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 LIST OF PUBLIC LAWS Public Law 257 __- Cut Bank, Mont., lands. AN ACT To authorize the sale of certain Indian lands to the city of Cut Bank, Montana - 258 --- Copyright Act of 1909, amendment. AN ACT To amend section 8 of the Copyright Act of March 4, 1909, as amended, so as to preserve the rights of authors during the present emergency, and for other purposes. _ _--_-- --- -- 259 --- Able seamen on seagoing barges. AN ACT Relating to the man- ning of certain seagoing barges- 260 -_ Shipping on the Great Lakes, etc. AN ACT To dispense with the requirement of clearance and entry for certain United States vessels on the Great Lakes which touch at Canadian ports for bunker fuel only __ -- - -- - - - - -- -- -- 261 -_ S. S. "Port Saunders" and S. S. "Hawk." AN ACT To permit the steamship Port Saunders, official number 220150, and steamship Hawk, official number 220149, to engage in the fisheries -- 262 -__ Retirement pay and hospitalizationof certain Reserve officers. AN ACT To provide retirement pay and hospital benefits to cer- tain Reserve officers, Army of the United States, disabled while on active duty - 263 --- Hawaii, special homestead agreements, etc. AN ACT To ratify and confirm certain right of purchase leases, special homestead agreements, cash freehold agreements, certificates of occupa- tion, homestead leases, and patents issued under or in pur- ported compliance with section 73 of the Hawaiian Organic Act and the laws of the Territory of Hawaii---_ __ __ -_ __ __ __ 264 ___ Recorder of deeds building, D. C. AN ACT To increase the amount authorized by the Act of July 11, 1940, for the construction of a building for the office of the recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia __---_---__-____ 265 ___ Union Railroad Station, D. C. AN ACT To amend an Act to provide for a Union Railroad Station in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes -- __________ 266 --- Canal Zone, rental allowances. AN ACT Relating to allowances for rental quarters of certain naval officers stationed in the Canal Zone -- _--_-- 267 -- U. S. courts, witnesses and jurors, fees and costs. AN ACT Re- lating to the payment of fees and costs of witnesses and jurors and the accounting therefor - __ __ 268 __- Alien registration receipt cards. AN ACT To amend the Alien Registration Act, 1940, by making it a criminal offense to reproduce alien registration receipt cards - _- 269 --- U. S. and D. C. employees as witnesses. AN ACT To authorize employees of the United States to testify on behalf of the Dis- trict of Columbia and employees of the District of Columbia to testify on behalf of the United States and of the District of Columbia without loss of salary or annual leave _ ..-- ___.._ 270 ___ Reading matter for the blind. AN ACT To further amend the Acts for promoting the circulation of reading matter among the blind -- 271 --_ D. C. minimum wage law, amendments. AN ACT To amend an Act entitled "An Act to protect the lives and health and morals of women and minor workers in the District of Columbia, and to establish a Minimum Wage Board, and define its powers and duties, and to provide for the fixing of minimum wages for such workers, and for other purposes", approved Sep- tember 19, 1918 - ______- - _- 272 --- Court of Claims. AN ACT Relating to the traveling and sub- sistence expenses of judges and retired judges of the Court of Claims --- -- --- --- -- --- 273 --- Hawaii, lands. AN ACT To authorize the sale of certain Gov- ernment-owned lands in the Territory of Hawaii to the Honolulu Plantation Company-- -- 274 -- _ Requisition of property for national defense. AN ACT To au- thorize the President of the United States to requisition property required for the defense of the United States-- 275 --- Nationality Act of 1940, amendment. AN ACT To amend the Nationality Act of 1940 to preserve the nationality of citizens residing abroad 276 --- Public contracts. AN ACT To repeal sections 512; 513; 514; 515, as amended, of the Revised Statutes; sections 1 and 3 of the Act approved February 4, 1929 (45 Stat. 1147); and sec- tion 3744, as amended; 3745, 3746, and 3747 of the Revised Statutes - -- -- Date Sept. 24, 1941___ Sept. 25, 1941___ Sept. 25, 1941__ Sept. 25, 1941__ - Sept. 25, 1941__ Sept. 26, 1941___ Sept. 26, 1941___ Sept. 26, 1941___ Oct. 8, 1941__ Oct. 13, 1941___ Oct. 13, 1941__ Oct. 13, 1941_ - Oct. 14, 1941__ - Oct. 14, 1941___ Oct. 14, 1941___ Oct. 16, 1941__ Oct. 16, 1941___ Oct. 16, 1941___ Oct. 16, 1941-_. xix Page 731 732 732 733 733 733 734 735 735 735 736 736 737 737 738 741 741 742 743 Oct. 21, 1941-.. 743

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