subject to audit or certification in advance of payment.

"(b) Amounts paid as provided in subsection (a) shall be credited, (1) in the case of advance payments, to special working unds, or (2) in the case of payments other than advance payments, to the appropriations or funds against which charges have been made pursuant to any such order, except as hereinafter provided. The Secretary of the Treasury shall establish such special working funds as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this subsection. Such amounts paid shall be available for expenditure in furnishing the materials, supplies, or equipment, or in performing the work or services, or for the objects specified in such appropriations or funds. Where materials, supplies, or equipment are furnished from stocks on hand, the amounts received in payment therefor shall be credited to appropriations or funds, as may be authorized by other law, or, if not so authorized, so as to be available to replace the materials, supplies, or equipment, except that where the head of any such department, establishment, bureau, or office determines that such replacement is not necessary the amounts paid shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.

"(c) Orders placed as provided in subsection (a) shall be considered as obligations upon appropriations in the same manner as orders or contracts placed with private contractors. Advance payments credited to a special working fund shall remain available until expended.” “

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Approved, June 30, 1932.

PURCHASE OF ARTICLES, MATERIALS, AND SUPPLIES MINED OR PRODUCED IN THE UNITED STATES

[47 STAT. 1520]

AN ACT

Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, and for other purposes

* TITLE III

SECTION 1. That when used in this title

(a) The term "United States," when used in a geographical sense, includes the United States and any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof;

(b) The terms "public use," "public building," and "public work" shall mean use by, public building of, and public work of, the United States, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, the Philippine Islands, American Samoa, the Canal Zone, and the Virgin Islands.

SEC. 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and unless the head of the department or independent establishment concerned shall determine it to be inconsistent with the public interest, or the cost to be unreasonable, only such unmanufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been mined or produced in the United States, and only such manufactured articles, materials, and sup plies as have been manufactured in the United States substantially all from articles, materials, or supplies mined, produced, or manufactured, as the case may be, in the United States, shall be acquired for public use. This section shall not apply with respect to articles, materials, or supplies for use outside the United States, or if articles, materials, or supplies of the class or kind to be used or the articles, materials, or supplies from which they are manufactured are not mined, produced, or manufactured, as the case may be, in the United States in sufficient and reasonably available commercial quantities and of a satisfactory quality.

SEC. 3. (a) Every contract for the construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or public work in the United States growing out of an appropriation heretofore made or hereafter to be made shall contain a provision that in the performance of the work the contractor, subcontractors, materialmen, or suppliers shall use only such unmanufactured articles, materials, and supplies as have been mined or produced in the United States, and only such manufac

4 Amended by sec. 8 of the act approved June 22, 1936 (49 Stat. 1648), providing that funds transferred shall have no longer period of availabilty for obligation than the appropriation from which such advance payments are made.

tured articles, materials, and supplies as have been manufactured in the United States substantially all from articles, materials, or supplies mined, produced, or manufactured, as the case may be, in the United States except as provided in section 2: Provided, however, That if the head of the department or independent establishment making the contract shall find that in respect to some particular articles, materials, or supplies it is impracticable to make such requirement or that it would unreasonably increase the cost, an exception shall be noted in the specifications as to that particular article, material, or supply, and a public record made of the findings which justified the exception.

(b) If the head of a department, bureau, agency, or independent establishment which has made any contract containing the provision required by subsection (a) finds that in the performance of such contract there has been a failure to comply with such provisions, he shall make public his findings, including therein the name of the contractor obligated under such contract, and no other contract for the construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or public work in the United States or elsewhere shall be awarded to such contractor, subcontractors, materialmen, or suppliers with which such contractor is associated or affiliated, within a period of three years after such finding is made public.

SEO. 4. This title shall take effect on the date of its enactment, but shall not apply to any contract entered into prior to such effective date.

SEC. 5. 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 thereof to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby. Approved March 3, 1933.

APPROPRIATION FOR SURVEY FOR NATCHEZ TRACE PARKWAY

[48 STAT. 791]

AN ACT

To provide for an appropriation of $50,000 with which to make a survey of the Old Indian Trail known as the Natchez Trace, with a view of constructing a national road on this route to be known as the Natchez Trace Parkway

Whereas the Natchez Trace was one of the most ancient and important Indian roads leading from the territory in the section of Tennessee about Nashville in a southwest course, crossing the Tennessee River at Colbert Shoals a few miles below Muscle Shoals, thence passing in a southwest course through the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indian lands in what is now Mississippi, in an almost direct course by Jackson, Mississippi, to Natchez; and

Whereas the Natchez Trace is located throughout almost its entire length on highlands between watersheds on the most suitable route over which to establish the national parkway through a section of the country greatly in need of such road facilities from a national standpoint to connect the North and East directly with the Natchez, New Orleans, and southwest section of the country; and

Whereas the Natchez Trace was made famous for the service it rendered in affording General Jackson a route over which much of his forces moved to take part in Jackson's famous victory over the British at New Orleans, and also by reason of the fact that General Jackson returned with his army over this Trace to Nashville after the Battle of New Orleans; and

Whereas the Natchez Trace is known as one of the Nation's most famous old roads, and has been marked by handsome boulders with suitable inscriptions by the Daughters of the American Revolution at great expense, these boulders being placed every few miles from one end of the Trace to the other; and

Whereas unusual interest is being manifested in the building of a national parkway by the Government, Natchez Trace organizations having been perfected in almost every county through which the Trace passes; and

Whereas the Government has recently adopted a policy and set up a division in the Department of the Interior, known as the National Park Service to engage in a national way in laying out parks, reservations, and building parkways: Therefore

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of the Treasury of the United States, a sum not exceeding $50,000 to be used by the Department of the Interior through the National Park

Service with which to make a survey of the Old Natchez Trace throughout its entire length leading from the section of Tennessee about Nashville to Natchez, Mississippi, the same to be known as the Natchez Trace Parkway. The said survey shall locate the Natchez Trace as near as practicable in its original route. An estimate of cost of construction of an appropriate national parkway over this route, and such other data as will be valuable shall be obtained by said survey with the objective of determining matters concerning the construction of the Natchez Trace Parkway.

Approved, May 21, 1934.

COMPENSATION OF LABOR

[48 STAT. 948]

AN ACT

To effectuate the purpose of certain statutes concerning rates of pay for labor, by making it unlawful to prevent anyone from receiving the compensation contracted for thereunder, and for other purposes

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whoever shall induce any person employed in the construction, prosecution, or completion of any public building, public work, or building or work financed in whole or in part by loans or grants from the United States, or in the repair thereof to give up any part of the compensation to which he is entitled under his contract of employment, by force, intimidation, threat of procuring dismissal from such employment, or by any other manner whatsoever, shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

SEC. 2. To aid in the enforcement of the above section, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of the Interior jointly shall make reasonable regulations for contractors or subcontractors on any such building or work, including a provision that each contractor and subcontractor shall furnish weekly a sworn affidavit with respect to the wages paid each employee during the preceding week.

Approved, June 13, 1934.

AMENDMENT OF CRIMINAL CODE WITH REGARD TO FRAUDULENT

CLAIMS

[48 STAT. 996]

AN ACT

To amend section 35 of the Criminal Code of the United States

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 35 of the Criminal Code of the United States, as amended (U. S. C., title 18, secs. 80, 82, 83, 84, 85, and 86), be, and the same is hereby, 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 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, in any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States or of any corporation in which the United States of America is a stockholder; 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, or shall willfully injure or commit any depredation against, any 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 any property which has been or is being made, manufactured, or constructed under contract for the War or

Navy Departments of the United States; 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 military 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." Approved June 18, 1934.

WASHINGTON-LINCOLN MEMORIAL GETTYSBURG BOULEVARD [49 Stat. 285]

JOINT RESOLUTION

For the establishment of a commission for the construction of a Washington-Lincoln Memorial Gettysburg Boulevard connecting the present Lincoln Memorial in the city of Washington with the battlefield of Gettysburg in the State of Pennsylvania

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby established a commission to be known as the United States Commission for the construction of a Washington-Lincoln Memorial Gettysburg Boulevard connecting the present Lincoln Memorial in the city of Washington with the battlefield of Gettysburg in the State of Pennsylvania (hereinafter referred to as the Commission), and to be composed of thirteen commissioners, as follows: The President of the United States; Presiding Officer of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the President of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, ex-officio; two persons to be appointed by the President of the United States; one Senator from the State of Maryland and one Senator from the State of Pennsylvania, to be appointed by the President pro tempore of the Senate; the Chief of the Bureau of Public Roads, Department of Agriculture; the Director, National Park Service, Department of Interior; Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia; and one Representative from the State of Maryland and one from the State of Pennsylvania, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The commissioners shall serve without compensation and shall select a chairman from among their number. SEC. 2. That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $10,000, to be expended by the Commission in accordance with the provisions of this resolution.

SEC. 3. That it shall be the duty of the Commission to prepare a plan or plans in cooperation with the Bureau of Public Roads, Department of Agriculture; the Highway Departments of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and District of Columbia to further commemorate the public services of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln by the construction of a boulevard or highway connecting the present Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument in the city of Washington with the Gettysburg battlefield in the State of Pennsylvania; and to

give due and proper consideration to any plan or plans which may be submitted to it.

SEC. 4. That the Commission, after selecting a chairman and a vice chairman from among its members, may employ a secretary and such other assistants as may be needed for clerical work connected with the duties of the Commission and may also engage the services of expert advisers, and may fix their respective compensations within the amount appropriated for such purposes.

SEC. 5. That the commissioners shall be paid their actual and necessary traveling, hotel, and other expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties out of the amount appropriated.

SEC. 6. That the Commission shall on or before one year after the date of enactment of this resolution, make a report to the Congress, in order that enabling legislation may be enacted, provided such enabling legislation stipulates that the said highway or boulevard shall be constructed by the Highway Departments of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and District of Columbia, under the supervision of the Chief of the Bureau of Public Roads, Department of Agriculture, from funds provided by the said State of Pennsylvania, the said State of Maryland and the District of Columbia, including any future allocation of Federal-aid highway funds or grants to the said States of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and to the District of Columbia. The passage of this Act does not commit the United States to build the said highway or boulevard at Federal expense, and if authorized the Federal funds for the construction of the said highway or boulevard will be the allocations that may accrue to the said States and the District of Columbia in future appropriations of Federal-aid highway and grant funds. Any appropriations under the authority of this Act shall be deducted from the next regular apportionment or allocation of Federalaid highway funds or Federal-grant highway funds, under existing or future authorizations as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture to Pennsylvania, Maryland and the District of Columbia.

SEC. 7. That the term of Commission hereby created shall expire within one year after the completion of the proposed boulevard or highway. SEO. 8. This joint resolution shall take effect immediately.

Approved, May 20, 1935.

TO PROVIDE THAT TOLLS ON CERTAIN BRIDGES SHALL BE JUST AND REASONABLE

[49 STAT. 670]

AN ACT

To provide that tolls on certain bridges over navigable waters of the United States shall be just and reasonable, and for other purposes

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter tolls for passage or transit over any bridge over any of the navigable waters of the United States, if such bridge is used for purposes of travel or transportation in interstate or foreign commerce, shall be just and reasonable; but the provisions of this Act shall not apply to any bridge subject to the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters", approved March 23, 1906, as amended, nor to any bridge built under the authority of the legislature of the State across rivers or other waterways the navigable portions of which lie wholly within the limits of a single State, nor to any bridge on which the tolls are prescribed by a contract entered into by or with any State or political subdivision thereof, or any municipality.

SEC. 2. The Secretary of War is authorized, either upon complaint or upon his own initiative, to conduct an inquiry at any time for the purpose of determining whether any toll charged for passage or transit over any bridge to which this Act applies is in violation of the provisions of section 1, and if he finds, after full opportunity for hearing, that such toll is in violation of such provisions he is authorized and empowered to determine and by order to prescribe what will be the just and reasonable toll to be thereafter charged, and after such order takes effect it shall be unlawful to collect a toll for such passage or transit in excess of that so prescribed. Any such order shall take effect upon the expiration of thirty days after its issuance.

SEC. 3. Any order issued under section 2 may be reviewed by the Court of