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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 209-211 -MAY 24, 27, 1940 ProisO. Vacancy in north- ern or southern dis- trict of Florida. District judge, Vir- gin Islands, salary. (b) One, who shall be a district judge for the northern and south- ern districts of Florida: Provided,however, That, whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of the district judge for the northern or the southern district of Florida, the judge appointed pursuant to the authority granted by this section shall become a district judge for the northern or the southern district of Florida, as the case may be, and thereafter no successor shall be appointed to the vacancy thus occurring in the position created by this section. (c) One for the southern district of California. SEC. 3. After the date of enactment of this Act, the salary of the judge of the District Court of the Virgin Islands of the United States shall be at the rate of $10,000 a year. Approved, May 24, 1940. [CHAPTER 210] AN ACT May 24, 1940 [H. R. 8826] To authorize an appropriation to assist in defraying the expenses of the American [Public, No. 522] Negro Exposition to be held in Chicago, Illinois, during 1940. American Negro Exposition. Appropriation au- thorized. Post, p. 631. Expenditure by auxiliary commission. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is authorized to be appropriated the sum of $75,000 out of any funds in the United States Treasury not already otherwise appropriated, to assist in defraying the expenses of the American Negro Exposi- tion to be held in Chicago, Illinois, from July 4, 1940, to September 2, 1940, for the purpose of celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the emancipation of the Negro and of showing the progress, advancement, and achievements of the Negro race in the United States during the past seventy-five years. Such sum shall be expended by an auxiliary commission composed of three persons to be appointed by the President of the United States, one of whom shall be a Member of the House of Representatives, one a Member of the United States Senate, and a third to be selected by the President, which auxiliary commission shall work in conjunction with the Afra-Merican Emancipation Exposition Commission appointed by the Governor of the State of Illinois under the direc- tion and supervision of the Governor of the State of Illinois. Approved, May 24, 1940. [CHAPTER 211] AN ACT May 27, 1940 Is. 25781 To designate the lock and dam at Alton, Illinois, as the Henry T. Rainey Dam. [Public, No. 5231 Henry T. Rainey Dam. Lock and dam at Alton, Ill., designated as. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in honor of the late Henry T. Rainey, former Speaker of the House of Repre- sentatives, the navigation lock and dam at Alton, Illinois, otherwise identified as Mississippi River Lock and Dam Numbered 26, shall hereafter be known as the Henry T. Rainey Dam. Approved, May 27, 1940. [54 STAT. 220

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