mined is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid 75 per cent of the amount so determined and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as, added to such 75 per cent, will make up such amount as will be just compensation therefor in the manner provided for by section 24, paragraph 20, and section 145 of the Judicial Code.

SEC. 3. That upon the requisition of or the filing of a petition for the condemnation hereunder of such land, or any right, title, or interest therein, or such houses, buildings, furnishings, improvements, local transportation, and other general community utilities, and parts thereof, immediate possession thereof may be taken to the extent of the interest to be acquired and the same may be occupied, occupant being given 10 days' notice in which to vacate, and used, and the provisions of section 355 of the Revised Statutes, providing that no public money shall be expended upon such land until the written opinion of the Attorney General shall be had in favor of the validity of the title, nor until the consent of the legislature of the State in which the land is located has been given, shall be, and the same are hereby, suspended as to all real estate acquired hereunder.

SEC. 4. That the word "person" used herein shall include any person, trustee, firm, or corporation.

SEC. 5. That the power and authority granted herein shall cease with the termination of the present war, except the power and authority to care for, sell, or rent such property as remains undisposed of and to conclude and execute contracts for the sale of property made during the war. Such property shall be sold as soon after the conclusion of the war as it can be advantageously done: Provided, That before any sale is consummated the same must be authorized by Congress.

SEC. 6. That at the beginning of each session of Congress the President shall make to Congress a full and detailed report covering all of the transactions with relation to the subject matter of this Act, describing each parcel of land purchased, leased, or otherwise acquired, the improvements made thereon, together with the amount of money spent in connection therewith and the disposition of the same; descriptions of all parcels of property sold, to whom, the terms of sale, and the status of the title at the time of the making of such report; description of each piece of property purchased under the terms of this Act and still owned by the Government and the estimated value; a list showing the names of all persons who have been employed in any capacity to aid in carrying out the provisions of this Act, the service rendered by each and the amount of compensation, including fees, commissions, allowances, and traveling expenses paid to each, and a full, detailed, itemized statement showing each and every transaction in the execution of the trust herein created, and immediately after the declaration of the President shall make a final report to Congress covering peace n detail all the operations and transactions, under and by virtue of the terms of this act.

SEC. 7. That no work to be done or contract to be made under or by authority of any provision of this Act shall be done or made on or under a percentage or cost-plus percentage basis, nor shall any contract be let until at least three responsible competing contractors shall have been notified and considered in connection with such contract, and all contracts to be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, the Government reserving the right to reject any and all bids.

SEC. 8. That for carrying out the provisions of this Act and for the administration thereof the sum of $60,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby authorized: Provided, That $10,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the amount hereby authorized shall be used only to build or acquire, as herein provided, housing accommodations within the District of Columbia

for such Government employees as can not be used as advantageous ly in other cities in the service of the Government, of which the sum of $75,000, or so much thereof as shall be necessary therefor, shall be used by the Superintendent of the United States Capitol Buildings and Grounds to convert the building known as the Maltby Building into an apartment house or for office purposes: Provided further, That the expenditure in the District of Columbia shall be made with a view to caring for the alley population of the District when the war is over, so far as it can be done without interfering with war housing purposes.

Approved, May 16, 1918.

[PUBLIC NO. 164-65TH CONGRESS.]

[H. R. 12280.]

[An Act making appropriations to supply additional urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, on account of war expenses and for other purposes.]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply additional urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, on account of war expenses and for other purposes, namely:

EXECUTIVE.

HOUSING FOR WAR NEEDS.

For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the President to provide housing for war needs, 19 approved May 16, 1918, including rental of offices in the District of Columbia, contingent and miscellaneous expenses, printing and binding, and personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $60,000,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1919. Section 7 of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the President to provide housing for war needs," approved May 16, 1918, is amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 7. That no work to be done or contract to be made under or by authority of any provision of this Act shall be done or made on or under a percentage or cost-plus percentage basis, nor shall any contract be let involving more than $1,000 until at least three responsible competing contractors shall have been notified and considered in connection with such contract, and all contracts to be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, the Government reserving the right to reject any and all bids."

The President, if in his judgment such action is deemed necessary or advantageous, may authorize the creation of a corporation or corporations for the purpose of carrying out the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the President to provide housing for war needs," approved May 16, 1918, such corporation or corporations to have or obtain all powers necessary or appropriate therefor. The total capital stock of the corporation or corporations authorized hereunder shall not exceed $60,000,000: Provided, That where such corporation or corporations are created by authority of the President, representatives appointed by the President, or by such agency as he may designate to carry out the purposes of the said Act, shall subscribe to, own, and vote the capital stock thereof for and on behalf of the United States, and shall do all other things in regard thereto necessary to protect the interests of the United States and to carry out the provisions of the said Act: Provided further, That section 605 of the Code of the District of Columbia prohibiting a corporation from buying, selling or dealing in real estate shall not apply to such corporation or corporations so created or designated, with respect to buying, selling or dealing in real estate in furtherance of the provisions of the said Act: Provided further,

That the Act entitled "An Act to amend section 552 of the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia, relating to incorporations, approved February 4, 1905, shall not apply to any corporation or corporations created under the authority contained in this paragraph.

All moneys received by the United States in carrying out the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the President to provide housing for war needs," approved May 16, 1918, may be used as a revolving fund until June 30, 1919, for further carrying out the purposes of the said Act.

[An Act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses. and for other purposes.]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes, namely:

EXECUTIVE.

HOUSING FOR WAR NEEDS.

The authorization fixed by section 8 of the Act entitled "AD Act to authorize the President to provide housing for war needs," approved May 16, 1918, is increased from $60,000,000 to $100,000,000, and there is appropriated for the purposes thereof, including rental of offices in the District of Columbia, contingent and miscellaneous expenses, printing and binding, and personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $40,000,000, to be expended in accordance with the authority and under the conditions prescribed in the said Act as amended by the Deficiency Appropriation act approved June 4, 1918, and to continue available during the fiscal year 1919.

Authority is granted to make the necessary connections and to supply current from the Capitol Power Plant to the Union Station group of temporary housing. Payment for current shall be at the rates determined by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds and the proceeds therefrom shall be credited to the proper appropriations for the Capitol Power Plant and be available for the purposes of such appropriations during the fiscal year 1919.

entitled "An Act to authorize the President to provide housing for war needs," approved May 16, 1918, shall be covered into the Treasury immediately upon the passage of this act: Provided, That all revenues on hand June 30, 1919, and all revenues derived thereafter from the exercise of the authority contained in the act entitled "An Act to authorize the President to provide housing for war needs," approved May 16, 1918, as amended by the Deficiency Appropriation Act approved June 4, 1918, including revenues from rentals, the operation of properties, the disposal of properties, the repayments of loans, and the interest on loans, shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts. And the proper authority shall submit to Congress detailed estimates of appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for each fiscal year thereafter so long as the said Act remains in effect, for personal services and all other expenses required in the District of Columbia and elsewhere to provide for the care, rental, maintenance and operation of properties as authorized by law.

Salaries: For officers, attorneys, clerks, and other employees in the District of Columbia necessary to carry out the provisions of the acts of May 16, 1918 (Public No. 149, 65th Congress), and of June 4, 1918 (Public No. 164, 65th Congress), $250,000;

Contingent expenses: For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices at Washington, D. C., including purchase of blank books, maps, stationery, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, and soap; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passengercarrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; telegraph and telephone service; printing and binding; and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, and necessary to collect loans made to corporations and associations, $60,000;

Rent: For buildings and part of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the Bureau of Industrial Housing and Transportation, $22,000;

For dwellings commandeered under the act of May 16, 1918, (Public No. 149, 65th Congress), $24,620; In all, rent, $46,620.

Valuation of property: For compensation and expenses of independent expert boards to appraise the buildings and lands owned by the corporation for the purpose of establishing a basis for rental rates and for fixing sales basis, $75,000;

Operation of projects: To manage, maintain, alter, rent, lease lands, houses, buildings, improvements, local transportation, and other general community utilities, including the maintenance and operation of hotels owned by or leased to the United States or the United States Housing Corporation, and commandeered by the United States, as provided by the acts of May 16, 1918 (Public No. 149, 65th Congress), and June 4, 1918 (Public No. 164, 65th Congress), including the cost of premiums on fire insurance policies, fidelity bonds, public and employers' liabilities as follows:

Aberdeen, Md., $5,000;

Alliance, Ohio, $6,500;

Bath, Me., $7,500;

Bremerton, Wash., $24,000;

HOUSES.

Bridgeport, Conn. (site 4-Crane tract), $19,000;
Bridgeport, Conn. (site 5—Mill Green), $19,000;
Bridgeport, Conn. (site 12-Grassmere), $8,000;
Charleston, W. Va., $8,000;

Erie, Pa. (east tract), $1,500;
Erie, Pa. (west tract), $18,500;
Hammond, Ind., $13,000;
Indian Head, Md., $8,000;
New Brunswick, N. J., $17,000;
New London, Conn., $8,000;

Groton, Conn., $1,750;

Newport, R. I., $3,750;

Niagara Falls, N. Y., $13,000;

Niles, Ohio, $5,750;

Philadelphia, Pa., $44,000;

Portsmouth, Va., District: Cradock, $47,000; Truxtun, $12,500; Pompton Lakes, N. J., $1,000;

Quincy, Mass., $36,000;

Rock Island District: Davenport, Iowa, $15,000; Moline, Ill., $9,000; East Moline, Ill., $8,000; Rock Island, Ill., $16,500; Vallejo, Calif. (Mare Island), $21,000;

Washington, D. C., Navy Yard, $1,000;

Waterbury, Conn., $4,000;

Watertown, N. Y., $7,000;
In all, houses, $412,250.

HOTELS.

Bremerton, Wash., $165,000. Kittery Point, Me., $74,000.

Washington, D. C., Government Hotel for Government workers; to manage including personal service-maintain, alter, rent, lease houses, buildings, and improvements owned by the United States and/or the United States Housing Corporation and to operate and maintain restaurants therein, as provided by the Acts of May 16, 1918 (Public Numbered 149, Sixty-fifth Congress), and June 4, 1918 (Public Numbered 164, Sixty-fifth Congress), including the cost of selling the same or, and part thereof; premiums on fire-insurance policies, fidelity bonds, public and employers' liability, $700,000; in all, hotels, $939,000.

Quincy, Mass., $2,500;

RESTAURANTS.

Vallejo, Calif. (Mare Island), $110,000; in all, restaurants, $112,500.

APARTMENTS.

Bremerton, Wash., $6,000;

Bridgeport, Conn. (site one, Black Rock), $33,000; Bridgeport, Conn. (site 14, Connecticut Avenue), $15,000; Erie, Pa. (West tract), $1,000;

Portsmouth, Va., District: Cradock, $6,000;

Washington, D. C., Navy Yard, $600;

In all, apartments, $61,600.

DORMITORIES.

Indian Head, Md., $6,000;

Quincy, Mass., $74,000;

Vallejo, Calif. (Mare Island), $28,000; Washington, D. C.: Navy Yard, $4,000;

In all, dormitories, $112,000.

In all, $2,068,970: Provided, That no part of the appropriations heretofore made and available for expenditure by the United States Housing Corporation shall be expended for the purposes for which appropriations are made herein.

Section 5 of the Act Entitled "An act to authorize the President to provide housing for war needs," approved May 16, 1918, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 5. That the power and authority granted herein shall cease with the termination of the present war as formerly proclaimed by the President, except the power and authority to care for, rent, operate, and sell such property as remains undisposed of; to conclude and execute contracts or other obligations made or incurred during the war or in carrying out the provisions of this section; to collect the principal and interest of loans made or other sums due under obligations entered into under this Act; and to take such other steps as are necessary to protect the interests of the Government and to fulfill the obligations duly incurred in carrying out the powers granted by said Act. All property shall be sold at its fair market value as soon as can be advantageously done, and a reasonable effort shall be made to sell the houses direct to prospective individual home owners for their own occupancy before they are offered for sale in bulk or to speculative investors. Full power and authority is hereby given to sell and convey all such property remaining undisposed of after the termination of the present war. All deeds, contracts, or other instruments of conveyance executed by the United States Housing Corporation by its duly authorized officer or officers where the legal title to the property in question is in the name of said corporation, and by the United States of America by the Secretary of Labor where the title to the property in question is in the name of the United States of America, shall be conclusive evidence of the transfer of title to the property in question according to the purport of such deeds, contracts, or other instruments of conveyance, and in no case shall any purchaser or grantee thereunder be required to see to the application of any purchase money: Provided, however, That no sale or conveyance shall be made hereunder on credit without reserving a first lien on such property for the unpaid purchase money: Provided further, That in no case shall any such property be given away; nor shall rents be furnished free, but the rental charges shall be reasonable and just as between the tenants and the Government. The United States Housing Corporation (a corporation organized by authority of the President of the United States, pursuant to the provisions of an act approved May 16, 1918, entitled 'An act to authorize the President to provide housing for war needs,' and an act approved June 4, 1918, entitled 'An act making appropriations to supply additional urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes') shall wind up its affairs and dissolve as soon as it has disposed of said property and performed the duties and obligations herein set forth: Provided, That the corporation shall report to Congress on December 31, 1919, and on June 30, 1920, all sales made and the amounts received therefrom together with a detailed statement of receipts and expenditures on account of the other activities authorized by law."

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Approved, July 19, 1919.

We, the undersigned, all being of full age, at least two-thirds being citizens of the United States, and at least one of us a resident of the State of New York, desiring to form a stock corporation, pursuant to the provisions of the Business Corporations Law of the State of New York, do hereby make, sign, acknowledge, and file this certificate for that purpose, as follows:

First. The name of the proposed corporation is United States Housing Corporation.

Second. The purposes for which it is to be formed are to purchase, acquire by lease, construct, or acquire in any manner, houses, buildings, furnishings, improvements, local transportation, and other general community utilities and parts thereof; to purchase, lease, or acquire in any manner any improved or unimproved land, or any right, title, or interest therein, on which such houses, buildings, improvements, local transportation, and other general community utilities and parts thereof have been or may be constructed; to equip, manage, maintain, alter, rent, lease, exchange, sell, and convey such lands, or any right, title, or interest therein, houses, buildings, improvements, local transportation and other general community utilities, parts thereof and equipment; to aid in providing, equipping, managing, and maintaining, houses, buildings, improvements, local transportation, and other general community utilities, by loan or otherwise; to take possession of, alter, repair, improve, and suitably arrange for living purposes all houses, except the Maltby Building, on square 633 of the District of Columbia, owned by the United States, together with any other houses in the District of Columbia owned by the Government.

All of the acts, purposes, and powers enumerated above shall be exercised in furtherance of, in conformity with, and for carrying out the provisions of an Act of Congress approved May 16, 1918, entitled "An Act to authorize the President to provide housing for war needs," and of an Act of Congress, approved June 4, 1918, entitled "An Act making appropriations to supply additional urgent deficiencies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes," subject, however, to all of the provisions of the Business Corporations Law of the State of New York.

Third. The number of shares that may be issued by the corporation is 1,000 shares without par value.

Fourth. The amount of capital with which the corporation will carry on business is $5,000.

Fifth. Its principal business office is to be located in the Borough of Manhattan, in the city, county, and State of New York. Sixth. Its duration is to be perpetual.

Seventh. The number of its directors is to be seven.1 Eighth. The names and post office addresses of the directors for the first year are as follows:

Otto M. Eidlitz, 30 East Forty-Second Street, New York, N. Y.
Joseph D. Leland, 3d, 613 G Street NW., Washington D. C.
Burt L. Fenner, 613 G Street NW., Washington, D. C.
George G. Box, 613 G Street NW., Washington, D. C.
John W. Alvord, 613 G Street NW., Washington, D. C.

1 Increased to nine by amendment of July 17, 1919.

Tenth. The directors need not be stockholders of the corporation. They may hold their meetings and have an office outside the State of New York. The corporation may issue and sell its authorized shares from time to time for such consideration as may from time to time be fixed by its board of directors. It may acquire, hold, and dispose of the stocks, bonds, and other evidences of indebtedness of any other corporation, domestic or foreign.

The board of directors, by an affirmative vote of the whole board, may appoint an executive committee of three of its members, which committee shall have and may exercise all the powers of such board during the intervals between the meetings of such board, which may be lawfully delegated, subject to such limitations as may be provided in the by-laws or by resolutions of the board.

In witness whereof we have made, signed, acknowledged, and filed this certificate in duplicate. Dated this 5th day of July, 1918.

SEC. 2. The corporation may also have an office in the District of Columbia and at such other places as the board of directors may from time to time appoint or the business of the corporation may require.

ARTICLE II. Meeting of stockholders.

SECTION 1. The annual meeting of the stockholders of this corporation shall be held at the principal office of the corporation on the second Monday in July of each and every year, at 12 o'clock noon, for the election of directors and such other business as may properly come before said meeting. Notice of the time, place, and object of such meeting shall be given by publication thereof. at least once in each week for two successive weeks immediately preceding such meeting, in the manner required by the stock corporation law, section 25, and at least 10 days prior to such meeting by serving notice thereof personally or by mail. Service of notice by mail may be made by depositing the notice in a post office or a letter box in a post-paid sealed wrapper addressed to each stockholder at such address as appears on the books of the corporation, and such notice shall be deemed to be given at the time when the same shall be thus mailed.

SEC. 2. Special meetings of stockholders, other than those regulated by statute, may be called at any time by the president or by a majority of the directors. The president shall call such meetings whenever requested in writing so to do by stockholders owning a majority of the capital stock issued and outstanding. A notice of every special meeting, stating the time, place, and object thereof, shall be given at least three days before such meeting, either personally or by mail as aforesaid. Any business may be transacted at such meetings so called and held, including election of directors, in substitution for the then incumbents, although the latters' terms of office may not then have expired.

SEC. 3. At all stockholders' meetings, stockholders, owning at least a majority of the capital stock issued and outstanding, present in person, by attorney, or by proxy, shall be necessary and sufficient to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, except as modified by the provisions of section 30 of the general corporation law, relative to the special election of directors. If, however, such majority shall not be present or represented at any meeting of the stockholders, the stockholders present in person or by proxy shall have power to adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until the requisite amount of stock shall be present. At such adjourned meeting, at which the requisite stock shall be represented, any business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the meeting as originally called.

SEC. 4. At all meetings of stockholders only such persons shall be entitled to vote in person or by proxy as appear as stockholders upon the transfer books of the corporation 10 days immediately preceding such meeting.

SEC. 5. At the annual meetings of stockholders the following shall be the order of business, viz:

1. Calling the roll.

2. Proof of proper notice of meeting.

3. Report of president.

4. Report of treasurer.

5. Report of secretary.

6. Report of committees.

7. Election of directors.

8. New business.

SEC. 6. At all meetings of stockholders all questions, except such the manner of deciding which is specially regulated by statute, shall be determined by a majority vote of the stockholders present

in person or by proxy. Unless a stockholder present in person or by proxy shall demand a vote by ballot, all voting may be viva voce, except that the election of directors shall be by ballot.

SEC. 7. All meetings shall be presided over by the president. In the absence of the president, the vice president shall preside and shall have the powers herein conferred on the president. SEC. 8. Two inspectors of election shall be elected at each annual meeting of stockholders to serve for one year, and if any inspector shall refuse to serve, or shall not be present, the meeting may appoint an inspector in his place. Inspectors for the first annual meeting of the stockholders shall be appointed by the board of directors at any time prior to said stockholders' meeting.

ARTICLE III.-Directors.

SECTION 1. The property business of the corporation shall be managed by its board of directors, seven in number. They shall be elected by the stockholders at the annual meeting of stockholders of the corporation to be held at the principal office. Each director shall be elected to serve for the term of one year and until his successor shall be elected and shall qualify unless sooner removed. SEC. 2. At all times, at least one director shall be a resident of the State of New York.

SEC. 3. The stockholders shall have the right to remove any officer or director from office at any regular or special meeting of stockholders by a vote of a majority of the stock issued and outstanding: Provided, That the notices of such meeting shall have duly announced such contemplated action as part of the prospective business of the meeting.

SEC. 4. The directors need not be stockholders in the corporation. SEC. 5. The directors may hold their meetings and have one or more offices and keep the books of the corporation, except the original or duplicate stock ledger, outside of the State of New York at the office of the corporation in the District of Columbia or at such other places as they may from time to time determine.

SEC. 6. In addition to the power and authorities by these bylaws and the certificate of incorporation expressly conferred upon them, the board of directors may exercise all such powers of the corporation and do all such lawful acts and things as are not by statute or by the certificate of incorporation or by these by-laws directed or required to be exercised or done by the stockholders.

ARTICLE IV.-Meetings of the board of directors.

SECTION 1. The newly elected board of directors may meet at such place and time as shall be fixed by the consent in writing of all the directors for the purposes of organization and otherwise, and no notice of such meeting shall be necessary in order legally to constitute the meeting: Provided, That a majority of the whole number of directors shall be present.

SEC. 2. Regular meetings of the board may be held without notice at such times and places as the board shall from time to time determine not inconsistent with the laws of the State of New York or these by-laws.

SEC. 3. At all meetings of the board a majority of the directors shall be necessary and sufficient to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

SEC. 4. Special meetings of the board shall be held whenever called by the president. Notice of such meetings shall be given by mailing the same to each director at his last known address at least two days before the meeting or by personal notice or by telegraphing the same to his last known address at least one day before such meeting.

SEC. 5. Directors shall not receive any compensation for their services as directors or members of committees.