SEC. 15. (a) No person shall be allowed to reside within the zone except Federal, State, or municipal officers or agents whose resident presence is deemed necessary by the Board.

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(b) The Board shall prescribe rules and regulations regarding employees and other persons entering and leaving the zone. rules and regulations concerning the protection of the revenue shall be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury.

(c) The Board may at any time order the exclusion from the zone of any goods or process of treatment that in its judgment is detrimental to the public interest, health, or safety.

(d) No retail trade shall be conducted within the zone except under permits issued by the grantee and approved by the Board. Such permittees shall sell no goods except such domestic or dutypaid or duty-free goods as are brought into the zone from customs territory.

SEC. 16. (a) The form and manner of keeping the accounts of each zone shall be prescribed by the Board.

(b) Each grantee shall make to the Board annually, and at such other times as it may prescribe, reports containing a full statement of all the operations, receipts, and expenditures, and such other information as the Board may require.

(c) The Board shall make a report to Congress on the first day of each regular session containing a summary of the operation and fiscal condition of each zone and transmit therewith copies of the annual report of each grantee.

SEC. 17. The grant shall not be sold, conveyed, transferred, set over, or assigned.

SEC. 18. (a) In the event of repeated willful violations of any of the provisions of this Act by the grantee, the Board may revoke the grant after four months' notice to the grantee and affording it an opportunity to be heard. The testimony taken before the Board shall be reduced to writing and filed in the records of the Board together with the decision reached thereon.

(b) In the conduct of any proceeding under this section for the revocation of a grant the Board may compel the attendance of witnesses and the giving of testimony and the production of documentary evidence, and for such purpose may invoke the aid of the district courts of the United States.

(c) An order under the provisions of this section revoking the grant issued by the Board shall be final and conclusive, unless within ninety days after its service the grantee appeals to the circuit court of appeals for the circuit in which the zone is located by filing with the clerk of said court a written petition praying that the order of the Board be set aside. Such order shall be stayed pending the disposition of appellate proceedings by the court. The clerk of the court in which such a petition is filed shall immediately cause a copy thereof to be delivered to the Board and it shall forthwith prepare, certify, and file in the court a full and accurate transcript of the record in the proceedings held before it under this section, the charges, the evidence, and the order revoking the grant. The testimony and evidence taken or submitted before the Board, duly certified and filed as a part of the record, shall be considered by the

SEO. 19. In case of a violation of this Act, or any regulation under this Act, by the grantee, any officer, agent, or employee thereof responsible for or permitting any such violation shall be subject to a fine of not more than $1,000. Each day during which a violation continues shall constitute a separate offense.

SEO. 20. If any provision of this Act or the application of such provision to certain circumstances be held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of such provisions to circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid shall not be affected thereby.

SEC. 21. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby reserved.

Approved, June 18, 1934.

[S. 3646]

AN ACT

To amend section 938 of the Revised Statutes to vest the courts with discretion to refuse to order the return of vessels seized for violation of any law of the United States; and to amend subsection (b) of section 7 of the Air Commerce Act of 1926, as amended, to provide for the forfeiture of aircraft used in violation of customs laws.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 938 of the Revised Statutes (U.S.C., title 28, sec. 751) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: "Notwithstanding the provisions of this section or any other provisions of law relating to the return on bond of vessels seized for the violation of any law of the United States, the court having jurisdiction of the subject matter, may, in its discretion and upon good cause shown by United States, refuse to order such return of any such vessel to the claimant thereof.

SEC. 2. That subsection (b) of section 11 of the Air Commerce Act of 1926, as amended (U.S.C., Supp. VII, title 49, sec. 181), is amended by striking out the first sentence thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the following two new sentences: "Any person who (1) violates any provision of subdivision (a) of this section or any entry or clearance regulation made under section 7 (b) of this Act, or (2) any immigration regulation made under such section, shall be subject to a civil penalty of $500 which may be remitted or mitigated by the Secretary of Commerce, or the Secretary of Labor, respectively, in accordance with such proceedings as the Secretary shall by regulation prescribe. Any person violating any customs or public health regulation made under section 7 (b) of this Act, or any provision of the customs or public-health laws or regulations thereunder made applicable to aircraft by regulation under such section shall be subject to a civil penalty of $500, and any aircraft used in connection with any such violation shall be subject to seizure and forfeiture as provided for in such customs or public-health laws, which penalty and forfeiture may be remitted or mitigated by the Secretary of the Treasury."

Approved, June 20, 1934.

[H.R. 8930]

AN ACT

To provide for the construction and operation of a vessel for use in research work with respect to ocean fisheries.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, when funds are made available as authorized by section 2 of this Act, the Secretary of Commerce is authorized and directed (1) to cause plans and specifications to be prepared for the construction and equipment of a vessel for use in such research work with respect to ocean fisheries as the Secretary finds will be useful to persons engaged in the fishing industry; and (2) to contract for the construction and equipment of such vessel. Such vessel shall be maintained and operated under the supervision of the Secretary of Commerce.

SEC. 2. There is authorized to be appropriated $500,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to carry out the purposes of the first sentence of section 1 of this Act.

Approved, June 21, 1934.

[PUBLIC-No. 33-74TH CONGRESS]

[8. 619]

AN ACT

To amend section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920 (U. S. C., title 46, sec. 883), as amended, is amended by striking out the final period and inserting in lieu thereof a colon and the following: "Provided further, That this section shall not apply to the transportation of merchandise loaded on railroad cars or to motor vehicles with or without trailers, and with their passengers or contents when accompanied by the operator thereof, when such railroad cars or motor vehicles are transported in any railroad-car ferry operated between fixed termini on the Great Lakes as part of a rail route, if such car ferry is owned by a common carrier by water and operated as part of a rail route with the approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and if the stock of such common carrier by water, or its predecessor, was owned or controlled by a common carrier by rail prior to June 5, 1920, and if the stock of the common carrier owning such car ferry is, with the approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission, now owned or controlled by any common carrier by rail and if such car ferry is built in and documented under the laws of the United States."

Approved, April 11 1935.

[S.J.Res.15]

JOINT RESOLUTION

Extending to the whaling and fishing industries certain benefits granted under section 11 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, as amended.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in the administration of section 11 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, as amended (U.S.C., Supp. VII, title 46, sec. 870), the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to extend to citizens of the United States engaged in the whaling and/or fishing industries the same benefits that are authorized by such section, as amended, to be extended to persons citizens of the United States for the construction, outfitting, equipment, reconditioning, remodeling, and improvement of certain vessels. All loans made under authority of this resolution from the construction loan fund created by such section, as amended, shall be on the same terms and subject to the same conditions, limitations, and restrictions as are provided therein, except that such loans shall bear interest at the rate of not less than 54 per centum per annum, payable annually.

SEO. 2. Any construction, outfitting, equipment, reconditioning, remodeling, or improvement of vessels under authority of this resolution shall be only of vessels of a type and kind suitable for use as naval auxiliaries, and shall be in accordance with plans and specifications first approved by the Secretary of the Navy with particular reference to the economical conversion of such vessels into auxiliary naval vessels.

SEC. 3. The term "citizens of the United States ", as used in this resolution, includes a corporation, partnership, or association only if it is a citizen of the United States within the meaning of section 2 of the Shipping Act, 1916, as amended (U.S.C., title 46, sec. 802). Approved, April 16, 1934.