[H. R. 4005]

AN ACT

To amend section 21 of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, with respect to the time of making the annual report of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first sentence of section 21 of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "The Commission shall, on or before the 3d day of January of each year, make a report which shall be transmitted to Congress and copies of which shall be distributed as are the other reports transmitted to Congress." Approved, May 23, 1935.

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[PUBLIO NO. 412-73D CONGRESS]

If, during the present drought emergency, a carrier subject to the Interstate Commerce Act shall, at the request of any agent of the United States, authorized so to do, establish special rates for the benefit of drought sufferers such a carrier shall not be deemed to have violated the Interstate Commerce Act with reference to undue preference or unjust discrimination by reason of the fact that it applies such special rates only to those designated as drought sufferers by the authorized agents of the United States or of any State. Approved, June 19, 1934.

[H. R. 4751]

AN ACT

To amend sections 11 and 24 of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, with respect to the terms of office of members of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, is amended by inserting at the end of section 11 and immediately preceding the last sentence of section 24 a new sentence as follows: "Upon the expiration of his term of office & Commissioner shall continue to serve until his successor is appointed and shall have qualified."

Approved, July 16, 1935.

any such adjustment or compromise shall not be made on less favorable terms than those provided in the reorganization of the railroad or railway for holders of claims of the same class and rank as the claim of the Corporation."

Approved, June 19, 1934

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[HR. 9861]

AN ACT

To amend the Railway Labor Act approved May 20, 1926, and to provide for the prompt disposition of disputes between carriers and their employees.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of the Railway Labor Act is amended to read as follows:

66 DEFINITIONS

"SECTION 1. When used in this Act and for the purposes of this Act

"First. The term 'carrier' includes any express company, sleeping-car company, carrier by railroad, subject to the Interstate Commerce Act, and any company which is directly or indirectly owned or controlled by or under common control with any carrier by railroad and which operates any equipment or facilities or performs any service (other than trucking service) in connection with the transportation, receipt, delivery, elevation, transfer in transit, refrigeration or icing, storage, and handling of property transported by railroad, and any receiver, trustee, or other individual or body, judicial or otherwise, when in the possession of the business of any such carrier': Provided, however, That the term 'carrier' shall not include any street, interurban, or suburban electric railway, unless such railway is operating as a part of a general steam-railroad system of transportation, but shall not exclude any part of the general steam-railroad system of transportation now or hereafter operated by any other motive power. The Interstate Commerce Commission is hereby authorized and directed upon request of the Mediation Board or upon complaint of any party interested to determine after hearing whether any line operated by electric power falls within the terms of this proviso.

"Second. The term 'Adjustment Board' means the National Railroad Adjustment Board created by this Act.

"Third. The term 'Mediation Board' means the National Mediation Board created by this Act.

"Fourth. The term 'commerce' means commerce among the several States or between any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia and any foreign nation, or between any Territory or the District of Columbia and any Stats, or between any Territory and any other Territory, or between any Territory and the District of Columbia, or within any Territory or the District of Columbia, or between points in the same State but through any other State or any Territory or the District of Columbia or any foreign nation.

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