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55 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CHS. 387-389-AUG. 21, 1941 (b) Said Commission is further authorized to pay the sum of $800 to Joseph Hudnut and the sum of $700 to Thomas D. Mabry, Junior, as final payments to said persons for services rendered as consultants in connection with the competition for a design for the Smithsonian Gallery of Art. SEC. 2 . There is hereby reappropriated, out of the unexpended balance of the amount appropriated in the Second Deficiency Appro- priation Act, approved June 25, 1938, under the heading "Independent establishments", subheading "Smithsonian Institution", the sum of $2,500 to carry out the provisions of subsection (a) of section 1; and the sum of $1,500 is hereby made immediately available out of such unexpended balance to carry out the provisions of subsection (b) of section 1. Approved, August 21, 1941. [CHAPTER 388] AN ACT To amend an Act entitled "An act to punish the willful injury or destruction of war material, or of war premises or utilities used in connection with war material, and for other purposes", approved April 20, 1918, as amended Novem- ber 30, 1940. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first paragraph of section 4 of the Act approved April 20, 1918, entitled "An Act to punish the willful injury or destruction of war material, or of war premises or utilities used in connection with war material, and for other purposes" (40 Stat. 533; U. S . C., title 50, sees. 101- 103), as amended by the Act approved November 30, 1940 (54 Stat, 1220; U. S . C., title 50, sees. 101-106), is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 4. That the words 'national-defense material', as used herein, shall include arms, armament, ammunition, livestock, stores of cloth- ing, food, foodstuffs, fuel, supplies, munitions, and all other articles of whatever description and any part or ingredient thereof, intended for the use of the United States in connection with the national defense or for use in or in connection with the producing, manufac- turing, repairing, storing, mining, extracting, distributing, loading, unloading, or transporting of any of the materials or other articles hereinbefore mentioned or any part or ingredient thereof." Approved, August 21, 1941. [CHAPTER 389] AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Saint Lawrence River at or near Ogdensburg, New York, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Saint Lawrence River at or near Ogdensburg, New York, authorized to be built by the Saint Lawrence Bridge Commission and its successors and assigns, by an Act of Congress approved June 14, 1933, as amended, and heretofore extended by Acts of Congress approved June 8, 1934, May 28, 1935, April 11, 1936, August 12, 1937, April 26, 1939, and June 8, 1940, are hereby further extended one and three years respectively, from the date of approval of this Act. SEC. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, August 21, 1941. 655 Joseph Hudnut and Thomas D. Mabry, Jr. Payments for serv- ices. Sums reappropri- ated. 52 Stat. 1118. August 21, 1941 [H. R. 3752] [Public Law 2341 Destruction of war material. "National-defense material. " August 21, 1941 [H. R. 4150] [Public Law 235] Saint Lawrence River. Time extended for bridging, at Ogdens- burg, N. Y. 48 Stat. 141, 927; 49 Stat. 301, 1202; 50 Stat. 631; 53 Stat. 621; 54 Stat. 259.