Volume 50
Public Law 75–184
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 May 14, 1937
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
Emigration of Filipinos from the United States.
49 Stat. 479, 1462.
48 U. S. C., Supp. II, § 1256.
the Act entitled “An Act to provide means by which certain Filipinos can emigrate from the United States”, approved July 10, 1935, as heretofore amended by the Act approved June 4, 1936 (Public Law Numbered 645, Seventy-fourth Congress), is further amended to read as follows:
“Sec. 6.
No application for the benefits of this Act shall be accepted
Time extended for filing application for benefits, etc.
by any officer of the Immigration Service after December 1, 1938; and all benefits under this Act shall finally terminate on December 31, 1938, unless the journey has been started on or before that date, in which case the journey to Manila shall be completed.”
Approved, May 14, 1937.