TITLE 35.-PATENTS § 68. Repealed. June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 39, 62 Stat. 992, eff. Sept. 1, 1948. Section, Acts June 25, 1910, ch. 423, 36 Stat. 851; July 1, 1918, ch. 114, 40 Stat. 705, relating to suit for unlicensed use of invention by the United States, is covered by section 1498 of new Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure. TITLE 38.-PENSIONS, BONUSES AND VETERANS' RELIEF WORLD WAR II SERVICEMEN'S READJUSTMENT BENEFITS § 694e. Secondary loans; amount; regulations; eligibility for farm tenant loans. * * * * (b) Any person who is a veteran eligible for the benefits of this subchapter, as provided in section 694 of this title, and who is found by the Secretary of Agriculture, by reason of his ability and experience, including training as a vocational trainee, to be likely to carry out successfully undertakings required of him under a loan which may be made under sections 1000-1003, 1004-1029 of Title 7, shall be eligible for the benefits of such sections to the same extent as if he were a farm tenant. (June 22, 1945, ch. 268, Title III, § 505, 58 Stat. 293, as amended Dec. 28, 1945, ch. 588, § 8, 59 Stat. 629.) AMENDMENTS Act Dec. 28, 1945 amended section generally and among other changes added subsec. (e). Subsec. (d) added by act Oct. 6, 1945. Effective date of 1945 amendment; Loans under prior provisions. Section 510 of act June 22, 1944, as amended by Section 8 of Act Dec. 28, 1945, provided: "This title, as amended (subchapter), shall be effective from the date of enactment (June 22, 1944): Provided, That any application for guaranty of a loan filed within ninety days after such date (June 22, 1944) may be approved under the title (subchapter) as it existed prior to amendment: And provided further, That nothing herein shall be construed to affect any contractual right under any certificate of guaranty issued thereunder." TITLE 39.- THE POSTAL SERVICE Chapter 8.-THE FRANKING PRIVILEGE § 321i. Penalty mail privilege of executive departments, agencies, etc.; report to Postmaster General on quantity of envelopes, labels, etc., on hand. -All envelopes, labels, wrappers, cards, and other articles, bearing the indicia prescribed by law for matter mailed free of postage under the penalty privilege by all executive departments and agencies, all independent establishments of the Government, and all other organizations and persons authorized by law to use the penalty privilege, shall be procured or accounted for through the Postmaster General under such regulations as he shall prescribe. The head of each department, agency, establishment, or other organization, or each such person, shall submit to the Postmaster General within sixty days after the close of each fiscal year a statement showing the number of envelopes, labels, wrappers, cards, and other articles bearing such indicia on hand at the close of such fiscal year. (June 25, 1948, ch. 658, Title III, § 301, 62 Stat. 1048.) Effective date. - Section 309 of Act June 25, 1948, cited to text, provided in part that sections 321i-321n of this title should become effective as of July 1, 1948. Short Title-Congress in enacting sections 321i-321n of this title provided in part by section 309 of Act June 25, 1948, that they should be popularly known as the "Penalty Mail Act of 1948." Appropriations. - Section 308 of Act June 25, 1948, cited to text, provided that: "There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. [sections 321i-321n of this title]." § 321j. Report to Congress by Postmaster General. - The Postmaster General shall report to the Congress and to the Bureau of the Budget within ninety days after the close of each fiscal year the number of envelopes, labels, wrappers, cards, and other articles bearing such penalty indicia procured or accounted for through him during such fiscal year by each executive department and agency, by each independent establishment, and by each organization and person authorized by law to use the penalty privilege. (June 25, 1948, ch. 658, Title III, § 302, 62 Stat. 1048.) Effective date, see note set out under section 321i of this title. § 321k. Limitation on weight of acceptable matter; exceptions.No article or package of official matter, or number of articles or packages of official matter constituting in fact a single shipment, exceeding four pounds in weight shall be admitted to the mails under the penalty privilege, except (1) stamped paper and supplies sold or used by the postal service; and (2) books and documents published or circulated by order of Congress when mailed by the Superintendent of Public Documents or under the franking privilege. (June 25, 1948, ch. 658, Title III, § 303, 62 Stat. 1048.) Effective date, see note set out under section 321i of this title. § 3211. Fourth-class mail for articles of excessive size or weight; shipment by most economical means. - (a) Official matter not within the provisions of section 321k of this title which is over four pounds in weight, if otherwise mailable, whether sealed or unsealed, including written matter, shall, if such matter does not exceed the limit of weight or size prescribed for fourth-class matter, be accepted for mailing upon the payment of postage at fourth-class rates. (b) Shipments of official matter shall be sent by the most economical means of transportation practicable, and the Postmaster General may refuse to accept any such matter for shipment by mail when in his judgment it is in the public interest that it be forwarded by other means at less expense. (June 25, 1948, ch. 658, Title III, § 304, 62 Stat. 1048.) Effective date, sce note set out under section 321i of this title. § 321m. Executive departments, agencies, etc., to supply information under sections 3211-3211.-All executive departments and agencies, all independent establishments of the Government, and all other organizations and persons authorized by law to use the penalty privilege, are directed to supply as soon as practicable, all necessary nec information requested by the Post Office Department to carry out the provisions of sections 321i-321n of this title. (June 25, 1948, ch. 658, Title III, § 305, 62 Stat. 1049.) Effective date, see note set out under section 321i of this title. § 321n. Restrictions on privilege of executive departments and independent establishments; reports on free mail. -No executive department or independent establishment of the Government shall transmit through the mail, free of postage, any book, report, periodical, bulletin, pamphlet, list, or other article or document (except official letter correspondence, including such enclosures as are reasonably related to the subject matter of the correspondence; informational releases in connection with the decennial census of the United States, mail concerning the sale of Government securities, and all forms and blanks and copies of statutes, rules, regulations, and instructions and administrative orders and interpretations necessary in the administration of such departments and establishments), unless a request therefor has been previously received by such department or independent establishment, or such transmission is required by law; or such document is transmitted to inform the recipient thereof of the adoption, amendment, or interpretation of a statute, rule, regulation, or order to which he is subject. The head of each independent establishment and executive department (other than the Post Office Department) shall certify to the Postmaster General at the end of each quarter that nothing was transmitted through the mail free of postage by the independent establishment or department in violation of the provisions of this section: Provided, That nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit the mailing free of postage of lists of agricultural bulletins, lists of public documents which are offered for sale by the Superintendent of Public Documents, or of announcements of publications of maps, atlases, statistical, and other reports offered for sale by the Federal Power Commission as authorized by section 825k of Title 16: Provided, further, That this prohibition shall not apply to the transmission of such books, reports, periodicals, bulletins, pamphlets, lists, articles, or documents to educational institutions or public libraries, or to Federal, State, or other public authorities. (June 25, 1948, ch. 658, Title III, § 306, 62 Stat. 1049.) |