TITLE 50, APPENDIX-WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE Proclamations, Executive Orders, Joint Resolutions and Treaties Respecting War, Neutrality and Peace. Trading With the Enemy Act of 1917. Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1918 [Omitted]. Selective Draft Act of 1917 [Omitted or Repealed]. Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 [Omitted or Repealed). Office of Selective Service Records. Service Extension Act of 1941 [Repealed). Army Reserve and Retired Personnel Service Law of 1940 [Omitted]. Military Selective Service Act. Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940. First War Powers Act, 1941 [Omitted or Repealed). Second War Powers Act, 1942 [Repealed or Omitted]. Exportation Restrictions on Certain Articles [Omitted or Repealed). Requisition of Military Equipment, Materials and Supplies [Omitted]. Territorial Use of Army and Extension of Service Period [Omitted or Repealed]. Civilian Protection From War Hazards [Omitted]. Decorations, etc., for Merchant Marine [Repealed). Use of Public Lands for War Purposes [Repealed). Miscellaneous Provisions Affecting Military Establishment [Omitted, Transferred, or Repealed). Photographing, Mapping or Other Representation of Military or Defense Properties. Exemption of Certain Articles From Import Duties and Taxes [Omitted or Repealed]. Temporary Appointments, Promotions, etc., of Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Officers [Omitted or Repealed]. Jurisdiction of Prizes and Prize Proceedings [Repealed]. Certain Allowance Assistance for Civilian and Military Personnel [Omitted or Repealed]. Free Entry of Gifts From Members of Armed Forces [Omitted or Repealed). Free Postage for Armed Forces Personnel [Omitted]. Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 [Omitted]. Stabilization Act of 1942 [Omitted]. Extension of Sugar Controls [Omitted]. Missing Persons Act [Omitted or Repealed). Small Business Mobilization Act [Omitted, Transferred, or Repealed]. War and Defense Contract Acts. National Emergency and War Shipping Acts. Farm Labor Supply Appropriation Act, 1944 [Omitted]. War Overtime Pay Act of 1943 [Repealed). Training of Nurses Through Grants to Institutions [Omitted]. Civilian Reemployment of Members of Merchant Marine [Repealed]. War Labor Disputes Act [Omitted]. Voluntary Enlistments in the Regular Military Establishment [Repealed). Women's Army Corps [Repealed]. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration [Omitted]. Temporary Appointments of Army Nurse Corps Members, etc., as Officers of Army of the United States. Disposal of Materials on Public Lands [Omitted]. Surplus Property Act of 1944. War Mobilization and Reconversion Act of 1944 [Omitted]. Fleet Admiral of the Navy and General of the Army [Repealed]. Disposal of Censored Mail [Omitted]. Disbursing Officers' Additional Functions [Transferred]. General of the Marine Corps [Omitted]. Exception of Navy or Coast Guard Vessels From Certain Navigation Rules [Transferred]. Sale of Surplus War-Built Vessels. Rehabilitation of Philippines [Omitted]. Clara Barton, Hilary A. Herbert, Thomas F. Walsh, Charles C. Glover, Charles J. Bell, Mabel T. Boardman, George Dewey, William R. Day, Nelson A. Miles, James Tanner, William K. Van Reypen, John M. Wilson, Simon Wolf, James R. Garfield, Gifford Pinchot, S. W. Woodward, Mary A. Logan, Walter Wyman, of Washington, District of Columbia; George H. Shields, of Missouri; William H. Taft, F. B. Loomis, Samuel Mather, of Ohio; Spencer Trask, Robert C. Ogden, Cleveland H. Dodge, George C. Boldt, William T. Wardwell, John G. Carlisle, George B. McClellan, Elizabeth Mills Reid, Margaret Carnegie, of New York; John H. Converse, Alexander Mackay-Smith, J. Wilkes O'Neill, H. Kirke Porter, of Pennsylvania; Richard Olney, W. Murray Crane, Henry L. Higginson, William Draper, Frederick H. Gillett, of Massachusetts; Marshall Field, Robert T. Lincoln, Lambert Tree, of Illinois; A. G. Kaufman, of South Carolina; Alexander W. Terrell, of Texas; George Gray, of Delaware; Redfield Proctor, of Vermont; John W. Foster, Noble C. Butler, Robert W. Miers, of Indiana; John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi; William Alden Smith, of Michigan; Horace Davis, W. W. Morrow, of California; Daniel C. Gilman, Eugene Lovering, of Maryland; J. Taylor Ellyson, of Virginia; Daniel R. Noyes, of Minnesota; Emanuel Fiske, Marshall Fiske, of Connecticut, together with five other persons to be named by the President of the United States, one to be chosen from each of the Departments of State, Army, Navy, Treasury, and Justice, their associates and successors, are created a body corporate and politic in the District of Columbia. (Jan. 5, 1905, ch. 23, § 1, 33 Stat. 599.) PREAMBLE Act Jan. 5, 1905, as amended by act May 8, 1947, ch. 50, §§ 1, 2, 61 Stat. 80, provided: "Whereas on the twenty-second of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, at Geneva, Switzerland, plenipotentiaries respectively representing Italy, Baden, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, France, Prussia, Saxony, and Wurttemberg and the Federal Council of Switzerland agreed upon ten articles of a treaty or convention for the purpose of mitigating the evils in separable from war; of ameliorating the condition of soldiers wounded on the field of battle, and particularly providing, among other things, in effect, that persons employed in hospitals and in according relief to the sick and wounded and supplies for this purpose shall be deemed neutral and entitled to protection; and that a distinctive and uniform flag shall be adopted for hospitals and ambulances and convoys of sick and wounded and an arm badge for individuals neutralized; and "Whereas the said treaty has been revised and extended by a treaty or convention for the amelioration of the condition of the wounded and the sick of armies in the field, signed at Geneva, July 27, 1929, and adhered to by the United States of America, effective August 8, 1932; and "Whereas the International Conference of Geneva of eighteen hundred and sixty-three recommended 'that there exist in every country a committee whose mission consists in co-operating in times of war with the hospital service of the armies by all means in its power;' and "Whereas a permanent organization is an agency needed in every nation to carry out the purposes of said treaties, and especially to secure supplies and to execute the humane objects contemplated by said treaties, with the power to adopt and use the distinctive flag and arm badge specified by said treaties, on which shall be the sign of the Red Cross, for the purpose of cooperating with the 'Comitee International de Secours aux Militaries Blessees' (International Committee of Relief for the Wounded in War); and "Whereas in accordance with the requirements and customs of said international body such an association adopting and using said insignia was formed in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, in July, eighteen hundred and eighty-one known as "The American National Association of the Red Cross,' reincorporated April seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, under the laws of the District of Columbia, and reincorporated by Act of Congress in June, nineteen hundred; and "Whereas it is believed that the importance of the work demands a repeal of the present charter and a reincorporation of the society under Government supervision: Now, therefore,”. CHANGE OF NAME The Department of War was designated the Department of the Army and the title of the Secretary of War was changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. Section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act Aug. 10, 1956, enacted "Title 10, Armed Forces" which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued the Department of the Army under the administrative supervision of a Secretary of the Army. SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections la, 2, 8 of this title. § la. Continuation of corporation; incorporators; powers and duties The corporation now existing as The American National Red Cross under sections 1, 2 to 6, 8, and 9 of this title shall continue as a body corporate and politic in the District of Columbia. The first national convention after May 8, 1947 shall be convened and held under rules and regulations prescribed by the governing body of the corporation as presently constituted. After such first national convention, the Board of Governors of the corporation from time to time shall constitute the associates and successors of the incorporators named in said sections, and neither the said incorporators nor any associates or successors theretofore designated by them or by their successors shall have any powers or duties. (May 8, 1947, ch. 50, § 8, 61 Stat. 83.) REFERENCES IN TEXT Section 4 of this title, included within the reference in text to sections 2 to 6 of this title, was repealed by act June 25, 1948, ch. 645, § 21, 62 Stat. 862. § 2. Name of corporation; powers The name of this corporation shall be "The American National Red Cross", and by that name it shall have perpetual succession, with the power to sue and be sued in courts of law and equity, State or Federal, within the jurisdiction of the United States; to have and to hold such real and personal estate as shall be deemed advisable and to dispose of the same, to accept gifts, devises, and bequests of real and personal estate for the purposes of this corporation hereinafter set forth; to adopt a seal and the same to alter and destroy at pleasure; and to have the right to have and to use, in carrying out its purposes hereinafter designated, as an emblem and badge, a Greek red cross on a white ground, as the same has been described in the treaties of Geneva, August twentysecond, eighteen hundred and sixty-four and July twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, and adopted by the several nations acceding thereto; to ordain and establish bylaws and regulations not inconsistent with the laws of the United States of America or any State thereof, and generally to do all such acts and things as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of sections 1, 2 to 6, 8, and 9 of this title and promote the purposes of said organization; and the corporation created is designated as the organization which is authorized to act in matters of relief under said treaties. In accordance with the said treaties, the delivery of the brassard allowed for individuals neutralized in time of war shall be left to military authority. (Jan. 5, 1905, ch. 23, § 2, 33 Stat. 600; May 8, 1947, ch. 50, § 3, 61 Stat. 81.) REFERENCES IN TEXT Section 4 of this title, included within the reference in text to sections 2 to 6 of this title, was repealed by act June 25, 1948, ch. 645, § 21, 62 Stat. 862. AMENDMENTS 1947-Act May 8, 1947, increased certain powers of corporation to accept gifts and devises of real estate. FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE Federal Rules of Civil Procedure as governing the procedure in all suits of a civil nature whether cognizable as cases at law or in equity, see rule 1, Title 28, Appendix, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure. One form of action, see rule 2. CROSS REFERENCES Exclusion from gross income, of proceeds of certain sports programs conducted for benefit of American National Red Cross, see section 114 of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code. Licenses for erection and use of buildings on military installations, see section 2670 of Title 10, Armed Forces. Loan of equipment needed for instruction and practice to organization formed by Red Cross aiding armed forces in war time, see section 2542 of Title 10. SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 1a, 8 of this title. § 3. Purposes of corporation The purposes of the corporation are and shall be First. To furnish volunteer aid to the sick and wounded of Armed Forces in time of war, in accordance with the spirit and conditions of the conference of Geneva of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and also of the treaties of the Red Cross, or the treaties of Geneva, of August twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and July twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, to which the United States of America has given its adhesion, and also of any other treaty or convention similar in purpose to which the United States of America may hereafter give its adhesion. Second. And for said purposes to perform all the duties devolved upon a national society by each nation which has acceded to any of said treaties or conventions. Third. To succeed to all the rights and property which were prior to January 5, 1905, held and to all the duties which were prior to January 5, 1905, performed by the American National Red Cross as a corporation duly incorporated by Act of Congress June 6, 1900, which Act is repealed and the organization created thereby is dissolved. Fourth. To act in matters of voluntary relief and in accord with the military authorities as a medium of communication between the people of the United States of America and their Armed Forces, and to act in such matters between similar national societies of other governments through the "Comitee International de Secours", and the Government and the people and the Armed Forces of the United States of America. Fifth. And to continue and carry on a system of national and international relief in time of peace and apply the same in mitigating the sufferings caused by pestilence, famine, fire, floods, and other great national calamities, and to devise and carry on measures for preventing the same. (Jan. 5, 1905, ch. 23, § 3, 33 Stat. 600; May 8, 1947, ch. 50, § 4, 61 Stat. 81; July 17, 1953, ch. 222, § 4(a), (b), 67 Stat. 179.) REFERENCES IN TEXT Act of Congress June 6, 1900, referred to in text, is act June 6, 1900, ch. 784, 31 Stat. 277, which is not classified to the Code. AMENDMENTS 1953-Act July 17, 1953, substituted "Armed Forces" for "armies" in the first par. and, in the fourth par. substituted "Armed Forces" for "Army and Navy" and deleted "and naval" following "military". |