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_. 473 371 ers.-. Saturday half holiday law, annual and sick leave.... field employees of Navy Department. Senate, confirmation of members of Federal Power Commission. "Serviceable airplanes" defined__. 407 444 1 382 532 418 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___ Synthetically prepared drugs, Narcotic Drugs Import and Ex- Taxes, payments in lieu of, revested railroad land grants____. 176 21 145 510 Tobiassen, Ingrid Therese, citizenship.. 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 Page 535 61 510 21 510 40 121 12 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 Vessels employed in ocean mail service, requirement as to citizen- 1 entitled to engage in coast wise 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.......... Veterans' Bureau, Emergency Officers' Retirement Act.--. Vollrath, Edward, application for retirement under Emergency W Page 484 101 420 435 227 61 227 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 478 418 547 541 113 289 282 462 282 355 203 362 101 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 |