Volume 49
Public Law 74–497
To extend the time for applying for and receiving benefits under the Act entitled “An Act to provide means by which certain Filipinos can emigrate from the United States”, approved July 10, 1935.
Approved June 4, 1936
Statutory text
AN ACT
To extend the time for applying for and receiving benefits under the Act entitled “An Act to provide means by which certain Filipinos can emigrate from the United States”, approved July 10, 1935.
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 6 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide means by which certain Filipinos can emigrate from the United States”, approved July 10, 1935, is amended to read as follows:
“Sec. 6.
No application for the benefits of this Act shall be accepted by any officer of the Immigration Service after December 1, 1937 ; and all benefits under this Act shall finally terminate on December 31, 1937, unless the journey has been started on or before that date, in which case the journey to Manila shall be completed.”
Approved, June 4, 1936.