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Nov. 28, 1943 57 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 1ST SESS. -CHS. 331 -333 - -D . 3 , 194 service, not exceeding thirty-five years, and divided by seventy. The retirement annuity payable to each such retired teacher, under any annuity policy provided for by this Act, or under the provisions of section 4 of this Act, shall be counted as payable on account of the retirement annuity provided in this section 4A, and the Secretary of the Navy shall pay to each such retired teacher, from such appro- priations as may be made for the purpose, such additional sums, if any, as will bring the total annual sum paid to such retired teacher to the total annual amount prescribed in this section 4A: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall operate to reduce the retirement annuity which would have been payable to any such retired teacher if this section had not been enacted: And provided further, That no payments under this section shall be made to any member of said staffs who shall be entitled to retirement and retirement benefits under the provisions of the Civil Service Retirement Act of 1920, as amended, and shall elect, or shall have elected, to continue there- under." SEC. 2 . Section 5 of the said Act of January 16, 1936, is hereby amended by striking out the word "and" before the word "pro- fessors", and by striking out the period after said word "professors", and by adding after said word a comma, followed by the words "and senior professors". Approved November 28, 1943. CHAPTER 332] AN ACT To amend section 107 of the Judicial Code, as amended, to change the terms of the District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That effective Janu- ary 1, 1944, so much of the second sentence of section 107 (c) of the Judicial Code, as amended, as precedes the proviso is amended to read as follows: "Terms of the district court for the Nashville division of said district shall be held at Nashville on the fourth Monday in January and the fourth Monday in September; for the Columbia division at Columbia on the first Monday in May and the second Monday in November; and for the northeastern division at Cookeville on the second Monday in June and the first Monday in December." Approved December 3, 1943. [CHAPTER 333] JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for the appointment of a National Agricultural Jefferson Bicentenary Committee to carry out appropriate exercises and activities in recognition of the services and contributions of Thomas Jefferson to the farmers and the agriculture of the Nation. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the purpose of this resolution is to authorize, during the year beginning April 13, 1943, which marks the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson the creation of the National Agricultural Jef- ferson Bicentenary Committee which, together with public and pri- vate institutions in the service of agriculture, the United States Department of Agriculture and the State colleges of agriculture and organizations composed of farmers and their families, is hereby authorized to hold, conduct, and participate in ceremonies and activi- ties throughout the Nation not only to revere Thomas Jefferson as 595 49 Stat. 1092. 34U.. C. §1073c. No reduction in an- nuities. Exclusions. 41 Stat. 614 . 5U.S.C.§691et seq.; Supp. II, § 691 et seq. Senior professors. 49 Stat. 1093. 34U.S.C.§1073d. December 3, 1943 [S. 630] [Public Law 196] Tennessee middle judicial district. 54 Stat. 1216 . 28U.S.C.§188(C). Terms of court. December 3, 1943 [S. J. Res. 47] [Public Law 1961 National Agricul- tural Jefferson Bicen- tenary Committee.