ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN See TRADING WITH THE ENEMY ALIENS See IMMIGRATION AMERICAN LEGION See WAR DEPARTMENT AND MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS ANIMALS Act of May 31, 1920, ch. 217 (Agricultural Appropriation Act), 11. Cattle Reacting to Tuberculin Test - Shipment for Immediate Cattle Shipped for Breeding or Feeding Purposes - Permitting CROSS-REFERENCES See also ALASKA; WAR DEPARTMENT AND MILITARY ESTABLISH MENT [Cattle reacting to tuberculin test shipment for immediate slaughter-Act of May 29, 1884, amended.] That the Act approved May 29, 1884 (Twenty-third Statutes at Large, page 31), be, and the same is hereby, amended to permit hereafter cattle which have reacted to the tuberculin test to be shipped, transported, or moved from one State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, to any other State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, for immediate slaughter, in accordance with such rules and regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture. [41 Stat. L. 699.] This and the following paragraph are from the Agricultural Appropriation Act of May 31, 1920, ch. 217. The Act of May 29, 1884, amended by the text, will be found in 1 Fed. Stat. Ann. (2d ed.) 406. [Cattle shipped for breeding or feeding purposes- permitting reshipment on reacting to tuberculin test.] That hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture may, in his discretion, and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, permit cattle which have been shipped for breeding or feeding purposes from one State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, to another State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, and which have reacted to the tuberculin test subsequent to such shipment, to be reshipped in interstate com. merce to the original owner. [41 Stat. L. 699.] ANNUITIES See CIVIL SERVICE ANTITRUST LAWS See SHIPPING AND NAVIGATION; TRADE COMBINATIONS AND TRUSTS ARMY See WAR DEPARTMENT AND MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT ARTICLES OF WAR See WAR DEPARTMENT AND MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT ATTACHMENT See SHIPPING AND NAVIGATION AVIATION See NAVY; POSTAL SERVICE; WAR DEPARTMENT AND MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT BANKS AND BANKING See AGRICULTURE; NATIONAL BANKS CANADA See ALASKA CANAL ZONE See RIVERS, HARBORS AND CANALS CARRIERS See ANIMALS; INTERSTATE COMMERCE; POSTAL SERVICE; RAILROADS; SHIPPING AND NAVIGATION; TRADE COMBINATIONS AND TRUSTS CATTLE See ANIMALS CEMETERIES Act of April 15, 1920, ch. 140, 13. Who May Be Buried in National Cemeteries R. S. Sec. 4878 An Act To amend section 4878 of the Revised Statutes as amended by the Act of March 3, 1897. [Act of April 15, 1920, ch. 140, 41 Stat. L. 552.] [Who may be buried in national cemeteries R. S. sec. 4878 amended.] That section 4878 of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the Act of March 3, 1897 (chapter 378, Twenty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 625), be, and it hereby is, amended to read as follows: Sec. 4878. All soldiers, sailors, or marines dying in the service of the United States, or dying in a destitute condition after having been honorably discharged from the service, or who served, or hereafter shall have served, during any war in which the United States has been, or may hereafter be, engaged, and, with the consent of the Secretary of War, any citizen of the United States who served in the Army or Navy of any government at war with Germany or Austria during the World War and who died while in such service or after honorable discharge therefrom, may be buried in any national cemetery free of cost. The production of the honorable discharge of a deceased man in the former case, and a duly executed permit of the Secretary of War in the latter case, shall be sufficient authority for the superintendent of any cemetery to permit the interment. Army nurses honorably discharged from their service as such may be buried in any national cemetery, and, if in a destitute condition, free of cost. The Secretary of War is authorized to issue certificates to those Army nurses entitled to such burial." [41 Stat. L. 552.] For R. S. sec. 4878 amended by the text, see 2 Fed. Stat. Ann. (2d ed.) 22. CENSUS Act of May 29, 1920, ch. 214 (Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation Act), 14. Sec. 1. Census Office - Suspension of Unnecessary Work, 14. Act of June 5, 1920, ch. 263, 14. Sec. 1. Monthly Statistics by Director of Census - Hides, Skins and Leather, 14. 2. Confidential Nature of Information Furnished for Statistical Purposes Penalty for Disclosure, 14. 3. Duty to Furnish Information - Penalty for Failure to Furnish, 15. [SEC. 1.] [Census office-suspension of unnecessary work.] That the Secretary of Commerce is authorized, in his discretion, to suspend during the decennial Census period such work of the Census Office, other than the Fourteenth Census, as he may deem advisable. [41 Stat. L. 678.] This is from the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act of May 29, 1920, ch. 214. An identical provision appeared in the Appropriation Act of March 1, 1919, and is set out in 1919 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. 15. An Act Authorizing and directing the Director of the Census to collect and publish monthly statistics concerning hides, skins and leather. [Act of June 5, 1920, ch. 263, 41 Stat. L. 1057.] [SEC. 1.] [Monthly statistics by Director of Census-hides, skins and leather.] That the Director of the Census be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to collect and publish statistics monthly concerning (a) The quantities and classes of hides and skins, owned or stored, and the quantities and classes of such products disposed of during the preceding census month by packers, abattoirs, butchers, tanners, jobbers, dealers, wholesalers, importers, and exporters; (b) The quantities and classes of hides and skins in the process of tanning or manufacture, the quantities and amount of finished product for the preceding month; (c) The quantities and classes of leather owned or stored and manufactured during the preceding census month by tanners, jobbers, dealers, wholesalers, importers, exporters, and establishments cutting or consuming leather. [41 Stat. L. 1057.] SEC. 2. [Confidential nature of information furnished for statistical purposes - penalty for disclosure.] That the information furnished by any individual establishment under the provisions of this Act shall be considered as strictly confidential and shall be used only for the statistical purposes for which it is supplied. Any employee of the Bureau of Census who, without the written. authority of the Director of the Census, shall publish or communicate any information given into his possession by reason of his employment under the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. [41 Stat. L. 1057.] SEC. 3. [Duty to furnish information - penalty for failure to furnish.] That it shall be the duty of every owner, president, or treasurer, secretary, director, or other officer or agent of any abattoir and of any packing, tanning, jobbing, dealing, wholesaling, importing, or exporting establishment where hides and skins are stored or sold, or leather is tanned, treated, finished, or stored or any establishment is engaged in the cutting of leather or in the production of boots and shoes, gloves, saddlery, harness, or other manufactures of leather goods, wherever leather is consumed, when requested by the Director of the Census or by any special agent or other employee of the Census Office acting under the instructions of said director to furnish completely and accurately to the best of his knowledge, all the information authorized to be collected by section 1 of this Act. The demand of the Director of the Census for such information shall be made in writing or by a visiting representative and if made in writing shall be forwarded by registered mail and the registry receipt of the Post Office Department shall be accepted as prima facie evidence of such demand. Any owner, president, treasurer, secretary, director, or other officer or agent of any establishment required to furnish information under the provisions of this Act, who under the conditions hereinbefore stated shall refuse or willfully neglect to furnish any of the information herein provided for or shall willfully give answers that are false, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $1,000. [41 Stat. L. 1057.] CHARITIES Act of May 29, 1920, ch. 214 (Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation Act), 15. Sec. 1. American National Red Cross - Auditing of Accounts by War Department-Reimbursement, 15. [SEC. 1.] [American National Red Cross - auditing of accounts by War Department-reimbursement.] The American National Red Cross annually shall reimburse the War Department for auditing the accounts of the American National Red Cross, as required by the Act approved February 27, 1917, and the sum so paid shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States as a miscellaneous receipt. [41 Stat. L. 659.] ch. 214. This is from the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act of May 29, 1920, For Act of Feb. 27, 1917, mentioned in the text, see 1918 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. 85. CHARTERS See SHIPPING AND NAVIGATION |