paired. Legal rights not im- Provided further, however, That except as herein provided no such action by the President shall bar 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. Proceedings for re covery. Determination citizenship, etc. "(c) Any person whose property the President is authorized to return under the provisions of subsection (b) hereof may file notice of claim for the return of such property, as provided in subsection (a) hereof, and thereafter may make application to the President for allowance of such claim and/or may institute suit in equity to recover such property, as provided in said subsection, and with like effect. of The President or the court, as the case may be, may make the same determinations with respect to citizenship and other relevant facts that the President is authorized to make under the provisions of subsection (b) hereof. Estates of decedents. Proviso. Conditions imposed. Returns to nationals of allied nations, sub tion thereby. Further restrictions. "(d) Whenever a person, deceased, would have been entitled, if living, to the return of his money or other property hereunder, then his legal representative may proceed for the return of such property as provided in subsection (a) hereof: Provided, however, That the President or the court, as the case may be, before granting such relief shall impose such conditions by way of security or otherwise, as the President or the court, respectively, shall deem sufficient to insure that such legal representative will redeliver to the Alien Property Custodian such portion of the money or other property so received by him as shall be distributable to any person not eligible as a claimant under subsections (a) or (c) hereof. "(e) No money or other property shall be returned nor any debt ject to reciprocal ac- allowed under this section to any person who is a citizen or subject of any nation which was associated with the United States in the prosecution of the war, unless such nation in like case extends reciprocal rights to citizens of the United States; nor in any event shall a debt be allowed under this section unless it was owing to and owned by the claimant prior to October 6, 1917, and as to claimants other than citizens of the United States unless it arose with reference to the money or other property held by the Alien Property Custodian or Treasurer of the United States hereunder. No other lien, etc., enforceable. Moneys from patents, etc., excepted. Vol. 40, p. 420. "(f) 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. "(g) This section shall not apply, however, to money paid to the Alien Property Custodian under section 10 hereof." Approved, June 5, 1920. June 5, 1920. [S. 2789.] [Public, No. 253.] Sierra National Forest, Calif. within, authorized. CHAP. 242.-An Act For the consolidation of forest lands in the Sierra National Forest, California, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Exchange of lands Interior be, and hereby is, authorized in his discretion to accept on behalf of the United States title to any lands within the Sierra National Forest, California, if in the opinion of the Secretary of Agriculture the public interests will be benefited thereby and the lands are chiefly valuable for national forest purposes, and in exchange therefor may give not to exceed an equal value of such national forest land or timber within the national forests of California as may be determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, and in determining the relative values of the lands or timber to be exchanged, consideration shall be given to any reservations which either party may make of timber, minerals, or easements. Timber given in such exchanges shall be cut and removed under Timber removal, etc. the laws and regulations relating to the national forests, and under the direction and supervision and in accordance with the requirements of the Secretary of Agriculture. Lands conveyed to the Accepted United States under this Act shall, upon acceptance of title, become forest. a part of the Sierra National Forest. Approved, June 5, 1920. added lands to national CHAP. 243.-An Act To amend section 3 of an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States,' approved February 5, 1917. June 5, 1920. [S. 3566.] [Public, No. 254.] Immigration ed. Act, Admission of illiter during Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 3 of an Act 1917. entitled "An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the Vol. 39, p. 878, amendresidence of aliens in, the United States," approved February 5, 1917, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "Provided further, That an alien who can not read may, if otherwise ates, on request of citiadmissible, be admitted if, within five years after this Act becomes zen serving World War, and law, a citizen of the United States who has served in the military or marrying therewith. naval forces of the United States during the war with the Imperial German Government, requests that such alien be admitted, and with the approval of the Secretary of Labor, marries such alien at a United States immigration station. Approved, June 5, 1920. CHAP. 244.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the incorporated town of Petersburg, Alaska, to issue bonds in any sum not exceeding $75,000 for the purpose of constructing and installing a municipal electric light and power plant and for the construction of a public-school building," approved September 29, 1919. June 5, 1920. [S. 4286.] [Public, No. 255.] Petersburg, Alaska. p. 289, amended. Public Laws, 1st sess., Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the incorporated town of Petersburg, Alaska, to issue bonds in any sum not exceeding $75,000 for the purpose of constructing and installing a municipal electric light and power plant and for the construction of a public-school building," be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: "SECTION 1. That the incorporated town of Petersburg, Alaska, May issue bonds for is hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds in any sum not exceeding $150,000 for the purpose of constructing and installing a municipal electric light and power plant and for the construction of a public-school building." SEC. 2. That section 5 of the Act mentioned in the preceding section is hereby amended to read as follows: public improvements. Amount increased. Public Laws, 1st sess., p. 290, amended. Use of funds restricted. "SEC. 5. That no part of the funds arising from the sale of said bonds shall be used for any purpose other than specified in this Act. Said bonds shall be sold only in such amounts as the common council shall direct, and the proceeds thereof shall be disbursed for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned and under the order and direction of said common council from time to time as the same may be required for said purposes: Provided, That not to exceed $115,000 of the Proviso. proceeds of the sale of said bonds shall be expended for the construc- modified. tion and installation of the electric light and power plant, and not to exceed $35,000 thereof shall be expended for the construction of the public-school building." Approved, June 5, 1920. Divisions of proceeds June 5, 1920. [H. R. 2.1 Public, No. 256.] Pensions. expedition. to persons serving in. CHAP. 245.-An Act To pension soldiers and sailors of the War with Spain, the Philippine insurrection, and the China relief expedition. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United War with Spain, in States of America in Congress assembled, That all persons who served Philippines insurrec- ninety days or more in the military or naval service of the United tion, and China re.ief States during the War with Spain, the Philippine insurrection, and Rates for disabilities the China relief expedition, and who have been honorably discharged therefrom, and who are now or who may hereafter be suffering from any mental or physical disability or disabilities of a permanent character, not the result of their own vicious habits, which so incapacitates them from the performance of manual labor as to render them unable to earn a support, shall, upon making due proof of the fact, according to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may provide, be placed upon the list of invalid pensioners of the United States, and be entitled to receive a pension not exceeding $30 per month and not less than $12 per month, proportioned to the degree of inability to earn a support; and in determining such inability each and every infirmity shall be duly considered, and the aggregate of the Commencement, etc. disabilities shown be rated, and such pension shall commence from Provisos. Service pensions for age. the date of the filing of the application in the Bureau of Pensions, after the passage of this Act, upon proof that the disability or disabilities then existed, and shall continue during the existence of the same: Provided, That any such person who has reached the age of 62 years shall, upon making proof of such fact, be placed upon the pension roll and entitled to receive a pension of $12 per month. In case such person has reached the age of 68 years, $18 per month; in case such person has reached the age of 72 years, $24 per month; and in case such person has reached the age of 75 years, $30 per month: Allowed present pen- Provided further, That persons who are now receiving pensions under existing laws, or whose claims are pending in the Bureau of Pensions, may, by application to the Commissioner of Pensions, in such form as he may prescribe, showing themselves entitled thereto, receive the benefits of this Act; and nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent any pensioner thereunder from prosecuting his claim and receiving his pension under any other general or special Act: Provided, however, That no person shall receive more than one consid- pension for the same period: And provided further, That rank in the service shall not be considered in applications filed under this Act. sioners or applicants. Limitation. Rank not ered. Attorney's fee lim ited. Punishment violations. SEC. 2. That no agent, attorney, or other person engaged in preparing, presenting, or prosecuting any claim under the provisions of this Act, shall, directly or indirectly, contract for, demand, receive, or retain for such services in preparing, presenting, or prosecuting such claim a sum greater than $20, which sum shall be payable only upon the order of the Commissioner of Pensions under such rules and for regulations as he may deem proper to make, and any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this section, or who shall wrongfully withhold from a pensioner or claimant the whole or any part of a pension or claim allowed or due such pensioner or claimant under this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall, for each and every such offense, be fined not exceeding $500, or be imprisoned at hard labor not exceeding two years, or both, in the discretion of the court. Regular Army, Navy, and Marinó Corps. SEC. 3. That from and after the approval of this Act all persons whose names are on the pension roll, and who, while in the service of the United States in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps and in the Rates for specified line of duty, shall have lost one hand or one foot or been totally disabled in the same, shall receive a pension at the rate of $60 per month; that all persons who, in such service and in like manner, shall have lost an arm at or above the elbow, or a leg at or above the knee, or been totally disabled in the same, shall receive a pension at the loss of limbs. Ante, p. 586. rate of $65 per month; that all persons who, in such service and in like manner, shall have lost an arm at the shoulder joint or a leg at the hip joint, or so near the shoulder or hip joint, or where the same is in such condition as to prevent the use of an artificial limb, shall receive a pension at the rate of $72 per month; and that all persons who, in such service and in like manner, shall have lost one hand and one foot, or been totally disabled in the same, shall receive a pension at the rate of $90 per month; and that all persons who, in such service and in like manner, shall have lost both eyes, or been totally disabled in the same or who, in such service and in like manner, sustained injuries that proved the direct cause of the subsequent total loss of the sight of both eyes, shall receive a pension at the rate of $100 per month. Approved, June 5, 1920. Loss of eyes. CHAP. 246.-An Act Amending an Act entitled "An Act authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Interior to sell to the city of Los Angeles, California, certain public lands in California; and granting rights in, over, and through the Sierra Forest Reserve, the Santa Barbara Forest Reserve, and the San Gabriel Timberland Reserve, California, to the city of Los Angeles, California, " approved June 30, 1906. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of an Act entitled "An Act authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Inte- ed. rior to sell to the city of Los Angeles, California, certain public lands in California; and granting rights in, over, and through the Sierra Forest Reserve, the Santa Barbara Forest Reserve, and the San Gabriel Timberland Reserve, California, to the city of Los Angeles, California," approved June 30, 1906, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: June 5, 1920. [H. R. 406.] [Public, No. 257.] Los Angeles, Calif. Rights of way grant "SECTION 1. That there is hereby granted to the city of Los ed to construct water Angeles, California, a municipal corporation of the State of California, supply plant, etc. all necessary rights of way, not to exceed two hundred and fifty feet Kern, and Los Angeles Forest, added. in width, over and through the public lands of the United States in the counties of Mono, Inyo, Kern, and Los Angeles, State of Califor-Through Mono, Invo, nia, and over and through the Inyo and Santa Barbara National Counties, etc. Forests, and that portion of the Angeles National Forest situate and lying west of range six west, San Bernardino meridian, as established by the United States public land survey, and that portion of the Sequoia National Sequoia National Forest east of the crest of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, in said State, for the purpose of constructing, operating, and maintaining such canals, ditches, pipes and pipe lines, flumes, tunnels, and conduits for conveying water to the city of Los Angeles as have been heretofore constructed, and for the purpose of constructing, operating, and maintaining power and electric plants, poles, and lines for the generation and distribution of electric energy, together with such lands as the Secretary of the Interior may deem to be actually necessary for power houses, diverting and storage dams and reservoirs, and necessary buildings and structures to be used in connection with the construction, operation, and maintenance of said water power and electric plants whenever said city shall have filed as hereinafter provided, and the same shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Interior, a map or maps showing the boundaries, locations, and extent of said proposed rights of way for the purposes hereinabove set forth: Provided, however, That the grant Lands excluded. hereby made shall not apply to lands located in the drainage basin of Kern River or in that portion of Mono County lying north_and west of the Owens River drainage basin, and embracing Mono Lake drainage basin and Adobe Valley and Black Lake drainage basin, or to lands located upon Bishop Creek or its branches in Inyo County, Proviso. ed. Vol. 34, p. 801,amend Maps to be filed in land offices. Maps of changes. Action of Secretary Provisos. filing of maps. of way for water uses, allowed. or to lands in the Fish Slough Reservoir site in the counties of Inyo and Mono, in said State, or to any lands which may be found to have been illegally purchased from the United States by said city, or to any lands the title to which was on the 31st day of October, 1919, or is now forfeitable to the United States by force of any Act of Congress. SEC. 2. That section 2 of the Act entitled and approved as aforesaid be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2. That on or before the 31st day of December, 1922, the city of Los Angeles shall file with the register of the United States land offices in the districts where the lands traversed by said rights of way are located a map or maps showing the boundaries, locations, and extent of said proposed rights of way, for the purposes stated in section 1 of this act, and there shall also be filed within that time all desired changes of location, the amended map or maps necessary to show such changes of location to be filed in the same manner and subject to the same approval as are the original map or maps of location, but no construction work shall be commenced on any of said lands until the map or maps have been filed as herein provided and until said map or maps and the proposed plan of develof Interior required. opment have been approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and the approval by the Secretary of the Interior of any amended map or maps showing changes of location of said rights of way shall operate as an abandonment ipso facto by the city of Los Angeles, to the extent of such change or changes, of the rights of way indicated on Rights begin with the original map or maps: Provided, That any rights inuring to the city of Los Angeles under this Act shall, on approval by the Secretary of the Interior of the map or maps and the plan of development referred to, relate back to the date of the filing of said map or maps with the register of the United States land office, as provided herein: Grants of other rights Provided, That during the period allowed the city of Los Angeles, for filing maps or applications under this Act, the head of the department having jurisdiction over the lands, may grant easements or permits for rights of way, under any Act of Congress now in force or hereafter enacted, for pipes, pipe lines, canals, ditches, flumes, tunnels, or reservoirs for the conveyance, delivery, or storage of water for irrigation, mining, or domestic purposes, or for the generation of electric power, including rights of way for the construction of power plants, towers, transmission and distribution lines, for the generation and delivery of electricity, if after affording the city an opportunity to be heard, such head of department shall find that the easement or permit may be granted without destruction of or material interference with the works constructed or proposed to be constructed by the city Right to make fur- and for which application is filed by said city within ninety days of ther grants reserved. notice of the possibly conflicting application: Provided further, That all rights of way herein and hereby granted and all other rights of way hereafter granted under general laws, for the purposes herein enumerated, over lands within the operation of this Act, shall be with the reservation of the power to thereafter grant other rights of way by easement or permit, conflicting with such prior grants or permits for the purpose of permitting crossing of rights of way, including rights of way for roads, or for limited distances necessary common use of prior rights of way, under such conditions as the head of the department shall find necessary and shall determine to be properly protective against interference with and not detrimental to the construction, operation, and maintenance of the works of prior grantees or permittees. Condition. Conditions. Vol. 34, p. 801,amended. Protection to homestead, mining, etc.; ciaims. SEC. 3. That section 3 of the Act entitled and approved as aforesaid be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: "SEC. 3. That the rights of way hereby granted shall not be effective over any land upon which homestead, mining, or other existing valid |