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[H.R. 8930]

AN ACT

To provide for the construction and operation of a vessel for use in research work with respect to ocean fisheries.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, when funds are made available as authorized by section 2 of this Act, the Secretary of Commerce is authorized and directed (1) to cause plans and specifications to be prepared for the construction and equipment of a vessel for use in such research work with respect to ocean fisheries as the Secretary finds will be useful to persons engaged in the fishing industry; and (2) to contract for the construction and equipment of such vessel. Such vessel shall be maintained and operated under the supervision of the Secretary of Commerce.

SEC. 2. There is authorized to be appropriated $500,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to carry out the purposes of the first sentence of section 1 of this Act.

Approved, June 21, 1934.

[PUBLIC-No. 33-74TH CONGRESS]

[S. 619]

AN ACT

To amend section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920 (U. S. C., title 46, sec. 883), as amended, is amended by striking out the final period and inserting in lieu thereof a colon and the following: "Provided further, That this section shall not apply to the transportation of merchandise loaded on railroad cars or to motor vehicles with or without trailers, and with their passengers or contents when accompanied by the operator thereof, when such railroad cars or motor vehicles are transported in any railroad-car ferry operated between fixed termini on the Great Lakes as part of a rail route, if such car ferry is owned by a common carrier by water and operated as part of a rail route with the approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and if the stock of such common carrier by water, or its predecessor, was owned or controlled by a common carrier by rail prior to June 5, 1920, and if the stock of the common carrier owning such car ferry is, with the approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission, now owned or controlled by any common carrier by rail and if such car ferry is built in and documented under the laws of the United States.'

Approved, April 11 1935.

[S.J.Res.15]

JOINT RESOLUTION

Extending to the whaling and fishing industries certain benefits granted under section 11 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, as amended.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in the administration of section 11 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, as amended (U.S.C., Supp. VII, title 46, sec. 870), the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to extend to citizens of the United States engaged in the whaling and/or fishing industries the same benefits that are authorized by such section, as amended, to be extended to persons citizens of the United States for the construction, outfitting, equipment, reconditioning, remodeling, and improvement of certain vessels. All loans made under authority of this resolution from the construction loan fund created by such section, as amended, shall be on the same terms and subject to the same conditions, limitations, and restrictions as are provided therein, except that such loans shall bear interest at the rate of not less than 54 per centum per annum, payable annually.

SEO. 2. Any construction, outfitting, equipment, reconditioning, remodeling, or improvement of vessels under authority of this resolution shall be only of vessels of a type and kind suitable for use as naval auxiliaries, and shall be in accordance with plans and specifications first approved by the Secretary of the Navy with particular reference to the economical conversion of such vessels into auxiliary naval vessels.

SEC. 3. The term "citizens of the United States", as used in this resolution, includes a corporation, partnership, or association only if it is a citizen of the United States within the meaning of section 2 of the Shipping Act, 1916, as amended (U.S.C., title 46, sec. 802). Approved, April 16, 1934.

[H. R. 7205]

AN ACT

To amend the Ship Mortgage Act, 1920, otherwise known as "section 30" of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, approved June 5, 1920, to allow the benefits of said Act to be enjoyed by owners of certain vessels of the United States of less than two hundred gross tons.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 30, subsection D, subdivision (a), of the Act of June 5, 1920, known as. the "Ship Mortgage Act, 1920", be amended by striking out the words" of two hundred gross tons and upwards", and adding immediately following the words "vessel of the United States " the following: "(other than towboat, barge, scow, lighter, car float, canal boat, or tank vessel, of less than two hundred gross tons)", and as so amended be reenacted so as to read as follows:

"A valid mortgage which at the time it is made, includes the whole of any vessel of the United States (other than a towboat, barge, scow, lighter, car float, canal boat, or tank vessel, of less than two hundred gross tons), shall, in addition, have, in respect to such vessel and as of the date of the compliance with all the provisions of this subdivision, the preferred status given by the provisions of subsection M, if— "(1) The mortgage is endorsed upon the vessel's documents in accordance with the provisions of this section;

"(2) The mortgage is recorded as provided in subsection C, together with the time and date when the mortgage is so endorsed; "(3) An affidavit is filed with the record of such mortgage to the effect that the mortgage is made in good faith and without any design to hinder, delay, or defraud any existing or future creditor of the mortgagor or any lienor of the mortgaged vessel;

"(4) The mortgage does not stipulate that the mortgagee waives the preferred status thereof; and

"(5) The mortgagee is a citizen of the United States and for the purposes of this act the Reconstruction Finance Corporation shall, in addition to those designated in sections 37 and 38 of this Act, be deemed a citizen of the United States."

Approved, June 27, 1935.

[H. R. 115]

AN ACT

To amend section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920 (U. S. C., title 46, sec. 883), is amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 27. That no merchandise shall be transported by water, or by land and water, on penalty of forfeiture thereof, between points in the United States, including Districts, Territories, and possessions thereof embraced within the coast wise laws, either directly or via a foreign port, or for any part of the transportation, in any other vessel than a vessel built in and documented under the laws of the United States and owned by persons who are citizens of the United States, or vessels to which the privilege of engaging in the coastwise trade is extended by sections 18 or 22 of this Act: Provided, That no vessel having at any time acquired the lawful right to engage in the coastwise trade, either by virtue of having been built in, or documented under the laws of the United States, and later sold foreign in whole or in part, or placed under foreign registry, shall hereafter acquire the right to engage in the coastwise trade: Provided further, That this section shall not apply to merchandise transported between points within the continental United States, excluding Alaska, over through routes heretofore or hereafter recognized by the Interstate Commerce Commission for which routes rate tariffs have been or shall hereafter be filed with said Commission when such routes are in part over Canadian rail lines and their own or other connecting water facilities: Provided further, That this section shall not become effective upon the Yukon River until the Alaska Railroad shall be completed and the Shipping Board shall find that proper facilities will be furnished for transportation by persons citizens of the United States for properly handling the traffic: Provided further, That this section shall not apply to the transportation of merchandise loaded on railroad cars or to motor vehicles with or without trailers, and with their passengers or contents when accompanied by the operator thereof, when such railroad cars or motor vehicles are transported in any railroad car ferry operated between fixed termini on the Great Lakes as a part of a rail route, if such car ferry is owned by a common carrier by water and operated as part of a rail route with the approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and if the stock of such common carrier by water, or its predecessor, was owned or controlled by a common carrier by rail prior to June 5, 1920, and if the stock of the common carrier owning such car ferry is, with the approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission, now owned or controlled by any common carrier by rail and if such car ferry is built in and documented under the laws of the United States."

Approved, July 2, 1935.

[S. J. Res. 175]

JOINT RESOLUTION

To extend the time within which contracts may be modified or canceled under the provisions of section 5 of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1934.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 5 of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1934, as amended, be amended by striking out "October 31, 1935" and inserting in lieu thereof "March 31, 1936": Provided, That the right of the United States to annul any fraudulent or illegal contract or to institute suit to recover sums paid thereon is in no manner affected by this joint resolution.

Approved, August 29, 1935.

[PUBLIC-No. 142-74TH CONGRESS]

[H. R. 67]

AN ACT

To repeal certain laws providing that certain aliens who have filed declarations of intention to become citizens of the United States shall be considered citizens for the purposes of service and protection on American vessels.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subdivision "Eighth" of section 4 of the Act of June 29, 1906, entitled "An Act to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization and to provide a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States", as amended by section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act to amend the naturalization laws and to repeal certain sections of the Revised Statutes of the United States and other laws relating to naturalization, and for other purposes ", approved May 9, 1918 (U. S. C., title 8, sec. 376), is hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect ninety days after its enactment. Approved, June 15, 1935.

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