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(f) All moneys representing payments of principal and interest on loans made by the Administrator under this Act shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, except that any such moneys representing payments of principal and interest on obligations constituting the security for loans made by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to the Administrator shall be paid to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in payment of such loans.

SEC. 4. The Administrator is authorized and empowered, from the sums hereinbefore authorized, to make loans to persons, corporations, States, Territories, and subdivisions and agencies thereof, municipalities, peoples utility districts and cooperative nonprofit, or limited-dividend associations organized under the laws of any State or Territory of the United States, for the purpose of financing the construction and operation of generating plants, electric transmission and distribution lines or systems for the furnishing of electric energy to persons in rural areas who are not receiving central station service: Provided, however, That the Administrator, in making such loans, shall give preference to States, Territories, and subdivisions and agencies thereof, municipalities, peoples utility districts, and cooperative, nonprofit, or limited dividend associations, the projects of which comply with the requirements of this Act. Such loans shall be on such terms and conditions relating to the expenditure of the moneys loaned and the security therefor as the Administrator shall determine and may be made payable in whole or in part out of income: Provided, however, That all such loans shall be self-liquidating within a period of not to exceed [twenty-five years] thirty-five years, and shall bear interest [at a rate equal to the average rate of interest payable by the United States of America on its obligations, having a maturity of ten or more years after the dates thereof, issued during the last preceding fiscal year in which any such obligations were issued:] at a rate of 2 per centum per annum; interest rates on the unmatured and unpaid balance of any loans made pursuant to this section prior to the effective date of this amendment shall be adjusted to 2 per centum per annum, and the maturity date of such loans may be readjusted to occur at a date not beyond thirty-five years from the date of such loan: Provided further, That no loan for the construction, operation, or enlargement of any generating plant shall be made unless the consent of the State authority having jurisdiction in the premises is first obtained. Loans under this section and section 5 shall not be made unless the Administrator finds and certifies that in his judgment the security therefor is reasonably adequate and such loan will be repaid within the time agreed.

SEC. 5. The Administrator is authorized and empowered, from the sums hereinbefore authorized, to make loans for the purpose of financing the wiring of the premises of persons in rural areas and the acquisition and installation of electrical and plumbing appliances and equipment. Such loans may be made to any of the borrowers of funds loaned under the provisions of section 4, or to any person, firm, or corporation supplying or installing the said wiring, appliances, or equipment. Such loans shall be for such terms, subject to such conditions, and so secured as reasonably to assure repayment thereof, and shall be [at a rate of interest equal to the average rate of interest payable by the United States of America on its obligations, having a maturity of ten or more years after the dates thereof, issued during the last preceding fiscal year in which any such obligations were issued.] at a rate of interest of 2 per centum per annum, interest rates on the unmatured and unpaid balance of any loans made pursuant to this section prior to the effective date of this amendment shall be adjusted to 2 per centum per annum.

THE FEDERAL FARM LOAN ACT, AS AMENDED (12 U. S. C. 657)

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[The salaries and expenses of the Federal Farm Loan Board, its officers and employees, farm loan registrars, deputy registrars, examiners, and reviewing appraisers authorized under this Act, or any subsequent amendments thereof, shall be paid by the Federal land banks, joint-stock land banks, and the Federal intermediate credit banks, as follows:

The Federal Farm Loan Board shall, prior to the first days of January_and July of each year, estimate the expenses and salaries of the Federal Farm Loan Board, its officers and employees, farm loan registrars and deputy registrars, examiners, and reviewing appraisers, and apportion the same among the Federal land banks, joint-stock land banks, and the Federal intermediate credit banks on such equitable basis as the Federal Farm Loan Board shall determine, giving due consideration to time and expense necessarily incident to the supervision of the operation of each type of bank, and make an assessment upon each of such

banks pursuant to such apportionment, payable on the 1st days of January and July next ensuing. The funds collected pursuant to such assessments shall be deposited with the Treasurer of the United States under the miscellaneous recipts title "Assessments on Federal and joint-stock land banks and Federal intermediate credit banks, salaries and expenses Federal Farm Loan Board" to be disbursed in payment of such salaries and expenses on appropriations duly made by Congress: Provided, That the present legal status as to assessments against Federal intermediate credit banks shall continue until June 30, 1926, without appropriations by Congress.]

THE ACT OF JUNE 26, 1930 (46 STAT. 815)

[That the Federal Farm Loan Act, as amended (U. S. C., title 12), be, and it is hereby, amended so that effective as to appropriations for and expenditures of the Federal Farm Loan Board for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1930, and thereafter, the assessments to be made under section 3 of said Act (U. S. C., title 12, ch. 7, sec. 657) by said board against the Federal land banks, joint-stock land banks, and Federal intermediate credit banks shall be the amount of the expenses and salaries of the employees engaged in the work of the division of examinations of the Federal Farm Loan Bureau as estimated by the said board, such expenses and salaries, together with all other expenses and salaries of the said board, to be disbursed on appropriations duly made by the Congress.]

THE FEDERAL SEED ACT (7. U. S. C. 1605)

Sec. 415. (a) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary for administering this Act.

(b) Funds appropriated for carrying into effect the purpose of this Act shall be available for allotment by the Secretary of Agriculture to the bureaus and offices of the Department of Agriculture and for transfer to other departments and agencies of the Government which the Secretary of Agriculture may call upon to assist or cooperate in carrying out such purposes or for services rendered or to be rendered in connection therewith.

Appropriations made under this authorization, within the limit prescribed in such appropriations, may be expended for the share of the United States in the expense of the International Seed Testing Congress in carrying out plans for correlating the work of the various adhering governments on problems relating to seed analysis or other subjects which the Congress may determine to be necessary in the interest of the international seed trade.

THE ACT OF APRIL 24, 1939 (7 U. S. C. 343c-1)

That in order to further develop the cooperative extension system as inaugurated under the Act entitled "An Act to provide for cooperative agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several States receiving the benefits of the Act of Congress approved July 2, 1862, and all Acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of Agriculture," approved May 8, 1914 (U. S. C., title 7, secs. 341-348), there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the expenses of cooperative extension work in agriculture and home economics and the necessary printing and distribution of information in connection with the same, the sum of $300,000 $555,000 annually. The sums appropriated pursuant to this Act shall be allotted by the Secretary of Agriculture to the several States in such amounts as he may deem necessary, and shall be paid to the several States in the same manner and subject to the same conditions and limitations as the initial payments of $10,000 to each State appropriated under the Act of May 8, 1914. The sums appropriated pursuant to this Act shall be in addition to and not in substitution for sums appropriated under such Act of May 8, 1914, as amended and supplemented, and sums otherwise appropriated for agricultural extension work: Provided, That the appropriations made pursuant to this authorization shall be apportioned to the States in accordance with the apportionment of the like sum in the fiscal year 1944.

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78TH CONGRESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 2d Session

REPORT No. 1199

AUSTIN L. TIERNEY

MARCH 1, 1944.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed

Mr. BRADLEY of Pennsylvania, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany S. 176]

The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (S. 176) for the relief of Austin L. Tierney, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass.

The amendment is as follows:

Strike out all after the enacting clause and substitute therefor the following:

That Private Law Numbered 99, Seventy-fourth Congress, be and the same is amended to read as follows:

"That in the administration of any laws conferring rights, privileges, and benefits upon honorably discharged soldiers Austin L. Tierney, who served as a fireman third class, United States Navy, shall be held and considered to have been honorably discharged from the naval service of the United States as a fireman third class, on April 25, 1918: Provided, That no compensation, pension or other benefits except mileage at the time of discharge, four months' active service pay lost after absence from duty, and adjusted compensation benefits shall be held to accrue to Austin L. Tierney by reason of this Act for any period prior to its passage."

The purpose of the bill S. 176 is to amend Private Law No. 99, Seventy-fourth Congress, an act for the relief of Austin L. Tierney as follows:

Provided, That compensation, retirement pay, back pay, or other benefits shall be held to have accrued and that this man will be entitled to the benefits, privileges, and rights conferred upon an honorably discharged sailor by reason of the passage of this Act.

Private Law No. 99, approved June 24, 1935, provided that Tier

ney

shall be held and considered to have been honorably discharged from the naval service of the United States as a fireman third class on April 25, 1918: Provided, That no compensation, retirement pay, back pay, or other benefits shall be held to have accrued, nor to accrue in the future, by reason of the passage of this Act.

The enactment of Private Law No. 99 was prompted by the doubt cast on Tierney's mental condition at the time of the commission of the offense for which he was tried (10 days' absence) and by a study of his medical record prior to his enlistment.

It appears that Mr. Tierney, approximately 4 years prior to his enlistment in the Navy, was confined to a hospital for the insane in Connecticut for a period of 3 months.

Inasmuch as Mr. Tierney's offenses were not of a serious nature and were committed when he was, in all probability, partially insane, the committee feel that he should be entitled to benefits accorded a man honorably discharged.

The bill S. 176, if enacted into law, would probably result in a cost under naval appropriations of approximately $112, representing mileage to which Tierney would have been entitled at the time of his discharge, inasmuch as he is now held and considered to have been honorably discharged from the Navy as of April 25, 1918; also the cost of 4 months' pay, at the rate of $24.20 per month, which he lost due to his absence and conviction by court martial.

There would be also a cost of about $848 under appropriations of the Veterans' Administration for the soldiers' bonus, and possible further charges against such appropriations for hospitalization, disability allowance, and other benefits of which the Navy Department has no knowledge.

As the provisions of the bill are contradictory to the provisions of Private Law 99, the committee recommend that the bill be amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and substituting therefor the following:.

That Private Law Numbered 99, Seventy-fourth Congress, be and the same is amended to read as follows:

"That in the administration of any laws conferring rights, privileges, and benefits upon honorably discharged soldiers Austin L. Tierney, who served as a fireman third-class, United States Navy, shall be held and considered to have been honorably discharged from the naval service of the United States as a fireman third-class, on April 25, 1918: Provided, That no compensation, pension, or other benefits except mileage at the time of discharge, four months' active service pay lost after absence from duty, and adjusted-compensation benefits shall be held to accrue to Austin L. Tierney by reason of this Act for any period prior to its passage."

The Navy Department interposed no objection to the bill S. 176 as indicated in the letter from the Secretary of the Navy addressed to the chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs, House of Representatives, which is hereby made a part of this report.

Hon. CARL VINSON,

NAVY DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., March 23, 1943.

Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs,
House of Representatives.

MY DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: The bill S. 176, for the relief of Austin L. Tierney, was referred to the Navy Department by your committee with request for report and recommendation.

The purpose of the bill S. 176 is to amend as follows Private Law No. 99, Seventy-fourth Congress, an act for the relief of Austin L. Tierney:

"Provided, That compensation, retirement pay, back pay, or other benefits shali be held to have accrued and that this man will be entitled to the benefits, privileges, and rights conferred upon an honorably discharged sailor by reason of the passage of this Act".

Private Law No. 99, approved June 24, 1935, provided that Tierney

"shall be held and considered to have been honorably discharged from the naval service of the United States as a fireman third-class on April 25, 1918: Provided, That no compensation, retirement pay, back pay, or other benefits shall be held to have accrued, nor to accrue in the future, by reason of the passage of this Act".

The enactment of Private Law No. 99 was prompted by the doubt cast on Tierney's mental condition at the time of the commission of the offense for which he was tried (10 days' absence) and by a study of his medical record prior to his enlistment. Under the circumstances of this case the Navy Department perceives no objection to further relief for Tierney so as to accomplish, in general, the objective of the bill S. 176. It is recommended, however, that it be revised in accordance with the enclosed draft.

The Navy Department has been advised by the Bureau of the Budget that if amended as above indicated the enactment of the proposed legislation would not be in conflict with the program of the President.

Sincerely yours,

FRANK KNOX.

In compliance with clause 2a of rule XII of the Rules of the House of Representatives, there follow the provisions of existing law showing the changes which would be made by the proposed legislation.

* That in the administration of any laws conferring rights, privileges, and benefits upon honorably discharged soldiers Austin L. Tierney, who served as a fireman third class, United States Navy, shall be held and considered to have been honorably discharged from the naval service of the United States as a fireman third class, on April 25, 1918: Provided, That no compensation, retirement pay, back pay, or other benefits shall be held to have accrued, nor to accrue in the future, by reason of the passage of this Act: Provided, That compensation, retirement pay, back pay, or other benefits shall be held to have accrued and that this man will be entitled to the benefits, privileges, and rights conferred upon an honorably discharged sailor by reason of the passage of this Act.

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