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52 STAT.] 75TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CHS. 821, 822, 842 -JUNE 29, 1938 That in order that the commerce of the United States may move with expedition and without undue delay, the Secretary of Commerce is hereby authorized to make regulations permitting the clearance of a vessel having on board cargo destined to a foreign port or to a port in noncontiguous territory belonging to the United States, before delivery to the collector of customs of shippers' manifests or export declarations of the cargo laden on board, upon receipt by the collector of a bond with security approved by him in the penal sum of $1,000, conditioned that the complete shippers' manifests or export declara- tions of all cargo laden aboard such vessel shall be filed with him not later than the fourth business day after the clearance of the vessel. In the event that all of the shippers' manifests or export declarations are not filed as required by the provisions of this section and the regu- lations made by the Secretary of Commerce in pursuance hereof, then a penalty of $50 for each day's delinquency beyond the allowed period of four days for filing all of the shippers' manifests or export declara- tions shall be exacted, and if all of the shippers' manifests or export declarations are not filed within the three days following the four-day period, then for each succeeding day of delinquency, a penalty of $100 shall be exacted. Suit may be instituted in the name of the United States against the principal and surety on the bond for the recovery of any penalties that may accrue and be exacted in accordance with the terms of the bond." Approved, June 29, 1938. [CHAPTER 822] AN ACT To validate certain certificates of naturalization granted by the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all certificates of naturalization granted by the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii between January 1, 1919, and July 1, 1922, are hereby declared to be valid insofar as failure of the record to contain final order under the hand of the court is concerned, but shall not be by this Act further validated or legalized. Approved, June 29, 1938. 1249 Shippers' manifests, etc. Clearance without filing; bond. Penalty for delin- quency. Suit for recovery o0 penalties. June 29, 1938 [H. R . 73691 [Public, No. 784] Hawaii. Validation ofcertain certificates of natural- ization granted by dis- trict court. [CHAPTER 842] JOINT RESOLUTION For the relief of certain aliens. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Labor is authorized to stay the deportation of any alien whose relief from deportation is provided for by any bill which has been favor- ably acted on by either the Senate Committee on Immigration or the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization in the Seventy- fifth Congress; but such stay shall be terminated not later than the date of adjournment of the first regular session of the Seventy-sixth Congress. Approved, June 29, 1938. June 29, 19.38 I1. J . Ites. 714] [Pub. lies., No. 131] Aliens. Stay of deportation in certain cases. Limitation. 365,25 ---- 79