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(/us/pl/74/151).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Printing Act of 1895, amendment.Vol. 28, p. 624; [U. S. C., p. 1943](/us/usc/p1943). That chapter 23 of the Printing Act, approved January 12, 1895, as amended (U. S. C., title 44, ch. 7), be and is hereby, amended by adding a new section as follows: " “Sec. . The National Archives.Publications to be supplied by Public Printer. That there shall be printed and delivered by the Public Printer to The National Archives for official use which shall be chargeable to Congress two copies each of the following publications:

“House documents and public reports, bound; Senate documents and public reports, bound; Senate and House journals, bound; United States Code and Supplements, bound; Statutes at Large, bound; Official Register of the United States, bound; Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, bound; and all other documents bearing a congressional number, and all documents not bearing a congressional number printed upon order of any committee in either House of Congress, or by order of any department, bureau, independent office or establishment, commission, or officer of the Government except confidential matter, blank forms, and circular letters not of a public character; and two copies each of all public bills and resolutions in Congress in each parliamentary stage.

By Superintendent of Documents.“The Superintendent of Documents shall furnish without cost copies of such publications as may be available for free distribution.”" Approved, June 17, 1935. Providing for extension of cooperative work of the Geological Survey to Puerto Rico. 1935-06-17 268 Chapter 49 Stat. 386 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 268.] JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for extension of cooperative work of the Geological Survey to Puerto Rico. June 17, 1935.[[H. J. Res. 27](/us/bill/74/hjres/27).][[Pub. Res., No. 29](/us/bill/74/pubres/29).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Puerto Rico.Geological surveys, investigations, etc., in.[U. S. C., p. 1825](/us/usc/p1825). That the provisions of law authorizing the making of topographic and geological surveys and conducting investigations relating to mineral and water resources by the United States Geological Survey in various portions of the United States be, and the same are hereby, extended to authorize such surveys and investigations in Puerto Rico.

Approved, June 17, 1935. Authorizing the erection of a memorial to the late Jean Jules Jusserand. 1935-06-17 269 Chapter 49 Stat. 386 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 269.] JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the erection of a memorial to the late Jean Jules Jusserand. June 17, 1935.[[H.

J. Res. 204](/us/bill/74/hjres/204).][[Pub. Res., No. 30](/us/bill/74/pubres/30).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Jean Jules Jusserand.Memorial in city of Washington authorized. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to grant permission for the erection on public grounds of the United States in the city of Washington, other than those of the Capitol, the Library of Congress, and the White House, of a memorial of simple and artistic form to the late Jean Jules Jusserand, by his friends in America in memory and esteem of his fine friendship for the United States and its people during the twenty-two years of his *Proviso*.Approval of site.service in Washington: *Provided*, That the site chosen and the design of the memorial shall have the approval of the National No Federal expense.Commission of Fine Arts, and that the United States shall be put to no expense in or by the erection of the said memorial.

Approved, June 17, 1935. 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. 1935-06-17 270 Chapter 49 Stat. 387 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 387 [CHAPTER 270.] 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.[[H. J. Res. 285](/us/bill/74/hjres/285).][[Pub. Res., No. 31](/us/bill/74/pubres/31).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That alien Boy ScoutNational Boy Scout Jamboree, 1935.Temporary entry of alien participants.*Post*, p. 1167. participants, Boy Scout Officials, and Boy Scout Executives who are accredited members of delegations to the National Boy Scout Jamboree to be held in the United States in 1935, all of whom are nonimmigrants, if otherwise admissible into the United States under the immigration laws, shall be exempted from the payment of theExempted from tax.Vol. 39, p. 875; [U.

S. C., p. 185](/us/usc/p185). tax of $8 prescribed by section 2 of the Immigration Act of 1917, and exempted from the fees prescribed by law to be collected in connection with executing an application for a visa and visaing the passport or other travel document of an alien for the purpose ofPassports. entering the United States as a nonimmigrant, and such aliens shall not be required to present official passports issued by the governments to which they owe allegiance: *Provided*, That aliens shall be in possession*Proviso*.Identification required. of official Boy Scout identity cards issued by their own government or issued by the International Committee of the Boy Scouts indicating their Boy Scout status and nationality, and duly visaed without charge by American consular officers abroad: *And provided further*, That such aliens shall comply with regulations not inconsistentCompliance with prescribed regulations. with the foregoing provisions which shall be prescribed by the Secretary of Labor and Secretary of State: *Provided, however*, That nothing herein shall relieve an alien from being required toVisa requirements. obtain a gratis non immigration visa if coming to the United States as a nonimmigrant, or an immigration visa if coming to the United States as an immigrant.

Sec. 2. That such aliens shall be permitted the free entry of theirFree entry of personal effects. personal effects and their equipment to be used in connection with the National Boy Scout Jamboree, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Approved, June 17, 1935. Authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to pay necessary expenses of assemblages of the 4-H Clubs, and for other purposes. 1935-06-17 271 Chapter 49 Stat. 387 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 271.] 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.[[H. J. Res. 288](/us/bill/74/hjres/288).][Pub. Res., No. 32.] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That nothing4-H Club assemblages.Payment of necessary expenses of, permitted.*Ante*, p. 19, waived. contained in the Act of February 2, 1935 (Public Resolution Numbered 2, Seventy-fourth Congress), shall be construed to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from paying the necessary expenses for assemblages of the 4-H Boys and Girls Clubs, called by the Secretary of Agriculture in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, in the furtherance of the cooperative extension work of the Department.

Approved, June 17, 1935. 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. 1935-06-19 275 Chapter 49 Stat. 388 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 388 [CHAPTER 275.] 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.[[H. R. 2756](/us/bill/74/hr/2756).][[Public, No. 152](/us/pl/74/152).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska.

That for the purposes of this Act the Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska shall be defined to be all those Indians of the whole or mixed blood of the Tlingit and Haida Tribes who are residing in Russian America, now called the Territory of Alaska, in the region known and described as southeastern Alaska, lying east of the one hundred and forty-first meridian. Sec. 2. Claims of, may be submitted to Court of Claims. All claims of whatever nature, legal or equitable, which the said Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska may have, or claim to have, against the United States, for lands or other tribal or community property rights, taken from them by the United States without compensation therefor, or for the failure or refusal of the United States to compensate them for said lands or other tribal or community property rights, claimed to be owned by said Indians, and which the United States appropriated to its own uses and purposes without the consent of said Indians, or for the failure or refusal of the United States to protect their interests in lands or other tribal or community property in Alaska, and for loss of use of the same, at the time of the purchase of the said Russian America, now Alaska, from Russia, or at any time since that date and prior to the passage and approval of this Act, shall be submitted to the said Court of Claims by said Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska Settlement and determination of amounts due.for the settlement and determination of the equitable and just value thereof, and the amount equitably and justly due to said Indians from the United States therefor; and the loss to said Indians of their right, title, or interest, arising from occupancy and use, in lands or other tribal or community property, without just compensation therefor, shall be held sufficient ground for relief hereunder;

Jurisdiction conferred.and jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon said Court to hear such claims and to render judgment and decree thereon for such sum as said court shall find to be equitable and just for the reasonable value of their said property, if any was so taken by the United States without the consent of the said Indians and without compensation therefor; that from the decision of the Court of Claims in any suit or suits prosecuted under the authority of this Act an appeal may be taken by either party, as in other cases, to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Sec. 3. Presentation of claims. That the claim or claims of said Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska may be presented and prosecuted separately or jointly in one or more suits, by petition or petitions setting out the facts upon which they base their demands for relief and judgment or decree; the petition or petitions may be amended when necessary more fully Time for filing suit.or specifically to set forth their said claim or claims, and said suit or suits shall be filed in said Court of Claims within seven years Final judgment; effect.after the date of the passage of this Act; such suit or suits shall make the said Indians parties plaintiff and the United States party defendant, and the final judgment or decree shall conclude and Authority of court.forever settle the claim or claims so presented; the Court of Claims shall have full authority by proper orders and process to bring in and make parties to such suit or suits any and all parties deemed by it necessary or proper to the final determination of the matters in controversy; such petition or petitions may be verified by any 389attorney or attorneys employed by said Indians, under contractEmployment of attorneys for Indians. approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the Secretary of the Interior, and said contract shall be executed in behalf of said Indians by a committee chosen by them under the direction and approval of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the Secretary of the Interior; verification may be upon information and belief as to the facts alleged; a true copy of the written contract or contracts by which such attorney or attorneys are employed by said Indians to represent them in such suit or suits shall be filed in said Court of Claims, as their authority by the said attorney or attorneys to so appear in said suit or suits for said Indians and to prosecute their said claim or claims in said Court of Claims.

Sec. 4. That if any claim or claims shall be submitted to saidHearings and settlement of claims. court it shall hear and settle the equitable and just rights therein, notwithstanding lapse of time, or statutes of limitations, or the fact that the said claim or claims have not been presented to any other tribunal, or the fact that said Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska may have been made citizens of the United States by the Act of Congress of June 2, 1924 (43 Stat. L. 253), or by any other law of theVol. 43, p. 253; [U.

S. C., p. 173](/us/usc/p173). United States, or the fact that the said Indians, or any of them, collectively prior to the passage and approval of this Act, may have severed their tribal relations with the said Tlingit and Haida Tribes. Any payment which may have been made by the United States orPrior payments. moneys heretofore or hereafter expended to date of award for the benefit of the said Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska, made under specific appropriations for the support, education, health, and civilization of said Indians, including purchase of lands, shall not be pleaded as an estoppel but may be pleaded by way of set-off.

Sec. 5. Official letters, papers, documents, and public records, orPublic records as evidence. certified copies thereof, from the files and records of the United States, or the Territory of Alaska, and Russian documents and similar records, and historical data and books prepared by American or other standard historians or authors, relating to the subject matter in controversy in said suit or suits, may be used in evidence by either party, and the departments of the United States Government shall give the attorneys for both parties access to such papers, correspondence, and documents as are in the files.

Sec. 6. The Court of Claims shall appoint at the proper time aCommissioner to take testimony, etc., authorized.Vol. 43, p. 964; [U. S. C., p. 1263](/us/usc/p1263). commissioner or commissioners under the provisions of the Act of February 24, 1925 (43 Stat. L. 964), and Acts supplemental thereto, who shall have the aid of a stenographer to take the testimony to be used in the investigation of such claims. In addition to the present powers of such commissioner to take such testimony, he is hereby authorized to take the testimony of said Alaska IndiansWitnesses. and their witnesses at such place or places in Alaska as are most convenient for said Indians and their witnesses; that the said Alaska Indians shall produce their witnesses in Alaska at such times and places as said commissioner shall direct, at their own expense, but the expenses of said commissioner and stenographerExpenses.Vol. 43, p. 965. shall be paid by the United States out of the funds provided for such purposes in the said Act of February 24, 1925, and said supplemental Acts.

Sec. 7. That Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska who areIndians entitled to share in judgment.*Ante*, p. 388. entitled to share in any judgment or appropriation made to pay said claim or claims shall consist of all persons of Tlingit or Haida blood, living in or belonging to any local community of these tribes in the territory described in section 1 of this Act. Each tribalTribal roll to be prepared. community shall prepare a roll of its tribal membership, which roll shall be submitted to a Tlingit and Haida central council for 390its approval.

The said central council shall prepare a combined roll of all communities and submit it to the Secretary of the Interior Approval of roll; effect.for approval. Approval of the roll by the said Secretary of the Interior shall operate as final proof of the right of such Indian communities to share in the benefits of this Act as set forth in section 8. Sec. 8. Apportionment of benefits. The amount of any judgment in favor of said Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska, after payment of attorneys fees, shall be apportioned to the different Tlingit and Haida communities listed in the roll provided for in section 7 in direct proportion to the number of names on each roll, and shall become an asset Deposits and expenditures.thereof, and shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of each community, and such funds shall bear interest at the rate of 4 per centum per annum, and shall be expended from time to time upon requisition by the said communities by and with advice and consent of the Secretary of the Interior, and under regulations as he may prescribe, for the future economic security and stability of said Indian groups, through the acquisition or creation of productive economic instruments and resources of public *Provisos*.Use of interest.benefit to such Indian communities: *Provided, however*, That the interest on such funds may be used for beneficial purposes such as the relief of distress, emergency relief and health: *Provided further*,Per capita payments.

That none of the funds above indicated or the interest thereon shall ever be used for per capita payments. Sec. 9. Attorneys’ services. That upon the final determination of any suit or suits instituted under this Act, if there is judgment for the plaintiff Indians, the Court of Claims shall inquire into the agreement or contract which said Indians have made with their attorneys for compensation for their services in said suit or suits, and if said Court of Claims shall find that such services have been faithfully performed by said attorneys, it shall make a finding to that effect and adjudge that said attorneys’ compensation shall be paid as agreed upon in said contract out of the appropriation made for the Limitation.payment of the sum found due to said Indians, but in no case to exceed 10 per centum of the amount of the total recovery, and said sum so found to be due to said attorneys shall be paid in full out of the sums so found due to said Indians and the remainder of said total sum due to said Indians shall be expended as provided in section 8 of this Act.

Sec. 10. Notice to Attorney General, etc. A copy of the petition and other pleadings and briefs in said suit or suits brought under this Act shall be served upon the Attorney General of the United States, and he, or some attorney from the Department of Justice to be designated by him, is hereby directed to appear and defend the interests of the United States in such case or cases. Approved, June 19, 1935. 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. 1935-06-19 276 Chapter 49 Stat. 390 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 276.] 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.[[S. 2688](/us/bill/74/s/2688).][

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