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PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 100, 101-MAY 9, 1941 [CHAPTER 100] AN ACT May 9, 1941 [H. R. 4239] [Public Law 62] Compensating taxes. Collections to be carried to surplus fund of Treasury. 7 . S.C.§615(e). To carry to the surplus fund of the Treasury certain trust funds derived from compensating taxes collected pursuant to section 15 (e) of title I of the Act of May 12, 1933 (48 Stat. 40), as amended, upon certain articles coming into the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to carry to the surplus fund of the Treasury the balances now standing on the books of the Treasury to the credit of the following trust accounts: 12X8768-Philippine trust fund (processing taxes, miscellaneous), $813,811.42; 12X8769-Virgin Islands trust fund (processing taxes, miscellane- ous), $929.94; 12X8770-American Samoa trust fund (processing taxes, miscellane- ous), $1,613.82; 12X8771-Island of Guam trust fund (processing taxes, miscella- neous), $83.30; 12X8772-Canal Zone trust fund (processing taxes, miscellaneous), $21,218.38. Approved, May 9, 1941. [CHAPTER 101] May 9, 1941 [H. J. Res. 145] [Public Law 63] St. Elizabeths Hos- pital, D. C. Construction of rec- reational buildings by American Red Cross. JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the Federal Security Administrator to permit the American Red Cross to construct needed recreational buildings on the Saint Elizabeths Hos- pital reservation. Whereas the work of the American Red Cross among the patients of the Saint Elizabeths Hospital in the District of Columbia during the past twenty-two years and the cooperation of the American Red Cross with the superintendent of the Saint Elizabeths Hospital has been of substantial therapeutic value and has promoted the humane care and enlightened curative treatment of the insane of the Army and Navy of the United States, the District of Columbia, and other patients of the institution; and Whereas on the 4th day of February 1941 the building occupied by the American Red Cross on the hospital reservation was completely destroyed by fire; and Whereas it is considered essential to the accomplishment of the pur- poses of the Saint Elizabeths Hospital that the work among its patients heretofore carried on by the American Red Cross be continued in facilities suitable for such activities: Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Administrator of the Federal Security Agency be, and he is hereby, authorized to permit the American Red Cross to construct or have constructed upon the Saint Elizabeths Hospital reservation in the District of Columbia such building or buildings as he may deem advisable to be used by the American Red Cross in cooperation with the superin- tendent of such hospital in providing recreational facilities and activi- ties for the patients and personnel of such hospital. Any amounts hereafter appropriated and any other moneys made available for the operation and maintenance of the Saint Elizabeths Hospital may be used for the provision of necessary heat, light, water, telephone, and other facilities incidental to the work of the American Red Cross among the patients of the institution. Approved, May 9, 1941. 186 [55 STAT.