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 74TH CONGRESS. SESS. II. CHS. 268, 278, 300 . MAY 1, 4, 5,1936 . It is hereby further provided that any unexpended balance of the appropriat ion of the $150,000 made in t he Indepen dent Offi ces Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1936 1 in accordance with the authority contained in Public Resolution Numbered 61, Seventy- fourth Cong ress, first sess ion, is her eby m ade a vaila ble fo r lik e pur - pose to and including October 1, 1936. Approved, May 1, 1936 . [CHAPTER 278 .] AN ACT Mare 4, 1936. To renew patent numbered 25909, relating to the badge of the United States 	[H. R .11562.1 Daughters of 1812. [Public, No. 551 .] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o f American 1 in Congress assemb led, Th at a certain United states design patent issued by the United States Patent Office of date DPatentr onf badge of, August 11, 1896, being patent numbered 25909, is hereby renewed and renewed. extended for a pe riod of fourteen years from and af ter the passage of this Act, with all the rights and privileges pertaining to the same as of the original patent, being generally known as the badge of the United States Daughters of 1812. Approved, May 4, 1936 . [CHAPTER 300 .] AN ACT 125 7 Unexpended balance of appropr iation ava il- able. Ante, pp. 929, 1111. Mare 5, 1936. To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the centennial 	[x .4335 .] celebration of Cleveland, Ohio, to be known as the Great Lakes Exposition. [Public, No. 552 .] Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in COm- Great Lakes Exposi- memoration of the centennial anniversary in 1936 of the cit of tien. ry y Commemorative Cleveland, Ohio, to be known as the Great Lakes Exposition, and coinage authorized. t o co mmemorate Clevela nd's contributio n to the industri al progress Ante, p. 1243 . of the United States for the past one hundred years, there shall be coined at a mint of the Unite d States t o be desig nated by the Director of the M int not less than twenty-five thou sand and not to Number. exceed fifty thousand silver 50-cent pieces of standard size, weight, and composition and of a special appropriate single design to be fixed by the Dire ctor of the Mint, with the approva l of the Secre- tary of the Treasury, but the United States shall not be subject to No Federal ex pense. the expense of making the necessary dies and other preparations for this coinage. SEC. 2 . The coins herein authorized shall bear the date 1936, irre- Issue on request of Cleveland Centennial spective of the year in which they are minted or issued, shall be Commemorative Coin legal tender in any payment to the amount of their face value, Association. and shall be issued only upon the request of the treasurer of the Cleveland Centennial Commemor ative Coin Associati on upon p ay- ment by him of the par value of such coins, but not less than twenty-five thousand such coins shall be issued to him at any one time and no such coins shall be is sued after the ex piration of one year after the date of enactment of this Act. Such coins may be Disposal. disposed of at par or at a premium by su ch Cleveland Centennial Commemorat ive Coin A ssociatio n, and the net proce eds shall be used by it in defraying the ex penses incidental and appropriate to the commemoration of such event. SEC. 3 . All laws now in force relating to the subsidiary silver coinage laws appli- coins of the United States and the coining or striking of the same, cable. regulating and guarding the process of coinage, providing for the purchase of material, and for the transportation, distribution, and ' So in original.