74th congress. SESS. II. CHS. 422, 423. MAY 18, 1936. 1355 



[CHAPTER 422.] 



AN ACT 



To amend section 5 of the Act of March 2, 1919, generally known as the "War ls.14'32.] 



Minerals Relief Statutes." [PubUc, No. 602.1 



Be it enacted hy the Senate and H<m,se of Representatives of the 

 United States of America in Congress assembled, That in any claim "War Minerals Re- 

 that has heretofore been filed within the time and in the manner mem. " ^ ' '™'° " 

 provided by the Act approved March 2, 1919 (40 Stat. 1272), as 42^5.- s^jVoflsT p! 

 amended, generally referred to as the "War Minerals Relief Statutes", n^- 

 in which the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia under the '"'''■ 

 authority conferred upon said court by the Act approved February 

 13, 1929 (45 Stat. 1166), has adjudged or decreed interest payments 

 or obligations to be losses reimbursable within the meaning of the 

 Act of March 2, 1919 (40 Stat. 1272) as amended, the Secretary of interest payments on 

 the Interior shall open or reopen such claim and include in his «'^'-" «'^"°^ ""ler. 

 adjustments and paj'ments of losses, interest which has been paid or 

 has accrued to the date of approval of this Act : Provided, however, Provisos. 

 That such losses shall be shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary 

 of the Interior as a matter of fact to be the result of a legal obliga- 

 tion incurred within the statutory period as provided in said Act of 

 March 2, 1919 : And provided further.^ That the sum paid in satisfy- i-imitation on total 

 ing said claims shall not exceed in total $1,250,000. It is also '^'euiements; dis- 

 provided that all settlements under this Act and pursuant to its ci^arge of liabiuty. 

 provisions shall constitute full and complete discharge of all obliga- 

 tions of the United States accruing under the War Minerals Act 

 and Acts amendatory thereof. 



Approved, May 18, 1936. 



[CHAPTER 423.] 



JOINT RESOLUTION 



May 18, 1936. 

 To provide for participation by the United States in the Ninth International [H. J. Res. 538.] 

 Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy in Rumania, in 1937; and to [Pub. Res., No. 93.] 

 authorize and request the President of the United States to invite the Inter- 

 national Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy to hold its tenth 

 congress in the United States in 1939, and to invite foreign countries to par- 

 ticipate in that congress. 



Resolved hy the Senate a/nd House of Representatives of the United 

 States of Anwrica in Congress assenibk'd. That there is hereby ^Ninth international 



, . ' , , ■ i. 1 J. i! • ii rr ", Congress of Military 



authorized to be appropriated, out or any money m the treasury not Medicine and Phar- 

 otherwise appropriated, the sum of $11,500, or so much thereof as ™sum^a™hOTf^d'for 

 may be necessary, for the expenses of participation by the United parudpation expenses. 

 States in the Ninth International Congress of Militarj' Medicine and 

 Pharmacy to be held in Rumania in 1937, including personal services 

 in the District of Columbia or elsewhere without reference to the 

 Classification Act of 1923, as amended; stenographic reporting and ^jy^tfj^^'^ without 

 other services by contract if deemed necessary without regard to K.s.,sec.'3709, p.733. 

 section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C, title 41, sec. 5) ; rent; u.s.c.p.isos. 

 traveling expenses; purchase of necessary books, documents, news- 

 papers, periodicals, and majas; stationery; official cards; entertain- 

 ment ; printing and binding, including the payment of not to exceed in™'"'°ft ^o't'^aiu"*^- 

 $500 to the Association of Militarj^ Surgeons of the United States can' Delegation. 

 toward the cost of printing the report of the American Delegation 

 to the Ninth Congress ; and such other expenses as may be authorized 

 by the Secretarv of State, including the reimbursement of other Reimbursement of 



^ .,. » i-i ^ 1 1 ij! Other appropriations. 



appropriations from which ]iayments may have been made tor any 

 of the purposes herein specified, to be expended under the direction 

 of the Secretary of State. 



