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LIST OF PUBLIC LAWS Public Law 179 ___ Tennessee Valley Authority. JOINT RESOLUTION Making an additional appropriation for the Tennessee Valley Au- thority for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942 - 180 ___ Navy, officers on special duty. AN ACT Providing for the rank of officers ordered to perform special or unusual duty, and of commanders of special naval units afloat.. 181 ___ Thomas Alva Edison Day. JOINT RESOLUTION Requesting the President to proclaim February 11, 1942, as Edison Day, in commemoration of the birthday of Thomas Alva Edison 182 ___ Coast Guard, pensions, etc. AN ACT To grant pension for dis- ability or death resulting from service in the United States Coast Guard before July 2,1930, and for other purposes --- 183 _-- Postmasters, residence requirements. AN ACT To amend the Act of June 25, 1938, extending the classified civil service to include postmasters of the first, second, and third classes, and for other purposes --------


184 ___ Tennessee Valley Authority Act, amendment. AN ACT To amend the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, as amended, by striking therefrom subsection (k) of section 4 and substituting therefor a new subsection (k)------------------------------- 185 -__ New York World's Fair,etc. JOINT RESOLUTION To amend further the amended joint resolution, approved August 16, 1937 (50 Stat. 668), concerning the importation of articles for exhibition at the New York World's Fair, to permit transfer of liability for duty on articles so imported, and to further amend the amended joint resolution approved May 18, 1937 (50 Stat. 187), concerning the importation of articles for exhibition at the Golden Gate International Exposition, to permit transfer of liability for duty on articles so imported, and for other purposes------------------------------------- 186 ___ Alaska, slum clearance and housing projects. AN ACT To au- thorize the Legislature of the Territory of Alaska to create a public corporate authority to undertake slum clearance and projects to provide dwelling accommodations for families of low income and to issue bonds and other obligations of the authority for such purpose, and for other purposes ---- -- 187 --- Internal Revenue Code, amendments. AN ACT To amend sec- tions 3341, 3351, and 3361 of the Internal Revenue Code and section 309 (a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, and to repeal section 2907 of the Internal Revenue Code ----------- 188 -__ Navy and Marine Corps, personnel. AN ACT Authorizing the temporary appointment or advancement of certain personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps, and for other purposes -- 189 -__ Army, enlistments. AN ACT To amend section 1118 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, to eliminate the prohibition against enlistment in the military service of the United States of any person convicted of a felony --- - --- 190 ___ Army, removal of officers. JOINT RESOLUTION To strengthen the common defense by suspending section 24b of the National Defense Act and authorizing a more expeditious pro- cedure to vitalize the active list of the Army- 191 ___ State nautical schools, vessels. JOINT RESOLUTION To pro- vide suitable vessels for the use of certain State nautical schools, and for other purposes ------------- 192 -__ Navy, shipbuilding, etc. AN ACT Authorizing appropriations for the United States Navy, additional shipbuilding, ship repair, and ordnance manufacturing facilities, and for other purposes ---------------------------------------- 193 -_ _ Veterans' parents, pension. AN ACT To provide for payment of pension to certain dependent parents notwithstanding re- marriage, and for other purposes--------------.


194 -_ Vancouver, Wash. AN ACT To grant the city of Vancouver, Washington, road rights-of-way and a retrocession of juris- diction thereover------.----------- 195 ___ Rural letter carriers,salaries. AN ACT To adjust the salaries of rural letter carriers----------- -- .----- ----- 196 -- Donors of blood. AN ACT To further amend the Act of Febru- ary 9, 1927, entitled "An Act relating to the transfusion of blood by members of the Military Establishment" (U. S . C ., title 24, sec. 30), as amended June 2, 1939 (Public, Numbered 109, Seventy-sixth Congress), so as to provide compensation for donors of blood for persons entitled to treatment at Govern- ment expense whether or not the donors are in the Government service, and for other purposes------ . ...-------------- J Date July 16, 1941___ July 17, 1941___ July 17, 1941___ July 18, 1941 __ July 18, 1941___ July 18, 1941___ July 18, 1941___ July 21, 1941___ July 22, 1941___ July 24, 1941-_- July 29, 1941 - July 29, 1941___ July 29, 1941_ -- July 29, 1941___ July 30, 1941__- July 30, 1941___ July 30, 1941___ 597 598 598 598 599 599 600 601 602 603 606 606 607 608 608 608 609 luly 30, 1941__ 609