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 57 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CHS. 8, 10-MAR. 2, 6 , 1943 EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OFFICE FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION Selective Service System: For an additional amount for the operation and maintenance of the Selective Service System, includ- ing the objects specified under the head "Selective Service System" in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1943, $21,160,000: Provided, That such combined appropriation shall not be subject to the provisions of section 5 of such Appropriation Act nor to the provisions of the First Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1943, in paragraphs 3 and 13 under the head "Office for Emer- gency Management", title I, and section 203, title II. INDEPENDENT EXECUTIVE AGENCIES THOMAS JEFFERSON BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to enable the United States Commission for the Celebration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Thomas Jefferson to carry out and give effect to certain approved plans", approved July 30, 1942, fiscal year 1943, $50,000, to remain available until expended. 5 Post,p. 441. 56 Stat. 416. 56 Stat. 422. 56 Stat. 707, 710, 721. 56 stat. 728. 36 U. S. C., Supp. II, § 149 note. TREASURY DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF TREASURER OF UNITED STATES Salaries: For an additional amount for salaries, Office of Treasurer Po, pp. 32,48. of the United States, fiscal year 1943, $750,000. Approved March 2, 1943. [CHAPTER 10] AN ACT To amend the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, to permit consolidations and mergers of domestic telegraph carriers, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprectnfatioes of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Com- munications Act of 1934, as amended, is amended by adding at the end of Title II the following new section: " C O N S OLIDATIONS AND MERGERS OF TELEGRAPH CARRIERS "SEc. 222. (a) As used in this section- "(1) The term 'consolidation or merger' includes the legal con- solidation or merger of two or more corporations, and the acquisition by a corporation through purchase, lease, or in any other manner, of the whole or any part of the property, securities, facilities, services, or business of any other corporation or corporations, or of the control thereof, in exchange for its own securities, or otherwise. "(2) The term 'domestic telegraph carrier' means any common car- rier by wire or radio, the major portion of whose traffic and revenues is derived from domestic telegraph operations; and such term includes a corporation owning or controlling any such common carrier. "(3) The term 'international telegraph carrier' means any common carrier by wire or radio, the major portion of whose traffic and reve- nues is derived from international telegraph operations; and such March 6, 1943 [S. 1581 Iullbl. - 1.aw 41 Communications Act of 1934, amend- ments. 48 Stat. 1070 . 47U.8.C.if201- 221. Post, pp. 11, 12. "Consolidation or merger." "Domestic telegraph carrier." " Inttnational tele graph moier."

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