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 148 Saint Marys Falls Canal, Mich. Provision for new lock. Military or naval forces. Pay increases for sea duty, etc. Post, pp. 360, 369. Provisos. Aviation and marine duty. Effective date duration. sub- and PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 166, 167, 173-MAR. 7, 9, 1942 [56 STAT. SEC. 17. The existing project for the Great Lakes and connecting channels is modified to provide for a new lock about eight hundred feet long, eighty feet wide, and thirty feet deep, at Saint Marys Falls Canal, Michigan, together with suitable approaches thereto, said lock to replace the present Weitzel lock and approaches, all in accordance with the recommendations contained in House Document Numbered 218, Seventy-seventh Congress, first session. This improvement is hereby adopted and authorized and shall be prosecuted in the interest of national defense under the direction of the Secretary of War and supervision of the Chief of Engineers, subject to the conditions set forth in said document. SEC. 18. Hereafter the base pay of any enlisted man, warrant offi- cer, or nurse (female) in the military or naval forces of the United States shall be increased by 20 per centum and the base pay of any commissioned officer in such forces shall be increased by 10 per centum for any period of service while on sea duty, or duty in any place beyond the continental limits of the United States or in Alaska, which increases in pay shall be in addition to pay and allowances as now authorized: Provided, That the per centum increases herein authorized shall be included in computing increases in pay for avi- ation and submarine duty: Provided further, That this section shall be effective from December 7, 1941, and shall cease to be in effect twelve months after the termination of the present war is proclaimed by the President. Approved, March 7, 1942. March 7,1942 [H. J. Res. 248] [Public Law 491] Construction of sub- ways, D. C. Preliminary survey. Report to Congress. March 9, 1942 [S. 1891] [Public Law 492] Officers' Reserve Corps, Army. 54 Stat. 212 . 10 U. S. C. §361b. Post, p. 1039. Allowance for uni- forms and equipment. [CHAPTER 167] JOINT RESOLUTION To direct the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to make an investigation and survey to determine the feasibility of the construction of subways in the District of Columbia for both streetcars and vehicular traffic. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to make a preliminary survey to determine the feasibility of the construc- tion of subways in the District of Columbia for both streetcars and vehicular traffic. The Comnlissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby empow- ered to call upon any agencies of the United States Government for assistance in making this survey. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall make a report to Congress on the result of the survey not later than one hundred and twenty days after the enactment of this Act. Approved, March 7, 1942. [CHAPTER 173] AN ACT To amend an Act to provide allowances for uniforms and equipment for certain officers of the Officers' Reserve Corps of the Army so as to provide allowances for uniforms and equipment for certain officers of the Army of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of May 14, 1940 (Public, Numbered 511, Seventy-sixth Congress), be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: "That officers of the Officers' Reserve Corps of the Army shall be entitled to an allow- ance for uniforms and equipment of $50 per annum upon comple-

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