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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 383-385 - -AUG 2, 3, 1949 Repeal. D. C. Code §2t-38. Post, p. 889. Repeal. Effective date. August 3, 1949 IS. 1742] [Public Law 202] States marshal for the District of Columbia bears to the total amount of such salaries and expenses; and such proportion of the fees and fines, if any, collected by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, including fees and fines, if any, collected by the office of the clerk of that court, as the amount paid by the District of Columbia toward the salaries and expenses of such court bears to the total amount of such salaries and expenses." SEC. 8 . That the last sentence of the second paragraph of section 2 of the Act of June 8, 1938, entitled "An Act to provide for insanity pro- ceedings in the District of Columbia" (52 Stat. 625, 626), which reads as follows: "The Commissioners shall include in their annual esti- mates such amounts as may be required for the salaries and expenses herein authorized," is hereby repealed. SEC. 9 . That the Act of April 24, 1926, entitled "An Act providing for expenses of the office of Recorder of Deeds and Register of Wills of the District of Columbia" (44 Stat. 322; title 19, sec. 404 and sec. 405; D. C. Code, 1940), insofar as it relates to the office of the Register of Wills, and any other provisions of law inconsistent with the pro- visions of this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 10. This Act shall take effect on July 1,1949. Approved August 2, 1949. [CHAPTER 384] AN ACT Removing certain restrictions imposed by the Act of March 8, 1888, on certain lands authorized by such Act to be conveyed to the trustees of Porter Academy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Porter Academy. United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Army is authorized to release to the trustees of Porter Academy by an appropriate written instrument the restriction placed upon that land in Charleston, South Carolina, which was conveyed to the trustees of Porter Academy pursuant to the provisions of the Act of March 8, 1888, entitled "An Act authorizing the Secretary of War to transfer to the trustees of Porter Academy certain property in the city of 25 Stat. 46. Charleston, South Carolina", sections 1 and 2 of which required that the property should be inviolably dedicated to educational purposes and no other and required that the deed of conveyance contain a condi- tion to that effect. Approved August 3, 1949. [CHAPTER 385] August 3, 1949 [H. J. Res. 170] [Public Law 203] Flag Day. JOINT RESOLUTION Designating June 14 of each year as Flag Day. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the 14th day of June of each year is hereby designated as "Flag Day", and the President of the United States is authorized and requested to issue annually a proclamation calling upon officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on such day, and urging the people to observe the day as the anniversary of the adoption on June 14, 1777, by the Continental Congress of the Stars and Stripes as the official flag of the United States of America. Approved August 3, 1949. 492 [63 STAT.

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