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54 STAT.] 76 TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CHS. 528-530-JULY 2, 1940 bridge shall thereafter be maintained and operated free of toll. An accurate record of the amount of bonds issued in the acquisition of such bridge, the financing costs thereof, the interest and redemp- tion premiums payable thereon, the actual expenditures for main- taining, repairing, and operating such bridges, and of the daily tolls collected shall be kept and shall be available for the information of all persons interested. SEC. 4 . The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, July 2, 1940. [CHAPTER 529] AN ACT Declaring a forfeiture of certain land heretofore granted by the United States to the board of commissioners of the Orleans Levee District, in the city of New Orleans, State of Louisiana, for levee and street purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby forfeited to and revested in the United States of America title to that certain strip of land situated in the city of New Orleans, parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, measuring two hundred and ten and two one-hundredths feet in length and seven and thirty-seven one- hundredths feet in width, more particularly described in the resolu- tion adopted February 23, 1940, by the board of commissioners of the Orleans Levee District, and being part of the land granted by the Act of Congress approved April 22, 1932 (47 Stat. 133, ch. 127), to the board of commissioners of the Orleans Levee District of New Orleans, Louisiana. The control and custody of the land hereby for- feited is revested in the Attorney General. SEC. 2 . The grant by the aforesaid Act of Congress approved April 22, 1932, and the restrictions and conditions imposed therein shall remain in full force and effect as to that portion of the land the title to which is not declared forfeited by this Act and the Attorney Gen- eral is hereby authorized to execute and deliver to the Board of Commissioners of the Orleans Levee District a proper quitclaim deed of that portion of the land not forfeited. Approved, July 2, 1940. [CHAPTER 530] AN ACT To amend section 13 (d) of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (d) of section 13 of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, as amended, is hereby amended by striking the period at the end of the last sentence of said subsection, inserting a colon, and adding the following: "Provided, however, That if the Social Security Board finds with respect to any State that such State (1) is unable to avail itself of such conditions solely by reason of prohibitions contained in the constitution of such State, as determined by a decision of the highest court of such State declaring invalid in whole or in part the action of the legislature of the State purporting to provide for transfers from the State's account in the Unemployment Trust Fund to the railroad unemployment insurance account, and (2) for similar reasons is unable to use amounts withdrawn from its account in the Unemployment Trust Fund for the payment of expenses incurred in the administration of its State unemployment compensation law, 741 Record of expendi- tures and receipts. Right reserved. July 2, 1940 [H. R. 9927] [Public, No. 724] New Orleans, La. Forfeiture to U. S . of certain land. Control, etc. Restrictions in force as to unforfeited land. July 2, 140 IIl. R. tl(K9] [Public, No. 72,5 Railroad UTnem- ploynlent Insurance Act, amendment. 62 Stat. 1111 . 45 U. S. C., Supp. V, 363 (c). Prori*o. Findingp by Social Security Board. State unable to ef- fect designated trans- fers of funds. State unable to use certain funds for ad- ministrative expenses.