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. The right to sell, assign, transfer, and mortgage all rights, powers, and privileges conferred by this Act is hereby granted to the Aurora, Elgin, and Fox River Electric Company, its successors and assigns, and any corporation to which such rights, powers, and privileges may be sold, assigned, or transferred, or which shall acquire the same by mortgage foreclosure or otherwise is hereby authorized to exercise the same as fully as though conferred herein directly upon such corporation.

. This right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.

Approved, July 1, 1926.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative of the United States of America in Congress assembled, The the consent of Congress be, and is hereby, granted to the board of county commissioners of Trumbull County, Ohio, and its successors in office, to construct, maintain, and operate a free overhead viaduct, together with the necessary approaches thereto, across the Mahoning River at a point suitable to the interested of navigation at Niles, Trumbull County, Ohio in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to regulate construction of bridges over navigable waters," approved March 23, 1906.

. This right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.

Approved, July 1, 1926.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes," approved June 3, 1916, as amended, be, and the same is hereby, amended so that the Air Service referred to in that Act and in all subsequent Acts of Congress shall be known as the Air Corps.

—That section 13a of the Act entitled "An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes," approved June 3, 1916, as amended, be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the same and inserting the following in lieu thereof:

—There is hereby created an Air Corps. The Air Corps shall consist of one Chief of the Air Corps, with the rank of major general, three assistants, with the rank of brigadier general, on thousand five hundred and fourteen officers in grades from colonel to second lieutenant, inclusive, and sixteen thousand enlisted men, including not to exceed two thousand five hundred flying cadets, such part of whom as the President may direct being formed into tactical units or bands, organized as he may prescribe: Provided, That the Chief of the Air Corps, at least two brigadier generals, and at least 90 per centum of the officer in each grade below that of brigadier general shall be flying officers: Provided further, That in time of war 10 per centum of the total numbers of