Volume 50
Public Law 75–230
Limiting the operation of sections 109 and 113 of the Criminal Code with respect to the agent appointed to represent the United States of America in the arbitration proceedings between the United States of America and the Dominion of Canada for the final settlement of difficulties arising through complaints of damage done in the State of Washington by fumes discharged from the smelter of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company, Trail, British Columbia.
Approved May 20, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
Limiting the operation of sections 109 and 113 of the Criminal Code with respect to the agent appointed to represent the United States of America in the arbitration proceedings between the United States of America and the Dominion of Canada for the final settlement of difficulties arising through complaints of damage done in the State of Washington by fumes discharged from the smelter of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company, Trail, British Columbia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That nothing in sections 109 and 113 of the Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States”, approved March 4, 1909, as amended (U. S. C., title 18, secs. 198 and 203), or any other Act of Congress, forbidding any person in the employ of the United States, or acting in any official capacity under them, from acting as agent or attorney for another before any department or branch of the Government, or from receiving pay for so acting, shall be deemed to apply to the agent representing the United States of America in the proceeding between the United States of America and the Dominion of Canada now pending before the arbitration tribunal created pursuant to the convention of April 15, 1935, between the United States of America and the Dominion of Canada while he shall remain such agent.
Approved, May 20, 1937.