Public Law 575. to provide for the control of the floods of the Mississippi River and of the Sacramento River, California, and for other purposes”, approved March 1, 1917, the cost thereof to be paid from appropriations heretofore or hereafter made for examinations, surveys, and contingencies of rivers and harbors
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(/us/pl/74/574).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of American in Congress assembled*, That the SecretaryPassaic River, N. J.Survey directed for controlling floods of. of War is hereby authorized and directed to cause a preliminary examination to be made of the Passaic River in the State of New Jersey, with a view to the control of floods, in accordance with the provisions of section 3 of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the control of the floods of the Mississippi River and of the Sacramento River, California, and for other purposes”, approved March 1, 1917, the cost thereof to be paid from appropriations heretofore or hereafter made for examinations, surveys, and contingencies of rivers and harbors.
Approved, May 6, 1936. To amend Public Act Numbered 435, Seventy-second Congress. 1936-05-06 49 Stat. 1266 340 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 1266 [CHAPTER 340.] JOINT RESOLUTION To amend Public Act Numbered 435, Seventy-second Congress. May 6, 1936.[[H. J. Res. 215](/us/bill/74/hjres/215).][[Pub.
Res., No. 87](/us/bill/74/pubres/87).] Resolved by the Senate and Rouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Indian lands, timber sales.Terms of existing contracts modified.Vol. 47, p. 1568; Vol. 48, pp. 311, 397.[U. S. C., p. 1028](/us/usc/1028). That the last proviso in that Public Act Numbered 435 of the Seventy-second Congress entitled “An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to modify the terms of existing contracts for the sale of timber on Indian land when it is in the interest of the Indians so to do”, as amended, be, and the same hereby is, amended to read as follows:
“*And provided further*, Duration of authority.Approval required.That the authority granted herein shall terminate on the 4th day of September 1936: *Provided further*, That all such modified contracts shall have the approval of the tribal general council for tribal lands and of the allottee for allotted lands”. Approved, May 6, 1936. To amend the Act to fix the hours of duty of postal employees. 1936-05-07 49 Stat. 1266 370 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 370.] AN ACT To amend the Act to fix the hours of duty of postal employees. May 7, 1936.[[H. R. 10193](/us/bill/74/hr/10193).][[Public, No. 575](/us/bill/74/pl/575).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Postal employees.Mail-equipment shops, compensation.*Ante*, p. 650. That Public Law Numbered 275, entitled “An Act to fix the hours of duty of postal employees, and for other purposes”, approved August 14, 1935, shall be construed in its application to those employees of the mail-equipment shops covered therein to mean that the forty hours per week of labor established by the Act shall be compensated for at the same rate which had theretofore been allowed by law for forty-four hours per week.
Sec. 2. Retroactive provision. This Act shall be retroactive in effect to and including October 1, 1935. Approved, May 7, 1936. 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. 1936-05-07 371 Chapter 49 Stat. 1266 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 371.] 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.[[S. J. Res. 247](/us/bill/74/sjres/247).][[Pub. Res., No. 88](/us/bill/74/pubres/88).] Harvard University Tercentenary.Preamble.Whereas there are to be held at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at other places during the year 1936 celebrations commemorating the three-hundredth anniversary of the founding of Harvard University, said university being the first college to be established in what are now the United States; and Whereas, in accordance with resolutions of the president and fellows of Harvard College, there will take place in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the 16th, 17th, and 18th of September 1936 formal ceremonies of celebration of the tercentenary, in the presence of the governing boards, faculties, students, and alumni of the university, the delegates of other institutions, distinguished guests, and a large number of friends and benefactors; and Whereas the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the cities of Cambridge and Boston will be officially represented at the ceremonies; and 1267 Whereas Harvard University endeavors to foster and maintain the ideals of truth and freedom so dear to Americans:
Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and Rouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That theGovernment participation, etc. Government and people of the United States unite with Harvard University in a fitting and appropriate observance of the three-hundredth anniversary of its founding, which marked the formal beginning of higher education in the United States. Sec. 2. There is hereby established a commission to be known asCommission established; composition, etc. the United States Harvard University Tercentenary Commission (hereinafter referred to as the Commission) to be composed of fifteen commissioners, as follows:
The President of the United States and four persons to be appointed by him, the President of the Senate and four Members of the Senate to be appointed by said President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives and four Members of the House to be appointed by said Speaker. Sec. 3. The Commission, on behalf of the United States, shallDuties. cooperate with representatives of Harvard University, the Common-wealth of Massachusetts, and the cities of Cambridge and Boston in the appropriate observance of such anniversary, and shall extend appropriate courtesies to the delegates of foreign universities and other foreign learned bodies or individuals attending the celebration as guests of Harvard University.
Sec. 4. The members of the Commission shall serve without compensation Members to serve without pay; chairman.President designated “Honorary Chairman”.Appropriation for expenses, authorized.*Post*, p. 1608.and shall select a chairman from among their number, but the President of the United States shall be designated the “Honorary Chairman” of the Commission. Sec. 5. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $10,000 to be expended by the Commission for expenses, including actual and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses, incurred while discharging its functions under this resolution.
TheOther personal services. Commission shall have power to select, hire, and fix the compensation of such officers and employees as shall be necessary for the performance of its duties without regard to the provisions of other laws applicable to employment or compensation of officers or employees of the United States. Sec. 6. Any vacancies occurring in the membership of theFilling of vacancies. Commission shall be filled by the President of the United States. Approved, May 7, 1936.
To provide an additional appropriation for expenses of special and select committees of the House of Representatives for the fiscal year 1936. 1936-05-08 49 Stat. 1267 374 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 374.] 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.[[H. J. Res. 567](/us/bill/74/hjres/567).][[Pub. Res., No. 89](/us/bill/74/pubres/89).] Resolved by the Senate and Rouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for expensesHouse of Representatives.Additional appropriation for expenses, special, etc., committees.*Ante*, p. 467.*Proviso*.Salary limitation. of special and select committees authorized by the House of Representatives, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $75,000 for the fiscal year 1936: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed under this appropriation at a rate of compensation in excess of $3,600 per annum.
Approved, May 8, 1936. 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. 1936-05-11 49 Stat. 1268 376 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 1268 [CHAPTER 376.] 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.[[S. 3950](/us/bill/74/s/3950).][
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to provide for the control of the floods of the Mississippi River and of the Sacramento River, California, and for other purposes”, approved March 1, 1917, the cost thereof to be paid from appropriations heretofore or hereafter made for examinations, surveys, and contingencies of rivers and harbors
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