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 55 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CHS. 32 ,35 -APR. 1, 2,1941 Total, audited claims, section 204 (b), $292,153.74, together with Total. such additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency and interest as speci- fied in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office. SEC. 205. For the payment of claims allowed by the General Volunteers, War Accounting Office pursuant to the Act entitled "An Act for the with Spain. relief of officers and soldiers of the volunteer service of the United States mustered into service for the War with Spain, and who were held in service in the Philippine Islands after the ratification of the treaty of peace, April 11, 1899", approved May 2, 1940 (Public 5 4 Stat 76 Public\10 U. S. C. §§8wa- Act Numbered 505, Seventy-sixth Congress), which have been certi- S66e. fled to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884 (U. S . C., 23 Stat. 254. title 5, sec. 266), under the War Department, in Senate Document Numbered 29, and in House Document Numbered 112 of the Seventy- seventh Congress, $2,675,646.16. SEC. 206. For payment of the claim allowed by the General Cofaisor payment Accounting Office for payment of bounty for destruction of enemy's vessels, provided in section 4635 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934 (31 U. S . C., 725b), which has been certified to Congress 48 Stat. 1226. in House Document Numbered 111 of the Seventy-seventh Congress, $19.31. SEC. 207. For payment of the claims allowed by the General Wolunteers, War Accounting Office for extra pay to volunteers, War with Spain, and certified to Congress as provided by law, under the War Department, in Senate Document Numbered 28, and in House Document Num- bered 101, Seventy-seventh Congress, $115.96. SEC. 208. This Act may be cited as the "First Deficiency Appro- Shorttitle priation Act, 1941". Approved, April 1, 1941. [CHAPTER 35] AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to Rensselaer and Saratoga Counties, New York, or to either of them, or any agency representing said counties, to con- struct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Hudson River between the city of Mechanicville and Hemstreet Park in the town of Schaghti- coke, New York. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the counties of Rensselaer and Saratoga, New York, or to either of them, or any agency representing said counties, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Hudson River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, between the city of Mechanicville and Hemstreet Park in the town of Schaghticoke, New York, at or near River Street in the city of Mechanicville, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters", approved March 23, 1906. The proposed highway bridge will replace the existing highway bridge over the Hudson River between the city of Mechanicville and Hemstreet Park in the town of Schaghticoke, New York. SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, April 2, 1941. April 2, 1941 [ N1.It. 5371 [ilTiblic ia 26i-- Hudson River. Bridge authorized across. Mechanicville to Schaghticoke, N. Y. 34 Stat. S4. 33U. S. C.§§491- 498. 87

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