increased to 27,400, plus such number of men as may be serving with the American Expeditionary Forces abroad: Provided, That the average number of enlisted men of the Marine Corps on active duty during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, shall not exceed 27,400, distribution in the various grades to be made in the same proportion as provided under existing law. [41 Stat. L. 152.] • [Officers - temporary appointments - reductions - lower grades.] That in making reductions required by this Act, officers holding temporary appointments may be given temporary appointments in lower grades, and officers so appointed shall take precedence from the dates of their original appointments in such lower grades. [41 Stat. L. 153.] [Retired enlisted men Navy or Marine Corps — active duty promotions.] That so much of the Act of July 1, 1918 (Public Numbered 182), as authorizes the promotion of retired enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps ordered to active duty shall not be so construed as to make illegal promotions of such men as have heretofore been made to warrant grades or as to deprive them of any of the pay, allowances, or other benefits accruing under such promotion. [41 Stat. L. 153.] For Act of July 1, 1918, mentioned in the text, see 1918 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. 539. [Settlement of accounts of disbursing officers-period of world war-credits.] That the accounting officers of the Treasury Department are hereby authorized and directed to allow, in the settlement of the accounts of disbursing officers of the Navy and Marine Corps covering the period of the present emergency, such credits for payments to officers and enlisted men not ordinarily allowable under the statutes, as are certified to them by the Secretary of the Navy as having been incurred under military necessity, or as having been occasioned by accidental circumstances or conditions over which such disbursing officers had no control and for which they were not justly responsible: Provided, That the period of the present emergency as contemplated by this paragraph shall be regarded as beginning on the 6th day of April, 1917, and as terminating six months after the expiration of the quarter in which peace is declared. And that nothing herein shall be construed to include payments under contracts for supplies or services. [41 Stat. L. 153.] [Marine Corps enlisted men allowance for rations.] That hereafter, except when detached by the President of the United States for duty with the Army, enlisted men of the Marine Corps shall be entitled to the same allowance for rations as are enlisted men of the Navy, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy. [41 Stat. L. 154.] [Post laundries - cost of operation - how defrayed.] That hereafter the funds received in payment for laundry work performed by post laundries shall be used to defray the cost of operation of such laundries and the receipts and expenditures shall be accounted for in accordance with the methods prescribed by law and any sums remaining at the end of the fiscal year after such cost of maintenance and operation have been defrayed shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation from which the cost of operation of such plants is paid. [41 Stat. L. 155.] Joint Resolution Continuing temporarily certain allowances to officers of the Navy and Marine Corps. [Res. of Dec. 24, 1919, No. 26, ch. 41, Stat. L. —.] [Officers of Navy and Marine Corps -quarters and commutation.] Whereas since it now appears that peace has not been declared by October 1, 1919, on which date officers of the Navy, by operation of law, will cease to receive the benefits prescribed in the Act of April 16, 1918 (Public, Numbered 129), and Whereas said benefits will accrue to officers of the Army until peace shall have been declared: Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the paragraph in the Act of July 11, 1919 (Public, Numbered 8), which reads as follows: "The Act of April 16, 1918 (Public, Numbered 129), granting under certain conditions to every commissioned officer of the Army the right to quarters in kind for their dependents or the authorized commutation therefor, including the allowances for heat and light, shall hereafter be construed to apply to officers of the Navy and Marine Corps only during the period of the war and in no event beyond October 1, 1919," be, and the same is hereby, repealed: Provided, That officers of the Navy and Marine Corps shall be entitled to all the rights and benefits under said Act of April 16, 1918 (Public, Numbered 129), from and after October 1, 1919, and during the present emergency. [41 Stat. L.-.] For Act of April 16, 1918, mentioned in the text, see 9 Fed. Stat. Ann. (2d ed.) 1202; 1918 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. (1st ed.) 1036. NURSES See WAR DEPARTMENT AND MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT OFFICERS See JUDICIAL OFFICERS; PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES PARKS See PUBLIC PARKS PASSPORTS See IMMIGRATION Act of Nov. 4, 1919, ch. 98, 291. PATENTS Sec. 1. Specifications and Drawings - Copies-Fee, 291. [SEC. 1. ] [Specifications and drawings- copies - fee.] That hereafter 10 cents per copy shall be charged for uncertified printed copies of specifications and drawings of patents. [41 Stat. L. 335.] This is from the "First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1920," of Nov. 4, 1919, ch. 93. PENAL LAWS Act of Oct. 23, 1918, ch. 194, 291. Making or Presenting False Claims - Receiving Military or Naval Property Unlawfully-Sec. 35 of Crim. Code Amended, 291. An Act To amend section thirty-five of the Criminal Code of the United States. [Act of Oct. 23, 1918, ch. 194, 40 Stat. L. 1015.] [Making or presenting false claims-receiving military or naval property unlawfully-sec. 35 of Crim. Code amended.] That section thirty-five of the Criminal Code of the United States be, and the same hereby is, amended to read as follows: "SEC. 35. Whoever shall make or cause to be made or present or cause to be presented, for payment or approval, to or by any person or officer in the civil, military, or naval service of the United States, or any department thereof, or any corporation in which the United States of America is a stockholder, any claim upon or against the Government of the United States, or any department or officer thereof, or any corporation in which the United States of America is a stockholder, knowing such claim to be false, fictitious, or fraudulent; or whoever, for the purpose of obtaining or aiding to obtain the payment or approval of such claim, or for the purpose and with the intent of cheating and swindling or defrauding the Government of the United States, or any department thereof, or any corporation in which the United States of America is a stockholder, shall knowingly and willfully falsify or conceal or cover up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact, or make or cause to be made any false or fraudulent statements or representations, or make or use or cause to be made or used any false bill, receipt, voucher, roll, account, claim, certificate, affidavit, or deposition, knowing the same to contain any fraudulent or fictitious statement or entry; or whoever shall take and carry away or take for his own use, or for the use of another, with intent to steal or purloin, any personal property of the United States, or any branch or department thereof, or any corporation in which the United States of America is a stockholder; or whoever shall enter into any agreement, combination, or conspiracy to defraud the Government of the United States, or any department or officer thereof, or any corporation in which the United States of America is a stockholder, by obtaining or aiding to obtain the payment or allowance of any false or fraudulent claim; and whoever, having charge, possession, custody, or control of any money or other public property used or to be used in the military or naval service, with intent to defraud the United States, or any department thereof, or any corporation in which the United States of America is a stockholder, or willfully to conceal such money or other property, shall deliver or cause to be delivered to any person having authority to receive the same any amount of such money or other property less than that for which he received a certificate or took a receipt; or whoever, being authorized to make or deliver any certificate, voucher, receipt, or other paper certifying the receipt of arms, ammunition, provisions, clothing, or other property so used or to be used, shall make or deliver the same to any other person without a full knowledge of the truth of the facts stated therein and with intent to defraud the United States, or any department thereof, or any corporation in which the United States of America is a stockholder, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. And whoever shall purchase, or receive in pledge, from any person any arms, equipment, ammunition, clothing, military stores, or other property furnished by the United States, under a clothing allowance or otherwise, to any soldier, sailor, officer, cadet, or midshipman in the military or naval service of the United States or of the National Guard or Naval Militia, or to any person accompanying, serving, or retained with the land or naval forces and subject to miltary or naval law, having knowledge or reason to believe that the property has been taken from the possession of the United States or furnished by the United States under such allowance, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both." [40 Stat. L. 1015.] For sec. 35 of the Penal Laws, as originally enacted, see 7 Fed. Stat. Ann. (2d ed.) 523; 1909 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. 414. POSTAL SERVICE Act of Feb. 24, 1919, ch. 18, 293. Sec. 1401. Postal Rates - First class Mail Matter - Soldiers' and Sailors' Mail Payments by Postmaster General-Laws Repealed, 293. Act of Feb. 28, 1919, ch. 69, 294. Sec. 1. Inspectors Per Diem Allowances, 294. Postmasters-Readjustment of Salaries, 294. First-class Post Offices Foremen - Stenographers, 294. Clerks Appointment and Assignment Vacations - Substitutes, 294. Aeroplane Mail Service, 295. Railway Postal Clerks Deadheading - Full Time, 295. Railway Postal Clerks Travel Allowances - Former Act Amended, 295. Transportation of Mail by Electric and Cable Cars Rate of Compensation, 296. Rural Carriers Compensation, 296. Transportation of Food Products Motor Truck Routes Establishment, 296. 2. Pay of Post Office Employees - Grades - Promotions, 297. 3. Congressional Committee to Investigate Salaries of Postal Employees, 298. 5. Rural Post Roads - Definition of Term Limitation of Payments under Federal Aid - Former Act Amended, 299. - 6. Rural Post Roads - Federal Aid - Appropriation - Apportionment Preferences in Employment of Labor, 299. 7. Rural Post Roads - Federal Aid Use of Supplies Not Needed by War Department, 300. 8. (See TIMBER LANDS AND FOREST RESERVES.) 9. Rural Post Roads - Federal Aid - Employment of Soldiers and Sailors, 300. Act of Oct. 28, 1919, ch. 86, 301. Hawaii, Porto Rico and Virgin Islands - Branch Offices - Salary of Postmaster at Honolulu, 301. Res. of Nov. 7, 1919, No. 19, ch. 99, 301. Sec. 1. Postmasters and Other Employees - Additional Compensation, 301. 3. Effect of Increases or Advancing Post Office to Higher Class, 302. Act of Nov. 19, 1919, ch. 119, 303. Second, Third and Fourth Class Mail Matter-Forwarding to Addressee Returning to Sender, 303. CROSS-REFERENCE See also INTOXICATING LIQUORS. SEC. 1401. [Postal rates-first class mail matter-soldiers' and sailors' mail-payments by Postmaster General-laws repealed.] That section 1100 of the Revenue Act of 1917 is hereby repealed, to take effect on July 1, 1919, and thereafter the rate of postage on all mail matter of the first class shall be the same as the rate in force on October 2, 1917: Provided, That letters written and mailed by soldiers, sailors, and marines assigned to duty in a foreign country engaged in the present war may be mailed free of postage, subject to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Postmaster General. |