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 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG., 3 D SESS.-CHS. 212, 213 -MAY 27, 1940 [CHAPTER 212] AN ACT To amend the Act approved February 15, 1929, entitled "An Act to permit cer- tain warrant officers to count all active service rendered under temporary ap- pointments as warrant or commissioned officers in the Regular Navy, or as warrant or commissioned officers in the United States Naval Reserve Force, for purpose of promotion to chief warrant rank", so as to permit service in the National Naval Volunteers to be counted for purposes of promotion. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of February 15, 1929 (45 Stat. 1180; 34 U. S . C. 331a), is hereby amended to read as follows: "That for the purpose of computing the six years' service required for promotion from warrant to chief warrant rank, all active service, for purposes other than training heretofore rendered during the period from April 6, 1917, to December 31, 1921, under a temporary appointment as a warrant or commissioned officer in the United States Navy or as a warrant or commissioned officer in the United States Naval Reserve Force, or as a warrant or commissioned officer of the National Naval Volunteers shall be counted: Provided, That officers who have heretofore been commissioned chief warrant officers shall for all purposes be regarded as having been so commissioned from the date of completion of such six years' service including the service authorized to be counted by this Act: Provided further, That no back pay or allowances shall be held to have accrued prior to the passage of this Act." Approved, May 27, 1940. [CHAPTER 213] AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act to authorize an exchange of lands between the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company and the United States at Quantico, Virginia", approved June 24, 1935 (49 Stat. 395), so as to permit the removal of certain encumbrances on the lands concerned. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act to authorize an exchange of lands between the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company and the United States at Quantico, Virginia", approved June 24, 1935 (49 Stat. 395), is hereby amended so that the first ten lines of the first section thereof will read as follows: "That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized on behalf of the United States to accept from the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company, a corporation of the State of Virginia, without cost to the United States, except as hereinafter provided, by an appropriate deed of conveyance, all of the said railroad company s right, title and interest in and to the following lands, together with all the right, title, and interest of the said railroad company in and to the platted streets and riparian rights in Quantico Creek as may attach to the lots described in subsection (a) :". SEC. 2. The said Act approved June 24, 1935, is hereby further amended so that the first eight lines of the second section thereof will read as follows: "In exchange for all of the right, title, and interest of the Rich- mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company in and to the above-described lands, the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to transfer by appropriate conveyance to the said railroad company, free from all encumbrances, without cost to the said railroad com- 221 May 27, 1940 [8. 3016] [Public, No. 524] Warrant officers, Navy. Service to be counted for promo- tion. Provisos. Datesof commissions of certain officers. No back pay, etc. May 27, 1940 [S. 3017] [Public, No. 525] Quantlco, Va. Exchange of lands at, amendments. Conveyances by Richmond, Freder- icksburg and Potomao Railroad Co. Lands transferred to railroad company.

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