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--- schema: uslm source_file: STATUTE-49.xml --- 1 **THE STATUTES AT LARGE** OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FROM JANUARY 1935 TO JUNE 1936 CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS RECENT TREATIES AND CONVENTIONS, EXECUTIVE PROCLAMATIONS AND AGREEMENTS EDITED, PRINTED, AND PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF CONGRESS UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE **VOL. XLIX** IN TWO PARTS Part 1—Public Acts and Resolutions. Part 2—Private Acts and Resolutions, Concurrent Resolutions, Treaties and Conventions, Executive Proclamations and Agreements.
PART 1 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING. OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1936 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C. – – – – – – – – – – – Price $5.00 (Buckram) ii The original of every act and joint resolution printed in this volume from page 1 to page 1089, inclusive, has the following heading: Seventy-fourth Congress of the United States of America; At the First Session, Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday, the third day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five.
The original of every act and joint resolution printed in this volume from page 1091 to page 2041, inclusive, has the following heading: Seventy-fourth Congress of the United States of America; At the Second Session, Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday, the third day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six. All bills and joint resolutions presented to the President of the United States bear the signatures of the Speaker (or of the Speaker *pro tempore*) of the House of Representatives and of the Vice President and President of the Senate (or of the President of the Senate *pro tempore*), those signatures accordingly appear on the originals of all acts and joint resolutions.
The signature of the President of the United States appears on the originals of all approved acts and joint resolutions. The original of every act and joint resolution has endorsed thereon a certificate of origin, signed, as the case may be, by the Clerk of the House of Representatives or by the Secretary of the Senate and reading “I certify that this Act (or Joint Resolution) originated in the House of Representatives (or Senate).” The origin of each act and resolution contained in this volume is indicated in the margin at the beginning of each enactment; thus, for example, H.
R. 3410 or H. J. Res. 112 indicates origin in the House of Representatives; and S. 1175 or S. J. Res. 49 indicates origin in the Senate. iii PUBLIC LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PASSED BY THE SEVENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS 1935–1936 v LIST OF THE PUBLIC ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS Contained in this Volume THE SEVENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES First Session, 1935. Page *World War Veterans’ Act, amendment.* JOINT RESOLUTION To clarify the definition of disagreement in section 19, World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, as amended January 28, 1935 1 *Reconstruction Finance Corporation, functions extended.* AN ACT To extend the functions of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for two years, and for other purposes January 31, 1935 1 *Appropriations, Independent Offices, fiscal year 1936.* AN ACT Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and for other purposes February 2, 1935 6 *Conventions, housing, etc., expenses.* JOINT RESOLUTION To prohibit expenditure of any moneys for housing, feeding, or transporting conventions or meetings February 2, 1935 19 *Second Liberty Bond Act, amendment.* AN ACT To amend the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended, and for other purposes February 4, 1935 20 *Appropriations, additional, fiscal year 1935.* JOINT RESOLUTION Making additional appropriations for the Federal Communications Commission, the National Mediation Board, and the Securities and Exchange Commission for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, and for other purposes February 13, 1935 22 *Mexican Boundary Commission, American section.* JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for defraying the expenses of the American section, International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico February 13, 1935 24 *Bridge, Eleven Points River.* AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the State highway commission to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across Eleven Points River in section 17, township 23 north, range 2 west, approximately twelve miles east of Alton, on route numbered 42, Oregon County, Missouri February 18, 1935 25 *Bridge, Arkansas River.* AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Oklahoma to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Arkansas River south of the town of Sallisaw in Sequoyah and Le Flore Counties at a point approximately fifteen miles north of Keota in the State of Oklahoma February 18, 1935 25 *District of Columbia, pipe lines.* AN ACT Permitting the laying of pipe lines across New York Avenue Northeast, in the District of Columbia February 18, 1935 26 *Bridge, Waccamaw River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Waccamaw River at Conway, South Carolina February 18, 1935 26 *Bridge, Dan River.* AN ACT To legalize a bridge (known as “Union Street Bridge”) across the Dan River at Danville, Virginia February 18, 1935 27 *Bridge, Snake River.* AN ACT Authorizing the States of Washington and Idaho to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Snake River between Clarkston, Washington, and Lewiston, Idaho February 19, 1935 27 *Bridge, Saint Lawrence River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Saint Lawrence River at or near Alexandria Bay, New York February 20, 1935 28 *Agriculture, farmers’ loans.* AN ACT To provide for loans to farmers for crop production and harvesting during the year 1935, and for other purposes February 20, 1935 28 *Air mail, postal service.* AN ACT To postpone the effective date of certain restrictions respecting air-mail contracts February 21, 1935 30 *Bridge, Missouri River.* AN ACT To further extend the time for constructing a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Saint Charles, Missouri February 21, 1935 30vi *Petroleum, shipments, etc.* AN ACT To regulate interstate and foreign commerce in petroleum and its products by prohibiting the shipment in such commerce of petroleum and its products produced in violation of State law, and for other purposes February 22, 1935 30 *District of Columbia, Mystic Shrine convention.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the use of public parks, reservations, and other public spaces in the District of Columbia; and the use of tents, cots, hospital appliances, flags, and other decorations, property of the United States, by Washington, D.
C., 1935 Shrine Committee, Incorporated, and for other purposes February 28, 1935 34 *Bridge, Ohio River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River between Rockport, Indiana, and Owensboro, Kentucky March 2, 1935 36 *Mississippi, forest lands.* AN ACT To authorize a transfer of forest reservation lands in Forrest and Perry Counties, Mississippi, to the State of Mississippi, or to the War Department, and for other purposes March 2, 1935 37 *Bridge, Wabash River.* AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Indiana to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Wabash River at or near La Fayette, Indiana March 2, 1935 37 *District of Columbia, unlawful entry on private property.* AN ACT To amend section 824 of the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia March 4, 1935 37 *Writings of George Washington.* JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for the completion of the publication of the writings of George Washington March 4, 1935 38 *District of Columbia, wills and administration.* AN ACT To amend certain sections of the code of law for the District of Columbia, approved March 3, 1901, as amended, relating to descent and distribution March 6, 1935 39 *California Pacific International Exposition.* JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the participation of the United States in the California Pacific International Exposition to be held at San Diego, California, in 1935 and 1936; authorizing an appropriation therefor; and for other purposes March 7, 1935 40 *American Telephone and Telegraph Company.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing and directing the Federal Communications Commission to investigate and report on the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and on all other companies engaged directly or indirectly in telephone communication in interstate commerce, including all companies related to any of these companies through a holding company structure, or otherwise March 15, 1935 43 *Agricultural Adjustment Act, amendment.* AN ACT To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act with respect to rice, and for other purposes March 18, 1935 45 *Appropriations, first deficiency Act, 1935.* AN ACT Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, and for other purposes March 21, 1935 49 *District of Columbia-Virginia boundary line.* JOINT RESOLUTION To continue the commission for determining the boundary line between the District of Columbia and the State of Virginia for not to exceed nine additional months, and to authorize not to exceed $10,000 additional funds for its expenses March 21, 1935 67 *Appropriations, State, Justice, Commerce and Labor Departments, fiscal year 1936.* AN ACT Making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and for other purposes March 22, 1935 67 *Boy Scouts jamboree.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy to lend Army and Navy equipment for use at the national jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America April 1, 1935 105 *District of Columbia, unsafe buildings.* AN ACT To amend the Act of Congress approved March 1, 1899, entitled “An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous and unsafe buildings and parts thereof, and for other purposes”, and to further amend said Act by adding at the end thereof new sections numbered 5 and 6 April 5, 1935 105 *District of Columbia, condemned buildings.* AN ACT To amend an Act approved May 1, 1906, entitled “An Act to create a board for the condemnation of insanitary buildings in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes” April 5, 1935 108 *District of Columbia, Second Place.* AN ACT To change the designation of Leffler Place to Second Place April 5, 1935 110 *Charlotte Taylor, bequest.* JOINT RESOLUTION To authorize the acceptance on behalf of the United States of the bequest of the late Charlotte Taylor of the city of Saint Petersburg, State of Florida, for the benefit of Water Reed General Hospital April 5, 1935 110 *District of Columbia, estates of absentees, etc.* AN ACT To provide for the conservation and settlement of estates of absentees and absconders in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes April 8, 1935 111 *Trinity College, Washington, D.
C.* AN ACT Relating to the incorporation of Trinity College of Washington, District of Columbia, organized under and by virtue of a certificate of incorporation pursuant to the incorporation laws of the District of Columbia, as provided in subchapter 1 of chapter 18 of the Code of Laws of the District of Columbia April 8, 1935 113vii *Appropriations, Emergency Relief.* JOINT RESOLUTION Making appropriations for relief purposes April 8, 1935 115 *California Pacific International Exposition.* JOINT RESOLUTION To permit articles imported from foreign countries for the purpose of exhibition at the California Pacific International Exposition, San Diego, California, to be admitted without payment of tariff, and for other purposes April 8, 1935 119 *Appropriations, War Department and Army, fiscal year 1936.* AN ACT Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and for other purposes April 9, 1935 120 *Special Mexican Claims Commission.* AN ACT To establish a commission for the settlement of the special claims comprehended within the terms of the convention between the United States of America and the United Mexican States concluded April 24, 1934 April 10, 1935 149 *Distinguished Flying Crosses, awards.* AN ACT Authorizing the President to present Distinguished Flying Crosses to Air Marshal Italo Balbo and General Aldo Pellegrini, of the Royal Italian Air Force April 10, 1935 152 *District of Columbia, acquisition of land.* AN ACT To provide for the acquisition of land in the District of Columbia in excess of that required for public projects and improvements, and for other purposes April 11, 1935 152 *Merchant Marine, Great Lakes ferries.* AN ACT To amend section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920 April 11, 1935 154 *Department of Labor, statistical studies.* AN ACT To authorize the Department of Labor to continue to make special statistical studies upon payment of the cost thereof, and for other purposes April 11, 1935 154 *Bridge, Ohio River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River at or near Cairo, Illinois April 12, 1935 155 *Navy, public works.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to proceed with the construction of certain public works, and for other purposes April 15, 1935 155 *Naval Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve.* AN ACT To provide for aviation cadets in the Naval Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve April 15, 1935 156 *National forests, timber contracts.* AN ACT Authorizing the adjustment of contracts for the sale of timber on the national forests, and for other purposes April 17, 1935 158 *Jonesboro, Ark., post office.* AN ACT To authorize acquisition of land to provide appropriate means of access to the post-office building at Jonesboro, Arkansas April 18, 1935 158 *Revenue Act of 1934, amendment.* AN ACT To amend certain provisions relating to publicity of certain statements of income April 19, 1935 158 *Sale of property under court decree.* AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the manner in which property shall be sold under orders and decrees of any United States courts”, approved March 3, 1893, as amended April 24, 1935 159 *Ocean mail, postal service.* JOINT RESOLUTION To extend the time within which contracts may be modified or canceled under the provisions of section 5 of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1934 April 24, 1935 161 *District of Columbia, Mystic Shrine convention.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the appropriation of funds for the maintenance of public order and the protection of life and property during the convention of the Imperial Council of the Mystic Shrine in the District of Columbia June 8, 1935, to June 17, 1935, both inclusive April 24, 1935 161 *Navy and Marine Corps, administering oaths.* AN ACT To authorize certain officers of the Navy and Marine Corps to administer oaths April 25, 1935 161 *Naval service, medal facsimile.* AN ACT Authorizing personnel of the naval service to whom a commemorative or special medal has been awarded to wear in lieu thereof a miniature facsimile of such medal and a ribbon symbolic of the award April 25, 1935 162 *Navy, administering oaths.* AN ACT Authorizing certain officials under the Naval Establishment to administer oaths April 25, 1935 162 *District of Columbia, pipe lines.* AN ACT To permit construction, maintenance, and use of certain pipe lines for petroleum and petroleum products in the District of Columbia April 25, 1935 162 *Soil erosion.* AN ACT To provide for the protection of land resources against soil erosion, and for other purposes April 27, 1935 163 *Parris Island, S.
C.* AN ACT Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to accept on behalf of the United States a certain strip of land from the State of South Carolina April 29, 1935 164 *Hudson, N. Y., and Providence, R. I., commemorative coins.* AN ACT To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the city of Hudson, New York, and of the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of the city of Providence, Rhode Island, respectively May 2, 1935 165 *District of Columbia, financial responsibility of motor-vehicle operators.* AN ACT To promote safety on the public highways of the District of Columbia by providing for the financial responsibility of owners and operators of motor vehicles for damages caused by motor vehicles on the public highways in the District of Columbia; to prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this Act, and for other purposes May 3, 1935 166viii *California-Pacific International Exposition.* AN ACT To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in connection with the California-Pacific International Exposition to be held in San Diego, California, in 1935 and 1936 May 3, 1935 174 *District of Columbia, public works.* AN ACT To amend an Act approved June 25, 1934, authorizing loans from the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, for the construction of certain municipal buildings in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes May 6, 1935 174 *Key West, Fla., naval station.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of Commerce to exchange a portion of the naval station and a portion of the lighthouse reservation at Key West, Florida May 8, 1935 175 *Rear Admiral Byrd, etc., gratitude extended.* JOINT RESOLUTION Extending the gratitude of the Nation to Admiral Byrd and to the members of his expedition May 8, 1935 176 *Rear Admiral Byrd, committee to greet.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the appointment of a special joint committee to meet with other representatives of the Government in greeting Rear Admiral Richard E.
Byrd upon his return from his second Antarctic Expedition May 8, 1935 176 *Appropriations, Interior Department, fiscal year 1936.* AN ACT Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and for other purposes May 9, 1935 176 *U S. Employment Service, State apportionments.* AN ACT To alter the amount apportioned to certain States for public employment offices affiliated with the United States Employment Service May 10, 1935 216 *District of Columbia, Mystic Shrine convention.* JOINT RESOLUTION To enable the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to defray certain expenses incident to the convention of the Imperial Council of the Mystic Shrine, June 8 to June 17, 1935, both inclusive May 10, 1935 217 *Rocky Boy Indian Reservation, Mont., addition.* AN ACT To add certain public-domain land in Montana to the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation May 14, 1935 217 *Philippine Islands, Army details.* AN ACT To amend the Act of May 19, 1926, entitled “An Act to authorize the President to detail officers and enlisted men of the United States Army, Navy, and Marine Corps to assist the governments of the Latin-American Republics in military and naval matters” May 14, 1935 218 *Appropriations, Treasury and Post Office Departments, fiscal year 1936.* AN ACT Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and for other purposes May 14, 1935 218 *Connecticut Colony, commemoration.* JOINT RESOLUTION Establishing a commission for the participation of the United States in the observance of the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Colony of Connecticut, authorizing an appropriation to be utilized in connection with such observance, and for other purposes May 14, 1935 244 *Crow Indians, revolving fund.* AN ACT Extending the time for repayment of the revolving fund for the benefit of the Crow Indians May 15, 1935 244 *Ketchikan, Alaska, bond issue.* AN ACT To authorize the city of Ketchikan, Alaska, to issue bonds in any sum not to exceed $1,000,000 for the purpose of acquiring the electric light and power, water, and telephone properties of the Citizens’ Light, Power, and Water Company, and to finance and operate the same, and validating the preliminary proceedings with respect thereto, and for other purposes May 15, 1935 245 *Bankruptcy Act of 1898, amendments.* AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States”, approved July 1, 1898, and Acts amendatory and supplementary thereto May 15, 1935 246 *Colonel William L.
Keller.* AN ACT To give proper recognition to the distinguished services of Colonel William L. Keller May 15, 1935 247 *Appropriations, Department of Agriculture, etc., fiscal year 1936.* AN ACT Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture and for the Farm Credit Administration for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and for other purposes May 17, 1935 247 *Seward, Alaska, electric system.* AN ACT Concerning the incorporated town of Seward, Territory of Alaska May 20, 1935 282 *Washington-Lincoln Memorial Gettysburg Boulevard.* JOINT RESOLUTION For the establishment of a commission for the construction of a Washington-Lincoln Memorial Gettysburg Boulevard connecting the present Lincoln Memorial in the city of Washington with the battlefield of Gettysburg in the State of Pennsylvania May 20, 1935 285 *Public lands, homestead entries.* AN ACT Granting a leave of absence to settlers of homestead lands during the year 1935 May 22, 1935 286 *Interstate Commerce Commission report.* AN ACT To amend section 21 of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, with respect to the time of making the annual report of the Interstate Commerce Commission May 23, 1935 287 *Walter Reed General Hospital.* JOINT RESOLUTION To authorize the acceptance on behalf of the United States of the bequest of the late Major General Fred C.
Ainsworth for the purpose of establishing a permanent library at the Walter Reed General Hospital to be known as the “Fred C. Ainsworth Endowment Library” May 23, 1935 287ix *Bridge, Missouri River.* AN ACT To further extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Garrison, North Dakota May 24, 1935 288 *Bridge, Mississippi River.* AN ACT To revive and reenact the Act entitled “An Act granting the consent of Congress to board of county commissioners of Itasca County, Minnesota, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Mississippi River at or near the road between the villages of Cohasset and Deer River, Minnesota.
” May 24, 1935 288 *Deschutes National Forest, Oreg.* AN ACT To include within the Deschutes National Forest, in the State of Oregon, certain public lands within the exchange boundaries thereof May 24, 1935 288 *Bridge, Missouri River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Farnam Street, Omaha, Nebraska May 24, 1935 289 *Alaska, indigent convicts.* AN ACT To amend section 5296 of the Revised Statutes of the United States May 24, 1935 289 *Nome, Alaska.* AN ACT To ratify and confirm the corporate existence of the city of Nome, Alaska, and to authorize it to undertake certain municipal public works, including the construction, reconstruction, enlargement, extension, and improvement of its sewers and drains, fire-fighting system, streets and alleys, sidewalks, curbs and gutters, and a municipal building, and for such purposes to issue bonds in any Sum not exceeding $100,000 May 24, 1935 289 *Military Medicine and Pharmacy Congress.* JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for participation by the United States in the Eighth International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy to be held at Brussels, Belgium, in June 1935 May 24, 1935 291 *Eleventh Olympic games.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of War to pay certain expenses incident to the training, attendance, and participation of the equestrian and modern pentathlon teams in the Eleventh Olympic Games May 27, 1935 292 *Grand Haven Lighthouse Reservation, Mich.* AN ACT Authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to convey to the city of Grand Haven, Michigan, certain portions of the Grand Haven Lighthouse Reservation, Michigan May 27, 1935 292 *Department of Commerce, statistical studies.* AN ACT To authorize the Department of Commerce to make special statistical studies upon payment of the cost thereof, and for other purposes May 27, 1935 292 *Domestic animals, crossing international boundary line.* AN ACT To extend the time during which domestic animals which have crossed the boundary line into foreign countries may be returned duty free May 27, 1935 293 *Home-mortgage relief, additional.* AN ACT To provide additional home-mortgage relief, to amend the Federal Home Loan Bank Act, the Home Owners’ Loan Act of 1933, and the National Housing Act, and for other purposes May 28, 1935 293 *Bridge, Saint Lawrence River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Saint Lawrence River at or near Ogdensburg, New York May 28, 1935 301 *Petersburg, Alaska, bond issue.* AN ACT To authorize the incorporated town of Petersburg, Alaska, to undertake certain municipal public works, including the filling, grading, and paving of streets and sidewalks, the construction and improvement of sewers, and construction of necessary bridges and viaducts in connection with the same, and for such purposes to issue bonds in any sum not exceeding $35,000 May 28, 1935 301 *Valdez, Alaska, bond issue.* AN ACT To authorize the incorporated town of Valdez, Alaska, to construct a public-school building and for such purpose to issue bonds in any sum not exceeding $30,000; and to authorize said town to accept grants of money to aid it in financing any public works May 28, 1935 303 *White House Police, increase.* AN ACT To increase the White House Police Force, and for other purposes May 28, 1935 304 *Lighthouse reservations, disposal of certain.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to dispose of certain lighthouse reservations, and for other purposes May 28, 1935 305 *Emergency Conservation Work.* AN ACT To authorize the disposal of surplus personal property, including buildings, of the Emergency Conservation Work May 29, 1935 311 *Chippewa Indians, Minn., lands.* AN ACT To set aside certain lands for the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota May 29, 1935 312 *Sea Island Beach Coast Guard Station, Ga.* AN ACT To provide for the establishment of a Coast Guard station on the coast of Georgia, at or near Sea Island Beach May 29, 1935 312 *Green Lake Fish Cultural Station, Maine.* AN ACT To authorize the transfer of the Green Lake Fish Cultural Station in Hancock County, Maine, as an addition to Acadia National Park May 29, 1935 312 *Circuit Court of Appeals, appellate jurisdiction.* AN ACT To amend section 128 of the Judicial Code, as amended May 31, 1935 313 *Farm Credit Act of 1935, amendment.* AN ACT To amend the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act of 1933, to amend the Federal Farm Loan Act, to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act, and to amend the Farm Credit Act of 1933, and for other purposes June 3, 1935 313x *Puerto Rican Hurricane Relief Commission.* JOINT RESOLUTION To abolish the Puerto Rican Hurricane Relief Commission and transfer its functions to the Secretary of the Interior June 3, 1935 320 *District of Columbia, high school military instructor.* AN ACT To provide for the payment of a military instructor for the high-school cadets of Washington, District of Columbia June 4, 1935 320 *Chippewa Indians in Minnesota.* AN ACT To compensate the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota for lands set aside by treaties for their future homes and later patented to the State of Minnesota under the Swamp Land Act June 4, 1935 321 *Bridge, Mississippi River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Gretna, Louisiana June 4, 1935 321 *Bridge, Des Moines River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Des Moines River at or near Saint Francisville, Missouri June 4, 1935 322 *Bridge, Rainy River.* AN ACT To revive and reenact the Act entitled “An Act authorizing Vernon W.
O’Connor, of Saint Paul, Minnesota, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Rainy River at or near Baudette, Minnesota” June 4, 1935 322 *Bridge, Waccamaw River.* AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the State Highway Commission of North Carolina to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across Waccamaw River, at or near Old Pireway Ferry Crossing, North Carolina June 4, 1935 322 *Bridge, Mississippi River.* AN ACT Authorizing the State of Illinois and the State of Missouri to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Mississippi River between Kaskaskia Island, Illinois, and Saint Marys, Missouri June 4, 1935 323 *Bridge, Rio Grande.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Rio Grande at or near Boca Chica, Texas June 4, 1935 323 *Navy, line officers, detail for aeronautical engineering.* AN ACT To authorize the assignment of officers of the line of the Navy for aeronautical engineering duty only, and for other purposes June 5, 1935 323 *Cabeza de Vaca Expedition.* AN ACT To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in connection with the Cabeza de Vaca Expedition and the opening of the Old Spanish Trail June 5, 1935 324 *Rio Grande compact.* AN ACT To give the consent and approval of Congress to the extension of the terms and provisions of the present Rio Grande compact signed at Santa Fe, New Mexico, on February 12, 1929, and heretofore approved by Act of Congress dated June 17, 1930 (Public, Numbered 370, Seventy-first Congress, 46 Stat. 767) June 5, 1935 325 *District of Columbia, German Orphan Home.* AN ACT To change the name of the German Orphan Asylum Association of the District of Columbia to the German Orphan Home of the District of Columbia June 5, 1935 325 *Navy pay corps, bonds.* AN ACT To amend section 1383 of the Revised Statutes of the United States June 6, 1935 326 *Library of Congress, annex.* AN ACT To provide for increasing the limit of cost for the construction and equipment of an annex to the Library of Congress June 6, 1935 326 *Flood control, New York.* AN ACT Authorizing a preliminary examination of the Oswego, Oneida, Seneca, and Clyde Rivers in Oswego, Onondaga, Oneida, Madison, Cayuga, Wayne, Seneca, Tompkins, Schuyler, Yates, and Ontario Counties, New York, with a view to the controlling of floods June 6, 1935 326 *Pulaski Memorial Day.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the President of the United States of America to proclaim October 11, 1935, General Pulaski’s Memorial Day for the observance and commemoration of the death of Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski June 6, 1935 327 *Glacier County, Mont., school building construction.* AN ACT To provide funds for cooperation with public-school districts in Glacier County, Montana, in the improvement and extension of school buildings to be available to both Indian and white children June 7, 1935 327 *Wolf Point, Mont., school building construction.* AN ACT To provide funds for cooperation with the public-school board at Wolf Point, Montana, in the construction or improvement of a public-school building to be available to Indian children of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana June 7, 1935 327 *Polson, Mont., school building construction.* AN ACT To provide funds for cooperation with school district numbered 23, Polson, Montana, in the improvement and extension of school buildings to be available to both Indian and white children June 7, 1935 328 *Lake and Missoula Counties, Mont., public school improvements.* AN ACT To provide funds for cooperation with Joint School District Numbered 28, Lake and Missoula Counties, Montana, for extension of public-school buildings to be available to Indian children of the Flathead Indian Reservation June 7, 1935 328 *Brockton, Mont., public school improvements.* AN ACT To provide funds for cooperation with the school board at Brockton, Montana, in the extension of the public-school building at that place to be available to Indian children of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation June 7, 1935 328xi *Poplar, Mont., school building construction.* AN ACT For expenditure of funds for cooperation with the public-school board at Poplar, Montana, in the construction or improvement of public-school building to be available to Indian children of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana June 7, 1935 329 *Frazer, Mont., high school completion.* AN ACT To authorize appropriations for the completion of the public high school at Frazer, Montana June 7, 1935 329 *Snohomish County, Wash., school building construction.* AN ACT To provide funds for cooperation with Marysville School District, number 325, Snohomish County, Washington, for extension of public-school buildings to be available for Indian children June 7, 1935 329 *Queets, Wash., school building construction.* AN ACT To provide funds for cooperation with the school board at Queets, Washington, in the construction of a public-school building to be available to Indian children of the village of Queets, Jefferson County, Washington June 7, 1935 330 *Yakima County, Wash., school building construction.* AN ACT To provide funds for cooperation with White Swan School District, Numbered 88, Yakima County, Washington, for extension of public-school buildings to be available for Indian children of the Yakima Reservation June 7, 1935 330 *Covelo, Calif., school building construction.* AN ACT To provide funds for cooperation with the public-school board at Covelo, California, in the construction of public-school buildings to be available to Indian children of the Round Valley Reservation, California June 7, 1935 331 *Pine Ridge, S.
Dak., school building construction.* AN ACT To provide funds for cooperation with the school board of Shannon County, South Dakota, in the construction of a consolidated high-school building to be available to both white and Indian children June 7, 1935 331 *Navy and Marine Corps band leaders.* AN ACT For the relief of the present leaders of the United States Navy Band and the band of the United States Marine Corps June 7, 1935 331 *Military Academy, cadet increase.* AN ACT To provide for an additional number of cadets at the United States Military Academy, and for other purposes June 7, 1935 332 *Yavapai Indians, lands.* AN ACT To transfer certain lands from the Veterans’ Administration to the Department of the Interior for the benefit of Yavapai Indians, Arizona June 7, 1935 332 *Undelivered mail, postal service.* AN ACT Relating to undelivered parcels of the first class June 7, 1935 333 *Big Horn County, Mont., school building construction.* AN ACT To provide funds for cooperation with school district numbered 27, Big Horn County, Montana, for extension of public-school buildings to be available to Indian children June 7, 1935 333 *Harlem, Mont., school building construction.* AN ACT To provide funds for cooperation with Harlem School District Numbered 12, Blaine County, Montana, for extension of public-school buildings and equipment to be available for Indian children June 7, 1935 333 *Federal Aviation Commission.* JOINT RESOLUTION Making final disposition of records, files, and other property of the Federal Aviation Commission June 10, 1935 334 *Coquille River, Oreg., flood control.* AN ACT To authorize a preliminary examination of the Coquille River and its tributaries in the State of Oregon with a view to the control of its floods June 11, 1935 334 *Umpqua River, Oreg., flood control.* AN ACT To authorize a preliminary examination of Umpqua River and its tributaries in the State of Oregon, with a view to the control of its floods June 11, 1935 335 *Nehalem, etc., Rivers, Oreg., flood control.* AN ACT Authorizing a preliminary examination of the Nehalem, Miami, Kilchis, Wilson, Trask, and Tillamook Rivers, in Tillamook County, Oregon, with a view to the controlling of floods June 11, 1935 335 *Sebewaing River, Oreg., flood control.* AN ACT Authorizing a preliminary examination of Sebewaing River, in Huron County, Michigan, with a view to the controlling of floods June 11, 1935 335 *Cape Cod Canal Coast Guard station.* AN ACT For a Coast Guard station at the eastern entrance to Cape Cod Canal, Massachusetts June 11, 1935 336 *Big Horn County, Mont., school building construction.* AN ACT To provide funds for cooperation with school district numbered 17–H, Big Horn County, Montana, for extension of public-school buildings, to be available to Indian children June 11, 1935 336 *Medicine Lake, Mont., school building construction.* AN ACT To provide funds for cooperation with the school board at Medicine Lake, Montana, in construction of a public-school building to be available to Indian children of the village of Medicine Lake, Sheridan County, Montana June 11, 1935 336 *Reclamation, etc., projects, water charges.* AN ACT To further extend relief to water users on United States reclamation projects and on Indian irrigation projects June 13, 1935 337 *Mining claims, assessments.* AN ACT Providing for the suspension of annual assessment work on mining claims held by location in the United States June 13, 1935 337 *Willamette National Forest, Oreg., addition, etc.* AN ACT To authorize an extension of exchange authority and addition of public lands to the Willamette National Forest in the State of Oregon June 13, 1935 338xii *Siskiyou National Forest, Oreg., addition.* AN ACT To add certain lands to the Siskiyou National Forest in the State of Oregon June 13, 1935 338 *National cemeteries, burials of cabinet officers.* AN ACT To amend section 4878 of the United States Revised Statutes, as amended, relating to burials in national cemeteries June 13, 1935 339 *Pay adjustment, service credits.* AN ACT To authorize the crediting of service rendered by personnel (active or retired) subsequently to June 30, 1932, in the computation of their active or retired pay after June 30, 1935 June 13, 1935 339 *Hog Island, Va., Coast Guard station.* AN ACT To provide for the establishment of a Coast Guard station on the coast of Virginia, at or near the north end of Hog Island, Northampton County June 13, 1935 339 *Seminole Indians in Florida, exchange of lands.* AN ACT Authorizing the exchange of the lands reserved for the Seminole Indians in Florida for other lands June 14, 1935 339 *Sioux Indians, claims.* AN ACT To authorize an appropriation to carry out the provisions of the Act of May 3, 1928 (45 Stat.
L. 484) June 14, 1935 340 *Philippine cordage, etc., importation.* AN ACT To protect American and Philippine labor and to preserve an essential industry, and for other purposes June 14, 1935 340 *Appropriations, District of Columbia, fiscal year 1936.* AN ACT Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of such District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and for other purposes June 14, 1935 341 *Books for adult blind.* AN ACT To authorize an increase in the annual appropriation for books for the adult blind June 14, 1935 374 *Bridge, Sabine River.* AN ACT Authorizing the State of Louisiana and the State of Texas to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Sabine River at or near a point where Louisiana Highway Numbered 7 meets Texas Highway Numbered 87 June 14, 1935 374 *Bridge, Missouri River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Brownville June 14, 1935 375 *Federal Reserve Act, amendment.* JOINT RESOLUTION To extend from June 16, 1935, to June 16, 1938, the period within which loans made prior to June 16, 1933, to executive officers of member banks of the Federal Reserve System may be renewed or extended June 14, 1935 375 *National Industrial Recovery Act, extension.* JOINT RESOLUTION To extend until April 1, 1936, certain provisions of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act, and for other purposes June 14, 1935 375 *Emergency Railroad Transportation Act, extension.* JOINT RESOLUTION Extending the effective period of the Emergency Railroad Transportation Act, 1933 June 14, 1935 376 *Indian-reservation roads.* JOINT RESOLUTION Making immediately available the appropriation for the fiscal year 1936 for the construction, repair, and maintenance of Indian-reservation roads June 14, 1935 376 *Citizenship status of certain alien seamen.* AN ACT To repeal certain laws providing that certain aliens who have filed declarations of intention to become citizens of the United States shall be considered citizens for the purposes of service and protection on American vessels June 15, 1935 376 *Army retired officers, war-time rank.* AN ACT To amend the Act entitled “An Act to give war-time rank to retired officers and former officers of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and/or Coast Guard of the United States”, approved June 21, 1930, so as to give class B officers of the Army benefits of such Act June 15, 1935 377 *Army, naval, etc., service included for retirement purposes.* AN ACT To authorize naval and Marine Corps service of Army officers to be included in computing dates of retirement June 15, 1935 377 *Helsingfors, Finland, foreign service establishment.* AN ACT To provide funds for acquisition of a site, erection of buildings, and the furnishing thereof for the use of the diplomatic and consular establishments of the United States at Helsingfors, Finland June 15, 1935 377 *Marshals, United States courts.* AN ACT Relating to the powers and duties of United States Marshals June 15, 1935 377 *Indian lands in severalty.* AN ACT To define the election procedure under the Act of June 18, 1934, and for other purposes June 15, 1935 378 *Migratory Bird Conservation Act, amendments.* AN ACT To amend the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act of March 16, 1934, and certain other Acts relating to game and other wildlife, administered by the Department of Agriculture, and for other purposes June 15, 1935 378 *District of Columbia, recorder of deeds.* AN ACT To provide fees to be charged by the recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes June 17, 1935 384 *District of Columbia Code, amendments.* AN ACT To amend an Act of Congress entitled “An Act to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia”, approved March 3, 1901, as amended, by adding three new sections to be numbered 802 (a), 802 (b), and 802 (c), respectively June 17, 1935 385xiii *The National Archives.* AN ACT To provide for the printing and distribution of Government publications to The National Archives June 17, 1935 386 *Geological Survey investigations in Puerto Rico.* JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for extension of cooperative work of the Geological Survey to Puerto Rico June 17, 1935 386 *Jean Jules Jusserand, memorial.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the erection of a memorial to the late Jean Jules Jusserand June 17, 1935 386 *National Boy Scout Jamboree, 1935.* JOINT RESOLUTION To permit the temporary entry into the United States under certain conditions of alien participants and officials of the National Boy Scout Jamboree to be held in the United States in 1935 June 17, 1935 387 *4–H Club assemblages.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to pay necessary expenses of assemblages of the 4–H Clubs, and for other purposes June 17, 1935 387 *Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska, claims.* AN ACT Authorizing the Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska to bring suit in the United States Court of Claims, and conferring jurisdiction upon said court to hear, examine, adjudicate, and enter judgment upon any and all claims which said Indians may have, or claim to have, against the United States, and for other purposes June 19, 1935 388 *Sale of property under court order.* AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the manner in which property shall be sold under orders and decrees of any United States courts”, approved March 3, 1893, as amended June 19, 1935 390 *National Defense Act, amendments.* AN ACT To amend the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916, as amended June 19, 1935 391 *Leif Erikson Day.* JOINT RESOLUTION Requesting the President to proclaim October 9 as Leif Erikson Day June 19, 1935 392 *Kanosh Indians, Utah, lands.* AN ACT To reserve eighty acres on the public domain for the use and benefit of the Kanosh Band of Indians in the State of Utah June 20, 1935 393 *Zuni Indian Reservation, N.
Mex., lands.* AN ACT Transferring certain national-forest lands to the Zuni Indian Reservation, New Mexico June 20, 1935 393 *Big Bend National Park, Tex.* AN ACT To provide for the establishment of the Big Bend National Park in the State of Texas, and for other purposes June 20, 1935 393 *Offenses within Federal territory.* JOINT RESOLUTION To amend section 289 of the Criminal Code June 20, 1935 394 *Columbia Institution for the Deaf, D. C.* AN ACT To amend section 4865 of the Revised Statutes, as amended June 24, 1935 394 *Philippine Islands, buildings for U.
S. Representative.* AN ACT Authorizing the construction of buildings for the United States Representative in the Phillipine Islands June 24, 1935 394 *Naturalization of alien veterans.* AN ACT To extend further time for naturalization to alien veterans of the World War under the Act approved May 25, 1932 (47 Stat. 165), to extend the same privileges to certain veterans of countries allied with the United States during the World War, and for other purposes June 24, 1935 395 *Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company, exchange of lands.* AN ACT To authorize an exchange of lands between the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company and the United States at Quantico, Virginia June 24, 1935 395 *Naturalization of certain alien World War veterans.* AN ACT To authorize the naturalization of certain resident alien World War veterans June 24, 1935 397 *Appropriations, Navy Department, etc., fiscal year 1936.* AN ACT Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and for other purposes June 24, 1935 398 *Lincoln National Forest, N.
Mex., exchange of lands, etc.* AN ACT To extend the provisions of section 2 of the Act of February 28, 1925, authorizing reservations of timber, minerals, or easements to exchanges of lands in the State of New Mexico, under the Act of February 14, 1923, and the Act of February 7, 1929 June 25, 1935 422 *Crater Lake National Park, Oreg.* AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act to accept the cession by the State of Oregon of exclusive jurisdiction over the lands embraced within the Crater Lake National Park, and for other purposes” June 25, 1935 422 *Dallas, Tex., public building.* AN ACT To repeal the limitation on the sale price of the Federal building at Main and Ervay Streets, Dallas, Texas June 25, 1935 423 *Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, Ga., established.* AN ACT To create a national memorial military park at and in the vicinity of Kennesaw Mountain in the State of Georgia, and for other purposes June 26, 1935 423 *District of Columbia, Grover Cleveland monument.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the erection of a monument to Grover Cleveland in Washington, District of Columbia June 26, 1935 424 *Ship Mortgage Act, amendments.* AN ACT To amend the Ship Mortgage Act, 1920, otherwise known as “section 30” of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, approved June 5, 1920, to allow the benefits of said Act to be enjoyed by owners of certain vessels of the United States of less than two hundred gross tons June 27, 1935 424 *District of Columbia, central heating plant.* AN ACT To authorize the furnishing of steam from the central heating plant to the Federal Reserve Board, and for other purposes June 27, 1935 425xiv *Interparliamentary Union, participation.* AN ACT To authorize participation by the United States in the Interparliamentary Union June 28, 1935 425 *Pershing Hall, Paris.* AN ACT Authorizing an appropriation to effect a settlement of the remainder due on Pershing Hall, a memorial already erected in Paris, France, to the Commander in Chief, officers, and men of the Expeditionary Forces, and for other purposes June 28, 1935 426 *Bridge, Saint John River.* AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Maine and the Dominion of Canada to maintain a bridge already constructed across the Saint John River between Madawaska, Maine, and Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada June 28, 1935 426 *Bridge, Rio Grande.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Rio Grande at or near Rio Grande City, Texas June 28, 1935 427 *Postal service, threatening communications.* AN ACT To amend section 1 of the Act of July 8, 1932 June 28, 1935 427 *Bridge, Sabine River.* AN ACT Authorizing the State of Louisiana and the State of Texas to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Sabine River at or near a point where Louisiana Highway Numbered 21 meets Texas Highway Numbered 45 June 28, 1935 428 *Bridge, Sabine River.* AN ACT Authorizing the State of Louisiana and the State of Texas to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Sabine River at or near a point where Louisiana Highway Numbered 6 in Sabine Parish, Louisiana, meets Texas Highway Numbered 21 in Sabine County, Texas June 28, 1935 428 *Bridge, Wabash River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Wabash River at or near Merom, Sullivan County, Indiana June 28, 1935 429 *U S.
Courts, North Carolina districts.* AN ACT To amend section 98 of the Judicial Code to provide for the inclusion of Durham County, North Carolina, in the middle district of North Carolina, and for other purposes June 28, 1935 429 *District of Columbia, paving, etc., assessments.* AN ACT To amend the Act approved February 20, 1931 (Public, Numbered 703, Seventy-first Congress), entitled “An Act to provide for special assessments for the paving of roadways and the laying of curbs and gutters” June 28, 1935 430 *District of Columbia, Commissioners, bond.* AN ACT To amend
(1)An Act entitled “An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia”;
(2)an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia”; to regulate the giving of official bonds by officers and employees of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes June 28, 1935 430 *Excise taxes and postage rates.* JOINT RESOLUTION to provide revenue, and for other purposes June 28, 1935 431 *Texas Centennial Exposition.* JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the participation of the United States in the Texas Centennial Exposition and celebrations to be held in the State of Texas during the years 1935 and 1936, and authorizing the President to invite foreign countries and nations to participate therein, and for other purposes June 28, 1935 431 *Federal Reserve Act, amendment, deposit insurance.* JOINT RESOLUTION To extend to August 31, 1935, the temporary plan for deposit insurance provided for by section 12B of the Federal Reserve Act as amended June 28, 1935 435 *Foreign Service, appointments, etc.* AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act for the grading and classification of clerks in the Foreign Service of the United States of America, and providing compensation therefor” June 29, 1935 436 *Agricultural extension work and land-grant colleges.* AN ACT To provide for research into basic laws and principles relating to agriculture and to provide for the further development of cooperative agricultural extension work and the more complete endowment and support of land-grant colleges June 29, 1935 436 *Rogue River, flood control.* AN ACT To authorize a preliminary examination of Rogue River and its tributaries in the State of Oregon with a view to the control of its floods July 1, 1935 439 *Siuslaw River, flood control.* AN ACT To authorize a preliminary examination of Siuslaw River and its tributaries in the State of Oregon with a view to the control of its floods July 1, 1935 440 *Yaquina River, flood control.* AN ACT To authorize a preliminary examination of Yaquina River and its tributaries in the State of Oregon with a view to the control of its floods July 1, 1935 440 *Siletz River, flood control.* AN ACT To authorize a preliminary examination of Siletz River and its tributaries in the State of Oregon with a view to the control of its floods July 1, 1935 440 *Gafford Creek, Ark., flood control.* AN ACT Authorizing a preliminary examination of Gafford Creek, Arkansas July 1, 1935 441 *Point Remove Creek, Ark., flood control.* AN ACT Authorizing a preliminary examination of Point Remove Creek, Arkansas, a tributary of the Arkansas River July 1, 1935 441 *Tanana River, etc., flood control.* AN ACT Authorizing a preliminary examination of the Tanana River and Chena Slough, Alaska July 1, 1935 441xv *Purgatoire and Apishapa Rivers, flood control.* AN ACT To provide a preliminary examination of the Purgatoire (Picketwire) and Apishapa Rivers, in the State of Colorado, with a view to the control of their floods and the conservation of their waters July 1, 1935 442 *Merchant Marine Act, 1920, amendment.* AN ACT To amend section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920 July 2, 1935 442 *Naval, etc., Reserves, emergency services.* AN ACT For the relief of the officers and men of the United States Naval and Marine Corps Reserves who performed flights in naval aircraft in connection with the search for victims and wreckage of the United States dirigible Akron July 2, 1935 443 *District of Columbia, Boy Scouts jamboree.* AN ACT To authorize the use of park property in the District of Columbia and its environs by the Boy Scouts of America at their national jamboree July 2, 1935 443 *Chippewas, Red Lake Band, per capita payments.* AN ACT Providing for the payment of $15 to each enrolled Chippewa Indian of the Red Lake Band of Minnesota from the timber funds standing to their credit in the Treasury of the United States July 2, 1935 444 *District of Columbia, alcoholic beverages, display, etc.* AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act to control the manufacture, transportation, possession, and sale of alcoholic beverages in the District of Columbia” July 2, 1935 444 *Hopkins County, Ky., public lands.* AN ACT To authorize the transfer of certain lands in Hopkins County, Kentucky, to the Commonwealth of Kentucky July 3, 1935 445 *El Paso, Tex., Government quarters.* AN ACT To amend the Act entitled “An Act to make provision for suitable quarters for certain Government services at El Paso, Texas, and for other purposes.” July 3, 1935 448 *National Labor Relations Act.* AN ACT To diminish the causes of labor disputes burdening or obstructing interstate and foreign commerce, to create a National Labor Relations Board, and for other purposes July 5, 1935 449 *The American National Theater and Academy, incorporated.* AN ACT To incorporate The American National Theater and Academy July 5, 1935 457 *Appropriations, Legislative Branch, fiscal year 1936.* AN ACT Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and for other purposes July 8, 1935 459 *National Park Trust Fund Board created.* AN ACT To create a National Park Trust Fund Board, and for other purposes July 10, 1935 477 *Emigration of native Filipinos from United States.* AN ACT To provide means by which certain Filipinos can emigrate from the United States July 10, 1935 478 *Doctor Malcolm Storer, bequest.* AN ACT Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to accept on behalf of the United States a bequest of certain personal property of the late Doctor Malcolm Storer, of Boston, Massachusetts July 12, 1935 479 *Hawaii, revenue bonds.* AN ACT To empower the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii to authorize the issuance of revenue bonds, to authorize the city and county of Honolulu to issue flood-control bonds, and for other purposes July 15, 1935 479 *Vallejo, Calif., transfer of lands.* AN ACT Authorizing the transfer of certain lands near Vallejo, California, from the United States Housing Corporation to the Navy Department for naval purposes July 15, 1935 480 *Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, range light.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to acquire a suitable site at Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, for a rear range light July 15, 1935 480 *Paul E. McDonnold, bequest.* AN ACT Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to accept on behalf of the United States the devise and bequest of real and personal property of the late Paul E. McDonnold, passed assistant surgeon with the rank of lieutenant commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy, retired July 15, 1935 481 *Congressional pages, pay.* JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for the compensation of pages of the Senate and House of Representatives from July 1, 1935, until the close of the first session of the 74th Congress July 15, 1935 481 *Interstate Commerce Commissioners.* AN ACT To amend sections Hand 24 of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, with respect to the terms of office of members of the Interstate Commerce Commission July 16, 1935 481 *Navy, acting assistant surgeons.* AN ACT Directing the retirement of acting assistant surgeons of the United States Navy at the age of seventy years July 17, 1935 482 *Naval vessels, repairs, etc.* AN ACT Limiting expenditures for repairs or changes to naval vessels July 18, 1935 482 *Grand Army Encampment, 1936.* JOINT RESOLUTION Giving authority to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to make special regulations for the occasion of the Seventieth National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, to be held in the District of Columbia in the month of September 1936, and for other purposes, incident to said encampment July 18, 1935 482 *Nome, Alaska, conveyance of lands.* AN ACT To authorize the conveyance of certain lands in Nome, Alaska July 19, 1935 485 *Navy, line officers.* AN ACT To regulate the strength and distribution of the line of the Navy, and for other purposes July 22, 1935 487 *Perth Amboy, N. J., claim.* AN ACT Conferring jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of the city of Perth Amboy, New Jersey July 23, 1935 491xvi *Louisiana, lands for highways.* AN ACT To authorize the transfer of certain lands in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, to the State of Louisiana for the purpose of a State highway across a portion of the Federal property occupied by the Veterans’ Administration facility, Alexandria, Louisiana July 23, 1935 491 *Prison-made products.* AN ACT To prohibit the interstate transportation of prison-made products in certain cases July 24, 1935 494 *United States courts, Wisconsin districts.* AN ACT To amend section 114 of the Judicial Code to provide for terms of District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin to be held at Wausau, Wisconsin, and other other purposes July 24, 1935 495 *Wild Rice Lake Indian Reserve, Minn.* AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act setting aside Rice Lake and contiguous lands in Minnesota for the exclusive use and benefit of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota”, approved June 23, 1926, and for other purposes July 24, 1935 496 *District of Columbia, abandonment of railroad substation.* AN ACT To repeal sections 1, 2, and 3 of Public Law Numbered 203, Sixtieth Congress, approved February 3, 1909 July 25, 1935 497 *Central Statistical Committee, etc., establishment.* AN ACT To create a Central Statistical Committee and a Central Statistical Board, and for other purposes July 25, 1935 498 *Federal Register Act.* AN ACT To provide for the custody of Federal proclamations, orders, regulations, notices, and other documents, and for the prompt and uniform printing and distribution thereof July 26, 1935 500 *Eagle Pass Military Reservation, Tex., sale of portion.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of War to sell to the Eagle Pass and Piedras Negras Bridge Company a portion of the Eagle Pass Military Reservation, Texas, and for other purposes July 26, 1935 503 *Public lands, homestead entries.* AN ACT To further extend the period of time during which final proof may be offered by homestead and desert land entrymen July 26, 1935 504 *Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, amendments.* AN ACT To amend the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920 July 26, 1935 504 *Flood, etc., damages, emergency aid.* AN ACT To amend the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to make loans to nonprofit corporations for the repair of damages caused by floods or other catastrophes, and for other purposes”, approved April 13, 1934 July 26, 1935 505 *Army and Philippine Scouts, promotion lists.* AN ACT To promote the efficiency of national defense July 31, 1935 505 *McNeil Island, etc., Wash., acquisition of land.* AN ACT To authorize the acquisition of land on McNeil Island August 2, 1935 508 *Chelan National Forest, Wash., boundary adjustment.* AN ACT To authorize the adjustment of the boundaries of the Chelan National Forest in the State of Washington August 2, 1935 508 *United States courts, California Southern District.* AN ACT To provide for the appointment of additional United States judges August 2, 1935 508 *Hinds’ Parliamentary Precedents.* AN ACT To amend so much of the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1921, approved March 1, 1921, as relates to the printing and distribution of a revised edition of Hinds’ Parliamentary Precedents of the House of Representatives August 2, 1935 509 *American Legion, patent renewal.* AN ACT Granting a renewal of Patent Numbered 54296 relating to the badge of The American Legion August 2, 1935 510 *American Legion Auxiliary, patent renewal.* AN ACT Granting a renewal of patent numbered 55398 relating to the badge of The American Legion Auxiliary August 2, 1935 510 *Ordinance of 1787 and Settlement of Northwest Territory.* JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for the observance and celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the Ordinance of 1787 and the settlement of the Northwest Territory August 2, 1935 511 *Pan American Institute of Geography and History.* JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for membership of the United States in the Pan American Institute of Geography and History; and to authorize the President to extend an invitation for the next general assembly of the Institute to meet in the United States in 1935, and to provide an appropriation for expenses thereof August 2, 1935 512 *Judicial Code amendments, admiralty suits.* AN ACT To amend the laws relating to proctors’ and marshals’ fees and bonds and stipulations in suits in admiralty August 3, 1935 513 *Prisons and prisoners, escapes, etc.* AN ACT To amend the Act approved May 14, 1930, entitled “An Act to reorganize the administration of Federal prisons; to authorize the Attorney General to contract for the care of United States prisoners; to establish Federal jails; and for other purposes” August 3, 1935 513 *United States courts, Pennsylvania Eastern District.* AN ACT To amend the Act of June 27, 1930 (ch 634, 46 Stat. 820) August 3, 1935 514 *Anchorage, Alaska, public works.* AN ACT To authorize the incorporated city of Anchorage, Alaska, to construct a municipal building and purchase and install a modern telephone exchange, and for such purposes to issue bonds in any sum not exceeding $75,000; and to authorize said city to accept grants of money to aid it in financing any public works August 3, 1935 514xvii *Puerto Rico, bonds.* AN ACT Temporarily to exempt refunding bonds of the Government of Puerto Rico from the limitation of public indebtedness under the Organic Act August 3, 1935 516 *Hawaii bond issues.* AN ACT To enable the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii to authorize the issuance of certain bonds, and for other purposes August 3, 1935 516 *Anti-smuggling Act.* AN ACT To protect the revenue of the United States and provide measures for the more effective enforcement of the laws respecting the revenue, to prevent smuggling, to authorize customs-enforcement areas, and for other purposes August 5, 1935 517 *Navy staff corps, advancements.* AN ACT To provide for advancement by selection in the Staff Corps of the Navy to the ranks of lieutenant commander and lieutenant; to amend the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the equalization of promotion of officers of the Staff Corps of the Navy with officers of the line” (44 Stat. 717; U. S. C., Supp VII, title 34, secs 348 to 348t), and for other purposes August 5, 1935 530 *Borough of Stroudsburg, Pa., lands for street purposes.* AN ACT To authorize the conveyance of certain Government land to the Borough of Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, for street purposes and as a part of the approach to the Stroudsburg viaduct on State Highway Route Numbered 498 August 5, 1935 533 *American Legion convention, 1935.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of War to lend War Department equipment for use at the Seventeenth National Convention of Hie American Legion at Saint Louis, Missouri, during the month of September 1935 August 5, 1935 534 *Anderson, S. C., transfer of land.* AN ACT To provide for the transfer of certain land in the city of Anderson, South Carolina, to such city August 5, 1935 534 *Bridge, Black River.* AN ACT To legalize a bridge across Black River on United States Highway Numbered 60 in the town of Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri August 5, 1935 535 *Bridge, Monongahela River.* AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the cities of Donora and Monessen, Pennsylvania, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Monongahela River between the two cities August 5, 1935 535 *Bridge, Mississippi River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near a point between Morgan and Wash Streets in the city of Saint Louis, Missouri, and a point opposite thereto in the city of East Saint Louis, Illinois August 5, 1935 536 *Bridge, Red River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of certain free highway bridges across the Red River, from Moorhead, Minnesota, to Fargo, North Dakota August 5, 1935 536 *Veterans of Foreign Wars 1935 encampment.* AN ACT Providing for the loan by the War Department of certain material and equipment to the Veterans of Foreign Wars 1935 Encampment Corporation, and for other purposes August 5, 1935 536 *District of Columbia, railroad bridge, etc.* AN ACT To authorize the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, by means of an overhead bridge to cross New York Avenue Northeast, to extend, construct, maintain, and operate certain industrial side tracks, and for other purposes August 6, 1935 537 *Inspectors, postal service.* AN ACT To provide for adjusting the compensation of post-office inspectors and inspectors in charge to correspond to the rates established by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended August 7, 1935 538 *Thomas Walker Gilmer, portrait.* AN ACT To provide for the acquisition of a portrait of Thomas Walker Gilmer August 7, 1935 538 *United States Court for China, commissioner authorized.* AN ACT To amend the Act creating a United States Court for China and prescribing the title thereof, as amended August 7, 1935 538 *District of Columbia, Code amendments, divorce.* AN ACT To amend sections 966 and 971 of chapter 22 of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia”, approved March 3, 1901, as amended, and for other purposes August 7, 1935 539 *International Council of Scientific Unions.* AN ACT To authorize appropriations to pay the annual share of the United States as an adhering member of the International Council of Scientific Unions and associated unions August 7, 1935 540 *International Technical Committee of Aerial Experts.* AN ACT Providing for an annual appropriation to meet the share of the United States toward the expenses of the International Technical Committee on Aerial Legal Experts, and for participation in the meetings of the International Technical Committee of Aerial Legal Experts and the commissions established by that committee August 7, 1935 540 *Texas Centennial Exposition, articles admitted for exhibition purposes.* JOINT RESOLUTION To permit articles imported from foreign countries for the purpose of exhibition at the Texas Centennial Exposition and celebrations to be admitted without payment of tariff, and for other purposes August 7, 1935 541 *Smithsonian Institution, regent.* JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for the reappointment of Frederic A. Delano as a member of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution August 7, 1935 542xviii *Texas Centennial Exposition, commissioner general, etc.* JOINT RESOLUTION To amend the public resolution approved June 28, 1935, entitled “Joint resolution providing for the participation of the United States in the Texas Centennial Exposition and celebrations to be held in the State of Texas during the years 1935 and 1936, and authorizing the President to invite foreign countries and nations to participate therein, and for other purposes” August 8, 1935 542 *Motor Carrier Act, 1935.* AN ACT To amend the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, by providing for the regulation of the transportation of passengers and property by motor carriers operating in interstate or foreign commerce, and for other purposes August 9, 1935 543 *San Antonio, Tex., easement.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of War to grant a right-of-way for street purposes upon and across the San Antonio Arsenal, in the State of Texas August 9, 1935 567 *District of Columbia, Fire Department.* AN ACT To amend section 559 of title 20 of the Code of the District of Columbia as to restriction on residence of members of the fire department August 9, 1935 567 *District of Columbia, Police Department.* AN ACT To amend section 483 of title 20 of the Code of the District of Columbia as to residence of members of the Police Department August 9, 1935 568 *District of Columbia, Union Railroad Station.* AN ACT To amend an Act to provide for a Union Railroad Station in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes August 9, 1935 568 *International Statistical Institute.* JOINT RESOLUTION Requesting the President to extend to the International Statistical Institute an invitation to hold its twenty-fourth session in the United States in 1939 August 9, 1935 570 *Cotton Control Act, amendment.* JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for certain State allotments under the Cotton Control Act August 9, 1935 570 *Appropriations, Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1935.* AN ACT Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, and for prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1935, and June 30, 1936, and for other purposes August 12, 1935 571 *Interstate Commerce Act, amendment.* AN ACT To amend the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended August 12, 1935 607 *World War Veterans’ estates, payment safeguards.* AN ACT To safeguard the estates of veterans derived from payments of pension, compensation, emergency officers’ retirement pay and insurance, and for other purposes August 12, 1935 607 *Army Air Corps stations.* AN ACT To authorize the selection, construction, installation, and modification of permanent stations and depots for the Army Air Corps and frontier air-defense bases generally August 12, 1935 610 *Puerto Rico, bonds of municipalities.* AN ACT To authorize the issuance and sale to the United States of certain bonds of municipal governments in Puerto Rico, and for other purposes August 13, 1935 611 *Duchesne County, Utah, public-school buildings.* AN ACT To provide for the construction, extension, and improvement of public-school buildings in Duchesne County, Utah August 13, 1935 612 *Haskell Institute, property purchase.* AN ACT To provide funds for acquisition of the property of the Haskell Students Activities Association on behalf of the Indian School known as “Haskell Institute”, Lawrence, Kansas August 13, 1935 612 *Fort Knox Military Reservation, Ky., land transfer.* AN ACT To authorize the transfer to the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Treasury of portions of the property within the Fort Knox Military Reservation, Kentucky, for the construction thereon of certain public buildings, and for other purposes August 13, 1935 613 *Appomattox Court House National Historical Monument, Va.* AN ACT To amend sections 1, 2, and 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the commemoration of the termination of the War between the States at Appomattox Court House, Virginia”, approved June 18, 1930, and to establish the Appomattox Court House National Historical Monument, and for other purposes August 13, 1935 613 *Spanish-American War, etc., veterans’ pensions.* AN ACT Granting pensions to veterans of the Spanish-American War, including the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection, their widows and dependents, and for other purposes August 13, 1935 614 *District of Columbia, maintenance of order.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the appropriation of funds for the maintenance of public order and the protection of life and property during the period August 16, 1935, to August 31, 1935, both inclusive August 13, 1935 614 *Air Mail Act, amendments.* AN ACT To amend the air-mail laws and to authorize the extension of the Air Mail Service August 14, 1935 614 *Social Security Act.* AN ACT To provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and by enabling the several States to make more adequate provision for aged persons, blind persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration of their unemployment compensation laws; to establish a Social Security Board; to raise revenue; and for other purposes August 14, 1935 620xix *Packers and Stockyards Act, amendments.* AN ACT To amend the Packers and Stockyards Act August 14, 1935 648 *Department of Agriculture Extensible Building.* AN ACT To increase the limit of cost for the Department of Agriculture Extensible Building August 14, 1935 649 *United Confederate Veterans’ 1935 reunion.* AN ACT To authorize the attendance of the Marine Band at the United Confederate Veterans’ 1935 reunion at Amarillo, Texas August 14, 1935 650 *Postal employees, shorter work week.* AN ACT To fix the hours of duty of postal employees, and for other purposes August 14, 1935 650 *District of Columbia Code, amendment.* AN ACT For the suppression of prostitution in the District of Columbia August 15, 1935 651 *Patrick Henry National Monument, Va., establishment.* AN ACT To provide for the establishment of a national monument on the site of Red Hill, estate of Patrick Henry August 15, 1935 652 *Spirits of turpentine and of rosin, statistics.* AN ACT Providing for the publication of statistics relating to spirits of turpentine and rosin August 15, 1935 653 *District of Columbia, fouling air by smoke, etc.* AN ACT To prevent the fouling of the atmosphere in the District of Columbia by smoke and other foreign substances, and for other purposes August 15, 1935 653 *George Rogers Clark Sesquicentennial Commission.* AN ACT TO amend the joint resolution establishing the George Rogers Clark Sesquicentennial Commission, approved May 23, 1928 August 15, 1935 654 *Chippewa Indian Marketing Association.* AN ACT Authorizing a capital fund for the Chippewa Indian Cooperative Marketing Association August 15, 1935 654 *Bridge, Connecticut River.* AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Connecticut and Middlesex County to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Connecticut River at or near Middletown, Connecticut August 15, 1935 655 *Crow Indians, Mont., claims.* JOINT RESOLUTION To carry out the intention of Congress with reference to the claims of the Crow Tribe of Indians of Montana and any band thereof against the United States August 15, 1935 655 *District of Columbia, Elks convention.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the use of public parks, reservations, and other public spaces in the District of Columbia; and the use of tents, cots, hospital appliances, flags, and other decorations, property of the United States, by Washington (District of Columbia) 1935 Improved, Benevolent, and Protective Order of Elks of the World, and for other purposes August 17, 1935 656 *United States Courts, district judgeships.* AN ACT Authorizing the filling of vacancies in certain judgeships August 19, 1935 659 *University of New Mexico.* AN ACT Directing the conveyance of certain lands to the regents of the University of New Mexico August 19, 1935 659 *Public lands, homestead entries.* AN ACT To eliminate the requirement of cultivation in connection with certain homestead entries August 19, 1935 659 *Rio Grande, etc., Rivers, use of waters.* AN ACT To amend the Act of May 13, 1924, entitled “An Act providing for a study regarding the equitable use of the waters of the Rio Grande”, and so forth, as amended by the public resolution of March 3, 1927 August 19, 1935 660 *The Spanish War Memorial Park, Fla.* AN ACT To provide for the creation of a memorial park at Tampa, in the State of Florida, to be known as “The Spanish War Memorial Park”, and for other purposes August 20, 1935 661 *Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyo.* AN ACT To add certain lands to the Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming August 20, 1935 662 *Bankruptcy Act of 1898, amendment.* AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States”, approved July 1, 1898, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, and for other purposes August 20, 1935 664 *Puerto Rico, coffee import duty.* JOINT RESOLUTION To amend an act entitled “An Act providing for the ratification of Joint Resolution Numbered 59 of the Legislature of Puerto Rico, approved by the Governor May 5, 1930, imposing an import duty on coffee imported into Puerto Rico”, approved June 18, 1934 August 20, 1935 664 *Wyoming, timber for domestic purposes.* AN ACT Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to permit citizens of Bear Lake County, Idaho, to obtain timber from Lincoln County, Wyoming, for domestic purposes August 21, 1935 665 *Fort Stanwix, N. Y., national monument.* AN ACT To provide for the establishment of a national monument on the site of Fort Stanwix in the State of New York August 21, 1935 665 *Historic sites, buildings, and objects.* AN ACT To provide for the preservation of historic American sites, buildings, objects, and antiquities of national significance, and for other purposes August 21, 1935 666 *Bridge, Chesapeake Bay.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Chesapeake Bay between Baltimore and Kent Counties, Maryland August 21, 1935 668xx *Navigation, steering rules.* AN ACT To amend and supplement the steering rules respecting orders to helmsmen on all vessels navigating waters of the United States, and on all vessels of the United States navigating any waters or seas, in section 1 of the Act of August 19, 1890, section 1 of the Act of June 7, 1897, section 1 of the Act of February 8, 1895, and section 1 of the Act of February 19, 1895 August 21, 1935 668 *Bridge construction in Allegheny County, Pa.* AN ACT To amend the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction and operation of certain bridges across the Monongahela, Allegheny, and Youghiogheny Rivers in the county of Allegheny, Pennsylvania”, approved June 4, 1934 August 21, 1935 669 *Toll regulations on certain bridges.* AN ACT To provide that tolls on certain bridges over navigable waters of the United States shall be just and reasonable, and for other purposes August 21, 1935 670 *Cordova, Alaska, public works.* AN ACT To authorize the incorporated town of Cordova, Alaska, to construct, reconstruct, enlarge, extend, improve, renew, and repair certain municipal public structures, utilities, works, and improvements, and for such purposes to issue bonds in any amount not exceeding $50,000, and for other purposes August 21, 1935 672 *General Leasing Act, amendments.* AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act to promote the mining of coal, phosphate, oil, oil shale, gas, and sodium on the public domain”, approved February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 437; U. S. C., title 30, secs 185, 221, 223, 226), as amended August 21, 1935 674 *Clerks of Members of Congress, etc., dying, etc., during term.* JOINT RESOLUTION Relating to the continuance on the pay rolls of certain employees in cases of death or resignation of Members of the House of Representatives, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners August 21, 1935 679 *Registers of district land offices.* AN ACT To fix the compensation of registers of district land offices August 22, 1935 680 *United States courts, Georgia districts.* AN ACT To establish a new division of the northern district of Georgia with terms of court to be held at Newnan, Georgia August 22, 1935 680 *District of Columbia, police court juries.* AN ACT To amend the law with respect to the time for jury service in the police court of the District of Columbia August 22, 1935 681 *District of Columbia, jury service exemptions.* AN ACT To amend the law providing for exemptions from jury service in the District of Columbia August 22, 1935 682 *Florida Southern Judicial District, terms.* AN ACT Providing for the establishment of a term of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Florida at Fort Pierce, Florida August 22, 1935 683 *Goldsborough Creek, Wash., flood control.* AN ACT To provide a preliminary examination of Goldsborough Creek, in Mason County, State of Washington, with a view to the control of its floods August 22, 1935 683 *United Confederate Veterans, 1935 encampment.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of War to lend to the reunion committee of the United Confederate Veterans, three thousand blankets, olive drab, numbered 4, and three thousand canvas cots, to be used at their annual encampment to be held at Amarillo, Texas, in September 1935 August 22, 1935 683 *Banking Act of 1935.* AN ACT To provide for the sound, effective, and uninterrupted operation of the banking system, and for other purposes August 23, 1935 684 *Fort Smith National Cemetery, Ark.* AN ACT To authorize the sale of a portion of the Fort Smith National Cemetery Reservation, Arkansas, and for other purposes August 23, 1935 723 *World War Veterans, medical treatment.* AN ACT To authorize payment of claims for unauthorized emergency treatment of World War Veterans August 23, 1935 724 *Charwomen, pay for holidays.* AN ACT Relating to the compensation of certain charwomen August 23, 1935 724 *Perry Point, Md., property exchanges.* AN ACT To authorize the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs to exchange certain property rights now vested in the United States at Veterans’ Administration facility, Perry Point, Maryland, for certain property and rights of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in that vicinity August 23, 1935 724 *Bridge, Missouri River.* AN ACT To extend the time for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Rulo, Nebraska August 23, 1935 728 *Bridge, Lake Champlain.* AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the States of New York and Vermont to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across Lake Champlain between Rouses Point, New York, and Alburg, Vermont August 23, 1935 728 *Economy Act, amendments concerning war veterans.* AN ACT To amend section 6 of title I of the Act entitled “An Act to maintain the credit of the United States Government”, approved March 20, 1933, as amended; to extend the time within which applications for benefits under the World War Adjusted Compensation Act, as amended, may be filed; and for other purposes August 23, 1935 729 *Bridge, Tennessee River.* AN ACT To amend the Act approved June 12, 1934, relating to the granting of the consent of Congress to certain bridge construction across the Tennessee River at a point between the city of Sheffield, Alabama, and the city of Florence, Alabama August 23, 1935 730xxi *Tobacco Inspection Act.* AN ACT To establish and promote the use of standards of classification for tobacco, to provide and maintain an official tobacco inspection service, and for other purposes August 23, 1935 731 *V. S. Constitution sesquicentennial.* JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the preparation and completion of plans for a comprehensive observance of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the formation of the Constitution of the United States August 23, 1935 735 *Lake Champlain, bridge compact.* JOINT RESOLUTION Granting the consent of Congress to the States of New York and Vermont to enter into an agreement amending the agreement between such States consented to by Congress in Public Resolution Numbered 9, Seventieth Congress, relating to the creation of the Lake Champlain Bridge Commission August 23, 1935 736 *Goethals memorial, Canal Zone.* AN ACT To authorize the erection of a suitable memorial to Major General George W. Goethals within the Canal Zone August 24, 1935 743 *Winnie Mae, airplane purchase.* AN ACT To authorize the purchase of the Winnie Mae by the Smithsonian Institution August 24, 1935 743 *Alaska emergency mail service.* AN ACT To authorize the Postmaster General to contract for air-mail service in Alaska August 24, 1935 744 *District of Columbia, care of needy blind.* AN ACT To provide aid for needy blind persons of the District of Columbia and authorizing appropriations therefor August 24, 1935 744 *District of Columbia, old age assistance.* AN ACT To amend the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia in relation to providing assistance against old age want August 24, 1935 747 *Agricultural Adjustment Act, amendments (Potato Control Act).* AN ACT To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act, and for other purposes August 24, 1935 750 *Public works, contracts.* AN ACT Requiring contracts for the construction, alteration, and repair of any public building or public work of the United States to be accompanied by a performance bond protecting the United States and by an additional bond for the protection of persons furnishing material and labor for the construction, alteration, or repair of said public buildings or public work August 24, 1935 793 *Postal service, motor-vehicle employees.* AN ACT To amend section 6 of the Act of February 28, 1925 August 24, 1935 795 *Otter Cliffs Radio Station, Maine.* AN ACT To authorize the transfer of the Otter Cliffs Radio Station on Mount Desert Island in the State of Maine as an addition to the Acadia National Park, and for other purposes August 24, 1935 795 *Navy, lands in Duval County, Fla.* AN ACT Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to accept without cost to the United States certain lands in Duval County, State of Florida August 24, 1935 796 *Public-school districts, loans.* AN ACT To provide for the relief of public-school districts and other public-school authorities, and for other purposes August 24, 1935 796 *American Expeditionary Forces, memorial.* JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for the erection of a suitable memorial to the Fourth Division, American Expeditionary Forces August 24, 1935 798 *Benson, Ariz.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the State of Arizona to transfer to the town of Benson, without cost, title to section 16, township 17 south, range 20 east, Gila and Salt River meridian, for school and park purposes August 24, 1935 798 *Reno, Nev.* AN ACT To convey certain lands and buildings to the city of Reno, Nevada August 26, 1935 798 *Bitter Root irrigation project, Mont.* AN ACT To amend sections 3 and 4 of the Act of July 3, 1930, entitled “An Act for the rehabilitation of the Bitter Root irrigation project, Montana” August 26, 1935 799 *Pisgah National Forest, N. C.* AN ACT To add certain lands to the Pisgah National Forest in the State of North Carolina August 26, 1935 800 *Indian pueblos in New Mexico.* AN ACT To authorize an appropriation to pay non-Indian claimants whose claims have been extinguished under the Act of June 7, 1924, but who have been found entitled to awards under said Act as supplemented by the Act of May 31, 1933 August 26, 1935 800 *Federal buildings and sites.* AN ACT To authorize the sale of Federal buildings August 26, 1935 800 *Internal-revenue collection districts.* AN ACT To authorize the President to attach certain possessions of the United States to internal-revenue collection districts for the purpose of collecting processing taxes August 26, 1935 801 *Siletz, etc., Indians in Oregon.* AN ACT Conferring jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear and determine claims of certain bands or tribes of Indians residing in the State of Oregon August 26, 1935 801 *Public Utility Act of 1935.* AN ACT To provide for control and regulation of public-utility holding companies, and for other purposes August 26, 1935 803 *Alaska, criminal code.* AN ACT To reenact section 463 of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to define and punish crime in the District of Alaska and to provide a code of criminal procedure for said district”, approved March 3, 1899, and for other purposes August 26, 1935 863xxii *Customs and internal-revenue employees, oaths.* AN ACT To abolish the oath required of customs and internal-revenue employees prior to the receipt of compensation, and for other purposes August 26, 1935 864 *Indiana, duplicate checks.* AN ACT For the relief of the State of Indiana August 26, 1935 866 *Uinta and Wasatch National Forests, Utah.* AN ACT To facilitate the control of soil erosion and/or flood damage originating upon lands within the exterior boundaries of the Uinta and Wasatch National Forests, Utah August 26, 1935 866 *Counterfeiting postmarking stamps.* AN ACT Providing punishment for forging or counterfeiting any postmarking stamp August 26, 1935 866 *Obtaining mail by fraud.* AN ACT Providing for punishment for attempts to obtain mail by fraud or by deception August 26, 1935 867 *Robbing custodians of public moneys, etc.* AN ACT Providing for punishment for the crime of robbing or attempting to rob custodians of Government moneys or property August 26, 1935 867 *Collect-on-delivery, demurrage.* AN ACT Extending the period during which no demurrage is charged on collect-on-delivery parcels and excepting the imposition of demurrage charged on collect-on-delivery parcels exchanged between the continental and island possessions August 26, 1935 867 *Daniel Boone, commemorative coin.* AN ACT To authorize the Director of the Mint to supplement the approved design of the 50-cent piece commemorating the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Daniel Boone, the coinage of which was authorized by Act of the Seventy-third Congress (Public, Numbered 258, S. 3355) August 26, 1935 868 *Transportation of dangerous cargoes.* AN ACT To provide for the inspection and regulation of vessels engaged in the transportation of inflammable, explosive, and like dangerous cargoes in navigable waters of the United States August 26, 1935 868 *World War veterans, service in Russia.* AN ACT To extend the provisions of veterans’ laws and regulations to persons who served in Russia during the World War, and their dependents August 26, 1935 869 *Connecting highway with British Columbia, etc.* AN ACT Relative to the proposed survey, location, and construction of a highway to connect the northwestern part of continental United States with British Columbia, Yukon Territory, and the Territory of Alaska August 26, 1935 869 *Hernando De Soto expedition.* JOINT RESOLUTION Pertaining to an appropriate celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of the expedition of Hernando De Soto August 26, 1935 870 *Third World Power Conference.* JOINT RESOLUTION To authorize the President to extend an invitation to the World Power Conference to hold the Third World Power Conference in the United States August 26, 1935 870 *Pure Food Act; amendment.* AN ACT To amend section 10A of the Federal Food and Drugs Act of June 30, 1906, as amended August 27, 1935 871 *Liquor Law Repeal and Enforcement Act.* AN ACT To repeal Titles I and II of the National Prohibition Act, to reenact certain provisions of Title II thereof, to amend or repeal various liquor laws, and for other purposes August 27, 1935 872 *District of Columbia, park lands.* AN ACT Providing for the exchange of certain park lands at and near Western Avenue and West Beach Drive for other lands more suitable to the development of Rock Creek Park and the street system of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes August 27, 1935 881 *Public Utilities Commission, D. C.* AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, and for other purposes, approved March 4, 1913”, and for other purposes August 27, 1935 882 *Filled Milk Act, amendment.* AN ACT To amend the Filled Milk Act August 27, 1935 885 *Federal real property.* AN ACT To provide for the disposition, control, and use of surplus real property acquired by Federal agencies, and for other purposes August 27, 1935 885 *Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide by agreement with Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, a subdivision of the State of New Mexico, for maintenance and operation on newly reclaimed Pueblo Indian lands in the Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico, reclaimed under previous Act of Congress, and authorizing an annual appropriation to pay the cost thereof for a period of not to exceed five years August 27, 1935 887 *Nebraska, duplicate check.* AN ACT For the relief of the State of Nebraska August 27, 1935 887 *Coastwise Load Line Act, 1935.* AN ACT To provide for the establishment of load lines for American vessels in the coastwise trade, and for other purposes August 27, 1935 888 *Development of Indian arts and crafts.* AN ACT To promote the development of Indian arts and crafts and to create a board to assist therein, and for other purposes August 27, 1935 891 *Tobacco statistics.* AN ACT To amend the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the collection and publication of statistics of tobacco by the Department of Agriculture”, approved January 14, 1929, as amended August 27, 1935 893 *Wyandotte Indians, Okla.* AN ACT Authorizing distribution of funds to the credit of the Wyandotte Indians, Oklahoma August 27, 1935 894 *Prescott National Forest, Ariz.* AN ACT To provide for a recreation area within the Prescott National Forest, Arizona August 27, 1935 895xxiii *Bridge, Lake Champlain.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across Lake Champlain at or near West Swanton, Vermont August 27, 1935 895 *District of Columbia, pipe lines.* AN ACT To permit construction, maintenance, and use of certain pipe lines for petroleum and petroleum products in the District of Columbia August 27, 1935 895 *Anastasia Island Lighthouse Reservation, Fla.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to dispose of certain portions of Anastasia Island Lighthouse Reservation, Florida, and for other purposes August 27, 1935 896 *Battle of Ackia, Miss.* AN ACT To provide for the commemoration of the two hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Ackia, Mississippi, and the establishment of the Ackia Battleground National Monument, and for other purposes August 27, 1935 897 *Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, D. C., amendment.* AN ACT To amend the District of Columbia Alcoholic Beverage Control Act August 27, 1935 897 *Virgin Islands Company, claims.* AN ACT Authorizing the Virgin Islands Company to settle valid claims of its creditors, and for other purposes August 27, 1935 904 *Bridge, Ohio River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River at Sistersville, West Virginia August 27, 1935 904 *Postal service, substitute laborers.* AN ACT To provide time credits for substitute laborers in the Post Office when appointed as regular laborers August 27, 1935 904 *Bridge, Black River.* AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the State Highway Commission of Missouri to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Black River at or near the north line of section 2, township 24 north, range 6 east, near Poplar Bluff, Missouri August 27, 1935 905 *Bridge, Monongahela River.* AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Monongahela River, at or near Elizabeth, in the county of Allegheny, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania August 27, 1935 905 *Bridge, Allegheny River.* AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Allegheny River, at or near Port Allegheny, in the county of McKean, State of Pennsylvania August 27, 1935 905 *Mexican Boundary Commission, American section.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of State to lease to citizens of the United States any land heretofore or hereafter acquired under any Act, Executive order or treaty in connection with projects, in whole or in part constructed or administered by the Secretary of State through the International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico, American section August 27, 1935 906 *Bridge, Allegheny River.* AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to construct, maintain, and operate a free Highway bridge across the Allegheny River, at or near Ford City, Pennsylvania August 27, 1935 907 *Bridge, Susquehanna River.* AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Susquehanna River, at or near Wyalusing, in the county of Bradford, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania August 27, 1935 907 *Bridge, Puget Sound.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across Puget Sound at or near a point commonly known as “The Narrows” in the State of Washington August 27, 1935 907 *Revenue Act of 1934, amendment.* AN ACT To exempt from taxation official compensation of certain foreign representatives and to provide for the deductibility from income of certain dividends on preferred stock owned by the United States or instrumentalities thereof August 27, 1935 908 *Bridge, Mahoning River.* AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Mahoning River at or near Edinburg, in the county of Lawrence, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania August 27, 1935 909 *Bridge, Ohio River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River at or near Owensboro, Kentucky August 27, 1935 909 *Homestead entries, disabled World War veterans.* AN ACT To authorize certain homestead entrymen who are disabled World War veterans to make final proof of their entries, and for other purposes August 27, 1935 909 *Bridge, Allegheny River.* AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Allegheny River at or near Emlenton, in the county of Venango, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania August 27, 1935 910 *Bridge, Allegheny River.* AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Allegheny River, at or near Tionesta, in Tionesta Township, and in the county of Forest, and in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania August 27, 1935 910 *Bridge, Allegheny River.* AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Allegheny River, at or near East Brady, in the counties of Clarion and Armstrong, and in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania August 27, 1935 910xxiv *Bankruptcy Act, 1898, amendments.* AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States”, approved July 1, 1898, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto August 27, 1935 911 *Columbus, Miss., public building.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to acquire a site for the erection of a post-office building at Columbus, Mississippi August 27, 1935 926 *Puerto Rican relief, mortgage foreclosures.* JOINT RESOLUTION To amend the joint resolution entitled “Joint resolution for the relief of Porto Rico”, approved December 21, 1928, to permit an adjudication with respect to liens of the United States arising by virtue of loans under such joint resolution August 27, 1935 926 *Puerto Rican relief, loans, etc.* JOINT RESOLUTION To amend a joint resolution entitled “Joint resolution for the relief of Porto Rico”, approved December 21, 1928, as amended by the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1929, approved March 4, 1929 August 27, 1935 928 *Agricultural income, etc., investigations.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the Federal Trade Commission to make an investigation with respect to agricultural income and the financial and economic condition of agricultural producers generally August 27, 1935 929 *Interstate sanitation compact.* JOINT RESOLUTION Granting the consent of Congress to the States of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut to enter into a compact for the creation of the Interstate Sanitation District and the establishment of the Interstate Sanitation Commission August 27, 1935 932 *United States gold-clause securities.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing exchange of coins and currencies and immediate payment of gold-clause securities by the United States; withdrawing the right to sue the United States thereon; limiting the use of certain appropriations; and for other purposes August 27, 1935 938 *Interstate oil and gas conservation.* JOINT RESOLUTION Consenting to an interstate oil compact to conserve oil and gas August 27, 1935 939 *Civil service retirement Act, amendment.* AN ACT Relative to the retirement of certain officers and employees August 28, 1935 941 *Bankruptcy Act of 1898, amendment.* AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States”, approved July 1, 1898, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto August 28, 1935 942 *New York Eastern District Court, additional judge.* AN ACT To provide for the appointment of an additional district judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York August 28, 1935 945 *District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act.* AN ACT To provide for unemployment compensation in the District of Columbia, authorize appropriations, and for other purposes August 28, 1935 946 *Official Register.* AN ACT To provide for the compiling and publishing of the Official Register of the United States August 28, 1935 956 *Andrew Johnson Homestead National Monument, Tenn.* AN ACT To provide for the Andrew Johnson Homestead National Monument August 29, 1935 958 *Inland Waterways Corporation Act, amendment.* AN ACT To amend the Inland Waterways Corporation Act, approved June 3, 1924, as amended August 29, 1935 958 *Naval Academy graduates.* AN ACT Amending section 5 of Public Law Numbered 264, Seventy-third Congress, approved May 29, 1934, relative to the appointment of Naval Academy graduates as ensigns in the Navy August 29, 1935 959 *Limitation of shipowners’ liability.* AN ACT Relative to limitation of shipowners’ liability August 29, 1935 960 *Rio Grande canalization project.* AN ACT Authorizing construction, operation, and maintenance of Rio Grande canalization project and authorizing appropriation for that purpose August 29, 1935 961 *Mount Rushmore National Memorial.* AN ACT To provide additional funds for the completion of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, in the State of South Dakota, and for other purposes August 29, 1935 962 *Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company, counsel.* AN ACT Limiting the operation of sections 109 and 113 of the Criminal Code and section 190 of the Revised Statutes of the United States with respect to counsel in certain cases August 29, 1935 962 *Forest-land management.* AN ACT To authorize cooperation with the several States for the purpose of stimulating the acquisition, development, and proper administration and management of State forests and coordinating Federal and State activities in carrying out a national program of forest-land management, and for other purposes August 29, 1935 963 *Bankruptcy Act of 1898, amendment.* AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States”, approved July 1, 1898, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto August 29, 1935 965 *Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, amendment.* AN ACT To withdraw and restore to their previous status under the control of the Territory of Hawaii certain Hawaiian homes lands now in use as an airplane landing field August 29, 1935 966 *Belvoir Military Reservation, Va.* AN ACT To authorize the transfer of a certain military reservation to the Department of the Interior August 29, 1935 967xxv *Railroad Retirement Act of 1935.* AN ACT To establish a retirement system for employees of carriers subject to the Interstate Commerce Act, and for other purposes August 29, 1935 967 *Common carriers, taxes.* AN ACT To levy an excise tax upon carriers and an income tax upon their employees, and for other purposes August 29, 1935 974 *Federal Alcohol Administration Act.* AN ACT To further protect the revenue derived from distilled spirits, wine, and malt beverages, to regulate interstate and foreign commerce and enforce the postal laws with respect thereto, to enforce the twenty-first amendment, and for other purposes August 29, 1935 977 *Government contracts.* JOINT RESOLUTION To authorize the acceptance of bids for Government contracts made subject to codes of fair competition August 29, 1935 990 *Ocean-mail contracts, postal service.* JOINT RESOLUTION To extend the time within which contracts may be modified or canceled under the provisions of section 5 of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1934 August 29, 1935 991 *Bituminous Coal Conservation Act, 1935.* AN ACT To stabilize the bituminous coal-mining industry and promote its interstate commerce; to provide for cooperative marketing of bituminous coal; to levy a tax on bituminous coal and provide for a drawback under certain conditions; to declare the production, distribution, and use of bituminous coal to be affected with a national public interest; to conserve the bituminous coal resources of the United States; to provide for the general welfare, and for other purposes; and providing penalties August 30, 1935 991 *Public buildings, laborers, etc.* AN ACT To amend the Act approved March 3, 1931, relating to the rate of wages for laborers and mechanics employed by contractors and subcontractors on public buildings August 30, 1935 1011 *Obsolete Army equipment.* AN ACT To provide for the donation of certain Army equipment to posts of the Veterans of Foreign Wars August 30, 1935 1013 *Cannon Ball School District, N. Dak.* AN ACT To provide funds for cooperation with Cannon Ball School District, Sioux County, North Dakota, for extension of public-school buildings to be available for Indian children August 30, 1935 1013 *Fort Yates School District, N. Dak.* AN ACT To provide funds for cooperation with Fort Yates School District, Sioux County, North Dakota, for extension of public-school buildings to be available for Indian children August 30, 1935 1014 *Revenue Act of 1935.* AN ACT To provide revenue, equalize taxation, and for other purposes August 30, 1935 1014 *National Defense Act, amendment.* AN ACT To amend the National Defense Act August 30, 1935 1028 *Rivers and Harbors improvement.* AN ACT Authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes August 30, 1935 1028 *Chippewas of Wisconsin, claims.* AN ACT Authorizing the Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin to submit claims to the Court of Claims August 30, 1935 1049 *Bridge construction (omnibus).* AN ACT To authorize the construction of certain bridges and to extend the times for commencing and/or completing the construction of other bridges over the navigable waters of the United States, and for other purposes August 30, 1935 1051 *Tennessee Valley Authority Act, 1933, amendments.* AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act to improve the navigability and to provide for the flood control of the Tennessee River; to provide for reforestation and the proper use of marginal lands in the Tennessee Valley; to provide for the agricultural and industrial development of said valley; to provide for the national defense by the creation of a corporation for the operation of Government properties at and near Muscle Shoals in the State of Alabama, and for other purposes”, approved May 18, 1933 August 31, 1935 1075 *Neutrality Act of 1935.* JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the prohibition of the export of arms, ammunition, and implements of war to belligerent countries; the prohibition of the transportation of arms, ammunition, and implements of war by vessels of the United States for the use of belligerent states; for the registration and licensing of persons engaged in the business of manufacturing, exporting, or importing arms, ammunition, or implements of war; and restricting travel by American citizens on belligerent ships during war August 31, 1935 1081 *Menominee Indians, claim.* AN ACT To refer the claim of the Menominee Tribe of Indians to the Court of Claims with the absolute right of appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States September 3, 1935 1085 *Ship Island Military Reservation, Miss., purchase price.* AN ACT To provide for the immediate settlement of the obligation of the Joe Graham Post of the American Legion arising out of the purchase of the Ship Island Military Reservation September 4, 1935 1089xxvi Second Session, 1936 *Navy, submarine and diving duty.* AN ACT To amend the Act entitled “An Act to provide additional pay for personnel of the United States Navy assigned to duty on submarines and to diving duty”, to include officers assigned to duty at submarine training tanks and diving units, and for other purposes January 16, 1936 1091 *Navy and Marine Corps, retired list.* AN ACT For the relief of certain officers on the retired list of the Navy and Marine Corps, who have been commended for their performance of duty in actual combat with the enemy during the World War January 16, 1936 1092 *Naval Academy and Postgraduate School.* AN ACT To provide for the retirement and retirement annuities of civilian members of the teaching staffs at the United States Naval Academy and the Postgraduate School, United States Naval Academy January 16, 1936 1092 *Bridge, Missouri River.* AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Saline, Missouri, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Missouri River at or near Miami, Missouri January 16, 1936 1093 *Indians of Fort McDermitt, Nev.* AN ACT To reserve certain public-domain lands in Nevada and Oregon as a grazing reserve for Indians of Fort McDermitt, Nevada January 17, 1936 1094 *Coos Head River, etc., Reservation, Oreg.* AN ACT Authorizing the Secretary of War to convey to the University of Oregon certain lands forming a part of the Coos Head River and Harbor Reservation January 20, 1936 1095 *District of Columbia, disinterment, etc., of bodies.* AN ACT To empower the health officer of the District of Columbia to authorize the opening of graves, and the disinterment and reinterment of dead bodies, in cases where death has been caused by certain contagious diseases January 20, 1936 1095 *Bills of interpleader, etc.* AN ACT To amend section 24 of the Judicial Code by conferring on district courts additional jurisdiction of bills of interpleader, and of bills in the nature of interpleader January 20, 1936 1096 *Railroad Retirement Board.* JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for the payment of compensation and expenses of the Railroad Retirement Board as established and operated pursuant to section 9 of the Railroad Retirement Act of June 27, 1934, and to provide for the winding up of its affairs and the disposition of its property and records, and to make an appropriation for such purposes January 21, 1936 1097 *Federal Communications Commission.* AN ACT To amend paragraph
(f)of section 4 of the Communications Act of 1934 January 22, 1936 1098 *Federal Kidnaping Act, amendment.* AN ACT To amend the Act entitled “An Act forbidding the transportation of any person in interstate or foreign commerce, kidnaped, or otherwise unlawfully detained, and making such Act a felony”, as amended January 24, 1936 1099 *Adjusted Compensation Payment Act, 1936.* AN ACT To provide for the immediate payment of World War adjusted service certificates, for the cancelation of unpaid interest accrued on loans secured by such certificates, and for other purposes January 27, 1936 1099 *Bridge, Ohio River.* AN ACT Authorizing the Perry County Bridge Commission of Perry County, Indiana, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Ohio River at or near Cannelton, Indiana January 27, 1936 1103 *Bridge, Mobile Bay.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge and causeway across the water between the mainland, at or near Cedar Point, and Dauphin Island, Alabama January 27, 1936 1104 *Bridge, Columbia River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Columbia River at Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon January 27, 1936 1104 *Norwegian steamer Tampen.* AN ACT Authorizing an appropriation for payment to the Government of Norway in settlement of all claims for reimbursement on account of losses sustained by the owner and crew of the Norwegian steamer Tampen January 27, 1936 1104 *United States Veterans’ Administration, seal.* AN ACT To provide an official seal for the United States Veterans’ Administration, and for other purposes January 31, 1936 1105 *Criminal Code, amendment.* AN ACT To Amend the Act of May 18, 1934, Providing Punishment for Killing or Assaulting Federal Officers February 8, 1936 1105 *Arkansas River and Fourche Bayou, Ark., flood control.* AN ACT To authorize a preliminary examination of the Arkansas River and Fourche Bayou with a view to the control of floods in the vicinity of Little Rock and North Little Rock, Arkansas February 8, 1936 1105 *Tobacco Control, etc., Acts, repeal.* AN ACT To repeal the Kerr Tobacco Act, the Bankhead Cotton Act of 1934, and the Potato Act of 1935 February 10, 1936 1106 *New Mexico, release of accountability, Federal property.* AN ACT For the relief of the State of New Mexico February 11, 1936 1106 *Mission Indians, Paia Band.* AN ACT To reimpose and extend the trust period on lands reserved for the Paia Band of Mission Indians, California February 11, 1936 1106xxvii *Army, disbursing officers.* AN ACT To authorize credit in disbursing officers’ accounts covering shipment of privately-owned automobiles from October 12, 1927, to October 10, 1929 February 11, 1936 1107 *California, Tehama County, easement.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to grant to the State of California an easement over certain land of the United States in Tehama County, California, for highway purposes February 11, 1936 1107 *California Pacific International Exposition.* AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act providing for the participation of the United States in the California Pacific International Exposition to be held at San Diego, California, in 1935 and 1936; authorizing an appropriation therefor, and for other purposes”, approved March 7, 1935, to provide for participation in the California Pacific International Exposition to be held at San Diego, California, in 1936, to authorize an appropriation therefor, and for other purposes February 11, 1936 1107 *California, rights-of-way.* AN ACT To grant to the State of California a retrocession of jurisdiction over certain rights-of-way granted to the State of California over certain roads about to be constructed in the Presidio of San Francisco Military Reservation and Fort Baker Military Reservation February 11, 1936 1108 *Appropriations, supplemental, fiscal year 1936.* AN ACT Making appropriations to provide urgent supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and for prior fiscal years, and for other purposes February 11, 1936 1109 *Five Civilized Tribes, restricted lands.* AN ACT To provide for the leasing of restricted Indian lands of Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma February 11, 1936 1135 *Puerto Rico, rehabilitation.* AN ACT To provide that funds allocated to Puerto Rico under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 may be expended for permanent rehabilitation, and for other purposes February 11, 1936 1135 *Texas Centennial Exposition, etc.* JOINT RESOLUTION To amend the joint resolution entitled “Joint resolution providing for the participation of the United States in the Texas Centennial Exposition and celebrations to be held in the State of Texas during the years 1935 and 1936, and authorizing the President to invite foreign countries and nations to participate therein, and for other purposes” February 11, 1936 1136 *Army Veterinary Corps.* AN ACT To increase the efficiency of the Veterinary Corps of the Regular Army February 12, 1936 1137 *District of Columbia, memorial to early settlers.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the erection of a memorial to the early settlers whose land grants embrace the site of the Federal City February 12, 1936 1137 *U S. Soldiers1 Home, trust fund.* AN ACT To provide further for the maintenance of United States Soldiers’ Home February 13, 1936 1137 *Personal injury and death cases arising in foreign countries.* AN ACT To provide for the adjustment and settlement of personal injury and death cases arising in certain foreign countries February 13, 1936 1138 *District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act, amendment.* AN ACT To amend the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act with respect to excepted employment February 13, 1936 1138 *Territorial Papers of the United States.* AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the collection and editing of official papers of the Territories of the United States now in the National Archives”, approved March 3, 1925, as amended February 14, 1936 1139 *Domestic sources of tin.* AN ACT To provide for the protection and preservation of domestic sources of tin February 15, 1936 1140 *United States District Court judges, law clerks.* AN ACT To amend section 118 of the Judicial Code to provide for the appointment of law clerks to United States District Court judges February 17, 1936 1140 *Smithsonian Institution, Roland S. Morris, Regent.* JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the filling of a vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution of the class other than Members of Congress February 21, 1936 1140 *Saint Joseph, Mich., conveyance of land,.* AN ACT To authorize the conveyance by the United States to the State of Michigan of the former United States lighthouse supply depot Saint Joseph, Michigan, for State naval force purposes February 25, 1936 1141 *Charlotte, Mich., land transfer.* AN ACT To provide for the transfer of certain land in the city of Charlotte, Michigan, to such city February 25, 1936 1141 *“Paducah”, U. S. S., silver service.* AN ACT Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to deliver to the custody of the Woman’s Club, of the city of Paducah, Kentucky, the silver service in use on the United States ship Paducah February 25, 1936 1141 *Pan American Exposition, Tampa, Fla.* JOINT RESOLUTION To permit articles imported from foreign countries for the purpose of exhibition at the Pan American Exposition to be held in Tampa, Florida, to be admitted without payment of tariff, and for other purposes February 25, 1936 1142 *Nehalem River, etc., Oreg., flood control.* AN ACT Authorizing a preliminary examination of the Nehalem River and tributaries, in Clatsop, Columbia, and Washington Counties, Oregon, with a view to the controlling of floods February 26, 1936 1143xxviii *District of Columbia, bribery.* AN ACT To define the crime of bribery and to provide for its punishment February 26, 1936 1143 *Naval material, etc., disposal.* AN ACT To amend Public Law Numbered 249, Seventy-first Congress, entitled “An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to dispose of material no longer needed by the Navy” February 27, 1936 1144 *Naval Academy, midshipmen.* AN ACT To authorize the appointment of midshipmen from among honor graduates of “honor schools” and from among members of the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps February 27, 1936 1144 *Public lands, Mohave County, Ariz.* AN ACT To authorize the transfer by the United States to the county of Mohave, Arizona, of all public lands in sections 20, 28, and 30, township 20 north, range 15 west, Gila and Salt River meridian, for public park, recreational, and other municipal purposes February 27, 1936 1144 *Hawaii, rights-of-way.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of War to effect exchange of certain rights-of-way in Hawaii February 28, 1936 1145 *Fort Myer Reservation, Va., rights-of-way.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of War to grant rights-of-way to the Arlington and Fairfax Railway Company across the Fort Myer Reservation, Virginia February 28, 1936 1147 *Army, obsolete, etc., material.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of War to dispose of material no longer needed by the Army February 28, 1936 1147 *Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act.* AN ACT To promote the conservation and profitable use of agricultural land resources by temporary Federal aid to farmers and by providing for a permanent policy of Federal aid to States for such purposes February 29, 1936 1148 *Federal Alcohol Administration Act, labels, etc.* JOINT RESOLUTION Postponing the effective date of certain permit and labeling provisions of the Federal Alcohol Administration Act February 29, 1936 1152 *Neutrality Act, amendment.* JOINT RESOLUTION Extending and amending the joint resolution (Public Resolution Numbered 67, Seventy-fourth Congress), approved August 31, 1935 February 29, 1936 1152 *District of Columbia, taxes and assessments.* AN ACT To provide for enforcing the lien of the District of Columbia upon real estate bid off in its name when offered for sale for arrears of taxes and assessments, and for other purposes March 2, 1936 1153 *Tobacco Control, etc., Acts, tax liabilities, etc.* AN ACT To extinguish tax liabilities and tax liens arising out of the Tobacco, Cotton, and Potato Acts March 2, 1936 1155 *Richmond National Battlefield Park, Va.* AN ACT To provide for the establishment of the Richmond National Battlefield Park, in the State of Virginia, and for other purposes March 2, 1936 1155 *Skagway, Alaska, bonds.* AN ACT To authorize the incorporated city of Skagway, Alaska, to undertake certain municipal public works, and for such purpose to issue bonds in any sum not exceeding $12,000, and for other purposes March 2, 1936 1156 *Military Road, near Washington, D. C.* JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for safeguarding of traffic on Military Road March 2, 1936 1158 *District of Columbia, unclaimed property.* AN ACT To amend sections 416 and 417 of the Revised Statutes relating to the District of Columbia March 3, 1936 1158 *World War soldiers, discharges because of minority, etc.* AN ACT For the relief of World War soldiers who were discharged from the Army because of minority or misrepresentation of age March 3, 1936 1159 *Esopus Creek, etc., N. Y., flood control.* AN ACT Authorizing a preliminary examination of the Esopus Creek and its tributaries of Birch, Bushnelville, Woodland, Warner Bushkill, and Beaverkill Creeks; Sawkill, Rondout, and Neversink Creeks, Ulster County; Schoharie and Catskill Creeks, Greene County; Neversink, Beaverkill, East Branch of Delaware, Willowemoc, and Lackawack Rivers, Sullivan County; Schoharie Creek and its tributaries, Schoharie County, all located in the State of New York, with a view to the controlling of floods March 3, 1936 1159 *Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers, Calif., flood control.* AN ACT Authorizing a preliminary examination of the San Gabriel and Los Angeles Rivers and their tributaries; to include both drainage basins and their outlets, in Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, with a view to the controlling of floods March 6, 1936 1160 *Five Civilized Tribes, Okla.* AN ACT To amend section 3 of the Act approved May 10, 1928, entitled “An Act to extend the period of restriction in lands of certain members of the Five Civilized Tribes, and for other purposes”, as amended February 14, 1931 March 12, 1936 1160 *Government employees, vacations.* AN ACT To provide for vacations to Government employees, and for other purposes March 14, 1936 1161 *Government employees, sick leave.* AN ACT To standardize sick leave and extend it to all civilian employees March 14, 1936 1162 *Tobacco Control, etc., Acts, records and operations.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the completion of certain records and operations resulting from the administration of the Kerr Tobacco Act, the Bankhead Cotton Act of 1934, and the Potato Act of 1935 (repealed), and making funds available for those and other purposes March 14, 1936 1163xxix *Spokane River, Idaho, flood control.* AN ACT To provide a preliminary examination of Spokane River and its Tributaries in the State of Idaho, with a view to the control of their floods March 18, 1936 1164 *Coast and Geodetic Survey, director.* AN ACT To amend the Act of February 16, 1929, entitled “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act to readjust the pay and allowances of the commissioned and enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the Public Health Service’, approved June 10, 1922, as amended” March 18, 1936 1164 *Clarence C. Calhoun.* AN ACT Limiting the operation of sections 109 and 113 of the Criminal Code and section 190 of the Revised Statutes of the United States with respect to certain counsel March 18, 1936 1164 *Columbia, S. C., sesquicentennial.* AN ACT To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the sesquicentennial anniversary of the founding of the capital of South Carolina at Columbia, South Carolina March 18, 1936 1165 *Boy Scouts of America.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of the Treasury to lend Army, Navy, Coast Guard, and other needed equipment for use at the National Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America; and to authorize the use of property in the District of Columbia and its environs by the Boy Scouts of America at their National Jamboree to be held during the summer of 1937 March 18, 1936 1165 *National Boy Scout Jamboree, 1937.* JOINT RESOLUTION To amend Public Resolution Numbered 31 of the Seventy-fourth Congress, first session, approved June 17, 1935, so as to extend its provisions to cover the National Boy Scout Jamboree now scheduled to be held in 1937 March 18, 1936 1167 *“Liev Eiriksson Discovers America”, painting.* JOINT RESOLUTION Directing the Architect of the Capitol to accept a copy of the painting “Liev Eiriksson Discovers America” March 18, 1936 1167 *Associated Country Women of the World.* AN ACT To aid in defraying the expenses of the Third Triennial Meeting of the Associated Country Women of the World, to be held in this country in June 1936 March 19, 1936 1167 *Appropriations, Independent Oflices, fiscal year 1937.* AN ACT Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes March 19, 1936 1167 *The Homestead National Monument of America, Nebr.* AN ACT To establish The Homestead National Monument of America in Gage County, Nebraska March 19, 1936 1184 *Federal Bureau of Investigation, claims.* AN ACT To provide for the adjustment and settlement of certain claims arising out of the activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation March 20, 1936 1184 *Securities held by Reconstruction Finance Corporation.* AN ACT Relating to taxation of shares of preferred stock, capital notes, and debentures of banks while owned by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and reaffirming their immunity March 20, 1936 1185 *Public Health Service, facilities.* AN ACT To extend the facilities of the Public Health Service to seamen on Government vessels not in the Military or Naval Establishments March 21, 1936 1185 *District of Columbia, emergency relief.* JOINT RESOLUTION Making an additional appropriation for the fiscal year 1936 for emergency relief of residents of the District of Columbia March 30, 1936 1186 *Electric Home and Farm Authority.* AN ACT To continue Electric Home and Farm Authority as an agency of the United States until February 1937, and for other purposes March 31, 1936 1186 *Cincinnati, Ohio.* AN ACT To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Cincinnati, Ohio, as a center of music, and its contribution to the art of music for the past fifty years March 31, 1936 1187 *National Housing Act, amendment.* AN ACT To amend section 2 of the National Housing Act, relating to the insurance of loans and advances for improvements upon real property, and for other purposes April 3, 1936 1187 *Railway Labor Act, amendment.* AN ACT To amend the Railway Labor Act April 10, 1936 1189 *Wamsutter, Wyo., land patent.* AN ACT Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to patent certain land to the town of Wamsutter, Wyoming April 10, 1936 1191 *Commodity Credit Corporation.* AN ACT To enable the Commodity Credit Corporation to better serve the farmers in orderly marketing, and to provide credit and facilities for carrying surpluses from season to season April 10, 1936 1191 *National Firearms Act, small firearms.* AN ACT To exempt certain small firearms from the provisions of the National Firearms Act April 10, 1936 1192 *Alabama, release from responsibility, public property.* AN ACT For the relief of the State of Alabama April 10, 1936 1192xxx *Hot Springs, N. Mex., land patent.* AN ACT To authorize the sale by the United States to the municipality of Hot Springs, New Mexico, of the north half of the southeast quarter and the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 6, township 14 south, range 4 west, New Mexico principal meridian, New Mexico April 10, 1936 1192 *Republican, etc., Rivers, flood control.* AN ACT To authorize a preliminary examination of Republican River, Smoky Hill River, and minor tributaries of Kansas River, with a view to the control of their floods April 10, 1936 1193 *Suwannee River, Fla., flood control.* AN ACT To authorize a preliminary examination of Suwannee River in the State of Florida, from Florida-Georgia State line to the Gulf of Mexico April 10, 1936 1193 *Enfield, Conn.* AN ACT To convey certain land to the city of Enfield, Connecticut April 10, 1936 1193 *District of Columbia public schools.* AN ACT To amend the Teachers’ Salary Act of the District of Columbia, approved June 4, 1924, as amended, in relation to raising the trade or vocational schools to the level of junior high schools, and for other purposes April 10, 1936 1194 *Onondaga Creek, N. Y., flood control.* AN ACT To provide a preliminary examination of Onondaga Creek, in Onondaga County, State of New York, with a view to the control of its floods April 10, 1936 1195 *Apostle Islands, Wis., Coast Guard station.* AN ACT To provide for the establishment of a Coast Guard station at or near Apostle Islands, Wisconsin April 10, 1936 1195 *Columbus, Ga.* AN ACT Authorizing the erection of a marker suitably marking the site of the engagement fought at Columbus, Georgia, April 16, 1865 April 10, 1936 1195 *Boy Scouts of America.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to dispose of material to the sea-scout service of the Boy Scouts of America April 10, 1936 1195 *Gigling Military Reservation, Calif.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of War to acquire the timber rights on the Gigling Military Reservation (now designated as Camp Ord), in California April 10, 1936 1196 *Bridge, Lake Sabine, Tex.* AN ACT To amend the Act approved June 18, 1934, authorizing the city of Port Arthur, Texas, or the Commission thereby created and its successors, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge over Lake Sabine, at or near Port Arthur, Texas, and to extend the times for commencing and completing the said bridge April 10, 1936 1196 *Bridge, Missouri River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Randolph, Missouri April 10, 1936 1196 *Bridges, Allegheny County, Pa.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of certain bridges across the Monongahela, Allegheny, and Youghiogheny Rivers in the county of Allegheny, Pennsylvania April 10, 1936 1197 *Bridge, Poquetanuck Cove, Conn.* AN ACT To legalize a bridge across Poquetanuck Cove at or near Ledyard, Connecticut April 10, 1936 1197 *Bridge, Second Creek, Ala.* AN ACT To legalize a bridge across Second Creek, Lauderdale County, Alabama April 10, 1936 1198 *Bankruptcy Act of 1898, amendment.* AN ACT To amend chapter 9 of the Act of July 1, 1898, entitled “An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States”, approved July 1, 1898, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto April 10, 1936 1198 *Marshy Hope Creek, Md., flood control.* AN ACT Authorizing a preliminary examination of Marshy Hope Creek, a tributary of the Nanticoke River, at and within a few miles of Federalsburg, Caroline County, Maryland, with a view to the controlling of floods April 10, 1936 1198 *Bridge, Ohio River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River between Rockport, Indiana, and Owensboro, Kentucky April 10, 1936 1199 *Revenue Act of 1934, amendment.* AN ACT Relating to the filing of copies of income returns, and for other purposes April 10, 1936 1199 *Bridges, Massachusetts.* AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the Department of Public Works of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the construction, maintenance, and operation of certain free highway bridges to replace bridges destroyed by flood in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts April 10, 1936 1199 *International Exposition of Paris, etc.* JOINT RESOLUTION Accepting the invitation of the Government of France to the United States to participate in the International Exposition of Paris—Art and Technique in Modern Life, to be held at Paris, France, in 1937 April 10, 1936 1200 *National rifle and pistol matches.* AN ACT To amend section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the National Defense Act”, approved May 28, 1928 April 11, 1936 1202 *Bridge, Saint Lawrence River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Saint Lawrence River at or near Ogdensburg, New York April 11, 1936 1202xxxi *Oakland, Calif., public building.* AN ACT To amend the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction of certain public buildings, and for other purposes”, approved May 25, 1926 April 11, 1936 1202 *Bankruptcy Act of 1898, amendment.* AN ACT To amend section 80 of chapter 9 of an Act to amend the Act entitled “An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States”, approved July 1, 1898 April 11, 1936 1203 *Panama Canal, measurement of vessels.* AN ACT To provide for the measurement of vessels using the Panama Canal, and for other purposes April 13, 1936 1204 *Long Island, N. Y., tercentenary.* AN ACT To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the three-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the first settlement on Long Island, New York April 13, 1936 1205 *Library of Congress Trust Fund Board.* AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act to create a Library of Congress Trust Fund Board, and for other purposes”, approved March 3, 1925 April 13, 1936 1205 *Bequest of Joseph Pennell.* JOINT RESOLUTION To authorize the Librarian of Congress to accept the property devised and bequeathed to the United States of America by the last will and testament of Joseph Pennell, deceased April 13, 1936 1206 *Reclamation and Indian irrigation projects.* AN ACT To create a commission and to extend further relief to water users on United States reclamation projects and on Indian irrigation projects April 14, 1936 1206 *Virgin Islands, coastwise laws.* AN ACT To amend section 21 of the Act approved June 5, 1920, entitled “An Act to provide for the promotion and maintenance of the American merchant marine, to repeal certain emergency legislation, and provide for the disposition, regulation, and use of property acquired thereunder, and for other purposes”, as applied to the Virgin Islands of the United States April 16, 1936 1207 *Carriage of Goods by Sea Act.* AN ACT Relating to the carriage of goods by sea April 16, 1936 1207 *United States district courts, civil suits.* AN ACT To amend section 51 of the Judicial Code of the United States (U S. C., title 28, sec 112) April 16, 1936 1213 *British naval officers, presentation of medals.* AN ACT Authorizing the President to present the Distinguished Service Medal to Commander Percy Todd, British Navy, and the Navy Cross to Lieutenant Commander Charles A. de W. Kitcat, British Navy April 17, 1936 1214 *Appropriations, Legislative Branch, fiscal year 1937.* AN ACT Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes April 17, 1936 1214 *Rehabilitation loans, flood relief, etc.* AN ACT Relating to the authority of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to make rehabilitation loans for the repair of damages caused by floods or other catastrophes, and for other purposes April 17, 1936 1232 *Santa Barbara National Forest, Calif.* AN ACT To conserve the water resources and to encourage reforestation of the watersheds of Santa Barbara County, California, by the withdrawal of certain public land, included within the Santa Barbara National Forest, California, from location and entry under the mining laws April 20, 1936 1234 *Public lands, homestead settlers.* AN ACT Granting a leave of absence to settlers of homestead lands during the year 1936 April 20, 1936 1235 *Olympic games in California, 1932.* AN ACT To exempt from taxation receipts from the operation of Olympic Games if donated to the State of California, the city of Los Angeles, and the county of Los Angeles April 20, 1936 1236 *United States courts, jurors and witnesses.* JOINT RESOLUTION To provide an additional appropriation for fees of jurors and witnesses, United States courts, for the fiscal year 1936 April 20, 1936 1236 *District of Columbia, airport.* AN ACT To establish a commercial airport for the District of Columbia April 21, 1936 1236 *Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.* JOINT RESOLUTION Amending paragraph
(4)of subsection
(n)of section 12B of the Federal Reserve Act, as amended April 21, 1936 1237 *Acting Treasurer of the United States.* AN ACT To amend section 304 of the Revised Statutes, as amended April 24, 1936 1237 *Pensacola, Fla., naval air station.* AN ACT To authorize the acquisition of the railroad tracks, trestle, and right-of-way of the Gulf Power Company at the naval air station, Pensacola, Florida April 24, 1936 1238 *Public lands, mining claims assessments.* AN ACT Providing for the suspension of annual assessment work on mining claims held by location in the United States April 24, 1936 1238 *Bequest of Henry H. Rogers.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to accept on behalf of the United States the bequest of the late Henry H. Rogers, and for other purposes April 25, 1936 1239 *State tobacco control compacts.* AN ACT Relating to compacts and agreements among States in which tobacco is produced providing for the control of production of, or commerce in, tobacco in such States, and for other purposes April 25, 1936 1239xxxii *Great Lakes Exposition.* JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the participation of the United States in the Great Lakes Exposition to be held in the State of Ohio during the year 1936, and authorizing the President to invite the Dominion of Canada to participate therein, and for other purposes April 25, 1936 1243 *The Whaling Treaty Act.* AN ACT To give effect to the Convention between the United States and certain other countries for the regulation of whaling, concluded at Geneva, September 24, 1931, signed on the part of the United States, March 31, 1932, and for other purposes May 1, 1936 1246 *Marine Corps, commissioned officers.* AN ACT To amend section 10 and repeal section 16 of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the distribution, promotion, retirement, and discharge of commissioned officers of the Marine Corps, and for other purposes”, approved May 29, 1934 (48 Stat. 811), and for other purposes May 1, 1936 1249 *Bridge, Missouri River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Weldon Spring, Missouri May 1, 1936 1250 *Indians, Alaska.* AN ACT To extend certain provisions of the Act approved June 18, 1934, commonly known as the Wheeler-Howard Act (Public Law Numbered 383, Seventy-third Congress, 48 Stat. 984), to the Territory of Alaska, to provide for the designation of Indian reservations in Alaska, and for other purposes May 1, 1936 1250 *Bridge, Saint Lawrence River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Saint Lawrence River at or near Alexandria Bay, New York May 1, 1936 1251 *Bridge, Waccamaw River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Waccamaw River at or near Conway, South Carolina May 1, 1936 1251 *Bridge, Current River.* AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the State Highway Commission of Missouri to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Current River at or near Powder Mill Ford on Route Numbered Missouri 106, Shannon County, Missouri May 1, 1936 1252 *Bridge, Delaware River.* AN ACT Authorizing the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission of the State of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Delaware River at a point near Delaware Water Gap May 1, 1936 1252 *Bridge, West Pearl River.* AN ACT To revive and reenact the Act entitled “An Act granting the consent of Congress to the Lamar Lumber Company to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge across the West Pearl River, at or near Talisheek, Louisiana”, approved June 17, 1930 May 1, 1936 1253 *Bridge, Mississippi River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River between Saint Louis, Missouri, and Stites, Illinois May 1, 1936 1253 *Bridge, Tennessee River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Tennessee River between Colbert County and Lauderdale County, Alabama May 1, 1936 1254 *Bridge, Mississippi River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near a point between Morgan and Wash Streets in the city of Saint Louis, Missouri, and a point opposite thereto in the city of East Saint Louis, Illinois May 1, 1936 1254 *Bridge, Wabash River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Wabash River at or near Merom, Sullivan County, Indiana May 1, 1936 1254 *Bridge, Mississippi River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Natchez, Mississippi, and for other purposes May 1, 1936 1255 *Bridge, Pearl River.* AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the State Highway Commission of Mississippi to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across Pearl River at or near Monticello, Mississippi May 1, 1936 1255 *Bridge, Ohio River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River at or near Sistersville, West Virginia May 1, 1936 1255 *Panama Canal, increasing capacity.* JOINT RESOLUTION To authorize an investigation of the means of increasing capacity of the Panama Canal for future needs of inter-oceanic shipping, and for other purposes May 1, 1936 1256 *Agricultural income, etc.* JOINT RESOLUTION Extending the time for the Federal Trade Commission to make an investigation and file final report with respect to agricultural income and the financial and economic condition of agricultural producers generally May 1, 1936 1256 *United States Daughters of 1812, badge.* AN ACT To renew patent numbered 25909, relating to the badge of the United States Daughters of 1812 May 4, 1936 1257 *Great Lakes Exposition, commemorative coins.* AN ACT To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the centennial celebration of Cleveland, Ohio, to be known as the Great Lakes Exposition May 5, 1936 1257 *Greenbrier River, etc., W. Va., flood control.* AN ACT To provide a preliminary examination of the Greenbrier River and its tributaries in the State of West Virginia, with a view to the control of its floods May 5, 1936 1258xxxiii *Cheat River, etc., W. Va., flood control.* AN ACT To provide a preliminary examination of the Cheat River and its tributaries in the State of West Virginia, with a view to the control of its floods May 5, 1936 1258 *Potomac River, etc., flood control.* AN ACT To provide a preliminary examination of the Potomac River and its tributaries, with a view to the control of its floods May 5, 1936 1258 *New Rochelle, N. Y.* AN ACT To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding and settlement of the city of New Rochelle, New York May 5, 1936 1259 *Marais des Cygnes River, Kans., flood control.* AN ACT To authorize a preliminary examination of the Marais des Cygnes River, in the State of Kansas, with a view to the control of its floods May 6, 1936 1259 *Yakima and Walla Walla Rivers, Wash., flood control.* AN ACT To provide a preliminary examination of the Yakima River and its tributaries and the Walla Walla River and its tributaries in the State of Washington, with a view to the control of their floods May 6, 1936 1260 *Chickasawha River, etc., Miss., flood control.* AN ACT To provide a preliminary examination of Chickasawha River and its tributaries in the State of Mississippi, with a view to the control of their floods May 6, 1936 1260 *Cosatot River, Ark., flood control.* AN ACT To provide for a preliminary examination of the Cosatot River in Sevier County, Arkansas, to determine the feasibility of cleaning out the channel and leveeing the river and the cost of such improvements with a view to the controlling of floods May 6, 1936 1260 *Red and Little Rivers, Ark., flood control.* AN ACT To authorize a preliminary examination of the Red and Little Rivers, Arkansas, insofar as Red River affects Little River County, Arkansas, and insofar as Little River affects Little River and Sevier Counties, Arkansas, to determine the feasibility of leveeing Little River and the cost of such improvement, and also the estimated cost of repairing and strengthening the levee on Red River in Little River County, with a view to the controlling of floods May 6, 1936 1261 *Panama City, Fla., term of district court.* AN ACT Providing for the establishment of a term of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Florida at Panama City, Florida May 6, 1936 1261 *Little Missouri River, Ark., flood control.* AN ACT To provide for a preliminary examination of the Little Missouri River in Pike County, Arkansas, to determine the feasibility of cleaning out the channel and leveeing the river and the cost of such improvements with a view to the controlling of floods May 6, 1936 1261 *Petit Jean River, Ark., flood control.* AN ACT To provide for a preliminary examination of the Petit Jean River in Scott and Logan Counties, Arkansas, to determine the feasibility of cleaning out the channel and leveeing the river and the cost of such improvements with a view to the controlling of floods May 6, 1936 1262 *Big Mulberry Creek, Ark., flood control.* AN ACT To provide for a preliminary examination of Big Mulberry Creek, in Crawford County, Arkansas, from the point where it empties into the Arkansas River up a distance of eight miles, to determine the feasibility of cleaning out the channel and repairing the banks, and the cost of such improvement, with a view to the controlling of floods May 6, 1936 1262 *California-Pacific International Exposition.* AN ACT To authorize the recoinage of 50-cent pieces in connection with the California-Pacific International Exposition to be held in San Diego, California, in 1936 May 6, 1936 1262 *Cadron Creek, Ark., flood control.* AN ACT Authorizing a preliminary examination of Cadron Creek, Arkansas, a tributary of the Arkansas River May 6, 1936 1263 *Washington, D. C., naval model basin.* AN ACT To authorize the construction of a model basin establishment, and for other purposes May 6, 1936 1263 *Lowell Creek, Alaska, flood control.* AN ACT To authorize a survey of Lowell Creek, Alaska, to determine what, if any, modification should be made in the existing project for the control of its floods May 6, 1936 1264 *San Diego River, Calif., flood control.* AN ACT To authorize a preliminary examination of the San Diego River and its tributaries in the State of California, with a view to the control of its floods May 6, 1936 1264 *Newark, N. J., public building site.* AN ACT To repeal Public Law Numbered 246 of the Seventy-second Congress May 6, 1936 1264 *Matanuska River, Alaska, flood control.* AN ACT Authorizing a preliminary examination of the Matanuska River in the vicinity of Matanuska, Alaska May 6, 1936 1265 *California, flood control.* AN ACT To authorize a preliminary examination of various creeks in the State of California with a view to the control of their floods May 6, 1936 1265 *Passaic River, N. J., flood control.* AN ACT To authorize a preliminary examination of Passaic River, New Jersey, with a view to the control of its floods May 6, 1936 1265 *Indian lands, timber sales.* JOINT RESOLUTION To amend Public Act Numbered 435, Seventy-second Congress May 6, 1936 1266 *Postal employees, mail-equipment shops.* AN ACT To amend the Act to fix the hours of duty of postal employees May 7, 1936 1266xxxiv *Harvard University tercentenary.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the recognition of the three-hundredth anniversary of the founding of Harvard College and the beginning of higher education in the United States and providing for the representation of the Government and people of the United States in the observance of the anniversary May 7, 1936 1266 *House of Representatives, special, etc., committees.* JOINT RESOLUTION To provide an additional appropriation for expenses of special and select committees of the House of Representatives for the fiscal year 1936 May 8, 1936 1267 *World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.* AN ACT To aid in defraying the expenses of the Sixteenth Triennial Convention of the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union to be held in this country in June 1937 May 11, 1936 1268 *Washington Gas Light Company.* AN ACT To authorize the Washington Gas Light Company to alter its corporate structure, and for other purposes May 11, 1936 1268 *Canal Zone, district court.* AN ACT To amend section 981 of title 4, and section 843 of title 6 of the Canal Zone Code May 13, 1936 1269 *Injuries to Government employees.* AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes”, approved September 7, 1916, and Acts in amendment thereof May 13, 1936 1270 *Fort Douglas, Utah, monument.* AN ACT To authorize the Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association to construct and maintain a monument on the Fort Douglas Military Reservation, Salt Lake City, Utah May 13, 1936 1270 *Newburgh, N. Y.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of War to acquire by donation land at or near Newburgh, in Orange County, New York, for aviation field, military, or other public purposes May 13, 1936 1271 *Pennsylvania Middle Judicial District.* AN ACT To provide for terms of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania to be held at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania May 13, 1936 1271 *Oklahoma Western Judicial District.* AN ACT To provide for the establishment of a term of the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Oklahoma at Shawnee, Oklahoma May 13, 1936 1271 *Senate, folding speeches, etc.* JOINT RESOLUTION To provide an additional appropriation for folding speeches and pamphlets for the Senate for the fiscal year 1936 May 13, 1936 1272 *Confederated Bands of Ute Indians.* AN ACT For the relief of the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians located in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico May 15, 1936 1272 *Chippewa Indians of Minnesota.* AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota to submit claims to the Court of Claims”, approved May 14, 1926 (44 Stat. L. 555) May 15, 1936 1272 *Stevens County, Wash., school.* AN ACT To provide funds for cooperation with Wellpinit School District Numbered 49, Stevens County, Washington, for the construction of a public-school building to be available for Indian children of the Spokane Reservation May 15, 1936 1273 *District of Columbia Traffic Act, 1925, amendment.* AN ACT To amend section 13
(c)of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the regulation of motor-vehicle traffic in the District of Columbia and so forth”, approved March 3, 1925, as amended May 15, 1936 1273 *Hays, Mont., schools.* AN ACT To provide funds for cooperation with the public-school district at Hays, Montana, for construction and improvement of public-school buildings to be available for Indian children May 15, 1936 1274 *Army disbursing officers, rentals.* AN ACT To validate payments, and to relieve the accounts of disbursing officers of the Army on account of payments made to Reserve officers on active duty for rental allowances May 15, 1936 1274 *Army disbursing officers, payments to Reserve officers.* AN ACT To validate payments, and to relieve disbursing officers’ accounts of payments made to Reserve officers promoted while on active duty May 15, 1936 1275 *Sub-bituminous and lignite coal.* AN ACT To authorize the Bureau of Mines to conduct certain studies, investigations, and experiments with respect to sub-bituminous and lignite coal, and for other purposes May 15, 1936 1275 *Klamath, etc., Indians, Oreg.* AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing certain tribes of Indians to submit claims to the Court of Claims, and for other purposes”, approved May 26, 1920 May 15, 1936 1276 *Wisconsin, commemorative coins, etc.* AN ACT To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the Territorial Government of Wisconsin, and to assist in the celebration of the Wisconsin Centennial during the year of 1936 May 15, 1936 1276 *War Department, property.* AN ACT To authorize the procurement, without advertising, of certain War Department property, and for other purposes May 15, 1936 1277 *Sabine and Neches Rivers, flood control.* AN ACT To provide for a preliminary examination of the Sabine and Neches Rivers, with a view to controlling their floods and regulating, conserving, and utilizing the waters thereof, and for other purposes May 15, 1936 1277xxxv *Bridgeport, Conn., centenary.* AN ACT To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of Bridgeport, Connecticut, as a city May 15, 1936 1277 *New Jersey, release of accountability.* AN ACT For the relief of the State of New Jersey May 15, 1936 1278 *Appropriations, War Department and Army, fiscal year 1937.* AN ACT Making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes May 15, 1936 1278 *Appropriations, State, Justice, Commerce, and Labor Departments, fiscal year 1937.* AN ACT Making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, and for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes May 15, 1936 1309 *Landing of the Swedes in Delaware.* JOINT RESOLUTION To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the three-hundredth anniversary of the landing of the Swedes in Delaware May 15, 1936 1352 *Inter-American Conference.* JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for participation by the United States in an Inter-American Conference to be held at Buenos Aires, Argentina, or at the capital of another American republic, in 1936 May 15, 1936 1353 *Bridge, Missouri River.* AN ACT To amend section 32 of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of certain bridges and to extend the times for commencing and/or completing the construction of other bridges over the navigable waters of the United States, and for other purposes”, approved August 30, 1935 May 18, 1936 1354 *New York City, cemetery facilities.* AN ACT To authorize the acquisition of land for cemeterial purposes in the vicinity of New York City, New York May 18, 1936 1354 *War Minerals Relief Act, amendment.* AN ACT To amend section 5 of the Act of March 2, 1919, generally known as the “War Minerals Relief Statutes” May 18, 1936 1355 *Military Medicine and Pharmacy Congress.* JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for participation by the United States in the Ninth International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy in Rumania, in 1937; and to authorize and request the President of the United States to invite the International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy to hold its tenth congress in the United States in 1939, and to invite foreign countries to participate in that congress May 18, 1936 1355 *Great Lakes Exposition.* JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the importation of articles free from tariff or customs duty for the purpose of exhibition at Great Lakes Exposition to be held at Cleveland, Ohio, beginning in June 1936, and for other purposes May 18, 1936 1356 *Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, etc.* JOINT RESOLUTION To authorize an appropriation for the expenses of participation by the United States in a conference at Brussels to revise the Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works concluded at Bern, September 9, 1886, and revised at Rome, June 2, 1928 May 18, 1936 1357 *Navy, Marine Corps, and, Army, foreign decorations.* AN ACT To authorize certain officers of the United States Navy, officers and enlisted men of the Marine Corps, and officers and enlisted men of the United States Army to accept such medals, orders, diplomas, decorations, and photographs as have been tendered them by foreign governments in appreciation of services rendered May 19, 1936 1357 *Mississippi Southern Judicial District.* AN ACT To create an additional division of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi to be known as the Hattiesburg division May 19, 1936 1362 *Rural Electrification Act of 1936.* AN ACT To provide for rural electrification, and for other purposes May 20, 1936 1363 *Navigation, rules concerning lights.* AN ACT To amend article 3 of the “Rules Concerning Lights, and so forth”, contained in the Act entitled “An Act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions upon certain harbors, rivers, and inland waters of the United States”, approved June 7, 1897 May 20, 1936 1367 *Combination fishing and freighting license.* AN ACT To amend section 4321, Revised Statutes (U S. C., title 46, sec 263), and for other purposes May 20, 1936 1367 *United Confederate Veterans Reunion, Shreveport, La., Army equipment.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of War to lend to the Reunion Committee of the United Confederate Veterans three thousand blankets, olive drab, numbered 4, one thousand five hundred canvas cots, to be used at their annual encampment to be held at Shreveport, Louisiana, in June 1936 May 20, 1936 1368 *Clackamas County, Oreg.* AN ACT To convey certain lands to Clackamas County, Oregon, for public-park purposes May 21, 1936 1369 *Northern Pacific Railroad land grants.* AN ACT To supplement the Act of June 25, 1929 (ch 41, 46 Stat. L. 41), which authorized and directed the Attorney General to institute suit against the Northern Pacific Railway Company and others May 22, 1936 1369 *Crescent City, Calif., Coast Guard station.* AN ACT Toprovide for the establishment of a Coast Guard station at or near Crescent City, California May 22, 1936 1370 *Port Washington, Wis., Coast Guard station.* AN ACT To provide for the establishment of a Coast Guard station at Port Washington, Wisconsin May 22, 1936 1370 *Rio Grande, use of waters, etc.* AN ACT To amend section 4 of Public Act Numbered 286, Seventy-fourth Congress, approved August 19, 1935, as amended May 22, 1936 1370xxxvi *“Shenandoah”, dirigible.* AN ACT Authorizing the erection of a memorial to those who met their death in the wreck of the dirigible Shenandoah May 22, 1936 1371 *Buffalo, N. Y.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of War to grant to the city of Buffalo, New York, the right and privilege to occupy and use for sewage-disposal facilities part of the lands forming the pier and dikes of the Black Rock Harbor improvement at Buffalo, New York May 26, 1936 1371 *Virgin Islands, real property tax.* AN ACT To establish an assessed valuation real property tax in the Virgin Islands of the United States May 26, 1936 1372 *Fort Frederica National Monument, Ga.* AN ACT To provide for the establishment of the Fort Frederica National Monument, at Saint Simon Island, Georgia, and for other purposes May 26, 1936 1373 *Withholding pay due Government personnel.* AN ACT To authorize withholding compensation due Government personnel May 26, 1936 1374 *Railway Mail Service.* AN ACT To provide for adjusting the compensation of division superintendents, assistant division superintendents, assistant superintendents at large, assistant superintendent in charge of car construction, chief clerks, assistant chief clerks, and clerks in charge of sections in offices of division superintendents in the Railway Mail Service, to correspond to the rates established by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended May 26, 1936 1374 *Salem, Mass., customhouse.* AN ACT To authorize the transfer of the customhouse at Salem, Massachusetts, from the jurisdiction of the Treasury Department to the Department of the Interior May 26, 1936 1374 *Unlisted securities, etc.* AN ACT To provide for the continuation of trading in unlisted securities upon national securities exchanges, for the registration of over-the-counter brokers and dealers, for the filing of current information and periodic reports by issuers, and for other purposes May 27, 1936 1375 *Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection.* AN ACT To provide for a change in the designation of the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, to create a marine casualty investigation board and increase efficiency in administration of the steamboat inspection laws, and for other purposes May 27, 1936 1380 *Hernando De Soto’s Expedition Commission.* AN ACT Extending the time for making the report of the commission to study the subject of Hernando De Soto’s Expedition May 27, 1936 1386 *Charleston, S. C.* AN ACT Authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to convey the Charleston Army Base Terminal to the city of Charleston, South Carolina May 27, 1936 1387 *Lynchburg, Va., sesquicentennial.* AN ACT To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the issuance of the charter’ to the city of Lynchburg, Virginia May 28, 1936 1387 *Alaska, municipal corporations.* AN ACT To authorize municipal corporations in the Territory of Alaska to incur bonded indebtedness, and for other purposes May 28, 1936 1388 *Disabled American Veterans of the World War.* AN ACT To grant a renewal of Patent Numbered 59560 relating to the emblem of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War May 28, 1936 1389 *The Holy Name Society.* AN ACT Granting a renewal of patent numbered 40029, relating to the badge of The Holy Name Society May 28, 1936 1389 *National safety and accident prevention.* AN ACT To advance a program of national safety and accident prevention May 28, 1936 1389 *Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States.* AN ACT To incorporate the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States May 28, 1936 1390 *Immigration and Naturalization Service, etc.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the erection in the Department of Labor Building of a memorial to the officers of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and Immigration Border Patrol who, while on active duty, lost their lives under heroic or tragic circumstances May 28, 1936 1392 *United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission.* JOINT RESOLUTION To enable the United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission to carry out and give effect to certain approved plans, and for other purposes June 1, 1936 1392 *Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial National Monument.* AN ACT To provide for the creation of the Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial National Monument, on Put-in-Bay, South Bass Island, in the State of Ohio, and for other purposes June 2, 1936 1393 *Bridge, Pascagoula River.* AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the Mississippi State Highway Commission to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Pascagoula River at or near Wilkerson’s Ferry, Mississippi June 2, 1936 1395 *Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the presentation of silver medals to the personnel of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition June 2, 1936 1395 *Marine Band.* AN ACT To authorize the attendance of the Marine Band at the Arkansas Centennial Celebration, at Little Rock, Arkansas, the Texas Centennial at Dallas, Texas, and the National Confederate Reunion, at Shreveport, Louisiana, between the dates from June 6 to June 16, 1936, inclusive June 3, 1936 1395xxxvii *Veterans’ Administration, checks.* AN ACT To protect the United States against loss in the delivery through the mails of checks in payment of benefits provided for by laws administered by the Veterans’ Administration June 3, 1936 1396 *Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission.* AN ACT To authorize the execution of plans for a permanent memorial to Thomas Jefferson June 3, 1936 1397 *Appropriations, Navy Department, etc., fiscal year 1937.* AN ACT Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes June 3, 1936 1398 *Appropriations, Department of Agriculture, fiscal year 1937.* AN ACT Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture and for the Farm Credit Administration for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes June 4, 1936 1421 *Indian welfare.* AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to arrange with States or Territories for the education, medical attention, relief of distress, and social welfare of Indians, and for other purposes.” June 4, 1936 1458 *Delaware Indians, Okla.* AN ACT To amend the last paragraph, as amended, of the Act entitled “An Act to refer the claims of the Delaware Indians to the Court of Claims, with the right of appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States”, approved February 7, 1925 June 4, 1936 1459 *Indian pueblos in New Mexico.* AN ACT To authorize an appropriation to pay non-Indian claimants whose claims have been extinguished under the Act of June 7, 1924, but who have been found entitled to awards under said Act as supplemented by the Act of May 31, 1933 June 4, 1936 1459 *Postal Service, substitute employees.* AN ACT To provide for the appointment of substitute postal employees, and for other purposes June 4, 1936 1460 *Rogue River National Forest, Oreg.* AN ACT To add certain lands to the Rogue River National Forest in the State of Oregon June 4, 1936 1460 *Plant quarantine.* AN ACT To amend certain plant-quarantine laws June 4, 1936 1461 *Drainage, irrigation, etc., districts, loans.* AN ACT To make lands in drainage, irrigation, and conservancy districts eligible for loans by the Federal land banks and other Federal agencies loaning on farm lands, notwithstanding the existence of prior liens of assessments made by such districts, and for other purposes June 4, 1936 1461 *Filipinos, emigration.* AN ACT To extend the time for applying for and receiving benefits under the Act entitled “An Act to provide means by which certain Filipinos can emigrate from the United States”, approved July 10, 1935 June 4, 1936 1462 *Ammunition storage facilities.* AN ACT To authorize an appropriation for improvement of ammunition storage facilities at Aliamanu, Territory of Hawaii, and Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland June 4, 1936 1462 *Nueces River, etc., Tex., flood control.* AN ACT Providing for the examination of the Nueces River and its tributaries in the State of Texas for flood-control purposes June 4, 1936 1462 *Rio Grande canalization project.* AN ACT Authorizing construction, operation, and maintenance of Rio Grande canalization project and authorizing appropriation for that purpose June 4, 1936 1463 *Agricultural Adjustment Act, correction.* AN ACT To correct an error in section 16
(1)of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, with respect to adjustments in taxes on stocks on hand, in the case of a reduction in processing tax June 4, 1936 1464 *Iowa, land for State park.* AN ACT Granting to the State of Iowa for State park purposes certain land of the United States in Clayton County, Iowa June 4, 1936 1464 *Big Blue River, etc., flood control.* AN ACT To authorize a preliminary examination of Big Blue River and its tributaries with a view to the control of their floods June 4, 1936 1471 *Lake Champlain Bridge Commission.* JOINT RESOLUTION Granting the consent of Congress to the States of New York and Vermont to enter into an agreement amending the agreement between such States consented to by Congress in Public Resolution Numbered 9, Seventieth Congress, relating to the creation of the Lake Champlain Bridge Commission June 4, 1936 1472 *International Petroleum Exposition, Tulsa, Okla.* JOINT RESOLUTION To permit articles imported from foreign countries for the purpose of exhibition at the International Petroleum Exposition, Tulsa, Oklahoma, to be admitted without payment of tariff, and for other purposes June 4, 1936 1474 *Radio facilities.* AN ACT Relating to the allocation of radio facilities June 5, 1936 1475 *Bankruptcy Act of 1898, amendment.* AN ACT To amend the Act entitled “An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States”, approved July 1, 1898, as amended and supplemented June 5, 1936 1475 *State of Maine, duplicate check.* AN ACT For the relief of the State of Maine June 5, 1936 1476 *Bridge, Missouri River.* AN ACT To further extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Garrison, North Dakota June 5, 1936 1476 *Alabama judicial districts.* AN ACT Relating to the jurisdiction of the judge for the northern and middle districts of Alabama June 5, 1936 1476 *Bridges, Red River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of certain free highway bridges across the Red River, from Moorhead, Minnesota, to Fargo, North Dakota June 5, 1936 1477xxxviii *Arizona, Enabling Act, amendment.* AN ACT To amend section 28 of the Enabling Act for the State of Arizona, approved June 20, 1910 June 5, 1936 1477 *Bridge, Connecticut River.* AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the Department of Public Works of Massachusetts to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Connecticut River at or near Northampton, Massachusetts June 5, 1936 1478 *Philippine Islands, Acting High Commissioner.* AN ACT To authorize the President to designate an Acting High Commissioner to the Philippine Islands June 5, 1936 1478 *Bridge, Savannah River.* AN ACT Authorizing the State Highway Board of the State of Georgia to replace, reconstruct, or repair the free highway bridge across the Savannah River at or near the city of Augusta, Georgia June 5, 1936 1479 *Limitation of shipowners’ liability.* AN ACT Relative to limitation of shipowners’ liability June 5, 1936 1479 *Fort Brady Reservation, Mich.* AN ACT Granting authority to the Secretary of War to license the use of a certain parcel of land situated in Fort Brady Reservation to Ira D. Mac Lachlan Post Numbered 3, the American Legion, for fifteen years June 5, 1936 1481 *California, park system.* AN ACT To amend Public Law Numbered 425, Seventy-second Congress, providing for the selection of certain lands in the State of California for the use of the California State Park System, approved March 3, 1933 June 5, 1936 1482 *Pensacola, Fla.* AN ACT Extending and continuing to January 12, 1938, the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to determine and confirm by patent in the nature of a deed of quitclaim the title to lots in the city of Pensacola, Florida”, approved January 12, 1925 June 5, 1936 1482 *Colonial National Monument, Virginia,.* AN ACT To provide for the addition or additions of certain lands to the Colonial National Monument in the State of Virginia June 5, 1936 1483 *Virgin Islands, transportation.* AN ACT Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to furnish transportation to persons in the service of the United States in the Virgin Islands, and for other purposes June 5, 1936 1483 *Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho.* AN ACT To eliminate certain lands from the Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho June 5, 1936 1484 *Fort McHenry, Maryland.* AN ACT To amend the Act of March 3, 1925, relating to Fort McHenry June 5, 1936 1484 *Federal Bureau of Investigation.* AN ACT To fix the compensation of the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation June 5, 1936 1484 *Bayou Saint John, La.* AN ACT Declaring Bayou Saint John, in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, a nonnavigable stream June 5, 1936 1484 *Patrick Henry bicentennial.* AN ACT To aid in defraying the expenses for the celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Patrick Henry to be held at Hanover Courthouse, Virginia, July 15, 16, and 17, 1936 June 5, 1936 1485 *Grand Army Encampment.* JOINT RESOLUTION To amend the joint resolution of July 18, 1935, relating to the Seventieth National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, to be held in the District of Columbia in September 1936 June 5, 1936 1485 *Delaware River Valley tercentenary.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing and requesting the President to extend to the Government of Sweden and individuals an invitation to join the Government and people of the United States in the observance of the three-hundredth anniversary of the first permanent settlement in the Delaware River Valley, and for other purposes June 5, 1936 1486 *Major General Clarence Ransom Edwards.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the President of the United States to award posthumously a Distinguished Service Medal to Major General Clarence Ransom Edwards June 5, 1936 1487 *Vocational education.* AN ACT To provide for the further development of vocational education in the several States and Territories June 8, 1936 1488 *State compacts for flood, etc., control.* JOINT RESOLUTION To enable the States of Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee, and Ohio to conserve and regulate the flow of and purify the waters of rivers and streams whose drainage basins lie within two or more of the said States June 8, 1936 1490 *New York Southern Judicial District.* AN ACT To provide for the appointment of two additional judges for the Southern District of New York June 15, 1936 1491 *Commodity Exchange Act.* AN ACT To amend the Grain Futures Act to prevent and remove obstructions and burdens upon interstate commerce in grains and other commodities by regulating transactions therein on commodity futures exchanges, to limit or abolish short selling, to curb manipulation, and for other purposes June 15, 1936 1491 *The National Yeomen F.* AN ACT To incorporate The National Yeomen F June 15, 1936 1501 *National Guard, etc.* AN ACT To make provision for the care and treatment of members of the National Guard, Organized Reserves, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, and Citizens’ Military Training Camps who are injured or contract disease while engaged in military training, and for other purposes June 15, 1936 1507 *Mississippi River Flood Control Act, amendment.* AN ACT To amenyl the Act entitled “An Act for the control of floods on the Mississippi River and its tributaries and for other purposes”, approved May 15, 1928 June 15, 1936 1508xxxix *Angus D. MacLean.* AN ACT Limiting the operation of sections 109 and 113 of the Criminal Code and section 190 of the Revised Statutes of the United States with respect to counsel in certain cases June 15, 1936 1513 *Coast Guard and Public Health Service.* AN ACT To provide for the adjustment and settlement of certain claims for damages resulting from the operation of vessels of the Coast Guard and Public Health Service June 15, 1936 1514 *Fort Bliss, Tex.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of War to set apart as a national cemetery certain lands of the United States Military Reservation of Fort Bliss, Texas June 15, 1936 1514 *Foreign decorations, etc.* AN ACT Authorizing certain officers and enlisted men of the United States Army to accept such medals, orders, diplomas, decorations, and photographs as have been tendered them by foreign governments in appreciation of services rendered June 15, 1936 1515 *Great Plains Forest Experiment Station.* AN ACT To amend the Act entitled “An Act to insure adequate supplies of timber and other forest products for the people of the United States, to promote the full use for timber growing and other purposes of forest lands in the United States, including farm wood lots and those abandoned areas not suitable for agricultural production, and to secure the correlation and the most economical conduct of forest research in the Department of Agriculture, through research in reforestation, timber growing, protection, utilization, forest economics and related subjects, and for other purposes”, approved May 22, 1928 June 15, 1936 1515 *Hot Springs National Park, Ark.* AN ACT To provide for the extension of the boundaries of the Hot Springs National Park in the State of Arkansas, and for other purposes June 15, 1936 1516 *New York World’s Fair 1939, Incorporated.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the President to invite foreign countries to participate in the New York World’s Fair 1939, Incorporated, in the city of New York during the year 1939 June 15, 1936 1516 *Charles Carroll of Carrollton bicentenary.* JOINT RESOLUTION Making provision for a national celebration of the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, wealthiest signer of the Declaration of Independence June 15, 1936 1516 *San Francisco Bay Exposition, 1939.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the President to invite foreign countries to participate in the San Francisco Bay Exposition in 1939 at San Francisco, California June 15, 1936 1518 *Shipping Act of 1916, amendment.* AN ACT Amending the Shipping Act, 1916, as amended June 16, 1936 1518 *Federal Aid Highway Act of 1916, amendment.* AN ACT To amend the Federal Aid Highway Act, approved July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented, and for other purposes June 16, 1936 1519 *Albany, N. Y.* AN ACT To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the city of Albany, New York June 16, 1936 1522 *Elgin, III.* AN ACT To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the city of Elgin, Illinois, and the erection of a heroic Pioneer Memorial June 16, 1936 1523 *Pennsylvania Eastern Judicial District.* AN ACT Authorizing the appointment of an additional district judge for the eastern district of Pennsylvania June 16, 1936 1523 *Battle of Gettysburg.* AN ACT To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg June 16, 1936 1524 *Army Air Corps.* AN ACT To increase the efficiency of the Air Corps June 16, 1936 1524 *Antitrust Act of 1914, amendment.* AN ACT To amend section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes”, approved October 15, 1914, as amended (U S. C., title 15, sec 13), and for other purposes June 19, 1936 1526 *Jemez and Pecos pueblos, N. Mex.* AN ACT To consolidate the Indian pueblos of Jemez and Pecos, New Mexico June 19, 1936 1528 *Patents.* AN ACT To effectuate certain provisions of the International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property as revised at The Hague on November 6, 1925 June 19, 1936 1529 *Bridge, Missouri River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Brownville, Nebraska June 19, 1936 1529 *Bridge, Missouri River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River between the towns of Decatur, Nebraska, and Onawa, Iowa June 19, 1936 1530 *Bridge, Missouri River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near the cities of South Sioux City, Nebraska, and Sioux City, Iowa June 19, 1936 1530 *Bridge, Mississippi River.* AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the Louisiana Highway Commission to construct, maintain, and operate a free or toll highway bridge, or a railway bridge in combination with a free or toll highway bridge, and approaches thereto across the Mississippi River at or near Baton Rouge, Louisiana June 19, 1936 1530xl *Bridge, Mississippi River.* AN ACT Authorizing the State of Wisconsin to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Mississippi River at or near La Crosse, La Crosse County, Wisconsin June 19, 1936 1531 *Bridge, Delaware River.* AN ACT Authorizing the Interstate Bridge Commission of the State of New York and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to reconstruct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Delaware River between points in the village of Barryville, Sullivan County, New York, and the village of Shohola, Pike County, Pennsylvania June 19, 1936 1531 *Bridge, Delaware River.* AN ACT Authorizing the Interstate Bridge Commission of the State of New York and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to reconstruct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the West Branch of the Delaware River between a point in the vicinity of the village of Hancock, Delaware County, New York, and a point in the town of Buckingham, Wayne County, Pennsylvania June 19, 1936 1532 *Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930, amendment.* AN ACT To amend the Act known as the “Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930”, approved June 10, 1930, as amended June 19, 1936 1533 *Forest exchanges.* AN ACT To extend the provisions of the Forest Exchange Act, as amended, to certain lands, so that they may become part of the Umatilla and Whitman National Forests June 19, 1936 1534 *Hawaii, land transfer.* AN ACT To authorize the transfer of land from the War Department to the Territory of Hawaii June 19, 1936 1535 *Bridge, Missouri River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Arrow Rock, Missouri June 19, 1936 1536 *Bridge, Missouri River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Miami, Missouri June 19, 1936 1536 *Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.* AN ACT To authorize the transfer of a certain piece of land in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, to the State of Kentucky June 19, 1936 1536 *Bridge, Savannah River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Savannah River at or near Burtons Ferry, near Sylvania, Georgia June 19, 1936 1537 *Bridge, Chesapeake Bay.* AN ACT Authorizing the Chesapeake Bay Authority to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Chesapeake Bay, from a point in Baltimore County, Maryland, over Hart Island and Miller’s Island to a point near Tolchester, Kent County, Maryland June 19, 1936 1537 *Bridge, Waccamaw River.* AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Horry, South Carolina, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Waccamaw River, at or near Red Bluff, South Carolina June 19, 1936 1538 *Transportation of bonded merchandise.* JOINT RESOLUTION To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to permit the transportation of bonded merchandise by other than common carriers under certain conditions June 19, 1936 1538 *Sugar beets and sugarcane.* JOINT RESOLUTION To modify and extend the Act entitled “An Act to include sugar beets and sugarcane as basic agricultural commodities under the Agricultural Adjustment Act, and for other purposes”, approved May 9, 1934, as amended, and for other purposes June 19, 1936 1539 *Trade marks.* AN ACT To effectuate certain provisions of the International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property as revised at The Hague on November 6, 1925 June 20, 1936 1539 *Steam vessels, regulation.* AN ACT To amend section 4471 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended June 20, 1936 1540 *American Legion Convention, 1936.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of War to lend War Department equipment for use at the Eighteenth National Convention of the American Legion at Cleveland, Ohio, during the month of September 1936 June 20, 1936 1540 *District of Columbia, pipe lines.* AN ACT To permit construction, maintenance, and use of certain pipe lines for petroleum and petroleum products in the District of Columbia June 20, 1936 1541 *Bridges, Alabama.* AN ACT To amend section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act granting the consent of Congress to the Alabama State Bridge Corporation to construct, maintain, and operate bridges across the Tennessee, Tombigbee, Warrior, Alabama, and Coosa Rivers, within the State of Alabama”, approved May 26, 1928 June 20, 1936 1542 *Restricted Indians, relief.* AN ACT To relieve restricted Indians whose lands have been taxed or have been lost by failure to pay taxes, and for other purposes June 20, 1936 1542 *Bridge, Mississippi River.* AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Gretna, Louisiana June 20, 1936 1542 *Crow Indians, Montana.* AN ACT To provide for the disposition of tribal funds now on deposit, or later placed to the credit of the Crow Tribe of Indians, Montana, and for other purposes June 20, 1936 1543xli *National Union Insurance Company.* AN ACT To amend the charter of the National Union Insurance Company of Washington in the District of Columbia June 20, 1936 1543 *Coastwise Load Line Act, 1935, amendment.* AN ACT To amend the Coastwise Load Line Act, 1935 June 20, 1936 1543 *Jicarilla Indian Reservation, N. Mex.* AN ACT To reserve certain public-domain lands in New Mexico as an addition to the school reserve of the Jicarilla Indian Reservation June 20, 1936 1544 *Inspection of steam vessels.* AN ACT To apply laws covering steam vessels to seagoing vessels of three hundred gross tons and over propelled by internal-combustion engines June 20, 1936 1544 *Quarters and subsistence, Army, etc.* AN ACT To amend the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the military and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, and for other purposes”, approved April 15, 1926, so as to equalize the allowances for quarters and subsistence of enlisted men of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps June 20, 1936 1545 *Government publications, printing, etc.* AN ACT To amend certain Acts relating to public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents and Acts amendatory thereof June 20, 1936 1545 *Alaska, agriculture.* AN ACT To extend the benefits of the Adams Act, the Purnell Act, and the Capper-Ketcham Act to the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes June 20, 1936 1553 *National Defense Act, amendment.* AN ACT To amend section 4b of the National Defense Act, as amended, relating to certain enlisted men of the Army June 20, 1936 1554 *Port of New Orleans, lease.* AN ACT To provide for the modification of the contract of lease entered into on June 12, 1922, between the United States and the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans June 20, 1936 1555 *Migratory Bird Treaty Act, amendment.* AN ACT To amend the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755), to extend and adapt its provisions to the convention between the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and game mammals concluded at the city of Mexico February 7, 1936, and for other purposes June 20, 1936 1555 *Swiss Confederation, coat of arms.* AN ACT To prohibit the commercial use of the coat of arms of the Swiss Confederation pursuant to the obligation of the Government of the United States under article 28 of the Red Cross Convention signed at Geneva July 27, 1929 June 20, 1936 1557 *Port Newark Army Base.* AN ACT To provide for the sale of the Port Newark Army Base to the city of Newark, New Jersey, and for other purposes June 20, 1936 1557 *South Carolina judicial districts.* AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act to divide the eastern district of South Carolina into four divisions and the western district into five divisions” by adding a new division to the eastern district and providing for terms of said court to be held at Orangeburg, South Carolina June 20, 1936 1558 *Blind persons.* AN ACT To authorize the operation of stands in Federal buildings by blind persons, to enlarge the economic opportunities of the blind, and for other purposes June 20, 1936 1559 *Georgia Middle Judicial District.* AN ACT To amend the Judicial Code to divide the middle district of Georgia into seven divisions by adding a new division to the middle district, and providing for terms of said court to be held at Thomasville, Georgia June 20, 1936 1561 *United States Courts, evidence.* AN ACT Relating to the admissibility in evidence of certain writings and records made in the regular course of business June 20, 1936 1561 *Kennebec River, Maine, flood control.* AN ACT To authorize a preliminary examination of the Kennebec River, Maine, and its tributaries, with a view to the control of their floods June 20, 1936 1564 *Six Mile Creek, Ark., flood control.* AN ACT To provide for a preliminary examination of Six Mile Creek in Logan County, Arkansas, with a view to flood control and to determine the cost of such improvement June 20, 1936 1565 *Allegheny and Susquehanna Rivers, Pa., flood control.* AN ACT To authorize a preliminary examination of the tributaries, sources, and headwaters of the Allegheny and Susquehanna Rivers in the State of Pennsylvania, where no examination and survey has heretofore been made, with a view to the control of their floods and the regulation and conservation of their waters June 20, 1936 1565 *Pulaski Memorial Day.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the President of the United States of America to proclaim October 11, 1936, General Pulaski’s Memorial Day for the observance and commemoration of the death of Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski June 20, 1936 1565 *Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, D. C.* JOINT RESOLUTION To ratify and confirm the appointment of Isaac Gans as a member of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board of the District of Columbia June 20, 1936 1566 *Agricultural income investigation, etc.* JOINT RESOLUTION To amend the joint resolution entitled “Joint resolution authorizing the Federal Trade Commission to make an investigation with respect to agricultural income and the financial and economic condition of agricultural producers generally”, approved August 27, 1935 June 20, 1936 1566xlii *World’s Poultry Congress.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to expend funds of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration for participation by the United States in the 1936 Sixth World’s Poultry Congress June 20, 1936 1568 *District of Columbia, legal holiday.* JOINT RESOLUTION To declare December 26, 1936, a legal holiday in the District of Columbia June 20, 1936 1568 *Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Mont.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing distribution to the Indians of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Montana, of the judgment rendered by the Court of Claims in their favor June 20, 1936 1568 *Fort Belknap Reservation, Mont.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing distribution to the Gros Ventre Indians of the Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana, of the judgment rendered by the Court of Claims in their favor June 20, 1936 1569 *Veterans’ Administration.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the Veterans’ Administration to prepare and publish a compilation of all Federal laws relating to veterans of wars of the United States June 20, 1936 1569 *Flood Control Act of 1936.* AN ACT Authorizing the construction of certain public works on rivers and harbors for flood control, and for other purposes June 22, 1936 1570 *Appropriations, first deficiency Act, 1936.* AN ACT Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1936, and June 30, 1937, and for other purposes June 22, 1936 1597 *Revenue Act of 1936.* AN ACT To provide revenue, equalize taxation, and for other purposes June 22, 1936 1648 *Appropriations, Interior Department, fiscal year 1937.* AN ACT Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes June 22, 1936 1757 *Indian irrigation projects.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to investigate and adjust irrigation charges on irrigation lands within projects on Indian reservations, and for other purposes June 22, 1936 1803 *Missouri judicial districts.* AN ACT To provide for the appointment of additional district judges for the eastern and western districts of Missouri June 22, 1936 1804 *Oklahoma judicial districts.* AN ACT To provide for the appointment of one additional district judge for the eastern, northern, and western districts of Oklahoma June 22, 1936 1804 *West Virginia judicial districts.* AN ACT To provide for the appointment of an additional district judge for the northern and southern districts of West Virginia June 22, 1936 1805 *Kentucky judicial districts.* AN ACT To appoint one additional judge of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky June 22, 1936 1806 *San Juan, etc., Rivers, surplus waters.* AN ACT To provide for an examination and survey to determine the best utilization of the surplus waters of the San Juan River and the Animas River and to determine the feasibility and cost of storing such waters and of diverting them to the Rio Chama and Rio Grande June 22, 1936 1806 *Walker River Indian Reservation, Nev.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to reserve certain lands on the public domain in Nevada for addition to the Walker River Indian Reservation June 22, 1936 1806 *Organic Act of the Virgin Islands.* AN ACT To provide a civil government for the Virgin Islands of the United States June 22, 1936 1807 *Glacier Bay National Monument, Alaska.* AN ACT To permit mining within the Glacier Bay National Monument June 22, 1936 1817 *Public lands, California.* AN ACT To withdraw certain public lands from settlement and entry June 22, 1936 1818 *Drainage, irrigation, etc., districts.* AN ACT To amend section 36 of the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act of 1933, as amended June 22, 1936 1818 *California, easement in Solano County.* AN ACT Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to convey a right-of-way over certain lands situated in Solano County, California, to the State of California for State highway purposes June 22, 1936 1819 *Frank Wideman.* AN ACT Limiting the operation of sections 109 and 113 of the Criminal Code and section 190 of the Revised Statutes of the United States with respect to counsel in certain cases June 22, 1936 1820 *Coast Guard jurisdiction.* AN ACT To define the jurisdiction of the Coast Guard June 22, 1936 1820 *National Archives.* AN ACT To amend section 8 of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a National Archives of the United States Government, and for other purposes”, approved June 19, 1934 June 22, 1936 1821 *Kentucky Eastern Judicial District.* AN ACT To provide an additional place of holding terms of the United States district court in the eastern district of Kentucky, and to amend section 83 of the Judicial Code, as amended June 22, 1936 1822 *San Carlos irrigation project, Ariz.* AN ACT To amend certain provisions of the Act of March 7, 1928 (45 Stat. L. 210–212) June 22, 1936 1822 *Lightship numbered 82.* AN ACT To provide for the transfer of the surplus decommissioned lightship numbered 82 to United States Ship Constitution Post, Numbered 3339, Veterans of Foreign Wars June 22, 1936 1823xliii *Clackamas County, Oreg.* AN ACT To convey certain lands to Clackamas County, Oregon, for public-park purposes June 22, 1936 1823 *Inaugural ceremonies, 1937, public order.* JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for the maintenance of public order and the protection of life and property in connection with the Presidential inaugural ceremonies in 1937 June 22, 1936 1824 *Inaugural ceremonies, 1937, permits.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the granting of permits to the Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies on the occasion of the inauguration of the President-elect in January 1937, and for other purposes June 22, 1936 1824 *Seventy-fifth Congress, date of meeting.* JOINT RESOLUTION Fixing the date of meeting of the Seventy-fifth Congress June 22, 1936 1826 *Chippewa Indians of Minnesota.* JOINT RESOLUTION To carry out the intention of Congress with reference to the claims of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota against the United States June 22, 1936 1826 *House of Representatives, contested election expenses.* JOINT RESOLUTION Making appropriations for the payment of expenses incurred in an election contest for a seat in the House of Representatives from the Twentieth Congressional District of the State of New York June 22, 1936 1827 *Appropriations, Treasury and Post Office Departments, fiscal year 1937.* AN ACT Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes June 23, 1936 1827 *Appropriations, District of Columbia, fiscal year 1937.* AN ACT Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of such District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes June 23, 1936 1854 *Fort Snelling, Minn.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of War to set apart as a national cemetery certain lands of the Fort Snelling Military Reservation, Minnesota June 23, 1936 1888 *Federal Bureau of Investigation.* AN ACT To extend the retirement privilege to the Director, Assistant Directors, inspectors, and special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation June 23, 1936 1888 *Vessels, inflammable, etc., liquid cargo.* AN ACT To extend the laws governing inspection of vessels, and for other purposes June 23, 1936 1889 *Puerto Rico, road construction.* AN ACT To extend the provisions of certain laws to the island of Puerto Rico June 23, 1936 1891 *Scappoose, Oreg.* AN ACT To authorize the purchase by the city of Scappoose, Oregon, of a certain tract of public land revested in the United States under the Act of June 9, 1916 (39 Stat. 218) June 23, 1936 1892 *Traffic conditions.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate and report on traffic conditions, with recommendations for corrective legislation June 23, 1936 1892 *Los Angeles, Calif., public lands.* AN ACT Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Interior to sell to the city of Los Angeles, California, certain public lands in California; and granting rights-of-way over public lands and reserve lands to the city of Los Angeles in Mono County in the State of California June 23, 1936 1892 *Library of Congress Trust Fund Board.* AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act to create a Library of Congress Trust Fund Board, and for other purposes”, approved March 3, 1925 June 23, 1936 1894 *Park, parkway, and recreational area programs.* AN ACT To authorize a study of the park, parkway, and recreational-area programs in the United States, and for other purposes June 23, 1936 1894 *“Gold Star Mother’s Day.”.* JOINT RESOLUTION Designating the last Sunday in September as “Gold Star Mother’s Day”, and for other purposes June 23, 1936 1895 *Haym Salomon memorial.* JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the erection of a memorial to the late Haym Salomon June 23, 1936 1895 *George Washington, writings of.* JOINT RESOLUTION Amending section 5 of Public Resolution Numbered 6, Seventy-fourth Congress, approved March 4, 1935 June 23, 1936 1896 *Division of Territories, etc., Interior Department.* JOINT RESOLUTION To provide certain administrative expenses for the Division of Territories, and Island Possessions, Department of Interior, and for other purposes June 23, 1936 1896 *American Embassy drafts.* AN ACT To provide for interest payments on American Embassy drafts June 24, 1936 1896 *Bridgeport Irrigation District.* AN ACT For the relief of the Bridgeport Irrigation District June 24, 1936 1897 *District of Columbia, trust companies.* AN ACT To amend section 641 of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia June 24, 1936 1898 *North Carolina Middle Judicial District.* AN ACT To provide for a term of court at Durham, North Carolina June 24, 1936 1898 *Peanuts.* AN ACT To provide for the collection and publication of statistics of peanuts by the Department of Agriculture June 24, 1936 1898 *Interstate transportation of strike breakers, etc.* AN ACT Making it a felony to transport in interstate or foreign commerce persons to be employed to obstruct or interfere with the right of peaceful picketing during labor controversies June 24, 1936 1899xliv *National Defense Act, amendment.* AN ACT To amend the Act of June 6, 1924, entitled “An Act to amend in certain particulars the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916, as amended, and for other purposes” June 24, 1936 1900 *Nevada, issue of duplicate check.* AN ACT For the relief of the State of Nevada June 24, 1936 1900 *District of Columbia, reckless driving.* AN ACT To amend the Act approved February 27, 1931, known as the District of Columbia Traffic Act June 24, 1936 1901 *Alameda, Calif., naval air station.* AN ACT To authorize the acquisition of lands in the city of Alameda, county of Alameda, State of California, as a site for a naval air station and to authorize the construction and installation of a naval air station thereon June 24, 1936 1901 *National Defense Act, amendment.* AN ACT To amend the National Defense Act relating to the Medical Administrative Corps June 24, 1936 1902 *Fort Moultrie, S. C.* AN ACT Authorizing and directing the Secretary of War to lease land on the Fort Moultrie (South Carolina) Military Reservation to the owners of certain cottages thereon June 24, 1936 1903 *United States courts, third circuit.* AN ACT Authorizing the appointment of an additional circuit judge for the third circuit June 24, 1936 1903 *Canal Zone Code, amendments.* AN ACT To amend the Canal Zone Code June 24, 1936 1903 *Army Air Corps.* AN ACT To provide more effectively for the national defense by further increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the Air Corps of the Army of the United States June 24, 1936 1907 *Orland reclamation project, Calif.* AN ACT For the relief of the Orland reclamation project, California June 24, 1936 1907 *United States Court for China, jurisdiction.* AN ACT To extend the jurisdiction of the United States Court for China to offenses committed on the high seas June 24, 1936 1909 *Pensions.* AN ACT To increase the pension to certain veterans of the Regular Establishment on the rolls March 19, 1933 June 24, 1936 1910 *North Carolina Eastern Judicial District.* AN ACT To amend the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the times and places for holding court for the eastern district of North Carolina”, approved May 10, 1928, as amended (U S. C., 1934 edition, title 28, sec 179; U. S. C., Supp I, title 28, sec 179) June 24, 1936 1910 *Roanoke Island, N. C.* AN ACT To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Sir Walter Raleigh’s colony on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, known in history as the Lost Colony, and the birth of Virginia Dare, the first child of English parentage to be born on the American continent June 24, 1936 1911 *Grand Haven Lighthouse Reservation, Mich.* AN ACT To amend the Act of Congress approved May 27, 1935 (Public, Numbered 73, Seventy-fourth Congress), authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to convey to the city of Grand Haven, Michigan, certain portions of the Grand Haven Lighthouse Reservation, Michigan June 24, 1936 1911 *Federal land banks, etc.* AN ACT To amend the Federal Farm Loan Act and the Farm Credit Act of 1935, and for other purposes June 24, 1936 1912 *Grasshoppers.* JOINT RESOLUTION To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to apply such methods of control of grasshoppers as in his judgment may be necessary June 24, 1936 1912 *Pocatello, Idaho.* JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the establishment of a game management supply depot and laboratory, and for other purposes June 24, 1936 1913 *San Francisco, Calif., causeway, etc.* JOINT RESOLUTION Granting the consent of Congress to the city and county of San Francisco to construct a causeway and highways on Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay, and for other purposes June 24, 1936 1913 *Agricultural implements and machinery.* JOINT RESOLUTION To investigate corporations engaged in the manufacture, sale, or distribution of agricultural implements and machinery June 24, 1936 1914 *Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, amendment.* JOINT RESOLUTION Amending section 11 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act June 24, 1936 1915 *Battle of Antietam.* JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for the participation of the United States in the commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Battle of Antietam June 24, 1936 1916 *Battle of Gettysburg.* JOINT RESOLUTION For the establishment of a commission in commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1938 June 24, 1936 1916 *Citizenship.* AN ACT To repatriate native-born women who have heretofore lost their citizenship by marriage to an alien, and for other purposes June 25, 1936 1917 *District of Columbia, boiler inspection.* AN ACT To provide for the inspection, control, and regulation of steam boilers and unfired pressure vessels in the District of Columbia June 25, 1936 1917 *Port of New York Authority.* AN ACT To provide for the entry under bond of exhibits of arts, sciences, and industries, and products of the soil, mine, and sea, and all other exhibits for exposition purposes June 25, 1936 1920 *District of Columbia, Supreme Court.* AN ACT To amend an Act of Congress approved March 3, 1863, entitled “An Act to reorganize the courts in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes” June 25, 1936 1921xlv *Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission.* AN ACT Authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain lands to the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, of Maryland, for park, parkway, and playground purposes June 25, 1936 1921 *Range Livestock Experiment Station, Mont.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to extend and renew for the term of ten years a lease to the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company of a tract of land in the United States Department of Agriculture Range Livestock Experiment Station, in the State of Montana, and for a right-of-way to said tract, for the removal of gravel and ballast material, executed under the authority of the Act of Congress approved June 9, 1926 June 25, 1936 1922 *Ice patrol in North Atlantic Ocean.* AN ACT To promote safety at sea in the neighborhood of ice and derelicts, and for other purposes June 25, 1936 1922 *Coast Guard.* AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act to distribute the commissioned line and engineer officers of the Coast Guard in grades, and for other purposes”, approved January 12, 1923 June 25, 1936 1924 *Lawrence County, Ala.* AN ACT To quiet title and possession with respect to certain lands in Lawrence County, Alabama June 25, 1936 1924 *Agricultural Adjustment Act, contracts.* AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make such adjustments and revisions found to be due on contracts entered into by the Government with crop producers under the Agricultural Adjustment Act June 25, 1936 1925 *Naturalization, residence requirements.* AN ACT To amend the naturalization laws in respect of residence requirements, and for other purposes June 25, 1936 1925 *Naval construction under treaty categories.* AN ACT To amend section 3
(b)of an Act entitled “An Act to establish the composition of the United States Navy with respect to the categories of vessels limited by the treaties signed at Washington, February 6, 1922, and at London, April 22, 1930, at the limits prescribed by those treaties; to authorize the construction of certain naval vessels; and for other purposes”, approved March 27, 1934 June 25, 1936 1926 *Shreveport, La., centennial.* AN ACT To authorize the striking of an appropriate medal in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the city of Shreveport, Louisiana, and the opening of the Red River of the West to navigation June 25, 1936 1927 *Indian trust funds.* AN ACT To modify section 20 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934, with reference to individual Indian money June 25, 1936 1928 *Liquor Enforcement Act of 1936.* AN ACT To enforce the twenty-first amendment June 25, 1936 1928 *Merchant marine, crews, etc.* AN ACT To amend section 13 of the Act of March 4, 1915, entitled “An Act to promote the welfare of American seamen in the merchant marine of the United States; to abolish arrest and imprisonment as a penalty for desertion and to secure the abrogation of treaty provisions in relation thereto; and to promote safety at sea”; to maintain discipline on shipboard; and for other purposes June 25, 1936 1930 *Minnesota, public lands.* AN ACT To authorize the sale and conveyance by the Department of the Interior to the State of Minnesota of the southwest quarter northwest quarter section 3, township 159 north, range 35 west, fifth principal meridian, in the State of Minnesota June 25, 1936 1937 *Lackawanna River, Pa., flood control.* AN ACT To authorize a preliminary examination of the Lackawanna River with a view to the control of its flood June 25, 1936 1937 *Penobscot River, Maine, flood control.* AN ACT To authorize a preliminary examination of the Penobscot River, Maine, and its tributaries, with a view to the control of their floods June 25, 1936 1937 *Androscoggin River, flood control.* AN ACT To authorize a preliminary examination of the Androscoggin River, in Maine and New Hampshire, and its tributaries, with a view to the control of their floods June 25, 1936 1938 *Big Sandy River, Levisa Fork, flood control.* AN ACT Authorizing a preliminary examination of the Levisa Fork of Big Sandy River in the vicinity of the Breaks of Sandy June 25, 1936 1938 *Federal projects, etc.* AN ACT To provide more adequate protection to workmen and laborers on projects, buildings, constructions, improvements, and property wherever situated, belonging to the United States of America, by granting to the several States jurisdiction and authority to apply their State workmen’s compensation laws on all property and premises belonging to the United States of America June 25, 1936 1938 *Liquor Tax Administration Act.* AN ACT To insure the collection of the revenue on distilled spirits, wines, and malt liquors, to provide for the more efficient and economical administration and enforcement of the laws relating to the taxation of distilled spirits, wines, and malt liquors, to amend the Federal Alcohol Administration Act, and for other purposes June 26, 1936 1939 *Indians of Oklahoma, lands.* AN ACT To promote the general welfare of the Indians of the State of Oklahoma, and for other purposes June 26, 1936 1967 *Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1935, amendment.* AN ACT To amend section 23 of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1935 June 26, 1936 1969xlvi *Bankruptcy Act, 1898, amendment.* AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States”, approved July 1, 1898, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto June 26, 1936 1969 *Oregon, public lands.* AN ACT To provide for the sale of a certain isolated tract of the public domain in the State of Oregon June 26, 1936 1972 *San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.* AN ACT To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in celebration of the opening of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge June 26, 1936 1972 *General Land Office.* AN ACT Authorizing the payment of certain salaries and expenses of employees of the General Land Office June 26, 1936 1973 *York County, Maine, tercentenary.* AN ACT To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the three-hundredth anniversary of the founding of York County, Maine June 26, 1936 1973 *Norfolk, Va.* AN ACT To authorize the striking of an appropriate medal in commemoration of the three-hundredth anniversary of the original Norfolk (Virginia) land grant and the two-hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the city of Norfolk, Virginia, as a borough June 26, 1936 1974 *National Defense Act, amendment.* AN ACT To provide a commissioned strength for the Corps of Engineers, United States Army, for the efficient performance of military and other statutory duties assigned to that corps June 26, 1936 1974 *Battle of Eutaw Springs, S. C.* AN ACT To provide for the commemoration of the Battle of Eutaw Springs, in the State of South Carolina June 26, 1936 1975 *Clear Lake Watershed, Calif.* AN ACT To provide for an investigation to determine whether the water rights of the United States have been violated in the Clear Lake Watershed, California, and for other purposes June 26, 1936 1975 *Overgrazing and soil deterioration.* AN ACT To amend the Act entitled “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”, approved June 28, 1934 (48 Stat. 1269) June 26, 1936 1976 *Hot Springs, Ark.* AN ACT Increasing the penalty for making false oaths for the purpose of bathing at the Government free bathhouse at Hot Springs, Arkansas June 26, 1936 1979 *Fort Pulaski National Monument, Ga.* AN ACT To extend the boundaries of the Fort Pulaski National Monument, Georgia, and for other purposes June 26, 1936 1979 *Whitman centennial.* AN ACT To authorize the striking of an appropriate medal in commemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the arrival of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman in the Walla Walla Valley, Washington, and the founding of the Waiilatpu Mission June 26, 1936 1980 *Arkansas centennial.* AN ACT Providing for a change in the design of the 50-cent pieces authorized to be coined in commemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the admission of the State of Arkansas into the Union June 26, 1936 1981 *Intracoastal Waterway, Fla., flood control.* AN ACT Authorizing a preliminary examination of the Intracoastal Waterway throughout Broward County, Florida June 26, 1936 1981 *Adjusted Compensation Payment Act, 1936, amendment.* AN ACT To eliminate unnecessary expense in the administration of estates of deceased and incompetent veterans, and for other purposes June 26, 1936 1982 *Beaches, improvements, etc.* AN ACT For the improvement and protection of the beaches along the shores of the United States June 26, 1936 1982 *Cooperative marketing associations.* JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for an inquiry by the Court of Claims with respect to losses sustained by cooperative marketing associations in connection with stabilization activities in grain June 26, 1936 1983 *Indians, attorneys.* JOINT RESOLUTION To define the term of certain contracts with Indian tribes June 26, 1936 1984 *Settlement of War Claims Act, amendment.* JOINT RESOLUTION Extending for two years the time within which American claimants may make application for payment, under the Settlement of War Claims Act of 1928, of awards of the Mixed Claims Commission and the Tripartite Claims Commission, and extending until March 10, 1938, the time within which Hungarian claimants may make application for payment, under the-Settlement of War Claims Act of 1928, of awards of the War Claims Arbiter June 26, 1936 1984 *Merchant Marine Act, 1936.* AN ACT To further the development and maintenance of an adequate and well-balanced American merchant marine, to promote the commerce of the United States, to aid in the national defense, to repeal certain former legislation, and for other purposes June 29, 1936 1985 *Alaska Railroad, employees.* AN ACT For the retirement of employees of the Alaska Railroad, Territory of Alaska, who are citizens of the United States June 29, 1936 2017 *Public Works Administration, housing and slum-clearance projects.* AN ACT To waive any exclusive jurisdiction over premises of Public Works Administration slum-clearance and low-cost housing projects, to authorize payments to States and political subdivisions in lieu of taxes on such premises, and for other purposes June 29, 1936 2025 *California, public lands.* AN ACT To provide for the selection of certain lands in the State of California for the use of the California State park system June 29, 1936 2026xlvii *California, public lands.* AN ACT To provide for the selection of certain lands in the State of California for the use of the California State park system June 29, 1936 2027 *Whitman National Monument, Wash.* AN ACT To provide for the establishment of the Whitman National Monument June 29, 1936 2028 *Fort Marion National Monument, Fla.* AN ACT To authorize the adjustment of the boundary of the Fort Marion National Monument, Florida, in the vicinity of Fort Marion Circle, and for other purposes June 29, 1936 2029 *Revenue Act of 1932, amendment.* AN ACT To amend section 723
(a)of the Revenue Act of 1932, as amended June 29, 1936 2029 *Lake Saint Clair, Mich., Coast Guard station.* AN ACT To provide for the establishment of a Coast Guard station on Lake Saint Clair, Michigan June 29, 1936 2031 *World War Veterans.* AN ACT To liberalize the provisions of Public Law Numbered 484, Seventy-third Congress, to effect uniform provisions in laws administered by the Veterans’ Administration, to extend the Employees’ Compensation Act with limitations to certain World War Veterans and other persons, and for other purposes June 29, 1936 2031 *Resettlement or rural-rehabilitation projects.* AN ACT To waive any exclusive jurisdiction over premises of resettlement or rural-rehabilitation projects; to authorize payments to States, political subdivisions, and local taxing units in lieu of taxes on such premises; and for other purposes June 29, 1936 2035 *Government contracts.* AN ACT To provide conditions for the purchase of supplies and the making of contracts by the United States, and for other purposes June 30, 1936 2036 *War Minerals Relief Act, amendment.* AN ACT To amend section 5 of the Act of March 2, 1919, generally known as the “War Minerals Relief Act” June 30, 1936 2040 *Blue Ridge Parkway, Va. and S. C.* AN ACT To provide for the administration and maintenance of the Blue Ridge Parkway, in the States of Virginia and North Carolina, by the Secretary of the Interior, and for other purposes June 30, 1936 2041 *Congressional investigations.* AN ACT To clarify section 104 of the Revised Statutes (U S. C., title II, sec 194) July 13, 1936 2041 PUBLIC LAWS OF THE SEVENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA *Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Thursday, the third day of January, 1935, and was adjourned without day on Monday, the twenty-sixth day of August, 1935.* Franklin D. Roosevelt, President; John N. Garner, Vice President; Key Pittman, President of the Senate *pro tempore;* Joseph W. Byrns, Speaker of the House of Representatives. To clarify the definition of disagreement in section 19, World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, as amended. 1935-01-28 1 Chapter 49 Stat. 1 74 1 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 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 1.] JOINT RESOLUTION To clarify the definition of disagreement in section 19, World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, as amended. January 28, 1935.[[H. J. Res. 112](/us/bill/74/hjres/112).][[Pub. Res., No. l](/us/bill/74/pubres/1).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a denial of a claimWorld War Veterans’ Act, amended.Denial of an insurance claim to constitute a disagreement.Vol. 43, pp. 612, 1302; Vol. 45, p. 964; Vol. 46, p. 992.[U. S. C., p. 1662; Supp. I, p. 229](/us/usc//1662229). for insurance by the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs or any employee or agency of the Veterans’ Administration heretofore or hereafter designated therefor by the Administrator shall constitute a disagreement for the purposes of section 19 of the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, as amended (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 38, sec. 445). This resolution is made effective as of July 3, 1930, and shall apply to all suits now pending against the United States under the provisions of section 19 of the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924,Reinstatement of suits. as amended, and any suit which has been dismissed solely on the ground that a denial as described in this resolution did not constitute a disagreement as defined by section 19 may be reinstated within three months from the date of enactment of this resolution. Approved, January 28, 1935. To extend the functions of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for two years, and for other purposes. 1935-01-31 2 Chapter 49 Stat. 1 74 1 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 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 2.] AN ACT To extend the functions of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for two years, and for other purposes. January 31, 1935.[[H. R. 1175](/us/bill/74/s/1175).][[Public, No. 1](/us/pl/74/1).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That until FebruaryReconstruction Finance Corporation.Authority to function continued.Vol. 47, p. 5; Vol. 48, p. 318. 1, 1937, or such earlier date as the President may fix by proclamation, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is hereby authorized to continue to perform all functions which it is authorized to perform under law, and the liquidation and winding up of its affairs as provided for by section 13 of the ReconstructionVol. 47, p. 10; [U. S. C., p. 580](/us/usc/p580). Finance Corporation Act, as amended, are hereby postponed during the period that the functions of the Corporation are continued pursuant to this Act: *Provided*, That no officer or employee of the*Proviso*.Salaries, officers and employees. Reconstruction Finance Corporation shall receive salary at a rate in excess of $10,000 per annum, except that in the case of any position the salary of which at the date of the enactment of this Act is at the rate of $12,500 per annum such salary may continue at such rate. 1 2 Sec. 2. Vol.48, pp. 1108, 1110.*Post*, p. 4.
(a)Except as provided in section 5d of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, as amended by section 10 hereof, and in section 9 of an Act entitled “An Act relating to direct loans for industrial purposes by Federal Reserve banks, and for other Restriction on disbursement of funds; commitments hereafter made.purposes”, approved June 19, 1934, no funds shall be disbursed on any commitment or agreement hereafter made by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to make a loan or advance, subscribe for stock, or purchase capital notes or debentures, after the expiration of one year from the date of such commitment or agreement; but within the period of such one year limitation no provision of law terminating any of the functions of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation shall be construed to prohibit disbursement of funds on commitments or agreements to make loans or advances, subscribe for preferred stock, or purchase capital notes or debentures.
(b)Commitments heretofore made. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, disbursement may be made at any time prior to January 31, 1936, on any commitment or agreement heretofore made by the Corporation to make a loan or advance, subscribe for preferred stock, or purchase capital notes or debentures. Sec. 3. Loans; periods of. Notwithstanding any other provision of law limiting the maturity of obligations taken by it to shorter periods, the Renewals or extensions.Reconstruction Finance Corporation may make loans or advances or renewals or extensions thereof to authorized borrowers or by other Final maturity date.suitable agreement permit them to run so as to mature at such time or times as the Corporation may determine, not later than January *Proviso*.Railroad loans, etc.Vol. 47, pp. 6, 714.[U. S. C., p. 573](/us/usc/p573).31, 1945: *Provided*, That in respect of loans or renewals or extensions of loans or purchases of obligations under section 5 of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, as heretofore and herein amended (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 15, ch. 14), to or of railroads, the Corporation may require as a condition or making any such loan or renewal or extension for a period longer than five years, or purchasing any such obligation maturing later than five years Amortization provision.from the date of purchase by the Corporation, that such arrangements be made for the reduction or amortization of the indebtedness of the railroad, either in whole or in part, as may be approved by the Corporation after the prior approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Sec. 4. Vol. 47, p. 6; U. S. C., p. 573.
(a)Section 5 of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, as amended (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 15, ch. 14), is further amended by striking out all of the third sentence of the third paragraph thereof through the first colon and inserting in lieu thereof Obligations of railroads engaged in interstate commerce.the following: “Within the foregoing limitations of this section, the Corporation, notwithstanding any limitation of law as to maturity, with the approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Purchase or guarantee by Corporation.including approval of the price to be paid, may, to aid in the financing, reorganization, consolidation, maintenance, or construction thereof, purchase for itself, or for account of a railroad obligated thereon, the obligations of railroads engaged in interstate commerce, including equipment trust certificates, or guarantee the payment of the principal of, and/or interest on, such obligations, including equipment trust certificates, or, when, in the opinion of the Corporation, funds loans authorized.are not available on reasonable terms through private channels, make loans, upon full and adequate security, to such railroads or to receivers or trustees thereof for the purposes aforesaid: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Certificate required.That in the case of loans to or the purchase or guarantee of obligations, including equipment trust certificates, of railroads not in receivership or trusteeship, the Interstate Commerce Commission shall, in connection with its approval thereof, also certify that such railroad, on the basis of present and prospective earnings, may reasonably3 be expected to meet its fixed charges, without a reduction thereof through judicial reorganization, except that such certificate shall not be required in case of such loans made for the maintenance of, or purchase of equipment for, such railroads: *And provided further*, ThatGuaranties to be interpreted as loans. for the purpose of determining the general funds of the Corporation available for further loans or commitments, such guaranties shall, to the extent of the principal amount of the obligations guaranteed, be interpreted as loans or commitments for loans: *Provided further*,Aggregate amount of loans. That the total amount of loans and commitments to railroads, receivers, and trustees, and purchases and guaranties of obligations of railroads, under this paragraph, as amended, shall not exceed at any one time $350,000,000, in addition to loans and commitments made prior to the date of enactment of this Act and renewals of loans and commitments so made:”
(b)Section 5 of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, asRailroad reorganization.Provision repealed.Vol. 48, p. 121; [U. S. C., p. 573](/us/usc/p573). amended (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 15, ch. 14), is further amended by striking out at the end of the third paragraph thereof the colon and the following: “*Provided further*, That the Corporation may make said loans to trustees of railroads which proceed to reorganize under section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act of March 3, 1933”, and inserting in lieu thereof a period. Sec. 5. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, as amendedVol. 48, p. 1109. (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 15, ch. 14), is further amended by inserting after section 5b thereof the following new section: " “Sec. 5c. To assist in the reestablishment of a normal mortgageLoans to mortgage associations upon nonassessable stock. market, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation may, with the approval of the President, subscribe for or make loans upon the nonassessable stock of any class of any national mortgage association organized under Title III of the National Housing Act and of anyVol. 48, p. 1252. mortgage loan company, trust company, savings and loan association, or other similar financial institution, now or hereafter incorporatedTo other loan companies. under the laws of the United States, or of any State, or of the District of Columbia, the principal business of which institution is that of making loans upon mortgages, deeds of trust, or other instruments conveying, or constituting a lien upon, real estate orPurchase of capital notes or debentures. any interest therein. In any case in which, under the laws of its incorporation, such financial institution is not permitted to issue nonassessable stock, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is authorized, for the purposes of this section, to purchase the legally issued capital notes or debentures of such financial institutions. The totalAggregate amount of loans. face amount of loans outstanding, nonassessable stock subscribed for, and capital notes and debentures purchased and held by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, under this section, shall not exceed at any one time $100,000,000. Notwithstanding any otherDisposal of securities acquired. provision of law, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation may, under such rules and regulations as it may prescribe (which regulations shall include at least sixty days’ notice of any proposed sale to the issuer or maker), sell, at public or private sale, the whole or any part of the stock, capital notes, or debentures acquired by the Corporation pursuant to this section, and the preferred stock, capital notes, or debentures acquired pursuant to any other provision of law. TheAmount of outstanding obligations increased. amount of notes, bonds, debentures, and other such obligations which the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is authorized and empowered to issue and to have outstanding at any one time under existing law is hereby increased by an amount sufficient to carry out the provisions of this section.” " Sec. 6. Section 5e
(a)of the Reconstruction Finance CorporationLoans or purchases of assets of closed banks.Vol. 48, p. 971. Act, as amended, is amended
(1)by inserting in the first sentence thereof after the words “the assets” and before the words “of any4 bank”, the following: “, or any portion thereof,”; and
(2)by inserting in the second sentence thereof after the words “such assets” and before the words “held for the benefit” the following: “, or any portion thereof,”. Sec. 7. Commodity Credit Corporation, continuation. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, Commodity Credit Corporation, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware as an agency of the United States pursuant to the Executive order of the President of October 16, 1933, shall continue, until April 1, 1937, or such earlier date as may be fixed by the President by Executive order, to be an agency of the United States. Investment in capital stock.During the continuance of such agency, the Secretary of Agriculture and the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration are authorized and directed to continue, for the use and benefit of the United States, the present investment in the capital stock of Commodity Credit Assets, use of.Corporation, and the corporation is hereby authorized to use all its assets, including capital and net earnings therefrom, and all moneys which have been or may hereafter be allocated to or borrowed by it, in the exercise of its functions as such agency, including the making of loans on agricultural commodities. Sec. 8. Insurance companies.Amount for investments in, increased.Vol. 43, p. 119; [U. S. C., p. 576](/us/usc/p576). Section 1 of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to subscribe for preferred stock and purchase the capital notes of insurance companies, and for other purposes”, approved June 10, 1933, as amended (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 15, ch. 14, sec. 605e), is amended by striking from the last sentence thereof “$50,000,000” and inserting in lieu thereof “$75,000,000”. Sec. 9. Export-Import Banks.Continuation as United States agencies. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Export-Import Bank of Washington, and the Second Export-Import Bank of Washington, District of Columbia, banking corporations organized under the laws of the District of Columbia as agencies of the United States, pursuant to Executive orders of the President, shall continue, until June 16, 1937, or such earlier date as may be fixed by the President by Executive order, to be agencies of the United States, and in Powers.addition to existing charter powers, and without limitation as to the total amount of obligations thereto of any borrower, endorser, acceptor, obligor, or guarantor at any time outstanding, said banking corporations are hereby authorized and empowered to discount notes, drafts, bills of exchange, and other evidences of debt for the purpose of aiding in the financing and facilitating exports and imports and the exchange of commodities between the United States and any of its territories and insular possessions and any foreign country or the agencies or nationals thereof, and, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, to borrow money and rediscount notes, drafts, bills of exchange, and other evidences of debt for the purposes aforesaid. Investments.During the continuance of such agencies, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Commerce are authorized and directed to continue, for the use and benefit of the United States, the present investment in the capital stock of said banking corporations, and they are hereby Assets, use of.authorized to use all of their assets, including capital and net earnings therefrom, except such earnings as may be required from time to time to pay dividends upon their preferred capital stock, and to use all moneys which have been or may hereafter be allocated to or borrowed by them, in the exercise of their functions as such agencies. Sec. 10. Industrial, eta. loans.Vol. 48, p. 1108. Section 5d of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, as amended (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 15, ch. 14), is amended
(1)by striking out all of the first sentence thereof after the word “industry” and the remainder of the first paragraph, and inserting in lieu thereof the following: " Financing sale of electrical, plumbing, etc., appliances. “, and to any institution, now or hereafter established, financing principally the sale of electrical, plumbing or air conditioning appliances5 or equipment or other household appliances, both urban and rural. Such loans shall, in the opinion of the board of directorsSecurity. of the Corporation, be so secured as reasonably to assure repayment of the loans, may be made directly, or in cooperation with banks or other lending institutions, or by the purchase of participations, shall mature not later than January 31, 1945, shall be madeConditions. only when deemed to offer reasonable assurance of continued or increased employment of labor, shall be made only when, in the opinion of the board of directors of the Corporation, the borrower is solvent, shall not exceed $300,000,000 in aggregate amount at any one time outstanding, and shall be subject to such terms, conditions, and restrictions as the board of directors of the Corporation may determine.”; " and
(2)by striking out from the second paragraph thereof the figuresLoan-making power extended to 1937.Vol. 48, p. 1109. “1935” wherever they appear herein, and inserting in lieu thereof the figures “1937”. Sec. 11. In all cases where the Reconstruction Finance CorporationEmergency Relief and Construction Act.Vol. 47, p. 711.Substitution of bonds. shall hold any bonds or other evidences of indebtedness of any borrower under section 201
(a)of the Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932, whether heretofore or hereafter acquired, and such borrower shall be able and willing to substitute or cause to be substituted therefor any other bonds or other evidences of indebtedness, whether of the same or longer maturities or otherwise differing, which, in the judgment of said Reconstruction Finance Corporation, are more desirable than those so held, the said Reconstruction Finance Corporation is authorized to accept such bonds or other evidences of indebtedness, in exchange and substitution for such bonds or otherTerms and conditions. evidences of indebtedness so held by it, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon with such borrower at the time of, or in contemplation of, such exchange and substitution. Sec. 12. Section 14 of an Act entitled “An Act relating to directVol. 48, p. 1112. loans for industrial purposes by Federal Reserve banks, and for other purposes”, approved June 19, 1934 (Public, Numbered 417, Seventy-third Congress), is amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 14. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation is authorizedLoans to milling and smelting industries.Security. and empowered to make loans upon sufficient security to recognized and established corporations, individuals, and partnerships engaged in the business of mining, milling, or smelting ores. The ReconstructionDeveloping ore, etc., bodies. Finance Corporation is authorized and empowered also to make loans to corporations, individuals, and partnerships engaged in the development of a quartz ledge, or vein, or other ore body, or placer deposit, containing gold, silver, or tin, or gold and silver, when, in the opinion of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, there is sufficient reason to believe that, through the use of such loan in the development of a lode, ledge, or vein, or mineral deposit, or placer gravel deposit, there will be developed a sufficient quantity of ore, or placer deposits of a sufficient value to pay a profit upon mining operations: *Provided*, That not to exceed $20,000 shall be loaned to*Proviso*.Maximum loan. any corporation, individual, or partnership, for such development purposes: *Provided further*, That there shall not be allocated or madeAggregate amount. available for such development loans a sum in excess of $10,000,000.” " Sec. 13. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the ReconstructionUse as general funds, sale receipts, etc. Finance Corporation is authorized and empowered to use as general funds all receipts arising from the sale or retirement of any of the stock, notes, bonds, or other securities acquired by it pursuant to any provision of law. Approved, January 31, 1935. Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and for other purposes. 1935-02-02 3 Chapter 49 Stat. 6 74 1 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 2025-01-07 public 6 [CHAPTER 3.] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, and for other purposes. February 2, 1935.[[H. R. 3410](/us/bill/74/hr/3410).][
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