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PUBLIC LAW 295-FEB. 12, 1954

28 USC 133 note.

"Service at any time in any of the courts referred to in the first paragraph, or in any other court under appointment by the President, shall be included in the computation of aggregate years of judicial service for the purposes of this section." SEC. 6. The Act entitled "An Act to clarify the law relating to the filling of the first vacancy occurring in the office of district judge for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, and to provide for the appointment of an additional United States district judge for the eastern, middle, and western districts of Pennsylvania", approved July 24, 1946 (60 Stat. 654), is amended by adding at the end of section 2 a new sentence to read as follows: "If a vacancy arises in the office of district judge for the middle district of Pennsylvania while the judge appointed pursuant to this section is holding the office created by this section, such judge shall thereafter be a district judge for the middle district of Pennsylvania." Approved February 10, 1954. Public Law 295

February 12, 1954 [H. J. R e s. 358]

[68 S T A T.

CHAPTER 7

JOINT RESOLUTION To discharge indebtedness of the Commodity Credit Corporation.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE COMMODITY CKEDIT CORPORATION

52 Stat. 107.

63 Stat. 945.

66 Stat. 3 5 4.

The Secretary of the Treasur}^ is hereby authorized and directed to discharge indebtedness of the Commodity Credit Corporation to the Secretary of the Treasury by cancelling notes issued by the Corporation to the Secretary of the Treasury (1) in the amount of $550,151,848 for the capital impairment determined by the appraisal of June oO, 1953, pursuant to sections 1 and 4 of the Act of March 8, 1938 as amended (15 U.S.C. T13a-1, 4); (2) in the amount of $129,553,795 for the net costs during the fiscal year 1953 (including interest through the date of enactment hereof) under the International Wheat Agreement Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1641-1642); and (3) in the amount of $2,064,060 for the funds transferred and expenses incurred through the fiscal year 1953 (including interest through the date of enactment hereof) under the head "Eradication of foot-andmouth and other contagious diseases of animals and poultry" pursuant to authority granted in the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1953. Approved February 12, 1954.

Public Law 296

CHAPTER 9

[H. R. 2842]

AN ACT rp^j authorize the Secretary of the Army to transfer certain land and access rights to the Territory of Hawaii.

Hawaii. Transfer ofland, etc.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized and directed to transfer to the Territory of Hawaii all right, title, and interest of the United States in cer-

February 20, 1954