Art. 30—Those, who availed themselves of the right to present claims, instituted by the sole paragraph of Art. 18 of the Transitory Provisions of the Constitution of July 16th, 1934, are assured the right to plead before the Judicial Power for recognition of their rights, except with respect to remuneration in arrears, and all prescriptions shall be forgiven in this manner, providing that the following requirements are fulfilled:
I—to have obtained in the respective cases, a favorable and final opinion of the Revisory Commission, referred to in Decree No. 254 of August 1st, 1935;
II—the Executive Power not having acted in accordance with opinion of the Revisory Committee, with the object of restoring the rights of the claimants.
Translator's note. The Sole Paragraph of Art. 18 of the Transitory Provisions of the Constitution of 16th July 1934 read as follows:
"Sole Paragraph—The President of the Republic shall organize at an opportune moment, one or various committees presided over by federal judges, with life-appointments who, appraising, without special legal formality, the claims of the interested parties, shall issue a considered opinion as to the convenience of their services being utilized in the posts or public functions, which they held or discharged and from which they may have been removed by the Provisional Government, or its Delegates, or in other corresponding posts, as soon as possible, payment of salaries in arrears or of any indemnifications whatsoever being in every case excluded".
Art. 31—The incorporation into the patrimony of the Union of the goods given in guarantee, by those benefited by the financing of the cotton crops, from the 1942 crop to the 1945 and 1946 crops, shall not be liable to judicial consideration.
Art. 32—Within two years, counted from the promulgation of this Act, the Union shall conclude the (construction of) Rio-Northeast highway.
Art. 33—The Government shall cause to be erected in the Capital of the Republic, a monument to Rui Barbosa, in consecration of his services to the Fatherland, to liberty and to justice.
Art. 34—The honors of Marshal of the Brazilian army are hereby conferred upon General of Division João Batista Mascarenhas de Morais, Commander of the Brazilian Expeditionary Forces in the last war.
Art. 35—The Government shall appoint a committee of professors, writers and journalists in order that they may give their opinion on the denomination of the national language.
Art. 36—This Act shall be promulgated by the Chair Officers of the Constituent Assembly in the form prescribed by Art. 218 of the Constitution.
Rio de Janeiro, 18th September 1946
Note: The signatories to the above Act were the same as those who signed the Constitution.
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