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Bridge, Great Peedee River. An Act To construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches
thereto across Great Peedee River, South Carolina. November 23, 1921.....
Bridge, Savannah River. An Act Authorizing the counties of Allendale, South Carolina, and
Screven, Georgia, to construct a bridge across the Savannah River, between said counties,
at or near Burtons Ferry. November 23, 1921.

Bridge, White River. An Act To extend the time for constructing a bridge across the White River
at or near the town of Des Arc, Arkansas. November 23, 1921...

Bridge, White River. An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the White River, in
Prairie County, Arkansas. November 23, 1921..

United States courts, revivor. An Act To amend section 955 of the Revised Statutes by extending
the jurisdiction of courts in cases of revivor. November 23, 1921...
Bridge, Tombigbee River. An Act To extend the time for the construction of a bridge across the
Tombigbee River at or near Ironwood Bluff, in the county of Itawamba, Mississippi. Novem-
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District of Columbia, Gonzaga College. An Act To amend section 1 of an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate Gonzaga College, in the city of Washington and District of Columbia." November 23, 1921..

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Bridge, Rock River. An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the board of supervisors of White-
side County, Illinois, to construct a bridge across Rock River. November 23, 1921.
Bridge, Grand Calumet River. An Act To authorize the New York Central Railroad Company to
construct a bridge across the Grand Calumet River within the corporate limits of the town
of Gary, Indiana. November 23, 1921...
Congressional employees, November salaries. Joint Resolution Authorizing payment of the salaries
of officers and employees of Congress for November, 1921, on the twenty-third day of said
month. November 23, 1921...

Chinese refugees from Mexico. Joint Resolution Permitting certain Chinese to register under cer-
tain provisions and conditions. November 23, 1921...
Volunteer Soldiers' Home, Manager. Joint Resolution For the appointment of one member of the
Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. November 23,
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PUBLIC LAWS OF THE SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS

OF THE

UNITED STATES.

Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the eleventh day of April, 1921, and was adjourned without day on Wednesday, the twenty-third day of November, 1921.

WARREN G. HARDING, President; CALVIN COOLIDGE, Vice President; Albert B. CUMMINS, President of the Senate pro tempore; CHARLES CURTIS, Acting President of the Senate pro tempore, July 7, 8, and 22, August 5, 11, 22 to 24, September 23, 1921; IRVINE L. LENROOT, Acting President of the Senate pro tempore, August 9 and 16, 1921; JAMES W. WADSWORTH, jr., Acting President of the Senate pro tempore, August 10, 1921; REED SMOOT, Acting President of the Senate pro tempore, August 15, 1921; CHARLES L. MCNARY, Acting President of the Senate pro tempore, August 19 and 20, 1921; FRANK B. BRANDEGEE, Acting President of the Senate pro tempore, September 24, 1921; FREDERICK H. GILLETT, Speaker of the House of Representatives; HORACE M. TOWNER, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tempore, May 25, July 1 and 2, 1921; JOSEPH WALSH, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tempore, June 20 and 22, October 28 to 31, November 19 and

23, 1921.

CHAP. 1.-—An Act Making appropriations for certain expenses incident to the first session of the Sixty-seventh Congress, and for other purposes.

April 18, 1921. [Ĥ. R. 3707.] [Public, No. 1.]

Appropriations for

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are expenses, first appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro- Congress, etc. priated, namely:

LEGISLATIVE.

SENATE.

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sion, Sixty-seventh

Legislative.

Senate.

Mileage.

Clerks for designated

For mileage of Senators, $51,000. For annual compensation of a clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600, committees. assistant clerk $1,500, and an additional clerk $1,200, from April 16, 1921, to June 30, 1922, both dates inclusive, for each of the following committees: Civil Service, Enrolled Bills, Expenditures in the Executive Departments, Irrigation and Reclamation, Library, Mines and Mining, Patents, Revision of the Laws, and Territories and Insular Possessions, $73,949.94.

The appropriations for the fiscal years 1921 and 1922 for a clerk, and three assistant clerks for the Committee on Public Lands is hereby made available for payment at the same compensations for a clerk and three assistant clerks to the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys.

The unexpended part of the appropriations for the fiscal year 1921 and the appropriations for the fiscal year 1922 for clerks and assistant clerks to the Committees on Pacific Islands and Porto Rico, Pacific Islands, Porto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, and the Philippines is hereby repealed.

That part of the appropriations for the fiscal years 1921 and 1922 for "clerical assistance to Senators," except the appropriations for compiling the Navy Yearbook, is hereby amended to read as follows: "Clerical assistance to Senators: For clerical assistance to Senators who are not chairmen of the committees specifically provided for herein: Seventy clerks at $2,500 each; seventy assistant clerks at $1,600 each; seventy assistant clerks at $1,500 each, $392,000.

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Committee on Pub-
Appropriations
Vol. 41, pp. 632, 1253.

Provisions for clerks

designated committees repealed.

Vol. 41, pp. 632, 1253.

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Additional clerks.

George Curry.
Services.

Edith Shipman.
Services.

"Eighty-four additional clerks at $1,200 each, one for each Senator having no more than one clerk and two assistant clerks for himself or for the committee of which he is chairman, $100,800."

To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay from the appropriation for "Salaries of officers, clerks, messengers, and others," fiscal year 1921, to George Curry for services rendered as clerk to the Honorable H. O. Bursum, Senator from the State of New Mexico, at the rate of $2,500 per annum, from March 12, 1921, to April 10, 1921, both dates inclusive.

To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay from the appropriation for "Salaries of officers, clerks, messengers, and others," fiscal year, 1921, to Edith Shipman for services rendered as assistant clerk to the Honorable H. O. Bursum, Senator from the State of New Mexico, at the rate of $1,600 per annum from March 12, 1921, to Laborer in station. April 10, 1921, both dates inclusive.

ery room. Additional pay.

Stationery.

Assistant financial clerk.

Additional pay.

Pages.

House of Representatives.

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To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay from the appropriation "For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers and others,' fiscal year 1922, to the laborer in stationery room, office of the Secretary of the Senate, a sum sufficient to make the compensation $1,200 per annum.

For stationery for Senators, committees, and officers of the Senate, fiscal year, 1921, $5,000.

To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay from the appropriation "For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others," for the fiscal years 1921 and 1922, to the assistant financial clerk in the office of the Secretary of the Senate, a sum sufficient to make the salary of the position $3,600 per annum.

For sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber at the rate of $2.50 per day each, from April 11, 1921, to June 30, 1921, $3,240.

For sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber at the rate of $2.50 per day each, from July 1, 1921, until the end of the first session of the Sixty-seventh Congress, so much as may be necessary.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

For mileage of Representatives and Delegates and expenses of Resident Commissioners, $175,000.

For stationery for Members and Delegates and Resident Commissioners, at $125 each, $55,000.

For forty-two pages, including two riding pages, one press gallery page, and ten pages for duty at the entrances to the Hall of the House, at $2.50 per day each, and three telephone operators, at the rate of $75 per month each, during the first session of the Sixty-seventh Congress, so much as may be necessary is appropriated.

For the amount required to increase the compensation of two telephone pages from $2.50 per day each to the rate of $1,200 per annum each from March 4, to March 31, 1921, inclusive, in accordance with House Resolution Numbered 615 of the Sixty-sixth Congress, and for the compensation of such pages at the rate of $1,200 each per annum from April 1, 1921, to June 30, 1922, inclusive, in lieu of the two telephone pages at $2.50 per day each provided in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1922, $3,040.

For the amount required from March 4, 1921, to June 30, 1922, inclusive, to carry out House resolutions numbered 395 and 686 of the Sixty-sixth Congress, $2,517.50.

For the amount required from March 4 to June 30, 1921, inclusive, to carry out House resolutions numbered 487, 492, 508, and 514 of the Sixty-sixth Congress, $1,118.

For amount required for a special messenger at $1,800 per annum from April 11, 1921, to June 30, 1922, inclusive, in accordance with

James Wickersham.
Contested

House resolution numbered 7, of the Sixty-seventh Congress, $2,200;
such special messenger to be in lieu of an assistant messenger in
charge of telephones for the minority at the rate of $1,500 per annum.
For payment to James Wickersham for expenses incurred as con-
testant in the contested-election case of James Wickersham versus expenses.
Charles A. Sulzer, deceased, and George B. Grigsby, audited and
recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered Three,
Sixty-sixth Congress, $2,000.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

WATER DEPARTMENT.

election

District of Columbia.

Water Department.

Maintenance of Washington Aque

Washington Aqueduct: For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance and repair of Washington Aque- duct, etc. duct and its accessories, McMillan Park Reservoir, Washington Aqueduct Tunnel, the filtration plant, the plant for the preliminary treatment of the water supply, authorized water meters on Federal services, vehicles, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, fiscal year 1921, $35,000, to be paid from the revenues of the water department.

Approved, April 18, 1921.

From water revemues.

CHAP. 2.—An Act Providing for a "Pageant of Progress Exposition" cancellation stamp to be used by the Chicago post office.

April 30, 1921. [H. R. 2185.] [Public, No. 2.]

Postal service.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster General Special canceling be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to permit the use in the "Pageant of Progress Chicago post office of special canceling stamps bearing the following Exposition," Chicago, words and figures: "Pageant of Progress Exposition, Chicago, July 30 to August 14, 1921."

Approved, April 30, 1921.

CHAP. 3.-An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Trumbull Steel Company, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Mahoning River, in the State of Ohio.

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May 3, 1921. [Š. 407.] [Public, No. 3.]

Mahoning River.

pany

may bridge,

Warren, Ohio.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress Trumbull Steel Comis hereby granted to the Trumbull Steel Company and its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, a bridge and approaches thereto across the Mahoning River, near the city of Warren, in the county of Trumbull, in the State of Ohio, in accordance with the provisions of the Construction. Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters," approved March 23, 1906.

Vol. 34, p. 84.

SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment. expressly reserved.

Approved, May 3, 1921.

CHAP. 4.-Joint Resolution To authorize the President of the United States to appoint a representative of the Executive to cooperate with the Joint Committee on Reorganization.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States is authorized to appoint a representative of the Executive to cooperate with the Joint Committee on Reorganization,

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Vol. 41, p. 1083.

Salary.

May 6, 1921. [H. R. 3152.] [Public, No. 4.]

Ohio River.

bridge, Ironton, Ohio.

created under the joint resolution of December 17, 1920, entitled a "Joint resolution to create a Joint Committee on the Reorganization of the Administrative Branch of the Government," who shall receive an annual salary of $7,500, payable monthly, such salary to be paid in equal parts from the contingent funds of the Senate and House of Representatives as from time to time may be duly authorized by resolutions of those bodies.

Approved, May 5, 1921.

CHAP. 5.-An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Ironton and Russell Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the Ohio River at or near the city of Ironton, Ohio, and between the county of Lawrence, Ohio, and the county of Greenup, Kentucky.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Ironton and Russell States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress Bridge Company may is hereby granted to the Ironton and Russell Bridge Company and its successors and assigns to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Ohio River at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near the city of Ironton, Ohio, in the county of Lawrence, in the State of Ohio, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters," approved March 23, 1906.

Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.

Amendment.

May 6, 1921. [S. J. Res. 20.]

[Pub. Res., No. 2.]

vation, Mont.

version dam, Big Horn

SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.

Approved, May 6, 1921.

CHAP. 6.—Joint Resolution Making the sum of $150,000 appropriated for the construction of a diversion dam on the Crow Indian Reservation, Montana, immediately available.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Crow Indian Reser States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of $150,000 Appropriation for di- appropriated by the Indian Appropriation Act, approved March 3, River, immediately 1921 (Public Numbered 359, Sixty-sixth Congress, third session), for the construction of a diversion dam on the Big Horn River, Crow Indian Reservation, Montana, be, and the same is hereby, made immediately available for the construction of said dam. Approved, May 6, 1921.

available.
Vol. 41, p. 1237.

May 17, 1921. [H. J. Res. 52.]

[Pub. Res., No. 3.]

Reclamation Service.

CHAP. 7.-Joint Resolution To authorize the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, to furnish water to applicants and entrymen in arrears for more than one calendar year of payment for maintenance or construction charges, notwithstanding the provisions of section 6 of the Act of August 13, 1914.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Water may be fur States of America in Congress assembled, That in view of the financial nished in 1921 to per- stringency and the low price of agricultural products, the Secretary sons in arrears for of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion, after due

charges, etc.

investigation, to furnish irrigation water on the Federal irrigation projects during the irrigation season of 1921 to water-right applicants or entrymen who are in arrears for more than one calendar year for the payment of any charge for operation and maintenance, or any construction charges and penalties, notwithstanding the provisions of section 6 of the Act of August 13, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes, No charges, etc., re- page 686): Provided, That nothing herein shall be construed to relieve any beneficiary hereunder from payments due or penalties. thereon required by said Act.

Vol. 38, p. 686.

Proviso.

mitted.

Approved, May 17, 1921.

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