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60 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CHS. 325-327-JUNE 11, 1946 [CHAPTER 325] AN ACT To authorize the payment of additional uniform gratuity to reserve officers com- missioned from the status of aviation cadets. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 11 of the Naval Aviation Cadet Act of 1942, as amended (57 Stat. 573; 34 U. S. C. 850j), is hereby amended by striking out the period at the end of said section and adding the following: ": Provided further, That officers commissioned pursuant to this Act or to the Naval Avia- tion Reserve Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 819) shall be entitled to the addi- tional uniform gratuity in the amount of $50 in like manner and under the same circumstances as is provided in section 302 of the Naval Reserve Act of 1938 (52 Stat. 1180; 34 U. S . C. 855a)." Approved June 11, 1946. [CHAPTER 326] JOINT RESOLUTION To amend the joint resolution creating the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 4 of Public Resolution 117, Seventy-fifth Congress, as amended, is amended by adding after the third sentence thereof the following: "Whenever it shall determine that it will be to its financial advan- tage so to do, the Commission may issue refunding bonds, in accord- ance with the provisions of this section, in such amount, as will, at the price paid therefor, provide funds sufficient to pay and retire any outstanding bonds of the Commission, at or prior to the maturity thereof, if the same be, by their terms or by any other instrument or agreement, subject to prior redemption, together with any matured or accrued interest thereon." Approved June 11, 1946. 245 June 11, 1946 [S. 1959] [Public Law 405] 34 U. S. C., Supp. V, § 850. Additional uniform gratuity. 34U.S. .. 849 note; Supp. V, § 842 et seq. June 11, 1946 [H. J. Res. 340] [Public Law 406] Niagara Falls Bridge Commission. 62 Stat. 768. Issuance of refund- ing bonds. [CHAPTER 327] TTINTT RFiSnT.TTTT0IN .. ... ..... June 11, 1946 To correct a technical error in the Act approved April 18, 1946 (Public Law 347, 11. J. Re. 347] Seventy-ninth Congress, second session). [Public Law 407] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (c) of sec- tion 6 of the Act approved April 18, 1946 (Public Law 347, Seventy- ninth Congress, second session), is hereby amended by striking out the figure "2" wherever it occurs therein after the word "section and substituting in lieu thereof the figure "5", so that as thus amended the said subsection will read as follows: "(c) Each officer above the grade of commissioned warrant officer whose commission is so revoked and who (1) at the time of his appoint- ment under subsection (a) of section 5 held permanent status as a commissioned warrant officer may be reappointed by the President to such permanent status without examination, with the lineal position and other rights and benefits to which he would have been entitled had his service subsequent to reappointment under such subsection (a) been rendered in such permanent status, or (2) at the time of his appointment under subsection (a) of section 5 held permanent status Regular Navy. Ante, p. 94. Reappointments