[S. 2899] AN ACT To provide for increasing the limit of cost for the construction and equipment of an annex to the Library of Congress. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the limit of cost for the construction of the annex, Library of Congress, as fixed in section 4 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the construction and equipment of an annex to the Library of Congress approved June 13, 1930, is hereby increased by $2,866,340; and the Architect of the Capitol is hereby authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for such amount or so much thereof as may be necessary in addition to the contract authority heretofore fixed by law for such annex. Approved, June 6, 1935. (193) [H. R. 6836] AN ACT To provide for the printing and distribution of Government publications to The National Archives. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That chapter 23 of the Printing Act, approved January 12, 1895, as amended (U. S. C., title 44, ch. 7), be and is hereby, amended by adding a new section as follows: 66 SEC. That there shall be printed and delivered by the Public Printer to The National Archives for official use which shall be chargeable to Congress two copies each of the following publications: "House documents and public reports, bound; Senate documents and public reports, bound; Senate and House journals, bound; United States Code and Supplements, bound; Statutes at Large, bound; Official Register of the United States, bound; Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, bound; and all other documents bearing a congressional number, and all documents not bearing a congressional number printed upon order of any committee in either House of Congress, or by order of any department, bureau, independent office or establishment, commission, or officer of the Government except confidential matter, blank forms, and circular letters not of a public character; and two copies each of all public bills and resolutions in Congress in each parliamentary stage. "The Superintendent of Documents shall furnish without cost copies of such publications as may be available for free distribution." Approved, June 17, 1935. (194) [H. R. 7235] AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act to make provision for suitable quarters for certain Government services at El Paso, Texas, and for other purposes." 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 to amend the Act to make provision for suitable quarters for certain Government services at El Paso, Texas, and for other purposes", approved June 19, 1934, is amended to read as follows: "That when the owners of the tract of land situated in the city and county of El Paso and State of Texas, more fully described as follows, to wit 66 Beginning at a point on the east line of South Santa Fe Street, which point is the intersection of the west line of block 21 of the Campbell Addition to the city of El Paso and the southerly line of the present levee now occupied as a right-of-way of the Rio Grande and El Paso Railroad; and which point of intersection is sixty-six and eighty-two one-hundredths feet northerly from the southwest corner of said block 21, the beginning point of this tract; thence southerly along the west line of said block 21, and the east line of South Santa Fe Street at sixty-six and eighty-two one hundredths feet past the southwest corner of said block 21 and at one hundred and thirty-six and eighty-two one-hundredths feet past the northwest corner of block 17 of the Campbell Addition and at one hundred and eighty-eight and eighty-two one-hundredths feet past the southwest corner of this tract; thence easterly at right angles to the center of an alley one hundred and thirty feet; thence northerly and parallel with the east line of South Santa Fe Street one hundred and twentyfour feet more or less to the south line of the above-mentioned levee; thence in a northwesterly direction along the south line of said levee one hundred and thirty-five feet more or less to the place of beginning being part of lots 18, 19, and 20 in block 21 of the Campbell Addition, and that part of Eleventh Street between blocks 21 and 17 having a width of seventy feet by one hundred and thirty feet, and all of lots 11 and 12 in block 17 above referred to and the west half of the alley adjoining the lots herein mentioned. The property herein described has a frontage of one hundred and eighty-eight and eighty-two one-hundredths feet on South Santa Fe Street, a width of one hundred and thirty feet on the south side, has approximately one hundred and twenty-four feet on the east side, and on the north side one hundred and thirty-five feet." "(hereafter called the 'owners'), have agreed to erect upon such premises, or upon an equivalent area which has been approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, a building of such design, plan, and specifications as may be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury as suitable for the use of the Bureau of Immigration, the Bureau of Customs, the United States Public Health Service, and the Bureau of Plant Quarantine; the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to negotiate, and, subject to an appropriation therefor, lease such building and such premises from the owners for a term of twenty-five years after such building is ready for occupancy at a fair annual rental, subject to the limitations of section 322 of Part II of the Legislative Appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, approved June 30, 1932. Such lease shall contain a provision for a cancellation of the lease in the event that the lots on which the building is to be constructed are determined, judicially or by agreement, to be lands subject to the jurisdiction of the United States of Mexico. In the event that such lands are so determined to be lands subject to the jurisdiction of the United States of Mexico and that as a result of such determination the owners or their assignees lose their title thereto and the lease is canceled, the United States shall pay to the owners or their assignees the fair value of the building at the completion of its construction (but not in excess of the actual cost of construction), less an amount equal to one-third of 1 per centum of such cost or value for each month that the lease was in effect prior to such determination. SEC. 2. There is authorized to be appropriated such amounts as may be necessary to pay the installments of rent provided for in such lease." Approved, July 3, 1935. [H. R. 6323] AN ACT To provide for the custody of Federal proclamations, orders, regulations, notices, and other documents, and for the prompt and uniform printing and distribution thereof. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Archivist of the United States, acting through a division established by him in the National Archives Establishment, hereinafter referred to as the "Division", is charged with the custody and, together with the Public Printer, with the prompt and uniform printing and distribution of the documents required or authorized to be published under section 5. There shall be at the head of the Division a director, appointed by the President, who shall act under the general direction of the Archivist of the United States in carrying out the provisions of this Act and the regulations prescribed hereunder, who shall receive a salary, to be fixed by the President, not to exceed $5,000 a year. SEC. 2. The original and two duplicate originals or certified copies of any document required or authorized to be published under section 5 shall be filed with the Division, which shall be open for that purpose during all hours of the working days when the Archives Building shall be open for official business. The Director of the Division shall cause to be noted on the original and duplicate originals or certified copies of each document the day and hour of filing thereof: Provided, That when the original is issued, prescribed, or promulgated outside of the District of Columbia and certified copies are filed before the filing of the original, the notation shall be of the day and hour of filing of the certified copies. Upon such filing, at least one copy shall be immediately available for public inspection in the office of the Director of the Division. The original shall be retained in the archives of the National Archives Establishment and shall be available for inspection under regulations to be prescribed by the Archivist. The Division shall transmit immediately to the Government Printing Office for printing, as provided in this Act, one duplicate original or certified copy of each document required or authorized to be published under section 5. Every Federal agency shall cause to be transmitted for filing as herein required the original and the duplicate originals or certified copies of all such documents issued, prescribed, or promulgated by the agency. SEC. 3. All documents required or authorized to be published under section 5 shall be printed and distributed forthwith by the Government Printing Office in a serial publication designated the "Federal Register." It shall be the duty of the Public Printer to make available the facilities of the Government Printing Office for the prompt printing and distribution of the Federal Register in the manner and at the times required in accordance with the provisions of this Act |