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75TII CONGRESS, 1ST 749 SESSION-CHS. 746-748-AUGUST 24, 1937 it, said judge may, in his discretion, also order a venire to issue for a third grand jury. The district court may in term order a grand jury to be summoned at such time, and to serve such time as it may direct, whenever, in its judgment, it may be proper to do so. A district judge may, upon request of the district attorney or of the grand jury or on his own motion, by order authorize any grand jury to continue to sit during the term succeeding the term at which such request is made, solely to finish investigations begun but not finished by such grand jury, but no grand jury shall be permitted to sit in all during more than three terms. Nothing herein shall operate to extend beyond the time permitted by law the imprisonment before indictment found of a person accused of crime or offense, or the time during which a person so accused may be held under recognizance before indictment found." Approved, August 24, 1937. Extensions to complete investigations; limitation. Imprisonment before indictment, etc., time limit not extendel. [CHAPTER 747] AN ACT To amend the bank-robbery statute to include burglary and larceny. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (a) of section 2 of the Act of May 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 783; U. S. C., title 12, sec. 588b), be and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: "(a) Whoever, by force and violence, or. by putting in fear, feloniously takes, or feloniously attempts to take, from the person or presence of another any property or money or any other thing of value belonging to, or in the care, custody, control, management, or possession of, any bank; or whoever shall enter or attempt to enter any bank, or any building used in whole or in part as a bank, with intent to commit in such bank or building, or part thereof, so used, any felony or larceny, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both; or whoever shall take and carry away, with intent to steal or purloin, any property or money or any other thing of value exceeding $50 belonging to, or in the care, custody, control, management, or possession of any bank, shall be fined not Imore than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; or whoever shall take and carry away, with intent to steal or Iprloin, lanyproperty or money or any other thing of value not exceeding $50 belonging to, or in the care, custody, control, management, or possession of any bank, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both." Approved, August 24, 1937. [CHAPTER 748] August 21, 1937 [H. R. 590)J [Public, No. 3491 Offenses against banks. 48 Stat. 783. 12U.S.C. 588b. Bank robbery; burglary and larceny added. Penalty provisions. - JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing an appropriation for the expenses of participation by the United States in the Inter-American Radio Conference to be held in 1937 at Habana, Cuba. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representativesof the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $15,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the expenses of participation by the United States in the Inter-American Radio Conference to be held in 1937 at Habana, August 24, 1937 Is. J. Res. 1971 [Pub. Res., No. 67] Inter-American Radio Conference, 1937. Appropriation authorized for participation expenses. Post, p. 770.
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