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Page 43 TITLE 36—PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES AND OBSERVANCES § 139 act to provide for the prompt settlement of claims for (1) if the funds are not needed to pay obliga- damages occasioned by Army, Navy, and Marine Corps tions incurred because of fluctuations in cur- forces in foreign countries’, approved January 2, 1942 rency exchange rates of foreign countries in (55 Stat. 880, as amended; 31 U.S.C. 224d)’’ and ‘‘such the appropriation to which the funds were Act’’, on authority of act Aug. 10, 1956, § 49(b), ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 640, the first section of which enacted Title originally transferred; or 10, Armed Forces. The 1942 Act originally enacted sec- (2) because of subsequent favorable fluctuations 224d to 224i–1, and repealed section 223a, of former tions in the rates or because other funds are, Title 31, Money and Finance. Sections 224d, 224h, and or become, available to pay such obligations. 224i of former Title 31 were repealed by the 1956 Act, (e) Time of return and reenacted as section 2734 of Title 10, Armed Forces. Sections 224e, 224f, 224g, and 224i–1 of former Title 31 A transfer back to the account under sub- were repealed by the 1956 Act as being unnecessary and section (d) of this section may not be made after executed. the end of the second fiscal year after the fiscal AMENDMENTS year in which the appropriation to which the funds were originally transferred is available for 1956—Act July 25, 1956, § 4(c), amended section to permit the Commission to contract for work, supplies, ma- obligation. terials, and equipment for use outside the United (f) Unobligated balances; merger and availability States, and to authorize the consideration, ascertain- Not later than the end of the second fiscal ment, adjustment, determination, and payment of claims caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omis- year following the fiscal year for which appro- sion of any officer or civilian employee of the Commis- priations for salaries and expenses have been sion. made available to the Commission, unobligated balances of such appropriation provided for a fis- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS cal year may be transferred into the Foreign This section is referred to in sections 121, 125, 127, 128, Currency Fluctuations, American Battle Monu- 138a of this title. ments Commission, Account, to be merged with § 138c. American Battle Monuments Commission and available for the same period and purposes Foreign Currency Fluctuations Account as that account. (a) Establishment; purpose; transfer of funds (g) Annual report on transferred funds There is hereby established in the Treasury an The Commission shall submit to the appro- account to be known as the ‘‘Foreign Currency priate committees of the Congress each year a Fluctuations, American Battle Monuments report on funds transferred under this section. Commission, Account’’. The account shall be (Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 283, § 13, as added May 20, 1988, used to provide funds, in addition to funds ap- Pub. L. 100–322, title III, § 345(a), 102 Stat. 540.) propriated for salaries and expenses of the American Battle Monuments Commission, to EFFECTIVE DATE pay the costs of such salaries and expenses that Section 345(c) of Pub. L. 100–322 provided that: ‘‘The exceed the amount appropriated therefor as a re- amendment made by subsection (a) [enacting this sec- sult of fluctuations in currency exchange rates tion] applies with respect to each fiscal year after fis- of foreign countries occurring after a budget re- cal year 1988.’’ quest for the Commission is submitted to Con- AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS gress. The account may not be used for any other purpose. Funds in the account may be Section 345(b) of Pub. L. 100–322 provided that: ‘‘There is authorized to be appropriated to the Foreign Cur- transferred to funds appropriated for salaries rency Fluctuations, American Battle Monuments Com- and expenses of the Commission. mission, Account the sum of $3,000,000.’’ (b) Merger and availability of transferred funds; increase in permissible obligations of funds CHAPTER 8A—THE NATIONAL YEOMEN F Funds transferred under subsection (a) of this Sec. section shall be merged with and available for 139. Corporation created; purposes. the same time period as the appropriation to 139a. Right to hold property; constitution, bylaws which they are applied. A provision of law limit- and seal. ing the amount of funds the Commission may 139b. Deposit of historical material. obligate in any fiscal year shall be increased to § 139. Corporation created; purposes the extent necessary to reflect fluctuations in exchange rates from those used in preparing the Eva H. Clarke, Beatrice Brown Dwyer, and budget submission. Mary J. O’Donnell, of Arizona; (c) Recording of obligations and fluctuations in Ruby Busse Anglim, Lottie Sessions Barrett, exchange rates Philome Lucy Cavanagh, Stella Austen Clark, Pearl Bonham Clerk, Lillian Koeber Deamer, An obligation of the Commission payable in Harriet Jane Dodson, Alma Simmermacher the currency of a foreign country may be re- Dreyer, Stella Neumann Elberson, Ola Belle corded as an obligation based upon exchange Emmner, Edna Crumpler Estes, Mirian Mathews rates used in preparing a budget submission. A Everett, Katherine Driscoll Fallon, Kathleen change reflecting fluctuations in exchange rates Vance Hatch, Eva Wilson Hay, Ellen Keefe may be recorded as a disbursement is made. Heady, Ruth Hemphill, Myrtle Kinsey, Anna (d) Return of transferred funds Geisler Kirkpatrick, Katherine Brown Lightner, Funds transferred from the Foreign Currency Margaret Dannagger Lovelace, Lillian Catherine Fluctuations, American Battle Monuments McCarthy, Gladys Farmer McCool, Laura Commission, Account may be transferred back Landes Metcalf, Louise Vickery Mowers, Ruth to that account— Manahan Neal, Gladys D. Nelson, Madeline § 139 TITLE 36—PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES AND OBSERVANCES Page 44

O’Leary Peggs, Caroline Peirce, Sara Craddock Harbers, Dorothy B. Harper, Carolyn Hardesty Sasser, May Gesner Schaefer, Billie Browne Herman, Nellie Grant Hinson, Mary E. Jones, Schank, Rita Beauton Schaub, Etienne V. Claire Keefe, Kathryn Gallagher Kendrick, Ann Schier, Louise Williams Sears, Anne Williams Kilmartin, Hope Knickerbocker, Louise Elender Shumway, Florence Kelly Sparrow, Laura V. Koester, Mary Beall Kolhos, Helen Lucinda Waldron, Agnes L. Walker, Gladys Spalding Leonard, Edith Kite Lewis, Mary Dove Wheless, Evelyn Lyon Wiberg, and Muriel An- Loughrey, Marie B. Luebkert, Lillian Allen Bru- drews Zerangue, all of California; baker Luther, Helen Horigan Maisel, Laura Gar- Gladys Yeager Briggs, and Blanche Marion cia Martin, Louise Greenwald Matthews, Helen Curry, of Colorado; C. McCarty, Geraldine Clark McGovern, Lois B. Grace Pascoe Agard, Julie Sternberg Aichler, McRae, Ellen Russell McWilliams, Eloise San- Mary Sweeney Alling, Sara Hinchey Barry, ford Davison Miller, Mary Kurth Moler, Alice Anna Kilroy Bean, Kathleen Moriarity Begley, Alford Morgan, Anna Lochte Murphy, Margaret Anna Lyons Bergin, Ethel Cornet Bolles, Anna Elma Naylor, Edna Meier Nielson, Margaret McDowell Brown, Mary MacKenzie Carson, Lucy Broderick Nolan, Alice F. O’Neal, Helen Geral- Galvin Cavanaugh, Rose Reiger Chapman, Doro- dine O’Neill, Helen Linkins Opitz, Netty Baxter thy Sara Clifford, Monica Cecelia Clifford, Sadie Parker, Blanche C. Paul, Anna Viola Phelps, Connelly, Marjory Murray Cormack, Martha Annie Skidmore Powers, Sue Gould Prentiss, Swirsky Cotton, Marion McEntee Cox, Ione Edith Warren Quinn, Lillian Louise Reagan, Disco Cunningham, Katherine Lyng Donovan, Edna Marie Robey, Estelle Richardson Ruby, Margaret Bess Dordelman, Marguerite Driscoll, Ethel Clark Rule, Louise MacDonnell Ryan, Mae Sheehan Dwyer, Ruth Lawson Euster, Elizabeth Ivey Sage, Marion Trumbo Skinner, Katherine Frances Fagan, Ethel Clendenen Jessica Randolph Smith, Margaret Grady Fargo, Gertrude Selesnitzky Feinberg, Elisabeth Smith, Mabel F. Staub, Emily Steele, Nellie Tagliabue Fields, Helen Buckley Fitzgerald, Rollins Stein, Edith Herndon Summerson, Mary Irene Catherine Fitzgerald, Anna Campbell For- Sullivan Tatspaugh, Marion Crawford Thur, sythe, Anna J. Gaughan, Mary Penders Gillis, Mary Killilea Tracey, Margaret Mills Vaughan, Mary Agnes Grady, Theresa Madeleine Hamill, Eva Young Virtue, Olive Wrenn Walter, Gene- Alice Mary Harrington, Florence Hulbert vieve F. Wedding, Mary Z. Weide, Lena Kathryn Hermanus, Ella Veronica Houlihan, Deborah Willige, Pansie Casanave Willson, Ethel M. Wil- Pickett Kane, Frances Walsh Keenan, Margaret son, Faith Clements Windsor, Amy Owen Wood, O’Brien Kennedy, Hazel Merwin Lander, Eliza- Lena Rigby Woolford, Myrtle Stephens Wright, beth Mallon Leighton, Agnes Carlson Lukens, and Mary Crook Yates, all of the District of Co- Catherine Gertrude MacKenzie, Clara Arm- lumbia; strong MacKenzie, Edna Murray Manchester, Marie Roberts Bevis, Zella Prunty Byrd, Mary Driscoll Markham, A. Regina Martin, Jo- Lamonte Oliver Cates, Demerise Labbe Cleve- sephine McAuliffe Martin, Bellerose Meunier, land, Ida Matthews Eichenberger, Loyce Davis Mazie Rogers Miller, Elsie Reichert Moon, Hackett, Mabel Williamson Jacobs, Madeline A. Winnifred Patricia Nagle, Isabelle Dickson Pe- Jacobson, Idele Torrance Jamison, Adele Mead terson, Lucy Riley Pfannenstiel, Jewel Perkins Kendrick, Josephine Mack Miller, Lois Pitt, Eleanor Donahoe Reilly, Elizabeth Kepes Clappison Morse, Almeda Fink Murphy, Roxana Reynolds, Ida Reed Sanders, Alice Savage, Mil- Anne Post, Agnes Towson Shelton, Daisy Ruth dred Mabel Schwartz, Margaret Hogan Seaman, Westerlund, and Elsie Tuttle Wright, all of Flor- Ida Selesnitzky Stone, Agusta Strand, Caroline ida; Wyllie Waterman, Juliana Augusta Weske, Anna Elizabeth O’Connell, of Georgia; Helen Weinhusen, Louise Arnold Wiley, Selina Alta Sebree Wardwell Donovan, of Idaho; Lee Winter, Margaret Hardiman Wrisley, Mary Elsie Ericksen Biever, Nora Pomeroy Darling, Connors Wundrack, and Marie Deering Yeager, Grace Alma Dunbar, Anne Rourke Durst, Vir- all of Connecticut; ginia Stoddert Moore Grottee, Nell Weston Norma M. Albers, Lucille Loveless Allan, Halstead, Edna Benton Hann, Cornelia M. Gladys Elizabeth Allen, Sarah Jarvis Andrus, Huennekens, Elizabeth Ann McCoy, Mary Louise Edith Ober Armstrong, Mary Hough Barber, May Minton, Josephine MacFarland Moran, Mable A. Barrett, Nettie Neitzey Beach, Mary Munday Vander Ploeg Pease, Hester Smith Rasmussen, Becker, Esther Hall Beckett, Anne Curtin Belt, Agnes Foertsch Rohlfing, Marie Healy Simpson, Charlotte Louise Berry, Jeannette L. Bishop, Evelyn Jackson Skavlan, Constance Strong, and Alice Boland Bloomfield, Amelia Boberg, Beulah May Gilligan Sutherland, all of Illinois; Holtzscheiter Bosworth, Jane M. Breen, Kate Donna Zimmer Akin, Bessie Fisher Bogwell, Knight Briggs, Eloise Broaddus, Helen Sprague Hortense Lee Goldsmith, Mary Parker Harris, Brown, Lola Carlisle Strailman Browning, Rose and Minnie Tryon Ryan, all of Indiana; Flood Buice, Annette Louise Burton, Gertrude Maud Lowell Ayers, of Kentucky; Bange Butts, Mary Callen, Daisy House Camp- Sarah Flaherty Gallagher, and Gladys Ilsley bell, Ella Echois Chambers, Emma S. Collie, McKnight, of Maine; Maude V. Cowan, Jane Regina Cox, Catherine L. Dorothy Devey Brunken, Lucille Bonita Crowley, Reva S. Darrell, F. Pearl Delaplaine, Garrett, Fannie Grigat Laut, Grace Ryder Mead, Eleanor Marie Downey, Alice M. Downie, Cora Katherine Marie Page, Lillian Deters Tabor, Laughlin Drake, Anna Cecelia Dunn, Emma Effie Van Horn Thomas, Edna Josephine Yorker, Schroder Dyer, Bessie London Faine, Elizabeth and Anna Kaer Yust, all of Maryland; Waters Fallis, Anna Schultz Frame, Barbara Mary Lee Aylward, Marion L. Bain, Florence Spence French, Agnes Monia Gallagher, Annie K. Barry, Anna E. Beers, Helen I. Blake, Mary C. Ellen Gilson, Eleanor Mary Griffith, Mary Breslow, Adelaide Mary Bresnahan, Gladys Derouda Hall, Amy F. Hammond, Adelaide Ruth Bruce, Isabel Kehoe Burk, Aileen J. Burke, Eliz- Page 45 TITLE 36—PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES AND OBSERVANCES § 139 abeth Helen Burke, Dorothy Leighton Cady, Hicks, Anna V. Kane, Dorothy May Lee, Corrine Alice Elinor Carey, Helen Carman, Mary A. Car- Dextroze Mahanna, Anne Marie McCormick, roll, Mary Chisel, Mary Warner Colombo, Mazie Mina Klein Morrison, Marie Burke Oetmann, Conley, Kathryn J. Connor, Anita Ryan Con- Ann B. Shinnick, and Catherine Waters, all of nors, Mary M. Conroy, Ellen Bernadette Corbett, New Jersey; Catherine A. Corcoran, Winifred Burns Cox, Sarah Russell Imhof, of New Mexico; Lizzie Glidden Crowley, Madeleine Galvin Dela- Mary Ducey Archer, Laura Dayton Ball, Es- no, Elinor Kyle Devine, Sally Ryan Devlin, ther Berkowitz, Rose Brancato Biagi, May Anne Mary F. Doherty, Jane E. Dolsen, Mary Dowd, Blazina, Ruth Nethaway Bouck, Harriet Eleanor Marion Drew, Alice Driscoll, Mary Eldridge Robins Brandt, Josephine Mitchell Joyce Duggan, Mollie Catherine Dundon, Mar- Brosseau, Irene Malito Brown, Regina Burke, garet Murphy Faherty, Helen Farrell, Helen Frances Jedlicka Campbell, Rowena Margaret Mary Farrell, Catherine Woodward Feeney, Ber- Campbell, May Flaherty Carroll, Veronica Marie nice W. Fortin, Patricia Gleason, Marion E. Cherry, Mary L. Clark, May Cecilia Collins, Ada Grady, Mary E. Grady, Anna Mary Hegarty, Howe-Webster Dailinger, Julia Flynn Dorner, Ethel Hickey, Dorothy Drew Horan, Elizabeth A. Alice Leahy Everard, Dorothy Winifred Ferrier, Horgan, Marie Lambert Johnson, Anna Riley Elinor Valentine Foley, Marie McElroy Forte, Joyce, Agnes Keanneally, Ellen E. Kearns, Bes- Anna Gallagher, Margaret Katherine Garland, sie Josephine Kelly, Violet Elizabeth Kirkland, Florence Wilson Goulden, Alice Miriam Ethel Lally, Genevieve Adrienne Lane, Lucy Govenor, Elizabeth Anna Gridley, Mildred Marshall Lanigan, Ellen A. Lannigan, Leonore Berryman Hall, Mary Mahoney Halwartz, S. Learson, Julia B. Lehan, Marie Alice Long, Ger- Dorothy First Hayes, Alice Gieseking Johnson, trude Lorton, Emma Macaulay Lyle, Helen Angela Lyons Johnson, Marie Elizabeth Kelly, Stolba Macbeth, Gertrude Catherine Macdonald, Carrie Klinger, Leonore Lawson Koellsted, Lu- Margaret Mehlman Maguire, Anna Marie cile Alzamora Lacey, Mary Gray Langford, Es- Mahan, Genevieve A. Maher, Mary Louise ther Martins Law, Hortense Lersner, Gertrude Marcille, Marie Kathryn McAuliffe, Anna Long, Isabel Margaret Lynch, Nellie Mahoney, McCarthy, Helen F. McDonald, Catherine Ruth Evelyn Manning, Matilda Foeth McDon- McDonough, Marion Mary Mc- Elaney, Anna ald, Agnes Murphy McGovern, Mary McMahon, Marie McGuire, Esther McCall McLaughlin, Lillian Forsberg Miller, Maud Amelia Mittern, Agnes Murphy McLean, Anna L. McNulty, Ruth Blanche Babbitt Moeller, Frances Donahue Desmond McSweeney, Bertha Erickson Mead, Molloy, Mina Walden Mullen, Lulu Muller, Mary Irene Florence Michel, Yvonne Michel, Margaret Elizabeth Noel, Lillie May Nohowec, Mabel Isabelle Mitchell, Margaret Louise Murphy, Dorothy O’Connell, Betty A. Peifer, Frances L. Helen Adelaide Murray, Elizabeth McDonald Phair, Anna Reisman, Julia White Robbins, Myers, Helen Barr Nickerson, Eleanor Teresa Marion Flannery Savage, Gertrude Evelyn Saw- O’Brien, Marguerite Catherine O’Brien, Ria yer, Margaret Faglon Schutt, Mae E. Minehan O’Brien, Margaret Lonergan O’Brion, Shuttleworth, Ethel Lynwood Sickles, M. Grace Helen O’Brien O’Connor, Elizabeth M. Siegmann, Alice Clyde Stafford, Jeannette Gart- O’Donnell, Mary Bull Owens, Olive T. Parsons, land Sturla, May Agnes Sullivan, Lilian Browne Mary Fielding Rawling, Mary McGunigle Swanson, Dorothy Bradford Thomson, Irene M. Redmond, Elizabeth Foley Regan, Mary Lane Tynan, Rita Regan Wallis, Florence Kelley Wal- Regan, Ellen Riley, Helen O’Brien Riley, Anita ters, Irene Hallan Webb, Julia Woodroff Roberts, Mary Myers Robinson, Alice Mahan Wheelock, Sally R. Wolf, Sarah Gibbon Yeoman, Saunders, Gladys Mary Saxton, Mary Elizabeth and Henrietta Yunker, all of New York; Scalley, Julia E. Shine, Elizabeth Stander, Mary Cooper Miller Correll, Willa Tritt Coward, Vir- Catherine Sughrue, Madeline O’Brien Sullivan, ginia Dockery Crow, Lassie Kelly Cunningham, Harriet Mussinan Swearingen, Mary Gross Ethel Harwood Fuller, Estelle D. Gordon, Velma Thayer, Grace M. Tomasello, Madeline Robillard Moody Horne, Annie L. Londeree, Arabella Treloar, Isabel Catherine Wall, Lulu Veronica Johnson Milligan, Rebecca Adams Nichols, Mary Walsh, Ethel Mary Ward, Agnes O’Brien Welch, Allen Pearce, Kathleen Rogers Tate, and Edith Esther Marie Werme, Margaret Gertrude Whol- Singer Weibel, all of North Carolina; ly, Alice M. Williams, Lillian Everette Williams, Neita Russell Christian, Evelyn Evans, Mary Lucy M. Winn, and Maud C. Young, all of Massa- Pow Hartman, and Mae E. Hickey, all of Ohio; chusetts; Helen Jane Bringier and Bessie Hittle Groff, of Theresa Bean Ballenger, Lilla Mary Bellinger, Oklahoma; Gertrude M. Camp, Pauline Cassidy, Grace Anna Lenz Seaton, and Evelyn B. Youngs, of Schoenhur Conway, Marie Rossley Kalt, Gladys Oregon; Webster Mallett, Helen Moran, and Margaret Marie R. Ahern, Mary Kemp Anthony, Laura Morton Mullaney, all of Michigan; Anderson, Sue Rohland Arishoff, Lillian Young Ethyl Ryan Maly and Gertrude O’Connor Armour, Minnetta Collies Bentz, Lillian LeVene Trestrail, of Minnesota; Blackman, Maybelle M. Bond, Anna D. Boyle, Gladys Thames Hubbard, of Mississippi; Gertrude Margaret Bracken, Winifred Brooks, Sophie Polenska Coleman, of Missouri; May McCormick Bullock, Emma Engel Bunte, Davidson, Edyth Plummer, and Dorothy Margaret Rebecca Burdell, Mary Gallagher Mauck Wehrman, of Nebraska; Campbell, Margaret M. Collins, Mae McConnell Christina Sander Anderson, Anna Elizabeth Conlin, Mary E. Cross, Mrs. James Crumlish, Conroy, Gertrude O’Neil DeBrunner, A. May Anna Maguire Culliton, Mary Cavanaugh Daly, Erwin, Alice Catherine Fairbrother, Kathleen Claire Dougherty Dever, Helen M. Devery, Anna Mary Field, Anne Pedersen Freeman, Mar- Marie Devine, Elizabeth Gray Doran, Helen guerite B. Geiger, Lillian Helena Hannold, Julia Dunne, Helen Coty Easterby, Anna Viola Ed- § 139a TITLE 36—PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES AND OBSERVANCES Page 46 monds, Dorothy Elma Evans, Florence Herren Davis, Selma Price Deyo, Cora Byrnside Monberger Fedor, Sylvania Israel Garner, M. Haynes, Mabel Claire Heslep, Hazel Hodge, Pau- Cecilia Geiger, Gertrude White Gilkes, Fanny line Miller Howard, Tillie Haley Hull, Elizabeth Goldscheider, Blanche Miller Grimes, Catherine Van Hoose Hurt, Helen Southworth Lanterman, Stanfield Gutenberger, Emily Hacker, Beatrice Hope Parker Oesterle, Naoma Hawkes Parsons, B. Hamer, Agnes E. Hamill, Marion Manahan Mary Louise Price, Kathaleen Dellinger Ridgley, Hammill, Claire V. Harkins, Bertha M. Harris, and Wafie Calebaugh Robinson, all of West Vir- Mary English Harvey, Freda Forster Hawsey, ginia; Kathryn Johnston Hazzard, Charlotte King Mrs. Wallace A. Giffen, Laura V. Hall, Elea- Hedden, Jane Orr Heilig, S. Elizabeth Holmes, nore Walters Herdrich, Ada Hosford, and Sophia Effie C. Innes, Sue Altemus Jones, Anna Eliza- Keller Ormond, all of Wisconsin; beth Jourdan, Marie A. Kelly, Marie V. Klase, Susan Barnes Turney, of Wyoming; Emma Edith Lapeus, Sophia Levin, Mary M. Wilhelmina Mezger Farvin Woofter, of Alaska; Long, Laura Harrison Love, Anna Elizabeth Katherine Patee MacMillian, of Canada; Magee, Helen Marshall, Esther Nichols Martin, Rose O’Connell Shaefer, of China; Cecilia McHale, Elizabeth Marie McNamee, Laura Finnegan Cheatham, Margaret Anna J. Meara, Mary Burton Morris, Rosaline K. MacEachern Edwards, Marie Murray Grant, Lil- Moscony, Helen Hannigan Myers, Sara Myers, lian Cooper Harrington, and Julia Weber, all of Florence Fischer Nicholson, Vesta Kaufman Hawaii; Niedt, Sylvania W. Oberholtzer, Anna Florence and their associates and successors are created a O’Connor, Constance O’Hara, Catherine G. body corporate and politic, in the District of Co- O’Neill, Margaret Elizabeth Paul, Anne M. lumbia, by the name of ‘‘The National Yoemen 1 Perry, Cora Felter Phillips, Molly Dever Pur- F’’, for patriotic, historical, and educational cell, Mary A. Raith, Sara Ada Rice, Isabel E. purposes; to foster and perpetuate the memory Rosenfeldt, Anna M. Ross, Lillian White of the service of Yoemen 1 (f) in the United Schumacher, Prudence McCullin Sheperla, Ra- States Naval Reserve Force of the United States chel Emily Shultz, Aida Holz Skelly, Mabel Mel- Navy during the World War; to preserve the ville Slifer, Marjorie L. Slocum, Mary T. Smith, memories and incidents of their association in Caroline Steinbock, Mary M. Taylor, Agnes Fin- the World War by the encouragement of histori- ley Tieman, Ida Carver Townsend, Gertrude cal research concerning the service of Yoemen 1 Martin Voigt, Katherine Frances Walsh, Mary (f); by the promotion of celebrations of all patri- Warren, Elsie E. Weaver, Amy Maria Weems, otic anniversaries to cherish, maintain, and ex- Annette Kirby Weirbach, Margaret Rowena tend the institutions of American freedom; to Wellbank, Joanna Ferguson Wittman, and Elsie foster true patriotism and love of country, and Richards Whitmore, all of Pennsylvania; to aid in securing for mankind all the blessings Jennie Carter Aldred, Elizabeth Louise Bax- of liberty. ter, Lydia York Brown, Lylian Annette Callis, Lillie Reeves Campbell, Olive Mather Clark, (June 15, 1936, ch. 546, § 1, 49 Stat. 1501.) Theresa Margaret Dunphy, Helen MacDonald Garnett, Matilda Eglinton Grady, Dora Bucklin § 139a. Right to hold property; constitution, by- Helwig, Catherine Freeman Hunt, Monica laws and seal Monaghan Keenan, Margaret Ruane McCartin, Said organization is authorized to hold real Effie Crowther Meeker, Mary Littlefield O’Mara, and personal estate in the United States so far Jennie Cavanaugh Peffer, and Agnes Wheeler only as may be necessary to its lawful ends, to Smith, all of Rhode Island; an amount not exceeding $50,000, and may adopt Bertha Avaunt Frischkorn, Sara Quinn Har- a constitution and bylaws not inconsistent with rington, Rosa Wade Holland, Florence Idella law, and may adopt a seal. Larasey, Mary Sinkler de Saussure McQueen, Ida Marie Stoesen, and Mamie Elizabeth (June 15, 1936, ch. 546, § 2, 49 Stat. 1506.) Verdier, all of South Carolina; § 139b. Deposit of historical material Antonio Shuster Bunger, Sue Lou Rutledge Corbin, and Louisa Daniell Shepard, all of The regents of the Smithsonian Institution Texas; are authorized to permit said national organiza- Esther Laubach, of Utah; tion to deposit its collections, manuscripts, Nellie Leland Cutler and Minnie Bliss books, pamphlets, and other material for his- Sweetser, of Vermont; tory in the Smithsonian Institution or in the Bertha Tyler Carwithen, Columbia Taylor National Museum, at their discretion, upon such Conway, Mary Anne Eike, Janet Rishell English, conditions and under such rules as they shall Dorothy Knight Fannon, Pauline Taylor Groves, prescribe. Peggy Oakes Marable, Ethel Ward Montagne, (June 15, 1936, ch. 546, § 3, 49 Stat. 1506; June 29, Rose Nelson O’Hara, Anna Smith Reynolds, Jo- 1960, Pub. L. 86–533, § 1(23), 74 Stat. 249.) sephine M. Senerchia, Maude Lois Smith, Mayme E. Smith, Mary Phillips Spiers, Mar- AMENDMENTS garet C. Thomas, and Ulla Rathbun Tracy, all of 1960—Pub. L. 86–533 struck out provisions which re- Virginia; quired organization to report annually to Secretary of Sadie Conely Babcock, Margaret Powell Smithsonian Institution concerning its proceedings, Bidlake, Calla Layton Henly, Betty L. Reynolds, and required Secretary to communicate to Congress Emma Rogers Shriver, Lillian M. Squier, and such portions thereof as he may deem of national inter- Agnes Bell Williams, all of Washington; est and importance. Elsie Jane Beaty, Beulah Bess Carper, Ada Drown Childers, Mabelle W. Clinton, Alberta 1 So in original. Probably should be ‘‘Yeomen’’. Page 47 TITLE 36—PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES AND OBSERVANCES § 140c

CHAPTER 8B—NAVY CLUB OF THE UNITED sisting of not more than fifteen persons nor less STATES OF AMERICA than five persons, to conduct the business and exercise the powers of the corporation; (i) may Sec. acquire, by purchase, devise, bequest, gift, or 140. Corporation created. 140a. Purposes of corporation. otherwise, and hold, encumber, convey, or other- 140b. Powers of corporation. wise dispose of such real and personal property 140c. Annual report. as may be necessary or appropriate for its corporate purposes; and (j) generally may do any CROSS REFERENCES and all lawful acts necessary or appropriate to Navy Wives Clubs of America, see section 2801 et seq. carry out the purposes for which the corporation of this title. is created. § 140. Corporation created (June 6, 1940, ch. 239, § 3, 54 Stat. 233.) Sigfred A. Sandeen, national commandant; Er- § 140c. Annual report nest C. Fiedler, national senior executive offi- The corporation shall, on or before the 1st day cer; Thomas D. Hickey, national junior execu- of December in each year, transmit to Congress tive officer; Forest F. Bodiker, national pay- a report of its proceedings and activities for the master; V. Homer Peabody, national chaplain; preceding calendar year. Such reports shall not Mason C. Martin, national historian; and John be printed as public documents. F. McCullough, medical doctor, national medical officer, are created a body corporate of the (June 6, 1940, ch. 239, § 4, 54 Stat. 233; Aug. 30, name, ‘‘Navy Club of the United States of Amer- 1964, Pub. L. 88–504, § 4(11), 78 Stat. 637.) ica.’’ AMENDMENTS (June 6, 1940, ch. 239, § 1, 54 Stat. 232.) 1964—Pub. L. 88–504 struck out ‘‘, including the full and complete statement of its receipts and expendi- RESERVATION OF RIGHT TO ALTER CHAPTER tures’’ after ‘‘calendar year’’. Section 5 of act June 6, 1940, provided: ‘‘That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act [enacting this CHAPTER 9—NATIONAL OBSERVANCES chapter] at any time is hereby expressly reserved.’’ Sec. 141. Display of flag on buildings on second Sunday § 140a. Purposes of corporation in May. The purposes of this corporation shall be (a) to 142. Second Sunday in May designated as Moth- further, encourage, promote, and maintain com- er’s Day. 142a. Third Sunday in June designated as Father’s radeship among those persons who are or have Day; display of flags on buildings; observ- been in the active service of the United States ance. Navy, the United States Marine Corps, or the 142b. National Grandparents Day; proclamation, United States Coast Guard; (b) to revere, honor, designation; observance. and perpetuate the memory of those persons 142c. Parents’ Day; establishment. who have been such members and have departed 142c–1. Recognition of Parents’ Day. this life; (c) to promote and encourage further 143. First Monday in October designated as Child public interest in the United States Navy, the Health Day. 144. Transferred. United States Marine Corps, and the United 145. May twenty-second designated as National States Coast Guard and the history of said orga- Maritime Day. nizations; (d) to uphold the spirit and ideals of 146. Second Monday in October as Columbus Day. the United States Navy, the United States Ma- 147. Display of flag on buildings on last Sunday in rine Corps, and the United States Coast Guard; September. (e) to promote the ideals of American freedom 148. Last Sunday in September designated as Gold and democracy and to fit its members for the Star Mother’s Day. duties of citizenship and to encourage them to 149. April thirteenth for commemoration of 1 Thomas Jefferson’s birth. serve as ably as citizen as they have served the 150. April as Cancer Control Month. Nation under arms; and (f) to maintain true al- 151. August nineteenth as National Aviation Day. legiance to American institutions. 151a. December seventeenth as Pan American Avia- (June 6, 1940, ch. 239, § 2, 54 Stat. 232.) tion Day. 152. Repealed. § 140b. Powers of corporation 153. Citizenship Day; designation; proclamation; observance. The corporation (a) shall have perpetual suc- 154. Address to newly naturalized citizens. cession; (b) may charge and collect membership 155. National Disability Employment Awareness dues and receive contributions of money or Month. 155a. President’s Committee on Employment of property to be devoted to carrying out the pur- People With Disabilities; authorization of poses of the organization; (c) may sue or be appropriations. sued; (d) may adopt a corporate seal and alter it 155b. Acceptance of voluntary services, gifts, de- at pleasure; (e) may adopt and alter bylaws not vises, bequests, etc., by President’s Com- inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of mittee on Employment of People With Dis- the United States or of any State; (f) may estab- abilities. lish and maintain offices for the conduct of its 156. National Freedom Day. business; (g) may appoint or elect officers and 157. Flag Day; designation; proclamation; observance. agents; (h) may choose a board of trustees, con- 157a. National Flag Week. 157b. Honor America Days. 1 So in original. Probably should be ‘‘citizens’’. 158. Stephen Foster Memorial Day.