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74TH CONGRESS . SESS. I. CHS . 384, 386, 387 . J ULY 17,18,1935 . [CHAPTER 384 .]

AN ACT July 17, 1935 . IS . 88x .] Directing the retirement of acting assistant surgeons of the United States Navy [Public, No . 209 .1

at the age of seventy years . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o f America in Congress assembled, The acting assistant surgeons of the United States Navy who, on the date of the passage of this Act, have reached the age of seventy years shall be placed on the retired list of the Navy with pay at the rate of three-fourths of their active-duty pay . Approved, July 17, 1935 . Navy . Retirement of acting assistant surge ons at 7C years, directed. U. S. C., pp . 1513, 1527 . July 18,1 935 .

[H.R.4760.1 [Public, No . 210 .] Naval vessels ; re- pairs . Lim itati on on cost . Provisos . wh en repair cost underestimated . Completion of w ork authorized. Report to Congress. Certain statutory limitati ons repealed . Vol. 34, p. 1195; Vol . 35, p. 769 ; Vol . 39, p. 605. U. S. C.,p.72. Grand Arm y En- campment, District of Columbia, 1936 . Preamble. Vol. 38, p. 1222. [ CHAPTE R 386 .1 AN ACT Limiting expenditures for repairs or changes to naval vessels . Be it ena cted by the Sena te and Hous e of R eprese ntati ves of the United States of America in Congress assemb led, That the total appropriation expenditures for repairs or changes to a vessel of the Navy undertaken in a navy yard shall not exceed $450,000 for any eighteen consecutive months : Provided, That if, dur ing the overhaul of a vessel, the estimated cost for such overhaul having been approved as within the limits herein imposed, accomplish- ment of essential items will involve expenditures in excess of such limits, the Secretary of the Navy may, and he is hereby authorized, app ropriat ion othe rwise b eing ava ilable, to comp lete th e work, and it shall thereupon be his duty to report to the Congress at the next regular session thereof the expenditures from each of the appro- pri ations involvin g expen ditures in exce ss of th e autho rized l imit for such work : Provided further, That such parts of the Act for March 2, 1907, March 3, 1909, and August 29, 1916, contained in section 468, title 5 of the United States Code, as relate to statutory limit of expenditure for repairs or changes on naval vessels, are her eby rep ealed . Approved, July 18, 1935 . [CH APTER 387 .] July is 1935

JOINT RESOLUTION [H.J. Res.201.1

Giving authority to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to make [Pub . Res., No . 40.] special regulations for the occasion of the Seventieth Nat ion al Enc amp ment of the Grand Army of the Republi c, to be held in th e District of Colum bia in the month of September 1936, and for other purposes, incident to sai d en- camp ment. Whereas at the close of the Civil War the Grand Army of the Republic marched up historic Pennsylvania Avenue while the spirited tramp, tramp, tramp of their feet became the Nation's marching song, and again in 1915, when their ranks were begin- ning to thin, the Capital City once more welcomed the Boys in Blue as their footsteps again resounded to the old battle tunes ; and Whereas the ranks of the three hun dred thousand have dwi ndled away to hundred s, most of whom are in their n inetiet h year ; a n d Whereas it is the greatest desire of their hearts to hold their sev- entieth national encampment in the Capital of their country in 1936, and march, for the last time, up Pennsylvania Avenue ; and it should be our pleasure and privilege to invite them here and show respect to the last of our Civil War veterans, who, as our President in his last message to them said, " have lived to see the