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56 STAT.] 77TI CONG. , 2D SESS.-CHS. 318 , 319-MAY 16, 26 , 1942 than companies engaged in the air express business) may not establish joint rates or charges, under the provisions of this subsection, with common carriers subject to the Interstate Commerce Act." (b) Subsection (b) of section 412 of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "Approval by Authority "(b) The Authority shall by order disapprove any such contract or agreement, whether or not previously approved by it, that it finds to be adverse to the public interest, or in violation of this Act, and shall by order approve any such contract or agreement, or any modi- fication or cancelation thereof, that it does not find to be adverse to the public interest, or in violation of this Act; except that the Author- ity may not approve any contract or agreement between an air carrier not directly engaged in the operation of aircraft in air trans- portation and a common carrier subject to the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, governing the compensation to be received by such common carrier for transportation services performed by it." NUMBERING OF SECTION 23 OF INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT SEC. 5. Section 10 of the Act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to regulate commerce,' approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven", approved March 2, 1889 (U. S . C., 1940 ed., title 49, sec. 49), which has been commonly cited and referred to as section 23 of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, is hereby designated and numbered as section 23 of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended. EFFECTIVE DATES SEc. 6. Part IV of the Interstate Commerce Act shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act, except that section 405 shall take effect sixty days after the date of enactment of this Act, and section 404, 406, 413, 414, and 417, shall take effect ninety days after the date of enactment of this Act: Provided, however, That the Interstate Commerce Commission shall, if found by it to be necessary or advisable in the public interest, by general or special order, postpone the taking effect of any of the provisions of this part to such time, but not beyond the 1st day of September 1942, as the Commission shall prescribe. Approved, May 16, 1942. [CHAPTER 319] AN ACT To amend the National Housing Act, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 603 (a) of the National Housing Act, as amended, is hereby amended by (1) striking out the word "section" where it appears in the second and third provisos and inserting in each such place the word "title"; (2) striking out "$300,000,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "$800,000,000"; (3) striking out of the third proviso "July 1, 1942" in each place where it appears and inserting in lieu thereof "July 1, 1943"; and (4) striking out of the third proviso "September 8, 1939" and inserting in lieu thereof "May 27, 1941". SEC. 2. Section 603 (b) (2) of such Act, as amended is hereby amended by (1) striking out "$4,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "$5,400"; (2) striking out "$6,000" and inserting in lieu thereof 301 52 Stat. 1004 . 49 U. S.C. §492(b). Agreements be- tween certain carriers. Power of approval. Exception. 24 Stat. 379. 49 U. S.C. chs. 1,8, 12. Ante pp. 176, 284; post, p. 746. 26 Stat. 862. Ante, p. 284. Post, p. 746. Proviso. Power of postpone- ment. May 26, 1942 [H. R . 6927] [Public Law 559] National Housing Act Amendments of 1942. 55 Stat. 56, 686. 12 U. S. C., Supp. I, § 1738 (a). Insurance of mort- gages. Amount of principal obligation. 55 Stat. 56. 12 U. S. C., Supp. I, 1738 (b) (2).