Joint resolution designating, and authorizing the President to proclaim, February 11, 1973, as ""National Inventors' Day""
PL 92-457 (H.J.Res.1232), enacted 10/03/1972

Income tax ex-
emption. 
Rules and regu-
lations. 
86 STAT. ] 
PUBLIC LAW 92-458-OCT. 3, 1972 
763 
(b) The funds not apportioned to the Absentee Delaware Tribe of 
Western Oklahoma shall be placed to the credit of the Delaware Tribe 
of Indians in the United States Treasury and shall be used in the fol-
lowing manner: 90 per centum of such funds shall be distributed in 
equal shares to each person enrolled pursuant to subsection 2(c) (1), 
and 10 per centum shall remain to the credit of the tribe in the United 
States Treasury and may be advanced, expended, invested, or rein-
vested for any purpose that is authorized by the tribal governing body: 
Provided. That the Secretary of the Interior shall not approve the use 
of the funds remaining to the credit of the tribe until the tribe has 
organized a legal entity which in the judgment of the Secretary ade-
(i[uately protects the interests of its members. 
SKC. O. Sums payable to living enroUees age eighteen or older or to 
heirs or legatees of deceased enrollees age eighteen or older shall be 
paid directly to such persons. Sums payable to enrollees or their heirs 
or legatees who are imder age eighteen or who are under legal disa-
bility other than minority shall be paid in accordance with such 
])rocedures, including the establishment of trusts, as the Secretary of 
the Interior determines appropriate to protect the best interests of such 
persons. 
SEC. H, Xoiie of the funds distributed per capita under W\^ provisior« 
of this Act shall be subject to Federal or State income taxes. 
SEC. 7. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe rules 
nnd regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act. 
Approved October 3, 1972. 
Public Law 92-457 
JOINT R E S O L U T I O N 
October 3, 1972 
Designating, and authorizing tlie President to proclaim, February 11, 3UT8, as L". j . Res. 123.^ 
"National Inventors' Day", 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United. 
States of America in Congress assenibted^ That, in honor of the impor- 
National inven-
tant role played by inventors in promoting progress in the useful *°Des?gnation 
arts and in recognition of the invaluable contribution of inventors to authorization. 
the welfare of our people, February 11, 1973, is hereby designated 
•'National Inventors' Day". The President is authorized and requested 
to issue a proclamation calling upon the people of the United States 
to celebrate such day with appropriate ceremonies and activities. 
Approved October 3, 1972. 
Public Law 92-458 
AN ACT 
October 3, 1972 
• To provide relief for certain prewar Japanese bank claimants. 
[H. R. 8215] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That, notwithstand- 
Japanese-
ing any other provision of law to the contrary, persons of Japanese To'kohama 
ancestry interned or paroled pursuant to the Alien Enemy Act dur- specie Bank, 
ing World War I I may assert debt claims based upon yen certificates mlnV.''^^""^' ^^^" 
of deposit issued by the pre-World War I I Hawaiian or United States 
so use 21. 
branches of the Yokohama Specie Bank, Limited, payable from the 
vested assets of the bank remaining in the custody of the Attorney 
General after final distribution is made under the April 30, 1968, 
judgments and decrees of the United States District Court for the 
764 
PUBLIC LAW 92-459-OCT. 3, 1972 
[86 STAT. 
Filing date. 
70 Stat. 331. 
SO u s e app. 20. 
60 Stat. 925. 
50 u s e app. 34. 
Yen-dollar 
conversion ratio. 
District of Columbia in Honda against Clark, civil action numbered 
1179-64. Legal representatives or successors in interest, by inheritance, 
devise, bequest, or operation of law, of debt claimants, other than per-
sons who would themselves be disqualified from allowance of a debt 
claim, may apply for and receive payment to the same extent as their 
predecessors in interest would have. Claims under this Act shall be 
filed not later than one hundred and eighty days after the date of 
enactment of this Act with the Office of Alien Property of the Depart-
ment of Justice. 
SEC. 2. Claims payable under this Act shall be subject to section 20 
of the Trading With the Enemy Act, and required to meet all condi-
tions of allowability and defenses prescribed by section 34(a) of the 
Trading With the Enemy Act, except the provision concerning allow-
ance of claims of persons interned or paroled pursuant to the Alien 
Enemy Act, and the defense that the underlying debt obligation has 
been released or exonerated on or after November 14, 1967, by its 
redemption or surrender for consideration. 
SEC. 3. Claims shall be payable at the same yen-dollar conversion 
ratio afforded to claimants under the consent decree of the United 
States District Court for the District of Columbia of April 30,1968, in 
Honda against Clark, civil action numbered 1179-64, to the extent 
funds are available therefor. 
SEC. 4. Payments under this Act shall be made as expeditiously as 
possible. All determinations with respect to the form and content of 
claims under this Act, the proof thereof and all other matters related 
to proceedings on such claims, including the allowance and disallow-
ance thereof and the proration of available Yokohama Specie Bank 
assets among allowed claims if insufficient for full payment, shall be 
within the sole discretioii of the Attorney General or his designee and 
shall not be subject to review by any court. 
. . ,, j 
Approved October 3, 1972. 
October 3, 1972 
[H. R. 4634] 
Public Law 92-459 
AN ACT 
To direct the Secretary of the Army to release on behalf of the United States 
a condition in a deed conveying certain land to the State of Oregon to be used 
as a public highway. 
Camp Withy-
combe, eiack-
amas County, 
Greg. 
Land use con-
dition, release. 
70 Stat. 793. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States 
of America 
in Congress assembled, That, notwith-
standing the provisions of section 2 of the Act of August 1, 1956, the 
Secretary of the Army is authorized and directed to release or modify 
on behalf of the United States the reservation and conditions in a 
deed dated November 9, 1956, conveying land in Clackamas County, 
Oregon, to the State of Oregon (as reflected on drawing 4540, filed 
with the district engineer, Seattle, Washington) one of which requires 
the land so conveyed to be used for military purposes only and provides 
for a reversion of such land to the United States if at any time it 
ceases to be so used, but only with respect to a sixty-foot right-of-way 
cutting across the northwest corner of such land for a distance of 
approximately three hundred and forty to four hundred feet, and 
cmly if the State of Oregon or an authorized agency of the State 
conveys such right-of-way (subject to section 2 o:^ this Act^ to 
Clackamas County to be used as a public highw^ay to provide a direct 
intertie between Clackamas County Road 40 and Mather Eoad. 
SEC. 2. The release and the deed of conveyance of the right-of-way 
to Clackamas County as authorized under the first section of this