Public Law 481. reclassifying the salaries of postmasters and employees of the Postal Service, readjusting their salaries and compensation on Credit for time served as substitutes.an equitable basis, increasing postal rates to provide for such readjustment, and for other purposes”, approved February 28, 1925, as am

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(/us/pl/73/480).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That in theIndependent Offices Appropriation Act of 1935.*Ante*, p. 523. administration of the provision of subparagraph

(1)of section 24 of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1935, amending section 201 of part II of the Legislative Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1266Postal employees, etc.; automatic promotions.Credit of service.1933, all service rendered by postal and other officers and employees prior to July 1, 1932, and subsequent to June 30, 1932, shall be credited to the officers or employees and such officers or employees promoted to the grade to which they would have progressed had Vol. 47, p. 403.section 201 (suspending automatic increases in compensation) of part II of the Legislative Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1933, not been enacted. Sec. 2. Vol. 43, p. 1050; [U.S.C., p. 1242](/us/usc/1242). Amend the second proviso of section 4 of the Act entitled “An Act reclassifying the salaries of postmasters and employees of the Postal Service, readjusting their salaries and compensation on Credit for time served as substitutes.an equitable basis, increasing postal rates to provide for such readjustment, and for other purposes”, approved February 28, 1925, as amended (U.S.C., Supp. VII, title 39, sec. 104), by striking out the Fractional parts of year.colon at the end of the proviso and inserting a period in lieu thereof and the following: “Any fractional part of a year’s substitute service will be included with his service as a regular clerk or carrier in the City Delivery Service in determining eligibility for promotion to the next higher grade following appointment to a regular position:” Approved, June 27, 1934. To amend the Act entitled “An Act to adjust water-right charges, to grant other relief on the Federal irrigation projects, and for other purposes”, approved May 25, 1926, with respect to certain lands in the Langell Valley irrigation district. 1934-06-27 849 Chapter 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 48 Stat. 1266 73 2 public [CHAPTER 849.] AN ACT To amend the Act entitled “An Act to adjust water-right charges, to grant other relief on the Federal irrigation projects, and for other purposes”, approved May 25, 1926, with respect to certain lands in the Langell Valley irrigation district.June 27, 1934.[[S. 1510](/us/bill/73/s/1510).][[Public, No. 481](/us/pl/73/481).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Irrigation projects.Vol. 44, p. 640, amended. That the Act entitled “An Act to adjust water-right charges, to grant other relief on the Federal irrigation projects, and for other purposes ”, approved May 25, 1926, is amended by adding after section 16 thereof the following new sections: " “Sec. 16-A. Langell Valley district.Suspension of construction charges on unproductive, etc., lands within. All payments upon construction charges shall be suspended against such lands in the Langell Valley irrigation district as the Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be classified as to productivity and as the said Secretary may determine to be temporarily unproductive because nonagricultural and unsuitable for irrigation, Reclassification of rates.and the said Secretary is hereby authorized to reduce the construction obligations of the Langell Valley irrigation district exclusive of costs incurred in the construction of Clear Lake Channel in the ratio and proportion as the number of acres so found and determined to be temporarily unproductive bears to the total number of acres now *Proviso*.Reduction of water service.included as a part of said irrigation district: *Provided*, That the amount of irrigation water to which the Langell Valley irrigation district is entitled shall be reduced in proportion to the area temporarily suspended from construction charges. “Sec. 16-B. Contract, agreeing to resume payments, if land found productive, to be executed. The Secretary of the Interior, as a condition precedent to the allowance of the benefits offered under section 16-A, shall require the Langell Valley irrigation district to execute a contract providing for the resumption of construction charges by said district upon all, or any, of such acreages so found and determined to be temporarily unproductive, as the Secretary of the Interior may, subsequent to such suspension, find and declare to be possessed of sufficient productive power to be again placed in the paying class.” " Approved, June 27, 1934. Authorizing certain retired officers or employees of the United States to accept such decorations, orders, medals, or presents as have been tendered them by foreign Governments. 1934-06-27 850 Chapter 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 48 Stat. 1267 73 2 public 1267 [CHAPTER 850.] JOIN RESOLUTION Authorizing certain retired officers or employees of the United States to accept such decorations, orders, medals, or presents as have been tendered them by foreign Governments.June 27, 1934.[[H.J. Res. 330](/us/bill/73/hjres/330).][[Pub. Res., No. 52](/us/bill/73/pubres/52).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following-namedDecorations tendered by foreign governments.Designated officers and employees may accept.State Department. retired officers or employees of the United States are hereby authorized to accept such decorations, orders, medals, or presents as have been tendered them by foreign Governments: State Department: Robert Woods Bliss, Fred D. Fisher, George Horton, William H. Hunt, Frank W. Mahin, Thomas Sammons, Harry Tuck Sherman, Alexander Thackara, and Craig W. Wadsworth. United States Army: Charles J. Allen, Bailey K. Ashford, GeorgeArmy. G. Bartlett, Herbert C. Crosby, William Crozier, Albert C. Dalton, Hanson E. Ely, James E. Fecnet, Harry E. Gilchrist, Francis W. Griffin, William W. Harts, John L. Hines, William E. Horton, John A. Hull, Girard L. McEntee, Charles P. Summerall, John J. Pershing, Trevor W. Swett, and Thomas F. Van Natta, Junior. United States Navy: William C. Braisted, William B. Caperton,Navy. Robert E. Coontz, Herbert O. Dunn, John Rufus Edie, Noble E. Irwin, Harry H. Lane, Norman T. McLean, William V. Pratt, Henry J. Shields, George W. Steele, Montgomery M. Taylor, and Arthur L. Willard. United States Marine Corps: Ben H. Fuller and George C. Thorpe.Marine Corps.Member of Congress. Sol Bloom, Member of Congress, Director of United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission. Department of Agriculture: L. O. Howard.Department of Agriculture.Department of Commerce.List of persons for whom State Department is holding decorations. etc., to be reported to 75th, etc., Congresses. Department of Commerce: Antone Silva. Sec. 2. That the Secretary of State is hereby directed to furnish to the Seventy-fifth Congress and to each alternate Congress thereafter a list of those retired officers or employees of the United States for whom the Department of State under the provisions of the Act of January 31, 1881 (U.S.C., title 5, sec. 115), is holding decorations, orders, medals, or presents tendered them by foreign governments. Approved, June 27, 1934. To amend the Settlement of War Claims Act of 1928, as amended. 1934-06-27 48 Stat. 1267 851 Chapter 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 2 public [CHAPTER 851.] JOIN RESOLUTION To amend the Settlement of War Claims Act of 1928, as amended.June 27, 1934.[[H.J. Res. 365](/us/bill/73/hjres/365).][[Pub. Res., No. 53](”/us/bill/73/pubres/53).] Whereas the joint resolution of the Congress of the United States,Settlement of War Claims Act of 1928, amendments. approved July 2, 1921, provides in part as follows: " “Sec. 5. All property of the Imperial German Government,Vol. 42, p. 106. or its successor or successors, and of all German nationals, which was, on April 6, 1917, in or has since that date come into the possession or under control of, or has been the subject of a demand by the United States of America or of any of its officers, agents, or employees, from any source or by any agency whatsoever, * * * shall be retained by the United States of America and no disposition thereof made, except as shall have been heretofore or specifically hereafter shall be provided by law until such time as the Imperial German Government * * * shall have * * * made suitable provision for the satisfaction of all claims against said [Government] * * *, of all persons, wheresoever domiciled, who owe permanent allegiance to the United States 1268of America and who have suffered, through the acts of the Imperial German Government, or its agents * * * since July 31, 1914, loss, damage, or injury to their persons or property, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of shares of stock in German, * * *, American, or other corporations, or in consequence of hostilities or of any operations of war, or otherwise * * *.” " Whereas the treaty between the United States and Germany of August 25, 1921, incorporated said provision of such joint resolution and also provided in article I thereof as follows: " Vol. 42, p. 1942.“Germany undertakes to accord to the United States, and the United States shall have and enjoy, all the rights, privileges, indemnities, reparations, or advantages specified in the aforesaid Joint Resolution of the Congress of the United States of July 2, 1921, including all the rights and advantages stipulated for the benefit of the United States in the. Treaty of Versailles which the United States shall fully enjoy notwithstanding the fact that such Treaty has not been ratified by the United States.”; and " Whereas by the agreement of August 10, 1922, between Germany and the United States, a Mixed Claims Commission was established Vol. 42, p. 2200.to adjudicate claims of American nationals against Germany arising out of the World War; and Whereas under the terms of the debt-funding agreement between Germany and the United States dated June 23, 1930. Germany agreed to pay to the United States in satisfaction of Germany’s obligations remaining on account of awards, including interest thereon, entered and to be entered by the Mixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany, the sum of 40,800,000 reichmarks for the period September 1, 1929, to March 31, 1930, and the sum of 40,800,000 reichmarks per annum from April 1, 1930, to March 31, 1981; and Whereas Germany is now in arrears in payments due under said debt-funding agreement between Germany and the United States, and has, accordingly, failed to make suitable provision for the satisfaction of the said claims against Germany: Now, therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Further payments to German Nationals, from special deposit account postponed, pending arrears of payments by Germany. That so long as Germany is in arrears in any payments of principal or interest, including interest at the rate of 5 per centum per annum on principal installments not paid when due, under the debt-funding agreement between Germany and the United States, dated June 23, 1930, with respect to Germany’s obligations remaining on account of awards, including interest thereon, entered and to be entered by the Mixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany, all payments, conveyances, transfers, or deliveries of money or property or the income, issues, profits, and/or avails thereof authorized or Vol. 40. p. 423; Vol. 42, p. 106; Vol. 45, p. 268.directed to be made under the Trading with the Enemy Act, as amended, or the. Settlement of War Claims Act of 1928, as amended, whether or not a judgment or decree has been entered with respect thereto, shall be postponed and the money or property, or the *Provisos*.Use of any available funds in paying certain Mixed Claims Commission awards.income, issues, profits, and/or avails thereof reserved: *Provided, however*, That such of the funds as are from time to time available (without taking into consideration interest thereafter accruing) under the Settlement of War Claims Act of 1928, as amended, for the payment of principal and interest upon awards of said Mixed Claims Commission shall be applied when available to the payment of principal and interest upon such awards in the same manner and to the same extent as though certain of the payments provided for1269in said Act had not been postponed under this resolution:President may remove restriction as to payments, etc., in any class, etc. *Provided further*, That the President may, in his sole discretion, remove the restriction as to any of the cases or classes of cases in relation to which payments, conveyances, transfers, or deliveries have been postponed under this resolution: *And provided further*, That thePeriods of arrears by Germany to be determined for purposes of Act. President is authorized to determine, for the purposes of this resolution, the period or periods in which Germany is in arrears in the payments hereinbefore described, and his determination thereof shall not be subject to judicial review. Section 36 of the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act of 1933, as*Ante*, pp. 49, 1110. amended, is amended— I. By striking the comma and the word “and” after the wordsReconstruction Finance Corporation. “to reduce and refinance its outstanding indebtedness incurred in connection with any such project” in the second sentence thereof andAuthority to make loans to irrigation district. inserting in place thereof the following: “; or, whether or not it has any such indebtedness, to purchase or otherwise acquire in connection with such project storage reservoirs or dams or sites therefor, or additional water rights, or canals, ditches, or rights-of-way for the conduct of water, or other works or appurtenances necessary for the delivery of water, provided such purchase or acquisition is not intended to bring additional lands into production. Such loans”. II. By adding at the beginning of

(5)thereof the following: “in*Ante*, p. 50. the case of a loan to reduce or refinance its outstanding indebtedness,”. III. By adding at the beginning of

(C)thereof the following: “ in the case of a loan to reduce or refinance the outstanding indebtedness of an applicant,”. Approved, June 27, 1934. To stop injury to the public grazing lands by preventing overgrazing and soil deterioration, to provide for their orderly use, improvement, and development, to stabilize the livestock industry dependent upon the public range, and for other purposes. 1934-06-28 865 Chapter 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 48 Stat. 1269 73 2 public [CHAPTER 865.] AN ACT To stop injury to the public grazing lands by preventing overgrazing and soil deterioration, to provide for their orderly use, improvement, and development, to stabilize the livestock industry dependent upon the public range, and for other purposes.June 28, 1934.[[H.R. 6462](/us/bill/73/hr/6462).][

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