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LIST OF PUBLIC LAWS Public Law 720 - - Capitalstock tax returns, 1942. JOINT RESOLUTION Authoriz- ing extensions of time for filing return of capital stock tax in 1942--------------------------------------------- Sept 721 -- _ Maintenance of troops by States, etc. AN ACT To amend section 61 of the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916, as amended, for the purpose of providing State and Territorial military forces with such arms, ammunition, clothing, and equipment as is deemed necessary to enable them to execute their internal security responsibilities within their respective States and Territories, and for other purposes -- __ __ __ __ .._ -- -- - -- - _ Oct. 722 --- Army, etc., details to foreign governments. AN ACT To amend the Act of May 19, 1926, entitled "An Act to authorize the President to detail officers and enlisted men of the United States Army, Navy, and Marine Corps to assist the govern- ments of the Latin-American republics in military and naval matters" -


. . - . Oct. 723 --- Defense housing. AN ACT To increase by $600,000,000 the amount authorized to be appropriated for defense housing under the Act of October 14, 1940, as amended-- __-- - - -- ___ Oct. 724 --- Military Academy, instruction. AN ACT To authorize a reduc- tion in the course of instruction at the United States Military Academy -------


Oct. 725 --- Canal Zone Code, amendment. AN ACT To amend the Canal Zone Code in relation to the control of marihuana -----------. Oct. 726 --- Books for adult blind. AN ACT To amend section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide books for the adult blind", ap- proved March 3, 1931, as amended---------------------- Oct. 727 --- Library of Congress Trust Fund Board. AN ACT To amend the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board Act -------------- _ Oct. 728 --- Overtime pay. JOINT RESOLUTION Extending for two months the period for which overtime rates of compensation may be paid under the Acts of June 28, 1940 (54 Stat. 676), October 21, 1940 (54 Stat. 1205), and June 3, 1941 (55 Stat. 241)------------------------------------------------ Oct. 729 --- Stabilization of prices, etc. AN ACT To amend the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, to aid in preventing inflation, and for other purposes ------------------------------------- Oct. 730 --- Saint Ann's Infant Asylum, D. C . AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act to incorporate Saint Ann's Infant Asylum, in the District of Columbia", approved March 3, 1863 (12 Stat. 798)------------------------------------------------ Oct. 731 --- Army and Navy, living quarters. JOINT RESOLUTION To remove certain limitations on the cost of construction of Army and Navy living quarters___________ -- ---- --- ---- -- Oct. 732 --- Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act Amendments of 1942. AN ACT To amend the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940, as amended, to extend the relief and benefits provided therein to certain persons, to include certain additional pro- ceedings and transactions therein, to provide further relief for persons in military service, to change certain insurance pro- visions thereof, and for other purposes -------------------- Oct. 733 --- White House police. AN ACT To permit appointment of White House police, in accordance with the civil-service laws, from sources outside the Metropolitan and United States Park Police forces .----------------- _--------------_-------_ Oct. 734 --- Guilford Courthouse National Military Park Commission. AN ACT To abolish the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park Commission, and for other purposes------------ _ - - - - Oct. 735 --- Alaska land offices. AN ACT To reorganize the system of land offices and land districts in Alaska --------------- _------ Oct. 736 --- Nationality Act of 1940, amendment. AN ACT To amend the Nationality Act of 1940 to preserve the nationality of citizens residing abroad --------------------------------------- _ Oct. 737 --- Naval and Marine Corps Reserve, benefits. AN ACT To amend the Act approved August 27, 1940 (54 Stat. 864), entitled "An Act increasing the number of naval aviators in the line of the Regular Navy and Marine Corps, and for other pur- poses"----------------------------------------------- Oct. 738 --- Mechanicsburg, Pa. , exchange of land. AN ACT To authorize an exchange of land at Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, between Edgar Eberly and the United States-------------------- Oct. Date Page 762 1,1942_ -- 762 1,1942__ 763 1,1942___ 763 1, 1942_- 1, 1942 -_ 1, 1942-- 2, 1942-__ 2, 1942- __ 2, 1942-__ 3, 1942- __ 6, 1942- __ 763 763 764 765 765 765 768 769 6,1942__ 769 9,1942- __ 9, 1942 __ 9, 1942- _ 9, 1942-_ _ 10, 1942- __ 778 778 778 779 780 10, 1942- _- 780 xxiii .29, 1942__ -