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 PUBLIC LAWS--HS. 369, 370-JULY 1, 1944 [58 STAT. the annual salary or compensation for such employees shall be divided by three hundred and six, the number of working days in the year less all Sundays and legal holidays enumerated in the Act of July 28, 1916; the quotient thus obtained will be the daily compensation which divided by eight will give the hourly compensation for such overtime dasa and hou- service. When the needs of the service require the employment on Sundays and holidays of route supervisors, special clerks, clerks, dispatchers, mechanics-in-charge, special mechanics, general mechan- ics, mechanics' helpers, driver-mechanics, and garagemen-drivers in the Motor Vehicle Service, employees of the pneumatic-tube system, o mp ator t i me . and employees of the custodial service, they shall be allowed com- pensatory time on one day within six days next succeeding the Sunday, except the last three Sundays in the calendar year, and on one day within thirty days next succeeding the holiday and the last three Sundays in the year on which service is performed: Provided, tiame"t o oVBe Lhowever, That the Postmaster General may, if the exigencies of the service require it, authorize the payment of overtime in lieu of com- pensatory time for service on Sundays and holidays: Provided further, That the provisions of the foregoing provisos shall apply to employees of the custodial service during the period of the emer- gency and for six months thereafter." Nightwor SEC. 3. The Act entitled "An Act to provide a differential in pay for night work in the Postal Service", enacted May 24, 1928, as 46at.7. amended (U. S . C., 1940 edition, title 39, sec. 828), is amended by striking out the words "motor-vehicle and pneumatic-tube services, and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "motor-vehicle, pneu- matic-tube, and custodial services". SEC. 4. This Act shall not be applied so as to reduce the compen- sation or grade of any employee. Approved July 1, 1944. (CHAPTER 370] July 1, 1944 [H. R. 4348] [Public Law 407] Prize captured by U. 8 . during war. 50..C., Supp. IlH app. 1 821. Court jurisdiction. 56 stat. 746. 50 U. S. C., Supp. m, app. 824. Adjudication with- out appraisement, etc. AN ACT To amend the Act approved August 18, 1942, entitled "An Act to facilitate the disposition of prizes captured by the United States during the present war, and for other purposes". Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act to facilitate the disposition of prizes captured by the United States during the present war, and for other purposes", approved August 18, 1942 (56 Stat. 746, 50 App. U. S. C. 821 ff), is amended to read as follows: "That the district courts shall have original jurisdiction of all prizes captured during war if said capture was made by authority of the United States or was adopted and ratified by the President of the United States and the prize was brought into the territorial waters of a cobelligerent or was taken or appropriated for the use of the United States, including jurisdiction of all proceedings for the condemnation of such property taken as prize". SEC. 2. That section 4 of such Act is amended by striking out the period at the end of said section and by inserting in lieu thereof a colon and by adding immediately thereafter the following: "Pro- vided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the seized property is taken or appropriated for the use of the United States whether before or after it comes into the custody of the prize court, the prize court is hereby authorized to proceed to adjudication on the basis of an inventory and survey and an appropriate undertaking 678

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