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(/us/pl/74/201).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That a board isNational Park Trust Fund Board, created.Membership, terms of office, quorum, etc. hereby created and established, to be known as the National Park Trust Fund Board (hereinafter referred to as the Board), which shall consist of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of the Interior, the Director of the National Park Service, and two persons appointed by the President for a term of five years each (the first appointments being for three and five years, respectively).
Three members of the Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and the Board shall have an official seal, which shall beSeal. judicially noticed. The Board may adopt rules and regulations inProcedural rules and regulations. regard to its procedure and the conduct of its business. No compensation shall be paid to the members of the Board forCompensation; expenses of members. their services as such members, but they shall be reimbursed for the expenses necessarily incurred by them, out of the income from the fund or funds in connection with which such expenses are incurred.
Sec. 2. The Board is hereby authorized to accept, receive, hold,Acceptance, etc., of gifts. and administer such gifts or bequests of personal property for the benefit of, or in connection with, the National Park Service, its activities, or its service, as may be approved by the Board, but no such gift or bequest which entails any expenditure not to be met out of the gift, bequest or the income thereof shall be accepted without the consent of Congress. The moneys or securities composing the trust funds given orInvestment of trust funds. bequeathed to the Board shall be receipted for by the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall invest, reinvest, or retain investments as the Board may from time to time determine.
The income, as andAccount designated as “National Park Trust Fund.” when collected, shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States in a trust fund account to be known as the “National Park Trust Fund” subject to disbursement by the Division of Disbursement, Treasury Department, for the purposes in each case specified: *Provided, however*, That the Board is not authorized to engage in*Proviso*.Restriction on investments. any business, nor shall the Secretary of the Treasury make any investment for account of the Board that may not lawfully be made by a trust company in the District of Columbia, except that the Secretary may make any investments directly authorized by the instrument of gift, and may retain any investments accepted by the Board. 478 Sec. 3.
Powers of Board. The Board shall have perpetual succession, with all the usual powers and obligations of a trustee, including the power to sell, except as herein limited, in respect of all property, moneys, or securities which shall be conveyed, transferred, assigned, bequeathed, delivered or paid over to it for the purposes above specified. The Board may be sued in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, which is hereby given jurisdiction of such suits, for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of any trust accepted by it.
Sec. 4. Gifts for immediate disbursement, etc. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as prohibiting or restricting the Secretary of the Interior from accepting, in the name of the United States, gifts or bequests of money for immediate disbursement or other property in the interest of the National Park Service, its activities, or its service, as heretofore authorized by law. Sec. 5. Tax exemption. Gifts or bequests to or for the benefit of the National Park Service, including those to the Board, and the income therefrom, shall be exempt from all Federal taxes.
Sec. 6. Report to Congress. The Board shall submit to the Congress an annual report of the moneys or securities received and held by it and of its operations. Approved, July 10, 1935. To provide means by which certain Filipinos can emigrate from the United States. 1935-07-10 49 Stat. 478 376 Chapter 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 376.] AN ACT To provide means by which certain Filipinos can emigrate from the United States. July 10, 1935.[[H. R. 6464](/us/bill/74/hr/6464).][[Public, No. 202](/us/pl/74/202).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Native Filipinos residing in United States.Application for return to Philippine Islands.*Post*, pp. 1121,1462. That any native Filipino residing in any State or the District of Columbia on the effective date of this Act, who desires to return to the Philippine Islands, may apply to the Secretary of Labor, upon such form as the Secretary may prescribe, through any officer of the Immigration Notification on approval.Service for the benefits of this Act.
Upon approval of such application, the Secretary of Labor shall notify such Filipino forth-with, and shall certify to the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of War that such Filipino is eligible to be returned to the Transportation and maintenance expense.Philippine Islands under the terms of this Act. Every Filipino who is so certified shall be entitled, at the expense of the United States, to transportation and maintenance from his present residence to a port on the west coast of the United States, and from such port, to passage and maintenance to the port of Manila, Philippine Islands, on either Navy or Army transports, whenever space on such transports is available, or on any ship of United States registry operated by a commercial steamship company which has a contract with the Secretary of Labor as provided in section 2.
Sec. 2. Contracts for transportation authorized. The Secretary of Labor is hereby authorized and directed to enter into contracts with any railroad or other transportation company, for the transportation from their present residences to a port on the west coast of the United States of Filipinos eligible under section 1 to receive such transportation, and with any commercial steamship company, controlled by citizens of the United States and operating ships under United States registry, for transportation and maintenance of such Filipinos from such ports to the port of Manila, Philippine Islands, at such rates as may be agreed upon between the Secretary and such steamship, railroad, or other transportation company.
Sec. 3. Rules and regulations. The Secretary of Labor is authorized and directed to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out this Act, to enter into the necessary arrangements with the Sec-479retary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, to fix the ports on thePorts and dates of departure to be fixed. west coast of the United States from which any Filipinos shall be transported and the dates upon which transportation shall be available from such ports, to provide for the identification of the Filipinos entitled to the benefits of this Act, and to prevent voluntary interruption of the journey between any port on the west coast of the United States and the port of Manila, Philippine Islands.
Sec. 4. No Filipino who receives the benefits of this Act shall beReentry of beneficiaries.Vol. 48, p. 462. entitled to return to the continental United States except as a quota immigrant under the provisions of section 8
(1)of the Philippine Independence Act of March 24, 1934, during the period such section 8
(1)is applicable. Sec. 5. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated from moneysFunds authorized.*Post*, p. 1121. in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, amounts necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. All amounts so appropriatedAdministration of. shall be administered by the Secretary of Labor, and all expenses, including those incurred by the Navy and War Departments, shall be charged thereto. Sec. 6. No application for the benefits of this Act shall be acceptedTime limitation. by any officer of the Immigration Service after December 1, 1936; and all benefits under this Act shall finally terminate on December 31, 1936, unless the journey has been started on or before that date, in which case the journey to Manila shall be completed. Sec. 7. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as authority toNot to be considered deportation. deport any native of the Philippine Islands, and no Filipino removed from continental United States under the provisions of this Act shall hereafter be held to have been deported from the United States. Approved, July 10, 1935. 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. 1935-07-12 49 Stat. 479 377 Chapter 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 377.] 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.[[S. 2378](/us/bill/74/s/2378).][
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