Page Riehl and Eilkin, location of mining claim, Molate Island, Cali- 500 Rives, Logan, claim under Dent Act. 541 Road construction, Grand Canyon National Park, licenses for 527 Royalties under lease of Indian coal and asphalt lands_. 473 Saturday half holiday law, annual and sick leave_-_ field employees of Navy Department. ers_ "Serviceable airplanes" defined___ 407 444 1 382 532 418 Settlement of War Claims Act, payments under.... 411 Shaw, William A., pension claim. 170 Shipping, coastwise trade____. 302 Silliman, William C., status under Emergency Officers' Retire- 145 Smith, George Otis, appointment as member of Federal Power 382 Specifications for sheet and plate iron and steel for Government.__ 26 26 116 camp for veterans at Bath, N. Y., lease.. member banks of Federal reserve system, establishment 484 90 State, Secretary of, computation of national origins quotas__ 4 26 Stolen registered bond, issuance of duplicate....... 64 553 Synthetically prepared drugs, Narcotic Drugs Import and Ex- 258 T Tabulating machines, contract for rental of __ Tangren, A. E., dismissal from naval service.. Tariff. (See Customs laws.) Taxes, payments in lieu of, revested railroad land grants__--- 524 186 176 21 145 510 Tobiassen, Ingrid Therese, citizenship.. Juana. regulations requiring telegraph and cable. Treasury, Secretary of, approval of order fixing closing hour of port of Tia Juana____ authority to compromise claims of final issuance of duplicate in lieu of stolen registered bond.......... 64 Trusts of restricted Indian funds, approval by Secretary of In- 98 101 Tunney, Martin J., Spanish-American War veteran, compensa- U United States, acquisition of land for post office site in New United States Employees' Compensation Commission, Long- Utah, ratification of Colorado River compact_ - 465 418 72 V Vessels employed in ocean mail service, requirement as to citizen- 1 entitled to engage in coastwise trade.... 302 foreign, transporting passengers from San Francisco to 352 Veterans' affairs. (See Administrator of Veterans' Affairs.) lease of camp for veterans at Bath, N. Y.---. World War, compensation and disability allowance___ Page 484 101 420 435 Veterans' Bureau, Emergency Officers' Retirement Act...--- 227 61 Vollrath, Edward, application for retirement under Emergency 227 W Waits, Private Ward B., injury not result of his own misconduct. War Minerals Relief Acts, claim for interest on borrowed money- War, Secretary of, contracts for transportation required by the Army.... custody of insurance policies_ stipulations in lease of Government property- Water power project on New River, Va................ Waterway, transfer of title by Illinois to United States... World War Veterans' Act, compensation for injury resulting from hospitalization, veteran of injuries resulting from vocational 478 418 547 541 113 289 282 462 282 355 203 362 101 420 61 456 training. power to effect a disagreement__ OPINIONS OF HON. WILLIAM D. MITCHELL, OF MINNESOTA APPOINTED MARCH 4, 1929 CITIZENSHIP-SEAMEN ON AMERICAN VESSELS ENGAGED IN THE OCEAN MAIL SERVICE Seamen who have filed their declarations of intention to become citizens of the United States and have served three years upon merchant vessels of the United States of more than twenty tons burden, are deemed citizens of the United States within the requirements of section 405 (c) of the Merchant Marine Act, 1928 (45 Stat. 693). In prescribing that a certain proportion of the crew of vessels employed in ocean mail service under the Merchant Marine Act, 1928, shall be "citizens of the United States," Congress used that phrase as it had itself defined it in applicable existing laws, notably the Naturalization Act. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your request of November 10, 1928, for my opinion "as to whether seamen who have filed declarations of intention to become citizens of the United States and have served three years upon merchant vessels of the United States of more than twenty tons burden, may be considered citizens within the requirements of section 405 (c) of the Merchant Marine Act of 1928." The pertinent portion of that section reads as follows: "405 (c). * from and after the enactment of this Act and for a period of four years, upon each departure from the United States of a vessel employed in ocean mail service 141183°-32-VOL 36– -1 1 |