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 separation 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 FUNCTIONS OF DISBURSEMENT NOT TRANSFERRED FROM DISTRICT TRANSFER TO, OF JURISDICTION OVER PORTION OF NAVAL RESERVA- TREASURY, SECRETARY OF. See AUTHORITY TO GRANT LICENSES TO EXPORT GOLD. See LICENSES, SINGLE BONDS FOR COLLECTORS OF INTERNAL REVENUE COVERING VALIDITY OF RULING ON IMPORT TAX ON COAL. See ATTORNEY TRUSTS. CHICAGO TITLE AND TRUST Co., TRUSTEE FOR INDIAN FUNDS. UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF. ACQUISITION OF LAND FOR FOREST RESEARCH. See LANDS, 3. PURCHASE OF LANDS FOR MIGRATORY BIRD REFUGES. See BIRD UNITED STATES. GUARANTY OF INTEREST ON HOME OWNERS' LOAN CORPORATION TITLE TO LAND IN ILLINOIS. See LANDS, 5. UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY. GRADUATION LEAVE OF CADETS. See LEAVE OF ABSENCE, 2. UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD. See SHIPPING BOARD. UNITED STATES SPRUCE PRODUCTION CORPORATION. PRODUCTION CORPORATION. VESSELS. See SPRUCE COASTWISE AND OCEAN TRANSPORTATION. See ALASKA RAIL- CONTRACTS FOR REPLACEMENTS. See NAVY, 2. VETERANS. 1. Validity of certain proposed regulations pertaining to the furnishing of domiciliary and hospital care to veterans.-In fur 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' VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION. ADMINISTRATOR TO DECIDE STATUS OF RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE AUTHORITY TO REVIEW DISABILITY OF RETIRED OFFICER. See CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT LAWS, ADMINISTRATION. See CIVIL NATIONAL HOMES BUREAU, STATUS OF PERSONNEL. SERVICE, 11. NAVAL PENSIONS. See NAVY, 1. VETERANS' BUREAU. NAVAL PENSIONS. See NAVY, 1. VINSON ACT. See CIVIL CONTRACTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF NAVAL VESSELS. See NAVY, 2, 3. VIRGIN ISLANDS. 1. Authority of Governor of Virgin Islands to designate the lieutenant 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 Attorney 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 conflict 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 registration records for census purposes. 407. VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ACT. APPROPRIATIONS NOT AVAILABLE TO PAY ANY PART OF CALI- WAREHOUSES. STORAGE OF WINES FOR CREDIT PURPOSES. See LIQUORS. WAR DEBTS. FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS WITH FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS IN DEFAULT OF PAYMENT TO THE UNITED STATES. See LOANS, 8. WAR DEPARTMENT. LEGALITY IN ORDERING LT. COL. McREYNOLDS TO ACTIVE DUTY. TRANSFER OF SUPERVISION OF DISTRICT COURT OF U. S. FOR WAR, SECRETARY OF. AUTHORITY TO CALL ATTENTION TO MISMANAGEMENT OF SOL- AUTHORITY TO LIMIT PERIOD FOR TEMPORARY DUTY BY ARMY DUTIES OF DIRECTOR OF AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION UNDER DIRECTION EFFECTIVE DATE OF INDEPENDENT OFFICES ACT, SEC. 23, TITLE II. WAR, SECRETARY OF-Continued. REGULATION OF PROCEDURE IN CLASSIFICATION OF ARMY OFFI- REGULATIONS GOVERNING NUMBER AND CHARACTER OF ACTIVE WINES. STORAGE FOR CREDIT PURPOSES. See LIQUORS. WORDS AND PHRASES. 99 See 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 Executive Order No. 6440, of November 18, 1933, as amended shall include increases as well as decreases in rates of compensation. 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 or position 66 under the United States Government."-The officers of the United 8. Moral turpitude" as used in immigration laws.-Moral turpitude "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. |