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 259 55 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CHS. 218, 219, 228-JUNE 21, 23, 1941 other improvements presently located on this property shall remain in the Government and that when their removal becomes necessary for widening of the roadway they shall be moved therefrom and relocated at the expense of the county in accordance with specifi- cations to be furnished by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs. Approved, June 21, 1941. [CHAPTER 219] AN ACT June 21,1941 To authorize the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to transfer by quitclaim deed 18.421] to the Norfolk and Western Railway Company a small piece of land at Veterans' [Public Law 123] Administration facility, Roanoke, Virginia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Admrin- Veterans' Adminis- istrator of Veterans' Affairs is hereby authorized and directed, in noke, Va. consideration of $100, to transfer by quitclaim deed to the Norfolk to Norfolk and West- and Western Railway Company, the following-described property ern Railway Co. located at Veterans' Administration Facility, Roanoke, Virginia: All that certain strip or parcel of land situate in the county of Description. Roanoke, State of Virginia, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point corner to lands of the Veterans' Adminis- tration and right-of-way of Roanoke Terminal Division of the Norfolk and Western Railway Company, said point being north fifty-two degrees three minutes east twenty-six and twenty-eight one- hundredths feet from the center line of old west-bound main track of said railway at station 139 plus 47.4 also north fifty-two degrees three minutes east from the center line of present west-bound main track MP N-261 plus two thousand nine hundred and forty feet, more or less, as measured from Norfolk, Virginia; thence with the north- ern line of said right-of-way northwestwardly about three hundred and fifty-six feet to a point radial to said center line of old west- bound main track at station 142 plus 91.3, said station being also in the center line of a culvert; thence through the lands of Veterans' Administration by a straight line eastwardly about three hundred and eighty-five feet to a point in an offset in said northern line of right-of-way; thence with said offset south fifty-two degrees three minutes west, crossing a rail monumient at forty-three and six-tenths feet, a total distance of seventy feet to the point of beginning, con- taining two-tenths of an acre, more or less. Approved, June 21, 1941. [CHAPTER 228] AN ACT June 23,1941 To extend certain provisions of title X of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, [H. R. 4107 as amended. [Public Law 124] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1012 A et 193 amend- of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, is amended by strik- mets. ing out "three years" and inserting in lieu thereof "four years". 46 U.as. c. 1162. SEC. 2. Section 1004 of such Act is amended by striking out the 46 utC.§254 words "the Board to encourage" in the opening lines of said section. SEC. 3. Sections 1006, 1008, and 1009, and the last sentence of sec- 62t.s. tion 1010 of such Act are hereby repealed: Provided, however, That 4 U. S.c. I§Iz,1 the Maritime Labor Board may continue to act as mediator in any preiso. disputes wherein its mediation services have been requested and the diaon serve of mediation of which the Board has actively undertaken prior to the date of the enactment of this Act. Approved, June 23, 1941.

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