[CHAPTER 932] JOINT RESOLUTION Jan. 3, 1941 Extending the time for submitting the final report of the Temporary National Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That notwithstanding the provisions of section 4 (c) of the joint resolution entitled "joint resolution to create a temporary national economic committee", approved June 16, 1938, the time for submitting the final report of such committee is hereby extended to April 3, 1941, and the unexpended balances of the appropriations made for such committee shall be available to it until such date for the purpose of making such report. Approved, December 16, 1940. Authorizing the President to invite foreign countries to participate in the Pan Pan American CotParticipation by for. eign countries. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President ton Congress. of the United States is authorized and requested, by proclamation or in such manner as he may deem proper, to invite all foreign countries and nations to the Pan American Cotton Congress to be held at Memphis, Tennessee, during the year 1941, with a request that they participate therein. To amend the Act entitled "An Act in relation to pandering, to define and prohibit the same and to provide for the punishment thereof", approved June 25, 1910. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first section of the Act entitled "An Act in relation to pandering, to define and prohibit the same and to provide for the punishment thereof", approved June 25, 1910, is amended to read as follows: January 3, 1941 [S. 4415] [Public, No. 892] District of Columbia. Pandering. 36 Stat. 833. 6 D. C. Code § 179. Procurement of females for purposes "That any person who, within the District of Columbia, shall place or cause, induce, procure, or compel the placing of any female of prostitution, etc. in the charge or custody of any other person, or in a house of prostitution, with intent that she shall engage in prostitution, or who shall compel, induce, entice, or procure or attempt to compel, induce, entice, or procure any female to reside with any other person for immoral purposes or for the purpose of prostitution, or who shall compel, induce, entice, or procure or attempt to compel, induce, entice, or procure any such female to reside or continue to reside in a house of prostitution, or compel, induce, entice, or procure or attempt to compel, induce, entice, or procure her to engage in prostitution, or who takes or detains a female against her will, with intent to compel her by force, threats, menace, or duress to marry him or to marry any other person; or any parent, guardian, or other person having legal custody of the person of a female, who consents to her taking or detention by any person, for the purpose of prostitution or sexual intercourse, shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than five years and by a fine of not more than $1,000." SEC. 2. Section 2 of such Act is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2. Any person who, within the District of Columbia, by threats or duress, detains any female against her will, for the pur Consent of parent, etc. Punishment. 36 Stat. 833. 6 D. C. Code § 180. Detention by threats, etc. Punishment. pose of prostitution or sexual intercourse, or any person who shall compel any female, against her will, to reside with him or with any other person for the purposes of prostitution or sexual intercourse, shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than five years and a fine of not more than $1,000." SEO. 3. Section 3 of such Act is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 3. Any person who, within the District of Columbia, shall etc., for arranging for receive any money or other valuable thing for or on account of arranging for or causing any female to have sexual intercourse with any other person or to engage in prostitution, debauchery, or any other immoral act, shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than five years and a fine of not more than $1,000." 36 Stat. 833. 6 D. C. Code § 181. Receipt of money, females to in prostitution, etc. Punishment. Payment or receipt of money, etc. for procurement of fe males for houses of prostitution. Punishment. Receipt of money, etc., by procurers of sons. SEC. 4. Such Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sections: "SEO. 6. Any person who, within the District of Columbia, shall pay or receive any money or other valuable thing for or on account of the procuring for, or placing in, a house of prostitution, for purposes of sexual intercourse, prostitution, debauchery, or other immoral act, any female, shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than five years and by a fine of not more than $1,000. "SEC. 7. Any person who, within the District of Columbia, shall females for other per- receive any money or other valuable thing for or on account of procuring and placing in the charge or custody of another person for sexual intercourse, prostitution, debauchery, or other immoral purposes any female shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than five years and by a fine of not more than $1,000. Punishment. Acceptance, etc., of money from proceeds tutes. "SEC. 8. Any person who, within the District of Columbia, knowor earnings of prosti- ingly, shall accept, receive, levy, or appropriate any money or other valuable thing, without consideration other than the furnishing of a place for prostitution or the servicing of a place for prostitution, from the proceeds or earnings of any female engaged in prostitution shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than five years and by a fine of not more than $1,000." Punishment. Approved, January 3, 1941. [CHAPTER 938] AN ACT To amend section 204 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the termination of Federal control of railroads and systems of transportation; to provide for the settlement of disputes between carriers and their employees; to further amend an Act entitled 'An Act to regulate commerce', approved February 4, 1887, as amended, and for other purposes", approved February 28, 1920. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 204 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the termination of Federal control of railroads and systems of transportation; to provide for the settlement of disputes between carriers and their employees; to further amend an Act entitled 'An Act to regulate commerce', approved February 4, 1887, as amended, and for other purposes" approved February 28, 1920, as amended by the Act approved March 4, 1927 (44 Stat. L. 1446), be amended and reenacted by adding thereto the following new paragraphs (i), (j), and (k), as follows: "(i) That the term 'deficit in its railway operating income', as that term is used in paragraph (a), shall be construed to mean a deficiency or decrease in the carrier's railway operating income for that portion (as a whole) of the period of Federal control during which it operated its own railroad as compared with its average railway operating income for the corresponding portion of the test period, as held in Construction of the Word 'Deficit' (66 I. C. C. 765, 774). "(j) That the Commission is hereby authorized and directed to reopen all claims heretofore filed by carriers in compliance with its orders or regulations issued under this section and to ascertain and certify to the Secretary of the Treasury such amounts, if any, as may be payable to any such carriers under said section 204 as hereby amended: Provided, That the aggregate of the railway operating income of any carrier during that part of the period of Federal control during which such carrier was not operated by the Director General of Railroads plus the amount certified by the Commission under this Act shall not for said period be at a rate in excess of 53⁄44 per centum per annum of the value of the carrier's property determined by the Commission under section 19a of the Interstate Commerce Act: Provided further, That no claim certified under this subsection shall be for an amount in excess of $150,000. "(k) This Act shall take effect as of March 1, 1920, but shall not be construed as extending the time for filing claims as limited by paragraph (h) of section 204, as amended by the Act of March 4, 1927." To permit the relinquishment or modification of certain restrictions upon the use of lands along the Natchez Trace Parkway in the village of French Camp, Mississippi. Reopening of filed claims, etc. Provisos. operating income, etc., 37 Stat. 701. Effective date. 44 Stat. 1450. January 7, 1941 [H. R. 10712] [Public, No. 894] Parkway. Natchez Trace Use of privately owned lands in village of French Camp. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, is hereby authorized to relinquish or modify certain restrictions upon the use of privately owned lands in the village of French Camp along the Natchez Trace Parkway, which restrictions have been imposed thereon by the scenic easement deed dated May 19, 1938, which is recorded in book 24, pages 333-336, of the Record of Deeds in the office of the clerk of the chancery court of Choctaw County, Mississippi, said lands being situated in section 31, township 17 north, range 9 east, Choctaw County, Mississippi. SEO. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to execute such ments of conveyance. instruments of conveyance as may be necessary for the purposes of this Act. The cost of recording such instruments shall be paid out of any funds available for the Natchez Trace Parkway. To extend the date for filing a report by the United States Commission for the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Thomas Jefferson. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 7 of the joint resolution approved September 24, 1940 (Public Resolution Numbered 100, Seventy-sixth Congress), is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 7. The Commission shall, on or before the 15th day of February 1941, make a report to the Congress in order that enabling legislation may be enacted." Approved, January 9, 1941. Execution of instru- January 9, 1941 [H. J. Res. 623] Pub. Res., No. 111] Anniversary of the Two Hundredth ferson. Report to Congress. |