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 56 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 2D SESS.--CHS. 69, 71, 72-FEB. 11, 12, 13, 1942 4And provided further, That any amount so advanced in excess of available service or other pay shall constitute a lien on the policy within the provisions of section 5, Public Law Numbered 866, Seventy-sixth Congress, approved October 17, 1940." Approved, February 11, 1942. [CHAPTER 71] JOINT RESOLUTION Making an appropriation to provide financial aid to China. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congressassembled, That the sum of $500,000,000 is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- wise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out the provisions of the joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution to authorize the President of the United States to render financial aid to China, and for other purposes," approved February 7, 1942, and to remain available until June 30, 1943. Approved, February 12, 1942. [CHAPTER 72] AN ACT To release all the interest of the United States in certain land constituting a portion of the right-of-way granted to the Central Pacific Railway Company under the Act of July 1, 1862, as amended and supplemented. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the conveyance by the Central Pacific Railway Company to the trustees of Summit Lodge, Numbered 54, Knights of Pythias, involving certain land in the town of Truckee, California, hereinafter described, being a part of the right-of-way of the Central Pacific Railway Company granted by an Act of Congress approved July 1, 1862 (12 Stat. 489), and an Act of Congress approved July 2, 1864 (13 Stat. 356), is hereby validated and confirmed with the same force and effect as if the land involved therein had been held by the company in fee simple absolute at the time of the making of the conveyance: Parcel numbered 1: Beginning at the southwest corner of lot 1 of block "C" as said lot and block are desigllated on that certain mall) filed by the Central Pacific Railroad Conpany, July 15, 1890, Nevada County records, said point of beginning being also at right angles northerly and distant ninety-seven and five-tenths feet from the center line of the Central Pacific Railway Company's originally located main track at engineer's station 770+95.0; thence, easterly parallel to and distant ninety-seven and five-tenths feet northerly at right angles from said center line of main track, along the south line of lots 1, 2, and 3 of said block "C", a distance of sixty and sixty-seven one- hundredths feet to a point; thence, at right angles, northerly from the last-described course thirty-seven and five-tenths feet to a point; thence, at right angles, westerly and parallel to said south line of lots 1, 2, and 3, a distance of sixty and sixty-seven one-hundredths feet to a point in the west line of saidlot 1; thence in a southerly direction along the west line of lot 1 a distance of thirty-seven and five-tenths feet to the point of beginning, containing an area of fifty-two one-thousandths of an acre, more or less. Parcel numbered 2: Commencing at the southwest corner of lot 1 of block "C" as said lot and block are designated on that certain map filed by the Central Pacific Railroad Company, July 15, 1890, Nevada 89 Advance in excess of available service pay. 54 Stat. 1195. 38 U. S. C. §454a February 12, 1942 [H. J. Res. 278] [Public Law 452] Financial aid to China. Ante, p. 82. February 13, 1942 [H. R. 2611] [Public Law 453] Central Pacific Rail- way Company. Validation of con- veyance by. IDescrption.

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