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PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 520-522-JUNE 20, 1938 [52 STAT. [CHAPTER 520] June 20,193 JOINT RESOLUTION [H. J. Res. 711] Providing for the filling of a vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian [Pub. Res., No. 120] Institution of the class other than Members of Congress. Smithsonian Insti- tution. R. Walton Moorere- appointed Regent of. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, of the class other than Members of Congress, caused by the expiration of the term of R. Walton Moore, June 29, 1938, be filled by the appointment of R. Walton Moore, a citizen of Virginia, to succeed himself, for the statutory term of six years. Approved, June 20, 1938. [CHAPTER 521] June 20,1938 JOINT RESOLUTION [H. J. Res. 7121 Providing for the filling of a vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian [Pub. Res., No. 121] Institution of the class other than Members of Congress. Smithsonian Insti- tution. Arthur H. Comp- ton appointed Regent of. June 20, 1938 [S. 2629] [Public, No. 672] San Diego, Calif. Exchange of lands with, authorized. Lands transferred by United States. Lands conveyed by city to United States. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, of the class other than Members of Congress, caused by the death of Augustus P. Loring, be filled by the appointment of Arthur H. Compton, a citi- zen of Illinois, for the statutory term of six years. Approved, June 20, 1938. [CHAPTER 522] AN ACT To authorize an exchange of lands between the city of San Diego, California, and the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to transfer to the city of San Diego, California, free from all encumbrances and without cost to said city of San Diego, all right, title, and interest to the land contained within that part of the Naval Supply Depot described as follows: All that portion of the former military reservation heretofore known as the San Diego Barracks, situated in the city of San Diego, State of California, comprising block 31 of New San Diego according to the map of New San Diego made by A. B. Gray and J. D. Johns, and on file in the office of the county recorder of San Diego County, said lot being also shown on P. W . drawing numbered NT4-4/31-13 (2), bearing the legend "Naval Operating Base, San Diego, California, Supply Depot, Block 31-New San Diego, Transferred from War Department to Navy Department by Executive Order 7451 dated September 17, 1936", in consideration of the transfer to the United States by said city of San Diego, free from all encumbrances and without cost to the United States except as hereinafter provided of all right, title, and interest to the lands contained within the following-described areas: PARCEL NUMBERED 1.- Beginning at the northeast corner of block 18, according to map of municipal tidelands subdivision tract num- bered 1, filed in the office of the city clerk of the city of San Diego and numbered Document Numbered 100007; thence north eighty-nine 776