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LIST OF PUBLIC LAWS CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME THE SEVENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES SECOND SESSION, 1939 Act Res. 53 Legislative expenses. JOINT RESOLUTION To make pro- vision for certain expenses incident to the second session of the Seventy-sixth Congress -------------------------- 54 Neutrality Act of 1939. JOINT RESOLUTION To preserve the neutrality and the peace of the United States and to secure the safety of its citizens and their interests--------- THIRD SESSION, 1940-1941 401 ----- Protection of witnesses. AN ACT To provide for the protec- tion of witnesses appearing before any department, inde- pendent establishment, or other agency of the United States, or the Congress of the United States -------------------- 402 ----- Siuslaw NationalForest,Oreg. AN ACT To add certain lands to the Siuslaw National Forest in the State of Oregon------ 403 ----- Alaska, bonded indebtedness. AN ACT To provide for the refunding of the bonds of municipal corporations and public- utility districts in the Territory of Alaska, to validate bonds which have heretofore been issued by a municipal corpora- tion or any public-utility district in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes ----------------------------- 404 ----- Washington, western judicial district. AN ACT To provide that the district judge for the western district of Washington, authorized to be appointed under the Act of May 31, 1938, shall be a district judge for the eastern and western districts of Washington ----------------------- 405 ----- Alaska district court, affidavits. AN ACT Relating to the filing of affidavits of prejudice in the district court for the District of Alaska --------------------------------------- 406 ----- AgriculturalAdjustment Act, amendment. AN ACT To amend section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act ---------- 407 ----- Conservation of oil and gas resources. AN ACT Authorizing States owning lands or interests therein acquired from the United States to include the same in certain agreements for the conservation of oil and gas resources ----------------- 408 ---- Estate of Patrick Henry, acquisition. AN ACT To provide for the acquisition by the United States of the estate of Patrick Henry in Charlotte County, Virginia, known as Red Hill - - - 55 International expositions, sale of certain imported articles. JOINT RESOLUTION To extend, for three additional months, the time during which articles imported free of duty for exhibition at the Golden Gate International Exposition or the New York World's Fair, may be sold or abandoned_ - 409 --- Acquisition of legislative jurisdiction over certain lands. AN ACT To amend section 355 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, to make permissive the acquisition of legislative jurisdiction over land or interests in land acquired by the United States------------------------------------ 410 ----- Emergency Farm Mortgage Act, amendment. AN ACT To amend the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act of 1933, as amended------------------------------------------ 411 ----- Texas, conveyance of lands. AN ACT To provide for the trans- fer of certain land owned by the United States to the State of Texas; and certain other land to the county of Galveston, Texas---------------------------------------------- Date Oct. 11, 1939-_ - Nov. 4,1939- _- Jan. 13,1940-- Jan. 17,1940- _ - Jan. 17, 1940--- Jan. 20,1940--- Jan. 25,1940--- Jan. 25, 1940--- Jan. 26,1940--- Jan. 29,1940--- Jan. 31,1940--- Feb. 1,1940--- Feb. 1,1940__- Feb. 6,1940--- v Page 3 4 13 14 14 16 16 17 17 18 18 19 19 20