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(/us/pl/73/29).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Menominee Indians of Wisconsin.Per capita payments to, from tribal funds. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to withdraw from the fund in the Treasury of the United States on deposit to the credit of the Menominee Indians in the State of Wisconsin a sufficient sum to make therefrom a per capita payment or distribution of $100, in three installments, $50 immediately upon passage of this Act, $25 on or about October 15, 1933, and $25 on or about January 15, 1934, to each of the living members on the tribal roll of the Menominee Tribe of Indians of the State of Wisconsin, under such rules and regulations as the said Secretary may prescribe.
Approved, June 3, 1933. Authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Posheng Yen, a citizen of China. Chapter 47 48 Stat. 112 1933-06-05 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 2024-12-11 73 1 public [CHAPTER 47.] JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Posheng Yen, a citizen of China.June 5, 1933.[[S.J.
Res. 48](/us/bill/73/sjres/48).][[Pub. Res., No. 9](/us/bill/73/pubres/9).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Posheng Yen, a citizen of China.Admitted to Military Academy. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to permit Posheng Yen to receive instruction at the United States Military Academy at West Point *Provisos*.No Federal expense.Conditions.for the course beginning not later than July 1, 1934: *Provided*, That no expense shall be caused to the United States thereby, and that Posheng Yen shall agree to comply with all regulations for the police and discipline of the Academy, to be studious, and to give his utmost efforts to accomplish the courses in the various departments of instruction, and that said Posheng Yen shall not be admitted to the Academy until he shall have passed the mental and physical examinations prescribed for candidates from the United States, and that he shall be immediately withdrawn if deficient in studies or in Oath and service, waived.[R.S., secs. 1320, 1321, p. 227](/us/rs/s1320/1321/p227).conduct and so recommended by the Academic Board: *Provided further*, That in the case of said Posheng Yen the provisions of sections 1320 and 1321 of the Revised Statutes shall be suspended:
Existing law repealed.Vol. 47, p. 1546. *Provided further*, That S.J. Res. 179, approved March 3, 1933, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Approved, June 5, 1933. To assure uniform value to the coins and currencies of the United States. Chapter 48 48 Stat. 112 1933-06-05 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 2024-12-11 73 1 public [CHAPTER 48.] JOINT RESOLUTION To assure uniform value to the coins and currencies of the United States.June 5, 1933.[[H.J.
Res. 192](/us/bill/73/hjres/192).][[Pub. Res., No. 10](/us/bill/73/pubres/10).] Whereas the holding of or dealing in gold affect the public interest, and are therefore subject to proper regulation and restriction; and Uniform value of coins and currencies.Preamble.Whereas the existing emergency has disclosed that provisions of obligations which purport to give the obligee a right to require payment in gold or a particular kind of coin or currency of the United States, or in an amount in money of the United States measured thereby, obstruct the power of the Congress to regulate the value of the money of the United States, and are inconsistent with the declared policy of the Congress to maintain at all times the equal power of every dollar, coined or issued by the United States, in the markets and in the payment of debts.
Now, therefore, be it 113 *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That
(a)everyClauses in obligations requiring gold, etc., payments declared contrary to public policy. provision contained in or made with respect to any obligation which purports to give the obligee a right to require payment in gold or a particular kind of coin or currency, or in an amount in money of the United States measured thereby, is declared to be against publicNo future obligation to be so expressed. policy; and no such provision shall be contained in or made with respect to any obligation hereafter incurred. Every obligation,Payments to be made in legal tender. heretofore or hereafter incurred, whether or not any such provision is contained therein or made with respect thereto, shall be discharged upon payment, dollar for dollar, in any coin or currency which at the time of payment is legal tender for public and private debts.Conflicting provisions repealed.[U.S.C. p. 1003](/us/usc/p1003).Other provisions not invalidated. Any such provision contained in any law authorizing obligations to be issued by or under authority of the United States, is hereby repealed, but the repeal of any such provision shall not invalidate any other provision or authority contained in such law.
(b)As used in this resolution, the term “obligation” means anTerm “obligation” defined. obligation (including every obligation of and to the United States, excepting currency) payable in money of the United States; and the term “coin or currency” means coin or currency of the United“Coin or currency.” States, including Federal Reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal Reserve banks and national banking associations. Sec. 2. The last sentence of paragraph
(1)of subsection
(b)ofNational Economic Emergency Act, amended.*Ante*, p. 52. section 43 of the Act entitled “An Act to relieve the existing national economic emergency by increasing agricultural purchasing power, to raise revenue for extraordinary expenses incurred by reason of such emergency, to provide emergency relief with respect to agricultural indebtedness, to provide for the orderly liquidation of joint-stock land banks, and for other purposes”, approved May 12, 1933, is amended to read as follows: " “All coins and currencies of the United States (including FederalCoins and currencies as legal tender. Reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal Reserve banks and national banking associations) heretofore or hereafter coined or issued, shall be legal tender for all debts, public and private, public charges, taxes, duties, and dues, except that gold coins, whenAbrased gold coins, according to weight. below the standard weight and limit of tolerance provided by law for the single piece, shall be legal tender only at valuation in proportion to their actual weight.” " Approved, June 5, 1933, 4.40 p.m. To provide for the establishment of a national employment system and for cooperation with the States in the promotion of such system, and for other purposes. Chapter 49 48 Stat. 113 1933-06-06 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 2024-12-11 73 1 public [CHAPTER 49.] AN ACT To provide for the establishment of a national employment system and for cooperation with the States in the promotion of such system, and for other purposes.June 6, 1933.[[S. 510](/us/bill/73/s/510).][[Public, No. 30](/us/pl/73/30).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That
(a)in orderNational cooperative employment service.United States Employment Service created in Department of Labor. to promote the establishment and maintenance of a national system of public employment offices there is hereby created in the Department of Labor a bureau to be known as the United States Employment Service, at the head of which shall be a director. The directorAppointment, etc., of Director. shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall receive a salary at the rate of $8,500 per annum.
(b)Upon the expiration of three months after the enactment ofExisting service to be abolished; personnel and property transferred. this Act the employment service now existing in the Department of Labor shall be abolished; and all records, files, and property (including office equipment) of the existing employment service 114shall thereupon be transferred to the United States Employment No salary, etc., changes.Service; and all the officers and employees of such service shall thereupon be transferred to the United States Employment Service created by this Act without change in classification or compensation. Sec. 2. Assistant directors, officers, etc.Not subject to civil service nor Classification Acts.Vol. 42, p. 1488; [U.S.C., p. 65; Supp. VI, p. 31](/us/usc/s/p65/31).Other expenditures authorized. The Secretary of Labor is authorized, without regard to the civil service laws, to appoint and, without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, to fix the compensation of one or more assistant directors and such other officers, employees, and assistants, and to make such expenditures (including expenditures for personal services and rent at the seat of government and elsewhere and for law books, books of reference, and periodicals) as may be necessary Veteran employment service.Appointments in.to carry out the provisions of this Act. In case of appointment’s for service in the veterans’ employment service provided for in section 3 of this Act, the Secretary shall appoint only veterans of wars of the United States. Sec. 3. Duty etc., of bureau to develop national employment, etc.
(a)It shall be the province and duty of the bureau to promote and develop a national system of employment offices for men, women, and juniors who are legally qualified to engage in Veterans agencies.gainful occupations, to maintain a veterans’ service to be devoted to securing employment for veterans, to maintain a farm placement service, to maintain a public employment service for the District of Columbia and, in the manner hereinafter provided, to assist in establishing and maintaining systems of public employment offices in the several States and the political subdivisions thereof in which To assist in coordinating employment offices, etc.there shall be located a veterans’ employment service. The bureau shall also assist in coordinating the public employment offices throughout the country and in increasing their usefulness by developing and prescribing minimum standards of efficiency, assisting them in meeting problems peculiar to their localities, promoting uniformity in their administrative and statistical procedure, furnishing and publishing information as to opportunities for employment and other information of value in the operation of the system, and maintaining a system for clearing labor between the several States.
(b)Hawaii and Alaska included. Whenever in this Act the word “State” or “States” is used it shall be understood to include the Territories of Hawaii and Alaska. Sec. 4. State action to obtain benefits. In order to obtain the benefits of appropriations apportioned under section 5, a State shall, through its legislature, accept the provisions of this Act and designate or authorize the creation of a State agency vested with all powers necessary to cooperate with the United States Employment Service under this Act. Sec. 5. Appropriation for fiscal year 1934; thereafter.*Post*, p. 278.
(a)For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act there is hereby authorized to be appropriated
(1)the sum of $1,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934,
(2)$4,000,000 for each fiscal year thereafter up to and including the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938,
(3)and thereafter such sums annually as the Congress may deem necessary. Seventy-five per Apportionment among States.centum of the amounts appropriated under this Act shall be apportioned by the director among the several States in the proportion which their population bears to the total population of the States of the United States according to the next preceding United States Use in establishing, etc., public employment offices.census, to be available for the purpose of establishing and maintaining systems of public employment offices in the several States and the political subdivisions thereof in accordance with the provisions Payments to States.Restriction on.of this Act. No payment shall be made in any year out of the amount of such appropriations apportioned to any State until an equal sum has been appropriated or otherwise made available for that year by the State, or by any agency thereof, including 115appropriations made by local subdivisions, for the purpose of maintaining public employment offices as a part of a State-controlled system of public employment offices; except that the amounts so appropriated by the State shall not be less than 25 per centum of the apportionment according to population made by the director forMinimum. such State for the current year, and in no event less than $5,000. The balance of the amounts appropriated under this Act shall beAdministration, etc., expenses. available for all the purposes of this Act other than for apportionment among the several States as herein provided.
(b)The amounts apportioned to any State for any fiscal yearApportionments available through succeeding fiscal year; exception. shall be available for payment to and expenditure by such State, for the purposes of this Act, until the close of the next succeeding fiscal year; except that amounts apportioned to any State for any fiscal year preceding the fiscal year during which is commenced the first regular session of the legislature of such State held after the enactment of this Act shall remain available for payment to and expenditure by such State until the close of the fiscal year next succeeding that in which such session is commenced. Subject to theReapportionment of unexpended balances. foregoing limitations, any amount so apportioned unexpended at the end of the period during which it is available for expenditure under this Act shall, within sixty days thereafter, be reapportioned for the current fiscal year among all the States in the same manner and on the same basis, and certified to the Secretary of the Treasury and treasurers of the States in the same manner, as if it were being apportioned under this Act for the first time. Sec. 6. Within sixty days after any appropriation has been madeCertification of apportionments. under authority of this Act the director shall make the apportionment thereof as provided in section 5 and shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury and to the treasurers of the several States the amount apportioned to each State for the fiscal year for which the appropriation has been made. Sec. 7. Within sixty days after any appropriation has been madeDirector to ascertain measures taken by States. under the authority of this Act, and as often thereafter while such appropriation remains available as he deems advisable, the director shall ascertain as to each of the several States
(1)whether the State has, through its legislature or its governor, as the case may be, accepted the provisions of this Act and designated or authorized the creation of an agency to cooperate with the United States Employment Service in the administration of this Act in compliance with the provisions of section 4 of this Act; and
(2)the amounts,Funds made available by States, etc. if any, which have been appropriated or otherwise made available by such State and by any agency thereof, including appropriations made by local subdivisions, in compliance with the provisions of section 5 of this Act. If the director finds that a State has compliedDirector to certify to Treasury on compliance by States. with the requirements of such sections, and if plans have been submitted and approved in compliance with the provisions of section 8 of this Act, the director shall determine the amount of the payments, if any, to which the State is entitled under the provisions of section 5, and certify such amount to the Secretary of the Treasury.Certificate to be sufficient warrant. Such certificate shall be sufficient authority to the Secretary of the Treasury to make payments to the State in accordance therewith. Sec. 8. Any State desiring to receive the benefits of this Act shall,States to submit details for making provisions effective. by the agency designated to cooperate with the United States Employment Service, submit to the director detailed plans for carrying out the provisions of this Act within such State. In those StatesState providing vocational rehabilitation. where a State board, department, or agency exists which is charged with the administration of State laws for vocational rehabilitation of physically handicapped persons, such plans shall include provision for cooperation between such board, department, or agency and 116the agency designated to cooperate with the United States Employment Approval if plans conform to provisions of Act.Service under this Act. If such plans are in conformity with the provisions of this Act and reasonably appropriate and adequate to carry out its purposes, they shall be approved by the director and due notice of such approval shall be given to the State agency. Sec. 9. State agencies to report operations, etc. Each State agency cooperating with the United States Employment Service under this Act shall make such reports concerning its operations and expenditures as shall be prescribed by the Efficiency of office to be ascertained by director.director. It shall be the duty of the director to ascertain whether the system of public employment offices maintained in each State is conducted in accordance with the rules and regulations and the standards of efficiency prescribed by the director in accordance with Revocation, etc., of certificate.the provisions of this Act. The director may revoke any existing certificates or withhold any further certificate provided for in section 7, whenever he shall determine, as to any State, that the cooperating State agency has not properly expended the moneys paid to it or the moneys herein required to be appropriated by such State, in Notice required.accordance with plans approved under this Act. Before any such certificate shall be revoked or withheld from any State, the director shall give notice in writing to the State agency stating specifically wherein the State has failed to comply with such plans. The State Appeal to Secretary of Labor allowed.agency may appeal to the Secretary of Labor from the action of the director in any such case, and the Secretary of Labor may either affirm or reverse the action of the director with such directions as he shall consider proper. Sec. 10. Expenditures in State by Director. During the current fiscal year and the two succeeding fiscal years the Director is authorized to expend in any State so much of the sum apportioned to such State according to population, and so much of the unapportioned balance of the appropriation made under the provisions of section 5 as he may deem necessary, as follows:
(a)To establish State system of employment. In States where there is no State system of public employment offices, in establishing and maintaining a system of public employment offices under the control of the Director.
(b)When State system exists, but cooperative requirements not met.*Ante*, p. 114. In States where there is a State system of public employment offices, but where the State has not complied with the provisions of section 4, in establishing a cooperative Federal and State system of public employment offices to be maintained by such officer or board and in such manner as may be agreed upon by and between the Governor of the State and the Director. Termination of authority to extend benefits.The authority contained in this section shall terminate at the expiration of the period specified in the first paragraph of this section, and thereafter no assistance shall be rendered such States until the legislatures thereof provide for cooperation with the United States Employment Service as provided in section 4 of this Act. Sec. 11 Federal Advisory Council.Composition, purposes, etc.
(a)The director shall establish a Federal Advisory Council composed of men and women representing employers and employees in equal numbers and the public for the purpose of formulating policies and discussing problems relating to employment and insuring impartiality, neutrality, and freedom from political influence Appointment, without pay.in the solution of such problems. Members of such council shall be selected from time to time in such manner as the director shall prescribe and shall serve without compensation, but when Travel and subsistence allowed.attending meetings of the council they shall be allowed necessary traveling and subsistence expenses, or per diem allowance in lieu thereof, within the limitations prescribed by law for civilian employees Access to files, records, etc.in the executive branch of the Government. The council shall have access to all files and records of the United States Em-117ployment Service. The director shall also require the organizationState councils to be organized. of similar State advisory councils composed of men and women representing employers and employees in equal numbers and the public.
(b)In carrying out the provisions of this Act the director isNotices of strikes, etc. authorized and directed to provide for the giving of notice of strikes or lockouts to applicants before they are referred to employment. Sec. 12. The director, with the approval of the Secretary ofRules to be prescribed. Labor, is hereby authorized to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Sec. 13. The Postmaster General is hereby authorized and directedFranking privilege extended. to extend to the United States Employment Service and to the system of employment offices operated by it in conformity with the provisions of this Act, and to all State employment systems which receive funds appropriated under authority of this Act, the privilege of free transmission of official mail matter. Approved, June 6, 1933. To amend the Act approved July 3, 1930 (46 Stat. 1005), authorizing commissioners or members of international tribunals to administer oaths, and so forth. Chapter 50 48 Stat. 117 1933-06-07 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 2024-12-11 73 1 public [CHAPTER 50.] AN ACT To amend the Act approved July 3, 1930 (46 Stat. 1005), authorizing commissioners or members of international tribunals to administer oaths, and so forth.June 7, 1933.[[S. 1581](/us/bill/73/s/1581).][
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