PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 259, 260-JULY 1, 6, 1939
[CHAPTER 259]
[53 STAT.
July ,1939
JOINT RESOLUTION
[H. J. Res. 345]
Providing an appropriation for the month of July 1939, for the Petroleum Con-
[Pub. Res., No. 25]
servation Division, Department of the Interior.
Petroleum Conser-
vation Division, In-
terior Department.
Appropriation for
expenses, month of
July 1939.
49 Stat. 30.
15 U. . C., Supp.
IV, §§ 715-7151.
Attendance at meet-
ings.
Printing and bind-
ing.
Resolved by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby
appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro-
priated, the sum of $20,000 for the month of July 1939, for administer-
ing and enforcing the provisions of the Act approved February 22,
1935 (49 Stat. 30), entitled "An Act to regulate interstate and foreign
commerce in petroleum and its products by prohibiting the shipment
in such commerce of petroleum and its products produced in violation
of State law, and for other purposes", as amended, and to include
necessary personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere
without regard to the civil-service laws and regulations, traveling
expenses, contract stenographic reporting services, rent, stationery,
and office supplies, not to exceed $500 for necessary expenses of attend-
ance at meetings and conferences concerned with the work of petroleum
conservation when authorized by the Secretary of the Interior, not
to exceed $2,500 for printing and binding, not to exceed $100 for books
and periodicals, and for the hire, maintenance, operation, and repair
of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles.
Approved, July 1, 1939.
[CHAPTER 260]
AN ACT
July 6, 1939
[H. R.332]
To extend the time within which the powers relating to the stabilization fund
[Public, No. 165]
and alteration of the weight of the dollar may be exercised.
Gold Reserve Act
of 1934, amendments.
Stabilization fund.
Annual audit; re-
port to Congress.
48 Stat. 341 .
31U.S.C. I822a.
50 Stat. 4.
31 U. S. C., Supp.
IV, 5822a.
I)uration of emer-
gency powers of Pres-
dent.
48 Stat. 52, 342; 50
Stat. 4.
31 U. S. C. §821;
Supp. IV, 1 821 .
Weight of gold
dollar, etc.
Specified powers of
President defined.
Duration.
Coinage of domestic
silver mined since
July 1, 1939.
Seigniorage, etc., de-
ductions.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (a)
of section 10 of the Gold Reserve Act of 1934, approved January 30,
1934, as amended, is further amended by striking out the period
at the end of such subsection and adding thereto the words "and to
the Congress."
SEC. 2 . Subsection (c) of section 10 of the Gold Reserve Act of
1934, approved January 30, 1934, as amended, is further amended to
read as follows:
"(c) All the powers conferred by this section shall expire June 30.
1941, unless the President shall sooner declare the existing emergency
ended and the operation of the stabilization fund terminated."
SEC. 3 . The second sentence added to paragraph (b) (2) of Section
43, title III, of the Act approved May 12, 1933, by section 12 of said
Gold Reserve Act of 1934, as amended, is further amended to read
as follows: "The powers of the President specified in this paragraph
shall be deemed to be separate, distinct, and continuing powers, and
may be exercised by him, from time to. time, severally or together,
whenever and as the expressed objects of this section in his judgment
may require; except that such powers shall expire June 30, 1941, unless
the President shall sooner declare the existing emergency ended."
SEC. 4 . (a) Each United States coinage mint shall receive for
coinage into standard silver dollars any silver which such mint, sub-
ject to regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, is
satisfied has been mined subsequently to July 1, 1939 from natural
deposits in the United States or any place subject to the jurisdiction
thereof.
(b) The Director of such mint with the consent of the owner shall
deduct and retain of such silver so received 45 per centum as seign-
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