1266 74TH CO NGRESS . SESS. II. CHS . 340,370,371 . MAY 6, 7,1936 . [CHAPTER 340 .] Mare 6, 1936. [H.J. Res . 215 .] [Pub. Res., No. 87.] Indian lands, timber sales. Terms of existing contracts modified. Vol. 47, p. 1568; Vol . 48, pp . 311, 397. U.S.C.,p.1028. Duration of author- itr e. Approval required . Mare 7, 1936 . [H.R. 10193 .] [Public, No. 575.] Postal employees. Mai l-e qui pme nt shops, compensation . Ante, p.650. Retroactive provi- sion . May 7, 1936. [S.J. Res . 247 .] [Pub. Res., No . 88 .] Harva rd Univer sitre Tercentenarre . Preamble. JOINT RESOLUTI ON To amend Public Act Numbered 435, Seventy-second Congress . Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the last proviso in that Public Act Numbered 435 of the Seventy-second Congress entitled "An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to modify the terms of existing contracts for the sale of timber on Indian land when it is in the interest of the Indians so to do", as amended, be, and the same hereby is, amended to read as follows "And provided further, That the authority granted herein shall terminate on the 4th day of September 1936 : Provided further, That all such modifi ed contracts sh all have the ap proval of the tribal general council for tribal lan ds and of the a llottee for al lotted lands" . Approved, May 6, 1936 . [CHAPTER 370 .1 AN ACT To a mend the Act to fix the hours of duty of postal employee s . Be i t enacted by th e Senate and Ho use of Represe ntatives of the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That Public Law Numbered 275 , entitled "An Act to fix the hours of duty of postal employees, and for other purposes", approved August 14, 1935, shall be construed in its application to those employees of the mail-equip- ment shops covered therein to mean that the forty hours per week of labor established by the Act shall be compensated for at the same rate which had theretofore been allowed by law for forty-four hours per week . SEC . 2 . This Act shall be retroactive in effect to and including October 1, 1935 . Approved, May 7, 1936 . [CHAPTER 371 .1 JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the recognition of the three-hundredth anniversary of the founding of Harvard College and the beginning of higher education in the United States and providing for the representation of the Government and people of the United States in the observance of the anniversary. Whereas there are to be held at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at other places during the year 1936 celebrations commemorating th e thre e-hundr edth a nnivers ary of the f ounding of Ha rvard University, said university being the first college to be established in what are now the United States; and Whereas, in accordance with resolutions of the president and fellows of Harvard College, there will take place in Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, on the 16th, 17th, and 18th of September 1936 formal ceremonies of celebration of the tercentenary, in the presence of the governing boards, faculties, students, and alumni of the university, the delegates of other institutions, distinguished guests, and a large number of friends and benefactors; and Whereas the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the cities of Cambridge and Boston will be officially represented at the cere- monies; and
