Volume 50 · 69
Public Law 75–109
To authorize the Secretary of War to lend War Department equipment for use at the World Jamboree to the Boy Scouts of America; and to authorize the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to remit the tax on steamship tickets; and further to authorize the Secretary of State to issue passports to bona-fide Scouts and Scouters without fee for the application or the issuance of said passports.
Approved April 17, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the Secretary of War to lend War Department equipment for use at the World Jamboree to the Boy Scouts of America; and to authorize the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to remit the tax on steamship tickets; and further to authorize the Secretary of State to issue passports to bona-fide Scouts and Scouters without fee for the application or the issuance of said passports.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to lend, at his discretion, to the National Council, Boy Scouts of America, for use at the World Jamboree, Boy Scouts, to be held in the Netherlands, in the months of July and August 1937, one thousand two hundred cots, four thousand five hundred blankets, tentage for one thousand two hundred Scouts, twenty-five fire cranes, twenty-five sets commissary storage shelves, one hundred pot chains, one hundred cook pots, twenty-five United States parade-size flags, fifty fry pans, fifty bake pans, fifty reflector ovens, two hundred water pails, two hundred and fifty tin serving pans, two hundred and fifty pitchers: Provided,
Provisos.
No Federal expense (or delivery, etc.
That no expense shall be caused the United States Government by the delivery and return of said property, the same to be delivered at such time prior to the holding of the said convention as may be agreed upon by the Secretary of War and the National Council, Boy Scouts of America: Provided further, That the Secretary of War
Bond.
before delivering said property shall take from the said Boy Scouts of America a good and sufficient bond for the safe return of said property in good order and condition, and the whole without expense to the United States. That the Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Remission of tax on steamship tickets.
be, and he is hereby, authorized under such rules and regulations as he shall promulgate to remit the tax on steamship tickets to bona-fide Scouts and Scouters certified by the National Council, Boy Scouts of America, attending this Jamboree. That, under such regulations
Issue of passports without fee.
as he may prescribe, the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue passports to bona-fide Scouts and Scouters of the Boy Scouts of America who are citizens of the United States or, if not citizens of the United States, who owe permanent allegiance to the United States upon certification by the National Council, Boy Scouts of America, as to their qualification to attend this Jamboree as representing the National Council, Boy Scouts of America, without fee for the application or the issuance of said passports.
Approved, April 17, 1937.