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 258 Restriction on ex- penditure. Use of income from, limited. Secretary. Meetings; provision amended. 34 Stat. 807. June 14 [H. R. 1502] [Public, No. 147] Municipal corpora- tion bonds, Alaska. 49 Stat. 1388 . Submission and ap- proval, provisions modified. June 14, 193 7 [H. J . Res . 350] [Pub. Res., No.42] Illinois Waterway, Ill. Project for im prove- ment modified. Calumet River. Designated portion, in Chicago, declared nonnavigable. Description. 7 5TH CONGRESS, 1sT S ESS IO N-C HS. 336- 338--JUNE 14, 1937 devise. No part of the principal of such permanent fund or its accre- tions shall be expended, except by a two-thirds vote of the representa- tive assembly, after the proposed expenditure has been approved by the board of trustees and the board of directors, and after printed notice of the proposed expenditure has been printed in the Journal of the National Education Association at least two months prior to the meeting of the representative assembly. "(c) The income of the permanent fund shall be used only to meet the cost of maintaining the organization of the association and of publishing its annual volume of Proceedings, unless the terms of the donation, bequest, or devise shall otherwise specify, or the bylaws of the corporation shall otherwise provide . "(d) The board of trustees shall elect the secretary of the associa- tion who shall be secretary of the executive committee, and shall fix the compensation and the term of his office for a period of not to exceed four years ." SEC. 4. Section 8 of such Act is amended by striking out in the pro- viso thereof the following : "by the Board of Directors, or otherwise" . Approved, June 14, 1937 . [CHAPTER 3371 AN ACT To amend Public Law Numbered 626, Seventy-fourth Congress . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repr esen tati ves of t he United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the first sentence of section 2 of Public Law Numbered 626, Seventy-fourth Congress, the same being an Act entitled "An Act to authorize municipal corporations in the Territ ory of Alaska to incur bond ed indebtedness, and for other purposes", approved May 28, 1936, is amended to read as follows "No bonded indebtedness shall be incurred by any municipal corp oratio n in t he Te rritor y of A laska unles s the propos al to incur such indebtedness be first submitted to the qualified electors of such m unicipal corpo ration whose names appear on the last ta x- assessment roll or record of such municipality for purposes of municipal taxation, at an election called for such purpose, and not less than 65 pbr centum of the votes cast at such election shall be in favor thereof ." Approved, June 14, 1937 . [CHAP TER 338 ] JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing a modification in the existing project for the improvement of the Illinois Waterway, Illinois, and the abandonment of a portion of the Calumet River . Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the existing project for the improvement of the Illinois Waterway, Illinois, is hereby modified in accordance with the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers submitted in Rivers and Harbors Committee Document Num bered 19, Sev enty-fifth Co ngress, first session . SEC . 2 . That the portion of the Calumet River, in the city of Chicago, County of Cook, State of Illinois, lying between the inter- sections of this river with the two lines described below, be declared by Congress to be a nonnavi gable stream within the mea ning of the Constitution and laws of the United States Beginning at a point on the south line of the north half of section 36, township 37 north, range 14 east, of the third principal meridian,