Public Law 517.
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(/us/bill/74/pl/516).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Panama Canal. Committee to study rules for measurement of vessels, authorized. *Post*, p. 1641. That the President is authorized to appoint a neutral committee of three members, for the purpose of making an independent study and investigation of the rules for the measurement of vessels using the Panama Canal Hearings.and the tolls that should be charged therefor and hold hearings thereon, at which interested parties shall have full opportunity to Report and recommendations.present their views.
Such committee shall report to the President upon said matters prior to January 1, 1937, and shall make such advisory recommendations of changes and modifications of the “Rules for the Measurement of Vessels for the Panama Canal” and the determinations of tolls as it finds necessary or desirable to provide a practical, just, and equitable system of measuring such vessels Compensation.and levying such tolls. Members of such committee shall be paid compensation at the rate of $825 per month, except that a member who is an officer or employee of the United States shall receive no compensation in addition to his compensation as such officer or1205employee.
Such committee is authorized to appoint such employeesEmployees. as may be necessary for the execution of its functions under this Act, the total expense thereof not to exceed $10,000. Approved, April 13, 1936. 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. 1936-04-13 49 Stat. 1205 212 Chapter 74 2 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 212.] 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.[[H. R. 11323](/us/bill/74/hr/11323).][[Public, No. 517](/us/bill/74/pl/517).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That inLong Island, New York. Coinage of 50-cent pieces commemorating first settlement on, authorized. commemoration of the three-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the first settlement on Long Island, New York, there shall be coined at a mint of the United States to be designated by the Director of the Mint not to exceed one hundred thousand silver 50-cent piecesNumber. of standard size, weight, and composition, and of a special appropriate single design to be fixed by the Director of the Mint, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, but the United StatesNo Federal expense. shall not be subject to the expense of making the necessary dies and other preparations for this coinage.
Sec. 2. The coins herein authorized shall bear the date 1936,Date. irrespective of the year in which they are minted or issued, shall be legal tender in any payment to the amount of their face value, and shall be issued only upon the request of the chairman or secretary of theIssue. Long Island "Tercentenary Committee upon payment by him of the par value of such coins, but not less than five thousand such coins shall be issued to him at any one time and no such coins shall be issued after the expiration of one year after the date of enactment of this Act.
Such coins may be disposed of at par or at a premiumDisposition. by such committee and the net proceeds shall be used by it in defraying the expenses incidental and appropriate to the commemoration of such event. Sec. 3. All laws now in force relating to the subsidiary silver coinsCoinage laws applicable. of the United States and the coining or striking of the same, regulating and guarding the process of coinage, providing for the purchase of material, and for the transportation, distribution, and redemption of coins, for the prevention of debasement or counterfeiting, for the security of the coins, or for any other purposes, whether such laws are penal or otherwise, shall, so far as applicable, apply to the coinage herein authorized.
Approved, April 13, 1936. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to create a Library of Congress Trust Fund Board, and for other purposes”, approved March 3, 1925. 1936-04-13 49 Stat. 1205 213 Chapter 74 2 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 213.] 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.[[H. R. 11849](/us/bill/74/hr/11849).][
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