trict. Per diem subsistence. Other Acts. Vol. 39, p. 874; Vol. 40, p. 542; Vol. 41, p. etc. Chinese exclusion. employees appointed to enforce said laws, including not to exceed $150,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, Services in the Distogether with persons authorized by law to be detailed for duty at Washington, District of Columbia; per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914; enforcement of the provisions of the Act of February 5, 1917, entitled "An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to and the residence of 1008; Vol. 42, p. 5; Vol. aliens in the United States," and Acts amendatory thereof and in addition thereto; necessary supplies, including exchange of typewriting machines, alterations and repairs, and for all other expenses authorized by said Act; preventing the unlawful entry of aliens into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto; expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expenses of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or seaboard for deportation; refund- Refunding head tax, ing of head tax, maintenance bills, and immigration fines upon presentation of evidence showing conclusively that collection was made through error of Government officers; all to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Labor, $6,084,865: Provided, That $1,500,000 of this amount shall be available only for coast and land- der control. border patrol: Provided further, That the purchase, exchange, use, side the District. . maintenance, and operation of motor vehicles and allowances for horses, including motor vehicles and horses owned by immigration officers when used on official business required in the enforcement of the immigration and Chinese exclusion laws outside of the District of Columbia may be contracted for and the cost thereof paid from the appropriation for the enforcement of those laws, under such terms and conditions as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe: Provided further, That not more than $175,000 of the sum appro- etc., of vehicles. priated herein may be expended in the purchase and maintenance of such motor vehicles, and of such sum of $175,000 not more than For coast and land $150,000 shall be available for the purchase and maintenance of border patrol. motor vehicles for coast and land border patrol. IMMIGRATION STATIONS Provisos. Coast and land bor Vehicles, etc., out Limit for purchase ings, etc. For remodeling, repairing (including repairs to the ferryboat, Remodeling buildEllis Island), renovating buildings, and purchase of equipment, $50,000. BUREAU OF NATURALIZATION Salaries: For the Commissioner and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $98,000. Vol. 34, p. 596. Services in the District. General expenses: For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary Pay of examiners, of Labor, of officers, clerks, and employees appointed, for the purpose of carrying on the work of the Bureau of Naturalization, provided for by the Act approved June 29, 1906, as amended by the Act approved March 4, 1913 (Statutes at Large, volume 37, page 40, 0.542. 736), and May 9, 1918 (Statutes at Large, volume 40, pages 542 to 548, inclusive), including not to exceed $51,440 for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923 and for their actual and necessary traveling expenses while absent from their official stations, including street car fare on official business at the official stations, together with per diem in lieu of subsistence, when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914, and for such per diem, together with actual necessary traveling expenses Per diem subsistence. Outside rent. Assistants to clerks of courts. of officers and employees of the Bureau of Naturalization in Washington while absent on official duty outside of the District of Columbia; telegrams, verifications of legal papers, telephone service in offices outside of the District of Columbia; necessary supplies and equipment for the Naturalization Service; not to exceed $25,000 for rent of offices outside of the District of Columbia where suitable quarters can not be obtained in public buildings; carrying into Vol. 34, p. 600; Vol. effect section 13 of the Act of June 29, 1906 (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page 600), as amended by the Act approved June 25, 1910 (Thirtysixth Statutes, page 765), and in accordance with the provisions of the Sundry Civil Act of June 12, 1917; and for mileage and fees to witnesses subpoenaed on behalf of the United States, the expenditures from this appropriation shall be made in the manner and under such regulations as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe, $635,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for United States courts the compensation of assistants to clerks of United States courts. 36, pp. 765, 830; Vol. 40, p. 171. Witness fees, etc. Proviso. Assistants to clerks of excluded. Children's Bureau. Chief, and office personnel. Child welfare, infant mortality, etc., investigations. Traveling expenses, experts, etc. CHILDREN'S BUREAU Salaries: For the chief, and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $105,000. To investigate and report upon matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life, and especially to investigate the questions of infant mortality, including not to exceed $125,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $135,000. For traveling expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence at not exceeding $4 of officers, special agents, and other employees of the Children's Bureau; experts and temporary assistants, to be paid at a rate not exceeding $6 a day, and interpreters to be paid at a Material for publica- rate not exceeding $4 a day when actually employed; purchase of reports and material for the publications of the Children's Bureau and for reprints from State, city, and private publications for distribution when said reprints can be procured more cheaply than they can be printed by the Government, $54,000. tions. Maternity and in fancy hygiene Act. Vol. 42, p. 224. Vol. 43, p. 17. Promotion of the welfare and hygiene of maternity and infancy: Expenses executing. For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act for the promotion of the welfare and hygiene of maternity and infancy, and for other purposes," approved November 23, 1921, and of the Act entitled "An Act to extend the provisions of certain laws to the Territory of Hawaii," approved March 10, 1924, $1,000,000: Provided, That the apportionments to the States, to the Territory of Hawaii, and to the Children's Bureau for administration shall be computed on the basis of not to exceed $1,252,079.96, as authorized by such Acts of November 23, 1921, and March 10, 1924. Proviso. Apportionment States, etc. to Attendance at meet ings. Women's Bureau, Salaries and expenses. Vol. 41, p. 987. Appropriations herein made for the Children's Bureau shall be available for expenses of attendance at meetings for the promotion of child welfare and/or the welfare and hygiene of maternity and infancy when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary. WOMEN'S BUREAU For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to establish in the Department of Labor a bureau to be known as the Women's Bureau," approved June 5, 1920, including personal services in the District of Columbia, not to exceed $92,170; purchase of material for reports and educational exhibits, and traveling expenses, Attendance at meet- $100,000, which sum shall be available for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of said bureau when incurred on the written authority of the Secretary of Labor. ings. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE ice. Employment serv wage earners. To enable the Secretary of Labor to foster, promote, and develop Promoting welfare of the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, including juniors legally employed, to improve their working conditions, to advance their opportunities for profitable employment by regularly Objects designated. collecting, furnishing, and publishing employment information as to opportunities for employment; maintaining a system for clearing labor between the several States; cooperating with and coordinating the public employment offices throughout the country, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and for their actual necessary traveling expenses while absent from their official station, together with their per diem in lieu of subsistence, when allowed pursuant to section 13 of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August 1, 1914; supplies and equipment, telegraph and telephone service, and miscellaneous expenses, $205,000, of which amount not to exceed $31,600 may be expended for personal trict. services in the District of Columbia. Approved, April 29, 1926. Per diem subsistence. Services in the Dis. CHAP. 196.-Joint Resolution Authorizing certain military organizations to visit France, England, and Belgium. April 29, 1926. [H. J. Res. 204.] [Pub. Res. No. 21.] State military organ Authority given de Belgium. and Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Rich- izations. mond Light Infantry Blues Battalion, of Richmond, Virginia, the signated, to visit EngFirst Company Governor's Foot Guard, of Hartford, Connecticut, land, France, the Second Company, Governor's Foot Guard, of New Haven, Connecticut, and the Putnam Phalanx, of Hartford, Connecticut, are authorized to accept the invitation to visit France, England, and Belgium during the month of May, 1926, as military organizations of their respective States recognized by the United States, under such conditions as may be imposed by the Governments of the countries aforesaid to be visited. SEC. 2. That the visits herein authorized shall be without expense to the United States. No Government expense. CHAP. 197.-An Act To amend section 27 of the general leasing Act approved February 25, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 437). April 30, 1926. [H. R. 7372] [Public, No. 157.] Public lands. Vol. 41, p. 448, amend Acreage holdings re sodium. Oil or gas. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 27 of the general leasing Act approved February 25, 1920 (Forty-first lic mineral deposits. Statutes at Large, page 437), is hereby amended to read as follows: ed. That no person, association, or corporation, except as herein pro- stricted. vided, shall take or hold coal, phosphate, or sodium leases or permits Coal, phosphate, or during the life of such leases or permits in any one State exceeding in aggregate acreage 2,560 acres for each of said minerals; no person, association, or corporation shall take or hold at one time oil or gas leases or permits exceeding in the aggregate 7,680 acres granted hereunder in any one State, and not more than 2,560 acres within the permits or leases, regeologic structure of the same producing oil or gas field; and no per- stricted. son, association, or corporation shall take or hold at one time any interest or interests as a member of an association or associations or as a stockholder of a corporation or corporations holding a lease or leases, permit or permits, under the provisions hereof, which, together with the area embraced in any direct holding of a lease or leases, Interest in other Forfeiture of prohibited interests. if by descent, etc. Provisos. Vol. 41, pp. 443-446. Combinations for repermitted. fineries, pipe lines, etc., permit or permits, under this Act, or which, together with any other interest or interests as a member of an association or associations or as a stockholder of a corporation or corporations holding a lease or leases, permit or permits, under the provisions hereof for any kind of mineral leases hereunder, exceeds in the aggregate an amount equivalent to the maximum number of acres of the respective kinds of minerals allowed to any one lessee or permittee under this Act. Any interests held in violation of this Act shall be forfeited to the United States by appropriate proceedings instituted by the Attorney General for that purpose in the United States district court Temporary holdings for the district in which the property, or some part thereof, is located, except that any ownership or interest forbidden in this Act which may be acquired by descent, will, judgment, or decree may be held for two years and not longer after its acquisition: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to limit sections 18, 18a, 19, and 22 or to prevent any number of lessees under the provisions of this Act from combining their several interests so far as may be necessary for the purposes of constructing and carrying on the business of a refinery, or of establishing and constructing as a common carrier a pipe line or lines of railroads to be operated and used by them jointly in the transportation of oil from their Coal transportation, several wells, or from the wells of other lessees under this Act, or the transportation of coal or to increase the acreage which may be acquired or held under section 17 of this Act: Provided further, That any combination for such purpose or purposes shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior on application to him Forfeiture for sub- for permission to form the same. And provided further, That if any binations in restraint of the lands or deposits leased under the provisions of this Act shall be subleased, trusteed, possessed, or controlled by any device permanently, temporarily, directly, indirectly, tacitly, or in any manner whatsoever, so that they form a part of, or are in anywise controlled by any combination in the form of an unlawful trust, with consent of lessee, or form the subject of any contract or conspiracy in restraint of trade in the mining or selling of coal, phosphate, oil, oil shale, gas, or sodium entered into by the lessee, or any agreement or understanding, written, verbal, or otherwise to which such lessee shall be a party, of which his or its output is to be or become the subject, to control the price or prices thereof or of any holding of such lands by any individual, partnership, association, corporation, or control, in excess of the amounts of lands provided in this Act, the lease thereof shall be forfeited by appropriate court proceedings. Approved, April 30, 1926. etc. Vol. 41, p. 443. Approval necessary. leasing, etc., to com of trade, etc. April 30, 1926 [H. R. 8830.] [Public, No. 158.] system. ed. National Capital Park and Planning CHAP. 198.-An Act Amending the Act entitled "An Act providing for a comprehensive development of the park and playground system of the National Capital," approved June 6, 1924. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the District of Columbia. United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of Park and playground the Act approved June 6, 1924, entitled "An Act providing for a Vol. 43, p. 463, amend- comprehensive development of the park and playground system of the National Capital," is hereby amended to read as follows: "SECTION 1. (a) That to develop a comprehensive, consistent, Commission con- and coordinated plan for the National Capital and its environs in the States of Maryland and Virginia, to preserve the flow of water in Rock Creek, to prevent pollution of Rock Creek and the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers, to preserve forests and natural scenery in and about Washington, and to provide for the comprehensive, systematic, and continuous development of park, parkway, and playground sys stituted. Purpose stated. Composition. Ex-officio members. Proviso. but actual No pay, expenses of subsistence, Temporary appointments at close of each tems of the National Capital and its environs there is hereby constituted a commission to be known as the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, composed of the Chief of Engineers of the Army, the Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia, the Director of the National Park Service, the Chief of the Forest Service, the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, the chairmen of the Committees on the District of Columbia of the Senate and House of Representatives, and four Appointive members. eminent citizens well qualified and experienced in city planning, one of whom shall be a bona fide resident of the District of Columbia, to be appointed for the term of six years by the President of the United States: Provided, That the first members appointed under this Act shall continue in office for terms of three, four, five, and six members. years, respectively, from the date of the passage of this Act, the terms of each to be designated by the President; but their successors shall be appointed for terms of six years, except that any person chosen to fill a vacancy shall be appointed only for the unexpired term of the member whom he shall succeed. All members of the said commission shall serve without compensation therefor, but each etc., allowed. shall be paid actual expenses of subsistence not in excess of $10 per day and of travel when attending meetings of said commission or engaged in investigations pertaining to its activities. At the close of each Congress the presiding officer of the Senate and the Speaker Congress. of the House of Representatives shall appoint, respectively, a Senator and a Representative elect to the succeeding Congress to serve as members of this commission until the chairmen of the committees of the succeeding Congress shall be chosen. The Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital shall be executive and disbursing officer of said commission. "(b) That the said commission is hereby charged with the duty for National Capital of preparing, developing, and maintaining a comprehensive, con- and environs to be sistent, and coordinated plan for the National Capital and its environs, which plan shall include recommendations to the proper executive authorities as to traffic and transportation; plats and subdivisions; highways, parks, and parkways; school and library sites; playgrounds; drainage, sewerage, and water supply; housing, building, and zoning regulations; public and private buildings; bridges and water fronts; commerce and industry; and other proper elements of city and regional planning. It is the purpose of this Act_to_obtain the maximum amount of cooperation and correlation of effort between the departments, bureaus, and commissions of the Federal and District Governments. To this end plans and records, or copies thereof, shall be made available to the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, when requested. The commission may, as to the environs of the District of Columbia, act in conjunction and cooperation with such representatives of the States of Maryland and Virginia as may be designated by such States for this purpose. The Employment of persaid commission is hereby authorized to employ the necessary personal services, including the personal services of a director of planning and other expert city planners, such as engineers, architects, and landscape architects. Such technical experts may be employed pay irrespective of clas at per diem rates not in excess of those paid for similar services else- sification Act, etc. where and as may be fixed by the said commission without regard Executive and disbursing officer. Comprehensive plan prepared, etc. Designated subjects. Assistance of departments, etc. Cooperation of Maryland and Virginia. sonal expert services. Commission to fix to the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled 'An Act for the Vol. 42, p. 1488. classification of civilian positions within the District of Columbia and in the field services,' approved March 4, 1923, and amendments thereto, or any rule or regulation made in pursuance thereof. |