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SEVENTIETH CONGRESS . SESS . I. Cns. 409-411 . 1928 .

447 CHAP. 409 .-An Act To authorize appropriations for construction at the Pacific Branch, Soldiers' Home, Los Angeles County, California, and for other purposes . April 23, 1928 . [II. A.6990.] [Public, No . 300 .1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby none°steer Soldiers' authorized to be appropriated not to exceed $2,100,000 to be expended for barunt authorized for the construction and installment at the Pacific Branch, Soldiers' Monica Branch, C Sant a al if . Home, Los Angeles County, California, of twelve barrack buildings and utilities and appurtenances thereto . Approved, April 23, 1928 . April 23, 1928 . CHAP. 410 .-An Act To authorize the payment of certain taxes to Okanogan (a . A . 431 .1 County, in the State of Washington, and for other purposes .

[Public, No . 301 .] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secre- Wasanngan County, tary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to Paym ent autho rize d of taxes on trust allot- pay to Okanogan County, in the State of Washington, as taxes ted Colville Indian claimed by said county under section 2 of the Act of July 1, 1892, lands Vol .'2i,p .63 . relating to the payment of local taxes on allotted Colville Indian lands, the sum of $77,435 .31 : Provided, That there may be deducted Deductions . from said amount by the Secretary of the Interior such sum or sums as he may find to have been paid to said county for Indian tuition; also the excess, if any, where the rate based on the value of Indian allotments may be found to be in excess of the rate on taxable land . SEC . 2. That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of Amo unt authorized y

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to be appropriated. any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $77,435 .31, Pos t, P.898. or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the payment of said sum to said county, as provided in the foregoing section : Provided, That Pawent a full settle the payment of such authorized appropriation to the said Okanogan meat of all claims. County, in the State of Washington, shall be in full settlement of all claims arising under and at any time after the passage of the Act of July 1, 1892 (Twenty-seventh Statutes, pages 62, 63) . Approved, April 23, 1928 . CHAP. 411 .-An Act For the relief of certain Porto Rican taxpayers .

Aps . 3 4112 8' Be it enacted by the Senate, and House of Representatives of the [Public, No . 302 .] United States o America in Congress assembled, That if in an Part° Taxpa yers f

y Taxpaershav ingen- suit pend ing M arch 4, 1927, but s ince a bated or dis missed solel y by joined collection of tax by summary seizure, to reason of the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to amend and have right of collection reenact sections 3, 20, 31, 33, 38, and 48 of the Act of March 2, decreed by a ction at 1917, enti tled ` An Act to pr ovide a civi l gover nment for Po rto Ri co, Vol. 44, p. 1418. and for other purposes,' as amended by an Act approved June 7, 1924, and for the insertion of a new section in said Act between sections 5 and 6 of said Act, to be designated as '5a' of said Act," approv ed Mar ch 4, 1927, the ta xpayer had pr ior to such date o btaine d an injunction restraining the assessment or collection of any tax imposed b the laws of Porto Rico after trial on the merits in the District Court of the United States for Porto Rico, or if in any such suit on appeal to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the first circuit the right of any taxpayer to an injunction restraining the assessment or collection of any tax imposed by the laws of P orto Rico had been decre ed, the t reasu rer of Po rto R ico shall enforce the collection of the tax so enjoined or decreed by a suit at l aw in stead of by at tachm ent, emba rgo, dist raint, or any