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LIST OF PUBLIC LAWS 12 ----- Military Secretary to the General of the Armies. AN ACT To create the office of Military Secretary to the General of the Armies of the United States of America, with the rank of colonel, and for other purposes -------------- -- __-__-___ 13 ----- Rocky Boy Indian Reservation, land added. AN ACT To add certain public-domain land in Montana to the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation -------------------------------- A. 14 ---- Choctaw and Chickasaw Sanatorium and General Hospital. AN ACT To provide for conveying to the United States the land, buildings, and improvements comprising the Choctaw and Chickasaw Sanatorium and General Hospital --- __--__---_ 15 ----- Indian pueblos in New Mexico, non-Indian claimants. AN ACT To authorize an appropriation to pay non-Indian claimants whose claims have been extinguished under the Act of June 7, 1924, but who have been found entitled to awards under said Act as supplemented by the Act of May 31, 1933----------------- 5 Panama Canal, celebration. JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the participation of the United States in the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening of the Panama Canal--------------------------.-----...--- 16 --- Officers' Competency Certificates Convention, exemption of small vessels. AN ACT To exempt all vessels of the United States of less than two hundred tons gross registered tonnage from the provisions of the Officers' Competency Certificates Con- vention, 1936 (being International Labor Conference Treaty, Convention Numbered 53, adopted by the International Labor Conference at Geneva in 1936)-------- ----------- 17 ---- Bridges, Louisiana. AN ACT To extend the time for com- mencing and completing bridges across Cross Bayou, Twelve Mile Bayou, and Caddo Lake in Caddo Parish, Louisiana_ - 6 Third InternationalCongressfor Microbiology. JOINT RESO- LUTION To amend the joint resolution entitled "Joint reso- lution to provide that the United States extend to foreign governments invitations to participate in the Third Inter- national Congress for Microbiology to be held in the United States during the calendar year 1939."


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7 U. S . Employees' Compensation Commission, additional appro- priation. JOINT RESOLUTION Making an additional appropriation for the fiscal year 1939 for expenditure by the United States Employees' Compensation Commission in accordance with section 16 of the Emergency Relief Appro- priation Act of 1938----------------------------------- 18 ---- Nationaldefense, Army. AN ACT To provide more effectively for the national defense by carrying out the recommendations of the President in his message of January 12, 1939, to the Congress --------------.. 19 ----- ReorganizationAct of 1939. AN ACT To provide for reorganiz- ing agencies of the Government, and for other purposes -- 20 ----- Banking, banks, and trust companies, D. C . AN ACT Relating to banking, banks, and trust companies in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes---------_- ---- -_ __ - 21 ----- Gas and electric meters, D. C. AN ACT To amend paragraph 57 of section 8 of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, and for other purposes", approved March 4, 1913 ------------ __ -- 22 ----- Research assistantsin public schools, D. C. AN ACT To provide for the appointment of research assistants in the public schools of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes ---- 23 ----- Joint Board and Public Utilities Commission, D . C . AN ACT To provide alternative methods of enforcement of orders, rules, and regulations of the Joint Board and of the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia ------- 24 ----- License taxes on vehicles, D. C. AN ACT To amend paragraphs 31 and 33 of an Act entitled "An Act to amend section 7 of an Act entitled 'An Act making appropriations to provide for the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, and for other purposes', approved July 1, 1902, and for other purposes", approved July 1, 1932 _ - 25 ----- Teachers' retirement law, D. C ., amendment. AN ACT To amend Public Law Numbered 111, Sixty-sixth Congress, entitled "An Act for the retirement of public-school teachers in the District of Columbia." -. -------- ---. Date Mar. 28 , 1939___ Mar. 28, 1939- _ - 551 552 Mar. 28 ,1939-__ 552 Mar. 28 , 1939___ 553 Mar. 28 , 1939- __ 553 Mar. 29, 1939--_ 554 Mar. 29,1939 -- 554 Mar. 29,1939--_ 554 Apr. 1,1939___ 555 Apr. 3,1939-_ _ Apr. 3 ,1939-_ - 555 561 Apr. 5 ,1939-_ - 566 Apr. 5,1939- __ 568 Apr. 5 ,1939__- 568 Apr. 5,1939-_ - 569 Apr. 5,1939- _ - 570 Apr. 5,1939--- 571