PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 510 , 511-DEC. 3, 1945 [CHAPTER 510] AN ACT Deoember 3 1945 e I. 1091 To establish the status of funds and employees of the midshipmen's store at the [Public Law 238] United States Naval Academy. Midshipmen's store at U. S. Naval Acad- emy. Aocounting. Statusofemployees. Credit for prior em- ployment. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all funds collected from the operations of the midshipmen's store at the United States Naval Academy are appropriated for the purpose of providing and maintaining the necessary service and shall hereafter be accounted for as public moneys. SEo. 2 . All employees of such midshipmen's store, whether hereto- fore paid from appropriated moneys or from receipts of the mid- shipmen's store, shall hereafter be deemed to be Government employees entitled to all benefits and subject to all restrictions arising under the laws of the United States applicable to civil-service employees of their grade and class. All employees of said midshipmen's store on the effective date of this Act shall be entitled to claim credit for prior employment in said store for purposes of any benefits to which they may be entitled under the laws of the United States, and no such employee shall suffer, by virtue of being placed in the status of a civil- service employee by this Act, a reduction in total pay below that being received by him on the effective date of this Act. Approved December 3, 1945. [CHAPTER 511] December 3 1945 1[. 1494] [Public Law 2391 Navy or Coast Guard vessels of special construction. 26 Stat. 320. 30 Stat. 96. 8 Stat. 65. 26 Stat. 320. Lights require- ment. AN ACT To exempt Navy or Coast Guard vessels of special construction from the require- ments as to the number, position, range, or arc of visibility of lights, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any require- ment as to the number, position, range of visibility, or arc of visibility of lights required to be displayed by vessels under the Act of Congress approved August 19, 1890 (title 33, U. S. C., secs. 61-141), entitled "An Act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions at sea"; or the Act of Congress approved June 7,1897 (title 33, U. S . C., sees. 154-231), entitled "An Act to adopt regulations for preventing collision upon certain harbors, rivers, and inland waters of the United States"; or the Act of Congress approved February 8, 1895 (title 33, U. S . C., secs. 241-294), entitled "An Act to regulate navigation on the Great Lakes and their connecting and tributary waters"; or the Act of Congress approved August 19, 1890 (title 33, U. S . C ., secs. 301-351), entitled "An Act to adopt special rules for the navigation of harbors, rivers, and inland waters of the United States, except the Great Lakes and their connecting and tributary waters as far east as Montreal, supple- mentary to the Act of August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled 'An Act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions at Sea' ", and all laws amendatory thereto, shall not apply to any vessel of the Navy or of the Coast Guard, where the Secretary of the Navy, or the Secretary of the Treasury in the case of Coast Guard vessels operating under the Treasury Department, or such official or officials as either may designate, shall find or certify that, by reason of special construction, it is not possible with respect to such vessel or class of vessels to comply with the statutory provisions as to the number, position, range of visibility, or arc of visibility of lights. The lights of any such exempted vessel or class of vessels shall, however, comply [59 STAT.
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