LIST OF PUBLIC LAWS Public Law 171 --- Housing Act of 1949. AN ACT To establish a national housing objective and the policy to be followed in the attainment there- of, to provide Federal aid to assist slum-clearance projects and low-rent public housing projects initiated by local agencies, to provide for financial assistance by the Secretary of Agriculture for farm housing, and for other purposes ---. --- ---. -- ___ 172 -__ Panama Railroad Company, tort claims procedure, exception. AN ACT To amend section 2680 of title 28, United States Code__ 173 --- Medical Service Corps. AN ACT To provide for certain adjust- ments on the promotion list of the Medical Service Corps of the Regular Army --------- 174 -__ Social Security Act, amendments. JOINT RESOLUTION Ex- tending section 1302 (a) of the Social Security Act, as amended, until June 30, 1950 ----------------- .. ... .. -- -- -- _ 175 --- Alaska, District Court, Federal rules of procedure. AN ACT To make effective in the District Court for the Territory of Alaska rules promulgated by the Supreme Court of the United States governing pleading, practice, and procedure in the district courts of the United States ----------. - 176 --- Federal National Mortgage Association. JOINT RESOLUTION To provide an increase in the authorization for the Federal National Mortgage Association-- __ _ __ _ __ _ ------- 177 --- Fair Labor Standards Act of 19S8, amendment. AN ACT To clarify the overtime compensation provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended
178 -_- Medalfor Humane Action. AN ACT To establish the Medal for Humane Action for award to persons serving in or with the armed forces of the United States participating in the current military effort to supply necessities of life to the people of Berlin, Germany -------------- -- ___________________ 179 --- Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, and the Judiciary Appro- priation Act, 1950. AN ACT Making appropriations for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, and the Judiciary, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950, and for other pur- poses---___________________________________ ____________ 180 --- Alaska Railroad Retirement Act, Canal Zone Code, Civil Service Retirement Act, amendments. AN ACT To repeal the pro- visions of the Alaska Railroad Retirement Act of June 29, 1936, as amended, and sections 91 to 107 of the Canal Zone Code and to extend the benefits of the Civil Service Retire- ment Act of May 29, 1930, as amended, to officers and em- ployees to whom such provisions are applicable----------- _ 181 -__ San Francisco, Calif., land conveyance. AN ACT Authorizing the Secretary of the Army to convey certain lands to the city and county of San Francisco -------------- 182 --- Governments of Great Britain and Norway, claims against United States. AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to effect the payment of certain claims against the United States----------------------- 183 --- Federal Airport Act, amendment. AN ACT To amend the Fed- eral Airport Act so as to limit to 10 per centum any increase of the amount stated as a maximum obligation under a grant agreement ---------------------- 184 -_- Navy retiring boards. AN ACT To amend section 1452, Re- vised Statutes, relating to Presidential action on the proceed- ings and decisions of Navy retiring boards _.. - -- ___ __. -_ __ 185 --- Interstate Commerce Act, amendment. AN ACT To amend sec- tion 205 of the Interstate Commerce Act, relating to joint boards----------------------- -. --
186 --- Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938. AN ACT To amend the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended, to regulate the trans- portation, packing, marking, and description of explosives and other dangerous articles ----
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187 --- Federal Airport Act, amendment. AN ACT To amend the Federal Airport Act so as to provide that minimum rates of wages need be specified only in contracts in excess of $2,000- 188 --- Servicemen's Readjustment Act, 1944, amendment. AN ACT To extend for one year the authority of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs respecting leases and leased property ... _ . 189 --- District of Columbia banks, stop-payment orders. AN ACT Re- lating to orders to banks doing business in the District of Columbia to stop payment on negotiable instruments payable from deposits in, or payable at, such banks ----- .. Date July 15, 1949--- July 16, 1949--- July 16, 1949_-- July 16, 1949- _ - July 18, 1949- _ _ July 19, 1949-_ - July 20, 1949 -_ July 20,1949- __ July 20,1949 -- July 21,1949-_- July 21,1949___ July 25, 1949 -- July 25,1949-__ July 25,1949 -- July 26, 1949--- July 26, 1949- _ July 26,1949 -_ July 26, 1949-_ - Page 413 444 444 445 445 446 446 447 447 475 477 478 478 478 479 480 480 481 July 26,1949 -- 481 XIV
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