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1931. and (2) be subject to the same terms and conditions as payments under such original agreement . Policy of Congress SEC . 5 . It i s tereby expressly declared to be ag ainst the policy o f t o etc., d end` on . Congr ess th at any of th e inde btedne ss of f oreign count ries t o the United States should be in any manner canceled or reduced • and nothing in this joint resolution shall be construed as indicating a contrary policy, or as implying that favorable consideration will be given at any time to a change in the policy hereby declared . Approved, December 23, 1931 . [CHAPTER 6.1
AN ACT December 24, 1931 . (x.930.] Limiting the operation of sections 109 and 113 of the Criminal Code with [P ubli c, No. 1 .1
respect to counsel in the case of the Appalachian Electric Power Company against George Otis Smith, and others . a Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That not hing in sections 109 and 113 of the Act entitled "An Act to codify, revise, nd amen d the penal laws o f the United States ," app roved M arch 4 , 1909, as amended (U . S . C., title 18, sees . 198 and 203), or of any other Act of Congress forbidding any person in the employ of the United States or acting in any official capacity under them from acting as agent or attorney for another before any department or branch of the Government or from receiving pay for so acting shall be deemed to appl to counsel serving in the case of the Appalachian Electric Power Company against George Otis Smith, and others, now pending in the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Virginia . Approved, December 24, 1931 . Federal Power Com- mission . Certain limitations of Penal Code waived with respect to counsel for. V ol .35, pp .1107,1109 . U.8.0.pp.474,475. Disarmame nt confer- ence. Appropriation au- thorized for participa- tion expenses at Ge- neva,1932. Post, pp. 36, 783 . [CHAPTER 7.] JOINT RESOLUTION Jan
20,1932 . [S. J% es, 79 .]
To provide an appropriati on for expen ses of partic ipation by t he United St ates (Pub. Res., No. 6 .1 '
in a general disarmament conference to be held in Geneva in 1932 . Resolved by the Senate and How e of Representatives of the United State s o f Americ a in C ongres s assem bled, That the sum of $450,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby author- ized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- wise appropriated, for the expenses of participation by the United States in a general disarmament conference to be held in Geneva in 1932, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, includ- ing transportation and subsistence or per diem in lieu thereof (not- withstanding the provisions of any other Act), personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, without reference to the Class ification Act of 1923, as amended, stenographic and other services by contract if deemed necessary without regard to the pro- visions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes {U . S . C ., title 41, u ; ..oc.,700~:7 sec. 5), rent of offices and rooms, purchase of necessary books and documents , printin g and bin ding, off icial car ds, enter tainment, hire, maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, the reimbursement of other appropriations from which pay- ments may have been made for any of the purposes herein specified and such other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary ot l State. Approved, January 20, 1932 .
