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LIST OF PUBLIC LAWS Public Law 226 -_ Armed forces, compensation. AN ACT To provide for the adjust- ment of the compensation of certain members or former mem- bers of the armed forces of the United States who, before the expiration of their terminal leave, have performed, or shall hereafter perform, civilian services for the United States, its Territories or possessions, or the District of Columbia, and for other purposes------------------------- _ _ _ _ ... __ 227 --- Nationality Act of 1940, amendment. AN ACT To amend section 342 (b) of the Nationality Act of 1940-------------------- 228 --- U. S . Military Academy and U. S. Naval Academy, appointments. AN ACT To provide for the appointment of additional cadets at the United States Military Academy, and additional mid- shipmen at the United States Naval Academy, from among the sons of persons who have been or shall hereafter be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor ----- _____............. 229 - - U. S . Military Academy and U. S . Naval Academy, appointments. AN ACT Authorizing appointments to the United States Mil- itary Academy and the United States Naval Academy of sons of members of the land or naval forces of the United States who were killed in action or have died of wounds or injuries received, or disease contracted, in active service during the present war, and for other purposes -------------------..- 230 -- Pay Readjustment Act of 1942, amendment. AN ACT To include stepparents, parents by adoption, and any person who has stood in loco parentis among those persons with respect to whom allowances may be paid under the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942, and for other purposes---------------------- 231 --_ Oil and gas leases. AN ACT To provide for the extension of certain oil and gas leases ------------------ 232 ___ Flood control, Mississippi River. AN ACT To amend section 4 of the Act entitled "An Act for the control of floods on the Mississippi River and its tributaries and for other purposes", approved May 15, 1928-------------------------- 233 -- _ D. C. Code, amendment. AN ACT To amend the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia to authorize any corporation formed under authority of subchapter 3 of chapter 18 of such code to specify in its bylaws that a less number than a majority of its trustees may constitute a quorum for the transaction of the business of the corporation___ -- ______-___----_____- 234 -- _ D. C . Code, amendment. AN ACT Relating to the sale, in the District of Columbia, of certain small rockfish ----------- 235 -_- D. C. Code, amendment. AN ACT To amend the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia with respect to the making and publishing of annual reports by trust companies-------- 236 -_ Maryland, conveyance. AN ACT To provide for the opening of a road within the boundaries of the District of Columbia Train- ing School property in Anne Arundel County, Maryland . 237 --- Tax-exempt property, D . C. JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the continuance of the tax-exempt status of certain prop- erty in the District of Columbia when used and occupied by any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States of America or by the American Red Cross----------- 238--- U. S. Naval Academy, midshipmen's store. AN ACT To establish the status of funds and employees of the midshipmen's store at the United States Naval Academy


239 - -_ Navy or Coast Guard vessels. AN ACT To exempt Navy or Coast Guard vessels of special construction from the requirements as to the number, position, range, or arc of visibility of lights, and for other purposes ---_-----_____.-----_-___ . -__-___-__ 240 ___ Postal employees, rewards. AN ACT Authorizing payments of rewards to postal employees for inventions ------ _ __- - -_ ___ - 241 __- Veterans, claims. AN ACT To provide that veterans may obtain copies of public records in the District of Columbia, without the payment of any fees, for use in presenting claims to the Vet- erans' Administration __. . .------ - __. .---- -----_____- - 242 ___ D. C. Emergency Rent Act, amendment. AN ACT To extend for the period of one year the provisions of the District of Colum- bia Emergency Rent Act, approved December 2, 1941, as amended--__--------------------------------------- 243 --- Revised Statutes, amendment. AN ACT To amend section 3646 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, relating to the issuance of checks in replacement of lost, stolen, destroyed, mutilated, or defaced checks of the United States, and for other purposes- - - 663471--4-o i'T . I- -1 1- Date Nov. 21, 1945- __ Nov. 21 ,1945___ Nov. 24, 1945 - Nov. 24 , 1945_- Nov. 24 ,1945--- Nov. 30 ,1945___ Nov. 30, 1945-_ _ Nov. 30,1945-- Nov. 30,1945 - Nov. 30 ,1945--- Nov. 30 ,1945--- Nov. 30, 1945--- Dec. 3 ,1945--- Dec. 3,1945__- Dec. 3,1945___ Dec. 3,1945_ - Dec. 3,1945--- Dec. 3, 1945-- 592 xvii Page 584 585 586 586 587 587 587 588 588 588 689 589 590 590 591 591 592