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 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3D SESS.--CHS. 281-283-JUNE 8, 1940 benefits of the Act and shall be credited with the amount of accumu- lated sick leave and vacation time which was due him on the date of his appointment as postmaster: Provided further, That all laws and parts of laws inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed. Approved, June 8, 1940. [CHAPTER 282] AN ACT To repeal the prohibition against the filling of a vacancy in the office of district judge for the southern district of New York. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provi- sion of subsection (d) of section 4 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the appointment of additional judges for certain United States district courts, circuit courts of appeals, and certain courts of the United States for the District of Columbia", approved May 31, 1938 (52 Stat. 585; U. S . C ., title 28, sec. 4j-l), which reads: 'Pro- vided, That the first vacancy occurring in the office of district judge for the southern district of New York by the retirement, disquali- fication, resignation, or death of judges in office on the date of enact- ment of this Act shall not be filled", be, and it is hereby, repealed. Approved, June 8, 1940. [CHAPTER 283] AN ACT Granting to the regents of the University of New Mexico the right to alienate certain lands conveyed to them under authority of the Act of Congress, approved August 19, 1935 (49 Stat. 659), in exchange for an equivalent amount of land more expediently situated. 253 Repeal of incon- sistent laws. June 8, 1940 [a. R. 5906] [Public, No. 571] United States courts. 28U. .C., Supp. V, §4-1. New York southern district. Filling of vacancy. June 8, 1940 [H. R. 5961] [Public, No. 572] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the regents Uierity of New of the University of New Mexico be, and they are hereby, authorized Conveyance of cer- to convey to the Santa Ana Pueblo that certain portion of the lands anta Anad bueblto patented to them under authority of the Act of Congress, approved authorized August 19, 1935 (Public, Numbered 284, Seventy-fourth Congress), described as follows: A strip of land one hundred feet wide extending along the north Description. and west boundaries of the northwest quarter section 30, and a strip of land one hundred feet wide extending along the north boundary of lot 7, section 30, all in township 13 north, range 4 east, New Mexico principal meridian, New Mexico, these tracts comprising thirteen and three-tenths acres, more or less; That the pueblo of Santa Ana, a community of Pueblo Indians ConveyaneofSanta. residing in New Mexico, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, is hereby authorized to convey to the regents of the University of New Mexico and the said regents of the University of New Mexico are hereby authorized to accept from the said Santa Ana Pueblo in exchange for the aforesaid lands, lots 3 and 6 and Descrption that portion of lot 2, section 30, township 13 north, range 4 east, New Mexico principal meridian, New Mexico, lying south of a line beginning at a point on the west boundary of lot 2, north eight degrees ffty minutes east six hundred and ninety-two and eight- tenths feet from angle point one on the west boundary of the El Ranchito grant and bearing south sixty-three degrees forty minutes east to the west bank of the Rio Grande, containing a total area of

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