TREASURY DEPARTMENT Continued.

Solicitor of the Treasury of the Department of Justice is “employed in connection with the work of an abolished agency,” and, therefore, is subject to the automatic separa

tion provision of section 19 of that Executive order. APPOINTMENTS UNDER EMERGENCY BANKING ACT. See CIVIL

SERVICE, 3.
DISPOSITION OF FOUND COUPON BOND AND COUPON NOTE. See

BONDS, 2.
FUNCTIONS OF DISBURSEMENT NOT TRANSFERRED FROM DISTRICT

OF COLUMBIA TO TREASURY. See DISBURSEMENT OF MONEYS.
INSOLVENT NATIONAL BANK DIVISION, STATUS OF POSITIONS IN.

See CIVIL SERVICE, 10.
TRANSFER TO, OF JURISDICTION OVER PORTION OF NAVAL RESERVA-
TION, EDIZ HOOK SPIT, PORT ANGELES HARBOR, WASH.

, See

VETERANS-Continued.

nishing domiciliary and hospital care to veterans a preference may be given to veterans with 90 or more days of service.

551. 2. Same.-A proposed regulation requiring that veterans must be

suffering from a permanent disability, disease, or defect as a prerequisite to the grant of domiciliary care is invalid.

551. FORFEITURE OF RIGHTS UNDER SEC. 504, WORLD WAR VETERANS

ACT. See WORLD WAR VETERANS' ACT. VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION.

ADMINISTRATOR TO DECIDE STATUS OF RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE

CORPORATION EMPLOYEES, UNDER CIVIL SERVICE RETIKEMENT

ACT. See CIVIL SERVICE, 18.
AUTHORITY TO REVIEW DISABILITY OF RETIRED OFFICER. See

EMERGENCY OFFICERS RETIREMENT ACT, 2.
CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT LAWS, ADMINISTRATION. See CIVIL

SERVICE, 21.
NATIONAL HOMES BUREAU, STATUS OF PERSONNEL. See CIVIL

SERVICE, 11.

NAVAL PENSIONS. See NAVY, 1. VETERANS' BUREAU.

NAVAL PENSIONS. See NAVY, 1. VINSON ACT.

CONTRACTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF NAVAL VESSELS. See NAVY,

2, 3. VIRGIN ISLANDS. 1. Authority of Governor of Virgin Islands to designate the lieuten

ant Governor of St. Croix as Acting Governor in certain cases.—The Governor of Virgin Islands has authority under section 1 of the act of March 3, 1917 (ch. 171, 39 Stat. 1132), to designate with the approval of the President the Lieutenant Governor of St. Croix as Acting Governor of Virgin Islands during the absence or disability of the Governor and

the Government Secretary and Commissioner of Finance. 570. 2. Federal income tax laws as applied to Virgin Islands.—The At

torney General declines to express an opinion as to the validity of a certain tax claim and lien therefor arising under the Federal income tax laws as applied to the Virgin Islands of the United States, because this question can only be settled finally by the courts. It is the settled rule of this Department not to render an opinion which may bring it into con

flict with a judicial tribunal. 143. 3. Rehabilitation of the Virgin Islands.-The proposed lease of

properties acquired under the Federal public-works program to the Virgin Islands Co. for the purpose of rehabilitating industry and increasing employment in the Virgin Islands of the United States and the proposed loan to the Virgin Islands Co. for the development of subsistence homestead projects in

VIRGIN ISLANDS-Continued.

the islands, are not prohibited by the National Industrial Recovery Act and are within the discretion conferred upon

the President. 465. 4. Same.-The incorporation of the Virgin Islands Co. under the

laws of Delaware or some other State, rather than by special act of the Colonial Council of St. Croix, will not affect the

conclusion herein expressed. 465. VISAS. See IMMIGRATION, 3, 4, VITAL STATISTICS. 1. Punched coded cards containing vital statistics for Census

Bureau.-The proposed arrangement whereby the New York Health Office would furnish the Bureau of the Census punched coded cards which appear to contain sufficient data to enable the Bureau to compile the vital statistics required by section 8 of the act of March 6, 1902 (32 Stat. 52), as amended, is

authorized by the statute. 407. 2. Same.-The word "transcription" appearing in section 8 of the

act of March 6, 1902, supra, as amended, has a broader meaning than copying or abstracting and must be taken to mean the recording of such of the data as is selected from the reg

istration records for census purposes. 407. VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ACT.

APPROPRIATIONS NOT AVAILABLE TO PAY ANY PART OF CALI

FORNIA'S CONTRIBUTION TO EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT FUND.

See APPROPRIATIONS. WAREHOUSES.

STORAGE OF WINES FOR CREDIT PURPOSES. See LIQUORS. WAR DEBTS.

FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS WITH FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS IN DE

FAULT OF PAYMENT TO THE UNITED STATES. See LOANS, 8. WAR DEPARTMENT.

LEGALITY IN ORDERING LT. COL. McREYNOLDS TO ACTIVE DUTY..

See ATTORNEY GENERAL, 2.
TRANSFER OF SUPERVISION OF DISTRICT COURT OF U. S. FOR

CANAL ZONE TO JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. See CANAL ZONE

DISTRICT COURT. WAR, SECRETARY OF.

AUTHORITY TO CALL ATTENTION TO MISMANAGEMENT OF SOL

DIERS' HOME, D. C. See SOLDIERS' HOME, D. C., 1.
AUTHORITY TO DETERMINE PERIODS OF TIME THAT NO PUBLIC

QUARTERS WERE AVAILABLE AT CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS

CAMPS. See ARMY, 12.
AUTHORITY TO LIMIT PERIOD FOR TEMPORARY DUTY BY ARMY

OFFICER. See ARMY, 7.
DUTIES OF DIRECTOR OF AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION UNDER DIRECTION

See SPRUCE PRODUCTION CORPORATION.
EFFECTIVE DATE OF INDEPENDENT OFFICES Acr, SEC. 23, TITLE II.

See INDEPENDENT OFFICES ACT, 2.

WAR, SECRETARY OF_Continued.

REGULATION OF PROCEDURE IN CLASSIFICATION OF ARMY OFFI

CERS. See ARMY, 9.
REGULATIONS GOVERNING NUMBER AND CHAP.ACTER OF ACTIVE

AND INACTIVE NATIONAL GUARD UNITS. See ARMY, 6.
REIMBURSEMENT OF EXPRESS CHARGES PAID BY OFFICER FOR

SHIPMENT OF AUTHORIZED BAGGAGE. See ARMY, 14. SHIPMENT OF OFFICERS BAGGAGE UPON TEMPORARY CHANGE OF

STATION MAY BE ORDERED AT GOVERNMENT EXPENSE. See

ARMY, 13. WINES.

STORAGE FOR CREDIT PURPOSES. See LIQUORS. WORDS AND PHRASES. 1. “Abolished agency.”—The term "abolished agency” means any

agency which is abolished, transferred, or consolidated. 223. 2. "Adjustments.”—The term “adjustments” as used in Execu

tive Order No. 6440, of November 18, 1933, as amended shall include increases as well as decreases in rates of compen

sation. 563. 3. "An agency of the United States."-Grants made by Congress

to the States under the agricultural college appropriation acts are not funds loaned or granted by an agency of the United States" within the meaning of that expression as

used in Executive Order No. 6646 of March 14, 1934. 498. 4. “Appointment.” See “Reinstatement” infra. 5. " Executive agency.”—The United States Shipping Board is

an "executive agency” within the meaning of that term as defined in the Reorganization Act of March 3, 1933 (47 Stat.

1517). 238. 6. “Executive officer.”—The question what officers of a bank are

comprised within the term " executive officer” does not permit of a catagorical answer since “it is not the designation under which one is known but the nature of his duties which characterizes him as an executive officer'".

235. 7. “Holding a civilian office office or position

under the United States Government.”—The officers of the United

" States Soldiers' Home, namely, the governor, deputy governor, and secretary, are persons "holding a civilian office or position

under the United States Government”, within the meaning of section 212 (a) of the Economy Act

of June 30, 1932 (47 Stat. 406). 144. 8. “Moral turpitude” as used in immigration laws.-Moral turpi

tude “is defined as anything done contrary to justice, honesty, principle, or good morals;

Moral turpitude implies something immoral in itself, regardless of the fact whether it is punishable by law. It must not merely be mala prohibita, but the act itself must be inherently immoral. The doing of the act itself, and not its prohibition by statute, fixes the moral turpitude." 294.

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