55 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CHS. 438, 443 , 444-OCT. 14, 16 , 1941 "SEC. 14 . If any provision of this title, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this title, or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby." SEC. 4. This Act shall become effective upon its approval by the President. Approved, October 14, 1941. [CHAPTER 443] AN ACT Relating to the traveling and subsistence expenses of judges and retired judges of the Court of Claims. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 2 of the Act of February 24, 1925, entitled "An Act to authorize the appoint- ment of commissioners by the Court of Claims and to prescribe their powers and compensation" (43 Stat. 965), as amended (46 Stat. 799; U. S . C., title 28, secs. 270, 275a), is hereby reenacted and amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2 . Each of the said commissioners shall devote all of his time to the duties of his office and shall receive a salary of $7,500 per annum, payable monthly out of the Treasury. The chief justice, or any judge of the Court of Claims, may sit at any place within the United States to take evidence in any case instituted in said court. The chief justice, and any judge of the court, the commissioners, and stenographers authorized by the court, shall also receive their neces- sary traveling expenses and their actual expenses incurred for sub- sistence while traveling on duty and away from Washington in an amount not to exceed $10 per day in the case of the chief justice or any judge of the court, $7 per day in the case of commissioners, and $5 per day in the case of stenographers. Retired judges recalled to active duty in Washington or elsewhere shall be entitled to receive the same travel and subsistence expenses as provided for other judges in this Act while absent from their actual places of residence. The expenses of travel and subsistence herein authorized shall be paid upon order of the court." Approved, October 16, 1941. [CHAPTER 444] AN ACT To authorize the sale of certain Government-owned lands in the Territory of Hawaii to the Honolulu Plantation Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to sell and convey to the Honolulu Plantation Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of California, upon such terms and con- ditions as he deems advisable, but at not less than the appraised value, the remaining portion of the Makalapa Military Reservation, con- sisting of five lots, designated as lots "A", "B". "C", "D", and "E", having an aggregate area of seven and fifty-two one-hundredths acres, situated near the city of Honolulu, in Halawa, Ewa District, on the island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, the net proceeds of such sale to be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts. Approved, October 16, 1941. 741 Separability. Effective date. October 16, 1941 [S. 1052] [Public Law 272] Court of Claims. Salaries of cornmis. sioners. Traveling and sub- sistence expenses. Retired judges re- called to active duty. October 16, 1941 [8. 1345] [Public Law 2731 Hawaii. Conveyance of cer. tain lands.
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