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 54 STAT.] 76rT CONG., 3D SESS. -CHS. 78, 79-APR. 11, 1940 [CHAPTER 78] JOINT RESOLUTION To approve the action of the Secretary of the Interior in deferring the collection of certain irrigation charges against lands under the Blackfeet Indian irrigation project. Whereas the Act of Congress approved June 22, 1936 (49 Stat. 1803), provides that the Secretary of the Interior may adjust, defer, or cancel irrigation charges against non-Indian-owned lands within Indian irrigation projects, where conditions are found to justify such action, subject to the approval of Congress; and Whereas an investigation of conditions affecting the Blackfeet Indian irrigation project, Montana, is contemplated within the near future pursuant to the provisions of the said Act; and Whereas the Secretary of the Interior has deferred certain irrigation charges against lands of the said project which are now delinquent or will become due and payable before the proposed investigation can be completed: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in accordance with the Act of June 22, 1936 (49 Stat. 1803), the action of the Secretary of the Interior in deferring such charges under said irrigation project is hereby approved. Approved, April 11, 1940. [CHAPTER 79] AN ACT To amend section 40 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes", approved September 7, 1916, as amended. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 40 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes", approved September 7, 1916, as amended, is amended by inserting after the words "Panama Railroad Company" the following: "and all persons, other than independent contractors and their employees, employed on the Menominee Indian Reservation in the State of Wisconsin, subsequent to September 7, 1916, in operations conducted pursuant to the Act entitled 'An Act to authorize the cutting of timber, the manufacture and sale of lumber, and the preservation of the forests on the Menominee Indian Reserva- tion in the State of Wisconsin', approved March 28, 1908, as amended, or any other Act relating to tribal timber and logging operations on the Menominee Reservation". SEC. 2. Any award heretofore made by the United States Employees' Compensation Commission under such Act of September 7, 1916, to persons coming within the purview of the first section hereof, for disability or death resulting from a personal injury sustained prior to the enactment of this Act, shall be valid, if such award would be valid if made in respect to an injury or death sustained after the enactment of this Act. Claim on account of disability or death of any person coming within the purview of the first section hereof, for benefits on account of injury incurred subsequent to July 28, 1935, may be filed under said Act: Provided,That such claim be filed within one year after the approval hereof. Approved, April 11, 1940. 105 April 11, 1940 [(. J . Res. 153] [Pub. Res., No. 60] Blackfeet Indian ir- rigation project, Mont. 25 U. S.C., Supp. V, §389. Deferment ofcertain irrigation charges, ap- proval. April 11, 1940 [s. 607] [Public, No. 448] U. S . Employees' Compensation Act, amendment. 39 Stat. 750. 5U. ..C., 790; Supp. V, 7790. Application to em- ployees of Menominee Indian Reservation. Wis. 35 Stat. 51; 36 Stat. 1076; 40 Stat. 589. Provisions retro- active. Injuryincniedsince July 28, 1935. Proziso. Time for filing claim.

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