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SEO. 7. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, whether relating to the acquisition, handling, or disposal of real or other property by the United States or to other matters, the Administrator, with respect to any property acquired or constructed under the provisions of this Act, is authorized by means of Government personnel, selected qualified private agencies, or public agencies (a) to deal with, maintain, operate, administer, and insure; (b) to pursue to final collection by way of compromise or otherwise, all claims arising therefrom; (c) to rent, lease, exchange, sell for cash or credit, and convey the whole or any part of such property and to convey without cost portions thereof to local municipalities for street or other public use: Provided, That any such transaction shall be upon such terms, including the period of any lease, as may be deemed by the Administrator to be in the public interest: Provided further, That the Administrator shall fix fair rentals, on projects developed pursuant to this Act, which shall be within the financial reach of persons engaged in national defense: Provided further, That any lease authorized hereunder shall not be subject to the provisions of section 321 of the Act of June 30, 1932 (47 Stat. 412).

SEC. 8. In carrying out the provisions of this Act the Administrator is authorized to utilize and act through the Federal Works Agency and other Federal agencies and any local public agency, with the consent of such agency, and any funds appropriated pursuant to this Act shall be available for transfer to any such agency in reimbursement therefor. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent the Administrator from employing or utilizing the professional services of private persons, firms, or corporations.

SEC. 9. The Administrator may enter into any agreements to pay annual sums in lieu of taxes to any State or political subdivision thereof, with respect to any real property acquired and held by him under this Act, including improvements thereon. The amount so paid for any year upon any such property shall not exceed the taxes that would be paid to the State or subdivision, as the case may be, upon such property if it were not exempt from taxation.

SEC. 10. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the acquisition by the Administrator of any real property pursuant to this Act shall not deprive any State or political subdivision thereof of its civil and criminal jurisdiction in and over such property, or impair the civil rights under the State or local law of the inhabitants on such property.

SEC. 11. The Administrator is authorized to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act, and shall establish reasonable standards of safety, convenience, and health.

SEC. 12. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the wages of every laborer and mechanic employed on any construction, repair or demolition work authorized by this Act shall be computed on a basic day rate of eight hours per day and work in excess of eight hours per day shall be permitted upon compensation for all hours worked in excess of eight hours per day at not less than one and one-half times the basic rate of pay. Not less than the prevailing wages shall be paid in the construction of defense housing authorized herein.

Sro. 18. If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any persons or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder of this Act, or application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.

SEC. 14. At the beginning of each session of Congress, the Administrator shall make to Congress a full and detailed report covering

all of the transactions authorized hereunder.

Approved, October 14, 1940.

[PUBLIC RESOLUTION-No. 106-76TH CONGRESS]

[CHAPTER 857-3D SESSION]

[H. J. Res. 614]

JOINT RESOLUTION

Making an additional appropriation for national defense housing for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for other purposes.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, for the purposes enumerated:

FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY

National defense housing: To enable the Federal Works Administrator to carry out the purposes of the Act entitled "An Act to expedite the provision of housing in connection with national defense, and for other purposes", H. R. 10412, as enacted into law during the Seventy-sixth Congress, $75,000,000, to be expended in accordance with the provisions of such Act, to remain available until expended, and to be available for all necessary administrative expenses for the purposes hereof, including personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, printing and binding, and purchase, repair, operation, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; and in addition to such appropriation, authority is granted to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the above purposes in amounts not to exceed in the aggregate $75,000,000: Provided, That in no case under the foregoing appropriation or contractual authorization shall the fixed fee to be paid the contractor under any contract entered into without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States on a costplus-a-fixed-fee basis exceed 6 per centum of the estimated cost of the contract, exclusive of the fee, as determined by the Administrator or the head of such Federal agency through which he may act: Provided further, That the fact that a contract is entered into under the provisions of the above mentioned Act without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be construed to render inapplicable the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1931, as amended by the Act of August 30, 1935 (49 Stat. 1011; U. S. C., title 40, sec. 276 (a)), or the provisions of the Act of June 30, 1936 (49 Stat. 2036; U. S. C., title 41, secs. 35-45), to any contract to which the provisions of either or both of such Acts would otherwise apply.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Enforcement of the Commodity Exchange Act: For an additional amount to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the

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provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act, as amended (7 U. S. C., 1-17a), and as further amended by the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Commodity Exchange Act, as amended, to extend its provisions to fats and oils, cottonseed, cottonseed meal, and peanuts", H. R. 4088, as enacted into law during the Seventy-sixth Congress, $40,000.

Approved, October 14, 1940.

[PUBLIC LAW 42-77TH CONGRESS]

[CHAPTER 80—1ST SESSION]

[H. R. 3486]

AN ACT

To amend the Act of October 14, 1940, relating to defense housing, by authorising an additional appropriation of $150,000,000, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 (b) of the Act entitled "An Act to expedite the provision of housing in connection with national defense, and for other purposes", approved October 14, 1940, is hereby amended (1) by striking out "$3,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "$3,500" and (2) by striking out the period at the end thereof and adding a colon and the following: Provided further, That all items of cost with respect to each such family dwelling unit shall be separately estimated with a view toward economy, and no movable equipment shall be installed in such units, unless the Administrator shall, in any particular case, deem such installation to be in the public interest."

SEC. 2. Section 8 of such Act of October 14, 1940, is hereby amended by striking out "$150,000,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "$300,000,000".

Approved, April 29, 1941.

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