LIST OF PUBLIC LAWS CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME THE SEVENTY-NINTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES SECOND SESSION, 1946 Public Law 294 --- Naval personnel, pay accounts. AN ACT To provide for adjust- ment between the proper appropriations, of unpaid balances in the pay accounts of naval personnel on the last day of each fiscal year, and for other purposes --- .. -- - .-.........-.. 295 --- Civil service, legislative employees. AN ACT To amend section 2 (b) of the Act entitled "An Act extending the classified execu- tive civil service of the United States", approved November 26, 1940, so as to provide for counting military service of certain employees of the legislative branch in determining the eligibility of such employees for civil-service status under such Act-----_- ---- ---- _--- -.-- ----- ---- ---- ----- --- ... -- -- 296 --- Meteorological reporting stations. AN ACT Concerning the establishment of meteorological observation stations in the Arctic region of the Western Hemisphere, for the purpose of improving the weather forecasting service within the United States and on the civil international air transport routes from the United States-------------------------. .........- 297 --- Navy, general courts-martial. AN ACT To amend article 38 of the Articles for the Government of the Navy --- __- ____ _-- 298 --- Transportation of dependents. AN ACT To provide for the payment on a commuted basis of the costs of transportation of dependents of certain persons entitled to such transporta- tion, and for other purposes ----------------------------- 299 --- Veterans' Administration, appropriationfor readjustment benefits. JOINT RESOLUTION Making an additional appropriation for the fiscal year 1946 for readjustment benefits, Veterans' Administration ----------------- _------- --- -
300 --- Rivers and harbors projects. JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for proceeding with certain rivers and harbors projects hereto- fore authorized to be prosecuted after the termination of the war -- _-------------__ __________-__ ... -.- -.- 301 --- First Supplemental Surplus Appropriation Rescission Act, 1946. AN ACT Reducing certain appropriations and contract authorizations available for the fiscal year 1946, and for other purposes ----- _
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__- -.- ___- 302 --- Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, amendment. AN ACT To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended- _ 303 --- Interstate Commerce Act, amendment. AN ACT To amend section 409 of the Interstate Commerce Act, with respect to the utilization by freight forwarders of the services of common carriers by motor vehicle-------------- _- - -- - - -- - - - -- - - - 304 --- Employment Act of 1946. AN ACT To declare a national policy on employment, production, and purchasing power and for other purposes -_ --- -- --- --- -- _- ---
305 --- Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, retirements. AN ACT To authorize the President to retire certain officers and enlisted men of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, and for other purposes --------------------------------------- 306 --- Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, settlement of accounts. AN ACT To permit settlement of accounts of deceased officers and enlisted men of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, and of deceased commissioned officers of the Public Health Service, without administration of estates----------- 307 --- Navy, employment of noncitizens. AN ACT To exempt the Navy Department from statutory prohibitions against the employ- ment of noncitizens, and for other purposes---------------- Date Feb. 9, 1946_-- Feb. 12, 1946--- Feb. 12, 1946--- Feb. 12, 1946_ -- Feb. 12, 1946--- Feb. 14, 1946--- Feb. 18, 1946--- Feb. 18, 1946--- Feb. 19, 1946--- Feb. 20, 1946--- Feb. 20, 1946--- Feb. 21, 1946--- Feb. 25,1946--- Feb. 26,1946-- v Pae 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 21 21 23 26 30 31
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