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70 Stat. 747. 5 USC 2254.

PUBLIC LAW 85-902--SEPT. 2, 1968

[72 ST A T.

233; title 42, sec. 1758, U.S.C. 1952 edition), to children without cost to such children or at reduced cost: Provided, That such reimbursement shall be made only in cases where such lunches are served to children of families wiio are recipients of public assistance granted by the government of the District of Columbia. The rate of such reimbursement for such lunches served by the public schools in the District of Columbia shall be the student price of 'Type A Lunch' in effect at the time such lunches are served. As used in this section the term 'Type A Lunch' means a Type A Lunch as defined in regulations promulgated by the Secretary of Agriculture pursuant to authority in the National School Lunch Act. Appropriations authorized by this section shall be available for reimbursement of the Food Service Fund in the amount of any agency contributions paid out of such Fund pursuant to the provisions of section 4(a) of the Civil Service Retirement Act". Approved September 2, 1958.

Public Law 85-902 September 2. 1958 [H. R. 98^3]

V e s s e l s, barges, operations.

AN ACT To amend section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, as amended (46 U.S.C. 861 and the following), is amended by adding immediately following section 27 thereof (46 LT. S. C. 883), a new section 27A reading as follows: "SEC. 27A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a corporation incorporated under the laws of the United States or any State, Territory, District, or possession thereof, shall be deemed to be a citizen of the United States for the purposes of and within the meaning of that term as used in sections 9 and 37 of the Shipping Act, 1916, as amended (46 U.S.C. 808, 835), section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, as amended (46 U.S.C. 883), Revised Statutes, section 4370 (46 U.S.C. 316), and the laws relating to the documentation of vessels, if it is established by a certificate filed with the Secretary of the Treasury as hereinafter provided, that— " (a) a majority of the officers and directors of such corporation are citizens of the United States; "(b) not less than 90 per centum of the employees of such corporation are residents of the United States; "(c) such corporation is engaged primarily in a manufacturing or mineral industry in the United States or any Territory, District, or possession thereof; "(d) the aggregate book value of the vessels owned by such corporation does not exceed 10 per centum of the aggregate book value of the assets of such corporation; and "(e) such corporation purchases or produces in the United States, its Territories, or possessions not less than 75 per centum of the raw materials used or sold in its operations but no vessel owned by any such corporation shall engage in the fisheries or in the transportation of merchandise or passengers for hire between points in the United States, including Territories, Districts, and possessions thereof, embraced within the coastwise laws, except as a service for a parent or subsidiary corporation and except when such vessel is under demise or bareboat charter at prevailing rates for use otherwise than in the domestic noncontiguous trades from any such corporation to a common or contract carrier subject to part

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