[PUBLIC-No. 41-75TH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 110-1ST SESSION] [H. R. 157] AN ACT To amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes" (Public, Numbered 801, Seventieth Congress). Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 6 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved February 23, 1929 (Public, Numbered 801, Seventieth Congress), be, and it is hereby, amended by striking out "$15,000" wherever it appears and inserting in lieu thereof "$25,000, to be immediately available": Provided, That no such additional appropriation shall be available for expenditure except when matched by equal appropriations of District of Columbia funds, which are hereby authorized. Approved, April 17, 1937. [PUBLIC-No. 47-75TH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 125—1ST SESSION] [H. R. 168] AN ACT To authorize an increase in the annual appropriation for books for the adult blind. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1, as amended, of the Act entitled "An Act to provide books for the adult blind", approved March 3, 1931 (U. S. C., 1934 ed., Supp. II, title 2, sec. 135a), is amended to read as follows: "That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated annually to the Library of Congress, in addition to appropriations otherwise made to said Library, the sum of $275,000, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the Librarian of Congress to provide books published either in raised characters, on sound-reproduction records, or in any other form, for the use of the adult blind residents of the United States, including the several States, Territories, insular possessions, and the District of Columbia: Provided, That of said annual appropriation of $275,000, not exceeding $100,000 thereof shall be expended for books in raised characters, and not exceeding $175,000 thereof shall be expended for sound-reproduction records." SEC. 2. This Act shall be applicable with respect to the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, and for each fiscal year thereafter. Approved, April 23, 1937. 54-998 O-71-6 [PUBLIC-No. 95-75TH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 226-1ST SESSION] [H. R. 4728] AN ACT To authorize cooperation in the development of farm forestry in the States and Territories, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to aid agriculture, increase farm-forest income, conserve water resources, increase employment, and in other ways advance the general welfare and improve living conditions on farms through reforestation and afforestation in the various States and Territories, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized in cooperation with the land-grant colleges and universities and State forestry agencies, each within its respective field of activities, according to the statutes, if any, of the respective States, wherever such agencies can and will cooperate, or in default of such cooperation to act directly, to produce or procure and distribute forest trees and shrub planting stock; to make necessary investigations; to advise farmers regarding the establishment, protection, and management of farm forests and forest and shrub plantations and the harvesting, utilization, and marketing of the products thereof; and to enter into cooperative agreements for the establishment, protection, and care of farm- or other forest-land tree and shrub plantings within such States and Territories; and, whenever suitable Government-owned lands are not available, to lease, purchase, or accept donations of land and develop nursery sites for the production of such forest planting stock as is needed to effectuate the purposes of this Act, but not including ornamental or other stock for landscape plantings commonly grown by established commercial nurserymen, and no stock grown in Government and cooperating nurseries shall be allowed to enter regular trade channels. cooperative reforestation or afforestation shall be undertaken pursuant to this Act unless the cooperator makes available without charge the land to be planted. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated annually not to exceed $2,500,000 for carrying out the purposes of this Act. This Act shall be known as the Cooperative Farm Forestry Act. Approved, May 18, 1937. (70) No [PUBLIC-No. 119-75TH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 273-1ST SESSION] [H. R. 148] AN ACT To repeal a proviso relating to teaching or advocating communism in the public schools of the District of Columbia, and appearing in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proviso appearing in the fourteenth paragraph under the subheading "Miscellaneous" under the heading "Public Schools" in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, approved June 14, 1935 (49 Stat. 356), and reading as follows: "Provided, That hereafter no part of any appropriation for the public schools shall be available for the payment of the salary of any person teaching or advocating communism", is hereby repealed: Provided, however, That nothing herein shall be construed as permitting the advocating of communism. Approved, May 28, 1937. (71) [PUBLIC NO. 146-75TH CONGRESS] [8. 709] AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the National Education Association of the United States", approved June 30, 1906, as amended. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 5 of the Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the National Education Association of the United States", approved June 30, 1906, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "SEO. 5. The qualifications, classifications, rights, and obligations of members of said corporation shall be prescribed in the bylaws of the corporation." SEC. 2. Section 6 of such Act is amended to read as follows: "SEO. 6. (a) The officers of the corporation shall be a president, one or more vice presidents, a secretary, a treasurer, a board of directors, an executive committee, a board of trustees, and such boards, councils, committees, and other officers as shall be prescribed in the bylaws. "(b) Except as limited by this Act, as amended, the bylaws of the corporation shall prescribe the powers, duties, terms of office, and the manner of election or appointment of the said officers, boards, councils, and committees; and the said corporation may by its bylaws make other and different provisions as to the numbers and names of the officers, boards, councils, and committees." SEO. 8. Section 7 of such Act is amended to read as follows: "SEO. 7. (a) The board of trustees shall consist of four members elected by the board of directors for a term of four years, and the president of the association, who shall be a member ex officio during his term of office. At the first meeting of the board of directors held during the annual meeting of the association at which they were elected, they shall elect one trustee for the term of four years. All vacancies occurring in said board of trustees, whether by resignation or otherwise, shall be filled by the board of directors for the unexpired term; and the absence of a trustee from two successive annual meetings of the board shall forfeit his membership. "(b) The invested fund now known as the 'Permanent fund of the National Educational Association', when transferred to the corporation hereby created shall be held by such corporation as a permanent fund and shall be in charge of the board of trustees, who shall provide for the safekeeping and investment of such fund, and of all other funds which the corporation may receive by donation, bequest, or devise. No part of the principal of such permanent fund or its accretions shall be expended, except by a two-thirds vote of the representative assembly, after the proposed expenditure has been approved by the board of trustees and the board of directors, and after printed notice of the proposed expenditure has been printed in the Journal of the National Education Association at least two months prior to the meeting of the representative assembly. "(c) The income of the permanent fund shall be used only to meet the cost of maintaining the organization of the association and of publishing its annual volume of Proceedings, unless the terms of the donation, bequest, or devise shall otherwise specify, or the bylaws of the corporation shall otherwise provide. "(d) The board of trustees shall elect the secretary of the association who shall be secretary of the executive committee, and shall fix the compensation and the term of his office for a period of not to exceed four years." SEC. 4. Section 8 of such Act is amended by striking out in the proviso thereof the following: "by the Board of Directors, or otherwise". Approved, June 14, 1937. |