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 57 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CHS. 40, 41, 44 -APR. 9, 10, 1943 [CHAPTER 40] AN ACT April 9, 1943 To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to pay the costs of transportation of cer- [H. R. 1691] tain civilian employees, and for other purposes. [Public Law 28] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to pay the costs of transportation of civilian employees to places of duty in the Naval Establishment outside the continental United States, or in Alaska, and return, upon relief therefrom, to the places at which they were engaged or from which they were transferred for such duty: Provided, That nothing herein shall be construed as authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to transfer such employees from one station to another without their consent. SEc. 2. The provisions of this Act shall remain in force during the present war and until six months thereafter, or until such earlier time as the President by proclamation or the Congress by concurrent resolution may designate. Approved April 9, 1943. [CHAPTER 41] AN ACT To effectuate the intent of the Congress as expressed in section 1, paragraph (k) of Public Law 846, Seventy-seventh Congress, approved December 24, 1942, by adding to the list of institutions named in said paragraph the name of the American Tree Association, an institution similar to the institutions so named. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the American Tree Association being an institution similar to the institutions named in section 1, paragraph (k), of the Act entitled "An Act to define the real property exempt from taxation in the District of Columbia", approved December 24, 1942, and therefore an institution the real property of which, located in the District of Columbia, may in accordance with such section be exempted from taxation by a special Act of Congress, such section 1, paragraph (k), is amended by insert- ing therein, after the words "the American Forestry Association", a comma and the words "the American Tree Association". SEC. 2. The amendment made by this Act shall take effect as of December 24, 1942. Approved April 9, 1943. [CHAPTER 44] AN A.T NavaI Establish- ment. Transportation costs of civilian employees. Consent to transfers. Duration of Act. April 9, 1943 [H. R. 2070] [Public Law 29] American Tree As- sociation. Exemption of build- ings from D. C. tax. 56 Stat. 1090. D. C. Code, Supp. II, § 47-801a (k). Effective date. ... ... April 10, 1943 To authorize the Secretary of War to convey to the people of Puerto Rico certain [S - 222] real estate now under the jurisdiction of the United States. [Public Law 30] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to convey to the people of Puerto Rico a strip of land containing one and twenty- six one-hundredths acres, more or less, located at Ward Puerta de Tierra of the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico, adjoining Salvador Brau Boulevard on the north, and comprising a portion of the San Juan Military Reservation, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Approved April 10,.1943. Puerto Rico. Conveyance of land. 61

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