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 578 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 456, 467, 468-NOV. 9, 14, 1945 [59 STAT. Annual appropria- SEC. 3. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated annually ons au to the civil-service retirement and disability fund such sums as may be necessary to meet the cost of this amendment. Effective date SE. 4. The amendment made by the first section of this Act shall become effective as of September 8, 1939. Approved November 9, 1945. ICWHAPTER 4671 November 14,1945 [S. 131] [Public Law 217] Oregon. Conveyance of U. 8. Fish Hatchery prop- erty. Reversionary provi- sion. November 14,1945 [8. 559] ~ [Public Law 218] AN ACT To authorize the conveyance of the United States Fish Hatchery property at Butte Falls, Oregon, to the State of Oregon. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to convey to the State of Oregon, at any time within three years, title to the property known as the United States Fish Hatchery property near Butte Falls, Jackson County, Oregon, consisting of thirteen and two hundred and twenty- seven one-thousandths acres of land, together with improvements thereon. SEC. 2. Any conveyance executed by the Secretary of the Interior to carry out the purposes of this Act shall contain the express condi- tion that the grantee shall use the property exclusively for fish cul- tural purposes, and the further express condition that the title and right to possession of the lands so conveyed, together with improve- ments thereon, shall revert to the United States upon a finding by the Secretary, after notice to such grantee and after an opportunity for a hearing, that the grantee had ceased to use the property for such purposes; and such lands and improvements thereon, upon such rever- sion to the United States, shall be returned to the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior. Approved November 14, 1945. [CHAPTER 4681 AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act to provide for reimbursement of officers, enlisted men, and others, in the naval service of the United States for property lost, damaged, or destroyed in such service", approved October 27, 1943, so as to make the provisions thereof effective with respect to losses occurring on or after October 31, 1941. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the eimbursement for United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first sec- peonal property tion of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for reimbursement of officers, enlisted men, and others, in the naval service of the United States for property lost, damaged, or destroyed in such service" Iv3sL. .- Spp. approved October 27 1943 (57 Stat. 582; U. S. C., Supp. III, title 34, Po, p.M. sec. 984), is amended to read as follows: "That the Secretary of the Navy and, subject to appeal to the Secretary of the Navy, such other officer or officers as he may designate for such purposes and under such regulations as he may prescribe, are hereby authorized to consider, and to ascertain, adjust, determine, and pay any claim filed under oath of the commissioned, appointed, enrolled, and enlisted personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps, and of the Coast Guard when operat- ing as a part of the Navy, and of civilian employees of the Naval Establishment, for loss, damage, or destruction of their private per- sonal property, including household effects, occurring on or after October 31, 1941, when such loss, damage, or destruction is not due to fault or negligence on the part of the claimant and has occurred or cstn shall hereafter occur under the following circumstances:

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