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 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3 D SESS.-CHS. 245-247-JUNE 6, 1940 by any political subdivision or public agency thereof pursuant to section 4 or section 6 of this Act is hereby granted to the Bradenton Company, its successors and assigns, and any corporation to which or any person to whom such rights, powers, and privileges may be sold, assigned, or transferred, or who shall acquire the same by mort- gage foreclosure or otherwise, is hereby authorized and empowered to exercise the same as fully as though conferred herein directly upon such corporation or person. SEC. 9. The Bradenton Company shall furnish the Secretary of War with a certified copy of its charter and any amendments thereto evidencing proof that it is a corporation organized, among other things, for the promotion and organization of toll bridges, toll-bridge districts, bridge authorities and for harbor authorities, each and any of which shall be municipal in kind and nature, and from any or either of which this company shall receive no promotional profit, and further, shall receive no other profit, other than in direct propor- tion to such investment or investments as this company may make in any or either of such enterprises. SEc. 10. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. SEC. 11. The word "bridge" where it appears in this Act, may be construed either in the singular or plural so as to apply to either or both of such bridges. Approved, June 6, 1940. [CHAPTER 246] AN ACT To provide increased pensions for veterans of the Regular Establishment with service-connected disability incurred in or aggravated by service prior to April 21, 1898. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representat&ves of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That effective on the first day of the month following the month in which this Act is enacted, the rates of pension prescribed by paragraph II of part II of Veterans Regulation Numbered 1 (a), as amended, shall be payable to veterans of the Regular Establishment entitled to pensions under the general pension law on account of service-connected disabilities incurred in or aggravated by service prior to April 21, 1898: Provided,That this Act shall not be construed to reduce any pension under any Act, public or private. Approved, June 6, 1940. [CHAPTER 247] AN ACT To amend section 79 of the Judicial Code, as amended. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 79 of the Judicial Code, as amended (U. S . C., 1934 edition, Supp. IV, title 28, sec. 152), is amended to read as follows: "The State of Illinois is divided into three districts, to be known as the northern, southern, and eastern districts of Illinois. The northern district shall include the territory embraced on the 1st day of July 1910 in the counties of Cook, De Kalb, Du Page, Grundy Kane, Kendall, Lake, La Salle, McHenry, and Will, which shal constitute the eastern division; also the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in the counties of Boone, Carroll, Jo Daviess, Lee, Certified copy of charter and amend- ments to Secretary of War. Reservation. "Bridge" defined. June 6, 1940 IH. R. 7733] [Public, No. 653] Pensions. Rates for designated veterans. 38 U. S. C. (1934 ed.), Supp. V, p. 997. 38U.8.0., ch.2; Supp. V, ch.2. Provio. No reduction In pension. June 6, 1940 [H. R . 8373] [Public, No. 664] Judicial Code, amendment. 28 U.S.C. §152; Supp. V, i 12. Illinois judicial dis- tricts. Northern district.

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