55 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CHS. 334, 335 , 346-u 30 1 194 of requiring payment therefor, to establish cemeteries on other lands that he may select and acquire for the purpose, and to remove bodies, markers, and other appurtenances to the new sites. All costs incurred in connection with any such relocation shall be paid from moneys appropriated for the project. All right, title, and interest of the Indians in the lands within any cemetery so relocated shall terminate and the grant of title under this Act take effect as of the date the Secretary of the Interior authorizes the relocation. Sites of the relo- cated cemeteries shall be held in trust by the United States for the appropriate tribe, or family, as the case may be, and shall be nontaxable. Sw. 5. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to per- form any and all acts and to prescribe such regulations as he may deem appropriate to carry out the provisions of this Act. Approved, July 30, 1941. [CHAPTER 335] JOINT RESOLUTION Directing the Comptroller General to readjust the account between the United States and the State of Vermont. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Comptroller Gen- eral of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to audit the claim of the State of Vermont with respect to advances and expenditures made by such State for military purposes during the War of 1812-1815, with Great Britain, and after applying the rules of evidence and settlement to this class of claims, provided for in resolu- tion of May 14, 1836 (5 Stat. L . 132), and in section 12 of the Act approved March 3, 1857 (11 Stat. L. 229), to submit to the Senate a report containing the results of an audit of such claim, in conformity with said rules, and to certify to Congress for an appropriation the balance found due the State of Vermont. Approved, July 30, 1941. [CIIAPTER 346] AN ACT To amend the Classification Act of 1923, as anmended. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Classifi- cation Act of 1923, as amended, is hereby further amended as follows: SwE. 2 . Section 7 of the said Act is hereby amended by inserting the letter "(a)" after the figure "7" at the beginning of said section, and by adding the following paragraphs as subsections thereof: "(b) All employees compensated on a per annum basis, and occupy- ing permanent positions within the scope of the compensation sched- ules fixed by this Act, who have not attained the maximum rate of compensation for the grade in which their positions are respectively allocated, shall be advanced in compensation successively to the next higher rate within the grade at the beginning of the next quarter, following the completion of: (1) Each eighteen months of service if such employees are in grades in which the compensation incre- ments are $60 or $100, or (2) each thirty months of service if such 613 Authority of Secre tary of Interior. July 30, 1941 [8. J. Res. 1] [Public Law 199] State of Vermont. Audit of claim. Report, etc. August 1, 1941 [I. I. . 1073] [Public Law 200) Classification Act of 1923, amendments. 42 Stat. 1488. 5U.S. C., ch. 13. 42 Stat. 1490. 5U.S.C. 667. Compensation ad- vancements within grade. Periods.
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