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LIST OF PUBLIC LAWS Act Res. 384 ----- Puyallup Indians, Washington. AN ACT To authorize ac- quisition of complete title to the Puyallup Indian Tribal School property at Tacoma, Washington, for Indian sana- torium purposes--_ ------ ------ ----- ------ ------ --- 385 ---- Census of housing. AN ACT To provide for a national census of housing----------


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386 ----- Bankruptcy Act, amendment. AN ACT To amend subsection (n), section 77, of the Bankruptcy Act, as amended, concern- ing payment of preferred claims ------------------------ 387 ----- Exchange of surplus agricultural commodities. AN ACT To facilitate the execution of arrangements for the exchange of surplus agricultural commodities produced in the United States for reserve stocks of strategic and critical materials produced abroad---------------


388 ----- Prevention of diseases, D. C . AN ACT To authorize the Com- missioners of the District of Columbia to make regulations to prevent and control the spread of communicable and pre- ventable diseases- -------------------


389 ----- Motor-vehicle fuel tax refunds, D. C. AN ACT To amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for a tax on motor-vehicle fuels sold within the District of Columbia, and for other pur- poses", approved April 23, 1924------------------------- 390 ----- U. S . Employment Service, records, etc. AN ACT To provide for the transfer of United States Employment Service records, files, and property in local offices to the States ----------- 391 ----- Panama Canal, improvements. AN ACT Authorizing and pro- viding for the construction of additional facilities on the Canal Zone for the purposes of more adequately providing for the defense of the Panama Canal and for increasing its capac- ity for the future needs of interoceanic shipping ----------- 392 ----- Tongue River Indian Reservation, Mont. AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to contract with the State Water Conservation Board of Montana and the Tongue River Water Users' Association for participation in the costs and benefits of the Tongue River Storage Reservoir project for the benefit of lands on the Tongue River Indian Reservation, Montana - 393 ----- Surplus fishery products. AN ACT To authorize the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation to purchase and distribute surplus products of the fishing industry ------- _--------- 394 ----- Wenatchee National Forest, Wash. AN ACT To authorize the addition of certain lands to the Wenatchee National Forest- 395 ----- Group Hospitalization, Inc. AN ACT Providing for the in- corporation of certain persons as Group Hospitalization, Inc_ 396 ----- Flood control. AN ACT Amending previous flood-control Acts, and authorizing certain preliminary examinations and surveys for flood control, and for other purposes------------------ 51 Department of Agriculture, requisitions for funds. JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the delegation of certain authority within the Department of Agriculture ---------- 52 Surplus agriculturalcommodities. JOINT RESOLUTION To authorize the sale of surplus agricultural commodities, and for other purposes --------------------.-- __---


397 ----- Oil and gas prospecting. AN ACT To amend the Act of August 26, 1937--------------------------------------------- 398 ----- Water conservation, etc. AN ACT Authorizing construction of water conservation and utilization projects in the Great Plains and arid and semiarid areas of the United States -- -- 399 ----- Healing arts, examinations, D. C . AN ACT To amend an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the practice of the healing art to protect the public health in the District of Columbia", known as the "Healing Arts Practice Act, District of Columbia, 1928", approved February 27, 1929-------------------- 400 ----- Spirits destroyed in floods, taxes. AN ACT To provide for the refund or credit of the internal-revenue tax paid on spirits lost or rendered unmarketable by reason of the floods of 1936 and 1937 where such spirits were in the possession of the original taxpayer or rectifier for bottling or use in rectifica- tion under Government supervision as provided by law and regulations-------------------------- Date Aug. 11, 1939. Page - 1405 Aug. 11, 1939 --- 1406 Aug. 11, 1939 - 1406 Aug. 11, 1939--- 1407 Aug. 11, 1939--- 1408 Aug. 11, 1939__- 1409 Aug. 11, 1939_ - - 1409 Aug. 11 , 1939--- 1409 Aug. 11, 1939__ - 1411 Aug. Aug. Aug. 11, 1939_ 11, 1939_ 11, 1939_ Aug. 11 , 1939 Aug. 11, 1939 Aug. 11, 1939_ Aug. 11, 1939_ - 1411 - 1412 1412 - 1414 - 1417 - 1418 .- 1418 Aug. 11,1939--- 1418 Aug. 11 ,1939_- - 1419 Aug. 11 , 1939___ 1420 Xxviii