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50 STAT.] 77THI CONG. , 2D SESS.-CHS. 14 -1 - -JAN. 21, 23, 24 , 1942 SEC. 10. Such Act, as amended, is amended by inserting after section 311 the following new section: "SEC. 312. Any agency designated by the President to provide temporary shelter under the provisions of Public Law Numbered 9, Seventy-seventh Congress, Public Law Numbered 73, Seventy-seventh Congress, or the Third Supplemental National Defense Appropria- tions Act, 1942, shall have the same powers with respect to the management, maintenance, operation, and administration of such temporary shelter as are granted to the Federal Works Administrator under section 304 and section 306 of this Act with respect to projects constructed hereunder, and the provisions of section 307 shall apply to such temporary shelter projects and the occupants thereof." SEC. 11 . The first proviso of section 1 (b) of such Act, as amended, is amended by inserting before the colon at the end thereof the fol- lowing: "and so far as is consistent with emergency needs, contracts shall be subject to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes". Approved, January 21, 1942. [CHAPTER 15] AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1910, and for other purposes", approved March 3, 1909, as amended, so as to extend commissary privileges to such other persons as may be specifically authorized by the Secretary of the Navy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That such part of the Act of March 3, 1909 (35 Stat. 768; U. S . C ., title 34, sec. 533), as amended, which provides "That hereafter such stores as the Secretary of the Navy may designate may be procured and sold to officers and enlisted men of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard; to the widows of such officers and enlisted men; and to civilian officers and employees of the United States at naval stations and post exchanges beyond the continental limits of the United States or in Alaska, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe", is hereby further amended to read "That hereafter such stores as the Secretary of the Navy may designate may be procured and sold to officers and enlisted men of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard; to the widows of such officers and enlisted men; to civilian officers and employees of the United States, and to such other persons as may be specifically authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, at naval stations and post exchanges beyond the continental limits of the United States or in Alaska, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe". Approved, January 23, 1942. [CHAPTER 16] AN ACT To amend further the Civil Service Retirement Act, approved May 29, 1930, as amended. Temporary shelter. 55 Stat. 14, 198, 818. 42U. S. C., Supp.I, § 1523 note. 54 Stat. , 127,128; 55 Stat. 363. 42 U. S. C., Supp. I, §§ 1544, 1546, 1547. Ante, p. 12. Contracts. 54 Stat. 1126 . 42U.S .C., Supp.I, § 1521 (b). 41U.S.C.§5. January 23, 1942 [S. 2090] [Public Law 410] Navy. Procurement and sale of stores. January 24, 1942 [H. R . 3487] [Public Law 411] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of Civil Service Re- tirement Act, amend- the Civil Service Retirement Act approved May 29, 1930, as amended, ments. is amended by striking out the whole thereof and substituting in lieu 46tS. § 8 691. thereof the following: "SEC. 1 . (a) All officers and employees to whom this Act applies Eligibility. who shall have attained, or shall hereafter attain the age of seventy years and have rendered at least fifteen years of service computed as