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LIST OF PUBLIC LAWS Act Res. 17 Congressional employees, time of payment of salaries. JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the payment of salaries of the officers and employees of Congress on the first workday pre- ceding the last day of any month when the last day falls on Sunday or a legal holiday------------_________._ ___. 108 _--- Coast and Geodetic Survey, vessels. AN ACT To authorize the construction of certain vessels for the Coast and Geodetic Survey, Department of Commerce, and for other purposes - 109 ----- Government employees, blood transfusions. AN ACT Providing for the transfusion of blood by members and former members of the Military Establishment, and by employees of the United States Government --------------- __- __ ____ ___ 110 ----- West Point Military Reservation, N. Y . AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of War to convey certain lands owned by the United States for other lands needed in connection with the expansion of West Point Military Reservation, New York, and for other purposes-------------------- 111 ----- NationalHousing Act, amendments. AN ACT To amend certain sections of the National Housing Act-------- _ _- _ _ __ _ _ .- - 112 ----- Government horses and mules. AN ACT Permitting the War Department to transfer old horses and mules to the care of reputable humane organizations- -------------- .- --- - __ 113 ----- Under Secretary of Commerce. AN ACT To establish the posi- tion of Under Secretary in the Department of Commerce - - 18 Under Secretary of Agriculture. JOINT RESOLUTION To define the status of the Under Secretary of Agriculture, and for other purposes------------------------ . 114 ----- Name and insignia of 4-H clubs, unauthorized use. AN ACT To prohibit the unauthorized use of the name or insignia of the 4-H clubs, and for other purposes ---------- ..--.---. 115 ---- Oaths to expense accounts. AN ACT To authorize certain officers and employees to administer oaths to expense accounts -------------------


116 ----- Merchant Marine Act, 1936, amendments. AN ACT To amend section 509 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended_ 117 ----- Strategic and critical materials. AN ACT To provide for the common defense by acquiring stocks of strategic and critical materials essential to the needs of industry for the manufac- ture of supplies for the armed forces and the civilian popula- tion in time of a national emergency, and to encourage, as far as possible, the further development of strategic and critical materials within the United States for common defense----------------------_____ _ -_ _.- 118----- Purchase of books for adult blind. AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act to provide books for the adult blind", ap- proved March 3, 1931----------------- 19 Conveyance of lands from Alameda, Calif. JOINT RESOLU- TION Authorizing the President of the United States to accept on behalf of the United States a conveyance of certain lands on Government Island from the city of Alameda, California, and for other purposes --------- 20 Reorganization plans Nos. I and II, effective date. JOINT RESOLUTION Providing that reorganization plans num- bered I and II shall take effect on July 1, 1939 ---- .- -- -- _ 119 ----- Naval Academy, additional midshipman. AN ACT To provide for an additional midshipman at the United States Naval Academy, and for other purposes.- -- - - -- _ _- - _-__..__ 120 ----- Commissary privileges at certain naval stations. AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes", approved March 3, 1909, as amended, so as to extend commissary privileges to civilian officers and employees of the United States at naval stations beyond the continental limits of the United States or in Alaska ------------ ______- 121 ---.- Firearmsin possession of persons convicted of felony. AN ACT To provide for the confiscation of firearms in possession of persons convicted of felony and disposition thereof .... 122 --- Shenandoah National Park, Va. , lands added. AN ACT To add certain lands of the Front Royal Quartermaster Depot Military Reservation, Virginia, to the Shenandoah National Park, and for other purposes------------... .... .--


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