provided in (1) hereof as the institutional training part of such course bears to a course of full-time institutional training. Such person attending a course on a part-time basis, and such person receiving compensation for productive labor whether performed as part of his apprentice or other training on the job at institutions, business or other establishments, or otherwise, shall be entitled to receive such lesser sums, if any, as subsistence or dependency allowances as may be determined by the Administrator: Provided, That in no event shall the rate of such allowance plus the compensation received exceed $210 per month for a veteran without a dependent, or $270 per month for a veteran with one dependent, or $290 for a veteran with two or more dependents: Provided further, That only so much of the compensation as is derived from productive labor based on the standard workweek for the particular trade or industry, exclusive of overtime, shall be considered in computing the rate of allowances payable under this paragraph.",

SEC. 2. So much of paragraph 3 of part VII of Veterans Regulation Numbered 1 (a), as amended, as precedes the first proviso, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"3. While pursuing training prescribed herein and for two months after his employability is determined, each veteran pursuing a course under this part, shall be paid a subsistence allowance of $65 per month, if without a dependent or dependents, or $90 per month, if he has a dependent or dependents: Except, That (1) each veteran pursuing a course of full-time institutional training under this part shall be paid a subsistence allowance of $75 per month, if without a dependent or dependents, or $105 per month, if he has one dependent, or $120 per month, if he has more than one dependent, and (2) each veteran enrolled in and pursuing a course of institutional on-farm training or other combination course, under this part shall be paid, subject to the limitations of this paragraph, additional subsistence allowance in an amount bearing the same relation to the difference between the basic rates and the increased rates provided in (1) hereof as the institutional training part of such course bears to a course of full-time institutional training."

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on the first day of April, 1948.
And the House agree to the same.

That the Senate recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the House to the title of the bill, and agree to the same with an amendment as follows:

In lieu of the matter inserted by the House amendment insert the following: "An Act to provide additional subsistence allowances and to raise the ceilings on wages and allowances pertaining to certain veterans"; and the House agree to the same.

STATEMENT OF THE MANAGERS ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

The managers on the part of the House at the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendment of the House to the bill (S. 1393) to increase the permitted rate of allowance and compensation for training on the job under Veterans Regulation No. 1 (a), as amended, submit the following statement in explanation of the effect of the action agreed upon by the conferees and recommended in the accompanying conference report:

The House amendment struck out all of the Senate bill after the enacting clause. The committee of conference recommends that the Senate recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the House, with an amendment which is a substitute for both the Senate bill and the House amendment, and that the House agree to the same.

The substantial differences between the House amendment and the proposed conference substitute are noted in the following statement. The House amendment amends paragraph 6 of part VIII of Veterans Regulation No. 1 (a), as amended, but does not incorporate the increased rates of subsistence allowances provided in Public Law 411, Eightieth Congress, approved February 14, 1948, for veterans pursuing courses of full-time institutional training under the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, as amended (Public Law 346, 78th Cong.), or Public Law 16, Seventy-eighth Congress. The conference agreement incorporates these increased rates and provides further that a veteran pursuing a course of part-time institutional training, including a course of institutional on-farm training, or other combination course, shall be paid, subject to the limitations of paragraph 6 of part VIII of Veterans Regulation No. 1 (a), as amended, additional subsistence allowance in an amount bearing the same relation to the difference between the basic rates and the increased rates provided in section 1, of Public Law 411, Eightieth Congress, for full-time institutional training as the institutional training part of such course bears to a course of full-time institutional training.

The bill as agreed to in conference also provides that a veteran enrolled in and pursuing a course of institutional on-farm training or other combination course under paragraph 3 of part VII of Veterans Regulation No. 1 (a), as amended, shall be paid, subject to the limitations of said paragraph 3, additional subsistence allowance in an amount bearing the same relation to the difference between the basic rates and the increased rates provided in section 2 of Public Law 411, Eightieth Congress, for full-time institutional courses as the institutional training part of such course bears to a course of full-time institutional training.

The bill as agreed to in conference inserts the following "(including an institutional on-farm training course)" after the words "under this part," in line 1 of paragraph 6 of part VIII of Veterans Regulation No. 1 (a), as amended. These words were included in the law prior to the enactment of Public Law 411, Eightieth Congress.

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The Senate bill increases the amount of subsistence allowance plus compensation that a veteran may receive while enrolled in and pursuing a course of education and training under title II of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act for a veteran without dependents from $175 to $200 a month, and from $200 to $250 per month for a veteran with dependents. The House amendment provides for $250 per month for a veteran without dependents, $325 for a veteran having one dependent, and $350 for a veteran having two or more dependents. The conference agreement represents a compromise within the limits of the two versions. As agreed upon, the ceilings are fixed at $210 per month for a veteran without a dependent, $270 for a veteran with one dependent, and $290 for a veteran having two or more dependents.

Under existing law in computing ceiling amounts regularly scheduled overtime is included as wages but incidental or irregular overtime compensation is not so included. The Senate bill has no provision on this subject but the House amendment provides for the exclusion of all overtime, whether regular or irregular, and the conference agreement accepts the House provision.

The present law provides that in order to receive subsistence allowance for training on the job, the job shall customarily require a period of training of not less than 3 months and not more than 2 years of fulltime training. The House amendment extends this provision by two additional years to make the limit 4 years of full-time training. There is no corresponding provision in the Senate bill. The bill as agreed to in conference omits this provision of the House amendment. The title of the bill as amended by the House reads "An act to raise the ceilings on wages and allowances payable to veterans undergoing training on the job, and for other purposes."

The amended title as agreed to in conference reads "An act to provide additional subsistence allowances and to raise the ceilings on wages and allowances pertaining to certain veterans."

EDITH NOURSE ROGERS,
BERNARD W. KEARNEY,
ALVIN E. O'KONSKI,

J. E. RANKIN,

W. M. WHEELER,

Managers on the Part of the House.

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REPORT No. 1521

CONFIRMING TITLE IN FEE SIMPLE IN JOSHUA BRITTON TO CERTAIN LANDS IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, ILL.

MARCH 8, 1948.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed

Mr. WELCH, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the

following

REPORT

[To accompany H. J. Res. 242]

The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the joint resolution (H. J. Res. 242) to direct the Secretary of the Interior to issue a patent for certain land to Joel D. Minor, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the joint resolution, as amended, do pass.

The amendment is as follows:

Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the following:

That title in fee simple is hereby confirmed in Joshua Britton who made entry under the Act of 1847 under Warrant No. 52347 on May 21, 1849, at Shawneetown, Illinois, district land office, his heirs and assigns, to all rights to and interest in the following described lands in Jefferson County, Illinois: South one-half of the southeast quarter of section 23, township 1 south, range 3 east, third principal meridian, Illinois.

Amend the title to read as follows:

A bill to confirm title in fee simple in Joshua Britton to certain lands in Jefferson County, Illinois.

EXPLANATION OF THE BILL

The purpose of this legislation is to secure title to approximately 80 acres of land in Jefferson County, Ill., in Joel D. Minor.

It has recently been developed that the present title to this land is clouded through an error made almost 100 years ago in the records of the General Land Office.

On May 21, 1849, one Joshua Britton presumably made application for a patent to this land under the act of 1847. From that time until 1944 it was presumed that a patent had been issued for the land for it was immediately placed on the tax rolls of Jefferson County, and

from that time to the present has continued to be on the tax rolls. In 1861 it was sold for taxes and tax title was given by the county. Between 1861 and 1899, title to this land was transferred no less than six times. The present owner, Joel D. Minor, purchased the land 49 years ago. He has improved it with farm buildings, using the land for agricultural purposes. In 1921, he obtained a loan on the land from the Federal Land Bank, a Federal Government agency, which mortgage has since been paid off. In 1944 he gave a lease for prospecting for oil on the land. In searching the title the oil company interested discovered that an error had been made in the land records and that a patent in fee apparently had not actually been issued for the land.

Examination of the records of the Bureau of Land Management indicates that Joshua Britton filed a warrant on the S1⁄2 of the SE1⁄4, sec. 23, T. 5 S., R. 3 E., of the principal meridian, Illinois, but the plat book indicates the description to be the S1⁄2 of the SE sec. 23, T. 1 S., R. 3 E, of the principal meridian, Illinois. As pointed out in the report of the Department of the Interior, made a part hereof, at some time during the confusion of those pioneer days someone, apparently discovering the error, drew a red line through the record of this entry in township 5 S. and made the notation "See 24-1-3," but noted no further explanation.

A complete chronology of the land records in the office of the recorder of deeds of Jefferson County, Ill., is set forth in the following affidavit:

I, Avery Minor, being duly sworn under oath, depose and say that the following chronological facts appear on the land records in the office of the recorder of deeds of Jefferson County, Ill., in relation to the land described as the south half (S) of the southeast quarter (SE) of section twenty-three (23), township one (1) south, range three (3) east of the third principal meridian, Jefferson County, Ill. 1. The original land entry book of Jefferson County, Ill., shows that entry was made on the above-described land May 21, 1849, by Joshua Britton. The record is silent as to payment of taxes on said land from the years 1849 to 1856, but it can be assumed with more than a reasonable degree of certainty that Joshua Britton paid taxes on the land in question during this period. The taxes were permitted to become delinquent for the years 1856 and 1857 and were sold by C. G. Vaughn, sheriff of Jefferson County, Ill., on June 14, 1858, to Lemuel B. Gregory, who obtained a tax deed on April 8, 1861, recorded in book M, page 562, office of the recorder of deeds, Jefferson County, Ill.

2. On January 10, 1887, Lemuel B. Gregory conveyed the above-described land to Samantha J. Hogue and her bodily heirs, book 39, page 345, office of the recorder of deeds, Jefferson County, Ill.

3. December 18, 1888, Samantha J. Hogue and William H. Hogue, her husband, conveyed the said land by warranty deed to Ida O. Chambliss and William D. Chambliss, her husband, recorded in book 44, page 9 office of the recorder of deeds, Jefferson County, Ill.

4. On January 22, 1889, Ida O. Chambliss and William D. Chambliss, her husband, conveyed the said land by warranty deed to James C. Rankin, book 44, page 24, office of the recorder of deeds, Jefferson County, Ill.

5. James C. Rankin died prior to February 1, 1892, leaving Mahulda and Dora D. Rankin, minors, as his only heirs at law, for whom Lydia A. Baker was appointed guardian February 1, 1892, and under order of the Probate Court of Jefferson County, Ill., at the April term, 1892, executed a guardian's deed to Charles E. Bruce, dated May 14, 1892, recorded in book 51, page 572, of the office of the recorder of deeds, Jefferson County, Ill.

6. Charles E. Bruce, a single person, executed his deed to John Rollinson, dated December 18, 1897, recorded in book 52, page 350, office of the recorder of deeds, Jefferson County, Ill.