ments proper conveyance shall be made back to the United States by the allottee, whereupon the land shall become subject to disposition in the same manner as other lands under the provisions of this Act. [41 Stat. L. 756.] SEC. 15. [Sale to war veterans-payment.] That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to sell allotted and inherited Indian land held in trust by the United States on the Crow Reservation, Montana, with the consent of the Indian allottee or the heirs, respectively, to any soldier, seaman, or marine who served under the President of the United States for ninety days during the late war against the Imperial German Government, or in any war in which the United States was engaged with a foreign power, or in the Civil War, who will actually settle on said land, on annual payments covering a period not to exceed twenty years, as may be agreed upon under such rules, regulations, and conditions as the said Secretary of the Interior may prescribe and in accordance with the provisions of this Act. [41 Stat. L. 756.] SEC. 16. [School lands-grant to Montana - payment-school attendance by Crow Indian children.] That there is hereby granted to the State of Montana for common-school purposes sections sixteen and thirty-six, within the territory described herein, or such parts of said sections as may be nonmineral or nontimbered, and for which the said State has not heretofore received indemnity lands under existing laws; and in case either of said sections or parts thereof is lost to the State by reason of allotment or otherwise, the governor of said State, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, is hereby authorized to select other unoccupied, unreserved, nonmineral, nontimbered lands within said reservation, not exceeding two sections in any one township. The United States shall pay the Indians for the lands so granted $5 per acre, and sufficient money is hereby appropriated out of the Treasury of the United States not otherwise. appropriated to pay for said school lands granted to the said State: Provided, That the mineral rights in said school lands are hereby reserved for the benefit of the Crow Tribe of Indians as herein authorized: Provided further, That the Crow Indian children shall be permitted to attend the public schools of said State on the same condition as the children of white citizens of said State. [41 Stat. L. 756.] SEC. 17. [Town sites-reservation - park of Crow agency excepted.] That the Secretary of the Interior (with the approval of the Crow Tribal Council) is authorized to set aside for administrative purposes (at the Crow Agency and at Pryor subagency) such tracts for town-site purposes as in his opinion may be required for the public interests, not to exceed eighty acres at each town site, and he may cause the same to be surveyed into lots and blocks and disposed of under such regulations as he may prescribe; and he is authorized also to set apart and reserve for school, park, and other public purposes not more than ten acres in said town sites; and patents shall be issued for the lands so set apart and reserved for school, park, and other purposes to the municipality or school district legally charged with the care and custody of lands donated for such purposes: Provided, however, That the present park at Crow Agency shall not be included in such town site or be subject to such disposition. The purchase price of all town lots sold in town sites shall be paid at such time as the Secretary of the Interior may direct and placed to the credit of the Crow Tribe of Indians, [41 Stat. L. 757.] SEC. 18. [Appropriation for expenses of councils, etc.] That the sum of $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the tribal funds of the Crow Indians of the State of Montana, is hereby appropriated to pay the expenses of the general council, or councils, or business committee, in looking after the affairs of said tribe, including the actual and necessary expenses and the per diems paid its legislative committee when visiting Washington on tribal business at the request of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs or a committee of Congress, said sum and the actual and necessary expenses to be approved by and certified by the Secretary of the Interior, and when so approved and certified to be paid: Provided, That not to exceed $2,500 shall be expended in any one fiscal year. [41 Stat. L. 757.] INSURANCE See CIVIL SERVICE; SHIPPING AND NAVIGATION; WAR DEPARTMENT AND MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT INTERIOR DEPARTMENT Act of June 5, 1920, ch. 235 (Sundry Civil Appropriation Act), 64. Fuel Delivery to Branches of Federal Government - Pay- [SEC. 1.] [Sand, etc.- hauling in District of Columbia - use of government trucks.] Hereafter the Secretary of the Interior may have sand, gravel, stone, and other material hauled for the municipal government of the District of Columbia and for branches of the Federal service in the District of Columbia, whenever it may be practicable and economical to have such work performed by using trucks of the Government fuel yards not needed at the time for the hauling of fuel. Payment for such work shall be made on the basis of the actual cost to the Government fuel yards; [41 Stat. L. 913.] This and the paragraph which follows are from the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of June 5, 1920, ch. 235. [Fuel delivery to branches of federal government - payment.] Hereafter the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to deliver, during the months of April, May, and June of each year, to all branches of the Federal service and the municipal government in the District of Columbia, such quantities of fuel for their use during the following fiscal year as it may be practicable to store at the points of consumption, payment therefor to be made by these branches of the Federal service and municipal government from their applicable appropriations for such fiscal year. [41 Stat. L. 913.] See note to preceding paragraph. INTERNAL REVENUE Act of May 31, 1920, ch. 217 (Agricultural Appropriation Act), 65. CROSS-REFERENCE See also CUSTOMS DUTIES [Cotton Futures Act amended - exemption of contracts from tax -information furnished by cotton dealers secs. 5 and 8 affected.] That the amendments relating to cotton provided for in section 6 of the Act known as the wheat guarantee Act, approved March 4, 1919, are hereby recognized and declared to be permanent legislation. [41 Stat. L. 725.j This is from the Agricultural Appropriation Act of May 31, 1920, ch. 217. For amendments to Cotton Futures Act, made permanent legislation by the text, see 1919 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. 195. For Cotton Futures Act, see 1918 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. 359 et seq. Another provision of the Agricultural Appropriation Act relating to contracts tenderable under sec. 5 was repealed by Resolution of June 2, 1920. The resolution read as follows: "That the provision of the Act entitled 'An Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921,' approved May 31, 1920, which reads as follows: That hereafter each lot of cotton classified as tenderable in whole or in part on a section 5 contract of said Act as amended, shall give to the buyer the right to demand that one half of the contract shall be delivered in the official cotton standard grades of the United States from the grades of middling fair, strict good middling, good middling, strict middling, and middling, and that the seller shall have the option of delivering the other half of said contract from any of the official cotton standard grades as established in said Act,' be, and the same is hereby, repealed." INTERSTATE COMMERCE Act of Feb. 28, 1920, ch. 91, as Amended by Act of June 5, 1920, ch. 235 ("Transportation Act "), 72. TITLE I. DEFINITIONS Sec. 1. Name of Act, 72. 2. Terms Defined, 72. TITLE II. TERMINATION OF FEDERAL CONTROL Sec. 200. (a) Time of Termination, 73. (b) Enumeration of Powers Withdrawn from President, 73. (c) Effect on War Powers of President, 73. GOVERNMENT-OWNED BOATS ON INLAND WATERWAYS 201. Operation of Transportation Facilities by Secretary of War, 73. SETTLEMENT OF MATTERS ARISING OUT OF FEDERAL CONTROL COMPENSATION OF CARRIERS WITH WHICH NO CONTRACT MADE Sec. 203. (a) Measure of Compensation, 75. (b) Effect of Acceptance of Benefits, 75. REIMBURSEMENT OF DEFICITS DURING FEDERAL CONTROL 204. Manner of Arriving at Deficits" Test Period "- Certification to Secretary of Treasury of Amounts Payable to Carrier, 76. INSPECTION OF CARRIERS' RECORDS 205. Carriers' Property and Records as Subject to Inspection by President Duty of Carriers to Furnish Information, 77. CAUSES OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF FEDERAL CONTROL 206. (a) Actions against Agent of President - Period of Limitation - Courts Having Jurisdiction, 77. (b) Process Statement Filed by Agent of President with Clerk of District Court, 78. (c) Complaints Affecting Rates, etc.- Filing with Interstate Commerce Commission, 78. (d) Abatement of Pending Actions, etc.- Substitution of Agent of President, 78. (e) Judgments, etc., against Agent of President - Payment, 78. (f) Computing Period of Limitation of Actions - Period of Federal Control, 79. (g) Levy of Execution or Process on Property of Carrier, 79. REFUNDING OF CARRIERS' INDEBTEDNESS TO UNITED STATES 207. (a) Ascertainment of Carriers' Indebtedness to United States Set-off, 79. (b) Funding of Indebtedness, 79. (c) Indebtedness Incurred for Equipment — Effect of Fund ing, 80. (d) Short Term Notes Evidencing Indebtedness, 80. (e) Payment of Securities - Extension of Time - Exchange, 80. (f) Evidences of Indebtedness Secured by Equipment Trust Agreements, 80. (g) Authorization or Approval of Evidences of Idebtedness, 80. (b) Joint Rates, Fares or Charges, 81. (c) Land Grant Railroads -Transportation of Property and Troops of United States, 81. GUARANTY TO CARRIERS AFTER TERMINATION OF FEDERAL CONTROL 209. (a) Terms Used in Section Defined, 81. (b) Statement by Carrier Accepting Provisions of Section, 81. (c) Guaranty to Carriers Determination, 81. (d) Effect of Payments in Excess of Guaranty, 82. Sec. 209. (e) Manner of Computing Railway Operating Income, or Deficit Therein, 83. (f) Elements Considered in Computing Railway Operating Income or Deficit Therein, 83. (g) Ascertaining and Paying Guaranty, 83. (h) Advances to Carriers during Guaranty Period, 84. NEW LOANS TO RAILROADS Guaranty, 84. 210. (a) Loans by United States to Railroads Application to Interstate Commerce Commission, 85. (b) Investigation by Commission - Certifying Findings, etc., to Secretary of Treasury, 86. (c) Loan by Secretary of Treasury on Receipt of Certificate Terms, 86. (d) Advice and Assistance of Federal Reserve Board, 86. Issuance by Carriers, 87. TITLE III. DISPUTES BETWEEN CARRIERS AND THEIR EMPLOYEES AND SUBORDINATE OFFICIALS Sec. 300. 301. 302. 303. 304. 305. Terms Used in Title Defined, 87. Disputes Conference between Representatives of Parties Railroad Boards of Labor Adjustment - Establishment, 88. "Railroad Labor Board "- Composition - Nominations by 306. (a) Membership on Labor Board - Subsequent Ineligibility, 89. 307. 308. 309. Disputes within Jurisdiction of Labor Board - Hearings and Decisions, 89. Powers of Labor Board as to Chairmanship, Office, etc.— Investigations Regulations - Reports, 90. Right of Parties to Disputes to Hearing, 91. 310. (a) Witnesses in Investigations by Labor Board - Documentary Evidence-Depositions Fees and Mileage, 91. (b) Failure to Comply with Subpoena - Contumacy of Witness - Contempt, 91. (c) Incriminatory Testimony, 91. |