[PUBLIC-No. 319-75TH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 700-1ST SESSION] [H. R. 3406) AN ACT For the relief of the Southeastern University of the Young Men's Christian Association of the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the certificate of incorporation and certificate of amendment thereto for the incorporation of the Southeastern Universi of the Young Men's Christian Association of the District of Columbia under subchapter 1 of chapter 18 of the Code of Laws of the District of Columbia (1929 D. C. Code, title 5, ch. 8) be, and the same are hereby, approved and confirmed, except as herein specifically altered and amended. SEC. 2. That the name of the corporation shall be "Southeastern University". SEO. 3. That the management of the said corporation shall be vested in a board of trustees consisting of not less than nine nor more than twenty-one in number as determined from time to time by said board of trustees, one-third of whom, at all times, shall be graduates of the said university, of the qualifications prescribed by the board of managers of the Young Men's Christian Association of the city of Washington, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the Act of Congress approved June 28, 1864 (13 Stat. L. 411 and the Acts amendatory thereof), nominated by the alumni of the said university in the manner prescribed by said board of managers, and all of whom shall be elected by said board of managers; that C. C. Caywood, A. W. Defenderfer, L. W. DeGast, Charles E. Krey, George A. Lewis, George W. Offutt, John Poole, James P. Schick, H. Randolph Barbee, James A. Bell, Harvey T. Casbarian, and D. Roland Potter shall act as and constitute the first board of trustees under this Act and shall be classified with respect to the time for which they shall severally originally hold office into three equal classes, the first class for the term of one year, the second class for the term of two years, and the third class for the term of three years; the respective original terms of office of any additional trustees shall be such as to equalize said three classes, as far as possible; and the successors to each said class of trustees shall severally hold office for the term of three years, so that the term of office of one class shall expire annually. SEC. 4. That the said board of trustees is authorized to (a) make, alter, and repeal bylaws for the management of the said corporation and rules and regulations for the government of the university and the "schools", faculty, and students thereof; (b) elect as officers of the said corporation and fix the salaries of a president, a treasurer, and a secretary, and such other officers as it may find necessary, for the respective terms and with the respective powers and duties as fixed by the bylaws of the said corporation; (c) appoint, from among their number, as officers of the said board of trustees and fix the salaries of a chairman, a vice chairman, and a secretary, and such other officers as it may find necessary, for the respective terms and with the respective powers and duties as fixed by the bylaws of the said corporation; (d) remove any trustee when, in its judgment, he shall be found incapable, by age or otherwise, of performing or discharging, or shall neglect or refuse to perform or discharge, the duties of his office; (e) determine and establish from time to time additional "schools" in all departments of sciences, liberal arts, and the professions, and the courses of instruction therein; (f) determine and establish, from time to time, additional professorships; (g) appoint, from time to time, such deans, professors, tutors, and instructors as it may deem necessary, and fix their respective terms, duties, and salaries; and (h) grant and confer degrees, but only upon the recommendation of the appropriate "school". SEC. 5. That the said corporation may have and use a common seal and alter and change the same at pleasure, and shall have power, in its corporate name (a) to sue and be sued; (b) to plead and be impleaded; and (c) to acquire real, personal, and mixed property by gift, grant, purchase, bargain and sale, conveyance, will, devise, bequest, or otherwise, to hold, use, and maintain the same solely for the purposes of education, and to demise, let, mortgage, or otherwise lien, grant, sell, exchange, convey, transfer, place out at interest, or otherwise dispose of the same for its use in such manner as shall seem most beneficial thereto; subject to conforming to the express conditions of the donor of any gift, devise, or bequest with regard thereto accepted by it; provided it shall not hold more land at any one time than necessary for the purposes of education, unless it shall have received the same by gift, grant, or devise, in which case it shall sell and dispose of so much of the same as may not be necessary for said purposes within fifteen years from the date of acquisition, otherwise the same shall revert to the donor or his heirs. SEC. 6. That the income of the said corporation from all sources whatsoever shall be held in the name of the corporation and applied to the maintenance, endowinent, promotion, and advancement of the said university and the said Young Men's Christian Association of the city of Washington, subject to conforming to the express conditions of the donor of any gift, devise, or bequest accepted by the said corporation, with regar to the income therefrom. SEC. 7. That no person shall ever be required to profess any particular religious denomination, sentiment, or opinion as a condition to becoming and continuing a member of the faculty or a student, with the full benefits, privileges, and advantages thereof. SEC. 8. That no institution of learning hereafter incorporated in the District of Columbia shall use in or as its title, in whole or in part, the words "Southeastern University". SEC. 9. That nothing in this Act contained shall be construed as preventing the Congress from amending, altering, annulling, or repealing the same or any part thereof. Approved, August 19, 1937. [PUBLIC-No. 339-75TH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 736-18T SESSION] [H. R. 4582] AN ACT To amend the Act, approved August 4, 1919, as amended, providing additional aid for the American Printing House for the Blind. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act providing additional aid for the American Printing House for the Blind", approved August 4, 1919, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: "That for the purpose of enabling the American Printing House for the Blind more adequately to provide books and apparatus for the education of the blind, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated annually to it, in addition to the permanent appropriation of $10,000 made in the Act entitled 'An Act to promote the education of the Blind', approved March 8, 1879, as amended, the sum of $115,000, which sum shall be expended in accordance with the requirements of said Act to promote the education of the blind." Approved, August 23, 1937. PUBLIC-No. 407-75TH CONGRESS] (H. R. 7908] AN ACT To extend the benefits of section 21 of the Bankhead-Jones Act to Puerto Rico. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of section 21 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for research into basic laws and principles relating to agriculture and to provide for the further development of cooperative agricultural extension work and the more complete endowment and support of land-grant colleges", approved June 29, 1935, and known as the Bankhead-Jones Act, be, and the same are hereby, extended to Puerto Rico in such amounts as are hereinafter authorized without diminution of the amounts authorized for payment to the States and the Territory of Hawaii, as provided in section 21 of that Act. SEC. 2. To carry into effect the above provisions for extending to Puerto Rico, to the extent herein provided, the benefits of the said Bankhead-Jones Act, the following sums are hereby authorized to be appropriated: For the fiscal year beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act, $88,000; for the fiscal year following the first fiscal year for which an appropriation is made in pursuance of the foregoing authorization, the additional sum of $40,000; and for each succeeding fiscal year thereafter an additional sum of $40,000 until the total appropriations authorized by this section shall amount to $408,000 annually, the authorization to continue in that amount for each succeeding fiscal year. Approved, August 28, 1937. (EXTRACT FROM) [PUBLIC NO. 430-75TH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 30-3D SESSION] [H. R. 8505] AN ACT To provide for the conservation of national soil resources and to provide an adequate and balanced flow of agricultural commodities in interstate and foreign commerce and for other purposes. NEW USES AND NEW MARKETS FOR FARM COMMODITIES SEC. 202. (a) The Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to establish, equip, and maintain four regional research laboratories, one in each major farm producing area, and, at such laboratories, to conduct researches into and to develop new scientific, chemical, and technical uses and new and extended markets and outlets for farm commodities and products and byproducts thereof. Such research and development shall be devoted primarily to those farm commodities in which there are regular or seasonal surpluses, and their products and byproducts. (b) For the purposes of subsection (a), the Secretary is authorized to acquire land and interests therein, and to accept in the name of the United States donations of any property, real or personal, to any laboratory established pursuant to this section, and to utilize voluntary or uncompensated services at such laboratories. Donations to any one of such laboratories shall not be available for use by any other of such laboratories. (c) In carrying out the purposes of subsection (a), the Secretary is authorized and directed to cooperate with other departments or agencies of the Federal Government, States, State agricultural experiment stations, and other State agencies and institutions, counties, municipalities, business or other organizations, corporations, associations, universities, scientific societies, and individuals, upon such terms and conditions as he may prescribe. (d) To carry out the purposes of subsection (a), the Secretary is authorized to utilize in each fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1938, a sum not to exceed $4,000,000 of the funds appropriated pursuant to section 391 of this Act, or section 15 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, for such fiscal year. The Secretary shall allocate one-fourth of such sum annually to each of the four laboratories established pursuant to this section. (e) The Secretary shall make a report to Congress at the beginning of each regular session of the activities of, expenditures by, and donations to the laboratories established pursuant to subsection (a). (f) There is hereby allocated to the Secretary of Commerce for each fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1938, out of funds appropriated for such fiscal year pursuant to section 391 of this Act, or section 15 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, the sum of $1,000,000 to be expended for the promotion of the sale of farm commodities and products thereof in such manner as he shall direct. Of the sum allocated under this subsection to the Secretary of Commerce for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1938, $100,000 shall be devoted to making a survey and investigation of the cause or causes of the reduction in exports of agricultural commodities from the United States, in order to ascertain methods by which the sales in foreign countries of basic agricultural commodities produced in the United States may be increased. (g) It shall be the duty of the Secretary to use available funds to stimulate and widen the use of all farm commodities in the United States and to increase in every practical way the flow of such commodities and the products thereof into the markets of the world. SEC. 203. Section 32, as amended, of the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act, and for other purposes", approved August 24, 1935, is amended by striking out ": Provided further, That no part of the funds appropriated by this section shall be used for the payment of benefits in connection with the exportation of unmanfactured cotton", and is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the amount that may be devoted, during any fiscal year after June 30, 1939, to any one agricultural commodity or the products thereof in such fiscal year, shall not exceed 25 per centum of the funds available under this section for such fiscal year." Approved, February 16, 1938. 1 So in original. |