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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 298-300 -MAY 31, 1938 Annual levy for in- terest payments and retirement of bonds. Inconsistent laws re- pealed. Powers, limitations, etc. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the governing body of every district which incurs such bonded indebtedness to levy or cause to be levied each year during the life of such outstanding bonds taxes in amounts sufficient seasonably to provide for payment and to pay all interest on and the principal of such obligations as they respectively accrue and mature. SEC. 5. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict. The powers conferred by this Act shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law, and the limitations imposed hereby shall not affect the powers conferred by any other law. Approved, May 31, 1938. [CHAPTER 299] AN ACT May 31, 1938 [H. R. 81771 To create a Commission to be known as the Alaskan International Highway [Public, No. 5641 Commission. Alaskan Interna- tional Highway. Appointment of commission. Personnel, tenure, etc. Cooperation with similar Canadian agency for study re- garding connecting highway. Report. May 31, 1938 [H. R. 8404] [Public, No. 565] Hawaii. Exchange of land authorized, for site for new airport. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States, within ninety days from the passage of this Act, shall appoint, and he is hereby empowered to appoint, a Com- mission to be known as the Alaskan International Highway Commis- sion, to be composed of five members, one a citizen of the Territory of Alaska, one a Member of the Congress of the United States, and three citizens of the United States of America; said Commissioners to be appointed for a two-year term and to serve without salary or other compensation. Said Commission shall be authorized by the President to cooperate and communicate directly with any similar agency which may be appointed in the Dominion of Canada in a study for the survey, location, and construction of a highway to connect the Pacific Northwest part of continental United States with British Columbia and the Yukon Territory in the Dominion of Canada, and the Territory of Alaska. Said Commission may coop- erate with any such agency in the Dominion of Canada, in the study of specifications, estimates, and plans for the financing of the con- struction and maintenance of said road. Said Commission shall, within two years after their appointment, report to the President of the United States the extent and results of their activities and of any conferences, relative to such highway, and the President of the United States shall transmit said report to the Congress of the United States. Approved, May 31, 1938. [CHAPTER 3001 AN ACT To authorize the Territory of Hawaii to convey the present Maalaea Airport on the island of Maui, Territory of Hawaii, to the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company, Limited, in part payment for three hundred and seventy-one one-hundredths acres of land at Pulehu-Nui, island of Maui, Territory of Hawaii, to be used as a site for a new airport. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any provision of the Hawaiian Organic Act to the contrary notwithstanding, the Governor of Hawaii, with the approval of the Commissioner of Public Lands of the Territory of Hawaii and the Territorial Land Board, is hereby authorized to convey to the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar 590 [52 STAT.

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