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PUBLIC LAWS ENACTED DURING THE FIRST SESSION OF THE SEVENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, January6, 1943, and adjourned sine die on Tuesday, December 21, 1943 FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President; HENRY A. WALLACE, Vice President; CARTER GLASS, President of the Senate pro tempore; SAM RAYBURN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. [CHAPTER 1] AN ACT Authorizing appropriations for the United States Navy for additional ship repair facilities, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treas- ury not otherwise appropriated, $210,000,000 for essential equipment and facilities at either private or public plants for repairing, altering, or converting any vessel operated by the Navy or being prepared for naval use. SEC. 2 . The authority herein granted shall include the authority to acquire lands at such locations as the Secretary of the Navy may deem best suited to the purpose of the authority herein contained, erect or extend buildings, acquire the necessary machinery and equip- ment, and shall be in addition to all authority heretofore granted for these purposes. SEC. 3. The Secretary of the Navy from time to time, but not less frequently than every sixty days, shall transmit to the Congress a full report of all acquisitions of land, by lease or otherwise, effected under the authority of this Act. February 19, 1943 [H. R. 1446] [Public Law 1] Navy. Shiprepairfacllitles. Post, pp. 55, 210. Acquisitionof land, etc. Reports to On gres. 8