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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 328, 330-JUNE 8, 10 , 1938 Indian reservation SEC. 9. For construction and improvement of Indian reservation 45 Stat.750. roads under the provisions of the Act approved May 26, 1928 (45 25 U.S.C. §318ap Amounts anuthor- Stat. 750), there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of ized. $2,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and the sum of $3,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941. Surveys, etc. SEC. 10. With the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture, not to exceed 11/ per centum of the amount apportioned for any year to any State under sections 1, 2, and 3 of this Act may be used for sur- veys, plans, engineering, and economic investigations of projects for future construction in such State, either on the Federal-aid highway system and extensions thereof or on secondary or feeder roads, or grade-crossing eliminations. Diversion of road- SEC. 11. Any sums heretofore or hereafter withheld from the Fed- eral-aid road funds apportioned to any State as a penalty for diver- 48 Stat. 995. sion of road-user taxes under the provisions of section 12 of the Act 23eaU.pps.. of approved June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 995), are hereby authorized to be sums withheld as pen- made available for reapportionment in the same manner as any other alties. unexpended balance at the end of the period during which it other- 42 Stat. 217. wise would be available for expenditure, in accordance with the provisions of section 21 of the Federal Highway Act (42 Stat. 217). Approval of meth- SEC. 12. Hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture shall approve only ods of bidding, plans, etc. such methods of bidding and such plans and specifications of highway construction for the type or types proposed as will be effective in securing competition and conducive to safety, durability, and econ- omy of maintenance. Superhighway de- SEC. 13. The Chief of the Bureau of Public Roads is hereby velopment, investiga- tion of feasibility, etc. directed to investigate and make a report of his findings and recom- mend to the Congress not later than February 1, 1939, with respect to the feasibility of building, and cost of, superhighways not exceed- ing three in number, running in a general direction from the eastern to the western portion of the United States, and not exceeding three in number, running in a general direction from the northern to the southern portion of the United States, including the feasibility of a toll system on such roads. Short title. SEC. 14. This Act may be cited as the "Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938". Approved, June 8, 1938. [CHAPTER 330] June 10, 1938 [H. J. Res. 667] [Pub. Res., No. 1065 Battles of Chicka- mauga, Lookout Mountain, and Mis- sionary Ridge, etc. Preamble. JOINT RESOLUTION To authorize an appropriation to aid in defraying the expenses of the observance of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Battles of Chickamauga, Georgia, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, and Missionary Ridge, Tennessee; and com- memorate the one-hundredth anniversary of the removal from Tennessee of the Cherokee Indians, at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and at Chickamauga, Georgia, from September 18 to 24, 1938, inclusive; and for other purposes. Whereas September 18 to 24, 1938, inclusive, marks the seventy- fifth anniversary of the crucial Battles of Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, and Missionary Ridge, in the War between the States, and the one-hundredth anniversary of peace between the Cherokee Indians and the pioneers of Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama; and Whereas sixteen thousand sons of twenty-eight of the sovereign States of the Nation gave their lives upon the battlefields; and Whereas the consequence of their supreme sacrifice was the preserva- tion of a Union of States that has grown greater and stronger with the passing of the years; and 636 [52 STAT.

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