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 06 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 563, 564, 573-DEC. 11, 12, 1945 [59 STAT. 4 U.S. C.I.S3 And that section 2 of said Act approved August 5, 1939, is amended to read as follows: signature, etc. "Each certificate of oath, affirmation, or acknowledgment executed by a postmaster within the Territory of Alaska under the authority of this Act shall be signed by the postmaster, with a designation of his title as such postmaster, shall have affixed thereto the cancellation stamp of the post office, and shall state the name of the post office and the date on which such oath or affirmation is administered or such secord. acknowledgment is taken. Postmasters shall keep a memorandum of all deeds and other instruments of writing acknowledged before them and relating to the title to or transfer of property, which memo- randum shall be transmitted to their successors in the office of post- master and which shall be subject to public inspection." Approved December 11, 1945. December 11, 194 [H. R. 1123] [Public Law 255] U. S. Military Academy. 10 U. . c. §C1094, 1100. Appointees; age limit, etc. U. S. Naval Acad- emy. Candidates; age limit, etc. [CHAPTER 564] AN ACT To provide for a temporary increase in the age limit for appointees to the United States Military Academy and the United States Naval Academy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1318 of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the Act of March 30, 1920 (41 Stat. 548), is amended to read as follows: "Appointees shall be admitted to the United States Military Academy only between the ages of seventeen and twenty-two years, except in the following case: Any appointee who has served honor- ably not less than one year in the armed forces of the United States during any of the present wars, and who possesses the other qualifica- tions required by law, may be admitted between the ages of seventeen and twenty-four years: Provided, That whenever any member of the graduating class shall fail to complete the course with his class by reason of sickness, or deficiency in his studies, or other cause, such failure shall not operate to delay the admission of his successor." SEC. 2. Section 1517 of the Revised Statutes as amended (34 U. S . C . 1045), is amended to read as follows: "Candidates allowed for Congressional districts, for Territories and for the District of Columbia, must be actual residents of the districts or Territories, respectively, from which they are nominated. All candidates for admission to the Naval Academy must be not less than seventeen years of age nor more than twenty-one years of age on April 1st of the calendar year in which they enter the Academy: Provided, That any candidate who has served honorably not less than one year in the armed forces of the United States during any of the present wars and who possesses the other qualifications required by law may be admitted between the ages of seventeen and twenty- three years." Approved December 11, 1945. [CHAPTER 573] December 12,1946 AN ACT [H. R. 694] To amend section 321, title III, part II, Transportation Act of 1940, with [Public Law 256] respect to the movement of Government traffic. Transportation Act of 1940, amendment. 54 Stat. 954. 49U. s.C. 65(a). Government traffic. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (a) of section 321 of title III, part II, of the Transportation Act of 1940, be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the following: "except that the foregoing provision shall not apply to the transpor-

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