[PUBLIC RESOLUTION-No. 85-76TH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 389-3D SESSION] [S. J. Res. 59] JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the Bureau of Labor Statistics to collect information as to amount and value of all goods produced in State and Federal Prisons. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of furnishing information to the Congress regarding the amount of goods produced in State and Federal prisons, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor is authorized and directed to collect information concerning the character, kind, type, amount, and value of all goods produced in State and Federal prisons, showing separately the amount and value of goods produced under the State-use, State-account, contract, and piece-price systems. For the purpose of making this study, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $20,000. The Commissioner of Labor Statistics is directed to submit the report to the Congress on or before May 1, 1941. Approved, June 17, 1940. (364) [PUBLIC LAW 43-77TH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 81-1ST SESSION] [S. 1059] AN ACT To expedite the national defense by clarifying the application of the Act of August 24, 1935 (49 Stat. 793), as to the requirement of mandatory performance and payment bonds in connection with supply contracts. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of August 24, 1935 (49 Stat. 793), may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy, be waived with respect to contracts for the manufacturing, producing, furnishing, construction, alteration, repair, processing, or assembling of vessels, aircraft, munitions, matériel, or supplies of any kind or nature for the Army or the Navy, regardless of the terms of such contracts as to payment or title: Provided, That as to contracts of a nature which, at the date of the passage of this Act, would have been subject to the provisions of the Act of August 24, 1935 (49 Stat. 793), the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy may require performance and payment bonds as provided by said Act. Approved, April 29, 1941. (365) (EXTRACT FROM) [PUBLIO LAW 143-77TH CONGRESS] [H. J. Res. 193] JOINT RESOLUTION Making appropriations for work relief and relief for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1942. UNITED STATES EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION COMMISSION SEC. 3. (a) In order to carry out the provisions of section 18 of this Act, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, $3,500,000, which sum shall be added to the appropriation "Employees' Compensation Fund, Emergency Relief" contained in subsection (b) of this section. (b) Employees' compensation fund, emergency relief: The unexpended balance of the special funds set up on the books of the Treasury pursuant to the provisions of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, and fiscal year 1941, and paragraph 18 of the "National Youth Administration Appropriation Act, 1941", shall be available for expenditure during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, and such balance combined with the appropriation in subsection (a) of this section shall be one fund available for the payment of compensation accruing under section 18 of this Act and under the other Acts enumerated in this subsection, including payments to Federal agencies for medical and hospital services and including advancement of costs for the enforcement of recoveries as provided in sections 26 and 27 of the Act of September 7, 1916, as made applicable to relief employments: Provided, That $700,000 of such combined appropriation shall be available during the fiscal year 1942 for administrative expenses and not to exceed $75,000 thereof may be added to the appropriation in the "Employees' Compensation Commission Appropriation Act, 1942" for salaries and expenses of such Commission and be available for the purposes thereof: Provided further, That this appropriation shall not be limited in its use to the United States, its Territories and possessions for payment of compensation benefits. Approved, July 1, 1941. (366) [PUBLIC LAW 149-77TH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 272-1ST SESSION] [H. R. 5052] AN ACT To amend the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act to regulate the use of administration expenses, 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 District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act, approved August 28, 1935, as amended, is further amended by adding the following new paragraph to section 15: "All moneys received by the Board pursuant to section 302 of the Social Security Act shall be expended solely for the purposes and in the amounts found necessary by the Social Security Board for the proper and efficient administration of this Act. In lieu of incorporation in this Act of the provision described in section 303 (a) (9) of the Social Security Act, the Board shall include in its annual report to the Congress, provided in section 14 (c) of this Act, a report of any moneys received after July 1, 1941, from the Social Security Board under title III of the Social Security Act, and any unencumbered balances in the Unemployment Compensation Administration Fund as of that date, which the Social Security Board finds have, because of any action or contingency, been lost or have been expended for purposes other than or in amounts in excess of, those found necessary by the Social Security Board for the proper administration of this Act." SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect as of 12:01 o'clock antemeridian July 1, 1941. Approved, July 1, 1941. (367) [PUBLIC LAW 160-77TH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 283-1ST SESSION] [H. R. 3191] AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act to make unlawful the transportation of convict-made goods in interstate commerce, and for other purposes", approved October 14, 1940. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act to make unlawful the transportation of convict-made goods in interstate commerce, and for other purposes", approved October 14, 1940, be amended by inserting after the words "Federal Government", occurring in the first proviso, the words "or the District of Columbia Government". Approved, July 9, 1941. (368) |