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 52 STAT.] 75rTH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CH. 601-JUNE 23, 1938 COOPERATION WITH GOVERNMENT AGENCIES SEC. 1105. The Authority, the Administrator, and the Air Safety Board may avail themselves of the assistance of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and any research or technical agency of the United States on matters relating to aircraft fuel and oil and to the design, materials, workmanship, construction, performance, main- tenance, and operation of aircraft, aircraft engines, propellers, appli- ances, and air navigation facilities. Each such agency is authorized to conduct such scientific and technical researches, investigations, and tests as may be necessary to aid the Authority, the Administrator, and the Air Safety Board in the exercise and performance of their powers and duties. Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to authorize the duplication of the laboratory research activities of any existing governmental agency. REMEDIES NOT EXCLUSIVE SEC. 1106. Nothing contained in this Act shall in any way abridge or alter the remedies now existing at common law or by statute, but the provisions of this Act are in addition to such remedies. AMENDMENTS AND REPEALS SEC. 1107. (a) Section 3964 of the Revised Statutes is hereby amended by adding "and all air routes", after the words "or parts of railroads". (b) The Act of May 24, 1928, as amended (45 Stat. 728), is further amended by striking out the words "Secretary of Commerce" wher- ever they appear and inserting in lieu thereof the words "Civil Aero- nautics Authority". (c) The Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1934, as amended (48 Stat. 283), is further amended by striking out in section 6 thereof the words "any air mail contract or". (d) The Act approved February 21, 1925 (43 Stat. 960), as amended by the Act approved August 24, 1935 (49 Stat. 744), and the Act ap- proved August 29, 1937 (50 Stat. 725), is further amended by strik- ing out the words "; and he is authorized, in his discretion, to contract, after advertisement in accordance with law, for the carriage of all classes of mail to, from, or within the Territory of Alaska, by airplane, payment therefor to be made from the appropriation for star-route service in Alaska". (e) The ninth paragraph of the Act approved March 3, 1915 (38 Stat. 930), as amended by the Act of March 2, 1929 (45 Stat. 1451; U. S. C., 1934 ed. title 50, sec. 151), is further amended by inserting after the words "naval aeronautics;" in that paragraph the follow- ing: "two members from the Civil Aeronautics Authority;", by striking out the word "eight" in that paragraph and inserting in lieu thereof the word "six", and by striking out the colon after the words "allied sciences" and inserting in lieu thereof a period and the follow- ing: "The members of the National Advisory Committee for Aero- nautics, not representing governmental agencies, in office on the date of enactment of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, shall continue to serve as members of the Committee until the effective date of section 1107 of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938. Upon the expiration of their terms of office, the President is authorized to appoint successors to six of such members for terms of office to expire, as designated by the President at the time of appointment, two at the end of one year, two at the end of three years, and two at the end of five years from December 1, 1938. Successors to those first appointed shall be 1 So in original. 1027 Cooperation with Government agencies. Remedies not ex- clusive. Amendments and repeals. R. S. 3964. 39U.S.C. 481. 45 Stat. 728. 49U.S.C. 211. 48 Stat. 30. 46 U.S.C.§ 891y. 43 Stat. 960; 49 Stat. 744; 50 Stat. 725. 39U.S.C.i488; Supp. III, 488. Alaska air-mail serv- ice, contracts by Post- master General; pro- vision repealed. 38 Stat. 930; 45 stat. 1451. 50 U.S. C. 1561. National Advisory Committee for Aero- nautics, service of present members. Appointment of successors.

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