highway) as now located and of record in the office of the Director of Highways, Olympia, Washington; thence along said center line, north thirty-six degrees forty-three minutes east, seven hundred and forty-five and nine-tenths feet to the point of beginning of said “road connection”; thence south seventy-six degrees thirteen minutes west, along the center line of said “road connection”, three hundred and forty-eight and one-tenth feet; thence on the arc of a curve to the left whose radius is exactly nine hundred and fifty-five feet, a distance of one hundred and fifty-eight feet, more or less, to an intersection with the easterly line of the southwest quarter southwest quarter south
Thence continuing on the arc of said curve to the left a distance of eighty-eight and four-tenths feet, more or less, having a width of fifty feet on each side of said center line; thence south sixty-one degrees twenty-six minutes west, twenty-three and four-tenths feet, having a width of fifty feet on each side of said center line; thence on the arc of a curve to the right whose radius is exactly one thousand one hundred and forty-six feet a distance of thirty-two and one-tenth feet, having a width of fifty feet on each side of said center line; thence continuing on the arc of said curve to the right a distance of one hundred and seventy-six and six-tenths feet having a width of fifty feet on the northwesterly side and thirty feet on the southeasterly side of said center line; thence south seventy-one degrees fifty-two minutes west, sixty-one and eight-tenths feet, to an intersection with the existing road, having a width of fifty feet on the northwesterly side and thirty feet on the southeasterly side of said center line, excepting therefrom the right-of-way of existing road contained therein.
Also all that portion of the southwest quarter southwest quarter southeast quarter, said section 22, lying southeasterly of a line drawn parallel to and distant fifty feet northwesterly from the center line of said State Road Numbered 9, said tract of land being of triangular shape and existing in the extreme southeast corner of the above-described legal subdivision.
Lighthouse Service.
Marking wrecked and sunken craft for protection of navigation.
Payment of cost by owner until abandonment.
Continuance by Lighthouse Service if requested by War Department; cost.
Maintenance of warning after abandonment by War Department.
Receipts covered in.
Obligation of owner not waived.
Damage to aids to navigation: payment of repair cost, etc.
Establishment, etc., of aids to mark rivets, waterways, or channels.
Bureau of Lighthouses, etc.
Establishment, organization, etc.
Annual report.
Damage claims, adjustment, etc.
Horton Point, N. Y., lighthouse reservation.
Portion of conveyed to Southold Park District, Southold, N.Y.
Crooked River Range, Fla.
Additional strip for roadway conveyed to State.
Thomas Jefferson’s Birthday.
President authorized to proclaim April 13 of each year as.
New York World’s Fair 1939.
Dutiable articles imported for exhibition, etc., admitted free, under regulations.
Sales permitted.
Provisos.
Duty on articles withdrawn.
Deterioration allowance.
Marking requirements.
Abandoned articles.
Transfer privilege.
Exposition deemed sole consignee of merchandise.
Reimbursement of incurred Federal expenses.
Deposit of receipts as refunds.
Cape Hatteras National Seashore, N. C.
Establishment; area, location, etc.
Proviso.
Donation of lands.
Acceptance of donations, etc.
Proviso.
Acquisition of land.
Administration, etc, by National Park Service.
Provisos.
Jurisdiction of other agencies not divested.
Federal Water Power Act not applicable.
Rights of village residents.
Permanent reservation as a wilderness.
Except for certain portions of the area, deemed to be especially adaptable for recreational uses, particularly swimming, boating, sailing, fishing, and other recreational activities of similar nature, which shall be developed for such uses as needed, the said area shall be permanently reserved as a primitive wilderness and no development of the project or plan for the convenience of visitors shall be undertaken which would be incompatible with the preservation of the unique flora and fauna or the physiographic conditions now prevailing Proviso. Minimum area. Reversionary provision.
In the event of said abandonment, the Secretary of the Interior shall execute any suitable quitclaim deeds, or other writings entitled to record in the proper counties of North Carolina stating the fact of abandonment, whereupon title shall revert to those entitled thereto by law and no further conveyance or proof of reversion of title shall be required.
Migatory bird refuge continued.
Additions to refuges.
Judicial Code, amendment.
“The State of North Carolina is divided into three districts to be North Carolina judicial districts.
“The eastern district shall include the territory embraced on the Eastern district.
“The terms of the District Court for the eastern District of North Terms of court.
“The middle district shall include the territory embraced on the Middle district.
“The terms of the district court for the middle district shall be held Terms of court. Proviso. Court accommodations.
“The western district shall include the territory embraced on the Western district.
Terms of court. Proviso. Court accommodations. Clerk’s offices.
Judge, etc., for middle district, appointment.
Pending causes, etc.
Puerto Rico.
Land within Catano Range Rear Lighthouse Reservation transferred to, for roadway.
That the Secretary of Commerce be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to transfer to the Government of Puerto Rico for roadway purposes a portion of land within the Catano Range Rear Lighthouse Reservation, Puerto Rico, as shown on the drawing numbered 2309 filed in the Department of Commerce, Washington, District of Columbia, described more particularly as follows:
Description.
All bearings given are true, calculated from magnetic bearings from survey of October 27, 1904, corrected by one degree forty-six minutes west variation.
Reversionary provision.
District of Columbia Revenue Act of 1937.
Guanica Lighthouse Reservation, P. R.
Exchange of, for adjacent plots, authorized.
Charles Carroll of Carrollton Bicentenary Commission.
Authority granted to fix compensation and to determine expenditures.
United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission.
Additional appropriation authorized.
Post, p. 756.
New sections.
Receipts from sale of publications, appropriation authorized as revolving fund.
“The Story of the Constitution”; purchase and distribution.
Printing and binding outside Government Printing Office.
Proviso.
Accounting.
Director General; appointment, status.
General Anthony Wayne Memorial Commission.
Preamble.
Establishment, composition, purpose, etc.
Construction of permanent memorial at Fort Wayne.
Acceptance of gifts.
Report to Congress.
Sum authorized for expenses.
[S. 2639]
Fort Schuyler Military Reservation, N. Y.
Lease to State authorized.
Terms, conditions, etc.
Provisos.
Improvements.
Consideration for lease.
Reservation by United States.
[S. 2871]
Army.
Reenlistment of aliens; citizenship requirements modified.
Ante, p. 446.
Proviso.
Reenlistment of Filipinos.
[S. 2882]
That the consent Caddo Parish, La. Bridge construction authorized at places designated.
all to be located along the proposed relocation of the State Highway Route Numbered 8, between Shreveport, Louisiana, and Rodessa, Louisiana, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, and according to the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate Construction.
Amendment.
District of Columbia.
Southeastern University of the Young Men’s Christian Association; incorporation, etc., approved.
Name.
Board of trustees; membership, qualifications, etc.
First board of trustees.
Terms at office.
Powers and authority of board declared.
Corporate powers, etc.
Income, use of.
No religious, etc., qualifications.
Exclusive use of title.
Amendment, etc.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, N. C.
Exchange of certain lands within, for lands within the Cherokee Indian Reservation, authorized.
Conditions.
Right-of-way grant to State.
Consent of Indians to be determined by ballot.
Consent by State.
Lands transferred to Indians to be held in trust; nontaxable, etc.
Acquisitions by United States for park purposes.
Proviso.
Reversionary provision.
Shoshone Indian Reservation, Wyo.
Acquisition of tribal lands for Wind River irrigation project.
Description.
Deposit to credit of Indians.
Proviso.
Extinguishment of title, etc.
Shenandoah National Park, Va.
Police jurisdiction assumed by United States.
Exceptions.
Service of process, suite, etc., arising outside.
State tax powers.
Franchise.
Gasoline, etc., tax.
Provisions applicable to future conveyances.
Application of laws.
Fugitives from justice.
District court for western district of Virginia, jurisdiction of.
Protection of birds and animals.
Unlawful fishing.
Administrative rules, etc.
Unlawful acts, evidence of violations.
Penalty provisions.
Guns, traps, teams, etc., forfeiture or seizure for violations.
Disposition of.
United States commissioner.
Appointment, jurisdiction.
Judicial powers in violation of rules, etc.
Appeals.
Duties, powers, etc.
Arrest and confinement of persons charged with crime.
Proviso.
Bail.
Processes directed to marshal.
Salary.
Provisos.
Residence.
Disposal of fees, etc.
Fees chargeable to United States, payment of.
Deposit of fines and costs.
Farm Credit Act of 1937.
Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation.
“When in the judgment of the directors conditions justify it, the Extension of unpaid obligations under terms of mortgages; acceptance of payment; interest rate.
Joint-stock land banks.
Amount available for loans to, by Land Bank Commissioner.
Interest rate.
Use of money loaned.
Purchase of consolidated farm loan bonds; loans to Federal land banks; security.
Proviso.
Limitation.
Consolidated farm loan bonds as security.
Investment of funds.
Farm credit districts; number, boundaries, etc.
Designations changed.
Farm credit board; selection, number.
Title to include city.
Elected directors, selection.
District directors, appointment.
Present land bank directors to form farm credit board in each district.
Selection of successors.
Third district director, selection.
Removal from office, restriction on renomination.
Notice and procedure of nominating elected directors
Notice and procedure for election.
Terms of office.
Qualifications.
Limitation on engaging in business.
Disqualification for conviction of felony, etc.
Compensation.
Limitation.
Land banks; branches.
Applicability of agricultural credit laws to territories, etc.
Farm credit boards, powers.
Employment of joint officers and employees for Federal land banks, etc.
Acquisition and disposal of property.
Execution of leases, contracts, etc.
Exceptions.
Federal vacation and sick leave provisions inapplicable to boards selected by private interests.
5 U. S. C., Supp. II, §§ 29a, 30b–30m, 31a.
Land bank districts; provisions repealed.
Section superseded.
“The members of the farm credit board of each farm credit district Farm credit board members ex officio directors of land bank in district. Approval of compensation.
Persons disqualified; section repealed.
12 U. S. C., Supp. II, § 682a.
Readjustment of boundaries of territory.
Suspension or removal of directors, etc.
Federal Intermediate credit banks, location.
Members of credit boards to be ex officio directors.
Personal services.
Production Credit Corporations, etc.
Location.
Members of credit boards to be ex officio directors.
Land bank loans.
Liquidation of debts incurred prior to January 1, 1937.
Loans by Land Bank Commissioner.
Refinancing indebtedness incurred for nonagricultural purposes.
Deferment of principal payments, first three years, if not in default.
Purchase, etc., of bonds.
Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation bonds.
Purchase at or below par.
Purchase of Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation bonds.
Enumerated powers.
Loans to other Federal land banks.
Acceptance of conditional payments from borrowers.
Acceptance for subsequent credit.
Application to payment.
Credit allowed.
Refund of balances.
Land bank bond committee; subcommittee authorized.
Authority, etc.
Unexpended balances of designated funds, repayments, etc., to constitute revolving fund; use of.
Ante, p. 138.
Land bank examiners; designation changed.
National farm loan association directors; terms of office modified.
Vacancies.
Borrowers from land banks may transfer, etc., to Farm Mortgage Corporation.
Farm loan association.
Voting in shareholders’ meetings.
Election of prospective borrower.
Common board of directors between two or more associations. Provisos. Board members to be shareholders and residents of territory. Term of office, restriction. Number. Balloting. Members of common board to be ex officio directors of each association.
“Whenever a national farm loan association has entered into such Power to approve loans, admitting persons to membership vested in loan committee. Annual elections.
Whenever it shall appear that the capital stock of a national Loans where stock of farm loan association is impaired. New borrowers as members; voting privileges, etc. Endorsement of mortgage loans; liability.
When there are ten or more borrowers admitted to membership Admission to association membership of ten or more borrowers.
Liability for paying loans.
Proviso.
Individual responsibility of shareholders.
Reduction of interest rate.
Exchange of stock.
Admission of new members, etc.
Election of loan committee from stockholders.
Proviso.
Admission, where stockholders fail to elect loan committee.
Segregation of records, accounts, etc.
Special provisions.
If and when all impairment is removed in the stock owned by shareholders with loans which were made prior to the date on which the first member was admitted to the association pursuant to this sub-
Servicing loans; agreement between local associations.
Terms and conditions.
“Upon receiving satisfactory evidence that any national farm loan Failure of national farm loan association to meet obligations. Conservator; appointment, qualifications, etc. Ante, p. 703. Proviso. Appointment, other than appraiser. Compensation.
“The conservator, under the direction of the Farm Credit Administration, Authority of conservator. Investigations and report. Proviso. Contingent liabilities to be included. Submission of report to district Federal land bank.
Decision as to settlement. New members. Ante, p. 711. Termination of conservatorship if in the affirmative. Procedure, if decision in the negative.
Condition of settlement. Payments from retired stock.
Procedure where fair book value of stock below par.
“In the event that the indebtedness, as determined by the conservator, Action where indebtedness increases in excess of earnings.
Federal intermediate credit banks.
“Each Federal intermediate credit bank shall have power to Acquisition and disposal of property.
12 U. S. C., Supp. II, § 1041.
Collateral security for debentures.
Debentures, etc., preparation and issue; regulations governing collateral.
Interest rates.
Purchase, for own account.
Disposition of annual earnings.
Elimination of impairment; creation of reserves.
Amount as franchise tax; surplus account.
Use of franchise tax payments.
Liquidation, etc.;
disposition of surplus.
Reports of condition of institutions receiving loans, etc.
Regional agricultural credit corporations.
Powers, etc., conferred.
Transaction of business in any State, etc.
Borrowing of money; security.
Loans.
Assets, sale and purchase of; liabilities.
Consolidation or merger of regional agricultural credit corporations.
Authority to grant charters, fix capital, etc.
Rights, powers, etc., of consolidated corporations.
Rights of regional corporations not curtailed.
Central Bank for Cooperatives.
Lending powers, etc.
Security transactions authorized.
Borrowing, etc., powers.
Banks for cooperatives, loans by, to cooperative associations, etc.
Security transactions authorized.
Borrowing, etc., powers.
Farm Credit Administration.
Sale of property acquired on account of loans.
Lease, pending sale.
Proviso.
Purchases, etc.
Revolving fund, designated funds covered into.
“Debenture” and
“debentures” defined.
Separability provision.
Right to amend, etc.
Reclamation projects, Oklahoma.
Surveys authorized for development of.
Washita River Basin.
North Canadian River Basin.
Cimarron River Basin.
Dams.
Funds available.
Palisades Interstate Park Commission.
Compact between New York and New Jersey for creation of.
“Now, therefore, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual advantages and benefits to accrue to the peoples of the states of New York and New Jersey from this compact and in consideration of the mutual covenants of the parties hereto herein contained, the sovereign state of New York and the sovereign state of New Jersey do hereby agree as follows:
“This compact may be amended from time to time by the concurrent action of the two states who are parties hereto.
“In witness whereof, the sovereign states of New York and New Jersey, respectively, have caused this compact to be signed and sealed in triplicate by their respective commissioners thereunto duly authorized this 28th day of June, nineteen hundred thirty seven.
“As commissioners authorized by Chapter 170 of the Laws of 1937 of the State of New York
“As commissioners authorized by Chapter 148 of the Laws of 1937 of the State of New Jersey
Therefore be it
Consent given.
Proviso.
Federal rights not Impaired.
Amendment.
[S. 1282]
Articles of War.
Court martial.
Review provisions modified.
Consideration of charges.
Investigation before trial.
[S. 2401]
National Guard.
Certain payments validated.
Credits in accounts directed.
Proviso.
Limitation on rentals.
Ratification of payments.
Proviso.
Collection of amounts due.
Refund of sums collected.
Alaska, air mail.
“The Postmaster General may provide difficult or emergency mail Emergency service. Relay stations. Contract for carriage of mail by airplane authorized. Proviso. Rates of postage.
Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act of 1930, amendments.
“Dealer” defined.
“In carloads.”
Unfair conduct.
Misrepresentation.
Removal of evidence of grade placed on containers, etc.
New subsection.
Substitution or otherwise changing contents after official inspection.
Licenses; settlement of liability for violations.
Issue and force of license.
Annual fee, payment of.
Provisos.
Mailing of notice.
Renewal, if in arrears.
Causes for license refusal.
Previous violation.
Repeated, etc., violations.
Partnerships, etc.
Member, etc., having previously had license revoked.
Member, etc., responsible for repeated violations.
Failure to pay reparation order.
Bankruptcy excepted.
Waiver of revocation and issue of license; bond.
Time limitation.
Refusal, if applicant found guilty of Produce Agency Act, etc., violations.
Withholding of license pending investigation.
Hearing.
Refusal, if found unfit, etc.
Liability to person damaged.
Complaint and investigation.
Complaints by nonresidents.
Bond in double amount of claim, etc.
Proviso.
Reciprocal waiver provision.
Reparation order.
Decision where hearing not required, or defendant fails to answer.
Suit by complainant to enforce payment.
Venue of action.
Jurisdiction.
Findings of Secretary as prima-facie evidence of facts.
Attorney’s fee.
Appeal; proceedings.
Filing of petition, bond, etc.
Copy to Secretary of Agriculture.
Suit in district court to be a trial de novo.
Pleadings.
Suspension of license for failure to obey reparation order or to appeal.
Proviso.
Effective if appeal dismissed, etc.
Suspension or revocation, grounds for.
Licensee employing unlicensed employee, restriction.
License obtained through misrepresentation.
Injunction proceedings.
Inspections; employment of inspectors, etc.
Fees and expenses for services.
Provisos.
Disposition of, collected by licensed inspector.
By other inspectors.
Travel and subsistence, inspectors; payment by applicant.
Official inspection certificates, effect of.
Forging or counterfeiting of certificates.
Punishment.
Bonneville project.
General purposes declared.
Completion, maintenance and operation under Secretary of War.
Disposal of electric energy.
Administrator; appointment, salary, office.
Sale, etc., of surplus energy.
Consultation with an advisory board.
Form of administration provisional.
Additional facilities authorized.
Station space and equipment.
Encouragement of widest use of energy; prevention of monopolization, etc.
Acquisition of real and personal property.
Title.
Eminent domain.
Disposal of personal property.
Real property, etc.
Proviso.
Approval.
Contracts, etc., authorized.
Terms defined.
“Public body”; “public bodies”.
As employed in this Act, the term “cooperative”, or “cooperatives”, “Cooperative”; “cooperatives”.
Disposal of power; preferences, etc.
Sale to public bodies and cooperatives; amount available.
Provisos.
Disposal of unused reserve.
Preferential rights after January 1, 1941.
Applications for allocations by public bodies, etc.
Private corporations.
Preferential status of public bodies, etc.
Opportunity to perfect organization, financing, etc.
Negotiation of contracts for sale of power at wholesale for resale or direct consumption.
Resale to privately owned public utility, restriction.
Terms, etc.
Renewals.
Adjustment of rates.
Cancelation provision.
Terms and conditions of contracts.
Records required.
Contracts for mutual exchange of excess power; terms, etc.
Schedules of rates, etc.
Modifications.
Uniformity.
Rates predicated on fact that power created is an incident to dam construction.
Rates applied to costs of production and transmission, including amortization of capital investment.
Allocation of costs.
Purchases and contracts.
Advertising; opening of bids.
Emergencies.
Repair parts, etc.
Minor purchases.
Qualifications.
Accounts of operations.
Expenditures.
Financial, etc., report to Congress.
Experts; salary restriction.
Other personal services.
Receipts covered in; exception.
Emergency expenses, etc.
Appropriations authorized.
Post, p. 764.
Suits necessary for execution of Act authorized.
Separability provision.
Internal revenue.
“The provisions of this section shall not apply to States and Commonwealths State liquor-dispensing systems; exemption from keeping certain records. Proviso. Furnishing of transcripts, etc., on request.
[S. 413]
United States and Indian reclamation projects.
Commission created to investigate financial, etc., conditions.
Ability to pay water right charges.
Scope of investigation.
Report and recommendations to Congress.
Appropriation authorized for expenses.
Post, p. 764.
Personal services.
Extension of time for payment where conditions justify.
Sections repealed.
[S. 1551]
Judicial Code, amendment.
United States district courts.
Jurisdiction over suits relating to State tax assessment.
Pending suits not affected.
[S. 1696]
That, subject to Snoqualmie National Forest, Wash. Lands added.
Township 21 north, range 7 east, sections 1, 12, 13, 24, 25, and Description.
Also lands not now within the national forest within the following townships:
Township 27 north, range 10 east; township 26 north, range 10 east; township 26 north, range 11 east; township 26 north, range 12 east.
Part of township 27 north, range 9 east, including those portions of the following sections not now within the national forest:
Sections 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 22, north half 23, and north half 24.
All Willamette base and meridian.
[S. 1816]
Judicial Codes amendments.
Georgia southern judicial district.
Augusta division.
Dublin division.
Savannah division.
Waycross division.
Brunswick division.
Terms.
Provisos.
Court Accommodations.
Quarters at Brunswick, no Federal expense.
Middle district, Valdosta division.
Clinch County added.
Oil World Exposition, 1937.
President authorized to invite the States of the Union and foreign countries to participate.
Dutiable articles imported for exhibition, etc., admitted free, under regulations.
Sales permitted.
Provisos.
Duty on articles withdrawn.
Deterioration allowance.
Marking requirements.
Abandoned articles.
Transfer privilege.
Exposition deemed sole consignee of merchandise.
Incurred Federal expenses reimbursable.
Deposit of receipts as refunds.
No Federal obligation assumed.
[S. 2751]
West Point Military Reservation, N.Y.
Jurisdiction over portions, transferred to Treasury Department for public building construction.
Proviso.
Reversionary provision.
Everglades National Park, Fla.
Provision prohibiting expenditure of public moneys eliminated.
International Petroleum Exposition, Tulsa, Okla.
President Authorized to invite the States of the Union and foreign countries to participate.
Dutiable articles imported for exhibition, etc., admitted free, under regulations.
Sales permitted.
Provisos.
Duty on articles withdrawn.
Deterioration allowance.
Marking requirements.
Abandoned articles.
Transfer privilege.
Exposition deemed sole consignee of merchandise.
Incurred Federal expenses reimbursable.
Deposit of receipts as refunds.
No Federal obligation assumed.
Naturalization of alien veterans residing in the United States.
8 U. S. C. § 392b (a); Supp. II, § 392b (a).
Extension of privileges to May 25, 1938.
Proviso.
Continuous residence and good behavior provisions.
Service in allied forces.
Proviso.
Terms, conditions, etc.
Rules to be pre scribed.
American Printing House for the Blind.
Annual appropriations increased. Post, p. 775.
West Virginia northern and southern Judicial districts.
Terms of court.
Northern district.
Special terms.
Southern district.
Special terms.
Judge for northern and southern districts, terms of court.
Special terms.
Mississippi River.
Bridge authorized across. Lake Village, Ark., to Greenville, Miss.
Construction.
Acquisition of approaches, etc.
Condemnation proceedings.
Tolls.
Tolls applied to operation, sinking fund, etc.
Maintenance as free bridge,etc., after amortizing costs.
Record of expenses and receipts.
Amendment.
Delaware River.
Time extended for bridging, Barryville, N. Y., to Shohola, Pa.
Amendment.
Montana.
Conveyance of certain lands to, for public park, etc., purposes.
Description.
Township 1 north, range 3 west, section 12, southeast quarter northeast quarter and east half southeast quarter (lots 7 and 12); section 13, east half northeast quarter (lots 1 and 4), and northwest quarter northeast quarter lot 2).
In the event the State shall fail to devote such lands to the purposes Reversionary provisions. Proviso. Mineral reservation.
Now Mexico.
Conveyance of certain lands to;
Proviso.
Right-of-way reserved.
[S. 2614]
New Mexico.
Land patent to.
Rights reserved.
Cordy Bramblet.
Land patent to.
[S. 2682]
Public lands.
Issuance of patents to States of certain lands under designated laws.
Proviso.
Accountability.
[S. 2901]
Trading with the Enemy Act, amendment.
Reciprocal release of sequestrated property.
Judicial Code, amendment.
Summoning of grand Juries.
Second grand Jury in large cities.
Third Jury, southern district of New York.
Extensions to complete investigations; limitation.
Imprisonment before indictment, etc., time limit not extended.
Offenses against banks.
Bank robbery: burglary and larceny added.
Penalty provisions.
Inter-American Radio Conference, 1937.
Appropriation authorized for participation expenses.
Post, p. 770.
Services in the District.
Reimbursement of other appropriations.
Eighth International Road Congress, 1938.
Appropriation authorized for participation expenses.
Services in the District.
Reimbursement of other appropriations.
Canal Zone Code, amendment.
Bases of tolls. Proviso. Restriction on changing basic rules of measurement. Rates. Passenger tolls.
Effective date.
[S. 1226]
District of Columbia.
Financial responsibility, motor-vehicle operators.
Suspension of permit and registration certificate; minimum amount of Judgment eliminated.
Bonds; damage judgment, amount repealed.
United States courts.
Intervention by United States in suits where constitutionality of Act of Congress drawn in question.
Rights and liabilities
Direct appeal by United States to Supreme Court where decision against constitutionality and United States a party.
Time limitation.
Record and docketing In Supreme Court.
Precedence over other matters.
Injunction suspending, etc., Act of Congress upon constitutional grounds, determination by three judge court.
Composition of court, procedure, etc.
Notice to Attorney General, etc.
Proviso.
Temporary restraining order to prevent irreparable loss.
Finding.
Direct appeal to Supremo Court.
Precedence over other matters.
Assignment of an other judge within circuit, to a district during disability, etc.
Assignment of district judges outside own districts by Chief Justice.
Proviso.
Consent by senior circuit judge.
Official entries of assignments.
Terms defined.
Unemployment compensation.
42 U. S. C., Supp. II, § 1103.
Payments authorized to each State which in 1937 enacted an approved compensation law.
Meaning of terms.
Program for relief and benefit of agriculture.
Preamble.
Now, therefore, be it
Legislation concerning, to engage Congress upon reconvening.
Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937.
Claims against the Government of Mexico.
Preamble.
Special Mexican Claims Commission, jurisdiction redefined.
Basic amount of payment by Mexico.
Action where general claims reclassified as special claims.
Additional payments.
Payment of swards.
Duration of Commission extended.
Ante, p. 771.
Termination prior to expiration date.
Pensions.
Service in Indian wars from 1817 to 1898.
27 Stat. 281; 37 Stat. 679; 39 Stat. 1199; 44 Stat. 1361.
Rates; degree of disability.
Provisos.
Age pension.
Helpless or blind persons.
Inmates of National or State Soldiers’ Home.
Effective dates.
Provisos.
Pension of those requiring attendant.
Effective date of payments.
District of Columbia.
Regulation of real-estate brokers, etc.
Enactment and prohibition clause.
Definitions and exceptions.
Whenever used in this Act “real-estate broker” means any “Real-estate broker.” Proviso. Advertising space in newspapers, etc. “Business chance broker.”
“Real-estate salesman” means a person employed by a licensed “Real-estate salesman.”
Persons employed by a licensed real-estate broker in a clerical Collectors, etc.
One act for a compensation or valuable consideration of buying Business defined.
Exemptions.
Real Estate Commission.
Creation, qualifications, etc.
There is hereby created the Real Estate Commission of the District of Columbia. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia within thirty days after the enactment of this Act shall appoint two persons, not more than one of whom shall have been actively engaged in or closely connected with the business or vocation of real-estate broker or real-estate salesman within five years immediately prior to appointment, who shall serve as members of said Assessor, ex-officio member. Terms, vacancies, removal, etc.
Chairman; election of treasurer, etc.
Secretary, assistants, etc.
Office space, etc.
Seal, authentication of records, etc. Record to be kept.
Public inspection of records.
Member’s allowance. Proviso. Limitation.
The payment of such allowance shall be made from any unexpended Funds available. Pay reduction. If fund insufficient Credit of excess. Proviso. Restriction on incurred expenses.
All fees and charges payable under the provisions of this Act Payment of fees, etc., to treasurer; refunds.
It shall be the duty of the auditor of the District of Columbia to Audit of accounts.
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized Administrative regulations.
No license under the provisions of this Act shall be issued Qualifications for license.
In determining competency, the Commission shall require proof that the applicant for a broker’s license has a fair understanding of the general purposes and effect of deeds, mortgages, land contracts of sale and leases, a general and fair understanding of the obligations between principal and agent, as well as of the provisions of this Act. Such proof of competency to act as broker shall not be required of any applicant who shall furnish proof within one hundred and twenty days from the effective date of this Act of two years’ experience as real-estate broker or real-estate salesman within the District of Columbia.
No license shall be issued to any person, firm, partnership, copartnership, association, or corporation whose application has been rejected in the District of Columbia or any State within three months prior to date of application, or whose real-estate license has been revoked in the District of Columbia or any State, within one year prior to date of application.
Every applicant for a license under the provisions of this Application for license.
The application of every person for a real-estate broker’s license Requirements. Recommendation of two or more resident property owners.
Location of business, etc. Members, etc.
Additional information required.
Individual broker’s license.
Real-estate salesman’s license.
Affidavit and fee to accompany.
Every application for a license shall be accompanied by a bond Bond. Proviso. Exemptions. Form; conditions, etc.
Nothing in this Act shall be construed to impose upon the surety Liability of surety.
No suit or action against the surety on any such bond shall be Time limitation.
The Commission, with due regard to the paramount interest of the Integrity, etc., requirements.
Procedure when license refused.
The Commission shall cause to be issued to each licensee a Detailed provisions relating to license.
Reopening of question of qualifications of licensee. Recall of license. Surrender of license.
Broker’s license, fee.
Exemptions.
Salesman’s license, fee.
Expiration.
Annual issuance of new license.
Actions for collecting compensation.
Every real-estate broker shall maintain a place of business in the Maintenance of place of business.
Notice in writing shall be given to the Commission by each licensee Change of location.
When any real-estate salesman shall be discharged or shall terminate Salesman’s license, return on termination of service. Acting without license.
There shall be no additional fee for the reissuance of a salesman’s Reissuance.
Suspension or revocation of license; causes enumerated.
Hearing before application refused or license suspended, etc.
The Commission shall, before denying an application for license, or before suspending or revoking any license, set the matter down for a public hearing, and at least ten days prior to the date set for the hearing it shall notify the applicant or licensee in writing of any charges made and shall afford said applicant or licensee an opportunity to be heard in person or by counsel in reference thereto. Such written notice may be served by delivery of same personally to the applicant or licensee or by mailing same by registered mail to the last-known business address of such applicant or licensee. If said applicant or licensee be a salesman the Commission shall also notify the broker employing him, or whose employ he is about to enter, by mailing notice by registered mail to the broker’s last-known address. The hearing on such charges shall be at such time and place as the Commission shall prescribe. The Commission shall have the power to issue subpenas or take testimony of any person by deposition in the same manner as prescribed by law in judicial procedure in the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia in civil cases. It shall also have the power to require the production of books, records, papers, and documents by subpena or otherwise. Any party to any hearing before the Commission shall have the right to the attendance of witnesses in his behalf at such hearing upon making request therefor to the Commission and designating the person or persons sought to be subpenaed. If the Commission shall determine that any applicant is not qualified to receive a license, a license shall not be granted to said applicant, and if the Commission shall determine that any licensee is guilty of a violation of any of the provisions of this Act, his or its licenses shall be suspended or Evidence, etc., subject to court review. Proviso. Time limitation. Application to act as stay.
An appeal may be taken from the judgment of the said court on Appeal from court judgment.
Any party to the proceedings desiring it shall be furnished with a copy of such stenographic notes, upon the payment to the Commission of such reasonable fee as it shall, by general rule or regulation, prescribe.
Nonresident brokers and salesmen.
Provisions governing.
Provisos.
Consent to service.
Bond.
Ante, p. 791.
Power to obtain evidence.
Each member of the Commission and its duly authorized representatives may administer oaths to witnesses.
In case of the refusal of any person to comply with any subpena issued hereunder or to testify to any matter regarding which he may lawfully be interrogated, the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, or any judge thereof, on application of any member of the Commission, shall issue an order requiring such person to comply with such subpena and to testify or either, and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by the court as a contempt thereof.
Further exemptions.
List of licensees.
Publication, etc.
Fraudulent transfers, etc.
Conviction of crime.
Where during the term of any license issued by the Commission the licensee shall be convicted in a court of competent jurisdiction in the District of Columbia or any State (including Federal
In the event that any licensee shall be indicted in the District of Columbia or any State or Territory (including Federal courts) for forgery, embezzlement, obtaining money under false pretenses, extortion, criminal conspiracy to defraud, or like offense or offenses, and a certified copy of the indictment be filed with the Commission, or other proper evidence thereof be to it given, the Commission shall have authority, in its discretion, to suspend the license issued to such licensee pending trial upon such indictment.
No license shall be issued by the Commission to any person known by it to have been, within five years theretofore, convicted of forgery, embezzlement, obtaining money under false pretenses, extortion, criminal conspiracy to defraud, or other like offense or offenses, or to any copartnership of which such person is a member, or to any association or corporation of which said person is an officer, director, or employee, or in which as a stockholder such person has or exercises a controlling interest either directly or indirectly. In the event of the revocation or suspension of the license issued to any member of a copartnership, or to any officer of an association or corporation, the license issued to such copartnership, association, or corporation, shall be revoked by the commission, unless, within a time fixed by the commission, where a copartnership, the connection therewith of the member whose license has been revoked shall be severed and his interest in the copartnership and his share in its activities brought to an end, or where an association or corporation, the offending officer shall be discharged and shall have no further participation in its activity.
Any person or corporation violating any provision of this Penalties.
This Act shall not be construed to release any person, partnership, association, or corporation from civil liability or criminal prosecution under the laws applying to the District of Columbia.
All prosecutions for violation of this Act shall be begun Prosecutions.
Saving clause.
Conflicting laws repealed.
Effective date.
Pensions.
Protection of benefits to peacetime veterans on rolls after March 19, 1933.
American Chemical
Society incorporated. Incorporators.
Objects.
Corporate powers.
Cooperation with War and Navy Departments.
Proviso.
Title to inventions and discoveries.
Acceptance of gifts, bequests, etc.
Organization under national charter.
Rights of creditors.
Report to Congress.
Amendment, etc.
Effective date.
Judicial Code, amendment.
Florida judicial districts.
Southern district.
Terms.
Provisos.
Accommodations at Fort Pierce.
At Orlando; officers’ quarters, courtrooms, etc., in new Federal building.
Appointments for Fort Pierce.
Northern district.
Terms.
Proviso.
Courtrooms at Panama City.
Acts repealed.
Sinepuxent Bay.
Maryland may bridge, at Ocean City.
Construction.
Provisos.
Location.
Approval of site.
Acquisition of property for approaches, etc.
Condemnation proceedings.
Amendment, etc.
Wyoming.
Sale of certain lands by, price limitation.
District of Columbia Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, amendments.
Application for retailer’s license, advertisement of.
Protests.
Posting notices on premises.
Action deferred pending hearing.
Defacing, etc., of notice.
Renewals.
Separate application for each place of business.
Verification.
False statements.
Penalty.
“That in the event the Board at any time shall order the suspension Posting of notice of suspension on premises.
Limitation on importations, etc.
Common carriers.
Exemptions.
Penalty provisions.
Disbursing officers.
Credits for overpayments of wages on Civil Works Administration projects.
Recovery waived.
[S. 1075]
Pipestone National Monument, Minn.
Establishment.
Description.
Administration.
Quarrying of red pipestone.
[S. 1283]
Army, enlisted men.
Stenographic reporters, extra pay.
[S. 1431]
Harry W. Blair.
Restrictions respecting certain counsel waived in favor of.
[S. 2010]
Ohio southern judicial district.
Additional judge authorized.
Effective date.
[S. 2249]
Oklahoma.
State gross production taxes on minerals, etc., restricted Indian lands.
[S. 2258]
Lowell Creek, Alaska.
Modification of flood-control project authorized.
[S. 2281]
District of Columbia.
Adoption proceedings.
That jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia to hear and determine petitions and decrees of adoption of any adult or child (hereinafter called adoptee) with authority to make such rules, not inconsistent with this Act, as shall bring fully before the court for consideration the interests of the adoptee, the natural parents, the petitioner, and any other properly Consent of petitioner’s spouse.
Residence requirements.
Data to be furnished.
Investigation and report. Proviso. Exceptions.
If adoptee is under twenty-one years of age, no decree of Consent provisions.
If adoptee shall have attained the age of twenty-one years or over, the only consents which shall be required are those of such adoptee, and its spouse, if any.
The consent of a natural parent, or parents, or adoptive parents by a previous adoption, may be dispensed with (1) where after such notice as the court shall direct it shall appear to the court that such person or persons cannot be located; (2) where they have been permanently deprived of custody of the adoptee by court order; (3) where it shall appear to the court that they have abandoned the adoptee and voluntarily failed to contribute to his or her support for a period of at least one year next preceding the date of the filing of the petition; or (4) where investigation has shown to the satisfaction of the court extraordinary cause why such consent should be dispensed with.
After considering the petition, the consents, and such evidence Decree of adoption.
No final decree of adoption shall be entered unless the adoptee shall have been living with the adoptor at least six months prior to the filing of the petition. If, however, it shall appear in the interests of the adoptee, the court may enter an interlocutory decree for adoption, which decree shall by its terms automatically become a final decree of adoption on a day therein named, which shall not be more than six months from the entry of such interlocutory decree unless such decree shall be set aside for cause shown. If it shall appear in the interests of the adoptee, the Board of Public Welfare shall visit the adoptee during the period of the interlocutory decree at regular intervals.
Notice to Vital Statistics Bureau, Health Department.
Relationship of adoptee to adopter.
Entry of a final decree of adoption shall establish the relation of natural parent and natural child between adopter and adoptee for all purposes including mutual rights of inheritance and Not to inherit from collateral relatives.
Adoptee’s family name; given name.
Records open to inspection upon court order only.
Records and papers in adoption proceedings, after the petition is filed and prior to the entry of a final decree, shall be open to inspection by the parties or their attorneys and members of the Board of Public Welfare or their agents, upon order of the court. Upon the entry of a final decree the Board of Public Welfare and the clerk of the court shall seal all papers in the proceedings. Said seals shall not be broken, and said papers shall not be inspected by any person, including the parties to the proceeding, except upon order of the court. Application for leave to inspect papers in adoption proceedings shall be by petition and shall be granted only for extraordinary cause shown. The court may appoint a master to consider and investigate the facts upon which such a petition is based, who shall make his findings and recommendations to the court.
Docket to be kept.
Section repealed.
Provisions not retroactive, etc.
[S. 2613]
Public lands.
Issue of oil and gas permits, etc., to certain applicants authorized.
Proviso.
Condition.
[S. 2619]
Interstate Commerce Act, amendment.
Reduced transportation charges in cases of disaster, etc.
Provisions governing reduction.
Proviso.
Order may specify classes benefited.
[S. 2849]
Receivership, bankruptcy, etc.
Agreements fixing fees in, prohibited.
“Party in interest” defined.
Approval of unlawful fees prohibited.
Appointments of relatives of judge.
Penalty.
[S. 2851]
Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, Okla.
Reservation of mineral rights, etc., in future land sales.
[S. 2888]
Palm Springs Indian Reservation, Calif.
Lease, etc., of lands for public airport, authorized.
Duration of lease; renewal.
Use of proceeds It land sold.
[S. 2912]
Ketchikan, Alaska.
Bond issue authorized for public improvements.
Special election.
Ballot.
Notice; statement therein.
Registration for election; canvass of returns.
Bonds; form, maturity, etc.
Denominations.
Registration privileges.
Signatures, validity.
Coupons.
Interest rate.
Issue; payment.
Restriction on use of funds.
Contracts for sale of bonds.
Terms and conditions.
Exiting provisions not to affect issuance, etc.
That section 1 of Delaware River Valley tercentenary. Invitation to Finland to participate in observance of.
That section 2 be amended by inserting the words “
Revenue Act of 1937.
Changes In cross references.
Effective dates.
Post, p. 818.