STATUTES AT LARGE
CONTAINING THE
LAWS AND CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS
ENACTED DURING THE THIRD SESSION OF THE
SEVENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
1938
AND
TREATIES, INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER
THAN TREATIES, AND PROCLAMATIONS
COMPILED, EDITED, INDEXED, AND PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF CONGRESS
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
V
UNITED STATES
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WASHINGTON: 1938
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SEVENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA;
At the Third Session,
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, the third
day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight.
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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 of the United States 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. 6628 or H. J. Res. 571 indicates origin in the House of Representatives, and S. 1485 or S. J. Res. 191 indicates origin in the Senate.
No.
No.
PUBLIC LAWS
enacted during the
THIRD SESSION OF THE SEVENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
[S. 1485]
Military and naval defenses.
Definition of vital installations, etc., requiring protection.
Unauthorized photographs, etc., declared unlawful.
Censorship.
Penalty for violation.
Use of aircraft.
Unauthorized reproduction of plans, etc., declared unlawful.
Censorship.
Penalty for violation.
Terms defined.
Scope of Act.
[S. 2575]
Coast Guard.
Commissioned officers placed out of line of promotion.
Retirement, if commissioned service 10 years or more.
Resignation, with one year’s pay, if less.
Personnel Board, annual meeting.
Composition, functions.
Review of Board’s proceedings and decisions.
Reconsideration of case.
Proviso.
Limitation on reconsideration.
Decisions of Commandant and Secretary of the Treasury; effect of.
Reconsideration in case of disapproval by Secretary.
Recommendation to be laid before the President.
Supplemental report, etc., in event of reconsideration.
Powers of President.
Lieutenant commanders, placement of restricted number out of line of promotion.
Commissioned officers with 30 years’ service or more, retirement of restricted number.
Officers out of line of promotion with 10 years or more commissioned service, retirement.
Pay of officers so retired.
Proviso.
Maximum.
Computation of service.
Limitation on number of officers retired involuntarily in any year.
Number of officers permitted to resign, etc.
Provisions deemed supplementary to existing laws.
Not applicable to chief warrant officers.
Air Mail Act of 1934, amendment.
39 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 469a (f).
Post, pp. 219, 1029.
Mileage limitation, etc.
[S. 2550]
Postage stamps.
Printing of black and white illustrations of U. S. and foreign, permitted.
Printing and sale as a public document.
Proviso.
Stereotype, etc., plates to remain property of U. S.
Copyright.
Designated acts not deemed violations of Criminal Code, etc.
Printing, etc., of foreign revenue stamps from defaced plates.
Foreign postage stamps.
Border of U. S. stamps for illustrations.
Increased size.
Permission, under regulations, to print, etc., illustrations of U. S. postage stamps.
Amendment or repeal; publication in Federal Register.
Findings not subject to review.
Criminal Code amendments.
U. S. obligations; canceled U. S. stamps included.
Forfeiture of articles, etc., in respect to which violation hereunder has occurred.
“Except as to counterfeits, material, and apparatus referred to in the preceding paragraph, all articles and devices and any other thing whatsoever made, possessed, or in any manner used in violation of any of the provisions of chapter 7 or sections 205, 218, 219, or 220 of chapter 8 of the Criminal Code, or the Act of August 26, 1935 (U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 18, ch. 7, and secs. 328, 347, 348, 349, and 349a, ch. 8), as amended, or in respect to which a violation of any such provision has occurred, and all material or apparatus fitted or intended to be used, or that shall have been used, in the making of such articles, devices, or other tilings, that shall be found in the possession of any person without authority from the Secretary of the Treasury or other proper officer to have the same, shall be taken possession of by any authorized agent of the Treasury Department and forfeited to the United States and disposed of in any manner the Secretary of the Treasury may direct. Whoever having the Penalty provisions. Remission or mitigation of forfeiture.
[S. 2940]
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
Statistical information furnished to, in confidence; use restricted.
Examination by Bureau personnel only.
Penalty provision.
[S. 2463]
Army.
Medical and dental officers, additional number.
Post, p. 217.
Increase in authorized Army commissioned strength.
Retirement, credits for service as contract dental surgeons, etc.
National Housing Act Amendments of 1938.
Insurance of financial institutions against losses from loans, etc.
Time limitation.
Financing of repairs, etc., upon real property.
Limitation on amount of insurance.
Total liability.
Existing structures, limitation.
New structures.
Interest, maturity, etc.
12 U. S. C. § 1716(d); Supp. III, § 1716 (d).
National mortgage associations.
Establishment authorized.
Authorized functions.
Real-estate loans accepted for insurance, etc.
Proviso.
Restriction.
Ante, p. 10.
Purchase, service, or sale of mortgages insured under Title II.
Uninsured first mortgages.
Limitation on amount of principal obligation.
Issuance of notes, etc.
Limitation on transaction of business.
Capital stock requirements.
Proviso.
Restriction on issuance of obligations.
12 U. S. C. § 1717; Supp. III, § 1717.
Outstanding obligations.
Aggregate amount.
Ante, p. 9.
Borrowing by association, restriction.
Acceptance of its notes, etc., in payment of obligations due.
Proviso.
Cancelation.
Investment of funds.
Ante, p. 23.
Maintenance of reserves.
Taxation provisions.
Notes, bonds, etc., exempt; exception.
National mortgage associations, exemption.
Real property of association not included.
Penalties.
Misrepresentations.
Penalty for violation.
Subsections added.
Misuse of words.
False advertisements, etc.
Penalty for violation.
False statements, forgeries, etc.
Penalty for violation.
Statements derogatory to financial condition of Corporation.
Penalty for violation.
New section.
Application of designated laws to Act.
49 Stat. 294, 295; 12 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 1430.
R. S. § 5136; 49 Stat. 709; 12 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 24.
49 Stat. 706; 12 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 371.
49 Stat. 664; 11 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 207; post, p. 840.
Life, insurance companies, D. C.
Bonds, etc., secured by insured mortgages.
Proviso.
Ratio restrictions not to apply.
Bonds, etc., of national mortgage associations.
R. S. § 5136; 49 Stat. 709; 12 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 24.
National banking associations.
Investments in obligations of national mortgage associations.
Appropriations, Sugar Act of 1937, etc.
Expenses.
Inquiries and Investigations. Proviso. Per diem and subsistence.
For repairs, improvements, equipment, and supplies for Senate kitchens and Senate kitchens and restaurants, repairs, etc.
Executive.
Department of Agriculture.
Sugar Act of 1937.
Administrative expenses.
Printing and binding.
Proviso.
Obligations; limitations.
Expenses of local committees.
Farm Credit Administration.
Crop production and harvesting loans.
Availability of designated collections.
Proviso.
Conditions.
[S. 1691]
United States courts.
Retired judges, residence requirements.
[S. 2387]
Federal penal or correctional institutions.
Administration of oaths, etc.
Fee, etc., restriction.
Retired Justices of the Supreme Court, recall to service.
28 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 375a.
“Judicial circuit” to include the District of Columbia.
[S. 2583]
Tahoe National Forest, Nev.
Acquisition of lands.
Description.
Addition to national forest.
Proviso.
Valid existing rights.
Federal Water Power Act provisions not to apply to addition.
Appropriation authorized.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tenn.
Acquisition of lands for completion of.
Appropriation authorized.
Post, p. 1134.
[S. 2759]
Agricultural College of New Mexico.
Land conveyance to, authorized.
Purchase price.
Description.
Reversionary provision.
Proviso.
Minerals, etc.
District of Columbia.
Protection of foreign diplomatic, etc., officers and property.
Police permits.
Unlawful assembly, etc.
Jurisdiction of offenses.
Penalty for violation.
Proviso.
Picketing incident to bona-fide labor disputes.
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938.
Declaration of policy.
[S. 2194]
Motor vehicles, District of Columbia.
Inspection fee for 1939; thereafter.
Payment to collector of taxes.
Inclusion of estimates of expenses in estimates for District of Columbia.
Post, p. 1124.
Motor vehicles of Federal Government, District government, and representatives of foreign governments.
Authority to refuse, revoke, or suspend registration.
Proviso.
Application of designated provisions.
Penalty for violation.
Administrative regulations.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
Cancelation of obligations incurred for relief, etc., purposes.
Funds designated.
47 Stat. 5; 49 Stat. 2; 15 U. S. C. § 602; Supp. III. § 604b.
47 Stat. 709–710, 713; 15 U. S. C. § 605a; 12 U. S. C. § 1148.
48 Stat. 258, 358; 12 U. S. C. § 11311.
48 Stat. 33, 1059; 7 U. S. C. § 605.
48 Stat. 46, 48, 50; 49 Stat. 318; 12 U. S. C. §§ 823, 1016; Supp. III, §§ 823, 1016; 43 U. S. C. § 404.
48 Stat. 129; 12 U. S. C. § 1403; Supp. III, § 1463.
48 Stat. 55; 15 U. S. C. §§ 721–728.
Provisions.
Evidence of indebtedness transferred to Treasury.
Conditions affecting cancelation of notes.
Adjustments authorized.
Reduction in amount of obligations authorized to be outstanding.
Sums representing repayments of funds disbursed to be covered in.
Reduction In amount of obligations authorized to be outstanding.
Exception.
Directors; number.
[S. 558]
Yakima Indian Reservation, Wash.
Wapato irrigation project.
Construction charges.
[S. 2383]
Veterans’ Administration.
“That the Attorney General of the United States is hereby authorized Compromise judgments; yearly, renewable term insurance. Provisos. Credit allowed in accounts for payments made. Judgments to constitute final settlement of claim.
District of Columbia,
“The property situated in square numbered 67, in the city of Society of the Cincinnati; certain property exempted from taxation. Description. Maintenance of national museum. Effective date.
[S. 628]
Bureau of Mines.
Construction, etc., of building for experiment station, authorized.
Location, cost, etc.
Proviso.
Donation of adjacent site.
Appropriation authorized.
Post, p. 1134.
[S. 2381]
Criminal Code amendment.
“Whoever, with intent to defraud either the United States or any Impersonation of officers and employees of United States with intent to defraud. Government-owned, etc., corporations. Penalty.
Additional appropriation for relief purposes, fiscal year 1938.
Post, p. 809.
Insect pest and plant disease control.
Appropriation for.
Availability.
Provisos.
Limitation on expenditure.
Administrative provision.
Transportation of materials.
Open-market purchases.
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, amount for administration.
Ante, p. 69.
[S. 3452]
Disaster Loan Corporation.
Lending authority extended.
By striking out of the second paragraph thereof “
[S. 2215]
Bankruptcy Act of 1898, amendments.
Agricultural compositions and extensions.
11 U. S. C. § 203; Supp. III, § 203.
Petition by farmer; fee.
Conciliation commissioner, compensation.
Post, p. 930.
Supervising conciliation commissioner, compensation.
Supervision over farming operations of farmer; division of cost.
Additional fees, etc., forbidden.
Office space, equipment, etc.
Supreme Court orders governing administration, etc.
Petition of insolvency; time limit for filing.
Schedules to accompany.
Procedure.
11 U. S. Supp. III, § 203 (5).
Application of Act to ponding cases.
“This Act shall be held to apply to all existing cases now pending in any Federal Court, under this Section, as well as to future cases. All cases under this Section that have been dismissed by any conciliation Reinstatement of designated cases.
First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1938.
[S. 1835]
Municipal court. District of Columbia.
Small claims and conciliation branch, establishment.
Definitions.
“Branch.”
“Judge.”
“Clerk.”
“Court.”
Assignment of Judges.
Jurisdiction.
Exceptions.
Settlement of controversies by arbitration, etc.
Judges as referees, etc.
Fee, etc., restriction.
Commencement of actions; filing claims.
Verification.
Assistance of clerk; restriction.
Service upon defendant; mode.
Service by registered mail.
By private individual
Cost of service.
Statement of claim, verification, and notice.
(Location of room in courthouse)
(Location of room in courthouse)
Plaintiff
Address
VS.
Defendant
No.
(Here the plaintiff, or at his request the clerk, will insert a statement of the plaintiff’s claim, and the original, to be filed with the clerk, may, if action is on a contract, express or implied, be verified by the plaintiff or his agent, as follows :)
Plaintiff (or agent)
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
Clerk (or notary public)
To:
Defendant
Home address
Business address
You are hereby notified that
You are required to be present at the hearing in order to avoid a Judgment by default.
If you have witnesses, books, receipts, or other writings bearing on this claim, you should bring them with you at the time of the hearing.
If you wish to have witnesses summoned, see the clerk at once for assistance.
If you admit the claim, but desire additional time to pay, you roust come to the hearing in person and state the circumstances to the court.
You may come with or without an attorney.
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Clerk of the small claims and conciliation branch, municipal court.
Judgment by default, when.
Plaintiff to be furnished due notice of hearing.
Small claims and conciliation docket.
Fees.
Prepayment of costs; waiving of, if plaintiff unable to pay.
Notations; terms not to be employed.
Failure to pay, though able to do so.
Award of costs.
Trial.
Conciliation provisions.
Sworn testimony; conduct of trial, etc.
Judge not bound by statutory provisions, etc.; exception.
If defendant fails to appear.
If plaintiff fails to appear.
Failure of both parties to appear.
Set-off or counterclaim.
Certification of cases before municipal court to branch for conciliation.
Completion of trial or recertification.
Stay of entry of judgment; partial payments until satisfied.
Stay of execution vacated for failure to meet installment.
Remedies for enforcing judgment.
Claims for wages or personal services.
Examination, court orders.
Daily record of transactions.
Monthly report to Attorney General.
Provisions applicable to practice.
Rules of procedure.
Forms.
Sessions.
Review of Judgments.
Trial by jury, procedure when demanded.
Party obtaining judgment; rights, etc.
Inconsistent Acts, etc., repealed.
Saving clause.
Effective date.
Commodity Credit Corporation, maintenance of capital unimpaired.
Annual determination of net worth.
Value of assets; report.
Restoration of amount of capital impairment.
Annual appropriations authorized.
Post, p. 1148.
Use of excess to retire public debt.
Transfer of certain stock to United States.
Rights to be exercised by President, etc.
Issuance of obligations authorized; aggregate amount.
Forms, denominations, maturities, interest rates, etc.
Obligations unconditionally guaranteed.
Use as security.
Purchase of Corporation obligations.
Securities hereafter issued under Second Liberty Bond Act; purposes extended.
Sale of acquired obligations.
Redemptions, etc., treated as public-debt transactions.
Issue not to exceed assets, etc.
Open-market purchases.
Obligations deemed Federal instrumentalities.
Tax exemption; exception.
Panama City, Fla.
Establishment of Coast Guard station authorized.
Galveston, Tex.
Transfer of site to Secretary of Treasury for quarantine station.
Description.
Tract A: Station site.
Tract B: Right-of-way.
Plans for structures
Louisiana eastern judicial district.
Additional judge authorized.
Mississippi River.
Rock Island. Ill., may bridge, to Davenport, Iowa.
Construction.
Acquisition of approaches, etc.
Proceedings.
Rates of toll.
Application of tolls to operation. sinking fund, etc.
Maintenance as free bridge after amortizing costs, etc.
Record of expenditures and receipts.
Amendment.
[S. 1077]
Federal Trade Commission Act, amendments.
Commissioners, term of office.
Proviso.
Continuance until successor qualifies.
The words defined in this section shall have the following Definitions.
“ ‘Commerce’ means commerce among the several States or with “Commerce”
“ ‘Corporation’ shall be deemed to include any company, trust, “Corporation.”
“ ‘Documentary evidence’ includes all documents, papers, correspondence, “Documentary evidence.”
“ ‘Acts to regulate commerce’ means the Act entitled ‘An Act to “Acts to regulate commerce.”
“ ‘Antitrust Acts’ means the Act entitled ‘An Act to protect trade “Antitrust Acts.”
Unfair methods of competition.
Unfair or deceptive acts, etc., added.
Unfair methods of competition in commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in commerce, are hereby declared unlawful.
“The Commission is hereby empowered and directed to prevent persons, Prevention by Commission; exception. Post, p. 1028. 42 Stat. 159, 169. 7 U. S. C. §§ 181–229; Supp. III, ch. 9.
Service of complaint.
Notice of hearing.
Appearance of accused.
Intervention by other parties.
Testimony.
Report of findings.
Issuance of cease and desist order.
Modification, etc.
Reopening, altering, etc., of order.
Proviso.
Right of appeal.
Review by appropriate circuit court of appeals.
Transcript of record to be filed.
Jurisdiction.
Findings as to facts conclusive.
Court order.
Leave to adduce additional evidence.
Modification, etc., by Commission of findings as to fact.
Judgment and decree final; review by Supreme Court.
Exclusive jurisdiction of circuit court of appeals.
Proceedings given precedence.
Service of processes.
Verified return; proof of service.
Commission’s order final.
Upon expiration of time for filing petition for review.
Upon expiration of time for filing petition for certiorari.
Upon denial of petition for certiorari.
Supreme Court mandate affirming Commission’s order, etc.
Order modified or set aside by Supremo Court; when final.
By circuit court of appeals; when final.
Rehearing.
“Mandate” defined.
Penalty for violation.
False advertising.
Dissemination, etc,
By U. S. mails, etc.
Inducing, by any means, the purchase in commerce of food, drugs, etc.
Dissemination of false advertisement an unfair act, etc.
Ante, p. 111.
Suit or Injunction.
Venue.
Newspapers, or other publications.
If restraining of dissemination delays delivery of issue.
Delay due to method by which publication usually conducted.
Commodities injurious to health.
Ante, p. 114.
Penalty.
Convictions for subsequent violations.
Proviso.
Inspection, etc., under Meat Inspection Act of 1907.
Liability of advertising mediums.
Definitions for purposes of designated sections.
“False advertisement.”
“Food.”
“Drug.”
“Device.”
“Cosmetic.”
Enforcement provisions.
Separability clause.
Short title.
Orders served on or before date of enactment of this act.
Effective date of designated section.
[S. 975]
Little Rock Confederate Cemetery, Ark.
“That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to accept a conveyance Acceptance by the Government. Maintenance, etc. Burial therein. Provisos. Space for future burials of Confederate veterans. Privileges provided for, under regulations.
[S. 1986]
Canal Zone Code, amendment.
“The district judge, district attorney, and marshal shall—
District judge, district attorney, and marshal.
Appointment.
Terms.
Continuance until successors qualify.
Leaves of absence.
Residence.
Puerto Rico, civil government.
Judicial district of Puerto Rico. District Judge. District attorney; marshal. Title and powers of district court. Jurisdiction. Naturalization of aliens and Puerto Ricans. Controversies between citizens of foreign States, etc. Salaries, from U, S. revenues. Vacancies, etc.
[S. 2963]
United States Naval Academy.
Superintendent authorized to accept gifts, etc., for erection of Museum building.
No cost to Government for construction.
Acceptance of building; use, etc.
Gifts, loans, etc., of personal property.
Deposit of funds received; disbursements.
Tax exemption.
Investments in securities.
[S. 3554]
Alabama Northern Judicial District.
Additional judge authorized.
Powers, etc., during absence of senior district Judge,
Senior judge; vacancy occurring not to be filled.
[S. 3655]
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, amendment.
Ante, p. 47.
Barley tobacco.
Marketing quotas for marketing year beginning Oct. 1, 1938.
Referendum.
Cancer Control Month.
April of each year to be proclaimed as.
Post, p. 1538.
[S. 1759]
Homestead entries, public lands.
Elimination of cultivation requirements extended to certain applications.
[S. 2339]
Public buildings.
General authorization to acquire sites in the District of Columbia.
Areas extended.
Description.
Additional appropriations authorized.
Proviso.
Closing of streets or alleys.
[S. 1570]
Compact between Minnesota, South Dakota, and North Dakota with respect to Red River of the North.
Consent of Congress granted to.
Proviso.
Federal jurisdiction.
“Now, Therefore, the State of South Dakota, the State of North Dakota, and the State of Minnesota, do hereby solemnly covenant and agree, each with the other, as follows:
“The Commission shall elect from its number a chairman and vice-chairman and shall appoint and at its pleasure remove an executive secretary and such other officers and assistants as may be required to carry the provisions of this compact into effect, and shall fix and determine their duties, qualifications and compensation.
“It shall adopt a seal and suitable by-laws and shall promulgate rules and regulations for its management and control.
“A majority of the members from each state shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, the exercise of any powers, or the performance of any duties, but no action of the Commission shall be binding unless at least two of the members from each state shall vote in favor thereof.
“The Commission shall keep accurate accounts of all receipts and disbursements and shall make an annual report to the Governor of each state setting forth in detail the operations and transactions conducted by it pursuant to this compact, and shall make recommendations for any legislative action deemed by it advisable, including amendments to the statutes of the said states which may be necessary to carry out the intent and purpose of this compact, and such changes in the area of the district as may seem desirable.
“The Commission shall not incur any obligations for salaries, office, or other administrative expenses prior to the making of appropriation adequate to meet the same; nor shall the Commission pledge the credit of any of the said states except by and with the authority of the legislatures thereof. Each state reserves the right to provide hereafter by law for the examination and audit of the accounts of the Commission by its comptroller or other official.
“The Commissioner shall meet and organize within thirty days after the effective date of this compact.
“Plans for works on boundary waters in said drainage area prepared by the state, municipal or industrial agencies shall receive the approval of the Commission before construction is begun.
“It shall be the duty of the Commission to maintain and control lake levels and stream flow on boundary waters within the area, but such action shall be taken only with the approval of the authorized county or state agencies, in which such lake or stream, is located, but said Commission shall have no power or jurisdiction over water levels or stream flow in the Otter Tail River which is known as that portion of the Red River originating in Becker and Otter Tail counties extending and flowing through in a southerly and southwesterly direction through the counties of Becker, Otter Tail and Wilkin, and emptying into the Red River of the North at the junction of the Boise de Sioux at Breckenridge, Minnesota and its chain of lakes and its tributaries.
“The Commission shall have power to cooperate with any duly authorized federal, state or municipal agency in studies and surveys, construction, maintenance and operation of water projects within the scope of its jurisdiction.
“The Commission shall be authorized to exercise the power of eminent domain, to acquire such real and personal property as may be reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of this compact, and to exercise all other powers not inconsistent with the constitutions of the States of North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota, or with the Constitution of the United States, which may be reasonably necessary or appropriate for or incidental to the effectuation of its authorized purposes, and generally to exercise in connection with the property and
“This compact shall become operative immediately after it has been signed by the Governor of the State of South Dakota, the Governor of the State of North Dakota and the Governor of the State of Minnesota.
“In testimony whereof the Governor of the State of South Dakota, the Governor of the State of North Dakota and the Governor of the State of Minnesota have signed this compact in triplicate, and the seals of said states have been thereunto affixed.
“Done this 23rd day of June, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred Thirty-seven.
Amendment, etc.
Health Department, D. C.
Chief clerk and chief inspector; duties limited.
Tennessee Valley Authority.
Special joint congressional committee created to make investigation.
Composition.
Vacancies.
Matters under investigation.
Efficient and economical administration of Act.
Total appropriations and allocations.
Interference of functions by internal dissension.
Holding of office illegally.
Aid to private interests in suits affecting Authority.
Instigation of suits by private interests.
Effect of, upon administration.
Disposition, expense incurred, etc.
Effect on revenue.
Losses to municipalities or farm organizations.
Effect of such suit upon personnel and organization.
Effect of activities of private interests on purchase of power.
Efforts of private interests to affect decisions of municipalities, etc.
Extent of injury to public interests by private power companies, etc.
Location of principal office, requirement.
Whether certain charges are true.
Whether partiality has been shown.
Whether allocations of costs were reported January 1, 1937, and in annual report Thereafter.
Interference with Comptroller General’s audits.
Offering of unfair inducements.
Forcing of purchases of appliances.
Whether rates provide honest “yardstick” of equitable rates of private industry.
Dissipation of funds.
Sodium nitrate production.
Report and recommendations.
The committee shall report to the Senate and House of Representatives as soon as practicable but not later than January 3, 1939, the results of its investigation, together with its recommendations, if any, for necessary legislation. If Congress shall not be in session at the time such report shall be made, the report shall be filed with the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House Sessions. Powers conferred.
Witnesses; oaths, subpoenas.
Printing and binding. Failure to obey summons or to testify. R. S. §§ 102–104.
Division of payment of expenses.
Selection of chairman. Hearings, etc. Utilization of Government agencies.
District of Columbia.
Appropriations for expenses of, fiscal year 1939, from District revenues and $5,000,000 from the Treasury.
General expenses.
Executive office.
For personal services, $48,180, plus so much as may be necessary Office personnel. Additional, for Engineer Commissioner. Provisos. Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act; exceptions. If only one position in a grade. Advances in meritorious cases. Restriction 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, $56,000. Purchasing division. Department of inspections.
Department of inspections: For personal services, $240,000, including two members of plumbing board at $150 each, and two members, board of examiners, steam engineers, at $150 each, the inspector of boilers to serve without additional compensation.
Office of Poundmaster: For personal services, maintenance and Office of Poundmaster. Proviso. Salary rate.
Public convenience stations.
Maintenance.
Core of District buildings.
Operating force. Proviso. Additional assistant engineers or watchmen.
Operating supplies.
Assessor’s office.
Personal services.
Reference maps.
Collector’s office.
Personal services.
Additional office equipment.
Auditor’s office.
Personal services.
Real-estate expert.
Disbursing officer permitted other compensation.
Office of Corporation Counsel.
Corporation counsel; extra pay.
Personal services.
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. Vehicles. Gasoline, etc., testing and inspection.
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 of appropriations.
Public Utilities Commission.
For two commissioners, people’s counsel, and for other Commissioners, people’s counsel, etc.
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.
Department of Insurance.
Surveyor’s office.
Minimum Wage Board.
Personal services.
Employees’ compensation fund.
For carrying out the provisions of section 11 of the District of Payments for injuries.
Administrative expenses, compensation to injured employees. Transfer to Commission.
Retirement Act; contribution from District revenues.
Register of Wills.
Personal services.
Contingent expenses.
Recorder of Deeds.
Personal services.
Contingent expenses.
Rent. Post, p. 152.
Contingent and miscellaneous expenses.
Objects specified. Post, p. 1120. Traveling expenses. Removing unsafe, etc., buildings. Settlement of claims. Conference of commissioners on uniform State laws. 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. Stenographic 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, 1938, as required Taxes in arrears. Proviso. Advertising of delinquent tax list in newspapers.
For printing and binding, $55,600: Printing and binding. Post, p. 1120. Proviso. Approval of requisitions required.
For the use of the Senate and House committees on the District Study of surveys respecting new legislation for efficiency; personal services. Post, p. 1121.
For an investigation of public relief in the District of Columbia Investigation of public relief. Post, p. 1121. Scope. Personal services. Assistance of other agencies. Access to records, etc. Report; time for filing. Availability of sum.
Central Garage.
Automobiles, maintenance, etc. Ambulance, etc.
Private vehicle allowances. Proviso. Restriction.
Use of District-owned vehicles restricted. Transportation between domicile and place of employment. Proviso. Cost limitation. Transfers forbidden.
Fire insurance premiums forbidden.
The Commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to furnish Streetcar and bus fares. Provisos. Limitation on expenditures. Post, p. 1121. Fire and police departments excepted.
Employment service.
Emergency fund.
Expenditure.
Proviso.
Voucher for expenditure.
Refund of erroneous collections.
To enable the Commissioners, in any case where special assessments, Payments authorized. Building permits. Proviso. Availability.
For payment of amounts collected by the District erroneously on Erroneously-collected taxes, fines, etc. Proviso. Availability.
Wharves.
Reconstruction, maintenance, etc.
Old Police Court Building.
Repairs, etc.; use.
Municipal Center.
Beginning construction.
Preparation of plans, etc.
Loan from Public Works Administration.
Reimbursement.
Proviso.
Amount of deposit, 1939.
Free Public Library.
Personal services.
Miscellaneous. Proviso. Advances for purchases of books, etc. Accounting.
Binding. Proviso. Division of expenditure.
Contingent expenses.
Chevy Chase and Woodridge branches, rent.
New library building, plans.
Sewers.
Personal services.
Cleaning, repair, etc. Motortrucks.
For construction of sewers and receiving basins, including the Sewers and receiving basins. Vehicles. Mount Rainier, Md., outlet sewer.
For assessment and permit work, sewers, including not to exceed Assessment and permit work.
For the control and prevention of the spread of mosquitoes in the Mosquito control. Proviso. Transfer to Public Health Service.
Sewage treatment plant: For operation and maintenance, including Sewage treatment plant.
Collection, etc., of refuse.
For personal services, $133,000. Personal services.
For dust prevention, sweeping and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, Sweeping, cleaning, etc.
To enable the Commissioners to carry out the provisions of existing Garbage, dead animals, ashes, etc. Proviso. Collection restriction.
Public playgrounds.
For personal services, $131,000: Personal services. Proviso. Employments restricted.
For general maintenance, including labor, repairs and improvements, Maintenance, etc.
For temporary services, including superintendence, supplies, Swimming or bathing pools.
Improvements.
Electrical Department.
Personal services.
Supplies, contingent expenses, etc.
Placing wires underground, police patrol and fire alarm systems.
Street lighting. 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. Provisos. Placing unassigned teachers of special, etc., subjects. Librarians, pay restriction.
For the instruction and supervision of children in the vacation Vacation schools, instruction , etc.
Qualified Federal personnel is authorized, with the approval of the Lectures on effects of alcoholic liquors and narcotics.
Night schools.
For teachers and janitors of night schools, including teachers of Salaries.
For contingent and other necessary expenses, including equipment Contingent expenses.
Americanization work.
For Americanization work and instruction of foreigners of all ages 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 (34 Instruction of children of veterans killed, etc., during World War.
For the development of vocational education in the District of Vocational education.
Community Center Department.
For personal services of the director, general secretaries, and community Salaries and expenses.
For the maintenance and contingent expenses of keeping open Public school playgrounds during summer.
Equipment. Proviso. When open.
Care of buildings and grounds.
Personal services, etc.
Miscellaneous.
Schools for tubercular and crippled children. Transportation.
For transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercular pupils, sight-conservation pupils, and crippled pupils, $20,000: Proviso. Streetcar, etc., fares.
Manual, etc., training.
Fuel, light, and power. Proviso. Apportionment provisions.
Contingent expenses. Books for Wilson Teachers College. Proviso. Military supplies issued to cadets; bond not required.
Equipment, etc., for designated buildings. Proviso. Dennison Vocational School, amount continued.
Supplies to pupils.
Kindergartens.
For purchase of apparatus, fixtures, specimens, technical books, Supplies for general science, etc., departments.
For utensils, materials, and labor, for establishment and maintenance School gardens, utensils, etc.
For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds, Repairs, etc., to buildings. McKinley High School, retaining wall. Proviso. Contracts, etc.
To carry out the purposes of the Act approved June 11, 1926, Annuities.
Deaf, dumb, and blind.
For maintenance and instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted Maintenance and instruction.
For maintenance and instruction of colored deaf-mutes of teachable Colored deaf-mutes. Maintenance and instruction. Proviso. Supervision of expenditures. Blind children. Maintenance and instruction. Proviso. Supervision of expenditures.
For maintenance and instruction of blind children of the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the Commissioners, $11,500:
No part of any appropriation made in this Act shall be paid to any Solicitation of subscriptions, etc.
No money appropriated in this Act for the purchase of furniture Requisitions for equipment, approval by Commissioners.
Nature study, etc., teachers.
Children of Army, Navy officers, etc., admitted to schools free.
Buildings and grounds.
Vocational school replacing Lenox building.
Senior high, Fifth and Sheridan Streets NW.
Junior high, Banneker playground site.
Extensible school building on Pet worth playground site.
Woodrow Wilson Senior High, improvement of grounds.
Crosby Noyes, second story addition.
Alice Deal Junior High, auditorium.
Aggregate; accounting. Proviso. Use restricted.
Sites designated.
For the purchase of land adjoining the Douglass-Simmons School for physical education purposes;
For the purchase of a site for school purposes in the vicinity of Mount Olivet and Bladensburg Roads;
In all, $52,500.
Junior high, vicinity of Minnesota Avenue, Eighteenth Street, etc., SE.; fund available.
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Junior High and Library. Sum available for site: location.
No part of the foregoing appropriations for public schools shall Under-age instruction prohibited; exception. Proviso. Exception; parent in Americanization work.
None of the money appropriated by this Act shall be paid or Building contracts, requirements. Proviso. Right to reject bids.
The plans and specifications for all buildings provided for in this Preparation of plans, etc.
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. Post, p. 1119.
For personal services, $148,980. Personal services.
Miscellaneous.
For fuel, $7,000. Fuel.
For repairs and improvements to police stations and station Repairs, etc. Women’s Bureau quarters, alterations.
For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including rewards Contingent expenses. Harbor patrol.
Motor vehicles, etc.
Uniforms.
House of Detention.
Maintenance, etc.
Policemen and Firemen’s Relief.
Payments.
Fire Department.
Salaries.
Personal services.
Miscellaneous.
Repairs, etc., to buildings. Engine House No. 22, addition.
Uniforms.
For repairs to apparatus, motor vehicles, and other motor-driven Repairs to apparatus, etc. Proviso. Construction at repair shop.
For hose, $15,000. Hose.
For fuel, $23,500. Fuel.
For contingent expenses, furniture, fixtures, oil, blacksmithing, Contingent expenses.
For additional fire-fighting apparatus, $64,000. New apparatus.
Health Department.
Salaries: For personal services, including the employment of a Salaries. Post, 1121. 5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; 631–652; Supp. III, §§ 673, 673c. Inspection of public buildings where food is sold, etc. Contract investigational services.
Prevention of contagious diseases: For contingent expenses incident Prevention of contagious diseases. Scarlet fever, etc. Tuberculosis registration. Infantile paralysis, etc. Venereal diseases. Disinfecting service. Proviso. Bacteriological examination of milk, etc.
Maintenance of Dispensaries: For the maintenance of a dispensary Maintenance of dispensaries. Provisos. Volunteer services. Compensation restriction.
Nursing service. Provisos. Volunteer services. Compensation restriction.
Abatement of nuisances. Drainage of lots.
School hygiene and sanitation, salaries. Free dental clinics.
Laboratories, maintenance.
Food, drugs, candy, etc., adulteration Acts, enforcement. Post, p. 1121. Milk regulation. Proviso. Vehicle allowance, inspectors.
Maternal and child health service. Provisos. Volunteer services. Compensation restriction.
For the following hospital and sanatoria:
Tuberculosis Sanatoria.
For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to Provisions, etc.
For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, including Repairs and improvements.
Gallinger Municipal Hospital: For personal services, including Gallinger Municipal Hospital.
For maintenance of the hospital; for maintenance of the quarantine Maintenance, etc.
For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $6,000. Repairs, etc.
Purchase of books, musical instruments and music, expense of Incidental expenses.
Medical charities: For care and treatment of indigent patients Medical charities. Care, etc., of indigent patients at designated hospitals.
Children’s Hospital, $66,000.
Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, $60,000.
Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, $45,000.
Washington Home for Incurables, $15,000.
Columbia Hospital and Lying-in Asylum: For general repairs, Columbia Hospital, repairs.
Health Center: For the construction of a building for a Health Health Center, construction, etc.
The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $165,000 for the construction of a health center on the site of the Jones elementary school at First and L Streets Northwest, made in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1938, is hereby
Courts.
Juvenile Court.
Salaries: For personal services, $64,270. Salaries. Post, p. 1121. Miscellaneous.
Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, $2,000.
For fuel, ice, gas, laundry work, stationery, books of reference, Contingent expenses.
Advances for returning absconding probationers.
Police Court.
Salaries.
Contingent expenses.
Witness fees and jurors’ compensation.
Municipal Court.
Salaries. Post, p. 1122.
Jurors. Proviso. Deposits for jury trials earned unless new date set, etc.
Contingent expenses.
Miscellaneous.
Probation system, District Court of the U. S. for the District.
Support of convicts.
Lunacy write. Expenses of execution, etc. Post, p. 1119.
Public Welfare.
Board of Public Welfare.
Salaries; contract investigational services.
Division of Child Welfare.
Administration: For administrative expenses, including placing Administrative expenses. Restriction on expenditure.
For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship Home care of dependent children. Temporary care pending investigation, etc.
For the maintenance, under the jurisdiction of the Board of Public Receiving home for children under seventeen. Maintenance. Post, p. 1123. Proviso. Appropriation not available after December 31, 1938.
The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized Advances to director. Placing and visiting children.
Jail.
Salaries: For personal services, $89,760. Salaries.
For maintenance and support of prisoners of the District of Columbia Maintenance, etc., of prisoners.
Construction of addition to jail.
Workhouse and Reformatory.
Personal services.
Maintenance, etc.
Repairs to buildings. etc.
Working capital fund for industrial enterprises. Proviso. Purchase of services and products. Deposit of receipts as a revolving fund. Availability.
Buildings for women, construction, etc.
Construction of buildings and enclosing walls, etc.
Central warehouse and service building.
Acquisition of additional land. Proviso. Title to property.
The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to Advances for returning escaped prisoners.
National Training School for Boys.
Care, etc., of boys committed to.
District Training School.
For personal services, including not to exceed $2,500 for temporary Personal services.
For maintenance and other necessary expenses, including the maintenance Maintenance, etc.
For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $6,500. Repairs, etc.
The appropriation of $4,500, contained in the Third Deficiency Repairs to bridge across Little Patuxent River.
For extension of steam tunnels and installation of steam lines Steam tunnels, etc.
For the purchase, including exchange of one stake-body truck, Truck.
Industrial Home School for Colored Children.
Salaries.
Salaries: For personal services, $39,080; temporary labor, $500; in all, $39,580.
For maintenance, including purchase and maintenance of farm Maintenance, etc.
For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $7,500. Repairs, etc.
Industrial Home School.
Salaries: For personal services, $24,780; temporary labor, $1,000; Salaries.
For maintenance, including purchase of equipment, maintenance Maintenance.
For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, $2,500. Repairs.
Home for Aged and Infirm.
Salaries.
Contingent expenses.
Repairs, etc.; day labor.
Municipal Lodging House.
Public assistance.
Relief of the unemployed, etc. From District revenues. Provisos. Supervision of accounts. Antideficiency provision. Payment restriction.
Home care for dependent children. Proviso. Apportionment restrictions.
Old-age assistance.
Pensions for needy blind persons.
Temporary home for former soldiers and sailors.
Personal services, maintenance, etc.
Florence Crittenton Home.
Southern Relief Society.
National Library for the Blind.
Columbia Polytechnic Institute.
Saint Elizabeths Hospital.
Support of District indigent insane.
Nonresident insane.
For deportation of nonresident insane persons, in accordance with Deportation expenses. Post, p. 1123.
In expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of the Advances authorized.
Ex-service men.
Burial of indigent.
Transportation of indigent persons.
Vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents.
Militia.
Expenses authorized, under commanding general.
Personal services. Expenses of camps, etc.
Anacostia Park.
Continuing development.
Improvement of Washington Channel.
National Capital Parks.
Personal services.
Public parks.
General expenses.
Proviso.
Minor auxiliary structures.
Park police.
Salaries: For pay and allowances of the United States park police Salaries.
For uniforming and equipping the United States park police Uniforms, equipment, etc.
National Capital Park and Planning Commission.
For reimbursement to the United States in compliance with section Reimbursement to United States for lands acquired.
For each and every purpose, except the acquisition of land, requisite Incidental expenses. Proviso. Report to Congress.
National Zoological Park.
Expenses.
Uniforms.
Highway fund, gasoline tax and motor vehicle fees.
Sums appropriated wholly out of special fund.
Department of Vehicles and Traffic.
Personal services.
Expenses, etc. Proviso. Streetcar loading platforms, etc., restriction.
Identification plates.
Police traffic control.
Expenses.
Highway Department.
Street improvement.
For paving, repaving, grading, and otherwise improving streets, Paving, etc., streets and roads. Improvements designated.
For paving, repaving, and surfacing, including curbing and gutters where necessary, the following:
Southeast, Thirty-first Place, V Place to Alabama Avenue, $18,000;
Southeast, Thirty-second Street, V Place to Alabama Avenue, $18,000;
Southeast, Thirty-second Street, Alabama Avenue to Denver Street, $19,500;
Northeast, Neal Street, Bladensburg Road to Maryland Avenue, $10,200;
Northeast, Lang Place, Bladensburg Road to Seventeenth Street, $5,200;
Northeast, Lyman Place, Bladensburg Road to Seventeenth Street, $3,600;
Northeast, Oates Street, Bladensburg Road to Trinidad Avenue, $19,500;
Northeast, Queen Street, Holbrook Terrace to Montello Avenue, $9,000;
Northeast, Trinidad Avenue, Childress Street to Raum Street, $11,400;
Northeast, Newton Street, Twenty-sixth Street to Twenty-eighth Street, $9,000;
Northeast, Randolph Street, Twentieth Street to Twenty-fourth Street, $16,500;
Northeast, Shepherd Street, Eighteenth Street to Twentieth Street, $16,500;
Northwest, Hobart Place, Fifth Street to Georgia Avenue, $12,300;
Northwest, Farragut Street, Third Street to Fourth Street. $6,800;
Northwest, First Street, Farragut to Gallatin, and Gallatin Street, First Street to New Hampshire Avenue, $15,000;
Northwest, Aspen Street, Blair Road to Laurel Street, $7,500;
Northwest, Eighth Street, concrete north of Butternut Street to Dahlia Street, $6,800;
Northwest, Quintana Place, Fifth Street to Seventh Street, $8,400;
Northwest, Whittier Street, Fourteenth Street to Sixteenth Street, $12,000;
Northwest, Upshur Street, Sixteenth Street to Seventeenth Street, $9,000;
Northwest, Runnymede Place, Broad Branch Road to approximately two hundred and fifty feet eastward, $4,200;
Northwest, Garrison Street, Forty-fifth Street to River Road, $10,500;
Northwest, Calvert Street, Thirty-ninth Street to Forty-first Street, $15,000;
Northwest, Tunlaw Road, Thirty-seventh Street to W Place, and W Place, Tunlaw Road to Hall Place, $9,000;
Northwest, Blair Road, Peabody Street to Aspen Street, $60,000;
Northwest, Kennedy Street, Kansas Avenue to Fourteenth Street, $94,000;
Southeast, Branch. Avenue, Denver Street to District of Columbia line, $30,000;
Southeast, Nichols Avenue, Upsal to South Capitol Street and South Capitol Street, Nichols Avenue to Atlantic Street, $86,000;
Northwest, Forty-sixth Street, Massachusetts Avenue to River Road, $81,000;
Northwest, Loughboro Road, Indian Lane to Glenbrook Road, $60,000;
Northeast, C Street, Sixteenth Street to Nineteenth Street, Double Roadway, $40,000;
Northeast, North Carolina Avenue, Fifteenth Street to Sixteenth Street, $10,000;
Widening, etc., designated roadways.
Northwest, K Street, Twelfth Street to Connecticut Avenue, $121,100;
Northwest, Eleventh Street, Massachusetts Avenue to Rhode Island Avenue, $115,200;
Northwest, Twelfth Street, New York Avenue to Massachusetts Avenue, $46,900;
Northwest, New York Avenue, Fourteenth Street to Fifteenth Street (north side), $15,000;
Twelfth Street west, Constitution Avenue north to Independence Avenue south, $84,500:
Proviso. Assessment against abutting property owners.
Grading; culverts, etc.
Paving center strips.
Minor changes in roadways, etc.
Curbs and gutters, shoulders, etc.
Surfacing, etc., pavements.
Bridges, construction, repair, etc.
Street, etc., repairs. Provisos. Snow removal. Purchase of asphalt plant authorized.
This appropriation shall be available for the construction and Street railways, pavements. Proportion of expenses chargeable to railway company.
For the construction of a grade-separation structure at K Street Grade-separation structure, construction. Engineering, etc., services.
For the construction of an underpass at Thomas Circle in the Underpass at Thomas Circle.
For the construction of a bridge to replace the bridge in line of Pennsylvania Avenue bridge, replacing present structure. Proviso. Designated expenses to be borne by Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
Additional culvert under Massachusetts Avenue Northwest. 5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; Supp, III, §§ 673, 673c. Contracts.
Opening streets, etc., permanent highway system. Proviso. Alley improvement, building lines, etc.
Assessment and permit work.
Disbursements, etc. Proviso. Assessments under existing law. Grade-crossing elimination projects.
Minor changes in sidewalks and roadways.
No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be available Open competition for street improvement contracts.
In addition to the provision of existing law requiring contractors Repairs for inferior work by contractors required for additional period.
No part of the appropriations contained in this Act shall be used Use of funds for testing laboratory, etc., forbidden.
For personal services, trees, and parkings, $26,600. Trees and parkings.
For contingent expenses, trees and parkings, including laborers, trimmers, nurserymen, repairmen, teamsters, hire of carts, wagons, or motortrucks, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, tree labels, planting and care of trees, and tree spaces on city and suburban streets, purchase and maintenance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, and miscellaneous items, $100,000.
Water Service.
From water revenues.
Washington Aqueduct.
For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance Maintenance, etc., of, and accessories. Meters on Federal services.
For replacements of inadequate, worn-out, and obsolete chemical Replacements, etc.
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 and 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.
Reservoir, Soldiers’ Home grounds, construction.
Investment of water funds.
Refund of erroneous charges. Proviso. Availability.
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 sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation: Provisos. Limitation. Maximum period of employment.
Appropriations in this Act shall be available for payment by the D. C. Unemployment Compensation Act, contribution.
The Commissioners, or their duly designated representative, 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.
Rental limitation.
Provisos.
Prior leases.
Unexpended balances to be covered in.
Pay increase by reallocation of position.
Provisos.
Amount available.
Approval.
Minor purchases.
Congressional tags.
Credit allowed for designated disburse merits.
Mechanical parking meters.
Experimental installation authorized.
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to secure and to install experimentally, at no expense to the said District, mechanical parking meters or devices on the streets, avenues, roads, highways, and other public spaces in the District of Columbia under the jurisdiction and control of said Commissioners, such installations to be limited to a linear footage not to exceed the total of the perimeters of four Rules, fees, etc., to be prescribed.
The Commissioners are further authorized and empowered to pay Purchase and installation. Deposit of collections.
[S. 1945]
Indian irrigation projects.
Concessions on reservoir sites and other lands, authorized.
Leases for agricultural, grazing, etc., purposes.
Provisos.
Ineligibility for benefit payments.
Conditions prescribed.
Term limitation.
Maintenance, etc.
Use of funds from reserves for which tribe has not been compensated.
Tribal lands; lease restrictions.
Narragansett Bay, west passage.
Rhode Island may bridge, Jamestown to North Kingstown.
Toll charges.
Application of tolls to maintenance, sinking fund, etc.
Continuation, until retirement, if bonds are issued.
Maintenance as free bridge after amortizing costs, etc.
Record of expenditures and receipts.
Amendment.
Red River of the North.
North Dakota and Minnesota, etc., may bridge, Caledonia, N. Dak., to Shelly, Minn.
Acquisition of approaches, etc.
Proceedings.
Amendment.
Vancouver Barracks Military Reservation, Wash.
Construction of historical memorial on, by Vancouver, authorized.
Approval of location and plans.
Provisos.
No direct access to reservation.
Reversionary provision.
Galveston Harbor, Tex.
Completion of project for protecting the sea wall, authorized.
Red River of the North.
North Dakota and Minnesota may bridge, westerly of Nielsville, Minn.
Acquisition of approaches, etc.
Proceedings.
Amendment.
Criminal Code amendments.
Presenting false claims.
Concealing material fact.
False statements or representations.
Conspiring to defraud the Government, etc.
Corporation in which U. S. a stockholder.
Fraudulent receipts, etc.
Penalty.
Unlawful purchase, etc., of public property.
Theft; depredation against public property.
Property under contract for War or Navy Departments.
Penalty.
Value construed.
[S. 711]
District of Columbia Code, amendments.
Offenses against public policy.
That the Act entitled “An Act to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia”, approved March 3, 1901, and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, constituting a Code of Law for the District of Columbia, be, and the same hereby are, amended as follows:
Section 863 of such Act is hereby amended to read as follows:
Managing, etc., policy lotteries, policy shops, or lotteries.
Lottery chances; sale, transfer, etc.
Penalty.
Copy or record of such chance, etc., prima facie evidence.
Possession of lottery ticket, slip, etc.
Penalty.
Upon complaint, under oath, before the police court, Searches. Stolen, etc., articles. Counterfeits, forgeries, etc. Unlawful gaming devices, etc. Books for recording bets, etc. 6 D. C. Code §§ 151–154, 156, 157. Description of place to be searched, things and person to be seized. Warrant.
“The said warrant shall have annexed to it, or inserted therein, a Affidavit to be annexed.
“‘Whereas there has been filed before Form.
“If the property seized be articles, games, devices, or contrivances Disposition of seized property.
Saving clause.
Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation.
Board of inspectors at Port Arthur, Tex., created.
Great Lakes.
Compacts authorized between States bordering on, for uniform regulation of fishing in waters of.
Establishment of agencies.
Approval required.
Amendment, etc.
Employees’ Compensation Act, amendment.
Panama Canal and Panama Railroad Company.
Transfer of administration to Governor of Panama Canal.
Alaska Railroad; transfer to general manager.
Terms defined.
That the President may, from time to time, transfer the administration of this Act so far as employees of the Panama Canal and of the Panama Railroad Company are concerned to the Governor of the Panama Canal, and so far as employees of the Alaska Railroad are concerned to the general manager of the Alaska Railroad, in which cases the words ‘Commission’ and ‘its’ wherever they appear in this Act shall, so far as necessary to give effect to such transfer, be read, ‘Governor of the Panama Canal’ or ‘the general Medical examinations, expenses.
“In the case of compensation to employees of the Panama Canal or Disability claims. Filing waived. Alien employees; minimum limit, monthly compensation. Compensation, including medical, etc., assistance. Transportation and burial expenses. Reimbursement.
“The transfer by the President of the administration of this Act Jurisdiction not divested by reason of transfer. Right of appeal. Review. Form and manner to be provided.
Miami Beach, Fla.
Exchange of sites for Coast Guard purposes authorized.
Provisos.
Approval of title.
Conveyance by quitclaim deed.
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, amendments.
Ante, p. 30.
Farming operations in 1938, payments based on soil-depleting crops.
Definitions; textual modifications.
Ante, p. 41.
Normal yield for county, as to corn.
Wheat or cotton.
Ante, p. 41.
Ante, p. 42.
“Normal yield” for any farm in the case of designated commodities.
Basis of apportionment of national marketing quotas.
Ante, p. 47.
Ante, p. 48.
Flue-cured tobacco.
Post, p. 586.
Acreage allotment, corn.
Ante, p. 52.
State acreage allotment, wheat.
Ante, p. 54.
Amount of national allotments, cotton.
Ante, p. 57.
“State acreage allotment”, cotton.
Ante, p. 57.
Lands excluded from tilled acreage, commodities added.
Ante, p. 58.
Ante, p. 58.
Cotton; State allotments.
Ante, p. 58.
County and farm acreage allotment.
Basis.
Increased allotment for 1938 and 1939.
Post, p. 586.
Proviso.
Limitation.
Acreage to be additional to State acreage allotment, etc.
Ante, p. 60.
Statement respecting acreage planted.
Ante, p. 57.
Penalties.
Ante, p. 65.
Refund of penalties erroneously collected.
Whenever, pursuant to a claim filed with the Secretary within one year after payment to him of any penalty collected from any person pursuant to this Act, the Secretary finds that such penalty was erroneously, illegally, or wrongfully collected, the Secretary shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment to the claimant, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, such amount as the Secretary finds the claimant is entitled to receive as a refund of such penalty.
Regulations to be prescribed.
Commodities grown for experimental purposes.
Cotton price adjustment payments.
Ante, p. 66.
Crop failure; crops destroyed, after harvesting, by fire, etc.
Cotton pool participation trust certificates. textual changes.
Ante, p. 70.
Ante, p. 71.
Assignee, payment.
Ante, p. 71.
Wheat or corn, normal yield for any county.
Ante, p. 33.
Wheat or corn, determining normal yield for any farm.
Ante, p. 33.
Assignment of payment.
Ante, p. 35.
Proclamations by Secretary of Agriculture under designated sections, when effective.
Ante, pp. 46. 51, 52, 58.
Ante, pp. 46, 59.
[S. 3105]
Commodity Exchange Act, amendment.
Provisions of, extended to wool tops.
That in order to State of Maryland. Bridge or tunnel construction, etc. Potomac River, between Ludlowa Ferry and a point opposite in Virginia.
A bridge across the Potomac River from a point in Charles County at or near Ludlows Ferry to a point approximately opposite in the State of Virginia near Dahlgren and Colonial Beach.
Chesapeake Bay, between Millers Island and Tolchester; alternate thereto.
Susquehanna River, between Perryville and Havre de Grace.
Patapsco River, North West Branch to Fairfield.
Approval of plans, etc.
Time limitation.
Terms construed.
Authority to construct, etc., not exclusive.
Acquisition of approaches, etc.
Toll charges.
Grouping of projects for financing purposes.
Application of tolls to operation, sinking fund, etc.
Continuance until costs amortized.
Adjustment of rates to pay bonds, etc.
Separability provisions.
Maintenance as free bridge, etc., after amortizing costs.
Proviso.
Continuance of tolls if pledged to payment of bonds.
Record of expenditures and receipts.
Nature of powers conferred.
Repeal of conflicting Acts, etc.
Toll charge restriction.
Liquidation provisions.
Payment of cost and bonds by State authorized.
Amendment, etc.
Alaska fisheries.
Bristol Bay.
Residence and citizenship requirements, persons taking salmon with stake net, etc., for commercial purposes.
Menominee Tribe of Indians.
That the Act entitled “An Act to refer the claim of the Menominee Tribe of Indians to the Court of Claims, with the absolute right to appeal
Section repealed.
Prosecution of claims; separate suits permitted.
Facts to be set forth in petition.
Limitation of action.
Amendment.
The first sentence of section 3 of said Act is amended by repealing Principles of law applicable; clarifying phrase.
Section 6 (c) of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows:
Unlawfully cut timber.
Computation of damages.
Interest.
Replacement cost.
Interest.
“Net income” to include stumpage value.
There is inserted as section 6 (e) the following:
Causes of action and measures of damage construed to be independent of each other.
The first sentence of section 7 of said Act is amended by repealing Textual correction.
International Seed Testing Association.
Invitation to bold 9th Congress in United States; participation by foreign countries.
Appropriation authorized.
Reimbursement of other appropriations.
Shoshone reclamation project, Wyo.
Allocation of net revenues from power plant.
Apportionment to Garland and Frannie Divisions.
Conflicting laws repealed.
Wilmington, N. C.
Conveyance of Marine Hospital Reservation to: correction in description.
Arch Hurley Conservancy District. N. Mex.
Water supply for lands of.
“That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to construct Federal reclamation project authorized. Post, p. 1133. Proviso. Feasibility to be first ascertained. Findings required. Contracts. Repayment of cost of construction. Sale of excess land. Application of excess from sales of land above appraised value.
Wilmington, N. C.
Restriction on use of land in, conveyed to Board of Education, New Hanover County, modified.
Reversionary provision.
[S. 3735]
Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, amendments.
Loans or contracts with public agencies for aid in financing projects.
For the purpose of maintaining and promoting the economic stability of the country or encouraging the employment of labor the Corporation is authorized and empowered, under such terms, conditions, and restrictions as the Corporation may determine, to make loans to, or contracts with, States, municipalities, and political subdivisions of States, with public agencies and instrumentalities of one or more States, municipalities, and political subdivisions of States, and with public corporations, boards, and commissions, to aid in financing projects authorized under Federal, State, or Purchase of securities. Private business enterprise where credit not otherwise available. Provisos. Soundness of securities. Solvency of enterprise. Terms and conditions. Maturities.
“The powers granted to the Corporation by this section shall terminate Termination of powers. Prior loans or commitments. Validity, etc., of loan agreements.
“Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the Corporation Restriction on loans to railroads.
[S. 2698]
Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians, Okla.
Designated lands set aside for use of.
Description.
Proviso.
Allotment in severalty forbidden.
[S. 3304]
Military Road, Va.
Conveyance of portion of, to National Airport Corporation.
Description.
Lease of designated part.
Closing of described portion upon execution of quitclaim deed and lease.
Grant subject to payment for substitute road.
Agricultural Adjustment Act, amendments.
7 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 608c (2).
Commodity orders extended to include hops.
7 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 608c (6).
Orders limited to two crop years.
Chippewa Indians of Minnesota.
Certain ceded lands to be subject to flowage easement.
Rights, etc., of Indians extinguished.
Transfer of sum for compensating Indians for rights in said lands.
Funds available.
Executive Orders 4867 and 5025 revoked.
Proviso.
Right to overflow sub-level lands reserved.
Restriction on credit of moneys to Indians from certain land sales, etc.
Goshute, etc., Indians.
Certain lands set aside as a permanent reservation for.
That whenever the privately owned lands, commonly referred to as the Triune Ranch, within the following-described area have been purchased and acquired as hereafter authorized, the following-described lands be, and hereby are, set aside as a permanent reservation for the benefit of the Goshute and such other Indians as the Secretary of the Interior may locate thereon:
Description.
Prior rights not affected.
Purchase of certain private holdings, etc.
Title to be taken in trust for Indians.
Regular Army.
Increase in commissioned strength.
Assignments.
Exceptions.
Dental Corps.
Ante, p. 8.
Air Corps.
Provisos.
Powers of President to modify assignments.
Appointment in lowest commissioned grade of each branch.
Reserve officers; annual appointments in combatant arms, etc.
Increases not to exceed existing authorizations.
Guglielmo Marconi memorial.
Erection of, in District of Columbia, authorized.
Provisos.
Approval of site and design.
Financial, etc., conditions.
Federal Trade Commission,
Investigation of motor vehicle, etc., distribution practices.
That the Federal Trade Commission be, and is hereby, directed and authorized under the Act entitled “An Act to create a Federal Trade Commission, to define its powers and duties, and for other purposes”, approved September 26, 1914, to investigate the policies employed by manufacturers in distributing motor vehicles, accessories, and parts, and the policies of dealers in selling motor vehicles at retail, as these policies affect the public interest.
Purpose and scope.
Extent of concentration of control and monopoly.
Antitrust law violations.
Powers vested in Commission.
Report and recommendations.
Appropriation authorized.
Postal service.
Experimental air mail services authorized.
Post, pp. 997, 1144.
Autogiro aircraft shuttle service.
Contracts and operations, provisions governing.
Pay and working conditions of pilots, etc.
Report and recommendations to Congress.
Preliminary reports and recommendations.
48 Stat. 934; 49 Stat. 615; ante, p. 6; post, p. 1029.
39 U. S. C. § 469a (f); Supp. III, § 469a (f).
Contracts; mileage limitation.
Granting of extensions.
Proviso.
Limitation on aggregate mileage and pay.
Air mail contractors.
Compensation of officers, etc., limited.
Proviso.
Unlawful to exceed limitation.
Star route airplane service.
Post, p, 1144.
Provisos.
Laws and regulations applicable.
Base rate of pay.
Exception.
Designated transportation provisions not to apply.
39 U. S. C. § 469; Supp. III, ch. 13.
Number of contracts limited.
[S. 3590]
National Defense Act, amendments.
General Staff Corps, assignments in peace time.
Line officers, service requirements.
Officers below brigadier general, service with troops.
Proviso.
Officers commissioned in a staff corps.
Saint Clair River.
Time extended tor bridging, at Port Huron, Mich.
Amendment.
[S. 3160]
Territory of Alaska.
Exchange of land in, for use as radio station site.
[S. 3272]
Federal officers and employees in foreign countries.
Pay, etc., status clarified.
41 Stat. 283; 42 Stat. 1509; 48 Stat. 466.
10 U. S. C. § 671a; 36 U. S. C. §§ 121–138; 5 U. S. C. § 118c; Supp. III, § 118c.
[S. 3272]
National Defense Act, amendments.
Under such regulations Regular Army Reserve. Maintenance as part of Regular Army; additional to authorized strength. Qualifications for reenlistment. Enlistment allowance. Service to confer no right to pay, etc., other than herein provided. Pensions only due to service-incurred disability. Active duty construed. Service only in emergencies; allowances. Sum payable upon entering on active duty. Status and pay. Longevity computation. Inactive status, etc., after emergency declared terminated.
Applicability of military law.
Civilian Conservation Corps.
Additional appropriation for expenses, 1 year 1939.
Unobligated balance reappropriated.
Amount available for pay, etc,, of enrollees.
Post, p. 414.
Restriction on construction of new camps.
[S. 3400]
Federal Reserve Act, amendment.
Loans to executive officers of member banks.
Extension or renewal.
Transportation of passengers by Canadian vessels between designated ports.
Annual permits.
Penalty provisions waived.
Navy Department and naval service appropriations for fiscal year 1939.
Naval Establishment.
Office of the Secretary.
Traveling expenses.
Experts.
Courts martial, etc.
Accident prevention, shore establishments.
Advertising.
Living quarters, etc.
Telegrams, radiograms, cablegrams, 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.
Naval Research Laboratory.
Provisos.
Temporary employment of scientists, etc.
Group IV (b) employees.
Naval petroleum reserves.
Conservation and operation.
Group IV (b) employees.
Provisos.
Protective work on Reserve No. 1.
Group IV (b) employees.
Agreement with adjoining landowners not to drill off set wells.
Naval prison farms and prison personnel.
Operation, etc.
Proviso.
Limitation on expenditures.
Bureau of Navigation,
Training, education, and welfare.
Naval War College, maintenance, etc.
Naval War College: For maintenance and operation, including repairs, improvements, and care of grounds; services of a professor of international law, $2,000; services of lecturers, $2,000; and other civilian services; library expenses, including the purchase, binding, and repair of books and periodicals and subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals; and including contingencies of the president of the Naval War College, to be expended in his discretion, not exceeding $1,000; and for other necessary expenses, $124,500;
Naval training stations: For maintenance, operation, and other Naval training stations.
San Diego, California, $160,359;
Newport, Rhode Island, $152,000;
Great Lakes, Illinois, $256,500;
Norfolk, Virginia, $268,500;
Fleet training, gunnery, etc., prizes.
Instruction. Retirement annuities. Proviso. Restriction on special educational courses. Exception.
Libraries.
Welfare and recreation.
Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. 34 U. S. C. § 821; Supp. III, § 821. Proviso. Uniforms, equipment, etc.
Total. Proviso. Group IV (b) employees. Limitations.
State Marine Schools.
Reimbursement of designated States for expenses.
Maintenance, etc., of vessels loaned.
Instruments and supplies.
Proviso.
Group IV (b) employees.
Ocean and Jake surveys.
Proviso.
Group IV (b) employees.
Naval Reserve.
Organizing, recruiting, etc., and Naval Militia.
Fleet Naval Reserve, subsistence.
Pay, mileage, etc.
Flight training.
Sum reappropriated.
Armories, wharfage, etc.
Group IV (b) employees.
Aviation material, hangars, etc.
Provisos.
Reserve officers performing active duty.
Limitation.
Pay, allowances, etc., restrictions.
Naval Academy.
Pay, Naval Academy: For pay of professors and instructors, Pay of professors etc. Annuities. 34 U. S. C., Supp. III, §§ 1073–1073e. Proviso. Swordsman ship etc., instruction.
For pay of other employees, $611,600: Other employees. Proviso. Group IV (b) employees.
Current and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Academy: For text and Current, etc., expenses. Lectures, etc. Books; purchase, repair, etc. Board of Visitors.
Maintenance and repairs, Naval Academy: For necessary repairs Maintenance and repairs. Horses, vehicles, etc Furniture. Ship models. Proviso. Group IV (b) employees. Additional well, construction.
Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pa.
Employees. Proviso. Group IV (b) employees.
Maintenance. Employment of beneficiaries.
Total.
Bureau of Engineering.
Repairs, preservation of machinery, etc.
Post, p. 1140.
Exceptions.
Equipage, supplies, etc.
Field force.
Annapolis, Md., engineering experiment station.
Amount reappropriated.
Proviso.
Group IV (b) employees.
Bureau of Construction and Repair.
Designing of naval vessels, etc.
Post, p. 1140.
Maintenance, etc., of vessels.
Equipage, supplies, etc.
Field force.
Proviso.
Group IV (b) employees, etc.
Bureau of Ordnance.
Ordnance and ordnance stores.
Procuring, preserving, etc.
Fuel, material, and labor.
Experimental work.
Scientists, etc.
Vehicles.
Schools at designated stations.
Proviso.
Group IV (b) employees.
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.
Pay of naval personnel. Aerial flights, increased pay; restriction. Rent and subsistence. Retired officers. Hire of quarters. Enlisted men on retired list. Prizes, etc. Outfits, clothing, etc. Reimbursement for certain losses. Nurse Corps. Fleet Naval Reserve. Property losses. Active duty pay, etc., to retired officers; restriction. Proviso. Enlisted men ashore as household servants. Voluntary, etc., services. Sale of meals to officers.
Subsistence of naval personnel: For provisions and commuted Subsistence of naval personnel. Unavoidable absences. Detached duty. Naval Reserve.
Transportation and recruiting of naval personnel: For mileage Transportation and recruiting. Attendance at meetings. Midshipmen, etc. Enlisted men, etc. Apprehension of deserters, etc. Recruiting. Transportation of dependents. Funeral escorts.
In all, for pay, subsistence, and transportation of naval personnel, including members of the Naval Reserve when called to active duty in time of war or during the existence of a national emergency declared Sum reappropriated. Amount immediately available. Accounting. Provisos. Additional medical detail, Veterans’ Administration patients in naval hospitals. Restrictions on admissions to Naval Academy after January 30, 1938. Appointments at large, from enlisted men, etc. Sea service requirements of appointees from enlisted men.
Maintenance.
Provisos.
Supply or replacement of kitchen, etc., ware for officers’ quarters ashore forbidden.
Group IV (b) employees.
Use of certain receipts for current expenditures; accounting.
Clothing and small stores, Naval Reserve.
Naval Supply Account Fund.
Strategic and critical materials.
Procurement and transportation.
Provisos.
Use restricted.
Determination of.
Fuel and transportation.
Provisos.
Issue to be charged to applicable appropriation.
Use of fuel on hand.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Surgeons’ necessaries.
Civil establishment.
Vehicles, etc.
Naval Medical Center, etc.
Care, etc., of insane on Pacific coast.
Proviso.
Group TV (b) employees.
Care of the dead.
Interment and transportation expenses.
Civilian employees dying abroad.
Proviso.
Retired officers, etc., on active duty.
Bureau of Yards and Docks.
General maintenance, etc.
New Orleans, La., naval station, utilization.
Vehicles.
Group IV (b) employees.
Provisos.
Limitation on vehicle purchases.
Maintenance, operation, repair, etc.
Contingent expenses.
Public works, etc. Provisos. Personal services. Construction of authorized projects.
Boston, Mass., navy yard.
Mare Island, Calif., navy yard.
Fourteenth Naval District, dredging, etc.
Balboa. C. Z., naval station.
Annapolis, Md., radio station.
Coco Solo. C. Z., submarine base.
Iona Island, N. Y., ammunition depot.
Fort Mifflin, Pa., ammunition depot.
Norfolk, Va., air station.
Pensacola, Fla., air station.
Coco Solo, C. Z., fleet air base.
Alameda, Calif., air station.
Washington, D. C., medical center; site and construction.
Bureau of Aeronautics.
Designated aviation expenses.
Post, p. 1142.
Helium.
Post, p. 329.
Experiments and development work.
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. Aerial flights, limitation on increased pay for. Allowances. Retired officers.
For pay of officers prescribed by law on the retired list, $1,706,000;
Enlisted men, active list. Pay and allowances.
Retired enlisted men.
Undrawn clothing.
Marine Corps Reserve.
Mileage, etc.
Aggregate; accounting.
Civil force.
Offices of the Major General Commandant and adjutant inspector, $130,000;
Office of paymaster, $48,700;
Office of the quartermaster, $137,500; in all, $316,200: Proviso. Number of enlisted men at headquarters. Vacancies to be filled by civilians. Pay rates.
For every expenditure requisite for, and incident to, the authorized General expenses.
For provisions, subsistence, board, and lodging of enlisted men, Provisions, etc.
For clothing for enlisted men, $1,050,000; Clothing.
For fuel, heat, light, and power, including sales to officers, $470,000; Fuel, etc.
For military supplies and equipment, including their purchase, Military supplies, 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 other Miscellaneous supplies, etc. Vehicles, etc. Horses, etc. Printing and binding. Funeral expenses. Laundries. Proviso. Purchase of vehicles.
Marine Corps Reserve.
Accounting. Proviso. Group IV (b) employees.
Replacement of naval vessels.
Construction and machinery. Post, p. 1143. Commencement of designated vessels. Provisos. Group IV (b) employees. Technical services.
Armor, armament, and ammunition. Post, p. 1143. Provisos. Newport, R. I., torpedo station, machinery, etc. Group IV (b) employees.
Neither the appropriation “Replacement of naval vessels, construction, Designated appropriations not available for ships commissioned prior to July 1, 1937.
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; exception. Repairs, etc., other than at navy yards, etc., restricted. Exception. Proviso. Construction, first and alternate vessels at Government yards, factories, etc.
Estimates to accompany bids.
Navy Department.
Salaries.
Office of the Secretary, and other designated offices, etc.
General Board, $12,560.
Naval examining and retiring boards, $12,200.
Compensation board, $6,840.
Office of Naval Records and Library, $34,080.
Office of Judge Advocate General, $122,000.
Office of Chief of Naval Operations, $72,660, of which $600 shall be available immediately.
Board of Inspection and Survey, $19,840.
Office of Director of Naval Communications, $135,200.
Office of Naval Intelligence, $79,180.
Bureau of Navigation, $484,000.
Hydrographic Office, $413,420.
American Ephemeris, etc.
Bureau of Engineering, $307,400.
Bureau of Construction and Repair, $347,479.
Bureau of Ordnance, $149,000.
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $790,000.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $87,580.
Bureau of Yards and Docks, $274,600.
Bureau of Aeronautics. Provisos. Aircraft design and construction work; additional personnel, pay. Limitation on expenditure.
In all, salaries, Navy Department, $4,076,329.
Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act. 5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; Supp. III, §§ 673, 673c. Exception. Proviso. Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service. No reduction in Used salaries. Transfers without reduction. Payment under higher rate. If only one position in a grade.
Contingent expenses.
Naval records of World War.
Naval service appropriations not to be used for Department expenses; exception.
Printing and binding.
Historical and naval documents.
Unexpended balance reappropriated.
Proviso.
Copies to Library of Congress.
Hydrographic Office.
For purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailing Contingent and miscellaneous expenses. Charts, etc.
Branch offices.
For services of necessary employees at branch offices, $47,220.
Naval Observatory.
Contingent and miscellaneous expenses.
Government-owned automobiles.
Use restricted to official business.
Transportation between domicile and place of employment.
Exceptions.
[S. 2531]
Regular Army.
Increase in commissioned strength.
That the Secretary Military reservations. Transfer of certain, to Government agencies and Puerto Rico. Provisos. Reversionary provision. Sale of properties not desired.
The agencies to which transfers are authorized and the names of the Agencies to which transfers are authorized.
To the Department of Justice: Alcatraz Island, California, twelve Department of Justice.
To the Department of Agriculture: Fort DeSoto, Florida, four hundred Department of Agriculture.
To the Veterans’ Administration: Fort Miley, California, twenty- Veterans’ Administration.
To the Department of Commerce: Fort Dade, Florida, five and five- Department of Commerce.
To the Treasury Department: Fort Dade, Florida, three hundred Treasury Department.
To the people of Puerto Rico: That certain tract or parcel of land To the people of Puerto Rico.
Deposit of net proceeds.
Appropriations for Departments of State and Justice, the Judiciary, and Departments of Commerce and Labor, fiscal year 1939.
Payment forbidden persons after nomination rejected by Senate.
Citizenship requirements.
Post, p. 1163.
Proviso.
Interpreters, Immigration and Naturalization Service.
United States New York World’s Fair Commission.
Allocation of funds for designated purposes, authorized.
Proviso.
Payment of incurred obligations.
Expenditures without reference to other provisions of law.
[S. 1079]
War Department real property.
Sale of designated tracts no longer needed for military purposes.
That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to sell or cause to be sold, under the provisions of the Act of March 12, 1926 (44 Stat. 203), the several tracts or parcels of real property hereinafter designated, or any portion thereof, upon determination by him that said tracts or parcels are no longer needed for military purposes, and to execute and deliver in the name of the United States and in its behalf any and all contracts, conveyances, or other instruments necessary to effectuate such sale and conveyance.
Description. Proviso. Deposit of net proceeds.
Camp Taylor, Ky.
Sale of remaining portion.
Appraisal and payment of costs.
Deposit of net proceeds.
Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1939.
Office of the Secretary.
Salaries.
Provisos.
Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act; exceptions.
Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.
No reduction in fixed salaries.
Transfers without reduction.
Payment at higher rate permitted.
If only one position in a grade.
Office of Solicitor.
Personal services.
Division of Territories and Island Possessions.
Personal services.
Division of Investigations.
Investigation of official matters; timber protection, etc.
Traveling expenses.
Vehicles and motor boats.
Annual statement of expenditures.
Division of Grazing.
Salaries and expenses. 43 U. S. C. § 315; Supp. III, § 315. Classification, etc., of lands. Services in the District. Advisory committees of local stockmen.
Range improvements. 43 U. S. C. §§ 315i, 315j; Supp. III, § 315i. Proviso. Limitation.
Petroleum Conservation Division.
Salaries and expenses.
Services in the District.
Attendance at meetings.
Printing and binding.
Vehicles.
For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the Department contingent expenses. Teletype rentals, etc. Labor-saving devices. Fuel and light. Vehicles. Disbarment proceedings, expenses. Stationery, etc. Additional, from specified appropriations.
Professional, etc., books, periodicals, etc. Additional sums for designated offices.
Printing and binding.
Restriction.
Commission of Fine Arts.
Expenses. Periodicals, etc. Attendance at meetings, etc.
Printing and binding.
Total, Commission of Fine Arts, $10,000.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission.
Expenses.
Post, p. 1128.
Post, p. 694.
Amount immediately available.
Proviso
Restriction.
National Bituminous Coal Commission.
Salaries and expenses.
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, 15 U. S. C., Supp. III, §§ 828–851. Attendance at meetings, etc. Stationery, etc. Printing and binding. Witness fees. Vehicles.
Consumers’ Counsel of the National Bituminous Coal Commission, Consumers’ Counsel’s office. Witness fees, etc. Rent. Attendance at meetings. Printing and binding.
Bonneville project.
For administering and carrying out the provisions of an Act Administrative expenses.
For construction, purchase and maintenance of transmission lines Transmission lines, easements, etc.
General Land Office.
For Commissioner of the, General Land Office and other personal Salaries. Clerk to sign land patents.
Transcribing records.
Binding records.
General expenses.
Traveling expenses, maps, etc. Restoration of lands to public domain. Hearings. Disbarment proceedings.
Maps. Delivery provisions.
Public lands. Surveying, etc. Vehicles. Provisos. Temporarily detailed employees. Oregon and California Railroad and Coos Bay Wagon Road lands. Surveys chargeable hereto. Other surveys, reimbursable.
Registers.
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 grant lands, etc. Payment of proceeds of sales of.
Payment of proceeds of sales of Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands and timber: For payment of 25 per centum of the balance of the proceeds from sales of the Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands and timber within each of the counties of Coos and Douglas, Oregon, after deducting the accrued taxes in said counties and a sum equal to $2.50 per acre for the land title to which revested in the United States pursuant to the Act of February 26, 1919 (40 Stat. 1179), to be paid to Proviso. Expenditures limited.
Revested Oregon and California Railroad and Reconveyed Coos Revested Oregon and California Railroad, etc., grant lands. Conservation management. Services in the District. Vehicles. Proviso. Reimbursement.
Payment to Oklahoma from royalties, oil and gas, south half of Red Oklahoma. Payment to, from royalties, south half of Red River. In lieu of State, etc., taxes. Proviso. Limitation.
Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Salaries.
General expenses.
Traveling, etc., expenses. Post, p. 1133. Radio, etc., tolls.
Supplies; purchase, transportation, etc. Proviso. Restriction on payments.
Maintenance of law and order on Indian reservations.
Agency, etc., buildings. Lease, purchase, etc. Proviso. Construction costs.
Tribal organizations, expenses. 48 Stat. 986; 49 Stat. 378, 1250, 1967. 25 U. S. C., Supp. III. §§ 478a, 478b; 48 U. S. C., Supp. III, §§ 358a, 362; 25 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 501. Services in the District. Provisos. Traveling allowances. Expenditures in New Mexico.
Vehicles, Indian Service. Maintenance, etc. Transportation of Indian school pupils. Purchase and exchange.
Replacement of destroyed, etc., property. Proviso. Report of diversions to Congress.
Authorization for attending health and educational meetings: Not 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. Purchase of, from tribal funds. Per capita payments excepted. Funds continued available.
Compensation to Pueblo Indians, New Mexico: For the last of three Compensation for loss of land and water rights.
Jemez, $628.34; Nambe, $15,813.16; Taos, $28,235.69; Santa Ana, Pueblos designated. Proviso. Acquisition of lands, water rights, etc.
Compensation to non-Indian claimants, Pueblo Indian Lands, New Compensation to non-Indian claimants, Pueblo lands, N. Mex.
Purchase of land for the Navajo Indians, Arizona, reimbursable: Navajo Indians, Ariz. Purchase of land, reimbursable. Reappropriation.
Navajo Indians, Ariz. Purchase of land, from tribal funds. Provisos. Restriction on expenditure. Mineral, etc., reservation.
Lease of lands and water rights.
Acquisition of lands, etc. Balance reappropriated. Provisos. Contracts. Restriction on use of funds.
Restricted Indian land, balance for payment of taxes, etc., continued available. 25 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 412a. Confederated Bands of Utes, Utah. Purchase of additional lands, etc.
Purchase of land, Confederated Bands of Utes, Utah (tribal funds): The unexpended balances of the amounts authorized to be expended by the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the
Cheyenne River Reservation, S. Dak. Purchase of land, etc. Provisos. Title to land. Balance continued available.
Land surveys, Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, Oklahoma (tribal Choctaws and Chickasaws, Okla., land surveys.
Industrial assistance and advancement.
Timber preservation, etc.
For the preservation of timber on Indian reservations and allotments other than the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin, the education of Indians in the proper care of forests, and the general administration of forestry and grazing work, including fire prevention and payment of reasonable rewards for information leading to arrest and conviction of a person or persons setting forest fires, or taking or otherwise destroying timber, in contravention of law on Indian lands, $320,000: Proviso. Restriction on use of funds.
For expenses incidental to the sale of timber, and for the expenses Timber sales, etc., expenses; reimbursable. Proviso. Rewards for information.
For the suppression or emergency prevention of forest fires on or Suppression, etc., of forest fires. Provisos. Additional amount available. Report of diversions to Congress.
For transfer to the Geological Survey for expenditures to be made Geological Survey. Transfers of sums to, for supervising mining operations. 26 Stat. 794; 35 Stat. 312, 444, 783. 25 U. S. C. §§ 336, 371, 396, 397. Reimbursement.
For the purpose of obtaining remunerative employment for Indians, Obtaining employment for Indians.
For the purpose of developing agriculture and stock raising among Development of agriculture and stock raising. Agricultural experiments and demonstrations. Navajo sheep breeding station.
Loans to encourage industry, etc. Provisos. Conditions for repayment. Loans on irrigable lands. Limitation; exception. Advances to old, etc., allottees. Advances to Indian youths for educational purposes. Reimbursement. Purchase, disposition of sheep and other livestock.
Industrial assistance. Construction of homes, purchase of seed, equipment, etc. Advances to old, etc., Indians. Post, p. 1130. Provisos. Conditions for repayment. Loans on irrigable lands. Advances to old, etc., Indians. Advances to Indian youths for educational purposes; reimbursement. Credits and availability. Establishment of tribal enterprises. Loans from revolving fund.
For an additional amount to be added to the appropriations heretofore Additional amount, revolving fund for loans. Loans to individual Indians, etc. 25 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 501. Services in the District.
For the development, under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian arts and crafts, development. Vehicles. Arts and Crafts Board, expenses. Printing and binding. Proviso. Salary restriction.
Water supply.
Developing and conserving, in Arizona and New Mexico.
Irrigation and drainage.
Construction, maintenance, etc., of designated projects.
Miscellaneous projects. Limitation.
Administrative expenses.
Total; reimbursable. Provisos. Amounts interchangeable; limitation. Apportionment of expenses on per-acre basis. Unpaid charges a first lien.
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.
For improvement, operation, and maintenance of the pumping Colorado River Reservation, Ariz Maintenance, etc., of system. Reimbursable.
Operation and maintenance, pumping plants, San Carlos Reservation, San Carlos Reservation, Ariz. Operation, etc., of pumping plants. Proviso. Reimbursement.
For reclamation and maintenance charges on Indian lands within Yuma Reservation, Calif.-Ariz. Reclamation, etc., charges.
For improvements, maintenance, and operation of the Fort Hall Fort Hall system, Idaho. Maintenance, etc. Limitation.
For maintenance and operation, repairs, and purchase of stored Fort Belknap Reservation, Mont. Maintenance, etc., of system. Limitation.
For maintenance and operation of the several units of the Fort Fort Peck project, Mont. Maintenance, etc. Limitation.
For operation and maintenance of the irrigation systems on the Flathead Reservation, Mont. Maintenance, etc. Limitation.
For improvement, maintenance, and operation of the irrigation systems Crow Reservation, Mont. Maintenance, etc.
Newlands project, Nev. Payment of charges against Paiute lands. Drains to Truckee-Carson district.
Navajo Reservation, N. Mex. Operation of Hogback project.
Fruitlands project, N. Mex. Maintenance, etc.
Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, N. Mex. Maintenance, etc.
Final payment to. Reimbursement.
Klamath Reservation, Oreg. Operation of projects on; limitation.
Uncompahgre, etc., Utes in Utah. Irrigation of allotted lands. Reimbursable.
Yakima Reservation, Wash. Wapato system, maintenance, etc. Reimbursement to reclamation fund for reservoir maintenance, etc.
For reimbursement to the reclamation fund the proportionate expense of operation and maintenance of the reservoirs for furnishing
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 systems Irrigation and drainage. Construction, maintenance, etc.
Arizona: Colorado River, as authorized by and in accordance with Arizona. Contracts.
San Carlos project (Pima Reservation), Arizona: The Secretary San Carlos, additional power.
California: Mission, $25,000, reimbursable; Sacramento, $25,000, California.
Colorado: Southern Ute, $65,000, reimbursable; Colorado.
Montana: Flathead, $500,000, reimbursable; Crow, $200,000, reimbursable; Montana.
Nevada: Western Shoshone, $50,000, reimbursable; Walker River, Nevada.
New Mexico: Mescalero, $15,000, reimbursable; Pueblo, $75,000, New Mexico.
Oregon: Klamath, $11,000, reimbursable; Warm Springs, $15,000, Oregon.
Utah: Uintah, $50,000, reimbursable; Utah.
Washington: Wapato, $100,000, reimbursable; Washington.
Wyoming: Wind River, $20,000, reimbursable; Wyoming.
Miscellaneous garden tracts, $60,000, reimbursable; Miscellaneous garden tracts.
For administrative expenses, including personal services in the Administrative expenses. Printing and binding.
In all, $2,636,000, to be immediately available, which amount, Availability. Proviso. Amounts interchangeable.
Education.
Support of Indian schools, etc. Provisos. Deaf and dumb or blind, etc. Subsistence, boarding schools. Vocational, etc., courses, tuition. Formal contracts not required. Printing and binding, limitation. Travel outside continental United States, limitation.
Support of schools from tribal funds. Chippewas in Minnesota. Proviso. Formal contracts not required.
Saint Louis Mission Boarding School, Okla. Osage pupils.
For reimbursable loans to Indians for the payment of tuition and Vocational and trade schools, educational loans; reimbursable. Balance continued available. Provisos. Liberal-arts courses. Advances, reimbursable.
For lease, purchase, repair, and improvement of buildings at School buildings. Lease, improvement, etc.
For support and education of Indian pupils at the following non-reservation Nonreservation boarding schools. Support, etc., of designated.
Phoenix, Arizona: For four hundred and fifty pupils, including Phoenix, Ariz.
Sherman Institute, Riverside, California: For six hundred and Sherman Institute, Riverside, Calif.
Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas: For six hundred and twenty-five Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kans.
Pipestone, Minnesota: For three hundred pupils, $97,750; for pay Pipestone, Minn.
Carson City, Nevada: For five hundred and twenty-five pupils, 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; for Wahpeton, N. Dak.
Chilocco, Oklahoma: For six hundred and fifty pupils, including Chilocco, Okla.
Sequoyah Orphan Training School, Okla.
Carter Seminary, Okla.
Euchee, Okla.
Eufaula, Okla.
Jones Academy, Okla.
Wheelock Academy, Okla.
Chemawa, Salem, Oreg.
Flandreau, S. Dak.
Pierre, S. Dak.
Total, nonreservation boarding schools. Proviso. Sums interchangeable. Report to Congress.
Pupils attending public or Indian day schools in designated nations, etc. Proviso. Employment of public-school teachers where facilities inadequate.
Alaska natives. Support, education, relief of destitution, etc. Miscellaneous expenses. Post, p. 1131. Proviso. Report to Congress. Authority to incur obligations.
Conservation of health.
For conservation of health among Indians, including equipment, Designated expenses. Suppressing trachoma, etc. Allotments to specified hospitals.
Arizona: Indian Oasis Hospital, $27,260; Kayenta Sanatorium, Arizona.
California: Hoopa Valley Hospital, $25,000; Soboba Hospital, California.
Colorado: Ute Mountain Hospital, $15,000; Edward T. Taylor Colorado.
Idaho: Fort Lapwai Sanatorium, $90,000; Fort Hall Hospitals, Idaho.
Iowa: Sac and Fox Sanatorium, $79,000; Iowa.
Minnesota: Pipestone Hospital, $22,500; Cass Lake Hospital, Minnesota.
Mississippi: Choctaw Hospital, $26,000; Mississippi.
Montana: Blackfeet Hospital, $45,000; Fort Peck Hospital, $26,400; Montana.
Nebraska: Winnebago Hospital, $47,000; Nebraska.
Nevada.
New Mexico.
North Carolina.
North Dakota.
Oklahoma.
Oregon.
South Dakota.
Utah.
Washington.
Wisconsin.
Wyoming.
Provisos. Sums interchangeable. Report to Congress. Hospitalization of pupils; basis of contribution. Fees, professional services.
Medical relief in Alaska. Hospital buildings, etc. Availability.
Navajo Reservation. Revolving fund for dental work. Proviso. Credit of fees.
For general support of Indians and administration of Indian General support and administration. Proviso. Fees for services.
Reindeer service: For supervision of reindeer in Alaska and Reindeer service, Alaska.
Reindeer industry, Alaska: For a survey and appraisal of the Reindeer industry, Alaska, survey and appraisal. Post, p. 1132. Supervisory committee created, personnel. Vacancies. Personal services. Expenditures. Assistance of Federal agencies. Per diem, etc., allowances.
For general support of Indians and administration of Indian Support of Indians, etc., under specified agencies, from tribal funds.
Arizona: Fort Apache, $55,000, including the construction of Arizona.
California: Mission, $15,000; California.
Iowa : Sac and Fox, $2,000; Iowa.
Montana: Flathead, $24,000; Montana.
Nevada. Use of unexpended balances.
North Carolina.
Oregon. Tribal council, traveling, etc., expenses. Building repairs, etc.
Utah. Proviso. Payment of incurred obligations.
Washington.
Wisconsin. Attorneys’ fees, etc.
In all, not to exceed $378,810.
Chippewas in Minnesota. Use of tribal funds for aid in school attendance.
Relief of needy Indians. Proviso. Expenditures. Attorneys.
For compensation and expenses of an attorney or attorneys employed by the Chippewa Tribe under a contract, approved by the Secretary of the Interior on April 15, 1937, $8,000, payable from the, principal sum on deposit to the credit of the Chippewa Indians of esota, arising under section 7 of the Act entitled “An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of
Five Civilized Tribes, Okla. Expenses of tribal officers, from tribal funds. Proviso. Limitation on expenses.
Support of Osage Agency and pay of tribal officers, Oklahoma Osage Agency, Okla. Agency, etc., expenses. Provisos. Employment of curator for Museum. Travel, etc.
For the acquisition of additional lands, and improvements thereon, Tuskahoma Council House, Okla., additional lands, etc.
Expenses of tribal councils or committees thereof (tribal funds): Tribal councils, traveling, etc., expenses. Supplies and equipment. Visits to Washington, D. C. Provisos. Limitation on expenditures. Allowances for expenses when in Washington. Availability of funds for traveling, etc., expenses.
Expenses for attorneys of record representing the Choctaw and Choctaws and Chickasaws, attorneys. Proviso. Payments within Secretary’s discretion.
Roads and bridges.
Gallup-Shiprock Highway, N. Mex., maintenance, etc. Proviso. Indian labor.
Reservation roads, construction, etc. 25 U. S. C. § 318a; Supp. III, § 318b. Post, p. 1133. Provisos. Services in the District. Structures for housing materials, etc.
Construction and repair.
School, agency, hospital, etc., buildings.
Alaska.
Blackfeet, Mont.
Carson, Nev.
Cheyenne and Arapahoe, Okla. Cheyenne River, S. Dak.
Cheyenne River, South Dakota: Day school facilities, $25,000; hospital repairs, $14,500; improvements to water system, $7,500;
Chilocco, Okla.
Choctaw, Miss.
Colorado River, Ariz.
Colville, Wash.
Consolidated Chippewa, Minn.
Consolidated Ute, Colo.
Five Civilized Tribes, Okla.
Flandreau, S. Dak.
Flathead, Mont.
Fort Apache, Ariz.
Fort Belknap, Mont. Fort Berthold, N. Dak.
Fort Berthold, North Dakota: Jail, $10,000; quarters for employees, $25,000;
Fort Hall, Idaho.
Fort Totten, North Dakota: Improvements to heating and lighting Fort, Totten, N. Dak.
Jicarilla, New Mexico: Improvements to water system, $20,000; Jicarilla, N. Mex.
Kiowa, Oklahoma: Riverside, dormitory facilities, $75,000; Fort Kiowa, Okla.
Mescalero, New Mexico: Office building, $25,000; Mescalero, N. Mex.
Navajo, Arizona: Fort Defiance, for an additional amount for central Navajo, Ariz.
Phoenix School, Arizona: Improvements to utilities, $30,000; Phoenix School, Ariz.
Pine Ridge, South Dakota: Improvement of sewer and water systems, Pine Ridge, S. Dak.
Pueblos of New Mexico: Improvements to heating plant (Santa Pueblos of New Mexico.
Red Lake, Minnesota: Remodeling office, $8,500; Red Lake, Minn.
Rosebud, South Dakota: Residence, physician (Yankton), $8,500; Rosebud, S. Dak.
Sacramento, California: Improvements to sewer system (Fort Bidwell Sacramento, Calif.
Sequoyah School, Oklahoma: Improvements to power lines, $5,000; Sequoyah School, Okla. Shawnee Sanatorium, Okla.
Shawnee Sanatorium, Oklahoma: General repairs and improvements, $35,000;
Shoshone, Wyoming: Remodeling office, $9,500; improvements to Shoshone, Wyo.
Tacoma Sanatorium, Washington: Improvement of heating system, Tacoma Sanatorium, Wash.
Tongue River, Montana: Improvements to sewer system, $7,000; Tongue River, Mont. Truxton Canyon, Ariz. Turtle Mountain, N. Dak.
Truxton Canyon, Arizona: Day school facilities, $35,000;
Turtle Mountain, North Dakota: Day school facilities, $62,500; quarters for hospital attendants, $15,000; improvements to sewer system, $4,500;
Uintah and Ouray, Utah: Improvements to water and power systems, Uintah and Ouray, Utah.
Umatilla, Oregon; General repairs, $10,000; Umatilla, Oreg.
Warm Springs, Oregon: Nurses’ home, $20,000; improvements to Warm Springs, Oreg.
Western Shoshone, Nevada: One dwelling, $8,500; nurses’ home, Western Shoshone, Nev.
Winnebago, Nebraska: Warehouse, $9,000; Winnebago, Nebr.
Yakima, Washington: Enlarging sanatorium, $8,500; Yakima, Wash.
For administrative expenses, including personal services in the District Administrative expenses. Proviso. Transfers of amounts; limitation.
Annuities and per capita payments.
Senecas, N. Y.
Six Nations, N. Y.
Choctaws, Okla.
Pawnees, Okla.
Indians of Sioux reservations.
Interest on trust funds.
Western Cherokees. Funds made available for payment of claims.
Central warehouses, etc. Availability of funds for purchase, distribution, etc., of supplies from.
Traveling expenses, new appointees, from Seattle to Alaska.
Bureau of Reclamation.
Sums appropriated from reclamation fund; availability.
Salaries and expenses. Printing and binding.
Administrative provisions and limitations: For all expenditures Administrative provisions and limitations. Vehicles. Property damages. Attendance at meetings, etc. Proviso. Restriction where district is in arrears.
Examination and inspection of projects and operation and maintenance Examination and inspection of projects. Maintenance, etc., of reserved works.
Yuma project. Ariz.-Calif. Proviso. Operation of commercial system.
Boise, Idaho.
Minidoka, Idaho. Proviso. Operation of commercial system. South side division, construction.
North Platte, Nebr.-Wyo. Operation of commercial system. Payment to Farmers’ district for water.
Rio Grande, N. Mex.-Tex.
Owyhee, Oreg.
Klamath, Oreg.-Calif. Proviso. Revenues from Tule Lake division.
Yakima, Wash. Proviso. Operation of power system.
Riverton, Wyo. Proviso. Operation of commercial system.
Shoshone, Wyo. Proviso. Operation of commercial system.
Secondary and economic investigations. Provisos. Expenditures considered supplementary; accounting. Investigations; division of expenses.
Operation and maintenance administration: For necessary pay of Operation and maintenance administration. Information to settlers.
Limitation of expenditures: Under the provisions of this Act no Limitation of expenditures.
Interchange of appropriations: Ten per centum of the foregoing Interchange of appropriations. Emergency flood repairs.
Construction: For continuation of construction of the following Construction of designated projects.
Gila project, Arizona, $900,000; Gila, Ariz.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to furnish water for the Arizona State Experiment Farm, furnishing water.
Salt River project, Arizona, $200,000; Salt River, Ariz.
Colorado-Big Thompson project, Colorado, $1,250,000: Colorado-Big Thompson, Colo. Proviso. Construction of Green Mountain Reservoir.
Boise project, Idaho, Payette division, $500,000; Twin Springs Boise, Payette division, Idaho.
Minidoka project, Idaho, $400,000; Minidoka, Idaho.
Upper Snake River storage, project, Idaho, $250,000; Upper Snake River storage, Idaho. Sun River, Mont.
Sun River project, Montana, $300,000;
Carlsbad project, New Mexico, $100,000; Carlsbad, N. Mex.
Rio Grande project. New Mexico-Texas, $500,000; Rio Grande, N. Mex.-Tex. Deschutes, Oreg.
Deschutes project. Oregon, $300,000;
Owyhee project, Oregon, $310,000; Owyhee, Oreg.
Belle Fourche, S. Dak.
Ogden River, Utah.
Provo River, Utah.
Yakima, Roza division, Wash. Kendrick, Wyo.
Kendrick project, Wyoming, $1,000,000;
Riverton, Wyo.
Shoshone, Wyo.
Administrative expenses. Services in the District. Proviso. Services in the District, limitation.
Bureau of Reclamation, Construction. Funds to remain available.
Public Works Administration. Allotments, etc., continued available.
Increase in Reclamation Fund. Credit of funds accruing during period specified, naval petroleum reserves. Advances. Transaction herein provided deemed complete reimbursement.
Receipts covered into Treasury; exception. Provisos. Disposition of net revenues from sale of power. Boulder Canyon project not affected.
Total, from reclamation fund, $10,574,600.
To defray the cost of operating and maintaining the Colorado Colorado River front work and levee system. Unexpended balance reappropriated.
Boulder Canyon project: For the continuation of construction of Boulder Canyon project. Construction, etc. Acquisition of lands, etc. Availability.
Boulder Canyon project (All-American Canal): For continuation Boulder Canyon project (All-American Canal). Construction, etc. Acquisition of lands.
General fund, construction of designated projects, etc., reimbursement.
Central Valley, Calif. Funds reappropriated. Authorized uses of funds.
Colorado River, Tex. Marshall Ford Dam. Grand Coulee Dam, Wash. Balance reappropriated.
Grand Coulee Dam project, Washington: For continuation of construction of Grand Coulee Dam and appurtenant works, $13,000,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act, Proviso. Surveys, etc.
Cooperative investigations. “Dust Bowl.” Post, p. 1219. Altus project, Okla.
Administrative expenses. Proviso. Services in the District
Geological Survey.
Salaries.
For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized General expenses. Vehicles. Traveling expenses. Attendance at meetings.
Topographic surveys: For topographic surveys in various portions Topographic surveys. Provisos. Cooperation with States. Limitation on amount.
Geologic surveys: For geologic surveys in the various portions of Geologic surveys.
Mineral resources of Alaska: For continuation of the investigation Mineral resources of Alaska, investigation.
Gaging streams: For gaging streams and determining the water-supply Gaging streams; investigations, etc. Services in the District. Provisos. Cooperation with States. Limitation on amount.
Classification of lands: For the examination and classification of Classification of lands as to mineral character, etc.
Printing and binding, etc.
Mineral leasing.
Cooperative work on scientific, etc., investigations for Government agencies. Credit of funds. Provisos. Expenditure of transferred funds. Cooperative work; availability of funds.
Aerial photographs for mapping projects. Contracts with civilians.
Appropriations herein made, and funds transferred thereto, shall Transportation of effects of employees.
Total, United States Geological Survey, $3,164,680.
Bureau of Mines.
Salaries and general expenses: For general expenses, including pay Salaries and general expenses.
Operating mine rescue cars and stations and investigation of mine Mine rescue cars and stations. Investigation of accidents, etc. Attendance at meetings, etc. Vehicles. Proviso. Trophies, mine-rescue, etc., contests.
Testing fuel: To conduct inquiries and scientific and technologic Testing fuel.
Mineral mining investigations. Vehicles. Proviso. Investigations for private parties.
Oil and gas investigations. Proviso. Purchase of newspapers.
Mining experiment stations. Additional stations.
Pittsburgh and Bruceton, Pa., care, etc., buildings and grounds.
Economics of mineral industries. Investigations, etc. Reports. Statistical Inquiries. Vehicles. Services in the District.
Helium production and investigations: The sums made available for Helium production and investigations. Post, p. 655: ante, p. 239.
During the fiscal year 1939 the head of any department or independent Scientific investigations for departments, etc. Transfer of sums. Proviso. Expenditure.
The purchase of supplies and equipment or the procurement of Minor purchases without advertising.
For necessary traveling expenses of the director and employees Traveling expenses, attendance at meetings, etc.
Persons employed during the fiscal year 1939 in field work outside Detail of field employees. Allowance. Proviso. Payment of employees’ expenses. Report of details to Congress.
Details from Public Health Service.
Traveling expenses, on transfer from one station to another. Transportation of household goods, etc.
Total, Bureau of Mines, $2,264,760.
National Park Service.
Salaries. Accounting services. Specialists and experts. Proviso. Employment without reference to Classification. etc., Acts. 5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; Supp. III, § 673, 673c. Field employees.
Regional offices.
General expenses. Proviso. Field employees attending meetings.
National Parks, administration, etc. Acadia, Maine. George B. Dorr. Vehicles.
Bryce, Canyon National Park, Utah: For administration, protection, Bryce Canyon, Utah.
Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico: For administration, Carlsbad Caverns, N. Mex.
Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For administration, protection, Crater Lake, Oreg.
General Grant National Park, California: For administration, General Grant, Calif.
Glacier National Park, Montana: For administration, protection, Glacier, Mont.
Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona: For administration, protection, Grand Canyon, Ariz.
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming: For administration, protection, Grand Teton, Wyo.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Great Smoky Mountains, N. C.-Tenn.
Hawaii National Park: For administration, protection, and maintenance, Hawaii.
Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas: For administration, protection, Hot Springs, Ark.
Lassen Volcanic, Calif.
Mesa Verde, Colo.
Mount McKinley, Alaska.
Mount Rainier, Wash.
Platt, Okla.
Rocky Mountain, Colo.
Sequoia, Calif.
Shenandoah, Va.
Wind Cave, S. Dak.
Yellowstone, Wyo.
Yosemite National Park, California: For administration, protection, Yosemite, Calif.
Zion National Park, Utah: For administration, protection, and Zion, Utah.
National monuments: For administration, protection, maintenance, National monuments, administration, etc.
El Morro National Monument: Water supply and distribution system, El Morro.
National historical parks and monuments: For administration, protection, National historical parks and monuments.
National military parks, battlefields, monuments, and cemeteries: National military parks, battlefields, etc.
Boulder Dam Recreational Area, Arizona and Nevada: For administration, Boulder Dam Recreational Area, Ariz.-Nev.
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.
Accounting. Proviso. Sums interchangeable.
Lectures, etc.
Trucks, etc.
Telephones, installation and operation in residences.
Roads and trails, construction, etc. Availability. Proviso. Services, in the District.
Blue Ridge and Natchez Trace Parkways. Provisos. Allotments to designated States. Statement of expenditures to Congress.
Historic sites and buildings: For carrying out the provisions of Historic sites and buildings.
Investigation and purchase of water rights: For the investigation Water rights, investigation, etc.
Salaries and general expenses, public buildings and grounds in Public buildings and grounds, D. C. Salaries and expenses. Post, p. 1135. Vehicles.
Salaries and expenses, public buildings outside the District of Public buildings outside D. C. Salaries and expenses. Proviso. Services in the District.
Salaries and expenses, National Capital parks: For administration, National Capital parks. Salaries and expenses. Miscellaneous expenses. Arlington bridge, repairs.
Office of Education.
Salaries.
General expenses.
Travel, attendance at meetings, etc.
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 of vocational education: For carrying out the Further development in States and Territories. 20 U. S. C., Supp. III. §§ 15h–j. Proviso. Apportionment.
For extending to the Territory of Hawaii the benefits of the Act Extending benefits to Hawaii.
For extending to Puerto Rico the benefits of the Act entitled “An 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: Cooperative vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry. 41 Stat. 735; 43 Stat. 431; 46 Stat. 524; 47 Stat. 448. 29 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 45b. Proviso. Basis of apportionment.
Salaries and expenses, vocational rehabilitation: For carrying out Salaries and expenses, vocational rehabilitation. 29 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 301. 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 industry Provisions extended to Hawaii.
Extending benefits to Puerto Rico.
Attendance at meetings.
Exclusive use of funds.
Government in the Territories.
Alaska.
Governor and secretary, salaries. 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 Governor’s 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, $25,600, to be expended under the direction of the Governor.
Legislative expenses.
Public schools, establishment, etc. Proviso. Limitation on expenditures.
Care of insane. Provisos. Payments authorized. Return, etc., of those not Alaska residents.
For the repair and maintenance of roads, tramways, ferries, Roads, bridges, etc. Repair and maintenance. Juneau, wharf.
For the construction, repair, and maintenance of roads, tramways, Construction, etc. Proviso. Limitation on expenditures.
The Alaska Railroad: For every expenditure requisite for and Alaska Railroad. Operation, etc., of vessels. Damage claims. Injury Compensation Act. Revenues of railroad included. Provisos. Services in the District. Salary restriction. Printing and binding.
Hawaii.
Salaries of the Governor and of the secretary, $15,800. Governor and secretary, salaries. 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.
Legislative expenses, Territory of Hawaii: For compensation and Legislative expenses.
Virgin Islands.
For salaries of the Governor and employees incident to the execution Governor, and other personal services. Miscellaneous expenses.
Agricultural experiment station and vocational school. Salaries and expenses.
Deficits of municipal governments.
Puerto Rican hurricane relief.
Administrative expenses.
Loan adjustments.
Use of balances.
Equatorial and South Sea Islands.
Administrative expenses.
Saint Elizabeths Hospital.
Maintenance, etc. Insane citizens in Canada. Vehicles. Buildings and grounds. Removal of patients to their friends. Provisos. Return of inmates no longer Federal charges. Mail facilities. Butter substitutes, restriction. Payment for care of patients from the District, etc. Credit for payments.
For construction and equipment of two continuous-treatment Continuous-treatment buildings, construction, etc.
Columbia Institution for the Deaf.
Maintenance, etc.
Howard University.
Salaries.
General expenses.
Total, Howard University, $723,000.
Freedmen’s Hospital.
Salaries, etc.
Post, p. 1136.
Contingent expenses.
Division of expenses.
Field work appropriations available for hire of work animals, etc.
Short title.
[S. 477]
Patent Office.
Prevention of improper practice in connection with business before.
Persons disbarred and not subsequently reinstated.
Offense a misdemeanor; penalty.
[S. 3351]
Shipping.
Issuance of certain seamen’s certificates by designated inspectors authorized.
[S. 3459]
Fort Missoula, Mont.
Acceptance by donation of land for target, etc., purposes.
Proviso.
Acquisition by eminent domain, if donor unable to perfect title to any portion.
Battle of Gettysburg.
Attendance of Marine Band at observance of seventy-fifth anniversary authorized.
Appropriation authorized.
Post, p. 1142.
Proviso.
Additional allowance tor living expenses.
Insect post and plant disease control.
Cooperation with States for control of incipient or emergency outbreaks.
Authorized expenditures.
Purchases of materials and equipment.
State cooperation requirement.
Indemnities forbidden.
Annual appropriations authorized.
Post, p. 1126.
[S. 2307]
Columbia River Basin, fishery conservation.
Establishment of salmon-cultural stations.
Use of sums appropriated.
Investigations, surveys, etc., to facilitate conservation of fishery resources.
Protective devices, etc.
Other necessary activities.
Appropriation authorized.
[S. 2986]
Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation.
Local inspectors, etc., extra compensation for overtime services.
Payment; deposit into Treasury.
Use of receipts, fiscal year 1936.
Provisos.
Disposition of collections, July 1, 1936, and thereafter.
Appropriations authorized to cover deficiencies.
Payment due if ordered and reporting for duty.
Regulation of varying working hours.
Ohio River.
Time extended for bridging, at Cairo, Ill.
Commencement of construction recognized.
Amendment.
[S. 2221]
Cache National Forest, Utah.
Acquisition of lands for control of soil erosion and flood damage.
Funds available for payment.
Designated provisions inoperative in Utah.
Payments and expenditures within Idaho.
[S. 2689]
Indian lands.
Leasing of unallotted lands for mining purposes.
Exception.
Terms of lease.
Public sales of leases; terms and conditions.
Rights reserved.
Readvertisement for sale.
Private negotiations.
Proviso.
Designated rights of Indians not restricted.
Corporate surety bonds to be furnished by lessees.
Proviso.
Acceptance of personal surety bonds.
Operations; rules and regulations.
Cooperative unit, etc., plans.
Delegation of authority to approve leases.
Specified sections not to apply to lands designated.
Inconsistent provisions repealed.
[S. 1998]
Peanuts.
Collection and publication of statistics.
Proviso.
Salters or manufacturers using less than 30,000 pounds.
Picking or threshing machines.
Publication of statistics of quantity picked, etc.
Reports; by whom made.
Civilian Conservation Corps.
16 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 584g.
Enrollment of 5 project assistants for each company.
Discharge prior to expiration of enrollment.
United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission.
Additional funds made available for expenses of.
Amount appropriated from sale of publications, etc.; availability.
Fourth International Conference on Private Air Law.
Appropriation authorized for participation expenses.
Post, p. 1147.
Personal services.
Contracts without advertising.
Reimbursement of other appropriations.
Norwegian Government.
Payment to as indemnity for detention, etc., of crew of steamer Sagatind.
Appropriation authorized.
Post, p. 1147.
November 11 of each year made a legal holiday.
Hawaii.
Ratification of Act extending time for issuance of certain revenue bonds.
The Howard University, District of Columbia.
Incorporators.
Corporate name and powers.
Coast Guard and Public Health Service.
Settlement of accounts of deceased officers and men.
World War veterans.
Death compensation benefits for widows and children of.
48 Stat. 1281; 49 Stat. 2031; 50 Stat. 660.
38 U. S. C. §§ 503–507; Supp. III, § 471, 472a–472e, 506–510, 512c.
Proviso.
Commencement of payments.
Determination of service connection of disability, etc.
Exception.
Evidence.
“Widow of a World War veteran” defined.
Proviso.
Proof of marriage.
Remarriage.
Continuous cohabitation requirement.
Sections repealed.
Lighthouse Service.
Payment of traveling expenses, new appointees in districts outside continental limits of United States.
Children of certain lighthouse keepers, school transportation.
Use of moneys accruing from commutation of rations.
Army.
Allotments of pay by military and certain civilian personnel.
Fort Niagara, N. Y.
Appropriation authorized for reconstruction of barracks buildings.
Post, p. 651
Battle of Gettysburg, anniversary.
Appropriation authorized for observance expenses,
Post, p. 1154.
Advance payment of transportation costs, etc.
Authorized expenditures.
Participation by War Department, etc.
Surviving Union and Confederate veterans to be invited; expenses.
Restriction.
Care in event of death.
Funds available in event of deficiency.
Loan of certain Army equipment.
Fiscal agent.
Additional authorized expenditures.
Settlement of damage claims.
Delegation of functions to Secretary of War.
Determination of status as a veteran.
Availability of appropriation.
Disposal of material, etc., at close.
Restoration of leased real estate.
Administrative regulations.
District of Columbia Revenue Act of 1937, amendments.
Collection of personal property taxes.
Ascertainment of correctness of return, etc.
Examinations, testimony, etc.
Refusal to permit examination; penalty.
Jurisdiction.
Assessment and collection, time limitation.
In case of a false or Incorrect return, etc.
Penalty for failure to make return of personal property for taxation.
Jurisdiction of court.
Penalties.
Definition of terms.
“Person.”
“ Return. ”
Secrecy of return.
Furnishing tax payer with copy of his return.
Publication of statistics.
Official inspection.
Penalty for violation.
Tax rate on insurance companies.
All such companies, including companies which issue, annuity contracts, shall also pay to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia, a sum of money as taxes equal to 2 per centum of their policy and membership fees and net premium receipts or consideration received on all insurance and annuity contracts on risks in the District of Columbia, said taxes to be paid before the 1st day of March of each year on the amount of such income for In lieu of other taxes; exceptions.
“Net premium receipts or consideration received” defined.
Dividends paid in cash or used by the policyholders in payment of renewal premiums.
Marine insurance excluded.
Motor vehicle fuel tax Act, amendment.
Term “highways” defined.
“Improvement” defined.
Motor vehicles, registration.
Expiration date.
Renewals.
Registration for 1938; expiration.
Transfer provisions.
Fee.
Survivor of joint ownership.
Registration fees.
Classes.
Class A.
Class B.
Class C.
Class D.
Class E.
Class F.
Fee, when registration received on or after September 1.
Deposit of proceeds from fees, etc.
Uses designated.
Highways, construction, etc.
Traffic control expenses.
Police control.
For the expenses necessarily involved in the police control, Proviso. Limitation on expenditure.
Designated appropriations for 1938 payable from special fund.
Inheritance and estate taxes.
General power of appointment.
Doctrine of equitable conversion not to be invoked in tax assessment.
Appraisal deemed true value.
Tax imposed to be a lien.
Provisos.
Personal property sold, etc., by an administrator of estate.
Lien to attach to property acquired in substitution.
Extinguishment upon sale by personal representatives; re attachment.
Property not under control of personal representative; report.
Payment of tax.
Proviso.
Real estate passing by will, etc.; report.
Life interest or for term of years, payment of tax.
Future interest, determination or value.
Vested future interests, payment of tax.
Where future interest is contingent.
Proviso.
Bond.
Tax upon transfer to be a lien.
Payment upon transfer of contingent future interest before becoming vested.
Failure to file required return; penalty.
False, etc., returns.
Transfers of decedent’s assets to other than executor, etc.; notice to assessor.
Retention of portion to pay tax.
Examination of assets by assessor.
Issuance of certificate for transfer.
Assets found in safe-deposit box standing in joint names.
Bureau of Internal Revenue to supply information to Commissioners.
Nonresidents, tax on transfers of real and tangible personal property.
Amount.
Effective date of section.
Existing provisions to remain effective, fiscal year 1938.
Real and tangible personal property, rate for fiscal years 1938 and 1939.
Authorization for advance of funds.
Reimbursement.
Administrative rules and regulations.
Separability of provisions.
Divulging of information obtained from Bureau of Internal Revenue unlawful; exception.
Penalty for violation.
Survey of tax structure of the District of Columbia.
Sum authorised, from District revenues.
Post, p. 1121.
Personal services.
5 U. S. C. §§ 661–671; Supp. III, 673, 673c.
Report to Congress.
New titles added.
Postal Service.
Rural letter carriers.
Protection of salaries upon transfer to other routes.
Puerto Rico, civil government.
U. S. citizenship status of certain persons born in Puerto Rico.
Procedure.
Ketchikan, Alaska.
Conveyance of land to, upon completion of Federal building.
Postal Service.
Reading matter for the blind.
Matter entitled to transmittal free of postage.
Bibles.
Federally owned reproducers for sound-reproduction records when shipped for repairs; postage rate.
“The Postmaster General may in his discretion extend this rate Extension of rate to reproducers owned by State governments, etc.
“All letters written in point print or raised characters or on sound-reproduction Transmission of letters written in raised characters, etc.
Snake River.
Consent given to compact between Idaho and Wyoming for division of waters of.
Federal participation in negotiations.
Report to Congress.
Provisos.
Approval.
Protection of rights of other States.
Waters of designated national parks not affected.
Amendment, etc.
That there is hereby University of Alaska. Conveyance of certain land to.
Description.
Mattapoisett (Ned Point) Lighthouse Reservation, Mass.
Conveyance of portions of, to town for roadway, etc., purposes.
Deed.
Easements reserved.
Condition.
Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1939.
Senate.
Senators.
For compensation of Senators, $960,000. Compensation.
For mileage of the President of the Senate and of Senators, Mileage.
For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others: Officers, clerks, messengers, etc.
Office of the Vice President.
Salaries.
Chaplain.
Office of the Secretary.
Salaries.
Document Room.
Salaries.
Committee employees.
Clerks and messengers.
Post, p. 1114.
Senate Manual.
Clerical assistants to Senators.
Allowance to Senators not chairmen of specified committees.
Office of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper.
Salaries: Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, $8,000; two secretaries Salaries. Post, p. 1114. Pages.
Police, Senate Office Building.
Post Office.
Salaries.
Folding Room.
Salaries.
Contingent expenses.
Automobile for Vice President.
Reporting debates.
Furniture; cleaning, repairing, etc.
Inquiries and investigations. Proviso. Per diem and subsistence.
Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation; one-half expenses. Post, p. 389.
Folding, etc.
For materials for folding, $1,500.
Fuel, oil, advertising, etc.
Senate kitchens and restaurants.
Motor vehicles.
Miscellaneous items.
Packing boxes.
Postage stamps.
Furniture; purchase, etc.
Stationery.
Warehouse rent.
House of Representatives.
Members, etc.
For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives, Compensation.
For mileage of Representatives, the Delegate from Hawaii, and Mileage.
For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others: Compensation of officers, clerks, etc.
Office of the Speaker.
Salaries.
Speaker’s table.
Salaries.
Preparation of Digest of the Rules.
Chaplain.
Office of the Clerk.
Salaries.
Committee employees.
Clerks, messengers, and janitors.
Office of Sergeant at Arms.
Salaries: Sergeant at Arms, $8,000; Deputy Sergeant at Arms in Salaries.
Police force, House Office Building, under the Sergeant at Arms: Police, House Office Building.
Office of Doorkeeper.
Salaries.
Folding room.
Pages.
Document room.
Special and minority employees.
For the minority employees authorized and named in the House Minority employees.
Special employees: Assistant foreman of the folding room, Special employees.
Successors to any of the employees provided for in the two preceding Appointment of successors.
Office of majority floor leader.
Conference minority.
Caucus rooms, messengers.
Post Office.
Salaries.
Motor vehicles.
Official reporters of debates.
Salaries.
Stenographers to committees.
“During the session” construed.
Members, etc.
Clerk hire, etc.
Contingent expenses.
Furniture, etc.
Packing boxes.
Miscellaneous items.
Reports of committee hearings.
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. 384.
No part of the appropriations contained herein for the contingent Expenditures restricted. Funeral expenses, limitation.
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, expenses.
Postage stamps: Postmaster, $200; Clerk, $400; 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 United States Code, preparation, etc.
For assistants in compiling lists of reports to be made to Congress Assistants to Clerk of House. Specified objects. Political committees, etc., recording and filing statements. Proviso. Restriction.
For exchange, driving, maintenance, repair, and operation of an Automobile for Speaker.
Capitol Police.
Salaries: Captain, $2,700; three lieutenants, at $1,740 each; two Salaries. Provisos. Requirements for appointment. Details for police duty on Capitol Grounds.
Uniforms, etc.
Division of disbursements.
Joint Committee on Printing.
Salaries.
Congressional Directory.
Office of Legislative Counsel.
Salaries and expenses.
Statement of appropriations.
Preparation, second and third sessions, Seventy-fifth Congress.
Architect of the Capitol.
Salaries.
Capitol Buildings and Grounds.
Capitol Buildings. 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 Capitol Grounds.
Legislative, garage: For maintenance, repairs, alterations, personal Legislative garage.
Subway transportation, Capitol and Senate Office Buildings: For Subway transportation, Capitol and Senate Office Buildings.
Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items and Senate Office Building, maintenance, etc.
For increasing the salaries of twenty-six custodial, grade 2, Custodial employees, salary increases.
For metal filing units, $5,000. Metal filing units.
House Office Buildings: For maintenance, including equipment, House Office Buildings, maintenance, etc. Post, p. 1115. Capitol Power Plant, maintenance.
Capitol Power Plant: For lighting, heating, and power for the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buddings, Supreme Court, Building, Congressional Library Buildings, and the grounds about the same, Botanic Garden, legislative garage, and folding and storage rooms of the Senate, and for air-conditioning refrigeration not supplied from plants in any of such buildings; 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 plant, $542,930.
The unexpended balance on June 30, 1938, of the allocation of Unexpended balance continued available.
The appropriations under the control of the Architect of the Capitol Purchases independent of Procurement Division, Treasury Department.
Charles R. Torbert and Harry M. Reynolds, employment.
Reimbursement for heat, etc., to designated buildings.
Library buildings and grounds.
Salaries.
Sunday opening.
Maintenance, repair, etc.
Furniture, etc.
Botanic Garden.
Salaries.
Maintenance, repairs, etc.
Purchases without advertising.
Distribution of nursery stock.
The purchase of supplies and equipment and the procurement of Open market purchases of supplies.
Library of Congress.
Salaries.
For the Librarian, Chief Assistant Librarian, Chief Reference Librarian and personnel.
For the Register of Copyrights, assistant register, and other Register of Copyrights, etc.
Legislative Reference Service.
Personnel.
Card indexes.
Distribution, etc.
State legislation.
Preparation of index and digest of.
Temporary services.
Sunday, etc., opening, expenses.
Union catalogues.
Development, maintenance, etc.
Increase of the Library.
Purchase of books, etc.
Law books, etc. Availability.
Reference books for Supreme Court.
Books for adult blind.
Printing and binding.
Catalogue of Title Entries.
Catalog cards.
Contingent expenses. Attendance at meetings.
Photoduplicating expenses.
Library buildings.
Salaries: For the superintendent, disbursing officer, and other Salaries.
For extra services of employees and additional employees under Sunday, etc., opening.
For mail, delivery, including purchase or exchange, maintenance, Incidentals, etc.
For any expense of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board Trust Fund Board, expenses.
Government Printing Office.
To provide the Public Printer with a working capital for the following purposes for the Working capital for execution of printing, binding, etc. 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.
Congressional work.
Payment for work ordered by departments, etc. Proviso. Adjustments. Crediting to working capital of sums paid for work.
Estimates for departments, etc., incorporation in a single item. Proviso. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, exception.
No part of any money appropriated in this Act shall be paid to any Restriction on paying detailed employees.
Office of Superintendent of Documents.
Salaries: For the Superintendent of Documents, assistant superintendent, Salaries. Pay rates. Proviso. Item a separate appropriation unit.
General expenses: For furniture and fixtures, typewriters, carpets, General expenses. Provisos. Supplying depository libraries, restriction. Temporary quarters.
In order to keep the expenditures for printing and binding for Annual or special reports of departments, discontinuation of printing. Proviso. Originals to be kept on file.
Purchases may be made from the foregoing appropriation under 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.
Transfer without reduction.
Higher salary rates parmitted.
If only one position in a grade.
Legislative Pay Act Of 1929.
Determination of pay rate and designation of office.
Short title.
Army.
Disposition of remains of military personnel and civilian employees.
Funeral expenses; sums authorized.
Items included.
Persons entitled to benefits.
Proviso.
Temporary absence when death occurred.
Military prisoners, etc.
Interned alien enemies.
Removal of remains from abandoned posts.
Cemeteries in Great Britain and France.
Reimbursement to individuals for funeral expenses.
Limitation.
Act repealed.
Smithsonian Gallery of Art, D. C.
Site for, to be assigned.
Location.
Smithsonian Gallery of Art Commission created; membership, etc.
Authority to make investigations, secure designs, etc.
Chairman.
Service without compensation; termination of Commission.
Technical, etc., assistants.
Proviso.
Employment of consultants.
5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; Supp. III, §§ 673, 673c.
Allowance for expenses.
Appropriation authorized.
Post, p. 1118.
Funds from private sources.
Deposit and expenditure.
Preparation of site, landscaping, etc.
Proviso.
Plans, contracts, etc.
Name designated; supervision.
Maintenance of worthy standard for acceptance of art objects.
Public exhibitions.
Acceptance of donations of works of art and funds.
Powers of Regents.
Deposit and expenditure of funds.
Proviso.
Limitation on obligations.
Donation of works of art by Government agencies.
Exhibition of objects of art.
Director; officers and other employees.
Annual appropriation authorized.
Navy.
Increase in authorized composition in underage vessels.
Capital ships.
Proviso.
Vessels of tonnages in excess of thirty-five thousand tons.
Aircraft carriers.
Post, p. 1143.
Cruisers.
Destroyers.
Submarines.
Building to authorized composition.
Additional naval airplanes, etc.
Auxiliary vessels.
Destroyer tenders.
Submarine tenders.
Seaplane tenders.
Repair ship.
Oil tankers.
Mine layer.
Mine sweepers.
Fleet tugs.
Appropriations authorized.
Experimental vessels.
Appropriation for construction of, authorized.
Post, p. 1142.
Rigid airship.
Allocation and contracts for construction of vessels, procurement of airplanes, etc.
“Underage” construed.
International conference for naval limitations favored.
National defense.
Appointment of board to Investigate need for additional submarine, etc., bases.
Report to House of Representatives.
Naval construction on Pacific coast.
Construction, etc., contracts.
[S. 2650]
Fort Peck project, Mont.
General purposes declared.
Completion, maintenance, and operation under Secretary of War.
Administrative provisions respecting Bureau of Reclamation.
Disposal of electric energy.
Sale, etc., of surplus energy.
Form of administration provisional.
Additional facilities authorized.
Scheduling of operations.
Station space and equipment.
Encouragement of general use of energy.
Prevention of monopolization.
Acquisition of property, etc.
Title.
Acquisition of property or property rights.
Disposal of personal property.
Real property, etc.
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.
Schedules of rates and charges.
Uniformity.
Rates predicated on fact that energy is incidental to dam construction.
Allocation of costs.
Purchases and contracts.
Advertising, opening of bids, etc.
Emergencies.
Repair parts, etc.
Minor purchases.
Factors to be considered in comparing bids.
Accounts of operations.
Expenditures.
Financial, etc., report to Congress.
Attorneys, engineers, and other experts.
Salary limitation.
Other personal services.
Utilization of facilities of Bureau.
Deposit of receipts; exception.
Continuing fund to be set up, etc.
Emergency expenses, etc.
Appropriations authorized.
Suits necessary for execution of Act authorized.
Separability provision.
Natchez Trace Parkway, Miss., Ala., and Tenn.
Administration and maintenance of right-of-way, etc.
Sites for recreational areas.
Right-of-way width.
Name.
Provisos.
Connection of roads and trails with parkway.
Coordination of recreational developments with Forest Service.
Revocable licenses or permits for rights-of-way, etc.
Merchant Marine Act, 1936, amendment.
U. S. Shipping Board (Emergency) Merchant Fleet Corporation employees.
Payments to, on account of leave earned in 1918–19 approved.
Release from liability to refund or repay.
Pan American Highway Conference, Third.
Appropriation authorized for participation.
Post, p. 1147.
Contracts without advertising.
Printing and binding.
Reimbursement of other appropriations.
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics.
Invitation to hold Seventh General Assembly in United States; participation by foreign governments.
Appropriation authorized.
Contracts without advertising.
Printing and binding.
Reimbursement of other appropriations.
[S. 3149]
Delaware River.
Reconstruction, etc., of bridge across.
Port Jervis, N. Y., to Borough of Matamoras, Pa., authorized.
Acquisition of approaches, etc.
Amendment, etc.
[S. 3213]
Columbia River.
Bridge construction across, at Astoria, Oreg.
Bond issue authorized.
Right to assign, etc., rights, powers, and privileges.
Independent Offices.
Appropriation Act, 1939.
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: For personal services in the office of the President, Salaries. Proviso. Temporary details.
Contingent expenses: For contingent expenses of the Executive Contingent expenses.
For printing and binding, $2,700. Printing and binding. Traveling, etc., expenses.
Traveling expenses: For traveling and official entertainment expenses of the President of the United States, to be expended in his discretion and accounted for on his certificate solely, $25,000.
Total, Executive Office proper, $303,160.
Executive Mansion, etc.
For the care, maintenance, repair and alteration, refurnishing, Care, repair, etc.
Total, Executive Office, $449,910.
Independent Establishments.
American Battle Monuments Commission.
All expenses.
Acquisition of land abroad.
Living quarters.
Uniforms for care-takers.
Vehicles.
Printing, binding, etc.
Provisos.
Technical, etc., work abroad.
Minor purchases.
Traveling expenses.
Delegation of authority.
Board of Tax Appeals.
All expenses.
Printing and binding.
Total, Board of Tax Appeals, $526,000.
Central Statistical Board.
All expenses.
Printing and binding.
Proviso. No other funds to be available; exception.
Civil Service Commission.
Commissioners, and office personnel. Post, p. 1116. Attendance at meetings. Miscellaneous expenses. Provisos. Actuarial expenses. Details from Departments forbidden. Emergency transfers, etc., permitted.
For all printing and binding for the Civil Service Commission, Printing and binding. Post, p. 1116.
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”,
Total, Civil Service Commission, $77,457,750.
Civilian Conservation Corps.
All expenses.
Vehicles.
Travel expenses; attendance at meetings.
Construction, etc., of buildings; restriction.
Enrollees.
Office personnel.
Proviso.
Pay for blood transfusions.
District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Authority.
Funds for, continued available.
50 Stat. 888.
Employees’ Compensation Commission.
Salaries and expenses.
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 and compensation payments.
Employees’ compensation fund, Emergency Conservation Work.
Administrative expenses and compensation payments.
Employees’ compensation fund, emergency relief.
For administrative expenses and the payment of compensation in Administrative expenses and compensation payments. Combination of special funds.
Total, Employees’ Compensation Commission, $5,261,475.
Federal Communications Commission.
Salaries and expenses. 47 U. S. C. § 151; Supp. III, § 151. 46 U. S. C. 484–487; Supp. III, §§ 484–487. Submarine cable licenses. Minor purchases. Maintenance, etc. Attendance at meetings. Transmittal of information by U. S. ships; reimbursement. 47 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 357. Transportation of household goods, etc. Services in the District.
Radio requirements for ships navigating Great Lakes, etc. Travel expenses, etc.
Printing and binding.
Total, Federal Communications Commission, $1,745,000.
Federal Power Commission.
Expenses. Post, p. 1116. Vehicles. Transportation of household effects, etc. Consultants, etc. Proviso. Minor purchases, etc.
For all printing and binding for the Federal Power Commission, Printing and binding.
Total, Federal Power Commission, $1,500,000.
Federal Trade Commission.
For five Commissioners, and for all other authorized expenditures 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, $2,195,700.
Foreign-Service Pay Adjustment.
Losses due to foreign currency appreciation.
General Accounting Office.
Salaries: For Comptroller General, Assistant Comptroller General, Salaries.
Contingent expenses. Proviso. Minor purchases.
Printing and binding.
Total, General Accounting Office, $5,306,540.
Interstate Commerce Commission.
Salaries and expenses.
General administrative expenses. Services in the District. Books, furniture, etc.
Regulating accounts. 34 Stat. 593; 36 Stat. 555; 41 Stat. 493. Special examiners.
Safety of railroad employees, etc. Reports and investigations of accidents. Safety signals. Testing appliances, etc. Services in the District.
Signal safety systems. 49 U. S. C. § 26; Supp. III, § 26. Automatic train-control devices. Block-signal, etc., systems. Services in the District.
Locomotive inspection: For all authorized expenditures under the Locomotive inspection. 36 Stat. 913; 38 Stat. 1192; 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. 39 U. S. C., Supp. III, 469a–469m. Field hearings, etc. Services in the District.
Motor transport regulation: For all authorized expenditures necessary Motor transport regulation, expenses. 49 U. S. C., Supp. III, §§ 301–327. Services in the District. Vehicles. 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, restriction on printing.
Total, Interstate Commerce Commission, $8,726,000.
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
Scientific research, etc. Traveling expenses, etc. Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Vehicles. Personal services. Allowances. Wind tunnel, construction, etc.
Printing and binding.
Total, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, $1,700,000.
National Archives.
Salaries and expenses. 44 U. S. C., Supp. III, §§ 301–314. 40 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 238. Supplies and equipment. Membership fees. Attendance at meetings. Provisos. Minor purchases. Appointments hereafter to be under civil service, etc., Acts. 5 U. S. C. §§ 631–652, 661–674; Supp. III, §§ 673, 673c. Civil service status of personnel. Noncompetitive tests prescribed.
Printing and binding: For all printing and binding for The Printing and binding.
Total, The National Archives, $789,000.
National Capital Park and Planning Commission.
Salaries and expenses.
George Washington Memorial Parkway.
Personal services.
Acquisition of land.
Vehicles.
National Labor Relations Board.
Salaries and expenses. Proviso. Minor purchases.
Printing and binding.
Total, National Labor Relations Board, $2,955,000.
National Mediation Board.
Salaries and expenses.
Arbitration boards.
Emergency boards.
Printing and binding.
National Railroad Adjustment Board. Referees.
For all printing and binding for the National Railroad Printing and binding.
Total, National Mediation Board, $374,200.
Pan American Exposition.
Participation expenses.
Proviso.
Rent.
Oil lands in former naval reserves.
Protection of interests of U. S. in matters affecting.
Proviso.
Compensation restriction.
Railroad Retirement Board.
For salaries and expenses, Railroad Retirement Board: For three Salaries and expenses. Post, p. 1118. Attendance at meetings. Persons in an advisory capacity, per diem, etc. Supplies, etc. Library membership fees. Vehicles. Proviso. Minor purchases.
Railroad retirement account. Proviso. Availability.
Printing and binding. Post, p. 1118.
Total, Railroad Retirement Board, $120,465,000.
Rural Electrification Administration.
Salaries and expert Post, p. 818. Attendance at meetings. Supplies, etc. Vehicles. Proviso. Minor purchases.
Printing and binding.
Loans and purchase of property.
Total, Rural Electrification Administration, $41,702,000.
Securities and Exchange Commission.
Salaries and expenses. Post, p. 1118. Attendance at meetings. Proviso. Minor purchases.
For all printing and binding for the Securities and Exchange Printing and binding. Post, p. 1118.
Total, Securities and Exchange Commission, $3,907,000.
Smithsonian Institution.
For expenses of the general administrative office; for the system of Administrative expenses. Ethnological researches. Astrophysical Observatory. National Collection of Fine Arts.
Preservation of collections: For continuing preservation, exhibition, Preservation of collections.
Printing and binding: For all printing and binding for the Smithsonian Printing and binding. American Historical Association report.
Total, Smithsonian Institution, $1,021,165, of which amount not to Services in the District.
Social Security Board.
Salaries and expenses: For all authorized and necessary administrative Salaries and expenses. Travel expenses. Proviso. Travel in foreign countries. Transportation and per diem. Supplies. Services. Library membership fees. Alterations and repairs. Vehicles. Provisos. Minor purchases. Temporary employees, special accounting, etc. Contracts. Salary restriction. Board members excepted.
Printing and binding.
Grants to States. Old-age assistance. Proviso. Payments restricted.
Unemployment compensation administration.
Aid to dependent children. 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. Approval.
Total, Social Security Board, $329,300,000.
Tariff Commission.
For salaries and expenses of the Tariff Commission, including Salaries and expenses. Contract reporting services. Attendance at meetings. Living quarters. Provisos. Minor purchases. Salary restriction.
For all printing and binding for the Tariff Commission, $15,000. Printing and binding.
Total, Tariff Commission, $933,000.
Tennessee Valley Authority.
Continuation of construction.
16 U. S. C., ch. 12a; Supp. III, ch. 12a.
Designated dams.
Preliminary investigations.
Printing and binding.
Salaries and expenses.
Provisos.
Accounting.
Procurement of equipment.
Contracts.
Veterans’ Administration.
Administration, medical, hospital, and domiciliary services. Salaries and expenses. Provisos. Attendance at meetings, etc. Services, rentals, traveling expenses, etc. Subsistence, etc. Wearing apparel. Vehicles. Children of certain employees, school transportation. Actuarial services. Transfer of 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. Improving facilities.
For printing and binding for the Veterans’ Administration, including Printing and binding.
Pensions, etc. Emergency officers’ retirement pay, etc.
Military and naval insurance.
Adjusted service and dependent pay.
Hospital and domiciliary facilities. Provisos. Extending facilities. Technical and clerical assistants.
Proviso. Butter substitutes.
Emergency agencies.
Commodity Credit Corporation.
Administrative expenses.
Post, p. 1116.
Travel expenses.
Printing and binding.
Proviso.
Nonadministrative expenses.
Electric Home and Farm Authority.
Administrative expenses.
Travel expenses.
Printing and binding.
Proviso.
Nonadministrative expenses.
Export-Import Bank of Washington.
Administrative expenses.
Travel expenses.
Printing and binding.
Proviso.
Nonadministrative expenses.
Federal Home Loan Bank Board.
Administrative expenses.
12 U. S. C. §§ 1421–1449; Supp. III, ch. 11.
Travel expenses.
Printing and binding.
Supplies, etc.
Use of other services and facilities.
Provisos.
Nonadministrative expenses.
Payment.
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation.
Administrative expenses.
Travel expenses.
Printing and binding.
Supplies, etc.
Use of designated services.
Provisos.
Nonadministrative expenses.
Payment.
Federal Housing Administration.
Administrative expenses.
Travel expenses.
Printing and binding.
Supplies, etc.
Attendance at meetings.
Payment.
Amount for Public Relations and Education Division.
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation.
Administrative expenses.
Travel expenses.
Printing and binding.
Use of services, etc., of designated agencies.
Provisos.
Non administrative expenses.
Payment.
Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works.
Administrative expenses.
Post, p. 816.
Travel expenses.
Printing and binding.
Supplies, etc.
Vehicles.
Attendance at meetings.
Proviso.
Payment of administrative expenses, etc.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
Administrative expenses.
Travel expenses.
Printing and binding.
Provisos.
Nonadministrative expenses.
Payment of administrative expenses, etc.
Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.
Proviso.
Restriction not applicable to clerical mechanical service.
No reduction in fixed salary.
5 U. S. C. § 665.
Transfer without reduction.
Higher rates permitted.
If only one position in a grade.
Interstate Commerce Commission and Tariff Commission; salary rates of Commissioners.
Emergency agencies, establishment of appropriate appropriation accounts required.
Accounting
Citizenship requirements.
Post, p. 1163.
Short title.
[S. 842]
Mediterranean Fruit Fly Board.
Composition, compensation, etc.
Investigation and survey of losses to Florida growers resulting from fruit-fly campaign.
Time limitation on filing report.
Proviso.
Report to serve as information only.
Report to Congress with recommendations.
Personal services.
Appropriation authorized.
Post, p. 1125.
[S. 2676]
Major General George W. Goethals’ memorial.
Amount authorized for erection increased.
[S. 3220]
Pensacola Historical Society, Pensacola, Fla.
Transfer of title, etc., in tower clock to, authorized.
Proviso.
Removal without Federal expense.
Settlement of War Claims Act, amendment.
Time for making application for payment by American claimants.
“No payment shall be made under this section unless application Time limitation extended.
Shipping.
“Vessels built within the United States and belonging wholly to Vessels entitled to registry. Engaged in trade with foreign countries, Philippine Islands, etc.
[S. 750]
United States courts.
Relief of persons erroneously convicted who have served all or part of sentence.
Innocence established by courts or pardoning authority.
Suit for damages permitted.
Admissible evidence.
Pardon to recite basis for granting, etc.
Actions in forma pauperis.
Extent of award.
[S. 3290]
United States Public Health Service.
Investigation and control of venereal diseases.
Assistance to States, etc.
Personal services.
Printing.
Amount authorized for fiscal year 1939, and thereafter.
Post, p. 1152.
Determination of annual allotments; basis.
Certification to Secretary of the Treasury.
Quarterly allotments.
Expenditure.
Rules, etc., to be prescribed.
Provisions not to supersede, etc., existing functions.
Pensions.
Service of 90 days or more during War with Spain, Philippine Insurrection, or China Belief Expedition.
If discharged for disability.
Pensionable status on reaching age of 65 years.
Provisos.
Leaves of absence and furloughs.
Provisions extended to female contract nurses.
Increase for pensioner helpless by age, disability, etc., requiring an attendant.
Commencement of payment.
Payment, if pensioner deceased.
Army and Navy Medal of Honor Roll, pensions not affected.
Provisos.
Soldiers’ Home, etc., inmates.
Pension to be in lieu of any other.
Existing pensions not reduced.
Social Security Board.
Additional appropriation for grants to States for unemployment compensation administration.
[S. 3595]
Fishing Industry products.
Funds made available for purchase and distribution of.
Provisions not applicable.
Foreign Service Buildings Act, 1926.
Additional funds authorized for purposes of.
Proviso.
Use of articles of American manufacture.
Federal Reserve Act, amendments.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, subrogation to rights of paid depositors against closed national or District bank. Other dosed insured banks. Right of Corporation to receive dividends. Provisos. Waiver of stockholders’ liability in excess of amount unpaid on stock. State banks, application of State law.
American Republics, Philippine Islands, and Liberia.
Temporary detail of United States employees to, authorized.
34 U. S. C. § 441a; Supp. III, § 441a.
Maximum period.
Provisos.
Extensions.
Status, compensation, allowances.
Funds available for payment of additional compensation, etc.
Acceptance of reimbursement for expenses.
Kaniksu National Forest, Wash.
Lands added.
Township 31 north, range 46 east: Section 6 and that part of section Description.
Township 31 north, range 45 east: That portion of sections 1 and 12 north of the Clark Fork River.
Township 32 north, range 46 east: Section 31.
Township 32 north, range 45 east: Sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, that part of 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, north of the Clark Fork River, and section 36.
Township 32 north, range 44 east: All that part north and east of the Clark Fork River.
Township 33 north, range 44 east: Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, east half, east half northwest quarter section 5, east half northeast quarter, northwest quarter northeast quarter, northeast quarter southeast quarter section 8, sections 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, northeast quarter northeast quarter section 17, east half southeast quarter section 20, sections 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, east half, north half northwest quarter section 33, sections 34, 35, and 36.
Township 34 north, range 44 east: Section 4, that part of sections 5, 6, and 7 east of the Clark Fork River, sections 8, 9, 16, 17, that part of 18 and 19 east of the Clark Fork River, north half, north half south half section 20, sections 21 and 28, southeast quarter southeast quarter section 29, east half northeast quarter, southwest quarter northeast quarter, southeast quarter northwest quarter, east half southwest quarter, southeast quarter section 32, and section 33.
Township 35 north, range 43 east: Section 1, that part of sections 2, 11, and 12 lying north and east of the Clark Fork River.
Township 35 north, range 44 east: Sections 4, 5, 6, that part of 7 east of the Clark Fork River, sections 8, 9, 15, 16, 17, that part of 18, 19, and 20 east of the Clark Fork River, sections 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, that part of 29 and 32 east of the Clark Fork River, sections 33, 34, 35, and 36.
Township 36 north, range 43 east: All east of the Clark Fork River.
Township 37 north, range 43 east: That part of sections 5, 8, 16, 17, 20, 21, 28, 29, and 33 east of the Clark Fork River.
Township 38 north, range 43 east: Those parts of the west half section 4, sections 5 and 8, west half section 17, sections 18 and 19, west half section 20, sections 29 and 32 lying east of the Clark Fork River.
Township 39 north, range 43 east: That part of section 21 lying east of the Clark Fork River, west half section 22, northwest quarter section 27, that part of section 28 and northwest quarter section 33 lying east of the Clark Fork River.
Ohio River.
Time extended for bridging, Rockport, Ind., to Owensboro, Ky.
Amendment
Smith Point Bridge.
Suffolk County, N. Y., may construct, near Mastic.
Application of tolls to maintenance, sinking fund, etc.
Maintenance as free bridge after amortizing costs.
Record of expenditures and receipts.
Amendment.
Columbia River.
Time extended for bridging, at Astoria, Oreg.
Amendment.
Robinson-Patman Antidiscrimination Act.
Schools, churches, etc., excepted from provisions of.
Long Island Loop Bridges.
Suffolk County, N. may construct, etc., East Marion to Shelter Island and Shelter Island to North Haven.
Application of tolls to maintenance, sinking fund, etc.
Maintenance as free bridge after amortizing costs.
Record of expenditures and receipts.
Amendment.
Second Liberty Bond Act, amendments.
31 U. S. C. § 752; Supp. III, § 752.
Limitation on face amount of bonds removed.
31 U. S. C., Supp. III. § 757b.
Bonds, certificates of Indebtedness, etc.
Aggregate outstanding amount.
Proviso.
Face amount of bonds issued under this Act.
Coast Guard, enlisted men.
34 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 914.
Allowances for quarters and subsistence.
Revenue Act of 1938.
Table of Contents.
Title I—Income Tax, p. 452.
Introductory provisions, p. 452.
General provisions, p. 452.
Rates of tax, p.452.
Computation of net Income, p. 457.
Credits against tax, p. 472.
Accounting, p. 473.
Returns and payment of tax, p. 476.
Miscellaneous provisions, p. 480.
Supplemental provisions, p. 480.
Rates of tax, p. 480.
Computation of net income, p. 484.
Credits against tax, p. 506.
Returns and payment of tax, p. 508.
Estates and trusts, p. 517.
Partnerships, p. 521.
Insurance companies, p. 522.
Nonresident alien individuals, p. 527.
Foreign corporations, p. 530.
Possessions of the United States, p. 532.
China Trade Act corporations, p. 533.
Deficiencies, p. 534.
Interest and additions to tax, p. 540.
Transferees and fiduciaries, p. 543.
Overpayments, p. 544.
Foreign personal holding companies, p. 545.
Mutual investment companies, p. 552
Exchanges and distributions in obedience to orders of Securities and Exchange Commission, p. 653.
Title IA—Personal Holding Companies, p. 557.
Title II—Estate and Gift Taxes, p. 564.
Title III—Capital Stock and Excess-Profits Taxes, p. 585.
Title IV—Excise Taxes, p. 568.
Title V—Miscellaneous Provisions, p. 573.
Title VI—General Provisions, p. 583.
[S. 3691]
United States courts.
Appointment of additional judges, authorized.
U. S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia, additional associate justice.
Third circuit, filling of vacancy.
28 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 213d–1.
Additional district judges.
One for each of districts designated.
California southern; residence at Fresno.
California northern; residence at Sacramento.
New York southern.
Proviso,
First vacancy occurring not to be filled.
Proviso.
First vacancy occurring not to be filled.
Massachusetts.
Proviso.
First vacancy occurring not to be filled.
Designated combinations of districts.
Proviso.
No successor. Tennessee eastern and middle districts.
U. S. District Court for District of Columbia, additional associate justices.
Montana, filling of vacancy.
[S. 3532]
Missouri River.
Time extended for bridging, at Randolph, Mo.
45 Stat. 729, 1431; 46 Stat. 328, 1063; 47 Stat. 149, 772; 48 Stat. 672; 49 Stat. 1196.
Amendment.
[S. 3949]
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, amendments.
Ante, p. 203.
Cotton acreage allotments for 1938.
Apportionment of unplanted acreage to farms receiving inadequate allotments.
Preference to farms in same county.
Proviso.
Transfer of 1938 allotment not to affect any subsequent year.
Flue-cured tobacco, increased allotments.
Ante, p. 202.
Fire-cured and dark air-cured and burley tobacco, increase in 1938 quota.
Ante, p. 48.
Apportionment to farms in States receiving inadequate allotments.
U. S. Employees’ Compensation Act, amendment.
Construction of terms used.
“Physician”
“Medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies.”
That the public Cleveland National Forest, Calif. Withdrawal of lands from location or entry under mining laws.
All Government lands in sections 13, 14, 15, 20 to 36, inclusive, Description.
All Government lands in sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, township 10 south, range 1 east, San Bernardino meridian;
All Government lands in sections 19, 30, 31, township 9 south, range 2 east, San Bernardino meridian; and
All Government lands in section 6, township 10 south, range 2 east, San Bernardino meridian:
Proviso. Protection of existing rights. Restoration to location and entry.
Alaska.
Taxes for carrying on business and trade.
“Electric-light plants, furnishing light or power for sale, three Electric-light plants.
“Electric-light plants furnishing light and power for sale: Doing Schedule of rates. Proviso. Plants operated by municipalities, etc.
Communications Act of 1934, amendment,
Common carriers.
Furnishing reports of positions of ships at sea to newspapers.
Alaska civil government.
Mining laws.
Provisos.
Gold, etc., explorations, land and shoal water on shores, etc.
Miners’ regulations.
Not to conflict with Federal laws.
Restriction.
Right of citizens to dredge, etc.
Reservation of road-way.
Alaska.
Public-utility districts authorized to incur bonded indebtedness for construction, operation, etc.
Proviso.
Limitation on amount.
Submission and approval provisions.
Notice of election.
Registration, ballot, etc.
Bonds; denominations, maturity, etc.
Interest rate.
Annual levy for interest payments and retirement of bonds.
Inconsistent laws repealed.
Powers, limitations, etc.
Alaskan International Highway.
Appointment of commission.
Personnel, tenure, etc.
Cooperation with similar Canadian agency for study regarding connecting highway.
Report.
Hawaii.
Exchange of Land authorized, for site for new airport.
Hawaii.
Retirement of certain judges.
Eligibility.
Retirement pay.
Proviso.
Limitation.
Computation of years of service.
Terms construed.
That the Secretary State of Delaware. Conveyance of certain lands in Kent County to, for highway purposes.
Description.
Reversionary provision.
Fort Niagara, N. Y.
Lease of portion to Youngstown, N. Y., for public purposes.
Provisos.
Approval by Secretary of War.
Consideration for lease.
Federal rights not impaired.
Alaska.
Withdrawal of lands for schools, hospitals, etc., authorized
Proviso.
Valid existing rights.
Approved, May 31, 1938.
That the Librarian of Pacific Mercado International Exposition, Los Angeles, Calif. Protection of copyrights and patents of foreign exhibitors. Branch copyright, etc., offices on grounds. Certificate of proprietorship. Registers to be kept.
At the close of said Pacific Mercado International Exposition the Deposit at close of Exposition. Certified copies of certificates.
Infringement of rights protected, unlawful.
Liabilities.
Injunction.
Pecuniary damages.
Delivery of articles that infringe.
Destruction.
Infringement; penalty.
Terms of protection.
Copyright, etc., actions.
Duration of protection.
Reimbursement of incurred expenses.
Anniversary of adoption of Ordinance of 1787 and settlement of Northwest Territory.
Additional amount authorized for observance of.
Post, p. 1117.
Puerto Rico, civil government.
Terms of senators and representatives.
Appointments to fill vacancies.
Appointment to civil office or office created during term of office.
Juvenile Court Act of the District of Columbia, amendments.
Purpose and basic principle.
Construction of the Act.
A court of record; seal; oaths.
Terms.
Application of Act.
Definitions.
Jurisdiction.
Children.
General provisions.
Offenders, under 21 years.
Children born out of wedlock; determination of paternity, support.
To determine the custody or guardianship of the person of Custody or guardianship.
“Nothing contained herein shall deprive other courts of the right Right of other courts to determine custody upon writs of habeas corpus, etc.
“When jurisdiction shall have been obtained by the court in the Continuation of jurisdiction when once obtained until age of 21; exception. Proviso. Jurisdiction over offenses committed after age of 18.
The court shall have original and exclusive jurisdiction Adults. Contributing to delinquency, etc., of children.
“The court shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the District Concurrent jurisdiction in abandonment, etc., cases.
Whenever any Information. Investigation. Filing of petition.
Verification.
Summons; notice; custody of the child.
After a petition shall have been filed, unless the parties hereinafter named shall voluntarily appear, the court shall issue a summons reciting briefly the substance of the petition, and requiring the person or persons If other than parent or guardian. Proviso. Notification to other spouse if child is married.
Custody of child by court.
Service of summons.
Service of summons shall be made personally by the delivery of a true and attested copy to the person Provisos. Service by registered mail or by publication. Deferring hearing on request of child’s custodian
Execution of orders and processes of court.
Failure to obey summons; warrant.
Release of children taken into custody.
Whenever any officer takes a child into custody, he shall, unless it is imprac
“In the case of any child whose custody has been assumed by the court and pending the final disposition of the case, the child may be released in the custody of a parent, guardian, or custodian, or of a probation officer or other person appointed by the court, to be brought before the court at the time designated. When not released as herein provided, such child, pending the bearing of the case, shall be detained in such place of detention as shall be provided by the Board of Public Welfare, subject to further order of the court.
“Nothing in this Act shall be construed as forbidding any peace Taking children into custody. Report to court.
Transfer from other courts.
Waiver of jurisdiction.
The court may conduct the hearing Hearing; judgment.
Court orders.
Probation, etc.
Commitments.
Further disposition.
Make such further disposition of the child as may be provided by law and as the court may deem to be best for the best Proviso. Removal of child from parents only when conditions demand it.
Support of child. Refusal to provide.
Information to accompany order of commitment.
Imposition of civil disabilities, etc. Admissibility of evidence in any other court. Use of, to disqualify in public employment.
Modification of Judgment.
An order of commitment or probation made by the court in the case of a child shall be subject to modification or revocation from time to time.
Return of child to parents, etc.
Appointment of guardian.
Selection of custodial agency.
Procedure in adult cases.
Ante, p. 597.
Penalty.
Jury trials.
Judge, appointment and qualifications.
Oath.
Salary.
Filling vacancy in case of sickness, etc.
Director of social work, etc.
Appointments.
Duties and powers of director of social work.
Duties and powers of department of probation.
The supervisor of probation, under the direction of the director of social work, shall organize, direct, and develop the work of the probation department of the court.
“The probation department of the court shall make such investigations as the court may direct, keep a written record of such investigations and submit the same to the judge or deal with them as he may direct. The probation department shall use all suitable methods to aid persons on probation and bring about improvement in their conduct and condition; keep informed concerning the conduct and condition of each person under its supervision and report thereon to the judge as he may direct and keep full records of its work. The probation officers shall have such duties as may be assigned to them in the course of performing the functions of the probation department. Probation officers for the purpose of this Act shall have the power of police officers.
Clerk, duties.
Physical and mental examinations and treatment.
Place of detention.
No child under eighteen years of age shall be placed in or committed to any prison, jail, or lock-up, nor shall such child be taken into custody, detained, or transferred from place to place, where he may be brought in contact or communication with any adult convicted of crime or under arrest and Proviso. Segregation.
“The Board of Public Welfare of the District of Columbia shall Provision for temporary detention by Board of Public Welfare.
Court quarters.
Records; forms.
Rules.
Cooperation of officials, departments, etc.
Cooperation by corporation counsel.
Contempt.
Penalty.
Appeal.
Proviso.
Appeal not to suspend juvenile court order, etc.
Appellate court order; effect, etc.
Fees prohibited.
Jury; term of service.
Impaneling the jury.
Judgments to be final.
Fines to be paid to clerk.
Deposit of receipts.
Itemized statements.
Audit of accounts.
Separability of provisions.
Continuance in office of present judge and other officers.
Short title.
Repeal of inconsistent laws.
Klamath Indians, Oreg.
“Klamath Tribe” construed.
Payment to each enrolled member who has not received allotment of land.
Annual installments.
Proviso.
Enrollment requirements.
Members born hereafter.
Deposit of payments to credit of individual Indian money accounts.
Authorized expenditures.
Disposition of balance in event of death.
Inheritance restriction.
Proviso.
Life interest of surviving spouse.
Disposition of restricted or trust property upon death without heirs, etc.
Merchant Marine Act, 1936, amendments.
46 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 1142.
Ocean mail contracts.
Adjustment of differences and claims arising out of contracts alleged to have been made under 1928 Act.
Proviso.
Review by Attorney General; nullification of agreement.
Payment, if satisfactory.
Provisos.
Application of sums payable to contractor as credit on construction loan, etc.
46 U. S. C. § 870; Supp. III, § 870.
Federal taxes.
Any other indebtedness to United States.
Right or defense in any suit pending in Court of Claims.
Not to be construed as validating any alleged contract involved, etc.
Alaska, schools.
“The Governor shall assign and set apart to each school district Funds for construction, etc. Payment to territorial treasurer. Wages of teachers. Payment.
Railroad Retirement Act of 1934.
Refund of sums paid by railroads, etc., under.
Time limitation on filing claims.
Saratoga National Historical Park, N. Y.
Establishment, when title to lands is vested in United States.
Proviso.
Inclusion of battlefield, etc.
Acceptance of donations, etc.
Proviso.
Purchase of lands from donated funds.
Supervision by National Park Service.
Public lands.
Sale or lease for home, etc., sites authorized.
Classification of lands.
Price.
Provisos.
Purchase restrictions.
Mineral, etc., reservation.
Not applicable to Alaska.
General Pulaski’s Memorial Day.
President authorized to invite observance.
[S. 3843]
National Defense Act, amendments.
General Staff Corps. Composition.
General Staff with troops.
Detail in peace time, duration.
Eligibility requirements, certain rescinded.
Battle of Gettysburg anniversary.
Appropriation to aid in defraying expenses of observance.
Ante, p. 354
Automobiles.
Reimbursement of other appropriations.
Contingent, etc., expenses.
Availability of appropriation.
Provisos.
Army Band, allowances for living expenses.
Report of expenditures to Congress.
District of Columbia, cosmetology.
Definitions.
“Cosmetology.”
Practices Included.
Beauty shops, etc., subject to provisions of Act.
Proviso.
Display of name upon entrance door, etc.
Apprentice or student.
Operator.
Manager.
Instructor.
Manicurist.
Demonstrator.
“Board.”
Board of Cosmetology.
Creation, membership, etc.
Qualifications.
Terms.
Vacancies.
Removals.
Annual election of president and treasurer.
Secretary, appointment, compensation.
Seal.
Treasurer’s bond.
Quorum.
Meetings.
Records, etc.
Regulations.
Powers and duties of Board.
Suspension or revocation of certificates, procedure.
Appeal from action of Board.
Practice of cosmetology without registration prohibited.
Exemption of those now actually engaged; exception.
Requirements to practice.
Registration fee; examination as to fitness
Eligibility requirements for examination.
Student training.
Apprenticeship service.
Proviso.
Waiver provision.
Age, character, education, etc.
Determination of qualifications.
Limited certificates.
Schools of cosmetology.
Requirements.
Personnel of staff.
Equipment.
Student regulations.
Demonstrations, studies, etc.
Compliance with provisions required.
Student practice upon the public for pay prohibited; exception.
Charges.
Practice in beauty shops only.
Proviso.
Emergencies.
Supervision.
Present students and apprentices.
Exceptions to examination requirements.
Provisos.
Applications for certificates.
Credits for time and studies to be given.
Time limitation.
Graduates of registered. schools, temporary permits.
Apprentices in beauty shops.
Instruction by owner, etc.
Proviso.
Conditions prescribed.
Demonstrators.
Issuance of permits to manufacturers agents to conduct sales demonstrations, etc.
Proviso.
No charge for materials or services.
Report of termination of employment.
Demonstrations by canvassers.
Reciprocity.
States, etc., wherein requirements are substantially equal.
Certificates or licenses.
Issuance to applicants complying with designated requirements.
Display.
Examinations.
Rules; subject matter.
Dates for holding public examinations.
Fees.
Sales demonstrators, etc.
Operators licensed elsewhere meeting D. C. requirements.
Provisions on failing to pass examination.
Deduction for expenses.
Provisos.
Limitation.
Deposit of excess funds.
Persons called to aid of Board.
Conducting examinations, etc.
Compensation.
Sanitary rules.
Enforcement by Health Department
Use of shop for residential, etc., purposes forbidden.
Unlawful establishments.
Provisos.
Outside practice.
Existing sanitary, etc., rules not repealed.
Hearing may beheld by any member.
Temporary licenses.
Proviso.
Examination, fees.
Duration.
Exemptions from provisions of Act.
Renewal of certificates.
Expiration date.
Ante, p. 614.
Penalties.
Violations of provisions of Act.
Practice while suffering contagious disease.
Prosecutions.
Separability provision.
Inconsistent laws repealed.
District of Columbia Barber Act.
Definitions.
“Board.”
“Certificate.”
“Commissioners.”
“Barber instructor.”
“Barbering.”
The term “barbering” means any one or any combination of the following practices when done upon the head and neck for cosmetic purposes and not for the treatment of disease or physical or mental ailments and when done for payment either directly or indirectly or without payment for the public generally constitutes the practice of barbering within the meaning of this Act.
Practices included.
Board of Barber Examiners created; number, qualifications, etc.
There is hereby created a Board of Barber Examiners for the District of Columbia. The Board shall consist of three members, two of whom shall be practical barbers who have followed the practice of barbering in the District of Columbia for at least five Recommendations. Appointments; terms.
Removal power of Commissioners. Appointments to vacancies. Officers.
The secretary of the Board shall keep a record of its proceedings, Records to be kept. Rules and sanitary regulations. Annual report, etc.
Certificates of registration.
Registered barbers.
Health certificate.
Registered barber apprentice.
Examinations of applicants.
Exceptions to examination requirements.
Health certificate.
Payment of fee.
Registered barber apprentices.
Time credits.
Display of certificates.
Renewals of certificates.
Grounds for refusal to issue, renew, etc., certificates.
The Board may refuse to issue, renew, restore, or may revoke a certificate for habitual drunkenness or habitual addiction to the use of morphine, cocaine, or any other habit-forming drug or for the violation of any of the provisions of this Act, but such action may be taken by the Board only after notice, and an opportunity for a full hearing is given to the person affected thereby.
Appeal from action of Board. Court review.
Fees and refunds.
Quarters for examinations and equipment.
Compensation of members of Board; expenses.
Clerk and inspectors.
Provisos.
Limitation on payments.
Deposit of excess funds.
No Federal, etc., expense.
Barber school or college requirements.
Instructors, equipment, etc.
Student regulations.
Apprenticeship.
Practices included.
Unlawful acts.
Practice without a certificate; exception.
While knowingly afflicted with an infectious, etc., disease.
Employing any but registered barbers, etc.
Operating without proper supervision.
Bribery, etc.
Closing of shops one day in every seven.
Barber schools.
Signs to indicate work is done by students.
Penalty for violation of provisions.
Effective date.
Exemptions.
Persons authorized to practice medicine, etc.
Commissioned medical or surgical officers.
Registered nurses.
Beauty parlor employees.
Undertakers, etc.
Persons practicing physiotherapy, etc.
Constitutionality.
Separability provision.
Repeal of of her laws.
Proviso.
Existing sanitary, etc., rules not repealed.
Purpose of Act.
District of Columbia Revenue Act of 1937, amendment.
Ante, p. 368.
Business privilege taxes.
Credit allowed for taxes paid on certain tangible personal property.
[S. 3522]
U. S. S. Panay.
Presentation of medals, etc., authorized to designated British naval officers for assistance in recovery of survivors of.
[S. 1225]
District of Columbia, insane persons.
Application for a writ de lunatico inquirendo, etc.
Writs to issue from equity court.
There is hereby established a. Commission on Mental Health Commission on Mental Health, establishment: duties. Investigations, reports, and recommendations. Commission, how drawn; qualifications, appointment.
Eight of the panel to be practicing physicians; qualifications. Ninth member to be of the District bar. Assignments. Personnel of Commission. Physician members may practice during tenure of office. Lawyer member to be chairman; duties in ascertainment of facts. To devote entire time. Alternate lawyer member, qualifications. Compensation. Terms of original appointments; thereafter. Salaries. Expenses to be included in annual estimates.
Supervision of Commission by equity court. Power to compel appearance of alleged insane; witnesses. Examination elsewhere.
Representation of alleged insane at hearings. Fees for services; payment.
The office and records of the sanitary officer, District of Columbia, Sanitary officer: transfer of office and records to Commission. Designation as secretary.
Issuance of attachment.
Prompt examination by Gailinger Municipal Hospital staff.
Reference to Commission if person proper subject for commitment.
Discharge, if found of sound mind; dismissal of petition.
Benefits of existing remedies not to be denied.
Any petition filed in the equity court for a writ de lunatico Reference of petitions for writs by court to Commission; exception. Examination and hearing. Right to representation by counsel.
The Commission is hereby authorized to conduct its examination Examination and hearings elsewhere than at offices of Commission.
The Commission shall determine (1) the sanity or insanity of the Matters for determination.
Service of notice on person alleged to be insane, and others.
Recommendations; agreement by members of Commission.
Court proceeding in event of disagreement.
Recommendations of the Commission must be the unanimous recommendation of the three members acting upon any case. If the three members of the Commission be unable to agree upon the recommendation to be made in any case, they shall immediately file with the court a report setting forth the fact that they are unable to agree on the case, and in that event the court shall hear and Jury trial if demanded.
Findings and recommendations to be filed with the court.
Person of sound mind.
Further study before diagnosis.
Incapacity of probable short duration; temporary detention, etc.
Of unsound mind and should be committed to Saint Elizabeths Hospital, etc.
Payment of expense.
Harmless and may be committed to care of relatives, etc.
Procedure if hearing or jury trial demanded.
Upon the receipt of the report and recommendation of the Commission, a copy of which shall be served personally upon the alleged insane person, his guardian ad litem or his attorney, if he have one, together with notice that he has ten days within which to demand a jury trial, a demand for hearing by the court or a demand for jury trial for the purpose of determining the sanity or insanity of the alleged insane person may be made by the said alleged insane person or by anyone in his behalf, or a jury trial may be ordered by the court upon its own motion. If demand be
The jury to be used in lunacy inquisitions in those cases where Empaneling of jury.
Procedure if no hearing demanded.
Commitments.
If an insane person be found by the Commission, subject Nonresident insane.
Any insane person found by the Commission to have been a resident Resident, etc., insane.
“Resident of the District of Columbia”, as used in this section, “Resident of the District of Columbia” defined. Ante, p. 625.
Placing of harmless insane in care of relatives.
Liability of relatives for cost of maintenance and treatment.
The father, mother, husband, wife, and adult children of an insane person, if of sufficient ability, and the committee or guardian of his or her person and estate, if his or her estate is sufficient for the purpose, shall pay the cost to the District of Columbia of his or her maintenance, including treatment, in Saint Elizabeths Hospital, or in any other hospital to which the insane Ascertainment of ability to pay. Proviso. Limitation.
Court procedure in event of nonpayment. Citation, bearing, etc. Action by court. Collections. Enforcement against property of insane person or person liable.
Released or paroled patients, hearings to determine sanity, etc.
Examination and observation by Commission.
If Commission finds person to be of unsound mind.
If Commission finds person to be of sound mind.
Right to hearing.
Adjudication.
Witnesses, fees and mileage.
Petitioner may be required to file undertaking with surety.
Penalty provisions.
Repeal of conflicting Acts, etc.
Separability of provisions.
Dissemination of propaganda in the United States.
Terms defined.
“Person.”
“United States.”
“Foreign principal.”
“Agent of a foreign principal.“
Persons not included.
“Secretary.”
Filing of registration statement with the Secretary.
Registrant’s name, address, etc.
Name of foreign principal, etc.
Copies of contracts of employment.
Date of contract, and commencement of activity thereunder; duration.
Compensation.
Names of all contributors to said compensation.
Copies of certain instruments if registrant be a partnership or corporation.
Information to be supplied at end of six months’ period.
Facts to be set forth.
Facts to make information accurate and current.
Amount and form of compensation received as agent.
Statement containing details of activities during period.
Preservation of statements; status as public records.
Penalty provisions.
Rules and regulations.
Effective date.
Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938.
Appropriations authorized for fiscal years 1940 and 1941.
Availability of sums for expenditure.
Reapportionment of unexpended sums.
Inclusion of District of Columbia in apportionment beginning with fiscal year 1940.
Proviso.
Determination of system of roads.
Additions.
Roadside and landscape development.
Use of Federal funds without matching State funds in certain cases.
23 U. S. C. §§ 1–25; Supp. III, ch. 1.
Term “highway” to include certain bridges.
Secondary or feeder roads.
Sums authorized for Federal aid.
Elimination of railroad grade crossing hazards.
Apportionment.
Basis.
Matching not required.
Amounts authorized.
Damages by floods and other catastrophes.
Amount authorized as an emergency relief fund.
Forest highways, roads and trails in national forests.
Provisos.
Reduction in apportionment for Alaska; apportionment of difference.
Apportionment without regard to existing limitation.
Maximum.
Roads through public lands, etc.
Sums authorized for survey, construction, and maintenance, other than forest reservations.
Roads, bridges, etc., in national parks, etc.
Amounts authorized.
Construction of parkways to give access to national parks and national monuments, etc.
Amounts authorized.
Proviso.
Determination of location.
Indian reservation roads.
Amounts authorized.
Surveys, etc.
Diversion of road-user taxes.
Reapportionment of sums withheld as penalties.
Approval of methods of bidding, plans, etc.
Superhighway development, investigation of feasibility, etc.
Short title.
Battles of Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, and Missionary Ridge, etc.
Preamble.
Centenary of peace with the Cherokee Indians.
Appointment of commission authorized.
Composition, residence requirement.
Election of chairman and treasurer, adoption of rules for conduct of business.
Appropriation authorized for observance expenses.
Post, p. 1116.
Administrative provisions.
Report to Congress.
[S. 3209]
Fort Sheridan Military Reservation, III.
Easement to city of Highwood. III, over portions of for public purposes.
Provisos.
Conditions.
Water service to post in emergency.
Collective trade-marks.
“ Registration privilege extended.
Other marks which may be registered.
Requirements.
Proviso.
Refusal, if identical, etc., with known trade-mark.
Registration of collective mark belonging to association.
Proviso deleted.
Registrations of foreign associations heretofore granted; effect of.
Rules of construction.
District of Columbia.
Washington College of Law; incorporation, etc., approved.
Board of trustees; membership, terms of office.
Powers and authority of board.
Corporate powers, etc.
Use of income.
Amendment, etc.
[S. 3820]
International Criminal Police Commission.
Membership on behalf of United States authorized.
Post, p. 1136.
[S. 3822]
Air Corps, Army.
Increase in basic allotment to, authorized.
District of Columbia.
Time extended for construction of viaduct bridge by designated railroads.
District of Columbia.
Name of part of Water Street SW. changed to Maine Avenue.
District of Columbia.
Name of Daniel Road NW, changed to Oregon Avenue.
Former Oregon Avenue renamed Swann Street.
Military Appropriation Act, 1939.
War Department.
Personal services, D. C.
Office of Secretary of War. Proviso. Use of field-service appropriations restricted.
Designated offices.
Adjutant General’s office, $1,385,340.
World War personnel records.
Office of the Inspector General, $27,220.
Office of the Judge Advocate General, $109,410.
Office of the Chief of Finance, $392,340.
Office of the Quartermaster General, $781,900.
Office of the Chief Signal Officer, $140,140.
Office of the Chief of Air Corps, $242,500.
Office of the Surgeon General, $278,290.
Office of Chief of Bureau of Insular Affairs, $66,400.
Office of Chief of Engineers. Provisos. Draftsmen, etc., payable from other appropriations. Maximum expenditures, 1939. Report to Congress.
Office of Chief of Ordnance. Provisos. Technical, etc., services. Maximum expenditures, 1939. Report to Congress.
Office of Chief of Chemical Warfare Service, $50,337.
Office of Chief of Coast Artillery, $31,220.
National Guard Bureau, War Department, $152,400.
Proviso. No increase in certain details. Civilians to fill vacancies. 5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; Supp. III, §§ 673, 673c. 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.
Office of the Secretary.
Department contingent expenses.
Surgeon General's office.
Library expenses.
Army Medical Museum.
Preservation, etc., of specimens.
Printing and binding.
Proviso.
Medical bulletins.
Military activities.
Army contingencies.
General Staff Corps.
Military Intelligence Division.
Contingent expenses.
Observing operations of foreign armies.
Proviso.
Provisions waived.
Field exercises.
Participation by National Guard, etc.
Supplies and services.
Private property damage claims.
Army War College.
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 of the Army.
For pay of not to exceed an average of twelve thousand five Officers. Flights by nonflying officers. Longevity. Enlisted men. Regular Army Reserve. National Guard. Aviation increase. Philippine Scouts. Longevity. Retired officers, etc. Civil-service messengers at headquarters, etc. Contract surgeons, nurses, etc. Rent, subsistence, etc. Payment of exchange by officers serving in foreign countries. Accounting. Provisos. No allowance to officer owning mount. Citizenship requirements. No pay beyond enlistment period, etc. Foreign language instructors. Filipinos in Army Transport Service, etc. Reenlistment of aliens. Receipts of public moneys, use of.
Pay forbidden to a retired officer selling supplies to Army.
Engaging in issuing certain service publications. Proviso. Exemption.
Travel allowances, etc.
Recruiting expenses.
Commutation of quarters, rations, etc.
Civilians.
Increases, by transfers from other appropriations.
Restriction.
Provisos.
Travel allowance, expert accountant.
Attendance at meetings.
“Travel of the Army” to include dependents.
Courts martial, expenses.
Deserters, etc.
Apprehension, etc.
Finance Service.
Clerks, etc.
Private property damages.
Payment of claims.
Proviso.
Settlement by General Accounting Office, etc.
Destruction of private property of officers, etc.
Payment of claims.
Quarter master Corps.
Subsistence of the Army.
Subsistence of the Army: Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue as rations to troops, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, general prisoners of war, and general prisoners at posts; ice for issue to organizations of enlisted men and officers at such places as the Secretary of War may determine, and for preservation of stores; Army Transport Service. Sales to officers, etc. Commutation allowances. Prizes, etc. Subsistence supplies. Proviso. Butter substitutes, restriction.
Regular supplies of the Army: Regular supplies of the Quarter-master 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: For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the 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. Operating expenses.
Army transportation. Supplies. Privately owned automobiles. Boats, etc. Vehicles. Travel allowances. National Guard. Fuel and vehicles, amount immediately available for purchase. Provisos. Motor vehicles, etc. Ambulances, motorcycles, etc. 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. 354.
Ammunition storage facilities.
Air Corps stations.
Navigation aids at various stations.
Contracts.
Military posts, construction, etc.
Proviso.
increase in amounts.
Acquisition of land.
Air Corps, radiobeacon sites.
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, engine supplies, etc.
Additional amount; reappropriation.
Provisos.
Fort Monroe, Va., wharf, etc.
Military attaches, rentals.
Construction restricted.
Stabling rental.
Hospitals.
For construction and repair of hospitals at military posts already Construction, repair, etc. Temporary hospitals, etc.
The appropriations made in this Act for the purchase or manufacture Purchase of letters patent, etc., for certain equipment or material.
Signal Corps.
Signal Service.
Telegraph and telephone systems.
Exceptions.
Rental of lines.
Electrical installations.
Civilian employees.
Experimental investigation, etc.
Amount reappropriated.
Radio equipment for airplanes.
Air Corps.
Designated purposes.
Aircraft operation, etc.
Landing, etc., runways.
Helium gas.
Civilian employees.
Development of new types.
Purchase, construction, etc., of aircraft.
Marking of military airways.
Consulting engineers.
Special appliances.
Printing plants, etc.
Settlement of claims.
New airplanes, equipment, etc.
Provisos.
Helium.
Ante, p. 329.
New airplanes, etc.
Contracts authorized.
Crissy Field, Calif.
Sums available for incurred obligations.
Medical Department.
Supplies.
Private treatment.
Proviso.
If on furlough, etc.
Epidemic and contagious diseases.
Insane Filipino soldiers.
Nurses.
Civilian physicians.
Hot Springs, Ark., hospital.
Canal Zone garrisons.
Hospital care.
Proviso.
Subsistence payments.
Engineer Corps.
Equipment, instruments, etc.
Engineer School, maintenance, etc.
Maps, surveys, etc.
Rent.
Operating, etc., expenses.
Procurement of engineer equipment.
Ordnance Department.
Ordnance service and supplies.
Manufacture, issue, etc.
Contingent expenses.
Vehicles.
Ammunition for military salutes.
Gages, dies, and jigs.
Publications.
Consulting engineers.
Rock Island, III.
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.
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.
Field Artillery School.
Chief of Coast Artillery.
Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va.
Instruction expenses.
Printing and binding.
Seacoast defenses.
All expenses.
Military Academy.
Pay.
Cadets: For pay of cadets, $1,325,920: Cadets. Provisos. Army detail, pay restriction. Retired Army officer as librarian.
Civilians.
Maintenance, etc.
Designated expenses.
Board of Visitors.
Proviso.
Liquidation of certain debts to cadet store.
National Guard.
Arming, etc.
Forage, etc.
Care of animals, materials, etc.
Instruction expenses. Proviso. Settlement of claims.
Service schools, instruction, etc.
Property and disbursing officers.
Equipment, etc. Medical, etc., treatment. Burial expenses. 10 U. S. C., Supp. III, §§ 455a-d. Travel, Army officers, etc.
For travel of officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the Regular Army in connection with the National Guard, $248,500: Proviso. War Department General Staff.
For transportation of equipment and supplies, $217,000. Transportation of equipment, etc. Army enlisted men, details.
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, $306,250.
For pay of National Guard (armory drills), $14,637,934. Pay, armory drills. No pay to National Guard officer, etc., drawing pension.
No part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available for pay, allowances, or traveling or other expenses of any officer or enlisted man of the National Guard who may be drawing a pension, disability allowance, disability compensation, or retired pay (where retirement has been made on account of physical disability or age) from the Government of the United States: Provisos. Surrender of pension. Adjutants general continued in present status without pay.
Field Service.
To procure by purchase or manufacture and issue from time to time to Procuring arms and equipment. Requisitions from Governors, etc. Motor trucks, etc. Increase in strength. Accounting. Provisos. Specifications for motor vehicles. Replacement of damaged property. Clothing, equipment, etc,, from Army surplus stores. Issue withoutcharge against fund.
No Increase of mounted units, etc. Provisos. Participation in national matches. Travel and subsistence allowances. Post, p. 666. Reserve officers. Caretakers of ranges.
Organized Reserves.
Officers’ Reserve Corps. Provisos. Mileage allowance. Enlisted Reserve Corps. Correspondence, etc., courses. Training manuals. Headquarters and training camps. Vehicles. New airplanes. Medical and hospital treatment. Flight training restriction. Proviso. Divisional, etc., headquarters.
None of the funds appropriated elsewhere in this Act, except for Restriction on use of other funds. Use of available supplies, etc.
No appropriation made in this Act shall be available for pay, No pay to officer drawing pension, etc. Proviso. Surrender of pension.
Reserve officer on active duty: pay restriction. General Staff detail excepted. Other details. 10 U. S. C., Supp. Ill, §§ 292b-2, 300a, 291c, 202a-1–3. 10 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 369a. Proviso. Medical Reserve Corps, Veterans’ Administration patients in Army hospitals.
Citizens’ military training.
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.
Supplies for units of.
Training camps, etc.
Travel allowance.
Expenses of supplies, etc.
Subsistence commutation, senior division.
Medical, etc., treatment.
Baggage transportation.
Vehicles.
Advanced course students.
Provisos.
Issue of Army horses.
Uniforms, etc., from Army surplus stock.
Current price to govern.
Limitation on number of mounted, etc., units.
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.
Purchase of training manuals.
Medical and hospital treatment.
Burials.
Provisos.
Age limitation.
Restriction on use of other funds.
Uniforms, etc., from Army surplus stock.
Current price to govern.
Promotion of rifle practice.
Instruction expenses. Supplies, etc.
No pay to officer, etc., using time-meassuring device. Limitation on cash rewards.
Private use of Government vehicles.
Limitation on use of funds for post exchanges.
Provisos.
Report required.
Isolated posts.
Short title.
War Department Civil Appropriation Act, 1939.
Quartermaster Corps.
National cemeteries.
For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including Maintenance, improvement, etc. Vehicles. Arlington, Va. Plot in Congressional Cemetery, D. C. Roadways; limitation. Headstones. Recovery of bodies, etc. Monuments, etc., in Cuba and China. Confederate cemeteries, etc. Fort Bliss National Cemetery, Tex. Acquisition of land, San Francisco, Calif. Provisos. Encroachments forbidden.
Conveyance to State, etc., of U. S. interest in any approach road, national cemetery. Provisos. Acceptance and maintenance provisions. Roadway repairs restricted. Transfer of jurisdiction.
Signal Corps.
Alaska Communication System.
Operation, improvement, etc.
Proviso.
Report to Congress.
Bureau of Insular Affairs.
Philippine Islands.
United States High Commissioner’s office.
Salaries and expenses.
Traveling, etc., expenses.
Vehicles.
Household, etc., expenses.
Provisos.
Legal adviser and financial expert.
Minor purchases.
Corps of Engineers.
Availability.
Rivers and harbors.
Maintenance of existing works.
Survey of boundary, etc., waters.
New York harbor.
California Débris Commission.
Removal of navigation obstructions.
Student officers at civil technical institutions.
Surveys, etc.
Printing and binding.
Vehicles, etc.
Provisos.
Unauthorized surveys, etc. forbidden.
Extending channel of Mississippi River above Saint Anthony Falls.
Post, p. 809.
Operation of certain types of projects.
Post, p. 811.
Allocation provisions waived.
Post, p, 811.
Further augmentation.
Reduction in general flood control appropriation; transfer of amounts.
Maintenance of harbor channels.
Conditions imposed.
Power-driven boats, restriction on use.
Permanent International Commission of the Congresses of Navigation.
Flood control.
Public works on rivers and harbors. 40 Stat. 1570; 50 Stat. 517, 876. 806. 33 U. S. C., Supp. III, ch. 15. Printing and binding. Vehicles. Preliminary examinations, etc. Provisos. Run-off retardation, etc., surveys. Prosecution of run-off, etc., retardation mensures on water-sheds of flood-control projects. Personal services.
Flood control, Mississippi River and tributaries: For prosecuting Mississippi River and tributaries.
Emergency fund for flood control on tributaries of Mississippi Emergency fund for flood control. 33 U. S. C., Supp. III, §§ 702g-1. Lowell Creek, Alaska.
Flood control, Lowell Creek, Alaska: For maintenance of flood-control works in accordance with the Act approved February 14, 1933 (47 Stat. 802), $1,000.
Flood control, Salmon River, Alaska: For maintenance repairs to Salmon River, Alaska.
United States Soldiers’ Home.
Maintenance, etc.
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.
Maintenance and operation. Governor’s salary. Supplies, equipment, etc. Payment to alien cripples.
Sanitation, etc. Support of the insane, lepers, etc. Deportation expenses. Chief quarantine officer.
Civil government expenses.
Availability.
In addition to the foregoing sums there is appropriated for the fiscal year 1939 for expenditures and reinvestment under the several heads of appropriation aforesaid, without being covered into the Treasury of the United States, all moneys received by the Panama Disposition of net profits.
Additional sums. Waterworks, sewers, and pavements, Panama and Colon.
Short title.
[S. 3373]
United States courts,
“The State of Kansas shall constitute one judicial district, to be Kansas judicial district. Second division. First division. Third division. Terms. First division. Second division. Accommodations at Hutchinson. Third division. Deputy clerks. Deputy marshals.
Virginia Eastern Judicial District.
Terms of court at Newport News.
Pennsylvania Middle Judicial District.
“ Terms of court at Wilkes-Barre. Proviso. Writs, etc, returnable to terms at Scranton; terms not affected, etc.
Eighth American Scientific Congress.
Invitation to hold, in United States in 1940.
Invitation to participate.
Appropriation authorized for expenses.
Contract services.
Reimbursement of other appropriations.
[S. 1694]
That the Secretary Montgomery, W. Va. Conveyance of certain tract of land to, for public purposes.
Beginning at a stone monument near the top of the bank of the Description.
The land hereinbefore described comprises that conveyed to the United States by three separate deeds as follows: One, dated July 5, 1882, for four and eight-tenths acres from William Rigg and Emily G. Rigg, his wife, and recorded in Deed Book 39, page 335, of the records of Kanawha County; another, dated February 2, 1882, for two acres from the Keystone Coal Company, and recorded in Deed Book 39, page 337, of the records of Kanawha County; another, dated August 20, 1888, for one and five hundred eight one-thousandths acres from William Rigg and Emily G. Rigg, his wife, and recorded in Deed Book 48, page 557, of the records of Kanawha County.
Use of land.
Reversionary provision.
[S. 2474]
Navy, warrant officers.
Promotion to chief warrant officer.
Inconsistent laws, etc., repealed.
[S. 3095]
State of Oregon, etc.
Easement granted with respect to certain lands for highway purposes.
Location.
Easement in lieu of license; conditions.
[S. 3126]
State of Oregon.
Conveyance of certain land to, for highway purposes.
Description.
Use; reversionary provision.
[S. 3242]
Battleship “Oregon”.
Appropriation authorized for providing permanent mooring.
Removal from present berth.
Proviso.
Local cooperation.
[S. 3882]
Cotton statistics.
Ginners, record of county in which cotton grown required; report.
Mississippi River.
Cairo Bridge Commission, purchase and improvement of toll bridge authorized, at Cairo, Ill.
Operation and maintenance.
Tolls authorized.
Bond issue to cover costs, etc.
Details, form, etc., of bonds.
Security.
Items included in cost.
Items included in cost.
Provisions applicable as to financing.
Conveyance of interests to Missouri and Illinois after payment of bonds, etc.
Operation by Commission if either State fails to accept.
Dissolution of Commission upon conveyance.
Amendment, etc.
Lake Sabine.
Time extended for bridging, at Port Arthur, Tex.
Amendment.
Mississippi River.
Bridge authorized across, at Greenville, Miss.
Right to acquire real estate, etc.
Toll charges.
Application of tolls to operation, sinking fund, etc.
Maintenance as free bridge after amortizing costs, etc.
Record of expenditures and receipts.
Amendment.
Missouri River.
Time extended for bridging, at Brownville, Nebr.
Amendment.
Mobile Bay.
Time extended for bridging, Cedar Point to Dauphin County, Ala.
Amendment.
Missouri River.
Time extended for bridging, at Rulo, Nebr.
Amendment.
Coosa River.
Time extended for bridging, at Gilberts Ferry, Ala.
Amendment.
Washington Asylum and Jail, D. C.
Operation of vending stand by Louis Haag authorized.
Construction of public buildings.
Plans for buildings for departments, etc.
Acquisition of sites, etc.
Proviso.
Transfer of funds authorized.
Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939.
Production and sale of certain articles by Commission authorized.
Use of proceeds.
Army Medical Library and Museum, D. C.
Construction of building, etc., to replace present structure authorized.
Provisos.
Advice by National Capital Park and Planning Commission.
Limitation on cost.
Bexar County, Tex. Basement for rights-of-way to, for road, etc., construction across portion at Kelly Field granted.
Sewer, drainage, etc.
Proviso.
Present road in exchange.
Salvaging of surfacing materials.
Appropriation authorized.
Provisos.
Payments.
Maintenance after completion.
[S. 2368]
Mason County, Wash.
Appropriation authorized for public-school construction.
Proviso.
White and Indian pupils.
Payment of cost of education of white children.
[S. 2409]
Navy and Marine Corps.
Advancement of certain officers ineligible for promotion under certain laws.
Navy Staff Corps, ineligible since August 5, 1935.
Provisos.
Establishment of qualifications.
Disqualifications caused in line of duty, retirement provisions.
Promoted officers to be carried as extra numbers, etc.
Effective date of promotion.
No back pay, etc.
Certain retired officers, rank and retired pay.
[S. 3416]
Black Hills National Forest, Wyo.
Addition of certain lands.
Township 55 north, range 63 west: Sections 5 to 9, inclusive, 16 to 21, inclusive, 28 to 34, inclusive, and west half section 4, west half section 27.
Township 54 north, range 63 west: Sections 4 to 9, inclusive, 17, 18, 19, 28 to 32, inclusive, west, half section 3; north half northeast quarter and west half section 20; north half, southwest quarter and north half southeast quarter and north half southwest quarter southeast quarter section 33.
Township 53 north, range 65 west: Sections 1, 12, 13, 24, 25, 36.
Township 53 north, range 64 west: Sections 1 to 12, inclusive, 15 to 22, inclusive, 27 to 34, inclusive, northeast quarter and west half section 14.
Township 53 north, range 63 west: North half section 5, section 6, and northwest quarter section 7.
Township 52 north, range 65 west: Sections 1 to 36, inclusive.
Township 52 north, range 64 west: Sections 3 to 10, inclusive, 14 to 36, inclusive.
Township 52 north, range 63 west: Section 31 and east half section 36.
Township 51 north, range 63 west: Sections 1, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, and west half southwest quarter section 5; east half northeast quarter, southeast quarter, south half southwest quarter section 9.
Lands accepted in exchange.
Administration.
[S. 3417]
State of Wyoming.
Credit to account of National Guard, as a set-off against credit in favor of State.
Evidence of payment.
Provisos.
Credit limited to cancelation of State indebtedness.
Credit to be in full satisfaction of State’s claim.
[S. 3849]
Chippewa Indians of Minnesota.
Transfer of proceeds of judgment, erroneously deposited as public money, to credit of.
Compensation of attorneys.
U. S. S. “Lexington” and “Saratoga.”
Waiver of limitation on expenditure for repairs.
5 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 468a.
Proviso.
Alterations subject to treaty provisions.
District of Columbia.
Compensation to certain employees in, for disability, etc.
Employments excepted.
Persons employed in office of Members of Congress.
Liquor tax administration.
26 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 1334 (b).
Brewer’s bond.
Proviso.
Amount.
Conditions.
Records.
Renewals.
Lane S. Anderson Post, No. 297, Veterans of Foreign Wars, South Charleston, W. Va.
Conveyance of certain land to.
That the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed to the Lane S. Anderson Post, Numbered 297, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, South Charleston, West Virginia, for the sum of $2,250, a tract of land, together with the improvements thereon, situated on the left or south bank of the Kanawha River at lock numbered 6, city of South Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, and more specifically described as follows:
Description.
The land hereinbefore described was acquired by the United States of America by condemnation, recorded in the Kanawha County Circuit Court record book numbered 4, pages 300 and 509, of the records of said county.
Conditions.
Reversionary provision.
Sewer connection with city system.
Payment of expenses.
District of Columbia Boxing Commission.
Collegiate, etc., boxing, supervision.
Terms defined.
District of Columbia Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, amendments.
License fees, Retailer’s. Class C.
Railroad dining, etc., cars.
Proviso.
Single license to company engaged in interstate commerce.
In the second paragraph of said subsection strike out the words “
Retailer’s, Class D.
Change the period to a colon at the end of the second paragraph of said subsection and add the following: “ Proviso. License to company engaged in interstate commerce.
Separate application for each location.
Change the period to a comma at the end of the first sentence of Exception, railroad companies.
Ochoco National Forest, Oreg.
Lands added.
Description.
Township 12 south, range 16 east, sections 1 to 4, inclusive, sections 9 to 16, inclusive, sections 21 to 28, inclusive, and sections 33 to 36, inclusive;
Township 13 south, range 15 east, sections 1 and 2, and 11 to 14, inclusive;
Township 13 south, range 16 east, sections 1 to 18, inclusive, 23 to 26, inclusive, and sections 35 and 36;
Township 14 south, range 17 east, sections 1 to 12, inclusive;
Township 14 south, range 18 east, sections 1 to 16, inclusive, sections 21 to 28, inclusive, and sections 33 to 36, inclusive;
Township 14 south, range 19 east, sections 4 to 9, inclusive, sections 16 to 23, inclusive, and sections 26 to 36, inclusive;
Township 15 south range 18 east, sections 1 to 4, inclusive, sections 9 to 16, inclusive, and sections 19 to 36, inclusive;
All of township 15 south, range 19 east;
Township 15 south, range 20 east, section 31;
Township 15 south, range 22 east, section 16;
Township 15 south, range 23 east, section 16;
Township 15 south, range 24 east, section 19;
Township 16 south, range 18 east, sections 1 to 4, inclusive;
Township 16 south, range 19 east, sections 5 and 6;
Township 16 south, range 20 east, south half section 3, south half section 4, and sections 9 to 12, inclusive.
Sea Scout Department of Boy Scouts of America.
Disposal of obsolete, etc., material of Bureau of Lighthouses to, authorized.
Navy.
Sales of surplus scrap metals to schools, etc., authorized.
Transportation costs.
Disposition of unserviceable horses and mules belonging to United States.
Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Loan of Army equipment for encampment at Columbus, Ohio.
Provisos.
No Federal expense.
Bond.
Mount Rushmore Memorial Act of 1938.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial Commission.
Quorum.
Restriction on compensation; payment of expenses.
Proviso.
Secretary or treasurer, compensation.
Organization, etc.
Treasurer may be a bank; bond required.
Executive committee.
Completion of Memorial.
No admission charge.
Authority of Commission.
Designation of area within Harney National Forest, S. Dak.
Reservation as part of Memorial.
Proviso.
Vested rights under mining, etc., laws not affected.
Receipt of property heretofore possessed by Mount Harney Memorial Association.
Administration of funds.
Employment of artists, sculptors, etc.
Administration, etc., of memorial.
Other powers.
Additional sum authorized.
Post, p. 1128.
Advance to treasurer from funds appropriated.
Report to Congress.
National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, 1938.
Attendance of Marine Band authorized.
Appropriation authorized.
Post, p. 1142.
Proviso.
Allowance for additional living expenses.
Cape Henry Memorial, Fort Story, Va.
Preamble.
Transfer of proposed site to Secretary of the Interior.
Jurisdiction, etc.
Proviso.
Use of transferred property.
Smithsonian Institution.
Harvey N. Davis appointed Regent.
[S. 3166]
Indian liquor laws.
Intoxicating liquor.
Sale, etc., to Indians prohibited.
Introduction, etc., into Indian country.
Penalty for violation.
Provisos.
Commitment until fine, etc., paid.
Prosecution of first offenses by information.
Authorized introduction of liquors.
Complaints; venue, etc.
Arrests.
Procedure.
Citations hereunder deemed to apply to offenses subsequent to date of enactment.
Existing Act repealed.
Chippewa Indians of Minnesota.
Determination of total sum in Treasury to credit of, directed.
Deduction and retention of sum for authorized expenses.
Determination of interest of Red Lake Band.
Use of last annuity, etc., rolls in making computation.
Red Lake Chippewa fund to be held as a separate fund.
Remainder of total as property of all other Chippewa Indians of Minnesota.
Division of unexpended balance and future funds.
Alaska, homestead laws.
Use of timber on public lands by churches, etc., for firewood and domestic purposes.
San Bernardino and Cleveland National Forests. Calif.
Acquisition of lands in, to facilitate soil erosion and flood damage control.
Payment; funds available.
Proviso.
Waiver of certain provisions.
Wines, brandy, and fruit spirits.
Provisos.
Use as distilling material, tax.
Withdrawal of samples, tax provisions.
Remission of fortification taxes on quantity of fortifying spirits in exported wines, etc.
Collection of certain distillates removed in distillation.
Removal for denaturation or destruction, tax free.
Distillates collected in fruit brandy distilleries.
Leakage, etc., allowance.
Proviso.
Limitation.
Transfer of fortifying spirits from registered fruit distilleries to storage tanks by pipe line.
Special rates on sales at fairs, etc., if organizations, etc., not otherwise engaged in liquor business.
“The taxes imposed by the first paragraph of this section shall not Tax-paid cordials, liqueurs, etc., exempt from additional beverage tax. Blending, etc., of wines and whiskies. Blends of fruit brandies distilled from same kind of fruit. Proviso. Condition.
“The manufacture of vermouth with fortified sweet wine on bonded Vermouth manufactured with fortified sweet wine on bonded premises. Operations restricted.
49 Stat. 1957.
26 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 1310 (d).
Provisions applicable to natural wine extended.
Fortification of wines, tax on brandies, etc., withdrawn for.
26 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 1300 (a) (2).
Sparkling wines, etc., on bonded premises, tax when sold or removed.
Fortification of wines; limitation on use of certain brandies.
26 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 1176.
Brandy distillers; certain exemptions extended.
26 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 1304.
Use of wines as distilling material.
Owyhee irrigation project.
Payment of charges of designated districts postponed under Reclamation Moratorium Acts.
[S. 3002]
Verde River Irrigation and Power District, Ariz.
Settlement of claims of holders of unpaid notes and warrants of, authorized.
Provisos.
Certain expenditures not included.
Facts to be considered.
Houston County, Ala.
Release of title and interest in certain lands in.
Description.
Relinquishment of rights, etc., of United States only.
Joint congressional committee on phosphate resources of the United States.
Establishment and composition of.
Vacancies.
Chairman.
Study of resources with reference to use and service to American agriculture.
Domestic consumption and exports.
Adequacy of supply.
Western phosphate deposits.
Conservation methods.
Report and recommendations.
Powers conferred.
Hearings.
Subpoenas.
Failure of witness to testify.
Limitation on expense; division of.
Personal services.
5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; Supp. III, 673, 673c.
Utilization of facilities, etc., of Government agencies.
Temporary national economic committee.
Establishment and composition.
Alternates.
Proxies.
Vacancies.
Duties.
Study of monopoly and concentration of economic power, etc.
Causes and effect of concentration, etc.
Existing price system.
Effect of Government policies upon competition, etc.
Adjustment of purchasing power of the dollar.
Recommendations for appropriate legislation.
Subcommittees.
Allowances to members.
Presentation, of evidence by certain executive agencies.
Subject matter.
Issuance of subpoenas.
Personal services.
Preliminary reports, findings, and recommendations.
Final reports, etc.
Quorum.
Powers and rights conferred.
Appropriation authorized.
Post, p. 1118.
Amount immediately available.
Amount for division among departments and agencies.
Floor tax on distilled spirits.
Brandy excepted.
Each retail dealer in liquors and each person required hereunder to Return. Extension of time of payment.
All provisions of law, including penalties, applicable in respect of Applicability of other provisions of law.
Educational orders to familiarize commercial concerns with production of war munitions, etc., authorized.
Solicitation of bids; limitation.
Determination of munitions to be manufactured, bidders, etc.
Approval of contracts.
Inclusion of gages and other appliances in first orders to be placed.
Title to remain in Federal Government.
Limitation on awards.
Appropriations authorized.
Post, p. 1153.
Wind Cave National Park.
Disposition of surplus buffalo and elk.
Deposit of receipts.
Puerto Rico.
Ratification, etc., of all joint resolutions passed by Legislature or former legislative assembly.
District of Columbia.
Tax exemption, property of Young Women’s Christian Association.
Remission of any accrued taxes.
Federal Farm Loan Act, amendments.
12 U. S. C. § 771; Supp. III, § 771.
Extension of reduced interest rates on certain Federal land-bank loans.
Time limit for final payments extended.
Loans by Land Bank Commissioner.
“Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, the rate Interest rate limitation.
June 14 (calendar day, June 75), 1938.
Certificate of the House of Representatives.
That the said bill pass, two-thirds of the House of Representatives agreeing to pass the same.
Certificate of origin.
June 7 (calendar day, June 16), 1938.
Certificate of the Senate.
That the bill do pass, two-thirds of the Senators present having voted in the affirmative.
Department of Agriculture and Farm Credit Administration appropriations, 1939.
Department of Agriculture and Farm Credit Administration appropriations, 1939.
United States district courts.
Clerks, deputies, and assistants, acceptance of compensation from other sources forbidden.
Exception, if appointed commissioners; rate limitation.
Oglethorpe National Trail and Parkway.
Preamble.
Use of funds authorized for survey of old Indian and Oglethorpe Trail.
Location of parkway.
Yachts, tugs, unrigged vessels, etc.
Manning of certain merchant vessels by certificated personnel; exceptions.
Tugs and towboats.
Able seamen In deck crew.
Service and rating; requirements.
Service and rating at least equal to that of coal passer or wiper in the engine department of tugs and towboats operating on the seas or Great Lakes or on the bays and sounds connected directly with the seas shall be considered as meeting the requirement of subsection (e) of section 1 of said Act which requires that an applicant for rating under that subsection shall produce to the inspector of the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation definite proof of at least six months’ service at sea in a rating at least equal to that of coal passer or wiper in the engine department of vessels required by said Act to have such certificated men.
Other provisions operative.
Crew quarters, unrigged vessels, etc.
Continuous discharge book requirements; exception.
Definitions.
“Unrigged vessel.”
“Seagoing barge.”
Veterans.
Injury or disease incurred in line of duty.
Veterans’ Regulation No. 10, amendment.
38 U. S. C., ch. 12, Appendix.
“in lino of duty” construed.
An injury or disease will be deemed to have been incurred ‘in line of duty’ when the person on whose account benefits are claimed was, at the time the injury was suffered or disease contracted, in the active service in the military or naval forces, whether on active duty or on authorized leave, unless it appears that the injury or disease has been caused by misconduct on his part: Proviso. Requirement not considered met in specified cases.
“Where the injury or disease occurs while on leave, the burden of Where injury or disease occurs while on leave.
Disability due to venereal disease.
Los Angeles, Calif.
Acceptance of certain land and Improvements in, authorized.
Use by Naval and Marine Corps Reserve.
Provisos.
No Federal cost.
Conditions of acceptance.
District of Columbia, flag.
Commission created to procure design for.
Proviso.
Advice of Commission of Fine Arts.
National Firearms Act, amendment.
Taxes on certain types of firearms.
Transfer tax.
Manitowoc, Wis., lighthouse keeper’s residence.
Conveyance to Otto Oas Post, No. 659, Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Reversionary provision.
Seventh World’s Poultry Congress and Exposition, Cleveland, Ohio, 1939.
Dutiable articles, imported for exhibition purposes, 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 for incurred Federal expenses.
Deposit of receipts as refunds.
District of Columbia, Minimum Wage Board.
Secretary and employees, salaries.
Missouri River.
Time extended for bridging, at Niobrara, Nebr.
Amendment.
Shipping.
Clearance of vessels.
“The master or person having the charge or command of any vessel Manifest of all cargo aboard and value thereof, by master, etc., before departure. Penal provisions. Departure to foreign port without clearance; exception. False manifest, etc. Adding to cargo; departure delayed without reporting delay. Penalty. In case of narcotics, spirits, etc. Enforcement. Proviso. Clearance without filing complete manifest, etc.; bond. Penalty for delinquency. Suit for recovery of penalties.
Post, p. 1248.
“Before a clearance shall be granted for any vessel bound to a Shippers’, etc., manifests. Verification. Contents. Sworn statement as to destination. Proviso. Clearance without filing manifest, etc.; bond. Post, p. 1248. Penalty for delinquency. Suit for recovery of penalties.
Repeal, modification, etc., provision.
Printing Act of 1895, amendments.
Statutes at Large.
Contents.
Extra sessions of Congress.
Admissibility in evidence.
In the phrase “ Distribution.
In the phrase “ Senate Library.
In the phrase “ House Library.
Joint Committee on Printing.
Opening bids for furnishing paper and envelopes.
Bond.
Evidence required of unknown bidders.
Inconsistent acts repealed.
Effective date.
[S. 3597]
Mississippi River.
Time extended for bridging, at Natchez, Miss.
Amendment.
[S. 3611]
Missouri River.
Time extended for bridging, Decatur, Nebr., to Onawa, Iowa.
Amendment.
[S. 3836]
Agricultural Adjustment Act of p. 67.
Ante, p. 67.
Reconcentration of cotton held as loan security.
Written consent of producer or borrower by separate instrument.
Moving from one warehouse to another.
Not prerequisite to making loan.
Proviso.
Exceptions.
[S. 3837]
Red River.
North Dakota and Minnesota may bridge.
Location.
Acquisition of real estate, etc.
Amendment.
[S. 3898]
Piscataqua River.
Time extended for bridging, at Portsmouth, N. H.
Amendment.
[S. 3907]
Missouri River.
Time extended for bridging, at Garrison, N. Dak.
Amendment.
[S. 3990]
Missouri River.
Time extended for bridging, at Miami, Mo.
Amendment.
[S. 4027]
Colorado-Big Thompson project.
Excess-land provisions inapplicable to lands receiving supplemental water supply from.
[S. 4090]
Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act.
Terms defined.
Prosecutions.
Consent by accused.
Procedure.
Court jurisdiction.
Consent deemed waiver of jury trial.
Probation after conviction; period, etc.
18 U. S. C. §§ 724–728; Supp. III, § 725.
Commitment to custody of Attorney General.
Designation of agency for custody, care, etc.
Fund made available for expenses.
Arrests on Federal charges.
Notice to Attorney General.
Detention.
Release on bail, etc.
Commitment to jail, etc., forbidden; exception.
Segregation from adults.
Contracts with agencies for custody, care, etc.
Appropriation available.
Release on parole.
Application of provisions to District of Columbia.
Short title.
[S. 4144]
Puget Sound.
Act authorizing bridge across, amended.
Pierce County or Washington Toll Bridge Authority, Wash., may bridge at “The Narrows.”
Time limitation extended.
Amendment.
General Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, monument.
Appropriation authorized for erection, at Woodstock, Va.
Provisos.
Site.
Care and upkeep.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Power to make loans, etc., to avert threatened loss.
Niagara River.
Niagara Falls Bridge Commission may bridge, at Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Post, p. 770.
Approval of Canada.
Purchase, operation, etc., of existing bridges authorized; limitations.
Acquisition of real estate, etc., in New York.
Acquisition of real estate, etc., in Canada.
Tolls authorized.
Bond issue to cover costs, etc.
Interest, maturity, etc.
Form.
Repurchase and redemption.
Agreement with any bank, etc., as trustee.
Provision for protecting rights, etc., of trustee and bondholders.
Proposed bridge deemed an instrumentality for international commerce.
Tax exemption.
Bond sale.
Items included in cost.
Disposition of excess, if proceeds of bond issue exceed cost.
Issuance of temporary bonds.
Application of tolls to maintenance, sinking fund, etc.
Residue to be placed in sinking fund.
Record of expenditures and receipts.
Classification of traffic.
Exemptions from toll charges.
Conveyance of interests after payment of bonds, etc.
Condition.
Operation by commission if either interests fail to accept.
Niagara Falls Bridge Commission.
Creation, corporate powers, etc.
For the purpose of carrying into effect the objects stated in this joint resolution, there is hereby created the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission, and by that name, style, and title said body shall have perpetual succession; may contract and be contracted with; sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, complain and defend in all courts of law and equity; may make and have a common seal; may purchase or otherwise acquire and bold or dispose of real estate and other property; may accept and receive donations or gifts of money or other property and apply same to the purposes of this joint resolution; and shall have and possess all powers necessary, convenient, or proper for carrying into effect the objects stated in this joint resolution.
Commission membership. Vacancies. Appointment of army officers; restrictions waived. Bond required. Organization; rules, quorum, etc.
Capital stock, etc., restriction; application of revenues.
Personal services.
Provisions for dissolving Commission.
Public hearing, notice.
Division of moneys.
Creation of other obligations, etc., forbidden.
Enforcement of provisions; remedies, etc.
Amendment, etc.
That all the right, Colbert and Lauderdale Counties, Ala. Release of U. S. title to designated islands to owners of equitable titles.
An island known as the “Brush Creek Island” lying in the Description.
An island known as the “Bluff Creek Island” lying in the Tennessee River in section 19, township 2 south, range 13 west, in the county of Lauderdale, State of Alabama; and
An island known as the “Waterloo” or “Bledsoe Island” lying in the Tennessee River in section 12, township 2 south, range 15 west, in the county of Colbert, State of Alabama.
be, and the same is hereby, released, relinquished, and confirmed by the United States to the owners of the equitable titles thereto, as fully and completely in every respect whatever as could be done by Proviso. Title of United States only, relinquished.
Colbert and Lauderdale Counties, Ala.
Release of U. S. title to designated tracts to owners of equitable titles.
That all the right, title, and interest of the United States, except such right, title., and interest as has been acquired by the United States through purchase or condemnation, in and to all of the following-described property, to wit:
Description.
An island named “Garner Towhead”, lying in the Tennessee River, the upstream tip of which is approximately nine, hundred and seventy feet south of and approximately two thousand seven hundred feet east of the northwest corner of section 31. Said island has an approximate maximum length of three thousand and forty feet and an approximate maximum width of four hundred and thirty feet.
The above-described island contains twenty-three and four-tenths acres, more or less; and
A tract of land lying in Lauderdale County, State of Alabama, in the Tennessee River, in township 3 south, range 11 west, said tract being an island and more particularly described as follows:
An unnamed island lying in the Tennessee River, the downstream tip of which is approximately one thousand five hundred and seventy feet south of and approximately two thousand six hundred and sixty feet east of the northwest corner of section 31. Said island has an approximate maximum length of one thousand two hundred and twenty feet and an approximate maximum width of two hundred and ninety feet.
The above-described island contains five and two-tenths acres, more or less; and
A tract of land lying in Lauderdale County, State of Alabama, in the Tennessee River, in townships 3 and 4 south, range 12 west, said tract being an island and more particularly described as follows:
An unnamed island lying in the Tennessee River, the downstream tip of which is approximately five thousand three hundred and forty feet south of and approximately two thousand two hundred and twenty feet east of the northwest comer of section 36. Said island has an approximate maximum length of five hundred and fifty feet and an approximate maximum width of ninety feet.
The above-described island contains eight-tenths acre, more or less; and
A tract of land lying in Lauderdale County, State of Alabama, in the Tennessee River, in township 3 south, range 11 west, said tract being an island and more particularly described as follows:
An unnamed island lying in the Tennessee River, the upstream tip of which is approximately two thousand seven hundred feet south of and approximately four hundred and thirty feet east of the northwest corner of section 31. Said island has an approximate maximum length of four hundred and forty feet and an approximate maximum width of three hundred and fifty feet.
The above-described island contains one and seven-tenths acres, more or less: and
A tract of land lying in Lauderdale County, State of Alabama, in the Tennessee River, in township 4 south, range 12 west, said tract being an island and more particularly described as follows:
An island known as “Pippin Towhead” lying in the Tennessee River, the downstream tip of which is approximately nine hundred and twenty feet south of and approximately two thousand six hundred feet east of the northwest corner of section 2. Said island has an approximate maximum length of three thousand six hundred and twenty feet and an approximate maximum width of six hundred and fifty feet.
The above-described island contains thirty-nine and five-tenths acres, more or less; and
A tract of land lying in Lauderdale County, State of Alabama, in the Tennessee River, in townships 3 and 4 south, range 12 west, said tract being an island and more particularly described as follows:
An island known as “No Man Towhead” lying in the Tennessee River, the upstream tip of which is approximately four thousand seven hundred feet south of and approximately two thousand seven hundred feet east of the northwest corner of section 36. Said island has an approximate maximum length of two thousand feet and approximate maximum width of three hundred feet.
The above-described island contains eleven and two-tenths acres, more or less: and
A tract of land lying in Lauderdale County, State of Alabama, in the Tennessee River, in township 3 south, ranges 11 and 12 west; said tract being an island and more particularly described as follows:
An island known as “Goat Towhead” lying in the Tennessee River; the downstream tip of which is approximately four thousand five hundred and twenty feet south of and approximately two thousand four hundred and forty feet east of the northwest corner of section 36. Said island has an approximate maximum length of three thousand six hundred and seventy feet and an approximate maximum width of seven hundred and forty feet.
The above-described island contains forty-five and three-tenths acres, more or less.
be, and the same is hereby, released, relinquished, and confirmed by the United States to the owners of the equitable titles thereto, as fully and completely in every respect whatever as could be done by patents issued according to law: Proviso. Title of United States only, relinquished.
Lauderdale County, Ala.
Release of U. S. title to Jenkins Island to owner of equitable title.
Description.
Proviso.
Title of United States only, relinquished.
Farm Security Administration, Department of Agriculture.
Relief of certain persons at designated projects.
Proviso.
Deductions.
Separations, deductions from payments.
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, amendment.
Ante, p. 53.
National acreage allotment for wheat for 1939.
Battle of Lake Erie.
Preamble.
Appointment of commission to prepare suitable celebration of 125th anniversary.
Composition.
Appropriation authorized.
Post, p. 1117.
Smithsonian Institution.
R. Walton Moore reappointed Regent of.
Smithsonian Institution.
Arthur H. Compton appointed Regent of.
[S. 2629]
San Diego, Calif.
Exchange of lands with, authorized.
That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to transfer to the city of San Diego. California, free from all encumbrances and without cost to said city of San Diego, all right, title, and interest to the land contained within that part of the Naval Supply Depot described Lands transferred by United States.
All that portion of the former military reservation heretofore known as the San Diego Barracks, situated in the city of San Diego, State of California, comprising block 31 of New San Diego according to the map of New San Diego made by A. B. Gray and J. D. Johns, and on file in the office of the county recorder of San Diego County, said lot being also shown on P. W. drawing numbered NT4–4/31–13 (2), bearing the legend “Naval Operating Base, San Diego, California, Supply Depot, Block 31—New San Diego, Transferred from War Department to Navy Department by Executive Order 7451 dated September 17, 1936”,
Lands conveyed by city to United States.
Proviso.
Acquisition of leasehold interest in and improvements on block 19.
Appropriation authorized.
[S. 3263]
State of Georgia, etc.
Release of accountability for lost Federal property.
[S. 3415]
Shoshone (Wind River) Indian Reservation, Wyo.
Purchase of certain private lands within, authorized.
Description.
[S. 3426]
Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District.
Repayment to, of unpaid share of construction costs for conservation, etc.
Appropriation authorized.
That, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $20,470.71 for repayment to the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, a corporate political subdivision of the State of New Mexico, or the unpaid share of the construction costs of said district for conservation, irrigation, drainage, and flood control applicable to the following-described lands in the county of Bernalillo, State of New Mexico, within the exterior boundaries of said district:
Description of lands.
the lands so described being owned by the United States and having been materially benefited by the construction works of the said district, and the share of the costs of such construction having been determined by an appraisal of benefits made by the said district’s board of appraisers at the same time and in the same manner and on the same basis as appraisals made against other lands in the said district, and the assessments made thereon by the Board of com
Operation and maintenance costs for years 1934–1937. inclusive.
Appropriation authorized.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, Agreement for payment of future operation, etc., costs.
The said operation and maintenance charge to be upon all lands Operation, etc., charge to be on Albuquerque Indian school lands.
Extra construction for special benefit of certain Indian lands.
Appropriation authorized.
Provisions for maintenance, newly reclaimed Pueblo Indian lands, extended.
Application to lands purchased by U. S. for certain Pueblo Indians of New Mexico.
[S. 3469]
Judicial Code, amendment.
Circuit courts of appeals, jurisdiction to review final decisions.
District courts; exception.
District Courts for Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
District Court for Alaska, etc., Virgin Islands; Canal Zone in designated cases.
Supreme Courts of Hawaii and of Puerto Rico in designated cases.
United States Court for China.
[S. 3754]
District of Columbia Code, amendments.
That sections 729 (31 Stat. 1306) and 743 (31 Stat. 1309) of chapter XVIII of the Code of Laws of the District of Columbia are amended as follows:
Trust companies. Capital stock, division into shares; amount.
Increase or decrease of capital stock.
That the said section 743 be amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph:
Reduction of capital; procedure; limitation. Approval by Comptroller of the Currency. Approval by stockholders.
[S. 4050]
Pennsylvania eastern judicial district.
Additional judge for; filling of vacancy.
Rio Grande National Forest, Colo.
Lands added.
Description.
Sections 21 and 22, and sections 25 to 36, inclusive, township 42 north, range 5 east.
Sections 31, 32, and 33, township 42 north, range 6 east.
East half section 7; sections 8 to 17, inclusive; east half section 18; sections 19 to 29, inclusive; east half section 30; sections 32 to 36, inclusive; township 41 north, range 4 east.
All of township 41 north, range 5 east.
West half of township 41 north, range 6 east.
Sections 1 to 5, inclusive, and sections 8 to 19, inclusive, township 40 north, range 4 east.
Sections 1 to 6, inclusive, township 40 north, range 5 east.
Sections 4, 5, and 6, township 40 north, range 6 east.
Sections 4, 10, 11, 12, 13; northwest quarter section 14; east half northwest quarter, northeast quarter section 15; sections 24, 25, and 36; township 39 north, range 4 east.
Sections 13 to 36, inclusive, township 39 north, range 5 east.
Sections 16 to 21, inclusive, and sections 28 to 33, inclusive, township 39 north, range 6 east.
Section 1, east half section 2, northeast quarter section 11, sections 12 to 13, north half and southeast quarter section 24, township 38 north, range 5 east.
Sections 4 to 9, inclusive, and sections 16 to 21, inclusive, township 38 north, range 6 east.
That when title to Hawaii National Park. Lands added.
Kalapana extension (being portions of the lands of Kahaualea, Description. Kalapana extension.
Along the seacoast at high-water mark, in a general southwesterly direction for the first five courses, the true azimuths and distances between points on said seacoast being—
To and along the seacoast at high-water mark to the point of beginning, the true azimuth and distance being: Exactly fifty-three degrees and eighteen minutes three thousand three hundred and sixty-four feet.
Area, forty-nine thousand three hundred and forty acres.
Footprint extension: Beginning at the northeast corner of this Footprint extension.
Two hundred and twenty-five degrees and forty-six minutes three hundred and forty and six-tenths feet to the point of beginning and containing an area of five thousand seven hundred and thirty acres, more or less;
Additional adjacent or contiguous lands. Proviso. Lands to be secured by donations only.
Acceptance of title authorized.
Leases for home site purposes in the Kalapana extension to natives.
Provisos.
Residence requirements.
Fishing restrictions.
“Native Hawaiian” defined.
Provisions of designated Acts extended to additions.
Provisos.
Designated provisions inapplicable.
Conveyance authorized.
Isle Royale National Park, Mich.
Certain acquired lands made a part of.
Use of allocated funds in acquisition of lands.
District of Columbia. Uniform Narcotic Drug Act.
Definitions.
“Person.”
“Physician.”
“Dentist.”
“Veterinarian.”
“Manufacturer.”
“Wholesaler.”
“Apothecary.”
“Hospital.”
“Laboratory.”
“Sale.”
“Coca leaves.”
“Opium.”
“Cannabis.”
“Narcotic drugs.”
“Federal narcotic laws.”
“Official written order.”
“Dispense.”
“Registry number.”
“Board of Pharmacy.”
Acts prohibited.
Manufacturers and wholesalers.
Licenses.
Fee.
Deposit of unexpended balances.
Qualifications for licenses.
That the applicant is equipped as to land, buildings, and paraphernalia properly to carry on the business described in his application.
No license shall be granted to any person who has been convicted of a willful violation of any law of the United States, or of any State, relating to opium, coca leaves, cannabis, or other narcotic drugs, or to any person who is a narcotic-drug addict.
The Board of Pharmacy may suspend or revoke any license issued Suspension or revocation of license.
Use of official written orders.
An official written order for any narcotic drug shall be Duplicate order forms. Preservation of orders. Sale, etc., except on prescribed written order, unlawful. Preservation of orders.
Order forms, preparation, sale, etc. Record to be kept. Rules and regulations.
Compliance with Federal narcotic laws deemed compliance with section.
Sale on written orders by licensed manufacturer or wholesaler.
Hospitals, use restricted.
Proviso.
Signature required.
Laboratory uses.
Federal, State, etc., officers.
Master of a ship, etc.
Registered physicians from other States, etc.
Proviso.
Restriction.
To person abroad if Federal laws complied with.
Possession lawful.
Conditions prescribed.
Authorized uses.
Sales by apothecaries.
Disposition of stock upon discontinuance of dealing in drugs.
Aqueous, etc., solutions.
Professional use of narcotic drugs.
Physicians and dentists.
Veterinarians.
Return of unused drugs.
Preparations exempted.
Medical preparations containing small quantities of opium, etc.
Preparations susceptible of external use only.
Prescribing, administering, dispensing, or selling at retail of liniments, ointments, and other preparations that are susceptible of external use only and that contain narcotic drugs in such combinations as prevent their being readily extracted from such liniments, ointments, or preparations, except that this Act shall apply to all liniments, ointments, and other preparations that contain coca leaves in any quantity or combination.
Exemptions subject to conditions prescribed. Contents other than narcotic drug.
The medicinal preparation, or the liniment, ointment, or other preparation susceptible of external use only, prescribed, administered, dispensed, or sold, shall contain in addition to the narcotic drug in it, some drug or drugs conferring upon it medicinal qualities other than those possessed by the narcotic drug alone.
Such preparation shall be prescribed, administered, dispensed, and Prescription, etc., in good faith as a medicine.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the kind and Drugs prescribed, etc., in compliance with general provisions of Act.
Manufacturers or wholesalers shall sell tincture opii camphorata, Paregoric, restriction on sale. Prescriptions.
Record to be kept.
Physicians, etc.
Manufacturers and wholesalers.
Apothecaries.
Vendors of exempted preparations.
Form and preservation of records.
Labels.
Manufacturers and wholesalers.
Apothecaries.
Narcotic drugs.
Authorized possession by individuals.
Search warrants.
By whom issued.
Issuance only upon probable cause; affidavit.
Examination before issuance of warrant.
Facts to be established, etc.
Issuance of warrant.
Service.
Taking of property under warrant.
Return and inventory of property taken.
Copy of inventory to each party.
Filing provisions.
Resisting, etc., service; assault on warrant server.
Penalty.
Persons and corporations exempted.
Common nuisances.
Narcotic drugs, possession, etc., not established; disposition.
Forfeiture, etc.
Record, etc., to be kept.
Delivery to Board of Pharmacy permitted.
Hospitals.
Excess stocks.
Record of receipt, etc., by Board of Pharmacy.
Notice of conviction to be sent to licensing board, etc.
Reinstatement.
Records to be kept confidential.
Restriction on inspection.
Divulging of information prohibited.
Fraud or deceit.
Exceptions and exemptions not required to be negatived.
Enforcement and cooperation.
It is hereby made the duty of the major and superintendent of police of the District of Columbia to enforce all provisions of this Act, except those specifically delegated, and to cooperate with all agencies charged with the enforcement of the laws of the United States relating to narcotic drugs.
Personal services.
Penalties.
Federal narcotic laws.
Effect of acquittal or conviction under.
Constitutionality.
Inconsistent laws repealed.
Name of Act.
Trinity National Forest, Calif.
Lands added.
Proviso.
Restriction on location or entry.
District of Columbia, zoning regulation.
Zoning Commission, powers and duties.
Regulation of location, height, etc., of structures.
Yards, courts, and other open spaces.
Uses of buildings and lands.
Division into districts or zones.
Uniformity of regulations within each district.
Purposes of regulations.
Existing regulations continued effective until amended, etc.
Amendments authorized.
Public hearings before becoming effective.
Notice of time and place; publication.
Vote required for amendment.
Zoning Advisory Council; creation, membership.
Submission of proposals to, before adoption.
Proviso.
Failure of Council to act within 30 days.
Maximum height of buildings.
Use of existing buildings.
Restriction.
Extension and substitution of nonconforming uses.
A board of zoning adjustment is hereby created which shall Board of Zoning Adjustment; creation, composition, etc.
The representative of the National Capital Park and Planning Changes and filling vacancies.