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 LIST OF PUBLIC LAWS Public Law 701 -_- Sale or charterof merchant vessels to Ireland. JOINT RESOLU- TION To authorize the War Shipping Administration to sell or charter two merchant vessels to the Government of Ireland__ 702 _ - Navy, award of medals, etc. AN ACT To amend the Act ap- proved February 4, 1919 (40 Stat. 1056), entitled "An Act to provide for the award of medals of honor, distinguished-service medals, and Navy crosses, and for other purposes", so as to change the conditions for the award of medals, and for other purposes- _-- - -- -- - - 703 -__ Interstate Commerce Act, amendment. AN ACT To amend sec- tion 219 of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, by inserting "of part I" after "(12)", and to amend subsection (b) of section 417 of such Act by changing a reference from "carrier" to "freight forwarder" 704 __- Prizes of war. AN ACT To facilitate the disposition of prizes captured by the United States during the present war, and for other purposes - 705 __- Servicemen's Dependents Allowance Act of 194s, amendment. AN ACT To amend section 107 of the Servicemen's Dependents Allowance Act of 1942- 706 --- Statutes of limitations. AN ACT To suspend temporarily the running of statutes of limitations applicable to certain offenses 707 _-- Widener art collection. JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the acceptance of title to the Widener art collection of Phila- delphia, and for other purposes - 708 --- Petersburg, Alaska. AN ACT To authorize the incorporated town of Petersburg, Alaska, to undertake certain municipal public works, including the construction of a dam and im- provements to the hydroelectric plant and system, improve- ments to the water system, and construction and equipment of a municipal hospital, and for such purposes to issue bonds in any sum not exceeding a total of $125,000- 709 --- Senate Restaurants. JOINT RESOLUTION Transferring the management of the Senate Restaurants to the Architect of the Capitol, and for other purposes-- 710 --- Northwest Washington, D. C., lands. AN ACT To authorize the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia and the Secretary of the Interior to make exchanges with the Defense Homes Corporation of certain lands in Northwest Washington, and for other purposes- 711 -_- Coconut oil, tax. AN ACT To suspend in part the processing tax on coconut oil 712 __- Absentee voting. AN ACT To provide for a method of voting, in time of war, by members of the land and naval forces absent from the place of their residence-- 713 _-_ Healing Arts Practice Act, D. C., amendments. AN ACT To amend an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the practice of the healing art to protect the public health in the District of Co- lumbia" approved February 27 1929- 714 --- American War Mothers. AN ACT To amend section 7 of the Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the American War Mothers", approved February 24, 1925 (43 Stat. 966; title 36, sec. 97, U. S. C ., 1940 edition)- 715 _- D. C. Emergency Rent Act, amendments. AN ACT To amend the District of Columbia Emergency Rent Act - 716 Indecent exposure, D. C. AN ACT To increase the penalty for indecent exposure in the District of Columbia-- 717 -_- Gen. Pulaski's Memorial Day. JOINT RESOLUTION Author- izing the President of the United States of America to pro- claim October 11, 1942, General Pulaski's Memorial Day for the observance and commemoration of the death of Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski..-- --- 718 --- Transportationand storage facilities. AN ACT To make trans- portation and storage facilities available for military use where military necessity exists, by authorizing the removal to other points of merchandise in customs custody _ -- _ -... .. --- 719 __ Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, amendment. AN ACT To amend the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act to authorize payments in cases where farmers' crops are acquired, prior to harvest, in connection with the acquisition of their farms for use in the national war effort, and to provide for the division of such payments.---.--. Date Aug. 6 ,1942-__ Aug. 7, 1942-_ - Aug. 7 ,1942__- Aug. 18 ,1942-- Aug. 20, 1942- __ Aug. 24, 1942___ Sept. 3 ,1942- _- Sept. 3 ,1942__ - Sept. 9 ,1942- _- Sept. 11, 1942___ Sept. 16, 1942- __ Sept. 16, 1942- __ Sept.26, 1942- __ Sept. 26, 1942-_ Sept. 26 ,1942-- Sept. 26 ,1942- _ _ Sept. 26, 1942- _ _ Sept.29,1942- _- Sept. 29, 1942-- 761 xxii . . 2a11 Page 743 743 746 746 747 747 748 748 750 752 752 753 757 758 759 760 760 760

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