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 56 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CHS. 623 -625 - -OCT. 26, 1942 [CHAPTER 623] AN ACT To provide that certain provisions of law relating to the Navy shall be held applicable to the personnel of the Coast Guard when that service is operating as a part of the Navy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever the Coast Guard is operating as a part of the Navy the provisions of section 1563 of the Revised Statutes; of section 13 of the Act approved February 16, 1909 (35 Stat. 622); of the Act approved March 3, 1909, relative to discharged naval prisoners (35 Stat. 756); of the Act approved March 4, 1917, relative to advances to officers (39 Stat. 1181); of section 10 of the Act approved March 4, 1925 (43 Stat. 1274); and of the Act approved May 22, 1928 (45 Stat. 712); shall be considered applicable to personnel of the Coast Guard. Approved, October 26, 1942. [CHAPTER 624] AN ACT To authorize the use of certificates by officers of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard of the United States, in connection with pay and allowance accounts of military and civilian personnel under the jurisdiction of the War and Navy Departments. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That during the existence of the present war in which the United States is engaged, and during the six months immediately following the termination of such war, certificates of officers of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard of the United States, executed on and after Decem- ber 8, 1941, attesting to the existence of the stated facts, and which are filed with and relate to vouchers and papers involving pay and allowances of civilian and military personnel under the jurisdiction of the War or Navy Departments, shall be accepted as supporting such payments so far as said facts are concerned without the necessity of any other supporting evidence or certificates: Provided, That the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe the places where and the classes of pay and allowance accounts to which the above authority of law may be made applicable. Approved, October 26, 1942. [CHAPTER 625] AN ACT Authorizing the construction of certain public works in the basin of the Con- necticut River for flood control. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the project for flood control in the Connecticut River Basin adopted by the Act of June 28, 1938 (Public, Numbered 761, Seventy-fifth Congress), and the Act of August 18, 1941 (Public Law 228, Seventy-seventh Con- gress), is hereby modified to include and authorize the construction of the Gulley Brook Conduit at Hartford, Connecticut, for flood con- trol in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 804, Seventy-seventh Congress, second session, at an estimated cost of $420,000. Approved, October 26, 1942. 987 October 26, 1942 [S. 2381] [Public Law 757] Coast Guard. 34 U. S. C. 1875. 34U.S.C. I961. 34U.S.C. 962. 34U.S.C.§875. 34U. .c.C. 197, 722. 34 U.S. C .§886. October 26, 1942 IS. 255] [Public Law 758] Army, Navy, etc., officers. Certificates for pay and allowance ac- counts. Praeo. October 26, 1942 [S. 2623] [Public Law 759] Connecticut Biver Basin. Flood control. 52 Stat. 1216. 55 Stat. 639.

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