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 Oct. 31, 1942 56 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CHS. 634, 635- -v. --, 1942 NOV. 9, 1942 SEC. 8. The head of each department or agency of the Government may issue such rules and regulations and require such information as may be necessary and proper to carry out the provisions of this Act. The provisions of section 10 (1).of an Act approved July 2, 1926 (44 Stat. 787), as amended, and title XIII of Public Law 507, Seventy-seventh Congress, shall be applicable to the owner, licensor, or licensee of an invention, whether patented or unpatented, manu- factured, used, sold, or otherwise disposed of for the United States, and the term "defense contract" as used in said Act shall mean and include an agreement for the payment of royalty, regardless of the date of such agreement, under or by virtue of which royalty is directly or indirectly paid by the Government or included within the contract price for property sold to or manufactured for the Gov- ernment. SEC. 9. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to preclude the applicability of Section 403 of Public Law 528, Seventy-seventh Con- gress, as the same may be heretofore or hereafter amended so far as the same may be applicable. SEC. 10. If any provision of this Act or the application of any provision to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, or if any provision of this Act shall be inoperative by its terms, the validity or applicability of the remainder of the Act shall not be affected thereby. Approved, October 31, 1942. [CHAPTER 635] AN ACT To provide for the granting of rights-of-way for pipe lines for petroleum and petroleum products and for telephone and/or telegraph lines along and across certain parkway lands in the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior, with the approval of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, be, and he is hereby, authorized and empow- ered to grant to Sinclair Refining Company, a Maine corporation, its successors and assigns, an easement for rights-of-way for pipe lines for the transportation of crude petroleum and/or the products and/or byproducts thereof, and also for telegraph and/or telephone lines to be installed in underground cables, for use in connection with the operation of such pipe line or pipe lines, along, through, under, and across all those certain lands in the District of Columbia desig- nated as United States Reservation Numbered 451 acquired for the parkway known as Fort Drive, extending from Fort Totten Park in an easterly direction to the boundary line between the District of Columbia and the State of Maryland, which lands are shown on the map of the public parks, District of Columbia, 1942, filed in the office of National Capital Parks, Washington, District of Columbia, num- bered as Map 7-105: Provided, That such easement shall be granted only upon a finding by the Secretary of the Interior that the same will not substantially injure the interests of the United States in the property affected thereby, and will not be incompatible with the pub- lic interest: And provided further, That all or any part of such ease- ment may be annulled and forfeited by the Secretary of the Interior after reasonable notice (a) for failure of said Sinclair Refining Com- pany, or its successor or assigns, to comply with the terms or condi- tions of any grant made hereunder, or (b) for abandonment of such easement. 1615 Rules and regula- tions. 10U.S.C. 310. Ante, p. 185. "Defense contract." Renegotiation of war contracts. Ante, pp. 245, 982. Separability of pro- visions. November 9, 1942 [H. R. 7491] [Public Law 769] District of Colum- bia. Easement for petro- leum pipe lines, tele- graph lines, etc. Proviees. Protection of public interest. Annulment and for- feiture.

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