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73d CONGRESS . SESS. II. CHS . 765, 845, 846 . JUNE 26, 27, 1934 . 1245 To carry out the purposes of H .R . 9145, Seventy-third Congress, second session, providing for the attendance of the Marine Band at the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic to be held at Rochester, New York, and the National convention of the Disabl ed Ame rican Veter ans of the W orld War to be he ld at Colorad o Springs, Co lorado, there is hereby app ropriated, out of any other money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $11,000 . Approved, June 26, 1934 . [CHAPTER 845 .1

AN ACT June 27, 1934 . To amend the Act of March 2, 1917, entitled "An Act to provide a civil govern- [H .R. 5330.] ment for Puerto Rico, and for other purposes ."

[Public, No . 477 .] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o f Am erica in Congress assembled, That a new sec- tion is hereby inserted between sections 5a and 6 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide a civil government for Puerto Rico, and for othe r purp oses", appr oved M arch 2, 1917, as amended, as follows "SEC . 5b . All persons born in Puerto Rico on or after April 11, 1899 (whether before or after the effective date of this Act) and not citizens, subjects, or nationals of any foreign power, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States : Provided, That this Act shall not be construed as depriving any person, n ative of Puerto Rico, of his or her American citizenship heretofore otherwise law- fully acquired by such person ; or to extend such citizenship to per- sons who shall have renounced or lost it under the treaties and/or laws of the United States or who are now residing permanently abroad and are citizens or subjects of a foreign country : And pro- vided further, That any woman, native of Puerto Rico and perma- nently residing therein, who, prior to March 2, 1917, had lost her American nationality by reason of her marriage to an alien eligible to citizenship, or by reason of the loss of the United States citizen- ship by her husband, may be naturalized under the provisions of section 4 of the Act of September 22, 1922, entitled `An Act relative to the naturalization and citizenship of m arr ied w ome n', as amended ." App roved, June 2 7, 1934 . [CHAPTER 846 .] AN ACT June 27, 1934 . To modify the operation of the Indian liquor laws on lands which were formerly [H.R .8662 .1 Indian lands .

[Public, No . 478 .] Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That hereafter the Indian liquor laws . special Indian liquor laws shall not apply to former Indian lands mer Operatio Ind an' lands, now outside of any existing Indian reser vation in any case where modified . the land is no longer held by Indians under trust patents or under any other form of deed or patent which contains restrictions against alienation without the consent of some official of the United States Government : Pr ovid ed, howe ver, That nothing in this Act shall be Proviso . in intoxicants construed to discontinue or repeal the provisions of the Indian liquor bidden . la ws


Indian country, for- I- which pro ibit th e sale, gift, barter, exchange, or other dispo- sition of beer, wine, and other liquors to Indians of the classes set forth in the Act of January 30, 1897 (29 Stat .L . 506), and section 241, title 25, of the United States Code . Approve d, June 27, 1 934 . Marine Band attend- ance at veterans' en- campments . Puerto Ri co civil government . Vol.39,p.953. Persons declared to be citizens of United States . Provisos . Native not to be deprived of citizen- ship lawfully acquired . Naturalization of cer- ta in native women . Vol.42,p. 1022. Vol. 29, p. 506. U.S.C.P. 704.