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53 STAT.] 76TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CHS. 633 , 634 - -AUG. 9, 10, 1939 Total, audited claims, section 204 (b), $410,297.84, together with such additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency as specified in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office. SEC. 205. Judgments against collectors of customs: For the pay- ment of a claim allowed by the General Accounting Office covering a judgment rendered by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against the collector of customs, where a certificate of probable cause has been issued, as provided under section 989, Revised Statutes (28 U. S. C. 842), and certified to the Seventy-sixth Congress in House Document Numbered 415, under the Treasury Department, $1,358.20. SEC. 206. The provisions of section 3 of the Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1940, are hereby made applicable as of July 1, 1939, to the appropriations contained in the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, and for the Department of Commerce, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for other purposes", approved June 29, 1939. SEC. 207. This Act may be cited as the "Third Deficiency Appro- priation Act, fiscal year 1939". Approved, August 9, 1939. [CHAPTER 634] AN ACT To provide for the erection of a public historical museum in the Custer Battlefield National Cemetery, Montana. 1337 Total; additional sum, increases in rates of exchange. Judgments against collectors of customs. R. S. §9S9. 28 U.S. C. § 842. Citizenship require- ments. Ante, p. 926. Ante, p. 885 . Short title. August 10, 1939 [S. 28] [Public, No. 362] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Custer Battlefield of War is authorized and directed (1) to select a site within the Custer Cemete Battlefield National Cemetery, Montana; (2) to erect and maintain puElictmuse.um wit thereon, as a memorial to Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer and in authorized. the officers and soldiers under his command at the Battle of Little Big Horn River, June 25, 1876, a public museum suitable for housing a collection of historical relics; (3) to accept on behalf of the United i Aeptance for e- hiblt of historical rel- States for exhibit in such museum the collection of relics now a part eis. of the estate of Mrs. George A. Custer, deceased, the wife of such Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer; and (4), in his discretion, to accept such other historical relics as he may deem appropriate for exhibit therein. SEC. 2. The Secretary of War is authorized and directed, notwith- dtdministar'yti duties of Secretary of standing any provision of law to the contrary, to do all things neces- War. sary to carry out the provisions of this Act, by contract or otherwise, with or without advertising, under such conditions as he may prescribe, including the engagement by contract of services of such n aer ftech architects, sculptors, artists, or firms, and such other technical and professional personnel as he may deem necessary, without regard to civil-service requirements and restrictions of law governing the employment and compensation of employees of the United States. SEC. 3. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of Appropriation au- $25,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to carry out the provisions of this Act. Approved, August 10, 1939.