SEVENTIETH CONGRESS . SESS. I. CHs . 720-722. 1928 .
723 and Roseville, in the State of California, shall hereafter receive compensation for transportation of property and troops of the United Vol.14,p. 272. States at the same rate as is paid to land-grant railroads organized under the Land Grant Act of March 3, 1863, and the Act of July 27, 1866 (chapter 278) : Provided, That the Congress hereby reserves the Proviso . right at any time by law to prescribe such charges as it deems advis- Ri ght to presc ribe charges reserved . able for such Government transportation . Approved, May 23, 1928 . May 23, 1928. CHAP. 721 .-Joint Resolution Authorizing the President to appoint three (S . J . Res . 971 delegates to the Twenty-third International Congress of Americanists, and mak- [Pub . Res., No.50] ing an appropriation for the expenses of such congress . Whereas the Twenty-third International Congress of Americanists Int ernational Con. will be held in New York City during the week beginning Sep- gross eamb Americanists . tember 17, 1928, for the consideration of (1) the aboriginal races of Americ a and their relat ionshi p to o ther people s, (2) the arch2eological remains found in America and time relations as rev ealed by the m, (3) the habits and c ustom s of t he var ious groups of American Indians and questions of the origin and dis- tribution of these in the Old and New Worlds, (4) the native languages of America, (5) the early history of America, especially in regard to its discovery and early settlement, and (6) geo- graphical and geological questions, especially as related to human activities : There fore be it Reso lved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the App oint ment auth or . United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President ized of three delegates is authorized to appoint three delegates to represent the United to ' States at the Twenty-third International Congress of Americanists, to be held in New York City during the week beginning September 17, 1928 . SEC. 2 . There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any sum authorized as y
contribution to expen- money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $5,000, ses . to be paid by the Secretary of State to the proper officials of such Post, p. 914. congress as the contribution of the United States toward defraying the expenses of such congress . Approved, May 23, 1928 . May 23, 1928 . CHAP . 722.-Joint Resolution Providing for the participation of the United [S . J . Res . 23 .] States in the celebration in 1929 and 1930 of the one hundred and fiftieth anni- [Pub. Res., No. 51.] versary of the conquest of the Northwest Territ ory by General_ Geor ge Rogers Clark and his army, and authorizing an appropriation for the construction of a permanent memorial of the Revolutionary War in the West, and of the accession of the Old Northwest to the United States on the site of Fort Sackville, which was captured by George Rogers Clark and his men February 25, 1779 . Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby established a commission to be known as the George Rogers Clark Sesquicentennial Commission (hereinafter referred to as the commission) and to be composed of fifteen commissioners, as fol- lows : Three persons to be appointed by the President of the United States ; three Senators by the President of the Senate ; three Members of the House of Representatives by the Speaker of the House of Representatives ; and . six members of the George Rogers Clark Memoria l Commission of Indiana to be selected b y such commis sion . Northwest Territory Sesquicentennial . Co mmis sion estab . lished. Composition.
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