Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 56 Part 1.djvu/780

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PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 558 -560 -SEPT. 9 , 11 , 16, 1942 [56 STAT. effect shall again become effective, should the restaurants at any future time revert to the jurisdiction of the Senate Committee on Rules. Approved, September 9, 1942. [CHAPTER 559] September 11, 1942 [H. R . 7145] [Public Law 710] District of Colum- bia. Exchanges of land in Northwest Wash- ington. Payment of ex- irnscs. AN ACT To authorize the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia and the Secretary of the Interior to make exchanges with the Defense Homes Corpo- ration of certain lands in Northwest Washington, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order that the area of Northwest Washington, bounded by Massachusetts Avenue, Wisconsin Avenue, Nebraska Avenue, and adjacent territory may be better served with a public school and a public playground, the follow- ing exchanges of land, designated approximately on plan bearing file numbered 12-116 of the files of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, are hereby authorized: SEC. 2. The Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to accept from the Defense Homes Corporation fee- simple title to the land designated as area "A" on said plan numbered 12-116, containing approximately five acres, located west of Idaho Avenue and adjacent to the southerly boundary of parcel 33/24, and in exchange the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to convey to the Defense Homes Corporation fee-simple title to the land designated as area "C" on said plan numbered 12-116, containing approximately five acres, located on Massachusetts Avenue, west of Arizona Avenue, and being part of parcel 22/43. SEC. 3. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept from the Defense Homes Corporation fee-simple title to the land designated as area "B" on said plan numbered 12-116, containing approximately four acres, and located east of Thirty-ninth Street extended and adjacent to the southerly boundary of parcel 33/24, and in exchange the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to convey to the Defense Homes Corporation the title of the United States to the lands designated as area "D" on said plan numbered 12-116, containing approximately four acres, located on Massachusetts Avenue, west of Arizona Avenue, and being a part of parcel 33/41. SEC. 4 . The Board of Commissioners of the District of (olumlbia andl the Secretary of the Interior are hereby allthorized to pay any necessary and reasonable expenses in connection with said exclanges of land. Approved, September 11, 1942. [CHAPTER 560] September 16, 1942 [H. R. 6682] [Public Law 711] Coconut oil. Suspension in part of processing tax. .5 3 Stat. 264. 26 V. S. C. §2470 (a) (2). Proviso. AN ACT To suspend in part the processing tax on coconut oil. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That section 2470 (a) (2) of the Internal Revenue Code is hereby suspended: Pro- vided, That if the President after receipt by him of a request fron the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands that the suspension of section 2470 (a) (2) be terminated, shall find that adequate supplies of copra, coconut oil, or both, the product of the Philippine Islands, are readily available for processing in the United