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 55 STAT.] 77TI CONG. , 1 ST SESS.-CHS. 71, 72, 74-APR. 12, 22, 1941 ing, repairing, and operating the same, and the daily tolls collected shall be kept and shall be available for the information of all persons interested. No such sale, transfer, or conveyance shall be made except for a consideration sufficient to enable the commission to retire all of its outstanding bonds and obligations and unless prior to or simultaneously with such sale, transfer, and conveyance all outstand- ing bonds of the commission shall be called for redemption and moneys sufficient to effect such redemption deposited and irrevocably pledged for that purpose. SEC. 14. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, April 12, 1941. [CHAPTER 72] AN ACT Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to convey a portion of the lighthouse reservation, Biloxi, Mississippi, to the city of Biloxi. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to convey, by quitclaim deed, to the city of Biloxi, Harrison County, State of Mississippi, in con- sideration of the payment to the United States of $1,200, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to that portion of the light- house reservation, Biloxi, Mississippi, north of West Beach Boulevard. The deed of conveyance shall describe by metes and bounds the exact portion of the reservation transferred. Such deed of conveyance shall also contain the express condition that if the city of Biloxi shall cease to maintain the property so transferred for park purposes or for some other wholly public use, or shall alienate or attempt to alienate such property, title thereto shall revert to the United States. Approved, April 12, 1941. [CHAPTER 74] AN ACT To increase the authorized enlisted strength of the United States Navy, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the permanent authorized enlisted strength of the active list of the Regular Navy is hereby increased to two hundred and thirty-two thousand. The President is hereby authorized, whenever in his judgment a sufficient national emergency exists, to increase this number to three hundred thousand. SEC. 2. The phrase "authorized enlisted strength", as applied to the personnel of the Navy, shall hereafter mean the total number of enlisted men of the Navy authorized by law, exclusive of the Hospital Corps. SEC. 3. The total authorized number of commissioned officers of the active list of the line of the Navy, exclusive of commissioned warrant officers, shall be equal to 5/Y per centum of the authorized enlisted strength of the active list. SEc. 4. Hereafter the authorized enlisted strength of the active list of the Marine Corps shall be 20 per centum of the authorized enlisted strength of the Navy. Approved, April 22, 1941. 278941--42 -PT. I- -10 April 12, 1941 [H. B. 538] [Public Law 38] Biloxi, Miss. Conveyance oflands to. April 22, 1941 [-. It. 3786i (Public Law 39] Navy. Permanent author- ized enlisted strength. Emergency increase authorized. Public Law 398, 77th Congress. 34U. S. C. §152. Commissioned offi- oers. Marine Corps. Authorized enlisted strength. Public Law 39, 77th Congress. 145 Right reserved.

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