An Act to remove certain limitations on the granting of relief to owners of lost or stolen bearer securities of the United States, and for other purposes
PL 92-19 (S.1181), enacted 05/27/1971

74 
Personal serv-
ice expenditures 
increases. 
80 Stat. 471; 
82 Stat. 997. 
84 Stat. 195. 
5 u s e 5332 
note. 
84 Stat. 719. 
39 u s e prec. 
101 note. 
PUBLIC LAW 92-19-MAY 27, 1971 
TITLE I I I 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
[85 STAT. 
SEC. 301. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless 
expressly so provided therein. 
SEC. 302. Except where specifically increased or decreased elsewhere 
in this Act, the restrictions contained within appropriations, or pro-
visions affecting appropriations or other funds, available during the 
fiscal year 1971, limiting the amounts which may be expended for 
personal services, or for purposes involving personal services, or 
amounts which may be transferred between appropriations or author-
izations available for or involving such services, are hereby increased 
to the extent necessary to meet increased pay costs authorized by or 
pursuant to law. 
SEC. 303. Applicable appropriations or funds available for the fiscal 
year 1971 shall also be available for payment of fiscal year 1969 and 
fiscal year 1970 obligations for retroactive pay increases granted pur-
suant to 5 U.S.C. 5341. 
SEC. 304. Unobligated balances of appropriations available to the 
Department of Defense for operation and maintenance during the 
fiscal year 1969 and the fiscal year 1970, including amounts of such 
appropriations withdrawn to the Treasury, may be transferred between 
such appropriations in such amounts as may be necessary for payment 
of fiscal year 1969 and fiscal year 1970 obligations for retroactive pay 
increases granted pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 5341. 
SEC. 305. For the Post Office Department, any officer having admin-
istrative control of an appropriation, fund, limitation, or authoriza-
tion properly chargeable with the costs in fiscal year 1971 of pay 
increases granted by or pursuant to the Federal Employees Salary 
Act of 1970 and the Postal Reorganization Act, is authorized to trans-
fer thereto, from the unobligated balance of any other appropriation, 
fund, or authorization under his administrative control and expiring 
for obligation on June 30,1971, such amounts as may be necessary for 
meeting such costs. 
Approved May 25, 1971. 
May 27, 1971 
[S. 1181] 
U.S. securities 
lost or stolen. 
Relief to own-
ers. 
50 Stat. 481. 
Public Law 9249 
AN ACT 
To remove certain limitations on the granting of relief to owners of lost or 
stolen bearer securities of the United States, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That subsections 
(a)-(d) of section 8 of the Government Losses in Shipment Act, as 
amended (31 U.S.C. 738a), are amended to read as follows: 
"(a) Under such regulations as he may deem necessary for the 
administration of this section, the Secretary of the Treasury is author-
ized to grant relief on account of the loss, theft, destruction, mutilation, 
or defacement of any security identified by number and description. 
"(b) A bond of indemnity shall be required as a condition of relief, 
whether before, at, or after maturity, on account of any security pay-
able to bearer or so assigned as to become, in effect, payable to bearer 
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which is not clearly proven to have been destroyed. The bond of indem-
nity shall be in such form and amount and with such surety, sureties, 
or security as the Secretary of the Treasury shall require. 
"(c) No relief shall be granted on account of interest coupons 
claimed to have been attached to a security unless the Secretary is 
satisfied that such coupons have not been paid and are in fact destroyed 
or will not become the basis of a valid claim against the United States. 
"(d) The term 'security' means any direct obligation of the United 
States issued pursuant to law for valuable consideration, including 
bonds, notes, certificates of indebtedness, and Treasury bills, and 
interim certificates issued for any such security." 
Approved May 27, 1971. 
'Security." 
Public Law 92-20 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
May 28, 1971 
To provide for the designation of the calendar week beginning on May 30, 1971, 
[s. j . Res. 29] 
and ending on June 5, 1971, as "National Peace Corps Week", and for other 
purposes. 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
/States of America in Congress a^semhled^ That the President is author-
ized and requested to issue a proclamation (1) designating the cal-
endar week beginning on May 30, 1971, and ending on June 5, 1971, 
as "National Peace Corps Week"; and (2) inviting the Governors and 
mayors of States and local governments of the United States to issue 
similar proclamations. 
Approved May 28, 1971. 
National Peace 
Corps Week. 
Designation 
authorization. 
Public Law 92-21 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act to authorize appropriations for the fiscal year 1971 for certain 
maritime programs of the Department of (Commerce. 
June 1,1971 
[H. R. 5352] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Represetitatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Act of 
May 13,1970 (84 Stat. 207; Public Law 91-247) is amended by strik-
ing out of paragraph (b) the figure $193,000,000 and inserting in lieu 
thereof the figure $273,000,000. 
Approved June 1, 1971. 
Maritime pro-
grams. 
Appropriation 
increase. 
Public Law 92-22 
AN ACT 
To establish within the Department of the Interior the position of an additional 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior, 
June I,1971 
[S.1399] 
Department of 
Interior. 
Additional 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That there shall be 
hereafter in the Department of the Interior, in addition to the Assistant 
Secretaries now provided by law, an additional Assistant Secretary of Assistant secre 
the Interior who shall be appointed by the President by and with the *^'^' 
advice and consent of the Senate, who shall be responsible for such 
duties as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe, and shall receive 
compensation at the rate now or hereafter prescribed by law for 
Assistant Secretaries of the Interior.