EXPLOSIVES See MINERAL LANDS, MINES AND MINING; PENAL LAWS FARM LOAN ACT FEDERAL CONTROL ACT See INTERSTATE COMMERCE FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION See WATERS FEDERAL RESERVE BANKS See NATIONAL BANKS FISH AND GAME FLYING See NAVY; POSTAL SERVICE; WAR DEPARTMENT AND MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT FOOD AND FUEL Act of Dec. 31, 1919, ch. 33, 38. United States Sugar Equalization Board - Continuance - Distribu An Act To provide for the national welfare by continuing the United States Sugar Equalization Board until December 31, 1920, and for other purposes. [Act of Dec. 31, 1919, ch. 33, 41 Stat. L. 386.] [United States Sugar Equalization Board-continuance - distribution of sugar-Act of Aug. 10, 1917, amended.] That the President is authorized to continue during the year ending December 31, 1920, the United States Sugar Equalization Board (Incorporated), a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware, and to vote or use the stock in such corporation held by him for the benefit of the United States, or otherwise exercise his control over the corporation and its directors, in such a manner as to authorize and require them to adopt and carry out until December 31, 1920, plans and methods. of securing, if found necessary for the public good, an adequate supply and an equitable distribution of sugar at a fair and reasonable price to the people of the United States. Sections 5 and 10 of the Act entitled "An Act to further provide for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel," approved August 10, 1917, as far as the same relates to raw or refined sugar, syrups, or molasses, are hereby continued in full force and effect until December 31, 1920, notwithstanding the provisions of section 24 of said Act: Provided, That the provisions of this Act shall expire as to the domestic product June 30, 1920: And provided further, That the zone system of sale and distribution of sugars heretofore established by the said United States Sugar Equalization Board shall be abolished and shall not be reestablished or maintained, and that sugars shall be permitted to be sold and to circulate freely in every portion of the United States. The termination of this Act shall not affect any act done, or any right or obligation accruing or accrued, or any suit. or proceeding had or commenced in any civil case before the said termination pursuant to this Act; but all rights and liabilities under this Act arising before its termination shall continue and may be enforced in the same manner as if the Act had not terminated. Any offense committed and all penalties, forfeitures, or liabilities incurred prior to such termination may be prosecuted or punished in the same manner and with the same effect as if this Act had not been terminated. [41 Stat. L. 386.] For Act of Aug. 10, 1917, mentioned in the text, see 1918 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. 181. FOREIGN RELATIONS FOREST RESERVES See PUBLIC PARKS; TIMBER LANDS AND FOREST RESERVES FOURTEENTH CENSUS See CENSUS GAS See PUBLIC LANDS GENERAL GRANT NATIONAL PARK See PUBLIC PARKS GEODETIC SURVEY See COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS See PUBLIC PROPERTY, BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS HARBORS See RIVERS, HARBORS AND CANALS HAWAII See PUBLIC PARKS HEALTH AND QUARANTINE Act of March 6, 1920, ch. 94 (Deficiency Appropriation Act), 40. posal, 40. Dis Officers of Public Health Service - Quartermaster Supplies- Act of June 5, 1920, ch. 235 (Sundry Civil Appropriation Act), 41. · CROSS-REFERENCES See also AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; HOSPITALS AND ASYLUMS [SEC. 1.] * [Public Health Service - articles produced by patients disposal.] That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to make regulations governing the disposal of articles produced by patients in the course of their curative treatment. either by allowing the patient to retain same or by selling the articles and depositing the money received to the credit of the appropriation from which the materials for making the articles were purchased. [41 Stat. L. 507.] This and the following paragraph are from the Deficiency Appropriation Act of March 6, 1920, ch. 94. [Officers of Public Health Service — quartermaster supplies - purchase price.] Hereafter officers of the Public Health Service may purchase quartermaster supplies from the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps at the same price as is charged officers of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. [41 Stat. L. 507.] See note to preceding paragraph. [SEC. 1.] [Officers of Public Health Service allotments from pay.] Hereafter the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to permit officers of the Public Health Service to make allotments from their pay under such regulations as he may prescribe. [41 Stat. L. 883.] This is from the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of June 5, 1920, ch. 235. An identical provision appears in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of July 19, 1919, ch. 24, 1919 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. 65, and in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of July 1, 1918, 1918 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. 204. HOMESTEADS See ALASKA; INDIANS; PUBLIC LANDS HOSPITALS AND ASYLUMS Act of Jan. 27, 1920, ch. 56, 42. Aid to State or Territorial Homes, 42. Act of March 6, 1920, ch. 94 (Deficiency Appropriation Act), 42. Sec. 1. Saint Elizabeths Hospital - Readjustment of Salaries-Accounting Officers of Treasury, 42. Articles Produced by Patients - Disposal, 43. Act of June 5, 1920, ch. 235 (Sundry Civil Appropriation Act), 43. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers - Transfer of Persons Entitled to Admission to Home, 43. Rules Governing Assignment of Classes Eligible to Admission to Allotments by Bureau of War Risk Insurance to Home· State and Territorial Homes for Disabled Soldiers and Sailors Act of June 5, 1920, ch. 267, 44. Appropriations for Specific Hospital Projects Act of March 3, 1919, Amended, 44. CROSS-REFERENCE See also HEALTH AND QUARANTINE An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled soldiers and sailors of the United States," approved August 27, 1888, as amended March 2, 1889. [Act of Jan. 27, 1920, ch. 56, 41 Stat. L. 399.] [Aid to State or Territorial Homes.] That section 1 of an Act entitled "An Act to provide aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled soldiers and sailors of the United States," approved August 27, 1888, as amended March 2, 1889, is hereby amended to read as follows: "That all States or Territories which have established, or which shall hereafter establish, State homes for disabled soldiers and sailors of the United States who served in the Civil War or in any previous or subsequent war who are disabled by age, disease, or otherwise, and by reason of such disability are incapable of earning a living, provided such disability was not incurred in service against the United States, shall be paid for every such disabled soldier or sailor who may be admitted and cared for in such home at the rate of $120 per annum. "The number of such persons for whose care any State or Territory shall receive the said payment under this Act shall be ascertained by the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers under such regulations as it may prescribe, but the said State or Territorial homes shall be exclusively under the control of the respective State or Territorial authorities, and the board of managers shall not have nor assume any management or control of said State or Territorial homes. 66 The board of managers of the national home shall, however, have power to have the said State or Territorial homes inspected at such times as it may consider necessary, and shall report the result of such inspections to Congress in its annual report: Provided, That no State shall be paid a sum exceeding one-half the cost of maintenance of each soldier or sailor by such State: Provided further, That one-half of any sum or sums retained by State homes on account of pensions received from inmates shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for. That no money shall be apportioned to any State or Territorial home that maintains a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are sold: Provided further, That for any sum or sums collected in any manner from inmates of such State or Territorial homes to be used for the support of said homes a like amount shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for, but this proviso shall not apply to any State or Territorial home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained." [41 Stat. L. 399.] For Act of Aug. 27, 1888, amended by the text, see 3 Fed. Stat. Ann. (2d ed.) 596. [SEC. 1.] [Saint Elizabeths Hospital - readjustment of salaries -accounting officers of Treasury.] Hereafter the accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized to credit the accounts of the special disbursing agent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital with such amounts as he has or may hereafter pay in carrying out the provision of the Sundry Civil Act of July 19, 1919, relating to the readjustment of salaries at the hospital, and the schedule of salaries and |