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58 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CHS. 210, 211-MAY 29, 1944 Code, as so amended, except that it may not be made effective with respect to any payment of wages to which section 1622 of such Code, as so amended, is not applicable. A certificate fur- nished under section 1622 (h) of such Code, as so amended, to an employer on or after January 1, 1945, and not furnished on or before the date of commencement of employment with such employer, shall take effect as provided in section 1622 (h) (3) (B) of such Code, as so amended, if such certificate is the first certificate so furnished and if on December 31, 1944, a certificate was in effect with respect to such employer under section 1622 (h) of such Code, without regard to such amendments. (f) CHANGE OF STATUS AFTER JULY 1, 1944. - Ef fective (despite the provisions of section 21) with respect to wages paid during the calendar year 1944, section 1622 (h) (1) (relating to withholding exemption certificates furnished by reason of a change of status) is amended by striking out ", if furnished by reason of a change of status occurring on or before July 1 of the calendar year,". Approved May 29, 1944, 7 p. m., E. W. T. [CHAPTER 211] JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for the disposition of the proceeds to accrue as a result of the inter- locutory judgment of the Court of Claims in the suit brought against the United States by the Menominee Tribe of Indians, and for other purposes. Whereas the United States Court of Claims, by interlocutory judg- ment of December 1, 1941, in a suit by the Menominee Tribe of Indians against the United States, Numbered 44294, brought pur- suant to the provisions of the Act of September 3, 1935 (ch. 839, 49 Stat. 1085), as amended, found and held that the Menominee Indians are entitled to recover from the United States the value of timber removed from, and the present acquisition cost of, certain swamplands within the boundaries of their reservation which the United States, in violation of the provisions of the treaty of May 12, 1854 (10 Stat. 1064), failed to convey to the Menominee Indians, but reserved for further proceedings the deter- mination of the amount of the recovery and the deduction of offsets, if any; and Whereas said Act of September 3, 1935, provided that in the event of a judgment against the United States as aforesaid, the United States may in lieu of paying the present acquisition costs of such lands acquire and hold said lands in trust for the sole benefit and use of the Menominee Tribe of Indians, but provided no method for exercising such election: Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That upon petition of the attorneys for the Menominee Tribe of Indians, the Court of Claims shall, in order to give effect to its interlocutory judgment, enter judg- ment in favor of the said tribe for (a) $13,666.80, representing the amount of the recovery by reason of the timber removed since May 12, 1854, from the swamplands which the court has found the United States unlawfully failed to convey to the said tribe pursuant to the treaty of May 12, 1854; and (b) $1,767,616.11, representing the pres- ent acquisition cost of such lands to the said tribe of Indians; and no offsets, including gratuities, shall be allowed to the United States in determining the amount of such judgment, but any such offsets which the United States may have, including gratuities, as defined in section 3 of the Act of September 3, 1935 (ch. 839, 49 Stat. 1085), as amended, may be pleaded and allowed in any other suit now pending or here- . 255 57 Stat. 135. 26 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 1622 (h). Ante, p. 53. Ante, p. 247. Ante, p. 53. May 29, 1944 [H. J. Res. 166] [Public Law 316] Menominee Tribe of Indians. Judgment for cer- tain timbered swamp- lands. 10 Stat. 106 . Offsets