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Able seamen on seagoing barges. AN ACT Relating to the man-
ning of certain seagoing barges__.
Shipping on the Great Lakes, etc.

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AN ACT To dispense with
the requirement of clearance and entry for certain United
States vessels on the Great Lakes which touch at Canadian
ports for bunker fuel only..

AN ACT To permit
S. S. "Port Saunders" and S. S. "Hawk."
the steamship Port Saunders, official number 220150, and
steamship Hawk, official number 220149, to engage in the
fisheries---

Retirement pay and hospitalization of certain Reserve officers. AN
ACT To provide retirement pay and hospital benefits to cer-
tain Reserve officers, Army of the United States, disabled while
on active duty.

AN ACT To ratify
Hawaii, special homestead agreements, etc.
and confirm certain right of purchase leases, special homestead
agreements, cash freehold agreements, certificates of occupa-
tion, homestead leases, and patents issued under or in pur-
ported compliance with section 73 of the Hawaiian Organic
Act and the laws of the Territory of Hawaii___
Recorder of deeds building, D. C. AN ACT To increase the
amount authorized by the Act of July 11, 1940, for the
construction of a building for the office of the recorder of
deeds of the District of Columbia..
Union Railroad Station, D. C.

AN ACT To amend an Act to
provide for a Union Railroad Station in the District of
Columbia, and for other purposes.-

Canal Zone, rental allowances. AN ACT Relating to allowances
for rental quarters of certain naval officers stationed in the
Canal Zone.

U. S. courts, witnesses and jurors, fees and costs. AN ACT Re-
lating to the payment of fees and costs of witnesses and jurors
and the accounting therefor....
Alien registration receipt cards.

AN ACT To amend the Alien
Registration Act, 1940, by making it a criminal offense to
reproduce alien registration receipt cards.
U. S. and D. C. employees as witnesses.

AN ACT To authorize

employees of the United States to testify on behalf of the Dis-
trict of Columbia and employees of the District of Columbia
to testify on behalf of the United States and of the District of
Columbia without loss of salary or annual leave.
Reading matter for the blind. AN ACT To further amend the
Acts for promoting the circulation of reading matter among
the blind.

AN ACT To amend an
Act entitled "An Act to protect the lives and health and morals
of women and minor workers in the District of Columbia, and
to establish a Minimum Wage Board, and define its powers
and duties, and to provide for the fixing of minimum wages
for such workers, and for other purposes", approved Sep-
tember 19, 1918-

D. C. minimum wage law, amendments.

Court of Claims. AN ACT Relating to the traveling and sub-
sistence expenses of judges and retired judges of the Court of
Claims..

Hawaii, lands. AN ACT To authorize the sale of certain Gov-
ernment-owned lands in the Territory of Hawaii to the
Honolulu Plantation Company.

AN ACT To au-
thorize the President of the United States to requisition
property required for the defense of the United States...
Nationality Act of 1940, amendment. AN ACT To amend the
Nationality Act of 1940 to preserve the nationality of
citizens residing abroad

Requisition of property for national defense.

Public contracts. AN ACT To repeal sections 512; 513; 514;
515, as amended, of the Revised Statutes; sections 1 and 3 of
the Act approved February 4, 1929 (45 Stat. 1147); and sec-
tion 3744, as amended; 3745, 3746, and 3747 of the Revised
Statutes..

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National Training School for Boys, D. C. AN ACT To amend
the Act reorganizing the administration of Federal prisons. Oct. 21, 1941...
Reconstruction Finance Corporation. AN ACT To authorize the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation to issue notes, bonds, and
debentures in the sum of $1,500,000,000 in excess of existing
authority---

Railway Mail Service, laborers. AN ACT To prescribe the
time basis for computing pay for overtime work performed
by laborers in the Railway Mail Service...
Navy, salvage facilities. AN ACT To authorize the Secretary
of the Navy to provide salvage facilities, and for other pur-
poses...

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Ariz. AN ACT To
permit mining within the Organ Pipe Cactus National
Monument in Arizona...
Second Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1942.
AN ACT Making supplemental appropriations for the
national defense for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1942, and
June 30, 1943, and for other purposes..

Fair Labor Standards Act, amendment. AN ACT To amend
Public Law Numbered 718, Seventy-fifth Congress, ap-
proved June 25, 1938_.

St. Elizabeths Hospital, D. C. AN ACT To provide for the
admission to Saint Elizabeths Hospital of insane persons
belonging to the Foreign Service of the United States.
Internal Revenue Code, amendments. JOINT RESOLUTION
To amend section 124 of the Internal Revenue Code by ex-
tending the time for applications, and changing the pro-
cedure, for certification of national-defense facilities and
contracts for amortization purposes.

Loss, etc., of Government property. AN ACT To authorize
Army officers designated by the Secretary of War to take
final action on reports of survey and vouchers pertaining to
the loss, damage, spoilage, unserviceability, unsuitability,
or destruction of Government property..........
Naval Reserve, etc., pay, allowances and mileage.
provide for pay and allowances and mileage or transporta-
tion for certain officers and enlisted men of the Naval Re-
serve and Marine Corps Reserve and retired officers and
enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps.

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U. S. Housing Authority, obligations. AN ACT To amend the
United States Housing Act, as amended..
Aviation pilots, Naval and Marine Corps Reserve. AN ACT To
provide for the pay of aviation pilots in the Naval and
Marine Corps Reserve, and for other purposes - -

St. Elizabeths Hospital, D. C. AN ACT To authorize the Fed-
eral Security Administrator to accept gifts for Saint Eliza-
beths Hospital and to provide for the administration of such
gifts...

Apportionment of Representatives. AN ACT To provide for
apportioning Representatives in Congress among the several
States by the equal proportions method

Security of U. S. naval vessels. AN ACT Providing for the
security of United States naval vessels, and for other pur-
poses...

Criminal Code, amendments. AN ACT To amend the Criminal
Code in respect to fires on the public domain or Indian lands
or on certain lands owned or leased by, or under the partial,
concurrent, or exclusive jurisdiction of the United States-.
Neutrality Act of 1939, amendments. JOINT RESOLUTION
To repeal sections 2, 3, and 6 of the Neutrality Act of 1939,
and for other purposes-

Defense Highway Act of 1941. AN ACT To supplement the
Federal Aid Road Act, approved July 11, 1916, as amended
and supplemented, to authorize appropriations during the
national emergency declared by the President on May 27, 1941,
for the immediate construction of roads urgently needed for
the national defense, and for other purposes..
Ketchikan, Alaska. AN ACT To authorize the incorporated
city of Ketchikan, Alaska, to undertake certain public works
and for such purpose to issue bonds in a sum not exceeding
$250,000__.

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297 ... Hickam Field, Oahu, T. H. AN ACT To authorize maintenance and use of a banking house upon the United States military reservation at Hickam Field, Oahu, Hawaii

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298 National cemetery, Honolulu, T. H. AN ACT To authorize an
appropriation for the purpose of establishing a national
cemetery at Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii__
Kalamazoo National Guard Target Range, Mich.

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AN ACT To
authorize the Secretary of War to grant a right-of-way to
Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company, across the Kalama-
zoo National Guard Target Range, Michigan----
Massachusetts, vacancy in office of district judge. AN ACT To
repeal the prohibition against the filling of a vacancy in the
office of district judge for the district of Massachusetts.
Tennessee Valley Authority, bridge reconstruction. AN ACT To
provide for the alteration, reconstruction, or relocation of cer-
tain highway and railroad bridges by the Tennessee Valley
Authority.

Bridges, Minnesota River. AN ACT To repeal the Act entitled
"An Act to authorize the construction of bridges across a por-
tion of the Minnesota River in the State of Minnesota",
approved March 15, 1904-
McMinnville, Oreg. AN ACT To reimburse the city of McMinn-
ville, Oregon, for damages assessed to it by the United States
for innocent trespass upon land belonging to the United States-
Alaska, transportation of U. S. employees. AN ACT To authorize
transportation of employees of the United States on vessels of
the Army transport service..

Bridge, Mississippi River. AN ACT To extend the times for
commencing and completing the construction of a bridge
across the Mississippi River at or near Memphis, Tennessee___
Tennessee Valley Authority, accounts. AN ACT To amend sec-
tion 9 (b) of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, as amended
by section 14 of the Act of August 31, 1935..
Bridge, Susquehanna River. AN ACT Granting the consent of
Congress to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to construct,
maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Susque-
hanna River at Bridge Street in Plymouth Borough, between
Plymouth and Hanover Townships, in the county of Luzerne,
and in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Kauai County, T. H. AN ACT To empower the Legislature of
the Territory of Hawaii to authorize the County of Kauai to
issue improvement bonds.
Hawaii, electric franchise. AN ACT To approve Act numbered
112 of the Session Laws of 1941 of the Territory of Hawaii,
entitled "An Act to amend Act 101 of the Session Laws of
Hawaii, 1921, relating to the manufacture, maintenance, dis-
tribution, and supply of electric current for light and power
within the districts of North and South Hilo and Puna, in the
County of Hawaii, so as to extend the franchise to the districts
of Kau and South Kohala in said county, and extend the term
thereof as to the town of Hilo".

Lost or stolen checks. AN ACT To authorize the Treasurer of the
United States to make settlements with payees of lost or stolen
checks, which have been paid on forged indorsements, in
advance of reclamation, and for other purposes.-
Grosse Point Lighthouse Reservation, Ill. AN ACT To authorize
the Secretary of the Treasury to dispose of the remaining por-
tion of the Grosse Point Lighthouse Reservation by deed to the
city of Evanston, Illinois.

Bridge at Cedar Point, Ala. AN ACT To extend the times for
commencing and completing the construction, by the Alabama
Bridge Commission, an agency of the State of Alabama, of a
toll bridge and causeway between Dauphin Island and the
mainland at or near Cedar Point, within the State of Alabama.
Supreme Court, rule-making authority. AN ACT To extend the
provisions of the Act of February 24, 1933, and of the Act of
June 29, 1940, to proceedings to punish for criminal contempt

of court.

Chief of Chaplains, Army. AN ACT To constitute an Army
Chaplains' Corps with a brigadier general as Chief____
Alaska Road Commission. AN ACT To authorize the transpor-
tation of employees of the Alaska Road Commission, and to
validate payments made for that and other purposes...

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Metropolitan Police, D. C. AN ACT Providing an appropriation
for additional members of the Metropolitan Police force of
the District of Columbia, and for other purposes--
Bridge, Mississippi River. AN ACT Granting the consent of
Congress to the State of Minnesota and the city of Minne-
apolis to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway
bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Minneapolis,
Minnesota__

Bridge, Wabash River. AN ACT Authorizing the State of
Indiana to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway
bridge across the Wabash River at or near Montezuma,
Indiana...

Quarters and subsistence. AN ACT To provide for payments in
advance to enlisted men of monetary allowance in lieu of
quarters and subsistence under certain conditions__
Army, examination of monthly accounts. AN ACT To extend,
under certain conditions, the time for examination of monthly
accounts covering expenditures by disbursing officers of the
Army after the date of actual receipt by bureaus and offices
of the War Department, and before transmitting the same to
the General Accounting Office...--

D. C. Unemployment Compensation Act, amendment. AN ACT
To amend the District of Columbia Unemployment Compen-
sation Act. __

Army of Occupation of Germany Medal. AN ACT Authorizing
the procurement and issue of an Army of Occupation of Ger-
many Medal for each person who served in Germany or Aus-
tria-Hungary during the period of occupation_

Naval local defense vessels. AN ACT To authorize the construc-
tion or acquisition of certain naval local defense vessels, and
for other purposes.
Coast Guard cutter.

AN ACT To provide for the construction
of a Coast Guard cutter designed for ice-breaking and assist-
ance work on the Great Lakes___
Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, amendments. AN ACT
To amend the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920, as
amended, by amending sections 203 (4), 208 (3), 209, 213, 215,
220, and 222 thereof and by adding thereto a new section to be
numbered section 225, all relating to the powers, duties, and
functions of the Hawaiian Homes Commission__
Construction activities, Army. AN ACT To make provision for
the construction activities of the Army...
District of Columbia Emergency Rent Act. AN ACT To regulate
rents in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes -
War with Japan. JOINT RESOLUTION Declaring that a
state of war exists between the Imperial Government of Japan
and the Government and the people of the United States and
making provisions to prosecute the same.

Six months' death gratuity benefits. AN ACT To extend the six
months' death gratuity benefits, now paid only to dependents
of officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army, to depend-
ents of all officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the
Army of the United States who die in line of duty while in
active military service of the United States___

330 Seeing-eye dogs. AN ACT To permit seeing-eye dogs to enter
Government buildings when accompanied by their blind
masters, and for other purposes

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Enlisted men needing medical care. AN ACT To provide for
continuing in the service of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps,
and Coast Guard of the United States beyond the term of
their enlistment, those suffering from service-connected dis-
ease or injury, and in need of medical care or hospitalization
until recovery through such medical care and hospitalization. Dec. 12, 1941...

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the conveyance of the old Coast Guard station building at
Two Rivers, Wisconsin, to the Eleven Gold Star Post Num-
bered 1248, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Two Rivers, Wisconsin. Dec. 12, 1941___
Bridge, Sarasota Pass, etc., Fla. AN ACT To extend the times
for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge
across Sarasota Pass, and across Longboat Pass, county of
Manatee, State of Florida__

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Canal Zone Code, amendments. AN ACT To amend the Canal
Zone Code so as to provide for control of photographing, pos-
session of cameras, and so forth, in areas of the Canal Zone. Dec. 12, 1941...
Naval, etc., enlistments. AN ACT To provide for the extension
of enlistments in the Navy in time of war, and for other
purposes---
Army of U. S., territorial use and periods of service. JOINT
RESOLUTION Removing restrictions on the territorial use
of units and members of the Army of the United States,
extending the periods of service of such personnel, and amend-
ing the National Defense Act with respect to the meaning of
the term "Army of the United States"
Contraband, D. C. penal institutions. AN ACT To prohibit the
introduction of contraband into the District of Columbia penal
institutions__

Retired Navy and Marine Corps officers on active duty. AN ACT
Providing for the pay and allowances of retired officers of the
Navy and Marine Corps on active duty..

D. C. Code, amendment. AN ACT To amend section 111, title
18, of the Code of the District of Columbia, with respect to
designation of deputy clerks by the clerk of the District Court
of the United States for the District of Columbia___
Marquette, Mich. JOINT RESOLUTION To declare aban-
doned the title of the city of Marquette, Michigan, to certain
land in the county of Marquette, and to vest control of such
land in the Secretary of the Treasury for Coast Guard pur-
poses--

Canal Zone Code, amendments. AN ACT To amend the Canal
Zone Code with respect to the trial of joint defendants, the
removal of fugitives from justice, and the regulation of crim-
inal procedure in the Canal Zone...
Canal Zone Code, amendments. AN ACT To amend the Canal
Zone Code...

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Virginia, conveyance. AN ACT Authorizing the conveyance to
the State of Virginia, for highway purposes only, a portion of
the Naval Mine Depot Reservation at Yorktown, Virginia. Dec. 16, 1941...
Canal Zone Code, amendments. AN ACT To amend the Canal
Zone Code__.

Canal Zone Code, amendments. AN ACT To amend section 96,
title 2, of the Canal Zone Code, and for other purposes _ _
Aeronautics instruction, D. C. AN ACT To provide aviation
education in the senior high schools of the District of Columbia,
and for other purposes--

Coast Guard, small craft. AN ACT To authorize the Secretary
of the Treasury to purchase or accept as gifts motorboats,
yachts, and similar vessels for Coast Guard use....
Unwholesome food, D. C. AN ACT To prevent the sale of un-
wholesome food in the District of Columbia..
Radio operators, employment on certain vessels. AN ACT To
provide additional safeguards to the radio communications
service of ships of the United States in the interest of national
defense, and for other purposes.

Vagrancy, D. C. AN ACT To define and punish vagrancy in the
District of Columbia, and for other purposes

Third Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1942.
AN ACT Making supplemental appropriations for the na-
tional defense for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1942, and
June 30, 1943, and for other purposes.

First War Powers Act, 1941. AN ACT To expedite the prose-
cution of the war effort__.

Anthracite coal commission. JOINT RESOLUTION Creating
a commission to investigate ways and means for improving
economic conditions in the anthracite coal producing regions
of the United States..

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