PREFACE This fourth supplement to the Code of Laws of the United States contains the additions and changes made in the general and permanent laws of the United States since the Code, December 7, 1925, to the adjournment of the second session of the Seventy-first Congress, July 3, 1930, together with correction of all errors discovered in the Code itself to date. Supplement III is now superseded and should be discarded. The closest scrutiny has revealed but 192 substantial errors in the Code, far less than the thousand anticipated from experience with the Revised Statutes of 1874. Corrections appear in this volume and each is indicated by a star (★). Ordinarily a new cumulative supplement may be expected about three months after the end of each session of the Congress, such time being required for indexing, printing, and binding, but if the legislation of a session be unusually small a supplement will be deferred. ROY G. FITZGERALD, House of Representatives. WASHINGTON, DECEMBER 15, 1930. V UNITED STATES CODE SUPPLEMENTS The first supplement was introduced as a bill, H. R. 13622, entitled "A bill to amend and supplement the Code of the Laws of the United States of America." It was enacted by Congress (Public Act 621, 70th Congress, May 29, 1928), the enacting clause of which follows: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Code of the Laws of the United States of America be, and the same is hereby, amended by the following additions and corrections both supplementing the Code with the general and permanent laws of the Sixty-ninth Congress and perfecting the accuracy of the Code itself. SEC. 2. That the Code as thus amended and supplemented shall establish prima facie the general and permanent laws of the United States in force December 5, 1927, but nothing in this Act shall be construed as repealing or amending any such law, or as enacting as new law any matter contained in the Code as thus amended and supplemented. In case of any inconsistency arising through omission or otherwise between the provisions of any section of this Act and the corresponding portion of legislation heretofore enacted effect shall be given for all purposes whatsoever to such enactments. (a) That copies of this Act printed at the Government Printing Office and bearing its imprint shall be conclusive evidence of the original in the custody of the Secretary of State. (b) That this supplement may be cited as "U. S. C. Sup. I." Succeeding supplements will be prepared and published under the direction of the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the House of Representatives (title 1, chapter 3 of this volume). The United States Code, amended and supplemented hereby, establishes prima facie the general and permanent laws. See chapter 3 of title 1 of this volume. DISCARD PRIOR SUPPLEMENTS. VI UNITED STATES CODE SUPPLEMENT IV [To July 3, 1930] TITLE 1.—GENERAL PROVISIONS Chapter 1.—RULES OF CONSTRUCTION. volumes or publications enumerated in this chapter may be diSection 1. Words importing singular number, masculine |rected by such committee, except that the Public Printer shall gender, etc.; extended application. ★There should probably be inserted after the word "Congress" in line 3 of this section, the words "passed subsequent to February 25, 1871." Chapter 3.-CODE OF LAWS OF UNITED STATES AND SUPPLEMENTS; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CODE AND SUPPLEMENTS. Section 51. Supplements to Code of Laws of United States; preparation and publication of general and permanent laws of 69th Congress. This section has been executed by the publication of the Supplement herein provided for. It constituted § 1 of Act May 29, 1928, с. 910, 45 Stat. 1007, entitled "An Act to authorize preparation and publication of supplements to the Code of Laws of the United States with perfecting amendments, printing of bills to codify the laws relating to the District of Columbia and of such code and of supplements thereto, and for distribution," and read as follows: "There shall be prepared and published under the supervision of the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the House of Representatives a supplement to the Code of Laws of the United States in one volume, in the style and form of said code, to contain the general and permanent laws of the United States enacted during the Sixty-ninth Congress and in force December 5, 1927, a restatement of such statutes or parts of statutes as were inaccurately set forth in the code, and statutes of a general and permanent nature in force December 6, 1925, omitted from the code, and print such numbers as are necessary for depository library distribution and for sale; and (d) Dispensing with publication of more than one Supplement for each Congress. Such committee may direct that the printing and distribution of any supplement to the Code of Laws of the United States or to the Code of the District of Columbia be dispensed with entirely, except that there shall be printed and distributed for each Congress at least one supplement to each such code, containing the legislation of such Congress. (Mar. 2, 1929, с. 586, § 1, 45 Stat. 1540.) The Resolution cited to the text was entitled "Joint Resolution providing more economical and improved methods for the publication and distribution of the Code of Laws of the United States and of the District of Columbia, and supplements." 52. Preparation and publication of Codes and Supplements. There shall be prepared and published under the supervision of the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the House of Representatives (a) Cumulative Supplements to Code of Laws of United States for each session of Congress. A supplement for each session of the Congress to the then current edition of the Code of Laws of the United States, cumulatively embracing the legislation of the then current supplement, and correcting errors in such edition and supplement; (b) District of Columbia Code. A consolidation and codifi other perfecting amendments to the code, together with preface, cation of the laws, general and permanent in their nature, table of contents, parallel reference tables, table of statutes repealed since December 6, 1925, and indexes on durable paper and bound in burckram with thumb inserts and other devices to distinguish the parts, and with such explanatory and advertising slips as seem suitable." 51a. Publication and distribution of Code of Laws of United States and Supplements and District of Columbia Code and Supplements. In order to avoid duplication and waste (a) Supplement to Code of Laws of United States. - Publication of Supplement I to the Code of Laws of the United States (Public-No. 621, 70th Congress) as a part of the Statutes at Large is dispensed with; (b) Publishing in slip or pamphlet form or in Statutes at Large.-Publication in slip or pamphlet form or in the Statutes at Large of any of the volumes or publications enumerated in this chapter, shall, in event of enactment, be dispensed with whenever the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the House of Representatives so directs the Secretary of State; (c) Curtailing number of copies published.-Curtailment of the number provided by law to be printed and distributed of the 1 relating to or in force in the District of Columbia, except such laws as are of application in the District of Columbia by reason of being laws of the United States general and permanent in their nature. Such Code shall be designated "The Code of the District of Columbia"; (c) Cumulative Supplement to District of Columbia Code for each session of Congress.-A supplement for each session of the Congress to the then current edition of the Code of the District of Columbia, cumulatively embracing the legislation of the then current supplement, and correcting errors in such edition and supplement; (d) New editions of Codes and Supplements thereto.-New editions of the Code of Laws of the United States and of the Code of the District of Columbia, correcting errors and incorporating the then current supplement. In the case of each code new editions shall not be published oftener than once in each five years. Copies of each such edition shall be distributed in the same manner as provided in the case of supplements to the code of which it is a new edition. Supplements published after |