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 PUBLIC LAWS ENACTED DURING THE FIRST SESSION OF THE SEVENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday, January 3, 1941, and adjourned without day on Friday, January 2, 1942 FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President; HENRY A. WALLACE, Vice President; PAT HARRISON,' President of the Senate pro tempore; LISTER HILL, Acting President of the Senate pro tempore, March 31 and June 5, 1941; CARTER GLASS, Acting President of the Senate pro tempore, May 23, 1941, and elected President of the Senate pro tempore, July 10, 1941; KENNETH MCKELLAR, Acting President of the Senate pro tempore, August 4-5 and 15-19, October 2 and 9, 1941; WALTER F. GEORGE, Acting President of the Senate pro tempore, December 30, 1941-January 2, 1942; SAM RAYBURN, Speaker of the House of Representatives; CLIFTON A. WOODRUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tempore, August 15- September 15, 1941; JERE COOPER, Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tempore, October 27-November 6, 1941; WILLIAM P. COLE, Jr., Speaker of the House of Representatives pro tempore, December 23, 1941-January 2, 1942. [CHAPTER 1] AN ACT To authorize major alterations to certain naval vessels. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the pur- pose of improving antiaircraft defenses of combatant and auxiliary vessels of the United States, alterations to such vessels are hereby authorized, and expenditures therefor shall not be limited by the provisions of the Act approved July 18, 1935 (49 Stat. 482; 5 U. S. C., Supp. V, sec. 468a), but the total cost of such alterations shall not exceed $300,000,000. Approved, January 29, 1941. [CHAPTER 2] AN ACT To remove certain limitations on appropriations for the pay of midshipmen, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the Act approved June 11, 1940 (Public, Numbered 588, Seventy-sixth Congress), as relates to the pay of midshipmen whose admission subsequent to January 30, 1940, would result in exceeding the allow- ance specified in such Act, is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. The number of midshipmen who may be appointed each year at large under the provisions of the Act approved December 20, 1917, as amended (40 Stat. 430; 34 U. S . C. 1032), is hereby increased from fifteen to twenty-five, and the number who may be appointed each year by the Secretary of the Navy under the provisions of [Died June 22,1941, 6: 45 a. m .] 3 January 29, 1941 [H. R. 1053] [Public Law 1] Combatant and auxiliary vessels. Antiaircraft de- fenses. 6 U.S. C. §468a. January 30, 1941 [H. R. 2318] [Public Law 2] Naval Academy. Pay of certain mid- shipmen. 54 Stat. 277. Increase in number of midshipmen ap- pointed at large, etc.

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