Chapter 96.
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CHAP. 96.— Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to bring back on Army transports from Danzig, Poland, residents of the United States of Polish origin who were engaged in the war on the side of the allied and associated powers. March 10, 1920. [[S. J. Res. 156](/us/bill/66/sjres/156).] [[Pub. Res., No. 31](/us/bill/66/pubres/31).] Polish residents serving with allies in World WarPreamble.Whereas there are now in concentration camps at or near Warsaw, Poland, and have been since November, 1919, upward of twelve thousand residents of the United States of Polish origin who were equipped and transported at the expense of Great Britain and France from the United States to Poland and who were engaged in active service in behalf of the allied cause during the war; and Whereas they are desirous of returning to their homes in this country and are without means to accomplish such repatriation:
Therefore be it *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Army transports may be used for returning, to United States. That authority be, and hereby is, given to the Secretary of War to use such Army transports as may be available to bring back to the United States from Danzig, Poland, such residents of the United States of Polish origin as were engaged in the war on the side of the allied and associated powers.
Approved, March 10, 1920.