LIST OF P U B L I C LAWS
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Forest surveys. AN ACT To amend section 9 of the Act of May 22, 1928, as amended, authorizing and directing a national survey of forest resources 225 Foreign civil aircraft. AN ACT To amend the Air Commerce Act of 1926, as amended, to authorize navigation of foreign civil aircraft in the United States through reciprocity and under regulations of the Civil Aeronautics Board 226 Western interstate educational compact. AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to certain Western States and the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii to enter into a compact relating to higher education in the Western States and establishing the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education 227 Animal disease control. AN ACT To amend the Act of May 29, 1884, as amended, to provide for the control and eradication of scrapie and blue tongue in sheep, and incipient or potentially serious minor outbreaks of diseases of animals; and for other purpos€;s. 228 _-_ Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1937, amendment. AN ACT To amend the Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1937 229 _ - . Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for a continuance of civil government for the T r u s t Territory of the Pacific Islands 230 National Park System. AN ACT To facilitate the m a n a g e m e n t of the National P a r k System and miscellaneous areas administered in connection with that system, and for other purposes 231 Big Bend National Park. AN ACT To authorize the acquisition by the United States of the remaining non-Federal lands within Big Bend National Park, and for other purposes 232 Navigation on inland waters, etc. AN ACT To amend the rules for the prevention of collisions on certain inland waters of the United States and on the western rivers 233 Basalt, Colo. AN ACT To provide for the conveyance of certain national forest land in Basalt, Colorado 234 Cherry Point, N. C, land transfer. AN ACT To authorize the transfer of certain land located at Cherry Point, North Carolina, and for other purposes 235 _- - Lower San Joaquin River project. AN ACT To authorize additional appropriations for the Lower San Joaquin River project 236 — Armed Forces, sale of stores. AN ACT To authorize the sale of Army, Navy, and Air Force stores at military establishments to civilian employees of the Government, and for other purposes . 237 — Agricultural workers. AN ACT To amend section 509 of title V of the Agricultural Act of 1949, to extend for t w o years the period during which agricultural workers may be made available for employment under such title 238 — Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, narcotics. AN ACT To extend to the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands certain provisions of the I n t e r n a l Revenue Code relating to n a r c o t i c s., 239 — Uniformed Services Contingency Option Act of 1953. AN ACT To permit m e m b e r s of the uniformed services to elect certain contingency options, and for other purposes 240 — Narcotic drugs. AN ACT To amend the Internal Revenue Code and the Narcotic Drugs I m p o r t and Export Act so as to provide that certain drugs which are or may be chemically synthesized shall be included within the classification of narcotic drugs 241 — Veterans, tuberculosis. AN ACT To amend veterans regulations to establish for persons who served in the Armed Forces during World War II a further presumption of service connection for tuberculosis other than pulmonary
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