Chapter 72. To amend the Transportation Act, 1920
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CHAP. 72.— An Act To amend the Transportation Act, 1920. February 26, 1921. [[H. R. 15836](/us/bill/66/hr/15836).] [[Public, No. 328](/us/pl/66/328).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Transportation Act.*Ante*, p. 469, amended. That the Transportation Act, 1920, is hereby amended by adding after section 211 a new section to read as follows: " “Sec. 212.
(a)In making certifications under section 204 or sectionCertificates of amounts found due to railroads, to be made. 209, the Commission, if not at the time able finally to determine the whole amount due under such section to a carrier or the American Railway Express Company, may make its certificate for any amount definitely ascertained by it to be due, and may thereafter in the same manner make further certificates, until the whole amount due has been certified. The authority of and direction to the Secretary ofPayment on. the Treasury under such sections to draw warrants is hereby made applicable to each such certificate. Warrants drawn pursuant to thisFunds available. section, whether in partial payment or in final payment, shall be paid:
(1)If for a payment in respect to reimbursement of a carrierFor Federal control deficit.*Ante*, p. 461. for a deficit during the period of Federal control, out of the appropriation made by section 204;
(2)if for a payment in respect to theGuaranty to railroads. *Ante*, p. 466. guaranty to a carrier other than the American Railway Express Company, out of the appropriation made by subdivision
(g)of section 209; and
(3)if for a payment in respect to the guaranty to the AmericanTo American Railway Express Company.*Ante*, p. 467. Railway Express Company, out of the appropriation made by the fifth paragraph of subdivision
(i)of section 209. “(b) In ascertaining the several amounts payable under either ofEstimates of deferred debits and credits authorized. such sections, the Commission is authorized, in the case of deferred debits and credits which can not at the time be definitely determined, to make, whenever in its judgment practicable, a reasonable estimate of the net effect of any such items, and, when agreed to by the carrierUse for making payments. or express company, to use such estimate as a definitely ascertained amount in certifying amounts payable under either of such sections, and such estimates so agreed to shall be prima facie but not conclusive evidence of their correctness in amount in final settlement.” " Approved, February 26, 1921.