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PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 176, 177-JUNE 29, 1943 accept the assistance tendered by the said Red Cross and to employ the same under the land and naval forces in conformity with such rules and regulations as he may prescribe. Transportation and "SEC. 2. That when the said Red Cross cooperation and assistance ubsstce with the land and naval forces in time of war or threatened hostilities shall have been accepted by the President, the personnel entering upon the duty specified in section 1 of this Act shall, while proceeding to their place of duty, while serving thereat, and while returning therefrom, be transported and subsisted at the cost and charge of the United States as civilian employees employed with the said forces, Passportfees. and no passport fee shall be charged or collected for any passport issued to such personnel so serving or proceeding abroad to enter upon such service, and the Red Cross supplies that may be tendered as a gift and accepted for use by the land and naval forces shall be transported at the cost and charge of the United States." Approved June 29, 1943. June 29, 1943 [H. J. Res. 131] [Public Law 100] Indiana-Kentucky boundary line. [CHAPTER 177] JOINT RESOLUTION Giving the consent of the Congress to an agreement between the State of Indiana and the Commonwealth of Kentucky establishing a boundary between said State and said Commonwealth. Whereas, by decree of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Indiana against Kentucky, decided May 18, 1896, and reported in 163 United States Reports, the boundary line between the State of Indiana and the Commonwealth of Kentucky between certain terminal points therein described was fixed and established; and Whereas neither of said terminal points reached the low-water mark of the right side of the Ohio River, forming the remainder of the boundary line between said State and said Commonwealth; and Whereas, owing to the fact recited in the preceding literary para- graph hereof a dispute has arisen as to the boundary line connect- ing said terminal points with said low-water mark; and Whereas the Governor of the State of Indiana and the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky appointed commissioners to study said question for the purpose of ascertaining the true and legal boundary line thus in dispute; and Whereas said commissioners agreed upon the true and legal boundary line; and Whereas the General Assembly of the State of Indiana passed an act known and designated as Enrolled Act Numbered 19, House, bear- ing the signatures of Hobart Creighton, speaker of the house of representatives; Charles M. Dawson, president of the senate; and the signature and approval of Henry F. Schricker, Governor of Indiana, under date of January 29, 1943; and Whereas the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky passed a like act known and designated as House Bill Numbered 375, bearing the signatures of Stanley S. Dickson, speaker of the house of representatives; Rodes K. Myers, president of the senate; and the signature and approval of Keen Johnson, Governor of Ken- tucky, under date of March 9, 1942; and Whereas the said acts provided in substance that upon the approval and consent of the Congress of the United States the boundary line between the State of Indiana and the Commonwealth of Ken- tucky shall be as follows: Commencing at a point on the line between sections 15 and 14, township 7 south, range 10 west, and sixty-seven and twenty-five 248 [57 STAT.