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PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 122-125-JUNE 14, 15, 1943 Retention of defense article by U. S . 55 Stat. 31 . 22 U.. C., Supp. II, §§ 411-419. Ante, p. 20. Agricultural sub- sidies. Short title. June 14, 1943 [H. J . Res. 133] [Public Law 71] Sale of wheat feed. Ante, p. 62. June 15, 1943 [11. I. 1258] [Public Law 72] Saint Muars Itiv M icl. Designation of c tain locks. and consolidated with any of the appropriations provided above, except the appropriation for "Administrative expenses". SEC. 2 . Any defense article, information, or service procured from funds appropriated by this Act or prior Acts appropriating funds to the President for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of said Act of March 11, 1941, as amended, shall be retained by or transferred to and for the use of such department or agency of the United States as the President may determine, in lieu of being disposed of to a foreign government, whenever in the judgment of the President the defense of the United States will be best served thereby: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used for the payment of any subsidy on agricultural products produced in the continental United States. SEC. 3 . This Act may be cited as the "Defense Aid Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1943". Approved June 14, 1943. [CHAPTER 123] JOINT RESOLUTION To permit additional sales of wheat for feed. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United for States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act approved March 25, 1943 (Public Law 18, Seventy-eighth Congress), be amended by deleting "two hundred and twenty-five million bushels" and inserting in lieu thereof "two hundred and seventy-five million bushels". Approved June 14, 1943. [CHAPTER 124] AN ACT To name certain locks in the Saint Marys River at the falls, Michigan. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the new lock r- ow in the course of collstruction by the War Departnent in the Sailt Marys River at the falls, Michigan, shall be designated "MacArthllr lock", and the lock at that point now known as the fourth lock shall be hereafter designated "Sabin lock". Approved June 15, 1943. [CHAPTER 125] June 15, 1943 AN ACT [H. . 2584] To abolish certain naval trust funds and deposits thereto, and to simplify naval [Public Law 73] accounting procedure, and for other purposes. Navy, abolishment of certain trust funds. Naval hospital fund. Annual appropria- tions authorized. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That effective July 1, 1943, (a) the trust fund, naval hospital fund (48 Stat. 1235 (80) (7s815); 31 U. S . C . 725s (a) (80)), is abolished, and any unobligated balance remaining therein as of that date shall be covered into the surplus fund of the Treasury; (b) moneys theretofore required by law to be paid into such fund from annual appropriations shall remain to the credit of the appropriation concerned; and (c) commencing with the fiscal year 1944, annual appropriations in such amounts as may be necessary are authorized from the general fund of the Treasury for the maintenance, operation, and improvement of naval hospitals. 152 [57 STAT. r