Volume 50 · 621
Public Law 75–580
To amend the Act entitled “An Act for the establishment of marine schools, and for other purposes”, approved March 4, 1911.
Approved August 11, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Act entitled “An Act for the establishment of marine schools, and for other purposes”, approved March 4, 1911.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the first section
Marine schools.
of the Act entitled “An Act for the establishment of marine schools, and for other purposes”, approved March 4, 1911 (36 Stat.
1353; U. S. C., title 34, secs. 1121–1123), is amended by adding at the end of the first section the following paragraph:
“The port of Norfolk specified in the preceding paragraph shall
“Port of Norfolk” construed.
be construed as embracing Norfolk, or Portsmouth, or Newport News, or any other city, town, municipality, or locality within the territorial limits of the customs-collection district having its headquarters at Norfolk, Virginia.”
Approved, August 11, 1937.