Order requiring contract markets to refuse sons. Petition to circuit court of appeals to set aside order. Procedure. Upon evidence received the said commission may require all contract privileges to such per- markets to refuse such person all trading privileges thereon for such period as may be specified in said order. Notice of such order shall be sent forthwith by registered mail or delivered to the offending person and to the governing boards of said contract markets. After the issuance of the order by the commission, as aforesaid, the person against whom it is issued may obtain a review of such order or such other equitable relief as to the court may seem just by filing in the United States circuit court of appeals of the circuit in which the petitioner is doing business a written petition praying that the order of the commission be set aside. A copy of such petition shall be forthwith served upon the commission by delivering such copy to its chairman, or to any member thereof, and thereupon the commission shall forthwith certify and file in the court a transcript of the record Jurisdiction of court. theretofore made, including evidence received. Upon the filing of the transcript the court shall have jurisdiction to affirm, to set aside, or modify the order of the commission, and the findings of the commission as to the facts, if supported by the weight of evidence, shall in like manner be conclusive. In proceedings under paragraphs (a) Review by Supreme and (b) the judgment and decree of the court shall be final, except that the same shall be subject to review by the Supreme Court upon certiorari, as provided in section 240 of the Judicial Code. Court allowed. Vacation of designation as contract market on application. SEC. 7. That the tax provided for herein shall be paid by the seller, and such tax shall be collected either by the affixing of stamps or by such other method as may have been prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury by regulations, and such regulations shall be published at such times and in such manner as shall be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury. SEC. 8. That any board of trade that has been designated a contract market, in the manner herein provided, may have such designation vacated and set aside by giving notice in writing to the Secretary of Agriculture requesting that its designation as a contract market be vacated, which notice shall be served as least ninety days prior to the date named therein, as the date when the vacation of designation shall take effect. Upon receipt of such notice the Secretary of Agriculture shall forthwith order the vacation of the designation of such board of trade as a contract market, effective upon the day named in the notice, and shall forthwith send a copy of the notice and his on application therefor. order to all other contract markets. From and after the date upon which the vacation became effective, the said board of trade can thereafter be designated again a contract market by making application to the Secretary of Agriculture in the manner herein provided for an original application. Renewal authorized Investigations, etc., of operations of boards of trade. sults. Provisos. Issuing of reports. SEC. 9. That the Secretary of Agriculture may make such investigations as he may deem necessary to ascertain the facts regarding Publication of re- the operations of boards of trade and may publish from time to time, in his discretion, the result of such investigation, and such statistical information gathered therefrom, as he may deem of interest to the public, except data and information which would separately disclose the business transactions of any person, and trade secrets or names of customers: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from making or issuing such reports as he may deem necessary, relative to the conduct of any board of trade, or of the transactions of any person found guilty of violating the provisions of this Act under the proceedings prescribed in section 6 of this Act: Provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture in any report may include the facts as to any actual transaction. The Secretary of Agriculture, upon his own initiative or in cooperation with existing governmental agencies, shall investigate marketing conditions of grain and grain products, and by-products, including supply and demand for these commodities, Statement of facts. Cooperative investi gations of marketing conditions, etc. Dissemination of information. Additional tax for designated violations. cost to the consumer, and handling and transportation charges. He Punishment on con Invalidity of any Act. of Penalties not en SEC. 11. That if any provision of this Act or the application provision, etc., not to thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the validity of affect remainder the remainder of the Act and of the application of such provision to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby. SEC. 12. That no tax shall be imposed by this Act within four forced until four months after its passage, and no fine, imprisonment, or other pen- months. alty shall be enforced for any violation of this Act occurring within four months after its passage. Cooperation with Authority for em SEC. 13. The Secretary of Agriculture may cooperate with any Government, State, department or agency of the Government, any State, Territory, Dis- etc., agencies. trict, or possession, or department, agency or political subdivision thereof, or any person; and shall have the power to appoint, remove, ployees, expenses, etc. and fix the compensation of such officers and employees, not in conflict with existing law, and make such expenditures for rent outside the District of Columbia, printing, telegrams, telephones, law books, books of reference, periodicals, furniture, stationery, office equipment, travel, and other supplies and expenses as shall be necessary to the administration of this Act in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any thorized. moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary for such purposes. Approved, August 24, 1921. Appropriations au CHAP. 87.-An Act Authorizing bestowal upon the unknown unidentified American to be buried in the Memorial Amphitheater of the National Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia, the congressional medal of honor and the distinguished service cross. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized to bestow with appropriate ceremonies, military and civil, the congressional medal of honor and the distinguished service cross upon the unknown unidentified American to be buried in the Memorial Amphitheater of the National Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia, on November 11, 1921. Approved, August 24, 1921. CHAP. 88.-An Act To control importations of dyes and chemicals. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subdivision (a) of section 501 of the Dye and Chemical Control Act, approved May 27, 1921, is amended by striking out the words "three months," and inserting in lieu thereof the words "six months." August 24, 1921. Dye and Chemical Control Act. tinued three months. Ante. p. 18, amended. War Trade Board. Furniture, etc., SEC. 2. That all furniture, file cases, typewriters, and other office transferred to Treasury appliances in use by the War Trade Section of the Department of State on May 28, 1921, shall be transferred to and become the property of the Treasury Department. Department. August 24, 1921. [H. R. 8117.] [Public, No. 69.] Urgent deficiencies appropriations. District of Columbia. Courts and prisons. Miscellaneous ex penses, supreme court Approved, August 24, 1921. CHAP. 89.-An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, 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 following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes, namely: DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. COURTS AND PRISONS. Miscellaneous expenses: For such miscellaneous expenses as may and court of appeals. be authorized by the Attorney General for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, including also such expenses other than for personal services as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the court of appeals, District of Columbia, fiscal year 1921, $5,500. Sixty per cent from District revenues. Shipping Board. Maintenance, etc., claims. Restriction on Pay restriction. em Sixty per centum of the foregoing sum for the District of Columbia shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and 40 per centum out of the Treasury of the United States. UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD. For expenses of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation for losses due to the maintenance and operation of Limit on payment of ships and for administrative purposes, $48,500,000: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be used for the payment of claims other than those resulting from the current maintenance and operation of ployment of attorneys. vessels: Provided further, That no part of this sum shall be used to pay the compensation of any attorney, regular or special, for the United States Shipping Board or the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation unless the contract of employment has been approved by the Attorney General of the United States: Provided further, That not more than six officers or employees of the United States Shipping Board or the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation shall be paid an annual salary or comtified public account- pensation in excess of $11,000: Provided further, That this appropriation shall not be available for the payment of certified public accountants, their agents, or employees, except those now employed in making an audit and taking an inventory of stock, and after the completion of such audit and inventory all auditing of every nature Subsistence, etc., al- requiring the services of outside auditors shall be furnished through Employment of cerants, etc., limited. lowance. State Department. Conference on armament limitation. All expenses. the Bureau of Efficiency: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for actual expenses of subsistence exceeding $5 a day or per diem in lieu of subsistence exceeding $4 for any officer or employee of the United States Shipping Board or the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Conference on the Subject of the Limitation of Armament: To enable the United States Government suitably to participate in the Conference on the Subject of the Limitation of Armament to be held in the city of Washington and for the compensation of delegates or other representatives, clerks, and employees, including personal services in the District of Columbia, notwithstanding the provision of any other Act, expenses of transportation, subsistence, printing in English and other languages (including publication of the proceedings), stationery and supplies, entertainment of delegates, and such other objects as the President may deem necessary, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State, $200,000, or as much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, That a report shall be made to Congress not later than June 30, 1922, of the expenditures hereunder. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. DIVISION OF CUSTOMS. Proviso. Report of expenditures. Treasury Depart ment. Customs Division. Dye and Chemical For expenses of the Dye and Chemical Section, Division of Cus- section. toms, $7,000. CUSTOMS SERVICE. Customs service. Administration, en For all necessary expenses, as may be authorized by the Secretary forcement, etc., of laws of the Treasury, in connection with the administration and enforce- and regulations. ment of the customs laws and regulations, including investigations by the Tariff Commission, and the consideration of pending legislation, including the employment of any necessary officers and other employees in the District of Columbia, and the several collection districts, $100,000. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. CONTINGENT EXPENSES. Department of Jus tice. For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, Contingent expenses. foreign postage, labor, repairs of buildings, care of grounds, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and adding machines and exchange of same, street car fares not exceeding $200, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney General, for the fiscal years that follow: Detection, etc., of Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prose- crimes. cution of crimes against the United States, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal years that follow: For 1918, $564. For 1919, $728. Books for judicial Books for judicial officers: For purchase and rebinding of law books, officers. including the exchange thereof, for United States judges, district attorneys, and other judicial officers, including the nine libraries of the United States circuit courts of appeals, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, for the fiscal years that follow: For 1918, $9.00; For 1919, $3.00. Costs in Central Pa Payment of costs taxed against the United States: For the pay- cific Railway case. ment of the costs taxed by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia against the defendants in the case of the Central Pacific Railway Company against Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, and Clay Tallman, Commissioner of the General Land Office, for the fiscal year 1921, $116.30. 45691°-21-13 United States courts. District attorneys. Clerks. Vol. 40, p. 1182. Jurors. Support of prisoners. Proviso. UNITED STATES COURTS. For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $72,000. For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, $29,000. For salaries of clerks of United States district courts, their deputies, and other assistants, expenses of travel and subsistence, and other expenses of conducting their respective offices, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved February 26, 1919, for the fiscal year 1921, $66,000. For fees of jurors, fiscal year 1921, $31,000. For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal Texas prison com- year 1921, $138,000: Provided, That the accounting officers are authorized to reimburse from this appropriation the board of prison commissioners of the Texas State prison system in the amount of $5 paid as discharge gratuity to United States prisoner, Hattie Burr. missioners. Reimbursement. Miscellaneous. For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the United States courts and their officers, including so much as may be necessary in the discretion of the Attorney General for such expenses in the district of Alaska, for the fiscal years that follow: For 1918, $7.04; For 1919, $524.57. For 1920, $1,618.04: Provided, That the General Accounting Office is authorized and directed to settle under this appropriation for the fiscal year 1920 the bill of Judd and Detweiler, amounting to $12, for furnishing fifty copies of the brief in the case of Isiah Smith against United States, and to allow in the account of United States marshal for the western district of Oklahoma for the quarter ended September 30, 1920, items aggregating $41.11, covering authorized payments for subsistence in excess of $5 per day cab fare and war tax paid to H. C. Cowles, expert ecologist; For 1921, $42,000. Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921 for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $1,449.10; For construction of water tank, $20,000. Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For construction complete of new power house, $30,000; For purchase of boilers, engines, and other equipment for power house, $91,500. McNeil Island, Washington, Penitentiary: For construction of waterworks system, $8,200. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Enforcement of Packers and Stockyards Act: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the Packers and Stockyards Act, approved August 15, 1921, $200,000: Provided, That no person shall be paid from this appropriation at a rate of compensation exceeding $5,000 per annum. |