Cotton sales. Total disposition by March 1, 1936. Option contracts of sale au "SEC. 7. The Secretary shall sell the cotton held by him at his discretion, but subject to the foregoing provisions: Provided, That he shall dispose of all cotton held by him by March 1, 1936: Provided further, That notwithstanding the provisions of section 6, the Secretary shall have authority to enter into option contracts with producers of cotton to sell to the producers such cotton thorized. held by him, in such amounts and at such prices and upon such terms and conditions as the Secretary may deem advisable, in combination with rental or benefit payments provided for in part 2 of this title. "Notwithstanding any provisions of existing law, the Secretary of Agriculture may in the administration of the Agricultural Adjustment Act make public such information as he deems necessary in order to effectuate ministration the purposes of such Act." Information pertaining to ad Act. of TITLE IIIAMENDMENTS TO TITLE III-AMENDMENTS TO EMERGENCY LIEF AND CON- MISCELLANEOUS Applications for loans to Recon struction Finance Corporation. Vol. 47, p. 711. Administrator to have access to SECTION 301. After the expiration of ten days after the date upon which the Administrator has qualified and taken office, (1) no application shall be approved by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation under the provisions of subsection (a) of section 201 of the Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932, as amended, and (2) the Administrator shall have access to all applications, files, and records of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation files, etc. relating to loans and contracts and the administration of funds under such subsection: Provided, That the Reconstruction Finance Corporation may issue funds to a borrower. borrower under such subsection (a) prior to January 23, 1939, under the terms of any agreement or any commitment to bid upon or purchase bonds entered into with such borrower pursuant to an application approved prior to the date of termination, under this section, of the power of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to approve applications. DECREASE OF BORROWING POWER OF RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION SEC. 302. The amount of notes, debentures, bonds, or other such obligations which the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is authorized and empowered under section 9 of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, as amended, to have outstanding at any one time is decreased by $400,000,000. Proviso. Issue of funds to Decrease of borrowing power of Reconstruction Finance Corporation Vol. 47, p. 9. Separability clause. Short title. SEPARABILITY CLAUSE SEC. 303. If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder of the Act, and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby. SHORT TITLE SEC. 304. This Act may be cited as the "National Industrial Recovery Act." Approved, June 16, 1933, 11:55 a. m. June 16, 1933. [H. R. 6034.] [Public, No. 77.] Vol. 48, pp. 274, 279, 280, 283. Fourth Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1933. Judgments and authorized claims. Damage claims. CHAP. 100.-An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1933, and June 30, 1934, 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 following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1933, and June 30, 1934, and for other purposes, namely: War Department: Wilmington and Pennsgrove Transportation Company (United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, May 11, 1933, loss of ferryboat Harding Highway owing to collision with United States dredge W. L. Marshall), $28,819.80. This Act may be cited as the "Fourth Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1933." Approved, June 16, 1933, 1:20 p. m. [H. R. 7527.] [Public, No. 93.] Vol. 48, p. 351. CHAP. 13.-An Act Making an additional appropria- February 15, 1934. tion to carry out the purposes of the Federal Emergency Relief Act of 1933, for continuation of the CivilWorks program, and for other purposes. Federal Emer. of 1933. Appropriation tenance of, and Civil Works program. for continuing the Public Laws, 1st sess., pp. 55, Availability. Prorisos. Direct grants to agency within States. Employees Act. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, gency Relief Act That in order to provide additional funds for carrying out the purposes of the Federal Emergency Relief Act of additional of 1933, approved May 12, 1933 (48 Stat. 55), and for funds for maincontinuing the Civil-Works program under the Federal Civil Works Administration as created under authority of title II, of the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933 (48 Stat. 200), there is hereby 200. appropriated for these activities, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to remain available until June 30, 1935, the sum of $950,000,000, which shall be available for expenditure for such projects and/or purposes and under such rules and regulations as the President in his discretion may prescribe: Provided, That nothing contained in the Federal Emergency Relief Act of 1933 shall be construed as precluding the public Federal Emergency Relief Administrator from making grants for relief within a State directly to such public agency as he may designate: Provided further, That the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering Compensation injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes", approved September 7, 1916 (U.S.C., title 5, sec. 785), as amended, are hereby extended, so far as they may be applicable, to employees of the Federal Civil Works Administration only for disability or death resulting from traumatic injury while in the performance of duty, subject, however, to the following conditions and limitations: (a) that the total aggregate compensation in any individual case shall not exceed the sum of $3,500, and that the monthly compensation shall not in any event exceed the rate of $25, both ex- pensation. clusive of medical costs; (b) that the minimum limit on monthly compensation for disability, established by section 6, and the minimum limit on the monthly pay on which death compensation is to be computed, established by clause (K) of section 10, shall not apply; (c) that the United States Employees' Compensation Commission, with the approval of the President, shall establish a special schedule of compensation for death and/or for the loss or loss of use of members or functions of the body, which compensation shall be in lieu of all for death, etc. other compensation in such cases; (d) that the rights of any person employed by the Federal Civil Works Administration to compensation or other benefits which. may have accrued prior to and including the date of approval of this Act under the provisions of the Act of September 7, 1916, as amended (U.S.C., title 5, chap. 159602-40-vol. 3- -43 Provisions of. extended to civil works employees. U.S. C., p. 80. Vol. 39, p. 742; Conditions and limitations. Total aggregate and monthly com Vol. 39, pp. 743, 745. Special schedule of compensation Rights accrued under previous acts to terminate. U. S. C., p. 76. hereof. through local administrators. Approval re quired of claim for ices; penalty for legal, etc., serv violation. Provisos. jury defined. 15), and/or the rules and regulations of the Federal Civil Works Administration shall terminate upon the date of Benefits subject the approval of this Act; and thereafter compensation to provisions and other benefits to any such person for death or disability arising before or after the date of the approval of this Act shall be paid in accordance with the provisions hereof; (e) that the said Commission is hereby authorized in its discretion to provide for the initial Payments payments of compensation and the furnishing of immediate medical attention as herein provided through the local representatives of the Federal Civil Works Administration; (f) that no claim for legal services or for any other services rendered in respect of a claim or award for compensation, to or in account of any person, shall be valid unless approved by the Commission; and any person who receives any fee, other consideration, or any gratuity on account of services so rendered, unless such consideration or gratuity is approved by the Commission, or, who makes it a business to solicit employment for a lawyer or for himself in respect of any claim or award for compensation, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall, for each offense, be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment not to exceed one year, or by both Traumatic in such fine and imprisonment: Provided further, That traumatic injury shall mean only injury by accident causing damage or harm to the physical structure of the body and shall not include a disease in any form Special fund for except as it shall naturally result from the injury: And Provided further, That so much of the sum appropriated by this Act as the United States Employees' Compensation Commission, with the approval of the Director of the Budget, estimates and certifies to the Secretary of the Treasury will be necessary for administrative expenses and for the payment of such compensation shall be set aside in a special fund to be administered by the Commission for such purposes; and after priation author June 30, 1935, such special fund shall be available for these purposes annually in such amounts as may be specified therefor in the annual appropriation Acts: Provided further, That no part of the appropriation re- herein made shall be allotted for expenditure for any Civil Works project under any other department or establishment of the Federal Government except for the projects permit completion of projects for the improvement of Federal lands or public property in progress and uncompleted on the date of the approval of this Act, and except such sums as may be necessary for maintenance and operation Maintenance of of reemployment agencies, and medical, surgical, and hospital services, and for administration, supervision, inspection, disbursing, and accounting purposes, and printing and binding, in connection with State and/or local Civil Works projects: Provided further, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U.S.C., title 41, sec. 5) shall administrative expenses created. Annual appro ized. Allocation strictions. Completing ted. designated agencies, etc. Purchases with out advertising. R S., sec. 3709, p. 733; U. S. C., p. 1309. not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered for the Federal Civil Works Administration when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $300. SEC. 2. That paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of section 301 of title III of Public Law Numbered 302, Seventysecond Congress, approved July 21, 1932-the Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932-is amended by striking out the date "July 1, 1933" where it appears in said paragraph and inserting in lieu thereof the date "September 1, 1934." Approved, February 15, 1934. CHAP. 25.-An Act To declare Noxubee River in Noxubee February 24, 1934 County, Mississippi, to be a nonnavigable stream. [8. 2337.] [Public, No. 99.] Vol. 48, p. 356. Noxubee River. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That that portion of the Noxubee River in Noxubee County, in the State of Mississippi be, and the same is Noxubee County, hereby, declared to be a nonnavigable stream within the meaning of the Constitution and laws of the United States. SEC. 2. That the right of Congress to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, February 24, 1934. Miss., declared nonnavigable. Amendment. CHAP. 48.-An Act To revive and reenact the Act entitled "An Act granting the consent of Congress to the Mill Four Drainage District in Lincoln County, Oregon, to construct, maintain, and operate dams and dikes to prevent the flow of waters of Yaquina Bay and River into Nutes Slough, Boones Slough, and sloughs connected therewith", approved June 17, 1930. March 8. 1934. [S. 1759.] [Public, No. 116.] Vol. 48, p. 398. Yaquina and River. Bay Time extended for constructing dams and dikes Vol. 46, p. 767. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act approved June 17, 1930, granting the consent of Congress to the Mill Four Drainage District, in Lincoln County, Oregon, to construct, maintain, and operate dams and dikes to prevent the flow of waters of on Yaquina Bay and River into Nutes Slough, Boones Slough, and sloughs connected therewith, be, and the same is hereby, revived and reenacted: Provived, That this Act shall be null and void unless the actual construc- ment, etc. tion of the dams and dikes herein referred to be commenced within one year and completed within three years from the date of approval hereof. Proviso. Commence SEC. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act Amendment. is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, March 8, 1934. |