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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 98, 9- -APR. 27, 1945 56 Stat. 353. 50 U. S. O., Supp. IV, app. § 1104. Board of directors. Continuance of pres- ent members in office. shall not have succession beyond December 31, 1946, except for pur- poses of liquidation, unless its life is extended beyond such date pursuant to an Act of Congress." SEC. 2. (a) Section 4 (c) of such Public Law 603 is amended to read as follows: "(c) The management of the Corporation shall be vested in a board of five directors who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, from among individuals who are familiar with the problems of small business. The Presi- dent shall designate one of the members as chairman." (b) Notwithstanding the amendment made by subsection (a) of this section, the members of the board of directors of the Smaller War Plants Corporation holding office at the time of the enactment of this Act shall continue in office until five members have been appointed pursuant to section 4 (c) of such Public Law 603 as amended by this section. Approved April 27, 1945. [CHAPTER 99] AN ACT April 27, 1945 [I. 1221 To amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish standard weights and measures [Public Law43] for the District of Columbia; to define the duties of the Superintendent of Weights, Measures, and Markets, of the District of Columbia; and for other purposes", approved March 3, 1921, as amended. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the District of Colum- United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of Weights, measres, Congress entitled "An Act to establish standard weights and measures and markets. for the District of Columbia; to define the duties of the Superintendent 1 Satc i10-101 of Weights, Measures, and Markets, of the District of Columbia; and tseq. for other purposes", approved March 3, 1921, as amended, is hereby Ante,p. 4 . further amended as follows: D.C. Code §0-103. Strike out section 3 of said Act and insert in lieu thereof the following: Powers of Superin- "SEC. 3. That the Superintendent and, under his direction, his assistants and inspectors, shall have exclusive power to perform all the eOriodic w npectiosn duties provided in this Act. They shall, at least every six months, and ures. oftener when the Superintendent thinks proper, inspect, test, try, and ascertain whether or not they are correct, all weights, scales, beams, measures of every kind, instruments or mechanical devices for weigh- ing or measuring, and all tools, appliances, or accessories connected with any or all such instruments or mechanical devices for weighing or measuring used or employed in the District of Columbia by any owner, agent, lessee, or employee in determining the weight, size, quantity, extent, area, or measurement of quantities, things, produce, or articles of any kind offered for transportation, sale, barter, exchange, hire, or award, or the weight of persons for a charge or compensation, deAprton.l or co and shall approve and seal, stamp, or mark, in the manner prescribed by the Commissioners, such devices or appliances as conform to the standards kept in the office of the Superintendent, and shall seize and destroy or mark, stamp, or tag with the word 'condemned' such as do not conform to the standards, and shall also mark the date of such condemnation upon the same. Any weight, scale, beam, measure, weighing or measuring device of any kind which shall be found to be unsuitable for the purpose for which it is intended to be used or of unapprovedLor non- defective construction or material shall be condemned. No person hibition on use. shall use or, having the same under his control, shall permit to be used for any of the purposes enumerated in this Act any weight, scale, beam, measure, weighing or measuring device whatsoever unless the same has been approved in accordance with the provisions of this [59 STAT.

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