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 74TH CONGRESS. SESS. II. CHS. 39-41 . [CHAPTE R 39 .] January 31, 1936 . February 8, 1930 . 1105 AN ACT January 31, 1936. To provide an official seal for the United States Veterans' Administration, and for	Is.3328.1 other purposes. [Public, No. 430.1 Be it enacted b y the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Adminis- United States Veter- ans' Administration. trator of Veterans' Affairs be, and he is hereby empowered and official seal directed to cause a seal, which shall be judicially noticed, to be made notice. and provided for the Veterans' Administration, with such device as in his judgment shall seem proper. Copies of any pub lic docu - ments, records, or papers belonging to or in the files of the Veterans' Administration, when authenticated by the seal and certified by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, or employee of the Veterans' Administration to whom proper authority shall have been delegated, in writing, by the Administrator, shall be evidence equal with the orig inals thereof. Approved, January 31, 1936. [C HAPTER 40 .] AN ACT To Amend the Act of A/lay 18, 1934, Providing Punishment for Killing or Assault- ing Federal Officers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of the Act entitled "A n Act to provid e punishment fo r killing or as sault- ing Federal officers", approved May 18, 1934 (48 Stat.. 780; U. S. C., title 18, sees. 253 and 254), be and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows "That whoever shall kill, as defined in sec tions 273 and 214 of the Criminal Code, any United States marshal or deputy United States marshal, special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice, post office inspector, Secret Service operative, any officer or enlisted man of the Coast Guard, any employee of any United States penal or correctional institution, any officer of the Custo ms Service or of the Internal Revenue Se rvice, any immigrant insp ector or any im migration patro l inspector, an y officer or em ployee of the Department of Agriculture designated by the Secretary of Agri culture to enfo rce any Act of Congress for th e protection, p reser- vation, or restoration of game and other wild birds and animals, any officer or employee of the National Park Service, any officer or empl oyee of, or ass igned to duty i n, the field se rvice of the Di vision of Grazing of the Department of the Interior, or any officer or employee of the Indian field service of the United States, while engaged in the performance of his official duties, or on account of the performance of his official duties, shall be punished as provided under section 275 of the Criminal Code ." Approved, February 8, 1936 . 104019°-36-70 Authentications . February 8, 1936 . 111 . A. 7680. ]	[Public, No.431.j Killing or assaulting Federal officers. Vol. 48, p . 780 . U.S.C.,p.739 . Post, p . 1940 . Punishment . U.S.C.,p.761. [CHAPTER 41 .] AN ACT February 8, 1936. To authorize a preliminary examination of the Arkansas River and Fourche 	[H . R . 7995 .] Bayou with a view to the control of floods in the vicinity of Little Rock and North Little Rock, Arkansas . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Fo cansas River and of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause a surrey directed for prel iminary examina tion to be made of the Arkansa s River and controlling floods of. [Public, No. 432.]
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