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 804 Certificate of pay- ment or satisfaction. Taking vehicle without permission of owner. PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 581-583 -DEC. 16, 1941 [55 STAT. SEC. 4. That article 2, chapter 63, title 3, Canal Zone Code, is hereby amended by adding at the end of the said article a new section numbered 2274 and reading as follows: "2274. MORTGAGE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY, HOW DISOHARGED.-Upon the payment or satisfaction of a mortgage of personal property, the mort- gagee, his assignee, or legal representative, upon the request of the mortgagor or of any person interested in the mortgaged property, must execute, acknowledge, and deliver to the person requesting it a cer- tificate setting forth such payment or satisfaction. If the mortgagee, his assignee, or legal representative shall refuse to execute, acknowl- edge, and deliver to the mortgagor or other person interested in the mortgaged property the certificate provided for herein he shall forfeit to the person requesting such certificate the sum of $5 and be liable for all damages suffered by reason of such refusal. Upon presentation of the certificate of payment or satisfaction to the registrar of property, he shall file the same and note the discharge of the mortgage and the date thereon on the margin of the page where the mortgage has been entered. For filing and entering the certificate of payment or satis- faction, the registrar shall be entitled to a fee of 25 cents." SEC. 5. That section 784 of title 5 of the Canal Zone Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "784. TAKING VEHICLE FOR TEMPORARY USE OR OPERATION. -Any per- son who shall, without the permission of the owner thereof, take any automobile, bicycle, motorcycle, or other vehicle, for the purpose of temporarily using or operating the same, shall be punished for the first offense by a fine of not more than $100 or by imprisonment in jail for not more than thirty days, or by both, and shall be punished for each subsequent offense by a fine of not more than $500 or by imprisonment in jail for not more than six months, or by both." Approved, December 16, 1941. [CHAPTER 582] December 16, 1941 [I. R. 2799] (Public Law 345] Virginia. Conveyance of land to State. AN ACT Authorizing the conveyance to the State of Virginia, for highway purposes only, a portion of the Naval Mine Depot Reservation at Yorktown, Virginia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to convey to the State of Virginia, for highway purposes only, upon such terms and conditions as he may prescribe, all right, title, and interest of the United States of America in and to two strips or parcels of land of the Naval Mine Depot Reservation at Yorktown, York County, Virginia, containing twenty and two one-hundredths acres, more or less. Approved, December 16, 1941. [CHAPTER 583] December 16, 1941 [H. R. 4495] [Public Law 346] Canal Zone Code, amendments. AN ACT To amend the Canal Zone Code. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 142 of title 2 of the Canal Zone Code, approved June 19, 1934, as amended by section 7 of the Act of June 24, 1936 (ch. 754, 49 Stat. 1905), is hereby amended to read as follows: "142. PunsniHENT OF PESONS RETURNING AFIER DEPORTATION FOL- LownGa rMPrISON.ENT. - Any person who, after having served a sen- tence of imprisonment in the Canal Zone and having been deported

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