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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 47 STAT. · March 23, 1906 · Public Law 5

Public Law 5. to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906

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(/us/pl/72/4)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Clarks Fork River. Washington, etc., may bridge at Ione. That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to Pend Oreille County, State of Washington, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Clarks Fork River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near Ione, Washington, Construction.Vol. 34, p. 84.in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906.
Sec. 2. Amendment. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, January 28, 1932. Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and for other purposes. 1932-02-02 12 Chapter 47 Stat. 15 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public 15 [CHAPTER 12.] AN ACT Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and for other purposes.February 2, 1932.[[H. R. 6660](/us/bill/72/hr/6660)][[Public, No. 5](/us/pl/72/5)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the followingFirst Deficiency Act, fiscal year, 1932. sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and for other purposes, namely:
TITLE I LEGISLATIVE ESTABLISHMENTLegislative. senateSenate. To pay to Elizabeth C. Morrow, widow of Honorable DwightDwight W. Morrow.Pay to widow. W. Morrow, late a Senator from the State of New Jersey, $10,000. To pay to Hattie W. Caraway, widow of Honorable ThaddeusThaddeus H. Caraway.Pay to widow. H. Caraway, late a Senator from the State of Arkansas, $10,000. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fiscal year 1932,Miscellaneous items. $75,000. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate,Inquiries and investigations, expenses. including compensation to stenographers of committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding 25 cents per hundred words, fiscal year 1932, $100,000: *Provided*, That except*Provisos*.Restriction on amount of payment for services. in the case of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation no part of this appropriation shall be expended for services, personal, professional, or otherwise, in excess of the rate of $3,600 per annum: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall bePer diem and subsistence expenses.Vol. 44, p. 688. expended for per diem and subsistence expenses except in accordance with the provisions of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, approved June 3, 1926.
For repairs, improvements, equipment, and supplies for SenateKitchens and restaurants, repairs, etc. kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Building, including personal and other services, to be expended from the contingent fund of the Senate under the supervision of the Committee on Rules, United States Senate, fiscal year 1932, $12,000. house of representativesHouse of Representatives. To pay the widow of Ernest R. Ackerman, late a RepresentativeErnest R.
Ackerman.Pay to widow. from the State of New Jersey, $10,000. To pay the widow of James B. Aswell, late a RepresentativeJames B. Aswell.Pay to widow. from the State of Louisiana, $10,000. To pay the widow of Charles G. Edwards, late a RepresentativeCharles G. Edwards.Pay to widow. from the State of Georgia, $10,000. To pay the widow of George S. Graham, late a RepresentativeGeorge S. Graham.Pay to widow. from the State of Pennsylvania, $10,000. To pay the widow of Fletcher Hale, late a Representative fromFletcher Hale.Pay to widow. the State of New Hampshire, $10,000.
To pay the widow of Nicholas Longworth, late a RepresentativeNicholas Longworth.Pay to widow. from the State of Ohio, $10,000. To pay the widow of Samuel C. Major, late a Representative fromSamuel C. Major.Pay to widow. the State of Missouri, $10,000. 16 Charles A. Mooney.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of Charles A. Mooney, late a Representative from the State of Ohio, $10,000. Matthew V. O’Malley.Pay to mother.To pay the mother of Matthew V. O’Malley, late a Representative from the State of New York, $10,000.
Bird J. Vincent.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of Bird J. Vincent, late a Representative from the State of Michigan, $10,000. Harry M. Wurzbach.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of Harry M. Wurzbach, late a Representative from the State of Texas, $10,000. Disbursement.The eleven preceding appropriations shall be disbursed by the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives. Committee on Revision of the Laws.Preparation, etc., of the laws.Vol. 45, p. 1008;[U. S. C., Supp. V, p. 3](/us/usc/p3).Laws and Treaties of the United States.Committee on Revision of the Laws:
For preparation and editing of the laws as authorized by section 10 of the Act approved May 29, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 1, sec. 59), fiscal year 1932, $5,000; for the employment of competent persons to assist in continuing the work of compiling, codifying, and revising the laws and treaties of the United States, fiscal years 1932 and 1933, $3,000. Unexpended balance available.Vol. 45, p. 1608.Not to exceed $1,432.55 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $6,500, contained in the First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1929, for preparation and editing of the laws is continued available during the fiscal year 1932.
Folding.For folding speeches and pamphlets at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, fiscal year 1932, $8,000. architect of the capitolArchitect of the Capitol. House Office Building.Reconstruction and remodeling.House Office Building: For reconstruction and remodeling of the House Office Building, including all structural, mechanical alterations and other changes, with such modifications as the House Office Building Commission may direct, $60,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to remain available until June 30, 1933, and to be expended by the Architect of the Capitol under the supervision of the House Office Building Commission; and the Architect of the Capitol Contracts for supplies, etc.is hereby authorized to enter into contracts in the open market, to make expenditures for material, supplies, equipment, technical and reference books, and instruments, accessories, advertising, travel expenses and subsistence therefor, and, without regard to section 35 Vol. 36, p. 699.[U.
S. C., p. 1303](/us/usc/p1303).Vol. 42, p. 1488; Vol. 46, p. 1003.[U. S. C., p. 65; Supp. V, p. 28](/us/usc/p28).Disbursement.of the Public Buildings Act, approved June 25, 1910, as amended, or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, to employ all necessary personnel, including professional, architectural, and engineering, and other assistants. This appropriation shall be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the Interior Department. New House Office Building.Furnishings and equipment.New House Office Building:
To enable the Architect of the Capitol to provide furnishings and equipment for the New House Office Building within the authorized limit of cost for site and construction Vol. 45, p. 1071.as provided in Act approved January 10, 1929 (45 Stat. 1071), $400,000 to remain available until June 30, 1933; and the Architect Contracts for supplies, etc.of the Capitol is hereby authorized to enter into contracts in the open market, to make expenditures for material, supplies, equipment, technical and reference books, and instruments, accessories, advertising, travel expenses and subsistence therefor, and, without regard to Vol. 36, p. 699.[U.
S. C., p. 1303](/us/usc/p1303).Vol. 42, p. 1488; Vol. 46, p. 1003.[U. S. C., p. 65; Supp. V, p. 28](/us/usc/p65/p28).Disbursement.section 35 of the Public Buildings Act, approved June 25, 1910, as amended, or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, to employ all necessary personnel, including professional, architectural, and engineering, and other assistants. This appropriation shall be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the Interior Department. Capitol Grounds.Enlarging the Capitol Grounds:
To enable the Architect of the Capitol to provide for the demolition and removal of structures in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to pro-17vide for the enlarging of the Capitol Grounds,” approved March 4,Enlarging.Vol. 45, p. 1694; Vol. 46, p. 1522. 1929 (45 Stat. 1694), as amended by Act approved March 4, 1931 (46 Stat. 1522), $50,000, to remain available until June 30, 1933. Library building and grounds: For an additional amount for theLibrary building and grounds.Acquisition of site.Vol. 45, p. 622. acquisition of a site for additional buildings for the Library of Congress, as authorized in the Act approved May 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 622), notwithstanding the limit of cost for site named in that Act, but in pursuance of condemnation awards, $321,201.94.
To enable the Architect of the Capitol to provide for the removalRemoval of buildings, etc. of buildings and structures in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the acquisition of certain propertyVol. 45, p. 622. in the District of Columbia for the Library of Congress, and for other purposes,” approved May 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 622), $20,000, to remain available until June 30, 1933. EXECUTIVE OFFICE AND INDEPENDENTExecutive Office and Independent Establishments.
ESTABLISHMENTS executive officeExecutive Office. Protection of interests of the United States in matters affectingNaval oil reserves.Expenses, canceling leases. oil lands in former naval reserves: For an additional amount for compensation and expenses of special counsel and for all other expenses, including employment of experts and other assistants at such rates as may be authorized or approved by the President, in connection with carrying into effect the joint resolution directing the Secretary of the Interior to institute proceedings touching sections 16 and 36, township 30 south, range 23 east, Mount Diablo meridian, approved February 21, 1924 (43 Stat. 15), fiscal year 1932,Vol. 43, p. 15. $10,000, to be expended by the President. federal board for vocational educationFederal Board for Vocational Education.
Cooperative vocational education in agriculture and home economics:Studies in agriculture and home economics. For an additional amount for carrying out the provisions of section 1 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the furtherVol. 45, p. 1151.[U. S. C., Supp. V, p. 321](/us/usc/p321). development of vocational education in the several States and Territories,” approved February 5, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 20, secs. 15a, 15c), fiscal year 1932, $83,000. Vocational education in Porto Rico:
For extending to Porto Rico the benefits of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational education; to provide for cooperation with the States in the promotion of such education in agriculture and the trades in industries; to provide for cooperation with the States in the preparation of teachers of vocational subjects; and to appropriate money and regulate its expenditure,” approved February 23, 1917 (U. S. C., title 20, secs. 11–18), in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to extend the provisions of certain laws relatingVocational education in Puerto Rico.Vol. 39, p. 929.[U.
S. C., pp. 609, 611](/us/usc/p609/p611).Vol. 46, p. 1489.[U. S. C., Supp. V, p. 321](/us/usc/p321). to vocational education and civilian rehabilitation to Porto Rico,” approved March 3, 1931 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 20, sec. 30), fiscal year 1932, $45,000. federal trade commissionFederal Trade Commission. For an additional amount for authorized expenditures of the FederalExpenses.Vol. 46, p. 1362. Trade Commission in performing the duties imposed by law. including the same objects specified under this head in the “Independent Offices Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1932,” $20,000. 18 george washington bicentennial commissionGeorge Washington Bicentennial Commission.Expenses, etc.Vol. 46, p. 1363.
Public Buildings and Parks of the National Capital.For an additional amount for the George Washington Bicentennial Commission for the fiscal years 1932 and 1933, including the same objects specified under this head in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1932, $225,000. office of public buildings and public parks of the national capitalMount Vernon Memorial Highway.Vol. 46, p. 482. Veterans’ Administration.Mount Vernon Memorial Highway: Not to exceed $4,000 of the appropriation “Salaries, maintenance, and care of buildings, 1932,” and $10,000 of the appropriation “General expenses, maintenance, and care of buildings, 1932,” contained in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1932, are hereby made available for the fiscal year 1932, for the maintenance of the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway and other Federal lands authorized by the Act of May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482). veterans ’ administrationMilitary and naval compensation.Vol. 46, p. 1373.
District of Columbia.Military and naval compensation: For an additional amount for the payment of military and naval compensation accruing during the fiscal year 1932 or in prior fiscal years, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Veterans’ Administration for the fiscal year 1932, $46,872,975. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIAMunicipal Architect’s Office. municipal architect’s officeBalance available.Vol. 46, pp. 966, 969. Street and road improvements.Not to exceed $50,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for buildings and grounds, public schools, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1931, is hereby made available until June 30, 1932, for payment of personal services employed on construction work under the supervision of the Municipal Architect’s Office. street and road improvement and repairBenning Road NE.Vol. 46, p. 1384.
Collection and disposal of refuse.The item for the paving of Benning Road northeast, Fifteenth Street to culvert, $154,400, under the appropriation for Gasoline Tax Road and Street Fund, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1932, is hereby made available to include the construction of a pedestrian underpass at Twenty-fourth Street and Benning Road northeast. collection and disposal of refuse Balance available for incinerators.Vol. 46, p. 97.Not to exceed $260,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $550,000 provided for sites and construction, incinerators for refuse, contained in the First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1930, is hereby made available for the same purpose until June 30, 1933, and Contracts for construction.Vol. 45, p. 1549.the commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for the construction and equipment of such incinerators at a cost which, together with other expenditures authorized by the Act approved March 4, 1929 (45 Stat. 1549), including a resident engineer at not to exceed the rate of $3,800 per annum, shall not exceed *Proviso*.Limit of cost increased.$760,000: *Provided*, That the limitation of $25,000, contained in the First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1930, for the employment by contract or otherwise of such expert and other personal services as may be 19required for the preparation of plans for the construction of said incinerators is hereby increased to $35,000, to enable the commissioners to pay for services not exceeding $10,000 in addition to the amount of $25,000 for such services as set forth in the existing contract of June 13, 1930. public schoolsPublic schools.
Instruction of the Deaf: For an additional amount for maintenanceInstruction of the Deaf. and instruction of colored deaf-mutes of teachable age belonging to the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, fiscal year 1932, $250: *Provided*, That all expenditures under this appropriation*Proviso*.Disbursement. shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. Furniture: For furnishing and equipping buildings and additionsFurniture.Equipping buildings and stadiums. to buildings and stadiums, as follows:
Dunbar High School stadium, $1,800; Western High School stadium, $2,900; Key School, $4,000; Stoddert School, $8,000; Hearst School, $8,000; Janney School, $5,000; Orr School, $4,000; Hine Junior High School, $9,000; Macfarland Junior High School, $22,000; Paul Junior High School, $10,000; Randall Junior High School, $6,300; in all, fiscal years 1932 and 1933, $81,000. metropolitan policeMetropolitan police. House of Detention: For alterations and improvements to numberHouse of Detention.Alterations and improvements. 2 police precinct station house to fit it for use as a house of detention, including the expense of removing and relocating cell blocks and other equipment and the cost of additional equipment; and for necessary changes in number 3 police precinct station house to make it available for use as a police inspection district headquarters, such work to be performed by day labor or otherwise, in the discretion of the commissioners, fiscal year 1932, $12,000. courtsCourts.
Printing and Binding: For an additional amount for printingPrinting and binding. and binding for the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, except records and briefs in cases in which the United States is a party, fiscal year 1932, $1,500. public welfarePublic welfare. Gallinger Municipal Hospital: Not exceeding $7,680 of the appropriationGallinger Municipal Hospital.Personal services.Vol. 46, p. 1399. of $10,000 contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1932 for the isolating ward for minor contagious diseases at Providence Hospital is hereby authorized to be transferred to and made a part of the appropriation for personal services, Gallinger Municipal Hospital, fiscal year 1932.
Hospital for the Insane: For an additional amount for deportationHospital for the Insane.Deportation of nonresident insane.Vol. 30, p. 811. of nonresident insane persons, in accordance with the Act of Congress “to change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes,” approved January 31, 1899 (D. C. Code, title 16, sec. 17), including persons held in the psychopathic ward of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital, fiscal year 1932, $3,000.
Relief of the poor: For an additional amount for payment toRelief of the poor.Abandoned wife or child.Vol. 34, p. 87. beneficiaries named in section 3 of an Act entitled “An Act making it a misdemeanor in the District of Columbia to abandon or willfully neglect to provide for the support and maintenance by any person of his wife or his or her minor children in destitute or necessitous 20circumstances,” approved March 23, 1906 (D. C. Code, title 6, secs. 270–273), to be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia on itemized vouchers duly audited and approved by the auditor of said District, fiscal year 1932, $2,500. water serviceWater service.
Purchase of labor-saving devices.Vol. 46, p. 1412.Not exceeding a further sum of $1,000 of the appropriation for maintenance of the Water Department distribution system for the fiscal year 1932 is hereby made available for the purchase of laborsaving devices for the use of the water registrar’s office. Bryant Street station, pump.Vol. 46, p. 988.Not to exceed $12,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $92,000 contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931, for the purchase and installation of one twenty-million gallon pump at the Bryant Street pumping station, including economizer and generator, is hereby made available for the same purpose for the fiscal year 1932. division of expensesDivision of expenses.
From District revenues and Treasury.The foregoing appropriations for the District of Columbia shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the Treasury of the United States in the manner prescribed by the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for the respective fiscal years for which such appropriations are made. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUREDepartment of Agriculture. forest serviceForest Service. Salaries and expenses.Vol. 46, p. 1258.Salaries and expenses (fighting and preventing forest fires):
For an additional amount for fighting and preventing forest fires, fiscal year 1932, including the same objects specified under this head in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1932, $4,260,000. bureau of public roadsBureau of Public Roads. Federal-aid highway system.Federal-aid highway system: For an additional amount for carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes,” approved July 11, 1916 (39 Stat.
Vol. 39, p. 355; Vol. 40, p. 1200; Vol. 42, pp. 660, 1157; Vol. 43, p. 889; Vol. 44, p. 760; Vol. 45, pp. 750, 1220.[U. S. C., pp. 422, 668; Supp. V, p. 195](/us/usc/p422/p668/p195).Vol. 46, p. 1266.355–359), and all Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, including the same objects specified under this head in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1932, including not to exceed $142,434 for departmental personal services in the District of Columbia, $50,000,000, to remain available until expended, Vol. 46, p. 141.being a part of the sum of $125,000,000 authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, by paragraph 1 of the Act approved April 4, 1930 (46 Stat. 141).
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCEDepartment of Commerce. office of the secretarySecretary’s office. Additional amount for salaries.Vol. 46, p. 1329.Salaries: For an additional amount for salaries, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year 1932, Vol. 46, p. 1564.$70,280, and, in addition thereto, not to exceed $29,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $120,000 under this head, contained in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1931, is hereby continued available for the fiscal year 1932. 21 contingent expensesContingent expenses.
For an additional amount for contingent expenses, DepartmentAdditional amount. of Commerce, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year 1932, $27,720, and in addition thereto, not toVol. 46, pp. 1329, 1564. exceed $17,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $60,725 under this head, contained in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1931, is hereby continued available for the fiscal year 1932.
For an additional amount for printing and binding, including thePrinting and binding.Vol. 46, p. 1330. same, objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Commerce for the fiscal year 1932, $6,000. bureau of lighthousesBureau of Lighthouses. Damage claims: To pay the claim adjusted and determined by theDamage claims.Vol. 36, p. 537.[U. S. C., p. 1091](/us/usc/p1091). Department of Commerce under the provisions of section 4 of the Act approved June 17, 1910 (U.
S. C., title 33, sec. 721), on account of damages occasioned to private property by collision with a vessel of the Lighthouse Service and for which damage such vessel was responsible, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 177, Seventy-second Congress, $65. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORInterior Department. office of the secretarySecretary’s office. The amount authorized to be deducted from appropriations forContingent expenses, amount increased. the fiscal year 1932 for the Indian Service and placed to the credit of the appropriation for contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, for the purchase of stationery supplies, is hereby increased from $50,000 to $55,000. bureau of indian affairsIndian Affairs Bureau.
Enrollment, Indians of California: For an additional amount forEnrollment, Indians of California.Vol. 45, p. 602.Vol. 46, p. 259. carrying out. the provisions of section 7 of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the attorney general of the State of California to bring suit in the Court of Claims on behalf of Indians in California,” approved May 18, 1928 (45 Stat. 602), as amended by the Act of April 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 259), fiscal years 1932 and 1933, $7,550. Suppressing forest fires on Indian reservations:
For an additionalSuppressing forest fires.Vol. 46, p. 1123. amount for the suppression or emergency prevention of forest fires on or threatening Indian reservations, fiscal year 1932, $50,000, together with $25,000 from funds held by the United States in trust for the respective tribes of Indians interested. Irrigation, Indian reservations (reimbursable): For an additionalIrrigation, Indian reservations.Additional amount.Vol. 46, p. 1125. amount for the construction, repair, and maintenance of irrigation systems, and for purchase or rental of irrigation tools and appliances, water rights, ditches, and lands necessary for irrigation purposes for Indian reservations as follows:
Goshute, Utah, fiscal year 1932, $400, reimbursable as provided in the Act of August 1, 1914Vol. 38, pp. 582–587.[U. S. C., p. 716](/us/usc/p716). (U. S. C., title 25, sec. 385). Irrigation, Colorado River Reservation, Arizona (reimbursable):Colorado River Reservation, Ariz.Additional amount.Vol. 46, p. 1126. For an additional amount for improvement, operation, and maintenance of the pumping plants and irrigation system on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona, as provided in the Act ofVol. 36, pp. 270–273.[U.
S. C., p. 716](/us/usc/p716). April 4, 1910 (36 Stat., 273), fiscal year 1932, $7,500, reimbursable as provided in the aforesaid Act. 22 Ganado irrigation project, Ariz.Additional amount.Vol. 46, p. 1126.Ganado irrigation project, Navajo Reservation, Arizona (reimbursable): For an additional amount for improvement, operation, and maintenance of the Ganado irrigation project, Arizona, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, fiscal year 1932, $25,000.
Uintah Reservation, Utah.Additional amount.Vol. 46, p. 1129.Irrigation system, Uintah Reservation, Utah (tribal funds): For an additional amount for continuing operation and maintenance and betterment of the irrigation system to irrigate allotted lands of Vol. 34, p. 375,the Uncompahgre, Uintah, and White River Utes in Utah, authorized under the Act of June 21, 1906 (34 Stat., 375), fiscal year 1932, $20,000, to be paid from tribal funds held by the United States in trust for said Indians, said sum to be reimbursed to the tribal fund by the individuals benefited under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.
Indian schools, support.Additional amount.Vol. 46, p. 293.Indian schools, support: For an additional amount for payment of tuition of Indian children enrolled in public schools, fiscal year 1931, $7,300. Support and administration of property.Vol. 46, p. 1138.Support of Indians and administration of Indian property: For an additional amount for general support of Indians and administration of Indian property, including pay of employees, fiscal year *Proviso*.Employment of Indian labor.1932, $275,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for the employment of Indian labor on any necessary project or activity. geological surveyGeological Survey.
Investigation of Alaskan mineral resources.Vol. 46, p. 1147.The amount authorized to be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia during the fiscal year 1932 from the appropriation for continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska is hereby increased from $33,000 to $48,000. national park serviceNational Park Service. Mesa Verde National Park.Water well.Mesa Verde National Park: For an additional amount for the completion of a deep water well, fiscal years 1932 and 1933, $22,000.
Emergency reconstruction and fighting fires.Vol. 46, p. 1153.*Proviso*.Availability.Emergency reconstruction and fighting fires: For an additional amount for emergency reconstruction and fighting forest fires in national parks, fiscal year 1932, $55,000: *Provided*, That these funds shall be available for reimbursement of park appropriations for the amounts transferred therefrom under the authority contained in the Interior Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1932. howard universityHoward University.
Emergency construction.Vol. 46, p. 1070.The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $200,000 for Howard University, emergency construction, contained in the First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1931, shall be available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1932. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICEDepartment of Justice. contingent expensesContingent expenses. Printing and binding.Vol. 46, p. 1321.For an additional amount for printing and binding for the Department of Justice and the courts of the United States, fiscal year 1932, $60,000.
Traveling, etc., expenses.Vol. 46, p. 1321.Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: The Secretary of the Treasury, upon request of the Attorney General, is authorized to transfer to the appropriation “Traveling and Miscellaneous Expenses, Department of Justice, fiscal year 1932,” not exceeding $12,000 from any other appropriation for the fiscal year 1932 under the control of the Department of Justice. 23 miscellaneous objects, department of justiceMiscellaneous objects. The amount which may be expended for personal services inVol. 46, p. 1322. the District of Columbia from the appropriation “Detection and prosecution of crimes, 1932,” is hereby increased from $414,246 to $496,315, of which $20,430 shall be available for temporary services only. marshals, district attorneys, clerks, and other expenses of united states courtsUnited States courts.
Salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals: For an additionalMarshals.Vol. 46, p. 189. amount for salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals and their deputies, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1931, $27,000. Fees of commissioners: For an additional amount for fees ofCommissioners, etc.[R. S., sec. 1014, p. 189](/us/rs/s1014/p189).[U. S. C., p. 506](/us/usc/p506). United States commissioners and other committing magistrates acting under section 1014, Revised Statutes (U.
S. C., title 18, sec. 591), fiscal year 1930, $5,195.35. Fees of jurors and witnesses: For an additional amount for feesJurors, etc.Vol. 46, p. 1325. of jurors and witnesses, United States courts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1932, $150,000. Pay of bailiffs, and so forth: For additional amounts for bailiffsBailiffs. and criers, including the same objects specified under this head in the Acts making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the following fiscal years:
For 1931, $14,000;Vol. 46, p. 190. For 1932, $30,000.Vol. 46, p. 1325. Miscellaneous expenses: For an additional amount for such miscellaneousMiscellaneous expenses.Vol. 45, p. 1112. expenses as may be authorized or approved by the Attorney General for the United States courts and their officers, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations*Proviso*.Payment to Charles Warren.Vol. 46, p. 190. for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1930, $4,834.81: *Provided*, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation “Miscellaneous expenses, United States courts,” for the fiscal year 1931 is hereby made available for the payment of $7,503.79 to Charles Warren, special master in the case of United States against The State of Utah, as the amount due from the United States for compensation and expenses of said special master, under the order of the Supreme Court of the United States, dated May 18, 1931, and the Comptroller General is authorized and directed to allow credit forAppropriations available. payments heretofore made from the appropriations for “Miscellaneous expenses, United States courts,” for the fiscal years 1930 and 1931 made in connection with said case of the United States against The State of Utah if otherwise correct.
Support of United States prisoners: For an additional amountSupport of prisoners.Vol. 45, p. 83. for support of United States prisoners, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Department of Justice for the fiscal year 1929, $16,826.05. DEPARTMENT OF LABORDepartment of Labor. bureau of immigrationBureau of Immigration. Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries andSalaries and expenses.Vol. 46, p. 1352. expenses, Bureau of Immigration, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the 24*Provisos*.Limitation removed.Department of Labor for the fiscal year 1932, $475,000: *Provided*, That the limitation contained in the 1932 appropriation Act under this head that “$2,368,800 shall be available only for coast and land Motor-vehicle purchases, etc.border patrol,” is hereby removed: *Provided further*, That the limitation contained in the 1932 appropriation Act under this head that “not to exceed $165,000 of the sum herein appropriated shall be available for the purchase, exchange, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor vehicles,” shall not be construed as embracing the cost of motor fuels, lubricants, and garage rentals.
NAVY DEPARTMENTNavy Department. secretary’s officeSecretary’s office. Collision damages.Vol. 42, p. 1066.U. S. C., p. 1127.Claims for damages by collision with naval vessels: To pay claims for damages adjusted and determined by the Secretary of the Navy under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to settle claims for damages to private property arising from collisions with naval vessels,” approved December 28, 1922 (U.
S. C., title 34, sec. 599), as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 41, Seventy-second Congress, $5,988.75. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENTPost Office Department. Out of the Postal Revenues office of the chief inspectorOffice of Chief Inspector.Additional amount.Vol. 46, p. 361. Rewards payment.Payment of rewards: For an additional amount for payment of rewards, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year 1931, $39,500. office of the first assistant postmaster generalFirst Assistant Postmaster General.
Village delivery service.Vol. 46, p. 1238.Village delivery service: For an additional amount for village delivery service, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year 1932, $100,000. office of the second assistant postmaster generalSecond Assistant Postmaster General. Railway Mail Service.Vol. 46, p. 1239.Railway Mail Service, salaries: For an additional amount for salaries, Railway Mail Service, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Post Office Department for the fiscal year 1932, $1,500,000.
DEPARTMENT OF STATEDepartment of State. Salaries, chargés d’affaires ad interim.Additional amount.Vol. 45, p. 1096.Salaries, chargés d’affaires ad interim: For an additional amount for salaries of Foreign Service officers or vice consuls while acting as chargé d’affaires ad interim or while in charge of a consulate general or consulate during the absence of the principal officer, fiscal year 1930, $1,203.68. World’s Poultry Congress.Unexpended balance available.Vol. 46, p. 116.Fourth World’s Poultry Congress:
So much of the unexpended balance of the appropriation “Fourth World’s Poultry Congress, 1930–1931 ” as may be necessary is hereby made available for the payment of expenses incident to travel by steamer, rail, and motor on the official postcongress tours in connection with this Congress. Bringing home criminals.Additional amount.Vol. 45, p. 1107.Bringing home criminals: For an additional amount for actual expenses incurred in bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, fiscal year 1930, $385.88. 25 Mixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany:
For anMixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany. additional amount for expenses of determining the amounts of claims against Germany by the Mixed Claims Commission established under the agreement concluded between the United States and Germany on August 10, 1922, and subsequent agreementVol. 42, p. 2200.Vol. 45, p. 2698. between those Governments, for the determination of the amount to be paid by Germany in satisfaction of the financial obligations of Germany under the treaty concluded between the Governments of the United States and Germany on August 25, 1921, including theVol. 42, p. 1939. expenses which under the terms of such agreement of August 10, 1922, are chargeable in part to the United States, and the preparation of a final report by the American commissioner and the orderly arrangement for preservation and disposition of the records of the commission; and the expenses of an agency of the United States to perform all necessary services in connection with the preparation of claims and the presentation thereof before said mixed commission, and the preparation of a final report of the agent and theFinal report. orderly arrangement for preservation of the records of the agency and the. disposition of property jointly owned by the two Governments, including salaries of an agent and necessary counsel andEmployment of counsel, etc. other assistants and employees, rent in the District of Columbia, employment of special counsel, translators, and other technical experts, by contract, without regard to the provisions of any statute relative to. employment, and for contract stenographic reporting services without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes[R.
S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).[U. S. C., p. 1309](/us/usc/p1309).Printing and binding.Traveling expenses. (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5), law books and books of reference, printing and binding, contingent expenses, traveling expenses and subsistence or per diem in lieu of subsistence (notwithstanding the provisions of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926 or regulations prescribedVol. 44, p. 688. pursuant thereto), and such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as the President may deem proper, fiscal years 1932 and 1933, $65,500.
General and Special Claims Commissions, United States andGeneral and Special Claims Commissions, United States and Mexico. Mexico: That not to exceed $50,000 of the appropriation of $367,000 for the General and Special Claims Commissions, United States and Mexico, contained in the State Department Appropriation ActVol. 46, p. 1318. for the fiscal year 1932, shall be available for such expenses, in additionAdditional amount for closing up affairs. to those now enumerated in the appropriation, as in the discretion of the Secretary of State may be necessary in closing up the affairs of the agency of the United States, including expenses incurred on and after October 15, 1931.
TREASURY DEPARTMENTTreasury Department. office of treasurer of the united statesOffice of the Treasurer. Salaries: For an additional amount for salaries, Office of theSalaries.Additional amount.Vol. 46, p. 1222. Treasurer of the United States, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1932, $20,000. office of the supervising architectSupervising Architect’s Office. Fort Worth, Texas, Narcotic Farm:
For acquisition of site underNarcotic Farm, Fort Worth, Tex.Acquisition of site.Vol. 45, p. 1085.[U. S. C., Supp. V, p. 330](/us/usc/p330). the authority of the Act entitled “An Act to establish two United States narcotic farms for the confinement and treatment of persons addicted, to the use of habit-forming narcotic drugs who have been convicted of offenses against the United States, and for other purposes,” approved January 19, 1929 (U. S. C., Supp. V, secs. 222, 223), $164,780, to remain available until June 30, 1933. 26 Sites and construction, public buildings.Additional amount.Vol. 44, p. 630.[U.
S. C., Supp. V, p. 601](/us/usc/p601).*Provisos*.Remodeling Department of State Building, excluded.Sites and construction, public buildings, Act of May 25, 1926, as amended: For an additional amount for public buildings, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1932, $16,800,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation for the construction of public buildings shall be used for remodeling and reconstructing the Department of State Building under the Vol. 46, p. 907.authorization therefor contained in the Act approved July 3, 1930 Restriction on demolishing certain other buildings.(46 Stat. 907): *Provided further*, That no part of this or any other appropriation shall be used for or in connection with the demolition of the District of Columbia Municipal Building at Fourteenth and E Streets northwest, the Post Office Department building at Twelfth and D Streets northwest, or the building, 1300 E Street northwest (formerly the Southern Railway Building).
Rent.Vol. 46, p. 1231.Rent of temporary quarters: For an additional amount for rent of temporary quarters, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1932, $825,000. Outside professional services.Vol. 46, p. 1233.Outside professional services: For an additional amount for outside professional services, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1932, $300,000, to remain available until expended.
General expenses, public buildings.Vol. 46, p. 1232.General expenses of public buildings: For an additional amount for general expenses of public buildings, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Personal services.Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1932, $81,000, and the limitation on the amount that may be expended for personal services contained in said Act is hereby increased from $1,727,900 to $1,808,900. Operating force, public buildings.Vol. 46, p. 1233.Operating force for public buildings:
For an additional amount for operating force for public buildings, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1932, $200,000. Furniture and repairs.Vol. 46, p. 1234.Furniture and repairs of same for public buildings: For an additional amount for furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1932, $250,000.
Treasury Building, D. C.Vault construction.Vol. 46, p. 1231.Treasury Building, Washington, District of Columbia, construction of vault: The appropriation of $1,250,000 contained in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1932, for the construction of a two-story vault in the north court of the Treasury Building, including all necessary mechanical Remodeling of existing vaults.Lift installation.and vault equipment for same, and incidental changes to the building in connection therewith, is hereby amended so as to include the remodeling and rearrangement of existing vaults in said building under the control of the Treasurer of the United States, and installation of new lift.
WAR DEPARTMENTWar Department. Military ActivitiesMilitary activities. finance departmentFinance department. Pay of the Army.Vol. 45, p. 1353.Pay, and so forth, of the Army: The sum of $660,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for “Pay, and so forth, of the Army, 1930,” contained in the War Department Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1930, approved February 28, 1929, is hereby made available Vol. 46, p. 435.for expenditure for “Pay, and so forth, of the Army, 1931,” 27including the same objects specified under that head in the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1931. quartermaster corpsQuartermaster Corps.
Acquisition of land at Kelly Field, Texas: For the acquisition ofKelly Field, Tex.Acquisition of land.Vol. 46, p. 832. land at Kelly Field, Texas, under condemnation proceedings as authorized by the Act approved June 28, 1930 (46 Stat. 832), fiscal year 1932, $135,152.32, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest at the rate stipulated and in accordance with the judgments rendered in condemnation to date of payment. militia bureauMilitia Bureau. Arming, equipping, and training the National Guard:
For anNational Guard arming, etc.Vol. 46, p. 451. additional amount for pay of National Guard (armory drills) for the fiscal year 1931, $250,000. TITLE II. JUDGMENTS AND AUTHORIZED CLAIMSJudgments and authorized claims. damage claimsDamage claims. Section 1. For the payment of claims for damages to or lossesPayment of.Vol. 42, p. 1066.[U. S. C., p. 989](/us/usc/p989). of privately owned property adjusted and determined by the following respective departments under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case,” approved December 28, 1922 (U.
S. C., title 31, secs. 215–217), as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 46 and House Document Numbered 178, Seventy-second Congress, as follows: Department of Agriculture, $856.95; Department of Commerce, $287.95; Department of the Interior, $285.40; Department of Labor, $250; Navy Department, except the claim of Harry D. Simons as set forth on page 7 of said Senate Document Numbered 46, $1,711.88; Post Office Department (out of the postal revenues), $28,352.86; Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, $138.05;
Treasury Department, $1,864.68; Veterans’ AdministrationDee Tian, etc., claims excepted., $808.53; War Department, except the claims of Dee Tian and Judge Anacleto Diaz as set forth on page 25 of said Senate Document Numbered 46, $2,550.70; in all, $37,107. judgments, united states courtsJudgments, United States courts. Sec. 2. For payment of the final judgments and decrees, includingPayment of.Vol. 24, p. 505. costs of suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1887, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” as amended by the Judicial Code, approved March 3, 1911 (U.
S. C., title 28,Vol. 36, p. 1138.[U. S. C., pp. 867, 898, 938](/us/usc/p867/p898/p938). sec. 41, par. 20; sec. 258; secs. 761–765), certified to the Seventy-second Congress in Senate Document Numbered 40 and House Document Numbered 175, under the following departments, namely: Department of Labor, $5,649.79; Post Office Department, $3,370; War Department, $2,554.34; in all, $11,574.13, together with suchInterest. additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of 4 per centum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made.
For the payment of judgments, including costs of suits, renderedJudgments rendered by district courts.Vol. 43, p. 1112.[U. S. C., p. 1529](/us/usc/p1529). against the Government of the United States by United States district courts under the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act authorizing suits against the United States in admiralty for damages caused by and salvage services rendered to public vessels belonging 28to the United States, and for other purposes,” approved March 3, 1925 (U.
S. C., title 46, secs 781–789), certified to the Seventy-second Congress in House Document Numbered 175, under the following departments, namely: Department of Commerce, $4,705.90; Navy Department, $18,041.51; Treasury Department, $2,590.36; War Interest payment.Department, $26,083.80; in all, $51,421.57, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest as and where specified in such judgments. Judgments rendered in special cases.For the payment of the judgments, including costs of suits, rendered against the Government by United States district courts in special cases and under the provisions of certain special Acts and certified to the Seventy-second Congress in Senate Document Numbered 40 and House Document Numbered 175, under the following departments, namely:
Department of Justice, $3,500; Navy Department, Interest payment.$55,201.53; War Department, $187,968.29; in all, $246,669.82, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest as and where specified in such judgments. Time of payments.None of the judgments contained under this caption shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired except such as have become final and conclusive against the United States by failure of the parties to appeal or otherwise.
Interest.Payment of interest wherever provided for judgments contained in this Act shall not in any case continue for more than thirty days after the date of approval of the Act. judgments, court of claimsJudgments, Court of Claims. Sec. 3. Payment of. For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims and reported to the Seventy-second Congress, in Senate Document Numbered 39 and House Document Numbered 174, under the following departments and establishments, namely:
United States Veterans’ Administration, $659.46; Department of Commerce, $6,914.23; Navy Department, $252,758.67, except Number H 320 in favor of Tillett S. Daniel and Number K 138 in favor of William B. Hetfield; Post Office Department, $48,913.44; Treasury Department, $48,745.97; War Department, except Number K 317 in favor of Albert C. Dalton, $220,018.34; United States Shipping Board, $102,596.44; in all, $680,606.55, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on certain of the judgments at the legal rate per annum as and where specified in such judgments.
Time of payment.None of the judgments contained under this caption which have not been affirmed by the Supreme Court or otherwise become final and conclusive against the United States shall be paid until the expiration of the time within which application may be made for a writ of Vol. 43, p. 939.[U. S. C., p. 900](/us/usc/p900).certiorari under subdivision
(b)section 3, of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Judicial Code, and to further define the jurisdiction of the circuit courts of appeals and of the Supreme Court, and for other purposes,” approved February 13, 1925 (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 288). audited claimsAudited claims. Sec. 4. Payment of. For the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the balances Vol. 18, p. 110.[U. S. C., p. 1022](/us/usc/p1022).of which have been carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874 (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 713), and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1929 and prior years, unless otherwise Vol. 23, p. 254.[U. S. C., p. 43](/us/usc/p43).stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 266), as fully set forth in 29House Document Numbered One hundred and seventy-three, Seventy-secondAudited claims—Continued. Congress, there is appropriated as follows: legislative establishmentLegislative establishment. For increase of Library of Congress, $15.47. independent officesIndependent offices. For salaries and expenses, United States Food Administration, $8. For salaries and expenses, Arbitration Boards, Board of Mediation, $41.65. For salaries and expenses, Federal Board for Vocational Education, $1.50. For Interstate Commerce Commission, $31.73. For United States Veterans’ Administration, $12,726.45. department of agricultureDepartment of Agriculture. For salaries and expenses, Weather Bureau, $4.26. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $13.36. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $567.43. For salaries and expenses, Forest Service, $10. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Entomology, $5.42. For salaries and expenses, food, drug, and insecticide administration, $3.05. For stimulating agriculture and facilitating distribution of products, $1.50. department of commerceDepartment of Commerce. For increase of compensation, Department of Commerce, $10. For compiling foreign-trade statistics, Department of Commerce, $26.46. For district and cooperative office service, Department of Commerce, $443.74. For promoting commerce in Latin America, $50. For contingent expenses, Steamboat Inspection Service, $2.25. For salaries, lighthouse vessels, $32.50. For retired pay, Lighthouse Service, $54.90. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $4.75. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $17.59. For air-navigation facilities, $387.90. For salaries, Bureau of Standards, $26.46. For investigating mine accidents, $1.80. For collecting statistics, Bureau of the Census, $13.14. department of justiceDepartment of Justice. For contingent expenses, Department of Justice, $39.20. For defending suits in claims against the United States, $102. For detection and prosecution of crimes, $36.45. For printing and binding, Department of Justice and courts, $6.75. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $1,721.45. For pay of regular assistant attorneys, United States courts, $70. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $3,076.65. For fees of jurors, United States courts, $33. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $121.37. 30Audited claims—Continued.For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $256.04. For support of United States prisoners, $18.75. For United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, $54.55. For Federal industrial institution for women, maintenance, 57 cents. department of the interiorDepartment of the Interior. For surveying the public lands, $37.88. For Geological Survey, $12. For National Park Service, $28.48. For general expenses, Bureau of Education, $1.80. For education of natives of Alaska, $49.72. For general expenses, Indian Service, $3,464.11. For industrial work and care of timber, $500. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $70.42. For support of Indians and administration of Indian property, $9.22. For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $2,165.50. For Indian schools, support, $354.73. For Indian boarding schools, $164.99. For Indian school transportation, $22. For bridge and road, Hoopa Valley Reservation, California, $14,237.74. For conservation of health among Indians, $360.95. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, $8. department of laborDepartment of Labor. For expenses of regulating immigration, $198.90. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Naturalization, $3. navy departmentNavy Department. For increase of compensation, Naval Establishment, $34.24. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $598.90. For organizing the Naval Reserve Force, $73.74. For engineering, Bureau of Engineering, $2,873.36. For engineering, Bureau of Steam Engineering, $6.80. For pay, subsistence, and transportation, Navy, $16,357.74. For pay of the Navy, $18,092.14. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $7,624.96. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $20.54. For salaries, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $41.98. For care of the dead, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $5. For salaries, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $111.94. For aviation, Navy, $5,333.50. For pay, Marine Corps, $1,386. For general expenses, Marine Corps, $328.20. For maintenance, Quartermaster’s Department, Marine Corps, $75. post office department—postal servicePost Office Department.Postal Service. (Out of the postal revenues) For balances due foreign countries, $970.34. For car fare and bicycle allowance, $115. For city-delivery carriers, $376.49. For clerks, first and second class post offices, $321,89. For clerks, third-class post offices, $418. For compensation to assistant postmasters, $87.62. 31For compensation to postmasters, $1,406.02.Audited claims—Continued. For freight, express, or motor transportation of equipment, and so forth, $22.63. For indemnities, domestic mail, $1,668.44. For indemnities, international registered mail, $2.03. For indemnities, international mail, $247.17. For labor-saving devices, $15. For miscellaneous items, first and second class post offices, $30. For post-office equipment and supplies, $12. For payment of rewards, $1,000. For railroad transportation and mail-messenger service, $1,745.50. For rent, light, and fuel, $1,935.12. For rural-delivery service, $242.35. For separating mails, $47.50. For star-route service, $24.86. For vehicle service, $126.61. department of stateDepartment of State. For allowance for clerks at consulates, $115. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $179.05. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $158.17. For expenses of prisons for American convicts, $25.50. For post allowances to Foreign Service officers, $75. For relief and protection of American seamen, $9.47. For salaries, Foreign Service officers, $233.88. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, $93.22. For transportation of Foreign Service officers, $377.04. For transporting remains of diplomatic officers, consuls, and consular assistants, 23 cents. treasury departmentTreasury Department. For printing and binding, Treasury Department, $124.91. For stationery, Treasury Department, $2.01. For collecting the revenue from customs, $2,115.12. For collecting the internal revenue, $404.07. For enforcement of narcotic and national prohibition act, internal revenue, $2,129.45. For Coast Guard, $1,930.79. For pay and allowances, Coast Guard, $5,031.10. For contingent expenses, Coast Guard, $26.29. For fuel and water, Coast Guard, $323.56. For mileage, and so forth, Coast Guard, $6. For outfits, Coast Guard, $21.81. For repairs to Coast Guard vessels, $8,246.61. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, $698.73. For pay of acting assistant surgeons, Public Health Service, $20. For pay of other employees, Public Health Service, $2. For field investigations of public health, $1.75. For preventing the spread of epidemic diseases, $503.50. For compensation of employees, Bureau of Engraving and Print- For suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, $4.84. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $556.05. For general expenses of public buildings, $10.69. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $10.55. For operating supplies for public buildings, $72.10. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, 65 cents. 32 war departmentAudited claims—Continued.War Department. For registration and selection for military service (Act of June 15, 1917), $4. For registration and selection for military service, $4. For pay, and so forth, of the Army (Longevity Act of January 29, 1927), $5,322.54. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $75,826.62. For pay of the Army, $10,597.98. For pay, and so forth, of the Army (War with Spain), $330.06. For arrears of pay, bounty, and so forth, $300.08. For finance service, $78.02. For mileage of the Army, $294.95. For apprehension of deserters, and so forth, $50. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $26,495.30. For increase of compensation, War Department, $960. For Army transportation, $9,045.75. For barracks and quarters, $6,497.32. For barracks and quarters, other buildings and utilities, $266.12. For clothing and equipage, $236.75. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $3,610.41. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster Department, $282.10. For regular supplies of the Army, $266.60. For subsistence of the Army, $45.09. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $1,456.35. For medical and hospital department, $21.50. For armament of fortifications, $2,851.67. For field artillery armament, $1,450.32. For ordnance service, $22.98. For replacing ordnance and ordnance stores, $144.57. For ordnance stores, ammunition, $4.42. For repairs of arsenals, $5.36. For seacost1 1 So in original. defenses, ordnance, $140.22. For Air Corps, Army, $186.27. For Signal Service of the Army, $405.94. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard (Act May 22, 1928), $7,780.69. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $2,233.89. For Organized Reserves, $445.24. For pay of the National Guard for armory drills, $225.21. For civilian military training camps, $140.75. For Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, $93.16. For maintenance, United States Military Academy, $30.51. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $6,382.97. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $3.72. Total, audited claims, section 4, $293,594.31, together with such additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency as specified in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office. AUDITED CLAIMS Sec. 5. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations Vol. 18, p. 110.[U. S. C., p. 1022](/us/usc/p1022).the balances of which have been carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874, as amended (U. S. C., title 31, sec. 713), and under appropriations heretofore 33treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1929Audited claims—Continued.Vol. 23, p. 254.[U. S. C., p. 43](/us/usc/p43). and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 266), as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 42, Seventy-second Congress, there is appropriated as follows: independent officesIndependent offices. For Interstate Commerce Commission, $3.60. For military and naval compensation, Veterans’ Bureau, $706.50. For medical and hospital services, Veterans’ Bureau, $7,287.80. For salaries and expenses, Veterans’ Bureau, $5. For vocational rehabilitation, Veterans’ Bureau, $1.25. For Army pensions, $24.60. For investigation of pension cases, Pension Office, $1.25. department of agricultureDepartment of Agriculture. For salaries, Department of Agriculture, $7.04. For increase of compensation, Department of Agriculture, $1.33. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $1.50. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Entomology, $62.75. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey, 60 cents. department of commerceDepartment of Commerce. For air navigation facilities, $824.64. department of the interiorDepartment of the Interior. For Geological Survey, $18.86. For medical relief in Alaska, $26.75. For conservation of health among Indians, $6.33. For Indian schools, support, $131.54. For Indian boarding schools, $10.99. department of justiceDepartment of Justice. For detection and prosecution of crimes, $8.60. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $911.18. For salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, $18.10. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $577.60. For fees of jurors, United States courts, $33.70. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $18.70. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $356.62. For support of United States prisoners, $632. department of laborDepartment of Labor. For salaries, Bureau of Naturalization, $1. navy departmentNavy Department. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $24.15. For organizing the Naval Reserve, $36.40. For instruments and supplies, Bureau of Navigation, $202.30. For pay, subsistence, and transportation, Navy, $1,443.14. For pay of the Navy, $591.38. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $71.59. 34Audited claims—Continued.For fuel and transportation, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $30. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $149.40. For pay, Marine Corps, $164.70. post office department—postal servicePost Office Department.Postal Service. (Out of the postal revenues) For balances due foreign countries, $4,314.69. For city-delivery carriers, $79.75. For clerks, first and second class post offices, $215.79. For indemnities, domestic mail, $106.81. For indemnities, international mail, $63.66. For rent, light, and fuel, $3,151.59. For special-delivery fees, $6.65. For vehicle service, $56.84. treasury departmentTreasury Department. For collecting the revenue from customs, $32.55. For payment of judgments against collectors of customs, $1,234.68. For Coast Guard, $668.48. For pay and allowances, Coast Guard, $351.80. For collecting the internal revenue, $30.54. For refunding internal-revenue collections, $2.50. For enforcement of Narcotic and National Prohibition Acts, internal revenue, $93.25. For pay of personnel and maintenance of hospitals, Public Health Service, $33. war departmentWar Department. For registration and selection for military service, $320.90. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $15,671.10. For pay of the Army, $5,010.83. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, war with Spain, $115.98. For arrears of pay, bounty, and so forth, $2.81. For apprehension of deserters, and so forth, $8.05. For increase of compensation, War Department, $493.80. For increase of compensation, Military Establishment, $2,418.66. For Army transportation, $396.52. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $535.80. For subsistence of the Army, $96.10. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $58.89. For armament of fortifications, $14.26. For field artillery armament, $4.58. For seacoast defenses, Ordnance, $78.41. For seacoast defenses, Panama Canal, Ordnance, $16.50. For seacoast defenses, insular possessions, Engineers, $122. For Air Service, Army, $92.89. For arming, equipping, and training the National Guard, $10.04. For Organized Reserves, $93.95. For pay of the National Guard for armory drills, $12. For Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, $135.30. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $2.37. Total, audited claims, section 5, $50,547.21, together with such additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency as specified in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office. 35 Sec. 6. For the payment of the claim of A. H. Cousins allowed bySundry claims allowed.A. H. Cousins.Vol. 46, p. 1854. the General Accounting Office under the provisions of Private Act Numbered 50, approved June 2, 1930 (46 Stat. 1854), and certified to the Seventy-second Congress in House Document Numbered 176, under the Department of Agriculture, $60. For the payment of the claim allowed by the General AccountingDesignated Army officers.Vol. 45, p. 2364. Office under the provisions of Private Act Numbered 524, approved March 2, 1929 (45 Stat. 2364), and certified to the Seventy-second Congress in House Document Numbered 176, under the War Department, $255.70. For the payment of the claim of E. F. Zanetta allowed by theE. F. Zanetta.Vol. 46, p. 2125. General Accounting Office under the provisions of Private Act Numbered 386, approved February 28, 1931 (46 Stat. 2125), and certified to the Seventy-second Congress in House Document Numbered 176, under the War Department, $2,315.32. For the payment of the claim of Alexander H. Bright allowed byAlexander H. Bright.Vol. 46, p. 2136. the General Accounting Office under the provisions of Private Act Numbered 420, approved March 3, 1931 (46 Stat. 2136), and certified to the Seventy-second Congress in House Document Numbered 176, under the War Department, $573.50. Total under section 6, $3,204.52. SHORT TITLEShort title of Act. This Act may be cited as the “First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1932.”. Approved, February 2, 1932. Making an appropriation for expenses of participation by the United States in the general disarmament conference at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1932. 1932-02-02 13 Chapter 47 Stat. 35 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 13.] JOINT RESOLUTION Making an appropriation for expenses of participation by the United States in the general disarmament conference at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1932.February 2, 1932.[[H. J. Res. 251](href=/us/bill/72/hjres/251)][[Pub. Res., No. 8](/us/bill/72/pubres/8)] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That for the expenses ofDisarmament Conference.Appropriation for participation expenses.*Ante*, p. 4.*Post*, p. 783. participation by the United States in a general disarmament conference to be held in Geneva in 1932, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including transportation and subsistence or per diem in lieu thereof (notwithstanding the provisions of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926 or regulations prescribed pursuantVol. 44, p. 688. thereto); personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, asVol. 42, p. 1488.Vol. 46, p. 1003. amended; stenographic and other services by contract if deemed necessary without regard to the provisions of section 3709 of the[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733).[U. S. C., p. 1309](/us/usc/p1309). Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5); rent of offices and rooms; purchase of necessary books and documents; printing and binding; official cards; entertainment; hire, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; the reimbursement of other appropriations from which payments may have been made for any of the purposes herein specified; and such other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $300,000, to remain available until June 30, 1933. Approved, February 2, 1932. Making an appropriation to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay for subscriptions to the capital stock of Federal land banks. 1932-02-02 14 Chapter 47 Stat. 36 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public 36 [CHAPTER 14.] JOINT RESOLUTION Making an appropriation to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay for subscriptions to the capital stock of Federal land banks.February 2, 1932.[[H. J. Res. 261](href=/us/bill/72/hjres/261)][[Pub. Res., No. 9](/us/bill/72/pubres/9)] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Federal land banks.Sum appropriated for subscriptions to capital stock of. That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $125,000,000, to remain available until expended, to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay for subscriptions to the capital stock of Federal land banks in accordance *Ante*, p. 12.with the provisions of section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Federal Farm Loan Act, as amended, to provide for additional capital for Federal land banks, and for other purposes,” *Proviso*.Proceeds of repayments.approved January 23, 1932: *Provided*, That any proceeds of repayments on account of stock so issued shall be credited to this appropriation and be available for the purpose of paying for other stock thereafter issued pursuant to such Act. Approved, February 2, 1932. To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Elk River at or near Kelso, Tennessee. 47 Stat. 36 Chapter 15 1932-02-04 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 15.] AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Elk River at or near Kelso, Tennessee.February 4, 1932.[[S. 556.](/us/bill/72/s556)][[Public, No. 6.](/us/pl/72/6)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Elk River.Time extended for bridging at Kelso, Tenn.Vol. 46, p. 1055. That the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Elk River, on the Fayetteville-Winchester road near the town of Kelso, in Lincoln County, Tennessee, authorized to be built by the Highway Department of the State of Tennessee, by an Act of Congressapproved January 31, 1931, are hereby extended one and three years, respectively, from January 31, 1932. Sec. 2.Amendment. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, February 4, 1932. To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the French Broad River on the proposed Morristown-Newport Road between Jefferson and Cocke Counties, Tennessee. 47 Stat. 36 Chapter 16 1932-02-04 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 16.] AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the French Broad River on the proposed Morristown-Newport Road between Jefferson and Cocke Counties, Tennessee.February 4, 1932.[[S. 2388.](/us/bill/72/s2388)][[Public, No. 7.](/us/pl/72/7)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, French Broad River.Time extended for bridging between Jefferson and Cocke Counties, Tenn.Vol. 46, p. 1064. That the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the French Broad River on the proposed Morristown-Newport Road between Jefferson and Cocke Counties, Tennessee, authorized to be built by the highway department of the State of Tennessee, by an Act of Congress approved February 6, 1931, are hereby extended one and three years, respectively, from February 6, 1932. Sec. 2.Amendment. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, February 4, 1932. To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the French Broad River on the Dandridge-Newport Road in Jefferson County, Tennessee. 47 Stat. 37 Chapter 17 1932-02-04 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public 37 [CHAPTER 17.] AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the French Broad River on the Dandridge-Newport Road in Jefferson County, Tennessee.February 4, 1932.[[S. 2389.](/us/bill/72/s2389)][[Public, No. 8.](/us/pl/72/8)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the timesFrench Broad River.Time extended for bridging in Jefferson County, Tenn.Vol. 46, p. 333.for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the French Broad River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, on the Dandridge-Newport Road, in Jefferson County, Tennessee, authorized to be built by the highway department of the State of Tennessee, by an Act of Congress approved May 14, 1930, are hereby extended one and three years, respectively, from the date of approval hereof. Sec. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment.expressly reserved. Approved, February 4, 1932. To repeal the Act of Congress approved May 31, 1924 (43 Stat. L. 247), entitled “An Act to authorize the setting aside of certain tribal land within the Quinaielt Indian Reservation in Washington, for lighthouse purposes.” 47 Stat. 37 Chapter 18 1932-02-04 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 18.] AN ACT To repeal the Act of Congress approved May 31, 1924 (43 Stat. L. 247), entitled “An Act to authorize the setting aside of certain tribal land within the Quinaielt Indian Reservation in Washington, for lighthouse purposes.”February 4, 1932.[[S. 2408.](/us/bill/72/s2408)][[Public, No. 9.](/us/pl/72/9)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Act ofQuinaielt Indian Reservation, Wash.Lands in, for lighthouse purposes.Vol. 43, p. 247, repealed.May 31, 1924 (43 Stat. L. 247), authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to set aside for lighthouse purposes lot 5, section 13, and lot 1, section 24, township 21 north, range 13 west, Willamette meridian, within the Quinaielt Indian Reservation in Washington, containing a total of forty-three and twenty one-hundredths acres, be, and the same is hereby, repealed in its entirety. Approved, February 4, 1932. To establish a minimum area for a Shenandoah National Park, for administration, protection, and general development by the National Park Service, and for other purposes. 47 Stat. 37 Chapter 19 1932-02-04 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 19.] AN ACT To establish a minimum area for a Shenandoah National Park, for administration, protection, and general development by the National Park Service, and for other purposes.February 4, 1932.[[S. 1089.](/us/bill/72/s1089)][[Public, No. 10.](/us/pl/72/10)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the minimumShenandoah National Park, Va.Area for development by National Park Service, established.Vol. 44, p. 616.Vol. 45, p. 109.area for administration, protection, and general development by the National Park Service in the Shenandoah National Park, the establishment of which is provided for by the Act of Congress approved May 22, 1926 (44 Stat. 616), be, and the same is hereby, established as one hundred and sixty thousand acres, and so much of the said Act of May 22, 1926, and of the Act of February 16, 1928 (45 Stat. 109), as is inconsistent herewith is hereby repealed. Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby,Acceptance of title to land, subject to leases.authorized in his discretion to accept title to lands tendered without cost to the United States within the areas of the Shenandoah National Park, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Mammoth Cave National Park, and the Isle Royale National Park, subject to leases entered into and granted as part consideration in connection with the purchase of said land for tender to the United38States for park purposes, but not exceeding in length of term the*Provisos*.Approval of Secretary of the Interior, required.life of the particular grantor or grantors : *Provided*, That said leases and the terms and conditions thereof shall have previously been submitted to and approved by said Secretary : *And provided*Authority to lease lands. *further*, That he may lease upon such terms and conditions as he deems proper any lands within the aforesaid areas when such use shall not be deemed by him inconsistent with the purposes for which the lands were acquired on behalf of the United States, to persons, educational or religious institutions, private corporations, associations, and partnerships previously occupying such land for terms not exceeding the particular lifetime in the case of natural persons, and not exceeding twenty years in all other cases, which latter leases may be renewed in the discretion of said Secretary : *And provided*Acceptance of lands subject to easements, etc. *further*, That the Secretary of the Interior may accept lands for these parks subject to reservations of rights of way and easements. Approved, February 4, 1932. To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Choctawhatchee River, near Freeport, Florida. 47 Stat. 38 Chapter 21 1932-02-05 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 21.] AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Choctawhatchee River, near Freeport, Florida.February 5, 1932.[[S. 1291.](/us/bill/72/s1291)][[Public, No. 11.](/us/pl/72/11)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Choctawhatchee River.Time extended for bridging, at Freeport, Fla.Vol. 46, p. 781. That the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Choctawhatchee River, near Freeport, Florida, authorized to be constructed by the State of Florida, through and by its highway department, by Act of Congress approved June 18, 1930, are herebyextended two and four years, respectively, from June 18, 1931. Sec. 2.Amendment. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, February 5, 1932. Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Michigan and Berrien County, or either of them, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Saint Joseph River. 47 Stat. 38 Chapter 22 1932-02-05 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 22.] AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Michigan and Berrien County, or either of them, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Saint Joseph River.February 5, 1932.[[S. 2317.](/us/bill/72/s2317)][[Public, No. 12.](/us/pl/72/12)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Saint Joseph River.Michigan may bridge, at Saint Joseph. That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the State of Michigan and Berrien County, or either of them, to construct a free highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Saint Joseph River, at or near Saint Joseph, Michigan, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, Construction.Vol. 34, p. 84.and to maintain and operate the same in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906, and subject to the conditions and limitations contained in this Act. Sec. 2.Amendment. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, February 5, 1932. To authorize the sale of parts of a cemetery reserve made for the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians in Oklahoma. 47 Stat. 39 Chapter 23 1932-02-06 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public 39 [CHAPTER 23.] AN ACT To authorize the sale of parts of a cemetery reserve made for the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians in Oklahoma.February 6, 1932.[[S. 2407.](/us/bill/72/s2407)][[Public, No. 13.](/us/pl/72/13)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the SecretaryCache Creek Indian Cemetery, Okla.Patent to issue for part of. of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be issued a patent in fee for not to exceed two and one-half acres of land lying in the northwest corner of the south half of southwest quarter of section 23, township 5 north, range 12 west, Indian meridian,in Caddo County, Oklahoma, said area being within the tract set apart and reserved as a tribal burial ground for the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians, but long used with their knowledge and assent as a burial place for white residents of the vicinity : *Provided*, That no patent shall issue until a cemetery association*Provisos*.Condition. has been legally organized to hold title and until payment for the area involved has been made to the superintendent of the reservation in an amount not less than the appraised value of the land : *Provided*Mineral rights reserved. *further*, That there is hereby reserved for the use and benefit of the present Indian owners in common all oil, gas, coal, or other minerals in the lands set aside hereunder. Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is further authorized, in hisSale of additional portions authorized. discretion, to offer for sale on competitive bids, at not less than their appraised value, and to convey to the purchasers, such other parts of the said eighty acres heretofore set apart and known as the Cache Creek Indian Cemetery, as may be found not longer needed for Indian burial or administrative purposes; with the understanding that the net proceeds received from such sale or sales and from the cultivation or leasing of any part prior to sale, shall be set apart and constitute a fund for the beautifying, improvement, and management of the portion retained as a tribal cemetery: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Mineral rights reserved. That there is hereby reserved for the use and benefit of the present Indian owners in common all oil, gas, coal, or other minerals in the lands set aside hereunder. Sec. 3.Amendment. It is further provided that each of the three tribes interestedManagement of tribal cemetery. may select one of its full-blood members, the three to function as trustees and custodians of the tribal cemetery, signing leases and otherwise assisting in the management of the property, subject to advice and approval of the superintendent. Approved, February 6, 1932. Providing for the participation of the United States in A Century of Progress (the Chicago World’s Fair Centennial Celebration) to be held at Chicago, Illinois, in 1933, authorizing an appropriation therefor, and for other purposes. 47 Stat. 39 Chapter 24 1932-02-08 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 24.] AN ACT Providing for the participation of the United States in A Century of Progress (the Chicago World’s Fair Centennial Celebration) to be held at Chicago, Illinois, in 1933, authorizing an appropriation therefor, and for other purposes.February 8, 1932.[[S. 355.](/us/bill/72/s355)][[Public, No. 14.](/us/pl/72/14)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That thereChicago World’s Fair Centennial Commission.*Post*, pp. 645, 703.is hereby established a commission, to be known as the Chicago World’s Fair Centennial Commission, and to be composed of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the SecretaryComposition and purpose. of Commerce; which commission shall serve without additional compensation and shall represent the United States in connection with the holding of an international exhibition, known as A Century of Progress, in the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois, in the year 1933, in celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of Chicago as a municipality. 40 Sec. 2.
(a)Commissioner of “A Century of Progress.”Appointment. For the purposes of more effectively carrying out the provisions of this resolution there is hereby created a commissioner of A Century of Progress (the Chicago World’s Fair Centennial Celebration), whom the President is hereby authorized to appoint.
(b)Compensation. That the commissioner shall be paid, out of the amount hereinafter provided by this resolution, such compensation as the commission*Proviso*.Restriction on amount.shall authorize : *Provided*, That such salary shall not be in excess of $10,000 per annum.
(c)Duties, powers and functions. That the commission shall prescribe the duties of the commissioner and shall delegate such powers and functions to him as it shall deem advisable in order that there may be exhibited at A Century of Progress (the Chicago World’s Fair Centennial Celebration) by the Government of the United States, its executive departments, independent offices, and establishments such articles and materials as illustrate the function and administrative faculty of the Government in the advancement of industry, the arts, and peace, demonstrating the nature of our institutions particularly as regards their adaptation to the wants of the people. Sec. 3.Employment of personnel. The commissioner may employ such clerks, stenographers, and other assistants as may be necessary and fix their reasonable Compensation.Vol. 42, p. 1488.Vol. 46, p. 1003.[U. S. C., p. 65; Supp. V, p. 28.](/us/usc/s65/28)compensations within the grades and rates of compensation fixed by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; purchase such material, contract for such labor and other services, and exercise such powers as are delegated to him by the commission as hereinbefore provided, and in order to facilitate the functioning of his office may subdelegate such powers (authorized or delegated) to officers and employees as may be deemed advisable by the commission. Sec. 4.Cooperation of executive departments, etc. The heads of the various executive departments and independent offices and establishments of the Government are authorized to cooperate with the commissioner in the procurement, installation, and display of exhibits; to lend to A Century of Progress (the Chicago World’s Fair Centennial Celebration), with the knowledge and consent of the commissioner, such articles, specimens, and Exhibits to be loaned.exhibits which the commissioner shall deem to be in the interest of the United States to place with the science or other exhibits to be shown under the auspices of that corporation; to contract for such labor or other services as shall be deemed necessary, and to designate officials or employees of their departments or branches to assist the Return at close of exposition.commissioner. At the close of the exposition, or when the connection of the Government of the United States therewith ceases, the commissioner shall cause all such property to be returned to the respective Payment of expenses.departments and branches from which taken, and any expenses incident to the restoration of such property to a condition which will permit its use at subsequent expositions and fairs, and for the continued employment of personnel necessary to close out the fiscal andPreparation of report.other records and prepare the required reports of the participating organizations, may be paid from the appropriation provided; and Disposition of property if return impracticable.if the return of such property is not practicable, he may, with the consent of the department or branch from which it was taken, make such disposition thereof as he may deem advisable and account therefor. Sec. 5.Appropriation authorized.*Post*, p. 645. The sum of $1,000,000 is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to remain available until expended, of which sum not toAmount for buildings, rentals, etc. exceed the sum of $550,000 may be expended for the erection of such building or group of buildings, and/or for the rental of such space, as the commission may deem adequate to carry out effectively the provisions of this resolution; for the decoration of such structure41or structures; for the proper maintenance of such buildings, site, and grounds during the period of the exposition. The commissionContracts for design, etc., of buildings. may contract with A Century of Progress (the Chicago World’s Fair Centennial Celebration) for the designing and erection of such building or buildings and/or for the rental of such space as shall be deemed proper. The remaining portion of the appropriation authorizedAmount available for general expenses. under this resolution shall be available for the selection, purchase, preparation, assembling, transportation, installation, arrangement, safe-keeping, exhibition, demonstration, and return of such articles and materials as the commission may decide shall be included in such Government exhibit and in the exhibits of A Century of Progress (the Chicago World’s Fair Centennial Celebration) ; forCompensation of Commissioner. the compensation of the commissioner and employees in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, for the payment of salaries of officers and employees of the Government, employed by or detailed for dutyDetail of government officials, etc. with the commission, and for their actual traveling expenses and subsistence at not to exceed $6 per day : *Provided*, That no such*Provisos*. Restriction on amount of salary. official or employee so designated shall receive a salary in excess of the amount which he has been receiving in the department or branch where employed plus such reasonable allowance for subsistence expenses as may be deemed proper by the commissioner; for telephone service, purchase of furniture and equipment, stationery andFurniture and supplies. supplies, typewriting, adding, duplicating, and computing machines, their accessories and repairs, books of reference and periodicals, uniforms, maps, reports, documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, newspapers and all other publications, ice and drinking water for office purposes: *Provided*, That payment for telephone service,Payments in advance authorized. rents, subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals, and other similar purposes may be made in advance, for the purchase of a passenger-carrying automobile, its maintenance, repair, and operation, for the official use of the commissioner, for printing and binding; for entertainment of distinguished visitors, and all other expenses as may be deemed necessary by the commission to fulfill properly the purposes of this resolution. All purchases, expenditures, and disbursements,Purchases, etc., under direction of commission. under any appropriations which may be provided by authority of this resolution, shall be made under the direction of the commission: *Provided*, That the commission, as hereinbefore stipulated, may delegateDelegation of functions. these powers and functions to the commissioner, and the commissioner, with the consent of the commission, may subdelegate them : *And provided further*, That the commission or its delegated representative may authorize the allotment of funds to any executiveAllotment of funds to executive departments, etc. department, independent office, or establishment of the Government with the consent of the heads thereof for direct expenditure by said executive department, independent office, or establishment for the purpose of defraying any expenditure which may be incurred by said executive department, independent office, or establishment in executing the duties and functions delegated to said office by the commission ; and all accounts and vouchers covering expenditures under theseApproval of vouchers, etc. appropriations shall be approved by the commissioner or such assistants as he may delegate, except for such allotments as may be madeException. to the various executive departments and establishments for direct expenditure; but these provisions shall not be construed to waive theAudit by General Accounting Office. submission of accounts and vouchers to the General Accounting Office for audit or permit any obligations to be incurred in excess of the amount authorized to be appropriated : *Provided*, That inWage rate for construction work. the construction of buildings or exhibits requiring skilled and unskilled labor, the prevailing rate of wages, as provided in the ActVol. 46, p. 1494. of March 3, 1931, shall be paid. 42 Sec. 6.Acceptance of contributions authorized. The commissioner, with the approval of the commission, may receive from any source contributions to aid in carrying out the general purposes of this resolution, but the same shall be expended and accounted for in the same manner as any appropriation which may be made under authority of this resolution. The commissioner is also authorized to receive contributions of material, or borrow material or exhibits, to aid in carrying out the general purposes of this resolution; and at the close of the exposition or when the connection of the Government of the United States therewith ceases,Disposal of buildings and property.shall dispose of any such portion of the material contributed as may be unused, and return such borrowed property; and, under the direction of the commission, dispose of any buildings which may *Proviso*.Auction sales.have been constructed and account therefor : *Provided*, That all disposition of materials, property, buildings, and so forth, shall be at public sale to the highest bidder and the proceeds thereof shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States. Sec. 7.Reports to Congress. That it shall be the duty of the commission to transmit to Congress, within six months after the close of the exposition, adetailed statement of all expenditures, and such other reports as may be deemed proper, which reports shall be prepared and arranged with a view to concise statement and convenient reference. Approved, February 8, 1932. Granting the consent of Congress to the State of South Carolina to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Waccamaw River. 47 Stat. 42 Chapter 25 1932-02-10 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 25.] AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the State of South Carolina to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Waccamaw River.February 10, 1932.[[S. 201.](/us/bill/72/s201)][[Public, No. 15.](/us/pl/72/15)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Waccamaw River.South Carolina may bridge, at Conway. That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the Highway Department of the State of South Carolina to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Waccamaw River, at a Construction.Vol. 34, p. 84.point suitable to the interests of navigation, near Conway, in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906, and subject to the conditions and limitations contained in this Act. Sec. 2.Amendment. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, February 10, 1932. To amend section 3 of the Rivers and Harbors Act, approved June 13, 1902, as amended and supplemented. 47 Stat. 42 Chapter 26 1932-02-10 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 26.] AN ACT To amend section 3 of the Rivers and Harbors Act, approved June 13, 1902, as amended and supplemented.February 10, 1932.[[S. 2334.](/us/bill/72/s2334)][[Public, No. 16.](/us/pl/72/16)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the first paragraphRivers and Harbors Act, amended.Vol. 32, p. 372.[U. S. C., p. 1078.](/us/usc/72/s1078) of section 3 of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,” approved June 13, 1902, as amended and supplemented, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: “As used in this “Commerce” construed.section the term ‘commerce’ shall include the use of waterways by seasonal passenger craft, yachts, house boats, fishing boats, motor boats, and other similar water craft, whether or not operated forhire.” Approved, February 10, 1932. Granting the consent of Congress to the Board of County Commissioners of Mahoning County, Ohio, to construct a free overhead viaduct across the Mahoning River at Struthers, Mahoning County, Ohio. 47 Stat. 43 Chapter 27 1932-02-10 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public 43 [CHAPTER 27.] AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the Board of County Commissioners of Mahoning County, Ohio, to construct a free overhead viaduct across the Mahoning River at Struthers, Mahoning County, Ohio.February 10, 1932.[[H.R. 70.](/us/bill/72/hr/70)][[Public, No. 17.](/us/pl/72/17)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the consent ofMahoning River.Mahoning County may bridge, at Struthers, Ohio.Congress be, and it is hereby, granted to the Board of County Commissioners of Mahoning County, Ohio, and its successors in office, to construct, maintain, and operate a free overhead viaduct, together with the necessary approaches thereto, across the Mahoning River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at Struthers, Mahoning County, Ohio, in accordance with the provisions of anConstruction.Vol. 34, p. 84. Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906. Sec. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, February 10, 1932. Granting the consent of Congress to the State of North Dakota to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Missouri River at or near Garrison, North Dakota. 47 Stat. 43 Chapter 28 1932-02-10 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 28.] AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the State of North Dakota to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Missouri River at or near Garrison, North Dakota.February 10, 1932.[[H.R. 474.](/us/bill/72/hr/474)][[Public, No. 18.](/us/pl/72/18)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the consentMissouri River.North Dakota may bridge, at Garrison.*Post*, p. 804.of Congress is hereby granted to the State of North Dakota to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Missouri River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near Garrison, North Dakota, in accordance withConstruction.Vol. 34, p. 84. the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906. Sec. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment.expressly reserved. Approved, February 10, 1932. To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Culbertson, Montana. 47 Stat. 43 Chapter 29 1932-02-10 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 29.] AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Culbertson, Montana.February 10, 1932.[[H.R. 4695.](/us/bill/72/hr/4695)][[Public, No. 19.](/us/pl/72/19)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the timesMissouri River.Time extended for bridging, at Culbertson, Mont.*Post*, p. 1415.for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Culbertson, Montana, authorized to be built by the State of Montana and the counties of Roosevelt and Richland, or any of them, by the Act of Congress approved July 3,Vol. 46, pp. 859, 1174. 1930, heretofore extended by an Act of Congress approved February 20, 1931, are hereby further extended one and three years, respectively, from July 3, 1932. Sec. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, February 10, 1932. To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River southerly from the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation at or near the point known and designated as the Power-site Crossing, in the State of Montana. 47 Stat. 44 Chapter 30 1932-02-10 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public 44 [CHAPTER 30.] AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River southerly from the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation at or near the point known and designated as the Power-site Crossing, in the State of Montana.February 10, 1932.[[H.R. 4696.](/us/bill/72/hr/4696)][[Public, No. 20.](/us/pl/72/20)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Missouri River.Time extended for bridging, at Power-site Crossing, Mont.Vol. 46, p. 859. That the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge authorized by Act of Congress approved July 3, 1930, to be built by the State of Montana or any political subdivisions or public agencies thereof, or any of them, across the Missouri River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation and southerly from the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation at or near the point known and designated as the Powersite Crossing, in the State of Montana, are hereby extended one and three years, respectively, from the date of approval hereof. Sec. 2.Amendment. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, February 10, 1932. To extend the time for completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River near and above the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. 47 Stat. 44 Chapter 31 1932-02-10 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 31.] AN ACT To extend the time for completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River near and above the city of New Orleans, Louisiana.February 10, 1932.[[H. R. 5131.](/us/bill/72/hr/5131)][[Public, No. 21.](/us/pl/72/21)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Mississippi River.Time extended for bridging, at New Orleans. That the time for completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River, near and above the city of New Orleans, authorized to be built by the city of New Orleans, a municipal corporation existing under the laws of the State of Louisiana, its successors and assigns, through itsVol. 43, p. 103.Vol. 45, p. 732. Public Belt Railroad Commission, by an Act of Congress approved April 17, 1924, heretofore extended by an Act of Congress approved May 24, 1928, is hereby further extended three years from May 24, 1933. Sec. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, February 10, 1932. Authorizing Sullivan County, Indiana, to construct, maintain, and operate a public toll bridge across the Wabash River at a point in said county to a point opposite on the Illinois shore. 47 Stat. 44 Chapter 32 1932-02-10 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 32.] AN ACT Authorizing Sullivan County, Indiana, to construct, maintain, and operate a public toll bridge across the Wabash River at a point in said county to a point opposite on the Illinois shore.February 10, 1932.[[H. R. 5471.](/us/bill/72/hr/5471)][[Public, No. 22.](/us/pl/72/22)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Wabash River.Sullivan County, Ind., may bridge. That in order to promote interstate commerce, improve the postal service, and provide for military and other purposes Sullivan County, Indiana, or any board or commission of said county which is or may be created or established for the purpose, be, and is hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Wabash River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, extending from some point in the county across said river to a point opposite on the Illinois shore, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction ofConstruction.Vol. 34, p. 84. bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906, and subject to the conditions and limitations contained in this Act. 45 Sec. 2. There is hereby conferred upon the said Sullivan County,Right to acquire, etc., real estate. Indiana, or such board or commission and the successors thereof, all such rights and powers to enter upon lands and to acquire, condemn, occupy, possess, and use real estate and other property needed for the location, construction, maintenance, and operation of such bridge and its approaches as are possessed by railroad corporations for railroad purposes or by bridge corporations for bridge purposes in the State in which such real estate or other property is situated, upon making just compensation therefor, to be ascertained and paid according to the laws of such State, and the proceedings therefor shall be the same as in the condemnation or expropriation of property for public purposes in such State. Sec. 3. The said Sullivan County or such board or commission andTolls authorized. the successors are hereby authorized to fix and charge tolls for transit over such bridge, and the rates of tolls so fixed shall be the legalVol. 34, p. 85.[U. S. C., p. 1076](/us/usc/p1076). rates until changed by the Secretary of War under the authority contained in the Act of March 23, 1906. Sec. 4. In fixing the rates of toll to be charged for the use of suchAdjustment of, to provide for operation, and sinking fund. bridge the same shall be so adjusted as to provide a fund sufficient to pay for the reasonable cost of maintaining, repairing, and operating the bridge and its approaches under economical management, and to provide a sinking fund sufficient to amortize the cost of such bridge and its approaches, including reasonable interest and financial cost, as soon as possible under reasonable charges but within a period ofAcquisition by Indiana. not to exceed twenty years from the completion thereof. After a sinking fund sufficient for such amortization shall have been so provided such bridge shall thereafter be maintained and operated free of tolls, shall then be and become the property of the State of Indiana and a part of the State highway system and be maintained by the State of Indiana out of the maintenance fund of the StateRecord of receipts and expenditures. highway commission. An accurate record of the cost of the bridge and its approaches, the expenditures for maintaining, repairing, and operating the same, and of daily tolls collected shall be kept and shall be available for the information of all persons interested. Sec. 5. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, February 10, 1932. To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 47 Stat. 45 Chapter 33 1932-02-10 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 33.] AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.February 10, 1932.[[H. R. 5478.](/us/bill/72/hr/5478)][[Public, No. 23.](/us/pl/72/23)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Mississippi River.Time extended for bridging, at Baton Rouge, La.Vol. 45, pp. 130, 1093.Vol. 46, p. 551. That the times for commencing and completing the construction of the bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, authorized to be built by the Baton Rouge-Mississippi River Bridge Company, its successors and assigns, by an Act of Congress approved February 20, 1928, heretofore extended by an Act of Congress approved January 25, 1929, and further extended by Act of Congress approved June 10, 1930, are hereby further extended two and four years, respectively, from February 20, 1931. Sec. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, February 10, 1932. Authorizing the States of Minnesota and North Dakota, the county of Polk, Minnesota, the county of Grand Forks, North Dakota, or any one or more of them, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Red River of the North at or near Bygland, Minnesota. 47 Stat. 46 Chapter 34 1932-02-10 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public 46 [CHAPTER 34.] AN ACT Authorizing the States of Minnesota and North Dakota, the county of Polk, Minnesota, the county of Grand Forks, North Dakota, or any one or more of them, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Red River of the North at or near Bygland, Minnesota.February 10, 1932.[[H. R. 5626.](/us/bill/72/hr/5626)][[Public, No. 24.](/us/pl/72/24)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Red River of the North.Minnesota, North Dakota, etc., may bridge, at Bygland, Minn. That in order to facilitate interstate commerce, improve the Postal Service, and provide for military and other purposes, the States of Minnesota and North Dakota, the county of Polk, Minnesota, the county of Grand Forks, North Dakota, or any one or more of them be and is hereby authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Red River of the North, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near Bygland, Minnesota, on the township line between township 150 north, range 49 west, fifth principal meridian, and township 149 north, range 49 west, fifth principal meridian, where said line crosses the Red River of the North, in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitledConstruction.Vol. 34, p. 84. “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906. Sec. 2. There is hereby conferred upon the States of MinnesotaRight to acquire, etc., real estate. and North Dakota, the county of Polk, Minnesota, the county of Grand Forks, North Dakota, or to any one or more of them all such rights and powers to enter upon lands and to acquire, condemn, occupy, possess, and use real estate and other property needed for the location, construction, operation, and maintenance of such bridge and its approaches as are possessed by railroad corporations for railroad purposes or by bridge corporations for bridge purposes in the State in which such real estate or other property is situated, upon making just compensation therefor, to be ascertained and paid according to the laws of such State, and the proceedings therefor shall be the same as in the condemnation or expropriation of property for public purposes in such State. Sec. 3. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, February 10, 1932. Granting the consent of Congress to the Louisiana Highway Commission, and the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, and the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway Company to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge in combination with a railroad bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 47 Stat. 46 Chapter 35 1932-02-10 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 35.] AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the Louisiana Highway Commission, and the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, and the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway Company to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge in combination with a railroad bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.February 10, 1932.[[H. R. 5878.](/us/bill/72/hr/5878)][[Public, No. 25.](/us/pl/72/25)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Mississippi River.Bridge authorized across, at Baton Rouge, La.*Post*, p. 1413. That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the Louisiana Highway Commission, an administrative body created and acting under the constitution and laws of the State of Louisiana, and the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, a corporation created under the laws of the State of Missouri, and the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway Company, a corporation created under the laws of the State of Delaware, their successors and assigns, jointly to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge in combination with a railroad bridge and approaches thereto across the Mississippi River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in accordanceConstruction.Vol. 34, p. 84. with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906. 47 Sec. 2. The right to sell, assign, transfer, and mortgage all theRight to sell, assign, etc., conferred. rights, powers, and privileges conferred by this Act is hereby granted to the Louisiana Highway Commission, the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, and the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway Company, their successors and assigns, and any party to whom such rights, powers, and privileges may be sold, assigned, or transferred, or who shall acquire the same by mortgage foreclosure or otherwise is hereby authorized to exercise the same as fully as though conferred herein directly upon such party. Sec. 3. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, February 10, 1932. Granting the consent of Congress to the Board of County Commissioners of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Monongahela River between the city of Pittsburgh and the borough of Homestead, Pennsylvania. 47 Stat. 47 Chapter 36 1932-02-10 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 36.] AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the Board of County Commissioners of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Monongahela River between the city of Pittsburgh and the borough of Homestead, Pennsylvania.February 10, 1932.[[H. R. 7225.](/us/bill/72/hr/7225)][[Public, No. 26.](/us/pl/72/26)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Monongahela River.Allegheny County, Pa., may bridge at Pittsburgh. That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the Board of County Commissioners of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Monongahela River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, between the city of Pittsburgh and the borough of Homestead, to replace what is known as the Brown Bridge, in accordance withConstruction.Vol. 34, p. 84. the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906. Sec. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, February 10, 1932. Exempting building and loan associations from being adjudged bankrupts. 47 Stat. 47 Chapter 38 1932-02-11 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 38.] AN ACT Exempting building and loan associations from being adjudged bankrupts.February 11, 1932.[[S. 2199.](/us/bill/72/s/2199)][[Public, No. 27.](/us/pl/72/27)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Uniform Bankruptcy Act, amendment.Vol. 30, p. 547.[U. S. C. p. 245](/us/usc/p245).*Post*, p. 1467. That section 4 of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States,” approved July 1, 1898, as amended (U. S. C., title 11, sec. 22), is amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 4. Who may become bankrupts.—
(a)Any person, exceptWho may become bankrupts.Building and loan associations, etc., excepted. a municipal, railroad, insurance, banking corporation, or a building and loan association, shall be entitled to the benefits of this Act as a voluntary bankrupt. “(b) Any natural person, except a wage earner or a person engagedInvoluntary bankruptcy. chiefly in farming or the tillage of the soil, any unincorporated company, and any moneyed, business, or commercial corporation (except a municipal, railroad, insurance, or banking corporation, or a building and loan association) owing debts to the amount of $1,000 or over, may be adjudged an involuntary bankrupt upon default or an impartial trial, and shall be subject to the provisions and entitled to the benefits of this Act. “The bankruptcy of a corporation or association shall not releaseLiability of officers, etc., of corporation. its officers, directors, or stockholders, as such, from any liability under the laws of a State or Territory or of the United States.” " Approved, February 11, 1932. Respecting the qualifications of the assessor of the District of Columbia to testify in condemnation proceedings. 47 Stat. 48 Chapter 39 1932-02-11 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public 48 [CHAPTER 39.] AN ACT Respecting the qualifications of the assessor of the District of Columbia to testify in condemnation proceedings.February 11, 1932.[[S. 9.](/us/bill/72/s/9)][[Public, No. 28.](/us/pl/72/28)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * District of Columbia.Competency of assessor of, to testify in condemnation proceedings. That in any action for the condemnation of lands in the District of Columbia the assessor of the District shall not be disqualified, by reason of the fact that he holds the office of assessor, from testifying as an expert witness to the market value of such lands, and as to benefits. Approved, February 11, 1932. To relieve the Commissioners of the District of Columbia of certain ministerial duties. 47 Stat. 48 Chapter 40 1932-02-11 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 40.] AN ACT To relieve the Commissioners of the District of Columbia of certain ministerial duties.February 11, 1932.[[S. 2077.](/us/bill/72/s/2077)][[Public, No. 29.](/us/pl/72/29)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * District of Columbia.Authority of secretary of Commissioners to perform certain ministerial duties. That on and after the passage of this Act it shall be lawful for the secretary of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, or in his absence or upon his inability to act, such person as said commissioners may designate, when so directed by said commissioners, to execute in the name of the District of Columbia or of said board, by attaching thereto his signature as such secretary and affixing when requisite the seal of said District, any deed, contract, pleading, lease, release, regulation, notice, or other paper, which heretofore said commissioners were required to execute by subscribing thereto their respective signatures: *Provided*, That prior to such*Proviso.*Approval of Commissioners requisite. signing, and sealing if requisite, said deed, contract, pleading, lease,, release, regulation, notice, or other paper shall first have been considered and approved by said board of commissioners, or a majority of them, sitting as a board, and evidence of such consideration and approval shall be reduced to writing and recorded in the minutes of said board of commissioners, which minutes shall thereafter be signed by the members of said board of commissioners or a majority thereof. Approved, February 11, 1932. To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Columbia River at or near The Dalles, Oregon. 47 Stat. 48 Chapter 41 1932-02-11 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 41.] AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Columbia River at or near The Dalles, Oregon.February 11, 1932.[[H. R. 149.](/us/bill/72/hr/149)][[Public, No. 30.](/us/pl/72/30)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Columbia River.Time extended for bridging, at The Dalles, Oreg. That the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Columbia River at or near The Dalles, Oregon, authorized to be built by Dalles City, by an Act of Congress approved February 20,Vol. 46, p. 1193.*Post*, p. 806. 1931, are hereby extended one and three years, respectively, from February 20, 1932. Sec. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, February 11, 1932. Authorizing the modification of the existing project for the Willamette River between Oregon City and Portland, Oregon. 47 Stat. 49 Chapter 42 1932-02-11 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public 49 [CHAPTER 42.] AN ACT Authorizing the modification of the existing project for the Willamette River between Oregon City and Portland, Oregon.February 11, 1932.[[H. R. 7248.](/us/bill/72/hr/7248)][[Public, No. 31.](/us/pl/72/31)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Willamette River.Modification of project for improving, between Oregon City and Portland, Oreg.Vol. 46, p. 932. That the project for the improvement of the Willamette River between Oregon City and Portland, Oregon, authorized by the River and Harbor Act approved July 3, 1930, is hereby modified in accordance with the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers in the report submitted in House Document Numbered 748, Seventy-first Congress, third session. Approved, February 11, 1932. Authorizing the Secretary of War to reduce the penalty of the bond of the Brazos River Harbor Navigation District, of Brazoria County, Texas, furnished as surety for its doing certain work on the improvement of Freeport Harbor, Texas. 47 Stat. 49 Chapter 43 1932-02-11 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 43.] AN ACT Authorizing the Secretary of War to reduce the penalty of the bond of the Brazos River Harbor Navigation District, of Brazoria County, Texas, furnished as surety for its doing certain work on the improvement of Freeport Harbor, Texas.February 11, 1932.[[S. 2278.](/us/bill/72/s/2278)][[Public, No. 32.](/us/pl/72/32)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Freeport Harbor, Texas.Reduction of penalty bond, for improvement of, authorized. That the Secretary of War, may, in his discretion, reduce the penalty of the bond executed April 27, 1928, by the Brazos River Harbor Navigation District, of Brazoria County, Texas, as principal and the National Surety Company as surety, to insure the payment of the sum of $861,000 to such amount as in his opinion will cover any further contribution which may be required from the said Brazos River Harbor Navigation District in connection with the project for improvementVol. 43, p. 1187. of Freeport Harbor, Texas, authorized by the River and Harbor Act of March 3, 1925: *Provided*, That whenever the Secretary of War*Proviso.*Cancellation of bond. is satisfied that the said project has been completed and the works have become so stabilized that no further expenditures will be necessary other than normal maintenance, he may cancel said bond and release the said principal and surety from any obligation thereunder. Approved, February 11, 1932. Providing for payment of $25 to each enrolled Chippewa Indian of Minnesota from the funds standing to their credit in the Treasury of the United States. 47 Stat. 49 Chapter 45 1932-02-12 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 45.] AN ACT Providing for payment of $25 to each enrolled Chippewa Indian of Minnesota from the funds standing to their credit in the Treasury of the United States.February 12, 1932.[[H. R. 225.](/us/bill/72/hr/225)][[Public, No. 33.](/us/pl/72/33)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Chippewa Indians, Minn.Payment to enrolled members of, authorized. That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to withdraw from the Treasury so much as may be necessary of the principal fund on deposit to the credit of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, under section 7 of the Act entitled “An Act for the relief andVol. 25, p. 645. civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota,” approved January 14, 1889, as amended, and to make therefrom payment of $25 to each enrolled Chippewa Indian of Minnesota, under such regulations as such Secretary shall prescribe. No payment shall be made under this Act until the Chippewa Indians ofRatification, etc., by Indians. Minnesota shall, in such manner as such Secretary shall prescribe, have accepted such payments and ratified the provisions of this Act.Payments exempt from liens, etc. The money paid to the Indians under this Act shall not be subject to any lien or claim of whatever nature against any of said Indians. Approved, February 12, 1932. To reserve certain land on the public domain in Utah for addition to the Skull Valley Indian Reservation. 47 Stat. 50 Chapter 46 1932-02-12 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public 50 [CHAPTER 46.] AN ACT To reserve certain land on the public domain in Utah for addition to the Skull Valley Indian Reservation.February 12, 1932.[[H. R. 6663.](/us/bill/72/hr/6663)][[Public, No. 34.](/us/pl/72/34)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Skull Valley Indian Reservation.Land added to. That the south half of section 14, township 5 south, range 8 west of the Salt Lake meridian, Utah, on the public domain, be, and the same is hereby, reserved as an addition to the Skull Valley Indian Reservation: *Provided*, That the rights and claims of any bona fide settler initiated*Proviso.*Rights, etc., of prior settlers. under the public land laws prior to September 2, 1931, the date of withdrawal of the land from all form of entry, shall not be affected by this Act. Approved, February 12, 1932. To authorize associations of employees in the District of Columbia to adopt a device to designate the products of the labor of their members, to punish illegal use or imitation of such device, and for other purposes. 47 Stat. 50 Chapter 47 1932-02-18 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 47.] AN ACT To authorize associations of employees in the District of Columbia to adopt a device to designate the products of the labor of their members, to punish illegal use or imitation of such device, and for other purposes.February 18, 1932.[[S. 2173.](/us/bill/72/s/2173)][[Public, No. 35.](/us/pl/72/35)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * District of Columbia.Protection of union labels, etc. That a union or association of employees in the District of Columbia may adopt a device in the form of a label, brand, mark, name, or other character for the purpose of designating the products of the labor of the members thereof. A drawing of such device may be filed in the office ofDrawing and registration. the clerk of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and the clerk shall register same in a book to be provided for such purpose and be entitled to collect $1 for each registration. A certified copyFee for certified copy. of the drawing so registered may be obtained from the clerk upon the payment of $1 for each certification. Such certificate shall notCertificate not assignable. be assignable by the union or association to whom it is issued. Sec. 2. No person shall in any way use or display the label, brand,Unauthorized use of label, etc., prohibited mark, name, or other character adopted by any such union or association as provided in section 1 of this Act without the consent or authority of such union or association; or counterfeit or imitate any such label, brand, mark, name, or other character, or knowingly sell, dispose of, keep, or have in his possession with intent to sell or dispose of any goods, wares, merchandise, or other products of labor, upon which any such counterfeit or imitation is attached, affixed, printed, stamped, or impressed, or knowingly sell, dispose of, keep, or have in his possession with intent to sell or dispose of any goods, wares, merchandise, or other products of labor contained in any box, case, can, or package, to which or on which any such counterfeit or imitation is attached, affixed, printed, painted, stamped, or impressed. If copies of such device have been filed, the union or association mayAction to enjoin use, etc., of counterfeits and imitations. maintain an action in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to enjoin the manufacture, use, display, or sale of counterfeit or colorable imitations of such device, or of goods bearing the same, or the unauthorized use or display of such device or of goods bearing the same, and the court may restrain such wrongful manufacture, use, display, or sale, and every unauthorized use or display by others of the genuine devices so registered and filed, if such use or display is not authorized by the owner thereof, and may award to the plaintiff such damages resulting from such wrongful manufacture, use, display, or sale as may be proved, together with the profits derived therefrom. 51 Sec. 3. A person violating any of the provisions of section 2 ofPunishment for violations. this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $500, or by imprisonment for not less than three months nor more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Approved, February 18, 1932. To provide for the incorporation of the District of Columbia Commission, George Washington Bicentennial. 47 Stat. 51 Chapter 48 1932-02-18 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 48.] AN ACT To provide for the incorporation of the District of Columbia Commission, George Washington Bicentennial.February 18, 1932.[[S. 1306.](/us/bill/72/s/1306)][[Public, No. 36.](/us/pl/72/36)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * District of Columbia, George Washington Bicentennial Commission.Incorporation of, provided. That during the year 1932 the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of George Washington will be celebrated in the District of Columbia, and for the purpose of preparing, sponsoring, and encouraging suitable programs, entertainments, and demonstrations Cloyd H. Marvin, William W. Everett, John Poole, Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith, Clarence A. Aspinwall, George F. Bowerman, William W. Bride, Thomas E. Campbell, James A. Cobb, John H. Cowles, Harrison H. Dodge, Robert V. Fleming, Isaac Gans, Edwin C. Graham, Gilbert H. Grosvenor, John Hays Hammond, George C. Havenner, J. Leo Kolb, David Lawrence, Charles Moore, George Richards, A. K. Shipe, Ernest N. Smith, Edgar C. Snyder, Mrs. Virginia White Speel, Anton Stephan, Merle Thorpe, Joseph P. Tumulty, Charles Stanley White, and Lloyd B. Wilson are hereby created a body corporate and politic to be known as the District of Columbia Commission, George Washington Bicentennial, and within the limits hereinafter prescribedAuthority of corporation. subject to the supervision of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia or subject to the supervision of the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks, as the case may be, the said corporation is hereby authorized—
(a)To purchase, acquire by lease, or construct such structures,Acquisition of necessary platforms, etc. platforms, and stands for the conduct of the programs, entertainments, and demonstrations as may be deemed necessary by said corporation.
(b)To manufacture, purchase, or otherwise acquire such paraphernalia,Flags, posters, stationery, etc. flags, posters, stationery, badges, programs and other printed matter, and lighting facilities as may be deemed necessary by the corporation for the purposes of said celebration.
(c)To erect or contract to be erected such structures, platforms,Construction of platforms on public space. or stands on public space in the District of Columbia as may be deemed necessary by said corporation for the purposes hereof, and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks are hereby authorized to grantPermits to be granted. such permit or permits as may be necessary for the occupation of public space in the District of Columbia under their immediate jurisdiction: *Provided*, That no structure, platform, or stand shall*Proviso.*Approval of plans. be erected as aforesaid unless the plans thereof be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia where the same are intended to be erected on public space within their jurisdiction, or the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks where the same are intended to be erected on public space within the jurisdiction of that office.
(d)To contract for the leasing and subleasing of such structures,Contracts for leasing platforms, etc. platforms, and stands as may be erected by said corporation to such individuals, partnerships, or corporations. 52
(e)Adopt a seal, which said seal shall be the seal of theAdoption of seal. corporation.
(f)To do all other acts and things which may be necessary and proper to carry into effect the provisions of this Act. Sec. 2. That none of the persons herein named shall be entitledProfits of corporation. to or receive any of the profits of the corporation, but the same shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States. Sec. 3. That the corporation herein formed shall cease and determine,Dissolution when final report filed. and all of the powers granted by paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (cl), and
(f)of section 1 of this Act shall terminate upon the filing of its final report and audit with the Congress of the United States, which date shall not be later than February 1, 1933: *Provided, however*,*Provisos.*Liability for corporate acts, etc., to continue. That nothing herein contained shall operate to prevent the institution of any suit or claim at law or in equity by any person, firm, or corporation growing out of any act or omission of the corporation, provided that the institution of such suit or claim shall be commenced within the period limited by the provisions of chapter 41 of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia: *Provided further*,Audit of accounts. That the Comptroller General be, and he hereby is, authorized to audit all accounts of the corporation, including the final audit thereof. Sec. 4. That the corporation herein formed shall cease and determineFinal report. upon the filing of its final report with the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Sec. 5. That Congress hereby reserves to itself the right to alter,Amendment. amend, and repeal this Act or any provisions thereof. Approved, February 18, 1932. To extend the time for the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Poplar, Montana. 47 Stat. 52 Chapter 50 1932-02-20 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 50.] AN ACT To extend the time for the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Poplar, Montana.February 20, 1932.[[S. 2639.](/us/bill/72/s/2639)][[Public, No. 37.](/us/pl/72/37)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Missouri River.Time extended for bridging, at Poplar, Mont.Vol. 46, p. 858. That the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge authorized by Act of Congress approved July 3, 1930, to be built by the State of Montana, the counties of Roosevelt, Richland, and McCone, or any of them, across the Missouri River, at a point suitable to the interest of navigation, at or near Poplar, Montana, are hereby extended for one and three years, respectively, from the date of approval hereof. Sec. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, February 20, 1932. To transfer Lavaca County from the Houston division to the Victoria division of the southern judicial district of Texas. 47 Stat. 52 Chapter 51 1932-02-20 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 51.] AN ACT To transfer Lavaca County from the Houston division to the Victoria division of the southern judicial district of Texas.February 20, 1932.[[H. R. 6304.](/us/bill/72/hr/6304)][[Public, No. 38.](/us/pl/72/38)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * United State: Courts; Texas Southern District.Lavaca County transferred to Victoria Division.Vol. 32, p. 65; Vol. 36 p. 1127; [U. S. C., p. 889](/us/usc/p889). That section 108 of the Judicial Code (U. S. C., title 28, sec. 189) be, and it is hereby, amended by the transfer of Lavaca County from the Houston division to the Victoria division of the southern judicial district of the State of Texas: *Provided*, That no civil or criminal cause commenced prior*Proviso.*Civil causes, etc., not affected. to the enactment of this Act shall be in any way affected by it. Approved, February 20, 1932. To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue patents for lands held under color of title. 47 Stat. 53 Chapter 52 1932-02-23 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public 53 [CHAPTER 52.] AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue patents for lands held under color of title.February 23, 1932.[[S. 1588.](/us/bill/72/s/1588)][[Public, No. 39.](/us/pl/72/39)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * New Mexico.Patent may issue for certain public land in, held under color of title. That whenever it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior that a tract or tracts of public land, contiguous to a Spanish or Mexican land grant, in the State of New Mexico, not exceeding in the aggregate one hundred and sixty acres, has or have been held in good faith and in peaceful, adverse possession by a citizen of the United States, his ancestors or grantors, for more than twenty years under claim or color of title, and that valuable improvements have been placed on such land, or some part thereof has been reduced toFee. cultivation, the Secretary may, in his discretion, upon the payment of $1.25 per acre, cause a patent or patents to issue for such land to any such citizen: *Provided*, That where the area or areas so held*Provisos.*Patent if holding in excess of limitation. by any such citizen is in excess of one hundred and sixty acres the Secretary may determine what particular subdivisions, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres in the aggregate, to any such citizen may be patented hereunder: *Provided further*, That coal and allReservation of mineral rights. other minerals contained therein are hereby reserved to the United States; that said coal and other minerals shall be subject to sale or disposal by the United States under applicable leasing and mineral land laws, and permittees, lessees, or grantees of the United States shall have the right to enter upon said lands for the purpose of prospecting for and mining such deposits: *Provided further*, ThatCitizen construed. the term “citizen,” as used herein, shall be held to include a corporation organized under the laws of the United States or any State or Territory thereof. Approved, February 23, 1932. Authorizing the William Robert Smith Memorial Association of El Paso, Texas, to construct a memorial in honor of William Robert Smith, former Member of Congress from the sixteenth district of Texas. 47 Stat. 53 Chapter 53 1932-02-23 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 53.] AN ACT Authorizing the William Robert Smith Memorial Association of El Paso, Texas, to construct a memorial in honor of William Robert Smith, former Member of Congress from the sixteenth district of Texas.February 23, 1932.[[S. 2286.](/us/bill/72/s/2286)][[Public, No. 40.](/us/pl/72/40)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * William Robert Smith Memorial Association, El Paso, Tex.Erection of tablet at Elephant Butte Dam, N. Mex., by, authorized. That the William Robert Smith Memorial Association of El Paso, Texas, be, and it is hereby, authorized to construct without cost to the United States a memorial tablet at or near the site of Elephant Butte Dam, New Mexico, in honor of the work of William Robert Smith, former Member of Congress from the sixteenth district of Texas, in behalf of the Elephant Butte project and of irrigation in the Southwest. Approved, February 23, 1932. Granting the consent of Congress to the Catawissa Railroad Company to reconstruct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge across the Susquehanna River at or near Catawissa, Pennsylvania. 47 Stat. 53 Chapter 54 1932-02-23 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 54.] AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the Catawissa Railroad Company to reconstruct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge across the Susquehanna River at or near Catawissa, Pennsylvania.February 23, 1932.[[H. R. 81.](/us/bill/72/hr/81)][[Public, No. 41.](/us/pl/72/41)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Susquehanna River.Catawissa Railroad Company may bridge, at Rupert Station, Pa. That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the Catawissa Railroad Company, its successors and assigns, to reconstruct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge and approaches thereto across the Susquehanna54 River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or about two thousand one hundred and fifty feet south of Rupert Station, in the township of Montour, county of Columbia, State of Pennsylvania, to a point at or about six thousand and seventy feet north of Catawissa Station in the township of Catawussa, county of Columbia, State of Pennsylvania, in accordance with the provisions of theConstruction.Vol. 34, p. 84. Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906. Sec. 2. The right to sell, assign, transfer, and mortgage all theRight to sell, assign, etc., granted. rights, powers, and privileges conferred by this Act is hereby granted to the Catawissa Railroad Company, its successors and assigns, and any corporation to which, or any person to whom, such rights, powers, and privileges may be sold, assigned, or transferred, or which shall acquire the same by mortgage foreclosure or otherwise, is hereby authorized to exercise the same as fully as though conferred herein directly upon such corporation or person. Sec. 3. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, February 23, 1932. Authorizing the Rhode Island State Board of Public Roads and the State Highway Department of the State of Connecticut to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Pawcatuck River near the location of the present Broad Street Bridge between Westerly, Rhode Island, and Stonington, Connecticut. 47 Stat. 54 Chapter 55 1932-02-23 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 55.] AN ACT Authorizing the Rhode Island State Board of Public Roads and the State Highway Department of the State of Connecticut to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Pawcatuck River near the location of the present Broad Street Bridge between Westerly, Rhode Island, and Stonington, Connecticut.February 23, 1932.[[H. R. 7247.](/us/bill/72/hr/7247)][[Public, No. 42.](/us/pl/72/42)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Pawcatuck River.Rhode Island and Connecticut may bridge between Westerly and Stonington. That in order to facilitate interstate commerce, improve the Postal Service, and provide for military and other purposes, the Rhode Island State Board of Public Roads and the State Highway Department of the State of Connecticut be, and is hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Pawcatuck River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near the location of the present Broad Street Bridge between Westerly, Rhode Island, and Stonington, Connecticut, in accordanceConstruction.Vol. 34, p. 84. with the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906. Sec. 2. There is hereby conferred upon the Rhode Island StateRight to acquire realty, etc., for approaches, etc. Board of Public Roads and tlie State Highway Department of the State of Connecticut all such rights and powers to enter upon lands and to acquire, condemn, occupy, possess, and use real estate and other property needed for the location, construction, operation, and maintenance of such bridge and its approaches as are possessed by railroad corporations for railroad purposes or by bridge corporations for bridge purposes in the State in which such real estate or other property is situated, upon making just compensation therefor, to be ascertained and paid according to the laws of such State, and the proceedings therefor shall be the same as in the condemnation or expropriation of property for public purposes in such State. Sec. 3. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, February 23, 1932. Amending section 1 of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,” approved July 3, 1930, relating to the Mississippi River between the mouth of the Illinois River and Minneapolis. 47 Stat. 55 Chapter 56 1932-02-24 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public 55 [CHAPTER 56.] JOINT RESOLUTION Amending section 1 of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,” approved July 3, 1930, relating to the Mississippi River between the mouth of the Illinois River and Minneapolis.February 24, 1932.[[H. J. Res. 271.](/us/bill/72/hjres/271)][[Pub. Res., No. 10.](/us/bill/72/pubres/10)] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Mississippi River.Improvement of.Vol. 46, p. 927. That the provision, relating to the Mississippi River between the mouth of the Illinois River and Minneapolis, in section 1 of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,” approved July 3, 1930, is hereby amended to read as follows: " “Mississippi River between mouth of Illinois River and Minneapolis:Channel depth between Illinois River and Minneapolis. The existing project is hereby modified so as to provide a channel depth of nine feet at low water with widths suitable for long-haul common-carrier service, to be prosecuted in accordance with the plan for a comprehensive project to procure a channel of nine-foot depth, submitted in House Document Numbered 290, Seventy-first Congress, second session, or such modification thereof asModification by Chief of Engineers.Appropriation authorized. in the discretion of the Chief of Engineers may be advisable; and the sum of $7,500,000, in addition to the amounts authorized under existing projects, is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the prosecution of initial works under the modified project: *Provided*,*Proviso.*Lock construction. That all locks below the Twin City Dam shall be of not less than the Ohio River standard dimensions.” " Approved, February 24, 1932. Authorizing an addition to the Cache National Forest, Idaho. 47 Stat. 55 Chapter 57 1932-02-25 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 57.] AN ACT Authorizing an addition to the Cache National Forest, Idaho.February 25, 1932.[[S. 457.](/us/bill/72/s/457)][[Public, No. 43.](/us/pl/72/43)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Cache National Forest, Idaho.Area added to. That, subject to any valid existing claim or entry, all lands of the United States within the areas hereinafter described be, and the same are hereby, added to and made parts of the Cache National Forest, to be hereafter administered under the laws and regulations relating to theVol. 42, p. 465. national forests; and the provisions of the Act approved March 20, 1922 (42 Stat. 465), as amended, are hereby extended and made applicable to all other lands within said described areas: The west half of sections 6, 7, and 18, sections 19, 30, and 31, inDescription. township 8 south, range 36 east, Boise meridian; section 6 and the west half of sections 7, 18, 19, and 30, in township 9 south, range 36 east of Boise meridian; sections 1, 2, 11, 12, 13, 14, 23, 24, 25, 26, 35, and 36, in township 8 south, range 35 east, Boise meridian; sections 1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 23, 24, 25, and 26, in township 9 south, range 35 east of Boise meridian, Idaho. Approved, February 25, 1932. To improve the facilities of the Federal reserve system for the service of commerce, industry, and agriculture, to provide means for meeting the needs of member banks in exceptional circumstances, and for other purposes. 47 Stat. 56 Chapter 58 1932-02-27 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public 56 [CHAPTER 58.] AN ACT To improve the facilities of the Federal reserve system for the service of commerce, industry, and agriculture, to provide means for meeting the needs of member banks in exceptional circumstances, and for other purposes.February 27, 1932.[[H. R. 9203.](/us/bill/72/hr/9203)][[Public, No. 44.](/us/pl/72/44)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Federal Reserve Act, amendment.Vol. 38, p. 260.[U. S. C., p. 275](/us/usc/p275). That the Federal Reserve Act, as amended, is further amended by inserting, between sections 10 and 11 thereof, a new section reading as follows: " “Sec. 10.
(a)Upon receiving the consent of not less than five membersAdvances to member banks in groups of five. of the Federal Reserve Board, any Federal reserve bank may make advances, in such amount as the board of directors of such Federal reserve bank may determine, to groups of five or more member banks within its district, a majority of them independently owned and controlled, upon their time or demand promissory notes, providedSecurity. the bank or banks which receive the proceeds of such advances as herein provided have no adequate amounts of eligible and acceptableWhen authorized. assets available to enable such bank or banks to obtain sufficient credit accommodations from the Federal reserve bank through rediscounts or advances other than as provided in section 10 (b). The liability of the individual banks in each group must be limited toLiability of individual banks. such proportion of the total amount advanced to such group as the deposit liability of the respective banks bears to the aggregate deposit liability of all banks in such group, but such advances may be madeAdvances to banks in groups of less than five. to a lesser number of such member banks if the aggregate amount of their deposit liability constitutes at least 10 per centum of the entire deposit liability of the member banks within such district. Such banks shall be authorized to distribute the proceeds of suchDistribution. loans to such of their number and in such amount as they may agree upon, but before so doing they shall require such recipient banks toDeposit of secured notes with trustee. deposit with a suitable trustee, representing the entire group, their individual notes made in favor of the group protected by such collateral security as may be agreed upon. Any Federal reserve bankInterest rate. making such advance shall charge interest or discount thereon at a rate not less than 1 per centum above its discount rate in effect at the time of making such advance. No such note upon whichEligibility as security for Federal reserve notes. advances are made by a Federal reserve bank under this section shall be eligible under section 16 of this Act as collateral security for Federal reserve notes. “No obligations of any foreign government, individual, partnership,Foreign government, etc., obligations. association, or corporation organized under the laws thereof shall be eligible as collateral security for advances under this section. “Member banks are authorized to obligate themselves in accordanceAuthority of member banks to obligate themselves. with the provisions of this section.” " Sec. 2. The Federal Reserve Act, as amended, is further amended by adding, immediately after such new section 10 (a), an additional new section reading as follows: " “Sec. 10.
(b)Until March 3, 1933, and in exceptional and exigentLoan by Federal reserve bank to individual member bank.*Post*, p. 794. circumstances, and when any member bank, having a capital of not exceeding $5,000,000,. has no further eligible and acceptable assets available to enable it to obtain adequate credit accommodations through rediscounting at the Federal reserve bank or any other method provided by this Act other than that provided by section 10 (a), any Federal reserve bank, subject in each case to affirmativeConsent of Federal Reserve Board required.Security. action by not less than five members of the Federal Reserve Board, may make advances to such member bank on its time or demand promissory notes secured to the satisfaction of such Federal reserve bank: *Provided*, That
(1)each such note shall bear interest at a*Proviso.*Interest rate. 57 rate not less than 1 per centum per annum higher than the highest discount rate in effect at such Federal reserve bank on the date of such note;
(2)the Federal Reserve Board may by regulation limitClassification of assets. and define the classes of assets which may be accepted as security for advances made under authority of this section; and
(3)no noteEligibility as security for Federal reserve notes. accepted for any such advance shall be eligible as collateral security for Federal reserve notes. “No obligations of any foreign government, individual, Foreign government, etc., obligations.partnership, association, or corporation organized under the laws thereof shall be eligible as collateral security for advances under this section.” " Sec. 3. The second paragraph of section 16 of the Federal ReserveFederal reserve notes.Vol. 38, p. 265; [U. S. C., p.284](/us/usc/p284).*Post*, p. 794. Act, as amended, is amended to read as follows: " “Any Federal reserve bank may make application to the localApplication for. Federal reserve agent for such amount of the Federal reserve notes hereinbefore provided for as it may require. Such application shallCollateral to accompany. be accompanied with a tender to the local Federal reserve agent of collateral in amount equal to the sum of the Federal reserve notes thus applied for and issued pursuant to such application. The collateralNature of. security thus offered shall be notes, drafts, bills of exchange, or acceptances acquired under the provisions of section 13 of thisVol. 38, pp. 263, 264. Act, or bills of exchange indorsed by a member bank of any Federal reserve district and purchased under the provisions of section 14 of this Act, or bankers’ acceptances purchased under the provisions of said section 14, or gold or gold certificates: *Provided, however*,*Proviso.*Obligations of United States as security authorized.*Post*, p. 795. That until March 3, 1933, should the Federal Reserve Board deem it in the public interest, it may, upon the affirmative vote of not less than a majority of its members, authorize the Federal reserve banks to offer, and the Federal reserve agents to accept, as such collateralVol. 40, p. 236.Date authorization to terminate. security, direct obligations of the United States. On March 3, 1933, or sooner should the Federal Reserve Board so decide, such authorization shall terminate and such obligations of the United States be retired as security for Federal reserve notes. In no event shall suchAmount of collateral security. collateral security be less than the amount of Federal reserve notes applied for. The Federal reserve agent shall each day notify theNotification of withdrawals, etc. Federal Reserve Board of all issues and withdrawals of Federal reserve notes to and by the Federal reserve bank to which he is accredited. The said Federal Reserve Board may at any time callAdditional security. upon a Federal reserve bank for additional security to protect the Federal reserve notes issued to it.” " Approved, February 27, 1932. Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Illinois to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge agross the Pecatonica River at Harrison, in Winnebago County, State of Illinois. 47 Stat. 57 Chapter 59 1932-02-29 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 59.] AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Illinois to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge agross the Pecatonica River at Harrison, in Winnebago County, State of Illinois.February 29, 1932.[[H. R. 8163.](/us/bill/72/hr/8163)][[Public, No. 45.](/us/pl/72/45)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congrass11 So in original. assembled, * Pecatonica River.Illinois may bridge, at Harrison. That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the State of Illinois, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Pecatonica River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation at Harrison, Illinois, in section 14, township 28 north, range 11 east, fourth principal meridian, in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the constructionConstruction.Vol. 34, p. 84. of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906. Sec. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, February 29, 1932. Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Illinois to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Kankakee River at Momence, in Kankakee County, State of Illinois. 47 Stat. 58 Chapter 60 1932-02-29 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public 58 [CHAPTER 60.] AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Illinois to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Kankakee River at Momence, in Kankakee County, State of Illinois.February 29, 1932.[[H. R. 8171.](/us/bill/72/hr/8171)][[Public, No. 46.](/us/pl/72/46)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Kankakee River.Illinois may bridge, at Momence. That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the State of Illinois, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Kankakee River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation at Momence, Illinois, in township 31 north, between section 24, range 13 east, and section 19, range 14 east, third principalConstruction.Vol. 34, p. 84. meridian, in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906. Sec. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, February 29, 1932. To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a free highway bridge across the Fox River at Algonquin, in McHenry County, State of Illinois. 47 Stat. 58 Chapter 61 1932-02-29 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 61.] AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a free highway bridge across the Fox River at Algonquin, in McHenry County, State of Illinois.February 29, 1932.[[H. R. 8238.](/us/bill/72/hr/8238)][[Public, No. 47.](/us/pl/72/47)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Fox River.Time extended for bridging, at Algonquin, Ill. That the times for commencing and completing the construction of a free highway bridge across the Fox River, at Algonquin, McHenry County, Illinois, authorized to be built by the State of Illinois by an Act ofVol. 46, p. 1100. Congress approved February 13, 1931, are hereby extended one and three years, respectively, from February 13, 1932. Sec. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, February 29, 1932. Granting authority to the Texas State Highway Commission to maintain and operate, as constructed, a free highway bridge across Trinity River between the counties of Navarro and Henderson, in the State of Texas. 47 Stat. 58 Chapter 62 1932-02-29 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public [CHAPTER 62.] AN ACT Granting authority to the Texas State Highway Commission to maintain and operate, as constructed, a free highway bridge across Trinity River between the counties of Navarro and Henderson, in the State of Texas.February 29, 1932.[[H. R. 8250.](/us/bill/72/hr/8250)][[Public, No. 48.](/us/pl/72/48)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Trinity River.Texas may operate bridge across, at Trinidad. That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the Texas State Highway Commission and their successors and assigns to maintain and operate the free highway bridge and approaches thereto, as constructed, across Trinity River, seven-tenths mile west of Trinidad, between the counties of Navarro and Henderson, in the State of Texas, in accordanceConstruction.Vol. 34, p. 84. with the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906. Sec. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, February 29, 1932. Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Illinois to construct, maintain and operate a free highway bridge across Rock River at Byron, in Ogle County State of Illinois. 47 Stat. 59 Chapter 63 1932-02-29 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 72 1 public 59 [CHAPTER 63.] AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Illinois to construct, maintain and operate a free highway bridge across Rock River at Byron, in Ogle County State of Illinois.February 29, 1932.[[H. R. 8324.](/us/bill/72/hr/8324)][[Public, No. 49.](/us/pl/72/49)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Rock River.Illinois may bridge at Byron. That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the State of Illinois to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Rock River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at Byron, Illinois, in section 32, township 25 north, range 11 east, fourth principal meridian, in accordance with the provisionsConstruction.Vol. 34, p. 84. of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906. Sec. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, February 29, 1932. Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Illinois to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across Rock River at Byron, in Ogle County, State of Illinois. 1932-02-29 64 Chapter 47 Stat. 59 72 2 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 public [CHAPTER 64.] AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Illinois to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across Rock River at Byron, in Ogle County, State of Illinois.February 29, 1932.[[H. R. 8327](/us/bill/72/hr/8327).][
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