53 STAT.] 76TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CHS. 633 , 634 - -AUG. 9, 10, 1939
Total, audited claims, section 204 (b), $410,297.84, together with
such additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange as may be
necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency as specified in certain
of the settlements of the General Accounting Office.
SEC. 205. Judgments against collectors of customs: For the pay-
ment of a claim allowed by the General Accounting Office covering
a judgment rendered by the United States District Court for the
Southern District of New York against the collector of customs,
where a certificate of probable cause has been issued, as provided
under section 989, Revised Statutes (28 U. S. C. 842), and certified to
the Seventy-sixth Congress in House Document Numbered 415, under
the Treasury Department, $1,358.20.
SEC. 206. The provisions of section 3 of the Department of Labor
Appropriation Act, 1940, are hereby made applicable as of July 1,
1939, to the appropriations contained in the Act entitled "An Act
making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice
and for the Judiciary, and for the Department of Commerce, for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for other purposes",
approved June 29, 1939.
SEC. 207. This Act may be cited as the "Third Deficiency Appro-
priation Act, fiscal year 1939".
Approved, August 9, 1939.
[CHAPTER 634]
AN ACT
To provide for the erection of a public historical museum in the Custer Battlefield
National Cemetery, Montana.
1337
Total; additional
sum, increases in rates
of exchange.
Judgments against
collectors of customs.
R. S. §9S9.
28 U.S. C. § 842.
Citizenship require-
ments.
Ante, p. 926.
Ante, p. 885 .
Short title.
August 10, 1939
[S. 28]
[Public, No. 362]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary
Custer Battlefield
of War is authorized and directed (1) to select a site within the Custer
Cemete
Battlefield National Cemetery, Montana; (2) to erect and maintain puElictmuse.um wit
thereon, as a memorial to Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer and in authorized.
the officers and soldiers under his command at the Battle of Little Big
Horn River, June 25, 1876, a public museum suitable for housing a
collection of historical relics; (3) to accept on behalf of the United
i Aeptance for e-
hiblt of historical rel-
States for exhibit in such museum the collection of relics now a part eis.
of the estate of Mrs. George A. Custer, deceased, the wife of such
Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer; and (4), in his discretion, to
accept such other historical relics as he may deem appropriate for
exhibit therein.
SEC. 2. The Secretary of War is authorized and directed, notwith- dtdministar'yti
duties of Secretary of
standing any provision of law to the contrary, to do all things neces- War.
sary to carry out the provisions of this Act, by contract or otherwise,
with or without advertising, under such conditions as he may
prescribe, including the engagement by contract of services of such n aer
ftech
architects, sculptors, artists, or firms, and such other technical and
professional personnel as he may deem necessary, without regard to
civil-service requirements and restrictions of law governing the
employment and compensation of employees of the United States.
SEC. 3. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of
Appropriation au-
$25,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to carry out the
provisions of this Act.
Approved, August 10, 1939.
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