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PUBLIC LAW 7 6 4 - S E P T. 1, 1954

58 Stat. 387. 5 USC 851 note.

Ante,

p. 736.

24 Stat. 492.

"(e) This section does not and shall not be construed to amend or modify the Veterans' Preference Act of 1944 (Public Law 369, Seventy-eighth Congress), as amended." SEC. 603. The Official Reporters of the proceedings and debates of the Senate and their employees shall be considered to be officers or employees in or under the legislative branch of the Government within the meaning of the provisions of section 2(a) of the Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance Act of 1954. SEC. 604. The Act entitled "An Act authorizing the employment of mail messengers in the postal service", approved March 3, 1887 (39 U.S.C. sec. 578), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: "The Postmaster General may, in his discretion and under such regulations as he may prescribe, readjust the compensation of the liolder of any contract for the performance of mail-messenger service on account of increased or decreased costs occasioned by changed conditions which could not reasonably have been anticipated at the time such contract was made." Approved September 1, 1954.

Public Law 764 September 1, 1954 [H. R. 6287]

R e n e g o t iation Act of 1951, e x tension, etc. 65 Stat. 7. 50 USC app. 1212. A g g r e g a t e amounts. 50 USC app. 1215.

Exemptions. 50 USC a 1216.

[68 S T A T.

CHAPTER 1209

AN ACT To extend and amend the Renegotiation Act of 1951. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (a) of section 102 of the Eenegotiation Act of 1951 is hereby amended by striking out "December 31, 1953" and inserting in lieu thereof "December 31, 1954." SEC. 2. (a) Section 105(f)(1) of such Act is amended by striking out "$250,000" wherever it appears therein and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "$250,000, in the case of a fiscal year ending before June 30, 1953, or $500,000, in the case of a fiscal year ending on or after June 30, 1953". (b) Section 105(f)(3) of such Act is amended by inserting, in the second sentence thereof, after "the $250,000 amount" the following: ", the $500,000 amount,". SEC. 3. (a) Paragraph (6) of section 106(a) of such Act is hereby amended by inserting immediately following the second period therein the following: "In designating those classes and types of contracts which shall be exempt and in exempting any individual contract under this paragraph, the Board shall consider as not having a direct or immediate connection with national defense any contract for the furnishing of materials or services to be used by the United States, a Department or agency thereof, in the manufacture and sale of synthetic rubbers to a private person or to private persons which are to be used for nondefense purposes. If the use by such private person or persons shall be partly for defense and partly for nondefense purposes, the Board shall consider as not having a direct or immediate connection with national defense that portion of the contract which is determined not to have been used for national defense purposes. The method used in making such determination shall be subject to approval by the Board." (b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall be effective as if it were a part of such Renegotiation Act of 1951 on the date of its enactment.

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