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 55 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CHS. 414 -416 -SEPT. 22, 24, 1941 gency and six months thereafter: Provided further, That any person appointed as an officer in the Army of the United States under the provisions of this Act shall receive the same pay and allowances and be entitled to the same rights, privileges, and benefits as members of the Officers' Reserve Corps of the same grade and length of active service: And provided further, That nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to prohibit the appointment of officers in the various components of the Army of the United States in accordance with existing laws. Approved, September 22, 1941. [CHAPTER 415] AN A(.T 729 Pay, allowancesetc Appointment un- der existing laws. September 24, 1941 Authorizing the transfer of land owned by the United States back to the Spring [H. R. 2381] Park Club, of Richfield Springs, New York. [Public Law 253] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to correct the description of the land conveyed to the United States for a post-office site at Richfield Springs, New York, which included a one foot strip of land along the easterly side thereof for which a deduction was made in the contract price paid by the United States, the Federal Works Administrator be, and is hereby, authorized to convey by the usual quitclaim deed all right, title, and interest of the Government to the owners of the land abutting the easterly side of the post-office site at Richfield Springs, New York, the following- described piece or parcel of land forming a part of said post-office site: Lying and being in Richfield Springs, County of Otsego, State of New York, and described as follows: Beginning at a point in the southerly side of Main Street, said point being the northeast corner of the premises conveyed by the Spring Park Club, Incorporated, to the United States by deed dated May 31, 1939, recorded June 1, 1939, among the land records of Otsego County, in Liber 388 of Deeds, at page 265; running thence in a westwardly direction along the southerly side of Main Street a distance of one foot to a point; thence in a southwardly direction a distance of one hundred antl seventy-two feet to a point in the northerly side of land now or formerly of the Spring Park Club, Incorporated; thence in an eastwardly direction to a distance of one foot to a point being the southeast corner of lands conveyed to the United States by the aforesaid deed from the Spring Park Club, Incorporated; thence in a northwardly direction a distance of one hundred and seventy-two feet to the point or place of beginning, as shown on "Topographical Survey of Post Office site at Richfield Springs, New York, made by William Oehrle, dated March 5, 1938, corrected April 23, 1938", the original of which is on file in the Public Buildings Administration of the Federal Works Agency. Approved, September 24, 1941. [CHAPTER 416] AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the registry of pursers and surgeons as staff officers on vessels of the United States, and for other pur- poses", approved August 1, 1939. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the registry of pursers and surgeons as staff officers on vessels of the United States, and for Richfleld Springs, N.Y. Conveyance of cer- tain land at. Description. September 24, 1941 [H. R . 3864] [Public Law 254] Merchant marine.

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