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 SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. SEss. II. Cu. 863 . 1930 . appropriate instruments of conveyance or cession, absolute title to and complete jurisdiction over all of the lands and other property her ein tran sferred a nd conve yed to t he Unite d States. SEC. 4 . (a) The personnel on duty at the time of consolidation at the various branches of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers shall be transferred to and given appointment in the Vet- erans' Administration, subject to such change in designation and organization as the Administrator may deem necessary. (b) Such of the personnel as are not inmates of any of the branches of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers may, by Executive order, be given a civil-service status in accordance with the laws relating thereto upon such terms and conditions as the President may direct. Whether covered into the civil service or not, the salaries of such officers and employees (other than inmates) shal l be fixed in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended (United States Code, title 5, chapter 13 ; United States Code, Sup- plement III, title 5, chapter 13). SEC. 5. (a) When the consolidation and coordination herein pro- vided for shall have been effected in the Veterans' Administration the President shall so declare by proclamation or order, whereupon the corporation known as the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and the Board of Managers shall cease to exist. (b) All contracts and other valid and subsisting obligations of the corporation, the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, shall continue and be and become obligations of the United States, and the United States shall be considered as substituted for said corporation with respect to all such demands either by or against said corporation, unless and until they shall thereafter be superseded or discharged according to law. The outstanding obligations assumed by the United States by virtue of the provisions of this subdivision may be enforced by suit in the Court of Claims or in the district courts of the United States according to the ordinary provisions of law governing actions against the United States, and such courts sh all have the power to enter ju dgment against the United States, with interest, in the same manner and to the same extent as if said corporation were party defendant. No such suit shall be maintained upon any cause of action existing at the time of the diss oluti on of sai d cor porat ion or arising simultaneously therewith, unless brought within two years from the time of such dissolution. SHc. 6 . (a) All unexpende d appropriations in respect of any hospital, bureau, agency, office, or home consolidated into the Vet- erans' Administration shall, upon such consolidation, become avail- able for expenditure by the Veterans' Administration and shall be treated as if the Veterans' Administration had been originally named in the laws making the appropriations. (b) All orders, rules, regulations, and permits or other privileges, issued or granted in respect of any function consolidated under the provisions of this Act and in effect at the time of the consolidation, shall continue in effect to the same extent as if such consolidation had not occurred, until modified, superseded, or repealed by the Administrator. (c) The Administrator shall make annually, at the close of each fis cal year, a repor t in wri ting to the Cong ress, giv ing an a ccount of all mone ys receiv ed and d isbursed by him and his a dministr ation, des cribing the work done, an d statin g his ac tivities under su bdivi- sion (b) of section 1 of this Act, and making such recommendations as he shall deem nec essary f or the a ctive pe rformance of the duties and purposes of his administration. 1017 Tr ans fer of pers onne l on duty. Civil-service states for personnel, not in- mates, authorized. Salaries. Vol, 42, p. I4S8; VoL 45, p. 776. U.S. C.,p.67; Supp. IV, p.25. Ante, p. 1003. Order, etc ., to issue when consolidation, etc ., effected. National Home for Disabled Vol unt eer Soldiers, etc ., th ere- upon to cease . Contracts of to con- tinue, as obligations of the United States, Enforceable at law. Tim e limit for br ing- ing suit. Un exp ende d appro- priations available. Orders, rules, etc., to continue in effect until superseded, etc. Report annually to Congress. Supra,

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