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LIST OF PUBLIC LAWS Public Law 681 --- Medical statements. AN ACT To amend the joint resolution approved August 27, 1940 (54 Stat. 858), as amended, and the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 (54 Stat. 885), as amended, so as to remove the requirement that medical state- ments shall be furnished to those persons performing military service thereunder- ---------------------------- 682 --- Navy, additional grades. AN ACT To establish additional commissioned warrant and warrant grades in the United States Navy, and for other purposes -_- --___---- _ _---- -- 683 --- Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, amendment. AN ACT To amend the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act to permit exchange of land with private owners - _____ _____- - 684 --- Smithsonian Institution, regent. JOINT RESOLUTION Pro- viding for the filling of a vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution of the class other than Mem- bers of Congress -------------__ _ _ -________.______.- 685 --- Employees' Compensation Act, amendment. AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act to provide compensation for em- ployees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes", as amended----------------------- 686 --- Oil and gas leases. AN ACT To grant a preference right to certain oil and gas lessees ----- _-- -- _____________________ 687 --- Canal Zone Code, amendments. AN ACT To amend the Canal Zone Code ------ _-------__ __ ____________--_____-- 688 --- Thomas Jefferson Bicentennial Commission. AN ACT To enable the United States Commission for the Celebration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Thomas Jefferson to carry out and give effect to certain approved plans ------------- ____ __


-.. --- --- ____ ____ 689 --- Naval Reserve Act of 1938, amendment. AN ACT To expedite the war effort by releasing officers and men for duty at sea and their replacement by women in the shore establishment of the Navy, and for other purposes----- -- _-_ _-__-------- 690 --- Pension increases. AN ACT To provide increases of pension payable to dependents of veterans of the Regular Establish- ment, and for other purposes -- __ ---_---_-- --___--- ------ 691 -_- Farm units on public lands. AN ACT To extend the time limit for cooperation between the Bureau of Reclamation and the Farm Security Administration in the development of farm units on public lands under Federal Reclamation projects-_- 692 -__ Bridgeport irrigation district, Nebr. AN ACT For the relief of the Bridgeport irrigation district --- _ _ -- - -- -- - -- -- - -- -- -- - 693 --- General courts martial in distant commands. AN ACT To amend article of war 5014- ----------------------------- 694 --- Classification Act of 192S, amendment. AN ACT To amend section 13 of the Classification Act of 1923, as amended - -_ - 695 --- Transportation of iron ore. AN ACT To amend the Act en- titled "An Act authorizing vessels of Canadian registry to transport iron ore on the Great Lakes during 1942", ap- proved January 27, 1942 (Public Law 416, Seventy-seventh Congress), to continue it in force during the existing war_ -- 696 --- Republican River, division of waters. AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the States of Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska to negotiate and enter into a compact for the divi- sion of the waters of the Republican River ---.--- ------- 697 --- Navy, submarine and diving duty. AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act to provide additional pay for personnel of the United States Navy assigned to duty on submarines and to diving duty", so as to increase the additional pay of officers and enlisted men of the United States Navy assigned to duty on submarines, and for other purposes. .. -------- ----- 698 --- Naval Aviation Cadet Act of 1942. AN ACT To repeal certain laws and to amend other laws relating to naval aviation cadets, to provide for aviation cadets in the Naval Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve, and for other purposes--.------ 699 --- Black-outs in D. C. AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act to authorize black-outs in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved December 26, 1941, and for other purposes-----


700 --- Navy, construction of public works. AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to proceed with the construction of certain public works, and for other purposes -------------- Date July 28, 1942-_ - July 28, 1942___ July 28, 1942-__ July 28, 1942-_ _ July 29, 1942--- July 29, 1942--- July 29, 1942___ July 30, 1942___ July 30, 1942- _ - July 30, 1942__ - Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. 1, 1942_-- 1, 1942___ 1, 1942_- - 1, 1942_-- Aug. 1, 1942- _- Aug. 4, 1942___ Aug. 4, 1942__- Aug. 4, 1942___ Aug. 6, 1942__ - xxi Page 723 724 725 725 725 726 726 728 730 731 732 732 732 733 735 736 736 737 740 Aug. 6, 1942__ - 742