55 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 1 ST SESS.-CHS. 473, 474-NOV. 17, 19, 1941 arm, or to permit or cause to be armed, any American vessel as defined in such Act. The provisions of section 16 of the Criminal Code (relating to bonds from armed vessels on clearing) shall not apply to any such vessel. Approved, November 17, 1941, 4:30 p. m., E. S . T. [CHAPTER 474] AN ACT To supplement the Federal Aid Road Act, approved July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented, to authorize appropriations during the national emergency declared by the President on May 27, 1941, for the immediate construction of roads urgently needed for the national defense, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That as used in this Act the term "strategic network of highways" means all existing or proposed highways which conform to routes designated on the diagrammatic map of principal highway traffic routes of military importance dated October 25, 1940, revised to May 15, 1941, and approved by the Secretary of War. The Federal Works Adminis- trator is authorized to designate existing or proposed highways conforming to such approved routes and interconnections as lines of the strategic network of highways. The location of any strategic highway route between control points shown on the revised diagram- matic map of May 15, 1941, may, without regard to State lines, be changed by the Federal Works Administrator, but no such change shall increase the length of such route between the termini of such change by more than 10 per centum. SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF FEDERAL-AID SYSTEM.-Notwithstanding the limitations in section 6 of the Federal Highway Act, as amended and supplemented, respecting the mileage of the system of Federal-aid highways, such system of highways in any State may be extended to include, and there may be approved as a part of such system of highways in such State, any of the lines of the strategic network of highways. SEC. 3. EXTENSION OF SECONDARY ROAD SYsTEM.- Funds heretofore or hereafter made available for expenditure under the provisions of the Federal Highway Act, as amended and supplemented, for sec- ondary or feeder roads are hereby also made available for expenditure on any roads (including bridges thereon) which are lines of the strategic network of highways and are not on the system of Federal- aid highways. SEc. 4. STRATEGIC HIGHWAY NETWORK.- (a) For carrying out projects to correct critical deficiencies in lines of the strategic network of highways and bridges, during the continuance of the emergency declared by the President on May 27, 1941, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $25,000,000. Such sum shall be immedi- ately apportioned among the States in accordance with the provisions of section 21 of the Federal Highway Act, as amended and supple- mented, and shall be expended in accordance with the provisions of such Act, as amended and supplemented: Prozided, That during the continuance of the emergency declared by the President on May 27, 1941, when funds heretofore, herein, or hereafter made available for expenditure in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Highway Act, as amended and supplemented, on the system of Federal-aid highways, or on secondary or feeder roads, are expended for any project on the strategic network of highways, including all such projects under construction during the period of said emergency, the Federal share payable on account of any such project shall be increased to three-fourths of the total cost thereof, plus a percentage 765 35 Stat. 1091. 18U.S.C.128. November 19, 1941 [S. 1840] [Public Law 295] Defense Highway Act of 1941. "Strategic network of highways." Changing locations of routes. 42 Stat. 213. 23 U. S.C.§6. 42 Stat. 212. 23U.S.C., cli.1. Correction of critical deficiencies. Appropiation au thorized. 6 F. R. 2617. 42 Stat. 217. 23U.S.C.i21. Proriso. Inrease of Federal share in certain States.
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