right, title, or debt so claimed, and if suit shall be so instituted then the money or other property of the enemy, or ally of enemy, against whom such interest, right, or title is asserted, or debt claimed, shall be retained in the custody of the Alien Property Custodian, or in the Treasury of the United States, as provided in this Act, and until any final judgment or decree which shall be entered in favor of the claimant shall be fully satisfied by payment or conveyance, transfer, assignment, or delivery by the defendant or by the Alien Property. Custodian or Treasurer of the United States on order of the court, or until final judgment or decree shall be entered against the claimant, or suit otherwise terminated: Provided, however, That in respect of all property heretofore determined by the President to have been held for, by, on account of, or on behalf of, or for the benefit of a person who was an enemy or ally of enemy, if the President, after further investigation, shall determine that such person was an enemy or ally of enemy solely by reason of residence in that portion of the territory of any nation associated with the United States in the prosecution of the war which was occupied by the military or naval forces of Germany or Austria-Hungary, or their allies, and that such person is a citizen or subject of such associated nation, then the President, without any application being made therefor, may order the payment, conveyance, transfer, assignment, or delivery of such money or other property held by the Alien Property Custodian, or by the Treasurer of the United States, or of the interest therein to which the President shall determine such person entitled, either to the said enemy or to the person by whom said property was conveyed, transferred, assigned, delivered or paid over to the Alien Property Custodian. And the receipt of the said enemy or of the person by whom said property was conveyed, transferred, assigned, or delivered to the Alien Property Custodian, shall be a full acquittance and discharge of the Alien Property Custodian or the Treasurer of the United States as the case may be, and of the United States in respect of all claims of all persons heretofore or hereafter claiming any right, title, or interest in said property, or compensation or damages arising from the capture of such property by the President or the Alien Property Custodian: Provided further, however, That except as herein provided no such action by the President shall har any person from the prosecution of any suit at law or in equity to establish any right, title, or interest which he may have therein. "Except as herein provided, the money or other property conveyed, transferred, assigned, delivered, or paid to the Alien Property Custodian shall not be liable to lien, attachment, garnishment, trustee process, or execution, or subject to any order or decree of any court. "This section shall not apply, however, to money paid to the Alien Property Custodian under section 10 hereof." [41 Stat. L. 35.] This is from the "Third Deficiency Appropriation Act" of July 11, 1919, ch. 6. Joint Resolution To continue the control of imports of dyes and coal-tar products. [Res. of Nov. 19, 1919, No. 21, ch. 121, 41 Stat. L. 361.] [Dyes and coal tar products control of imports extension of period.] That notwithstanding the prior termination of the present war, the provisions of the Trading with the Enemy Act, approved October 6, 1917, and of any proclamation of the President issued in pursuance thereof which prohibit or control the importation into the United States of dyes or other products derived directly or indirectly from coal tar, are continued until January 15, 1920. [41 Stat. L. 361.] For Act of Oct. 6, 1917, mentioned in the text, see 1918 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. 846. TREASURY DEPARTMENT Act of July 19, 1919, ch. 24, 358. Sec. 1. Enforcement of Laws - Detail of Persons, 358. Fuel for Buildings - Contract for Purchase - Anticipating Appropriation, 358. [SEC. 1.] [Enforcement of laws detail of persons.] The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to use for, and in connection with, the enforcement of the laws relating to the Treasury Department and the several branches of the public service under its control, not exceeding at any one time four persons paid from the appropriation for the collection of customs, four persons paid from the appropriation for salaries and expenses of internalrevenue agents or from the appropriation for the foregoing purpose, and four persons paid from the appropriation for suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, but not exceeding six persons so detailed shall be employed at any one time hereunder: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to deprive the Secretary of the Treasury from making any detail now otherwise authorized by existing law. [41 Stat. L. 173.] This and the following paragraph are from the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of July 19, 1919, ch. 24. [Fuel for buildings contract for purchase — anticipating appropriation.] * That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to contract for the purchase of fuel for public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department in advance of the availability of the appropriation for the payment thereof. Such contracts, however, shall not exceed the necessities of the current fiscal year. [41 Stat. L. 171.] This is from the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of July 19, 1919, ch. 24. TRUST COMPANIES UNIFORMS See COAST GUARD; NAVAL ACADEMY; NAVY; WAR DEPARTMENT AND MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT VESSELS See SHIPPING AND NAVIGATION VICTORY LIBERTY LOAN ACT See PUBLIC DEBT VIRGIN ISLANDS See POSTAL SERVICE VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION Act of Feb. 26, 1919, ch. 46, 359. Special Fund for Vocational Education Use, 359. Act of July 11, 1919, ch. 12, 360. Courses Prescribed Persons Entitled to Courses of Vocational Rehabilitation Act of July 19, 1919, ch. 24, 361. Sec. 1. Additional Appropriation - Compensation for Personal Service, 361. Act of Nov. 4, 1919, ch. 93, 361. Sec. 1. Additional Appropriation - Salary Limitation, 361. An Act Extending the use of the special fund for vocational education provided by section seven of the vocational rehabilitation Act, approved June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes. [Act of Feb. 26, 1919, ch. 46, 40 Stat. L. 1179.] [Special fund for vocational education-use.] That the special fund for vocational education, authorized by section seven of the vocational rehabilitation Act, approved June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eighteen, together with the items of appropriation made by said Act, are hereby made available, in addition to the purposes therein prescribed, for such other expenses as in the discretion of the board is deemed necessary and proper for the payment of necessary travel, lodging, subsistence, and other expenses of disabled men while under investigation by the board to determine their eligibility for training under the Act, and the purchase of supplies, equipment, and clothing for disabled men when ready to enter employment, and the traveling expenses of such men to place of employment and for supplementing any or all of the other items of appropriation made by said Act. [40 Stat. L. 1179.] For Act of June 27, 1918, sec. 7, mentioned in the text, see 1918 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. 878. An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for vocational rehabili tation and return to civil employment of disabled persons discharged from the military or naval forces of the United States, and for other purposes," approved June 27, 1918. [Act of July 11, 1919, ch. 12, 41 Stat. L. 158.] [Persons entitled to courses of vocational rehabilitation-courses prescribed - compensation-war risk insurance-appropriation.] That section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for vocational rehabilitation and return to civil employment of disabled persons discharged from the military or naval forces of the United States, and for other purposes," approved June 27, 1918, be hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2. That every person enlisted, enrolled, drafted, inducted, or appointed in the military or naval forces of the United States, including members of training camps authorized by law, who, since April 7, 1917, has resigned or has been discharged or furloughed therefrom under honorable conditions, having a disability incurred, increased, or aggravated while a member of such forces, or later developing a disability traceable in the opinion of the board to service with such forces, and who, in the opinion of the Federal Board for Vocational Education, is in need of vocational rehabilitation to overcome the handicap of such disability, shall be furnished by the said board, where vocational rehabilitation is feasible, such course of vocational rehabilitation as the board shall prescribe and provide. "The board shall have the power, and it shall be its duty, to furnish the persons included in this section suitable courses of vocational rehabilitation, to be prescribed and provided by the board; and every person electing to follow such a course of vocational rehabilitation shall, while following the same, be paid monthly by the said board from the appropriation hereinafter provided such sum as in the judgment of the said board is necessary for his maintenance and support and for the maintenance and support of persons depending upon him, if any: Provided, however, That in no event shall the sum so paid such person while pursuing such course be more than $80 per month for a single man without dependents, or for a man with dependents $100 per month plus the several sums prescribed as family allowances under section 204 of Article II of the War Risk Insurance Act. "No compensation under Article III of the Act entitled 'An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Risk Insurance in the Treasury Department," approved October 6, 1917, shall be paid for the period during which any such person is being furnished by said board a course of vocational rehabilitation and support as herein authorized: Provided, however, That in the event any person pursuing a course of vocational rehabilitation is entitled under said Article III to compensation in an amount in excess of the payments made to him by the said board for his support and the support of his dependents, if any, the Bureau of War Risk Insurance shall pay monthly to such person such additional amount as may be necessary to equal the total compensation due under said Article III of said Act. "There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, available immediately and until expended, the sum of $6,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be used by the Federal Board for Vocational Education for the purpose of making the payments prescribed by this section and for defraying the administrative expenses incident thereto." [41 Stat. L. 158.] For Act of June 27, 1918, sec. 2, amended by this Act, see 1918 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. 875. For War Risk Insurance Act, mentioned in the text, see 9 Fed. Stat. Ann. (2d ed.) 1299; 1918 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. 889. [SEC. 1.] [Additional appropriation compensation for personal service.] For an additional amount for carrying out the provisions of the act entitled "An act to provide for the vocational rehabilitation and return to civil employment of disabled persons discharged from the military or naval forces of the United States, and for other purposes," approved June 27, 1918, as amended, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, printing and binding to be done at the Government Printing Office, law books, books of reference, and periodicals, $8,000,000, of which sum not exceeding $15,000 may be expended for rent of quarters in the District of Columbia if space is not provided in government-owned buildings by the Public Buildings Commission: Provided, That no person shall be paid by said Board out of the appropriation contained in this Act, or the Act approved July [11], 1919, amending section 2 of the Act approved June 27, 1918, at a rate of compensation exceeding $2,500 per annum and rates above that sum, except not to exceed the following: One at $6,000, two at $5,000 each, twenty-eight in excess of $3,500 and not in excess of $4,000 each, twenty-seven at $3,500 each, seventy at $3,000 cach, sixty at $2,750 each, and one hundred at $2,500 each. [41 Stat. L. 178.] This is from the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of July 19, 1919, ch. 24. The Act of July 11, 1919, mentioned in the text, is set out supra, this title, p. 360. For Act of June 27, 1918, mentioned in the text, see 1918 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. 878. [SEC. 1.] .. * [Additional appropriation — salary limitation.] For an additional amount for carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the vocational rehabilitation and return to civil employment of disabled persons discharged from the military or naval forces of the United States, and for other purposes," approved June 27, 1918, as amended, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, printing and binding to be done at the Government Printing Office, law books, books of reference, and periodicals, $5,000,000: Provided, That the salary limitations prescribed by the item of appropriation for vocational rehabilitation contained in the Sundry Civil Act, approved July 19, 1919, shall apply to the appropriation hereby made. [41 Stat. L. 328.] This is from the "First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1920," of Nov. 4, 1919, For Act of June 27, 1918, see 1918 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. 875. ch. 93. For Act of July 19, 1919, mentioned in the text, see the preceding text paragraph. |