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September 23, 1950

[PUBLIC LAW 827-818T CONGRESS]
[CHAPTER 1007-2D SESSION]
[H. R. 8458]

AN ACT

Authorizing the Housing and Home Finance Administrator to release the trustees of Columbia University, in the city of New York, and the Citizens' Veterans Homes Association of Rockland County, Incorporated, from obligations under their contracts for operation of veterans' temporary housing project, NY-V

30212.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the Housing and Home Finance Administrator is authorized and directed

(a) upon the request of the trustees of Columbia University, in the city of New York, to release said trustees from any and all covenants and obligations under contract numbered HA (V-30212) mph 20, dated August 1, 1946, entered into between said trustees and the Federal Public Housing Authority, and all amendments thereto; and

(b) upon the request of the Citizens' Veterans Homes Association of Rockland County, Incorporated, a nonprofit corporation, to release said corporation from any and all covenants and obligations under contract numbered HA (VN-30293) mph 1, dated March 14, 1947, entered into between said corporation and the Federal Public Housing Authority, and all amendments thereto; both of which contracts are in connection with the operation of veterans' temporary housing project numbered NY-V-30212, known as Shanks Village and located in Rockland County, New York: Provided, That the said trustees or the said corporation, as the case may be, release the United States from any and all liability under their respective contracts and return to the United States title to any buildings, equipment, or other property which may have passed to the said trustees or the said corporation under their contracts: And provided further, That payments, if any, to which the United States may be entitled on the basis of periodic settlements under the contracts, shall continue to accrue to the end of the month in which the release by the Administrator is made and settlement therefor shall be made by the said trustees or the said corporation, as the case may be, within sixty days after such release.

Approved September 23, 1950.

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[PUBLIC LAW 238-66TH CONGRESS]

[CHAPTER 223-2D SESSION]

[H. R. 11960]

AN ACT

Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1921.

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FEES FOR PASSPORTS AND VISÉS

SECTION 1. *
no fee shall be collected for passports issued
* * * to widows, children, parents, brothers, and sisters of Amer-
ican soldiers, sailors or marines buried abroad whose journey is under-
taken for the purpose and with the intent of visiting the graves of such
soldiers, sailors, or marines, which facts shall be made a part of the
application for the passport.

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To admit to the United States, and to extend naturalization privileges to, alien
veterans of the World War.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) as used
in this Act, the term "alien veteran" means an individual, a mem-
ber of the military or naval forces of the United States at any time
after April 5, 1917, and before November 12, 1918, who is now an
alien not ineligible to citizenship; but does not include (1) any
individual at any time during such period or thereafter separated
from such forces under other than honorable conditions, (2) any
conscientious objector who performed no military duty whatever
or refused to wear the uniform, or (3) any alien at any time during
such period or thereafter discharged from the military or naval forces
on account of his alienage.

(b) Terms defined in the Immigration Act of 1924 shall, when used in this Act, have the meaning assigned to such terms in that Act.

SEC. 2. An alien veteran shall for the purposes of the Immigration Act of 1924 be considered as a nonquota immigrant, but shall be subject to all the other provisions of that Act and of the immigration laws, except that

(a) He shall not be subject to the head tax imposed by section 2 of the Immigration Act of 1917;

(b) He shall not be required to pay any fee under section 2 or section 7 of the Immigration Act of 1924;

(c) If otherwise admissible, he shall not be excluded under section 3 of the Immigration Act of 1917, unless excluded under the provisions of that section relating to

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(1) Persons afflicted with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease, except tuberculosis in any form;

(2) Polygamy;

(3) Prostitutes, procurers, or other like immoral persons;
(4) Contract laborers;

(5) Persons previously deported;

(6) Persons convicted of crime.

SEC. 3. The unmarried child under eighteen years of age, the wife, or the husband, of an alien veteran shall, for the purposes of the Immigration Act of 1924, be considered as a nonquota immigrant when accompanying or following within six months to join him, but shall be subject to all the other provisions of that Act and of the immigration laws.

SEC. 4. The foregoing provisions of this Act shall not apply to any alien unless the immigration visa is issued to him before the expiration of one year after the enactment of this Act.

SEC. 5. An alien veteran admitted to the United States under this Act shall not be subject to deportation on the ground that he has become a public charge.

SEC. 6. Nothing in the immigration laws shall be construed as subjecting any person to a fine for bringing to a port of the United States an alien veteran who is admissible under the terms of this Act, even though such alien would be subject to exclusion if this Act had not been enacted.

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SEC. 7. An alien veteran shall, if residing in the United States, be Super 4, 1929. entitled, at, any time within two years after the enactment of this Act, 45 Stat. 1546, to naturalization upon the same terms, conditions, and exemptions which would have been accorded to such alien if he had petitioned before the armistice of the World War, except that such alien shall be required to appear and file his petition in person and to take the prescribed oath of allegiance in open court.

Approved, May 26, 1926.

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