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Volume 53

1939 · 76th Congress · session 1 · 720 public laws.

  1. Public Law 76–2To consolidate and codify the internal revenue laws of the United States.Feb 10, 1939
  2. Public Law 76–1Making an additional appropriation for work relief and relief for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939.Feb 4, 1939
  3. Public Law 76–2To consolidate and codify the internal revenue laws of the United States.Feb 10, 1939
  4. Public Law 76–3Providing additional funds for the expenses of the special joint congressional committee investigating the Tennessee Valley Authority, and for other purposes.Feb 10, 1939
  5. Public Law 76–4To continue the functions of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and for other purposes.Mar 4, 1939
  6. Public Law 76–5To continue the functions of the Commodity Credit Corporation and the Export-Import Bank of Washington, and for other purposes.Mar 4, 1939
  7. Public Law 76–6Making additional funds available for salaries and expenses, Federal Housing Administration.Mar 4, 1939
  8. Public Law 76–7To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to regulate the hours during which streets, alleys, and so forth, shall be lighted.Mar 6, 1939
  9. Public Law 76–8To name the bridge to be erected over the Anacostia River in the District of Columbia after the late “March King”, John Philip Sousa, composer of the “Stars and Stripes Forever”.Mar 7, 1939
  10. Public Law 76–9To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, to provide for the reapportionment of cotton acreage allotments not planted by farmers entitled thereto.Mar 13, 1939
  11. Public Law 76–10Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, and for other purposes.Mar 15, 1939
  12. Public Law 76–11Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for other purposes.Mar 16, 1939
  13. Public Law 76–15To amend section 12 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, by authorizing advances for crop insurance.Mar 25, 1939
  14. Public Law 76–16To authorize the Postmaster General to withhold the awarding of star-route contracts for a period of forty-five days.Mar 25, 1939
  15. Public Law 76–17To authorize the purchase of certain lands for the Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico.Mar 27, 1939
  16. Public Law 76–18To repeal section 9 of the Act of March 3, 1875 (18 Stat. L. 450), as amended.Mar 27, 1939
  17. Public Law 76–19To create the office of Military Secretary to the General of the Armies of the United States of America, with the rank of colonel, and for other purposes.Mar 28, 1939
  18. Public Law 76–20To add certain public-domain land in Montana to the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation.Mar 28, 1939
  19. Public Law 76–21To provide for conveying to the United States the land, buildings, and improvements comprising the Choctaw and Chickasaw Sanatorium and General Hospital.Mar 28, 1939
  20. Public Law 76–22To authorize an appropriation to pay non-Indian claimants whose claims have been extinguished under the Act of June 7, 1924, but who have been found entitled to awards under said Act as supplemented by the Act of May 31, 1933.Mar 28, 1939
  21. Public Law 76–24Providing for the participation of the United States in the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening of the Panama Canal.Mar 28, 1939
  22. Public Law 76–26To exempt all vessels of the United States of less than two hundred tons gross registered tonnage from the provisions of the Officers’ Competency Certificates Convention, 1936 (being International Labor Conference Treaty, Convention Numbered 53, adopted by the International Labor Conference at Geneva in 1936).Mar 29, 1939
  23. Public Law 76–27To extend the time for commencing and completing bridges across Cross Bayou, Twelve Mile Bayou, and Caddo Lake in Caddo Parish, Louisiana.Mar 29, 1939
  24. Public Law 76–28To amend the joint resolution entitled “Joint resolution to provide that the United States extend to foreign governments invitations to participate in the Third International Congress for Microbiology to be held in the United States during the calendar year 1939.”Mar 29, 1939
  25. Public Law 76–34Making an additional appropriation for the fiscal year 1939 for expenditure by the United States Employees’ Compensation Commission in accordance with section 16 of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1938.Apr 1, 1939
  26. Public Law 76–35To provide more effectively for the national defense by carrying out the recommendations of the President in his message of January 12, 1939, to the Congress.Apr 3, 1939
  27. Public Law 76–36To provide for reorganizing agencies of the Government, and for other purposes.Apr 3, 1939
  28. Public Law 76–37Relating to banking, banks, and trust companies in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.Apr 5, 1939
  29. Public Law 76–38To amend paragraph 57 of section 8 of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, and for other purposes”, approved March 4, 1913.Apr 5, 1939
  30. Public Law 76–39To provide for the appointment of research assistants in the public schools of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.Apr 5, 1939
  31. Public Law 76–40To provide alternative methods of enforcement of orders, rules, and regulations of the Joint Board and of the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia.Apr 5, 1939
  32. Public Law 76–41To amend paragraphs 31 and 33 of an Act entitled “An Act to amend section 7 of an Act entitled ‘An Act making appropriations to provide for the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, and for other purposes’, approved July 1, 1902, and for other purposes”, approved July 1, 1932.Apr 5, 1939
  33. Public Law 76–42To amend Public Law Numbered 111, Sixty-sixth Congress, entitled “An Act for the retirement of public-school teachers in the District of Columbia.”.Apr 5, 1939
  34. Public Law 76–43To amend section 9, article V, of an Act known as “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia’, approved June 20, 1906, as amended, and for other purposes.”Apr 5, 1939
  35. Public Law 76–44To extend the time for retirement of cotton pool participation trust certificates.Apr 5, 1939
  36. Public Law 76–45Authorizing the Library of Congress to acquire by purchase, or otherwise, the whole, or any part, of the papers of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and Thomas Pinckney, including therewith a group of documents relating to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, now in the possession of Harry Stone, of New York City.Apr 6, 1939
  37. Public Law 76–47To authorize the Secretary of War to pay certain expenses incident to the training, attendance, and participation of the equestrian and modern pentathlon teams in the Twelfth Olympic Games.Apr 10, 1939
  38. Public Law 76–48To repeal subsection (4) of subsection (c) of section 101 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938.Apr 10, 1939
  39. Public Law 76–49Authorizing appropriation for expenses of a representative of the United States and of his assistants, and for one-half of the joint expenses of this Government and the Government of Mexico, in giving effect to the agreement of November 9–12, 1938, between the two Governments providing for the settlement of American claims for damages resulting from expropriations of agrarian properties since August 30, 1927.Apr 10, 1939
  40. Public Law 76–58To amend the Canal Zone Code.Apr 12, 1939
  41. Public Law 76–59Relating to the taxation of the compensation of public officers and employees.Apr 12, 1939
  42. Public Law 76–60To authorize and direct the Comptroller General of the United States to allow credit for all outstanding disallowances and suspensions in the accounts of the disbursing officers or agents of the Government for payments made to certain employees appointed by the United States Employees’ Compensation Commission.Apr 12, 1939
  43. Public Law 76–61Amending the joint resolution entitled “Joint resolution providing for the construction and maintenance of a National Gallery of Art”, approved March 24, 1937.Apr 13, 1939
  44. Public Law 76–62Making a further additional appropriation for work relief and relief for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939.Apr 13, 1939
  45. Public Law 76–70For the relief of certain disbursing officers of the Army of the United States and for the settlement of individual claims approved by the War Department.Apr 13, 1939
  46. Public Law 76–71To authorize the Department of Labor to continue to make special statistical studies upon payment of the cost thereof, and for other purposes.Apr 15, 1939
  47. Public Law 76–73To increase the authorization for appropriations for the administration of State unemployment compensation laws.Apr 19, 1939
  48. Public Law 76–74To authorize alterations and repairs to certain naval vessels, and for other purposes.Apr 20, 1939
  49. Public Law 76–75To authorize contingent expenditures, United States Coast Guard Academy.Apr 20, 1939
  50. Public Law 76–76To authorize the attendance of the Marine Band at the United Confederate Veterans’ 1939 reunion at Trinidad, Colorado, August 22, 23, 24, and 25, 1939, and for other purposes.Apr 20, 1939
  51. Public Law 76–77To authorize the painting of the signing of the Constitution for placement in the Capitol Building.Apr 20, 1939
  52. Public Law 76–84To amend the Act entitled “An Act for the grading and classification of clerks in the Foreign Service of the United States of America, and providing compensation therefor”, approved February 23, 1931.Apr 24, 1939
  53. Public Law 76–85To provide for the further development of cooperative agricultural extension work.Apr 24, 1939
  54. Public Law 76–86To authorize the attendance of the Marine Band at the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic to be held at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from August 27 to September 1, inclusive, 1939.Apr 24, 1939
  55. Public Law 76–87To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to proceed with the construction of certain public works, and for other purposes.Apr 25, 1939
  56. Public Law 76–88Making appropriations for the Military Establishment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for other purposes.Apr 26, 1939
  57. Public Law 76–89To permit the President to acquire and convert, as well as to construct, certain auxiliary vessels for the Navy.Apr 26, 1939
  58. Public Law 76–90To provide for the establishment of a Coast Guard station on the east coast of the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan.Apr 26, 1939
  59. Public Law 76–91Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Youngstown, Ohio, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Mahoning River at or near Marshall Street, Youngstown, Ohio.Apr 26, 1939
  60. Public Law 76–92To provide for the assignment of medical officers of the Public Health Service for duty on vessels of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and for other purposes.Apr 26, 1939
  61. Public Law 76–93Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Youngstown, Ohio, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Mahoning River at or near Cedar Street, Youngstown, Ohio.Apr 26, 1939
  62. Public Law 76–94Granting the consent of Congress to Westmoreland County in the State of Pennsylvania to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway intercounty bridge and approaches across the Allegheny River, connecting Valley Camp in Westmoreland County and East Deer Township in Allegheny County, to connect State Highway Routes Numbered 28 and 56.Apr 26, 1939
  63. Public Law 76–95To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Saint Lawrence River at or near Ogdensburg, New York.Apr 26, 1939
  64. Public Law 76–96Authorizing the Department of Highways of the State of Ohio to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Ottawa River at or near the city of Toledo, State of Ohio.Apr 26, 1939
  65. Public Law 76–97To provide for the completion of the Navy and Marine Memorial.Apr 26, 1939
  66. Public Law 76–98Granting the consent of Congress to the Highway Department of Davidson County, of the State of Tennessee, to construct a bridge across Cumberland River, at a point approximately one and three-fourths miles below Clees Ferry, connecting a belt-line highway in Davidson County, State of Tennessee, known as the Old Hickory Boulevard.Apr 26, 1939
  67. Public Law 76–99Granting the consent of Congress to the State Highway Commission of North Carolina to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across Waccamaw River between Old Dock and Ash, North Carolina.Apr 26, 1939
  68. Public Law 76–100Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Indiana to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Wabash River at or near Peru, Indiana.Apr 26, 1939
  69. Public Law 76–101Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Warren, Ohio, to construct, maintain, and operate a free footbridge over Mahoning River, near Stiles Street Northwest, Warren, Ohio.Apr 26, 1939
  70. Public Law 76–102To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Rock Island, Illinois, to a place at or near the city of Davenport, Iowa.Apr 26, 1939
  71. Public Law 76–103To amend the Act approved April 27, 1937, entitled “An Act to simplify accounting.”Apr 26, 1939
  72. Public Law 76–104To amend the joint resolution approved June 16, 1938, entitled “Joint resolution to create a Temporary National Economic Committee.”Apr 26, 1939
  73. Public Law 76–106Relating to the importation of distilled spirits for consumption at the New York World’s Fair, 1939, and the Golden Gate International Exposition of 1939, and to duties on certain articles to be exhibited at the New York World’s Fair, 1939.Apr 29, 1939
  74. Public Law 76–107Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, and for prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1939, and June 30, 1940, and for other purposes.May 2, 1939
  75. Public Law 76–109To provide domiciliary care, medical and hospital treatment, and burial benefits to certain veterans of the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, and the Boxer Rebellion.May 3, 1939
  76. Public Law 76–110To amend the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the temporary detail of United States employees, possessing special qualifications, to governments of American republics and the Philippines, and for other purposes”, approved May 25, 1938.May 3, 1939
  77. Public Law 76–113Making supplemental appropriations for printing and binding and stationery for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939.May 6, 1939
  78. Public Law 76–114To authorize the Secretary of War to terminate certain leases of the Long Island Railroad Company.May 6, 1939
  79. Public Law 76–115Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for other purposes.May 6, 1939
  80. Public Law 76–116To amend section 90 of the Judicial Code, as amended, with respect to the terms of the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi.May 8, 1939
  81. Public Law 76–117Making inapplicable certain reversionary provisions in the Act of March 4, 1923 (42 Stat. 1450), and a certain deed executed by the Secretary of War, in the matter of a lease to be entered into by the United States for the use of a part of the former Fort Armistead Military Reservation for air-navigation purposes.May 8, 1939
  82. Public Law 76–119Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for other purposes.May 10, 1939
  83. Public Law 76–121To amend section 78 of the Judicial Code, relating to the district of Idaho.May 11, 1939
  84. Public Law 76–122To authorize the Secretary of War to exchange obsolete, unsuitable, and unserviceable machines and tools pertaining to the manufacture or repair of ordnance matériel for new machines and tools.May 11, 1939
  85. Public Law 76–123Designating August 19 of each year as National Aviation Day.May 11, 1939
  86. Public Law 76–126To provide for the appraisal of the pneumatic mail tube systems in New York and Boston.May 12, 1939
  87. Public Law 76–127To amend an Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes”, approved June 3, 1916, as amended by the Act of June 4, 1920, so as to confer on the commanding general, General Headquarters Air Force, the same retirement privileges now enjoyed by chiefs of branches.May 12, 1939
  88. Public Law 76–128To provide time credits for substitutes in the pneumatic-tube service.May 12, 1939
  89. Public Law 76–129To provide a differential in pay for night work to pneumatic-tube-system employees in the Postal Service.May 12, 1939
  90. Public Law 76–130To extend the provisions of the forty-hour law to pneumatic-tube-system employees in the Postal ServiceMay 12, 1939
  91. Public Law 76–131Authorizing the President to invite other nations to participate in the Sacramento Golden Empire Centennial commemorating the one-hundredth anniversary of the founding of Sacramento by Captain John A. Sutter.May 12, 1939
  92. Public Law 76–133To amend the statutes providing punishment for transmitting threatening communications.May 15, 1939
  93. Public Law 76–134To authorize the mailing of pistols, revolvers, and other firearms capable of being concealed on the person, to officers of the Coast Guard.May 15, 1939
  94. Public Law 76–135Granting postal employees credit for Saturday in annual and sick leave law, thereby conforming to the forty-hour workweek or five-day-week law.May 15, 1939
  95. Public Law 76–136Limiting working hours of pneumatic-tube-system employees to eight in ten hours a day.May 15, 1939
  96. Public Law 76–137Providing for the participation of the United States in the celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the United States Lighthouse Service.May 15, 1939
  97. Public Law 76–139Creating the Arkansas-Mississippi Bridge Commission; defining the authority, power, and duties of said Commission; and authorizing said Commission and its successors and assigns to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Friar Point, Mississippi, and Helena, Arkansas, and for other purposes.May 17, 1939
  98. Public Law 76–140To provide that records certified by the Court of Claims to the Supreme Court, in response to writs of certiorari, may include material portions of the evidence, and for other purposes.May 22, 1939
  99. Public Law 76–141To prohibit reproductions of official badges, identification cards, and other insignia.May 22, 1939
  100. Public Law 76–142To authorize a sale of the old Carson City (Nevada) Mint site and building notwithstanding the provisions of Joint Resolution Numbered 18 of February 23, 1865.May 22, 1939
  101. Public Law 76–143To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to accept real estate devised to the United States by the late Lizzie Beck, of Mena, Arkansas, and for other purposes.May 22, 1939
  102. Public Law 76–144Relating to the disposition of funds derived from the Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands.May 24, 1939
  103. Public Law 76–145To further extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Garrison, North Dakota.May 24, 1939
  104. Public Law 76–146To increase further the efficiency of the Coast Guard by authorizing the retirement under certain conditions of enlisted personnel thereof with twenty or more years of service.May 24, 1939
  105. Public Law 76–147To amend the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Port Authority of Duluth, Minnesota, and the Harbor Commission of Superior, Wisconsin, to construct a highway bridge across the Saint Louis River from Rice’s Point in Duluth, Minnesota, to Superior in Wisconsin”, approved June 30, 1938.May 24, 1939
  106. Public Law 76–148To readjust the commissioned personnel of the Coast Guard, and for other purposes.May 24, 1939
  107. Public Law 76–149Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for other purposes.May 25, 1939
  108. Public Law 76–150To extend the time during which orders and marketing agreements under the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, may be applicable to hops.May 26, 1939
  109. Public Law 76–151To amend the Act of March 2, 1929 (45 Stat. 1492), entitled “An Act to establish load lines for American vessels, and for other purposes.”May 26, 1939
  110. Public Law 76–152To authorize the transfer to the State of Minnesota of the Fort Snelling Bridge at Fort Snelling, Minnesota.May 26, 1939
  111. Public Law 76–153Authorizing and directing the Secretary of War to execute an easement deed to the city of Duluth for park, recreational, and other public purposes covering certain federally owned lands.May 26, 1939
  112. Public Law 76–154To provide for the correction of the list of approved Pine Ridge lost allotment claims, and for other purposes.May 26, 1939
  113. Public Law 76–155Giving the consent and approval of Congress to the Rio Grande compact signed at Santa Fe, New Mexico, on March 18, 1938.May 31, 1939
  114. Public Law 76–156To authorize further relief to water users on United States reclamation projects and on Indian reclamation projects.May 31, 1939
  115. Public Law 76–157To amend the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, as amended, to make its provisions applicable to apples produced in the States of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.May 31, 1939
  116. Public Law 76–158To amend section 10 (b), (c), and (d) of the Act of June 26, 1884, as amended (U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 46, sec. 599), relative to the allotment of wages by seamen.May 31, 1939
  117. Public Law 76–159To amend section 4335 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relative to change of masters of vessels.May 31, 1939
  118. Public Law 76–160To amend section 4325 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended, relative to renewal of licenses of vessels.May 31, 1939
  119. Public Law 76–161To authorize the Secretary of War to provide for the sale of aviation supplies and services to aircraft operated by foreign military and air attaches accredited to the United States, and for other purposes.May 31, 1939
  120. Public Law 76–162Authorizing the President to invite the States of the Union and foreign countries to participate in the International Petroleum Exposition at Tulsa, Oklahoma, to be held May 18 to May 25, 1940.May 31, 1939
  121. Public Law 76–167To authorize necessary facilities for the Coast Guard in the interest of national defense and the performance of its maritime police functions.Jun 2, 1939
  122. Public Law 76–168To amend section 4498 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended, relative to the renewal of licenses of vessels.Jun 2, 1939
  123. Public Law 76–169To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to proceed with the construction of certain public works, and for other purposes.Jun 2, 1939
  124. Public Law 76–170Authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to convey a certain tract of land to the State of Oregon for use as a public park and recreational site.Jun 2, 1939
  125. Public Law 76–171Authorizing the payment of salaries of the officers and employees of Congress on the first workday preceding the last day of any month when the last day falls on Sunday or a legal holiday.Jun 2, 1939
  126. Public Law 76–172To authorize the construction of certain vessels for the Coast and Geodetic Survey, Department of Commerce, and for other purposes.Jun 2, 1939
  127. Public Law 76–173Providing for the transfusion of blood by members and former members of the Military Establishment, and by employees of the United States Government.Jun 2, 1939
  128. Public Law 76–174To authorize the Secretary of War to convey certain lands owned by the United States for other lands needed in connection with the expansion of West Point Military Reservation, New York, and for other purposes.Jun 2, 1939
  129. Public Law 76–175To amend certain sections of the National Housing Act.Jun 3, 1939
  130. Public Law 76–176Permitting the War Department to transfer old horses and mules to the care of reputable humane organizations.Jun 3, 1939
  131. Public Law 76–180To establish the position of Under Secretary in the Department of Commerce.Jun 5, 1939
  132. Public Law 76–181To define the status of the Under Secretary of Agriculture, and for other purposes.Jun 5, 1939
  133. Public Law 76–184To prohibit the unauthorized use of the name or insignia of the 4–H clubs, and for other purposes.Jun 5, 1939
  134. Public Law 76–185To authorize certain officers and employees to administer oaths to expense accounts.Jun 6, 1939
  135. Public Law 76–186To amend section 509 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended.Jun 6, 1939
  136. Public Law 76–190To provide for the common defense by acquiring stocks of strategic and critical materials essential to the needs of industry for the manufacture of supplies for the armed forces and the civilian population in time of a national emergency, and to encourage, as far as possible, the further development of strategic and critical materials within the United States for common defense.Jun 7, 1939
  137. Public Law 76–191To amend the Act entitled “An Act to provide books for the adult blind”, approved March 3, 1931.Jun 7, 1939
  138. Public Law 76–192Authorizing the President of the United States to accept on behalf of the United States a conveyance of certain lands on Government Island from the city of Alameda, California, and for other purposes.Jun 7, 1939
  139. Public Law 76–193Providing that reorganization plans numbered I and II shall take effect on July 1, 1939.Jun 7, 1939
  140. Public Law 76–195To provide for an additional midshipman at the United States Naval Academy, and for other purposes.Jun 8, 1939
  141. Public Law 76–196To amend the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes”, approved March 3, 1909, as amended, so as to extend commissary privileges to civilian officers and employees of the United States at naval stations beyond the continental limits of the United States or in Alaska.Jun 10, 1939
  142. Public Law 76–197To provide for the confiscation of firearms in possession of persons convicted of felony and disposition thereof.Jun 13, 1939
  143. Public Law 76–198To add certain lands of the Front Royal Quartermaster Depot Military Reservation, Virginia, to the Shenandoah National Park, and for other purposes.Jun 13, 1939
  144. Public Law 76–199To authorize the use of War Department equipment for the Confederate Veterans’ 1939 reunion at Trinidad, Colorado, August 22, 23, 24, and 25, 1939.Jun 13, 1939
  145. Public Law 76–200To authorize the conveyance by the United States to the town of Bristol, Maine, of a portion of the Pemaquid Point Lighthouse Reservation, and for other purposes.Jun 13, 1939
  146. Public Law 76–201To amend the United States mining laws applicable to the area known as the watershed of the headwaters of the Bonito River in the Lincoln National Forest within the State of New Mexico.Jun 13, 1939
  147. Public Law 76–202To convey certain property to the city of El Campo, Texas.Jun 13, 1939
  148. Public Law 76–203To add certain lands to the Papago Indian Reservation in Arizona.Jun 13, 1939
  149. Public Law 76–204To authorize the disposal of the Portland, Oregon, old courthouse building.Jun 13, 1939
  150. Public Law 76–205To authorize commissioning aviation cadets in the Naval and Marine Corps Reserves upon completion of training, and for other purposes.Jun 13, 1939
  151. Public Law 76–206To provide for the lending to the Virginia Military Institute of the equestrian portrait of General Winfield Scott now stored in the Capitol.Jun 13, 1939
  152. Public Law 76–207Making an additional appropriation for the control of outbreaks of insect pests.Jun 13, 1939
  153. Public Law 76–208Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for other purposes.Jun 16, 1939
  154. Public Law 76–209To amend section 243 of the Penal Code of the United States, as amended by the Act of June 15, 1935 (49 Stat. 378), relating to the marking of packages containing wild animals and birds and parts thereof.Jun 19, 1939
  155. Public Law 76–210To modify the provisions of section 14 of the Act of June 30, 1834, and section 10 of the Act of June 22, 1874, relating to the Indians.Jun 19, 1939
  156. Public Law 76–211To make effective in the district court for the Territory of Hawaii rules promulgated by the Supreme Court of the United States governing pleading, practice, and procedure in the district courts of the United States.Jun 19, 1939
  157. Public Law 76–212To amend Public Law Numbered 370, Seventy-fourth Congress, approved August 27, 1935 (49 Stat. 906).Jun 19, 1939
  158. Public Law 76–214To extend to June 16, 1942, the period within which certain loans to executive officers of member banks of the Federal Reserve System may be renewed or extended.Jun 20, 1939
  159. Public Law 76–215To authorize the grant of a sewer right-of-way and operation of sewage-treatment plant on the Fort Niagara Military Reservation, New York, by the village of Youngstown, New York.Jun 20, 1939
  160. Public Law 76–220To authorize the disposal of cemetery lots.Jun 20, 1939
  161. Public Law 76–224To dispense with particular allegations as to renunciation of allegiance in petitions for naturalization and in the oath of renunciation of foreign allegiance, by omitting the name of “the prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty” of which the petitioner for naturalization is a subject or citizen.Jun 20, 1939
  162. Public Law 76–225Relating to benefit assessments from condemnation proceedings for the opening, extension, widening, or straightening of alleys or minor streets.Jun 20, 1939
  163. Public Law 76–226To amend the Act entitled “An Act to regulate proceedings in adoption in the District of Columbia”, approved August 25, 1937.Jun 20, 1939
  164. Public Law 76–227To amend the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, approved June 25, 1938.Jun 20, 1939
  165. Public Law 76–228To provide for the widening of Wisconsin Avenue in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.Jun 20, 1939
  166. Public Law 76–229To amend section 1 of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize The Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company to extend its present track connection with the United States navy yard so as to provide adequate railroad facilities in connection with the development of Buzzards Point as an industrial area in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved June 18, 1932 (Public, Numbered 187, Seventy-second Congress).Jun 20, 1939
  167. Public Law 76–230To grant permission for the construction, maintenance, and use of a certain underground conduit for electrical lines in the District of Columbia.Jun 20, 1939
  168. Public Law 76–231To amend the District of Columbia Traffic Act of 1925 (43 Stat. 1119).Jun 20, 1939
  169. Public Law 76–234To extend further time for naturalization to alien veterans of the World War under the Act approved May 25, 1932 (47 Stat. 165), to extend the same privileges to certain veterans of countries allied with the United States during the World War, and for other purposes.Jun 21, 1939
  170. Public Law 76–235To define the status of certain lands purchased for the Choctaw Indians, Mississippi.Jun 21, 1939
  171. Public Law 76–236To authorize the furnishing of steam from the Central Heating Plant to the District of Columbia.Jun 21, 1939
  172. Public Law 76–237To provide that the United States extend to foreign governments invitations to participate in the Seventh International Congress for the Rheumatic Diseases to be held in the United States during the calendar year 1940, and to authorize an appropriation to assist in meeting the expenses of the session.Jun 21, 1939
  173. Public Law 76–238To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended.Jun 22, 1939
  174. Public Law 76–239To ratify and confirm certain interest rates on loans made from the revolving fund authorized by section 6 of the Agricultural Marketing Act, approved June 15, 1929 (46 Stat. 11), and for other purposes.Jun 22, 1939
  175. Public Law 76–242To provide for temporary postponement of the operations of certain provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.Jun 23, 1939
  176. Public Law 76–243To establish a Coast Guard Reserve to be composed of owners of motorboats and yachts.Jun 23, 1939
  177. Public Law 76–244To provide for the training of civil aircraft pilots, and for other purposes.Jun 27, 1939
  178. Public Law 76–246Making appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, for civil functions administered by the War Department, and for other purposes.Jun 28, 1939
  179. Public Law 76–247To provide revenue, equalize taxation, and for other purposes.Jun 29, 1939
  180. Public Law 76–248Making appropriations for the Departments of State and Justice and for the Judiciary, and for the Department of Commerce, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for other purposes.Jun 29, 1939
  181. Public Law 76–249Making appropriations for the Labor Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for other purposes.Jun 29, 1939
  182. Public Law 76–250To continue in effect until June 30, 1942, the Act entitled “An Act to regulate interstate and foreign commerce in petroleum and its products by prohibiting the shipment in such commerce of petroleum and its products produced in violation of State law, and for other purposes”, approved February 22, 1935, as amended.Jun 29, 1939
  183. Public Law 76–252Making appropriations for work relief and relief, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940.Jun 30, 1939
  184. Public Law 76–253Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture and for the Farm Credit Administration for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for other purposes.Jun 30, 1939
  185. Public Law 76–254Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, to provide appropriations required immediately for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for other purposes.Jun 30, 1939
  186. Public Law 76–255To establish, a lien for moneys due hospitals for services rendered in cases caused by negligence or fault of others and providing for the recording and enforcing of such liens.Jun 30, 1939
  187. Public Law 76–256To extend the period during which direct obligations of the United States may be used as collateral security for Federal Reserve notes.Jun 30, 1939
  188. Public Law 76–257To extend the time within which annual assessment work on mining claims held by location in the United States may be commenced, for the year commencing at 12 o’clock meridian July 1, 1938.Jun 30, 1939
  189. Public Law 76–258Making additional appropriations for the Military Establishment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for other purposes.Jul 1, 1939
  190. Public Law 76–259Providing an appropriation for the month of July 1939, for the Petroleum Conservation Division, Department of the Interior.Jul 1, 1939
  191. Public Law 76–260To extend the time within which the powers relating to the stabilization fund and alteration of the weight of the dollar may be exercised.Jul 6, 1939
  192. Public Law 76–261Providing for the presentation through the American Minister to Greece of a certain monument to the people of Greece.Jul 6, 1939
  193. Public Law 76–263To provide national flags for the burial of honorably discharged former service men and women.Jul 11, 1939
  194. Public Law 76–264To provide for the establishment of a Coast Guard station at or near the city of Monterey, California.Jul 12, 1939
  195. Public Law 76–265To authorize the procurement, without advertising, of certain aircraft parts and instruments or aeronautical accessories, and for other purposes.Jul 13, 1939
  196. Public Law 76–266For the relief of disbursing officers and other officers and employees of the United States for disallowances and charges on account of airplane travel.Jul 14, 1939
  197. Public Law 76–267To provide for the status of warrant officers and of enlisted men of the Regular Army who serve as commissioned officers.Jul 14, 1939
  198. Public Law 76–268Authorizing the Secretary of War to grant a revocable license to the Union Pacific Railroad Company to maintain certain railroad trackage on the Fort Leavenworth Military Reservation.Jul 14, 1939
  199. Public Law 76–269To provide for a Deputy Chief of Staff, and for other purposes.Jul 14, 1939
  200. Public Law 76–270To amend the Taylor Grazing Act.Jul 14, 1939
  201. Public Law 76–271To authorize appropriation for the construction of a medical school building at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.Jul 14, 1939
  202. Public Law 76–272To prescribe rules for the enrollment of Menominee Indian children born to enrolled parents, and for other purposes.Jul 14, 1939
  203. Public Law 76–273Authorizing the President to invite foreign countries to participate in the San Diego-Cabrillo Quadricentennial Celebration, to be held in 1942.Jul 14, 1939
  204. Public Law 76–281Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of such District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for other purposes.Jul 15, 1939
  205. Public Law 76–282To amend and clarify the provisions of the Act of June 15, 1936 (49 Stat. 1507), and for other purposes.Jul 15, 1939
  206. Public Law 76–283To authorize the purchase of equipment and supplies for experimental and test purposes.Jul 15, 1939
  207. Public Law 76–284To extend the benefits of the United States Employees’ Compensation Act to members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps and of the Enlisted Reserve Corps of the Army who are physically injured in line of duty while performing active duty or engaged in authorized training, and for other purposes.Jul 15, 1939
  208. Public Law 76–285To provide for acceptance and cashing of Government pay checks of retired naval personnel and members of the Naval and Marine Corps Reserves by commissary stores and ship’s stores ashore, located outside the continental limits of the United States.Jul 15, 1939
  209. Public Law 76–286To authorize the payment of burial expenses and expenses in connection with last illness and death of native employees who die while serving in offices abroad of executive departments of the United States Government.Jul 15, 1939
  210. Public Law 76–287To amend section 4a of the Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes”, approved June 3, 1916, as amended.Jul 15, 1939
  211. Public Law 76–288To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a permanent instruction staff at the United States Coast Guard Academy”, approved April 16, 1937.Jul 15, 1939
  212. Public Law 76–289To amend section 1223 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.Jul 15, 1939
  213. Public Law 76–290To amend the Act to authorize alterations and repairs to certain naval vessels, and for other purposes, approved April 20, 1939.Jul 15, 1939
  214. Public Law 76–291Authorizing the President of the United States of America to proclaim October 11, 1939, General Pulaski’s Memorial Day for the observance and commemoration of the death of Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski.Jul 15, 1939
  215. Public Law 76–313To provide that the annual registration of motor vehicles and the annual licensing of certain public vehicles in the District of Columbia shall be for the period from April 1 in each year to March 31 in the succeeding year.Jul 17, 1939
  216. Public Law 76–314Authorizing Federal participation in the commemoration and observance of the four-hundredth anniversary of the explorations of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado.Jul 17, 1939
  217. Public Law 76–315To authorize an exchange of lands at the Fort Francis E. Warren Military Reservation, Wyoming.Jul 17, 1939
  218. Public Law 76–316To make effective the provisions of the Officers’ Competency Certificates Convention, 1936.Jul 17, 1939
  219. Public Law 76–318Creating the City of Dubuque Bridge Commission and authorizing said Commission and its successors to purchase and/or construct, maintain, and operate a bridge or bridges across the Mississippi River at or near Dubuque, Iowa, and East Dubuque, Illinois.Jul 18, 1939
  220. Public Law 76–319To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River, at or near Poplar, Montana.Jul 18, 1939
  221. Public Law 76–320Authorizing the city of Chester, Illinois, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Chester, Illinois.Jul 18, 1939
  222. Public Law 76–321Authorizing the county of Gallatin, State of Illinois, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ohio River at or near the city of Shawneetown, Gallatin County, Illinois, to a point opposite thereto in the county of Union, State of Kentucky.Jul 18, 1939
  223. Public Law 76–322To amend section 691-a of the Code of Law of the District of Columbia, approved March 3, 1901, and of any Act or Acts amendatory thereof relating to foreign building and loan associations doing business in the District of Columbia.Jul 18, 1939
  224. Public Law 76–323Granting annual and sick leave with pay to substitutes in the Postal Service.Jul 18, 1939
  225. Public Law 76–324To provide for the establishment and maintenance of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, and for other purposes.Jul 18, 1939
  226. Public Law 76–328To amend the Act entitled “An Act to aid the several States in making, or for having made, certain toll bridges on the system of Federal-aid highways free bridges, and for other purposes”, by providing that funds available under such Act may be used to match regular and secondary Federal-aid road funds, and for other purposes.Jul 19, 1939
  227. Public Law 76–329To restore certain benefits to World War veterans suffering with paralysis, paresis, or blindness, or who are helpless or bedridden, and for other purposes.Jul 19, 1939
  228. Public Law 76–330To amend the Act entitled “An Act for the grading and classification of clerks in the Foreign Service of the United States of America, and providing compensation therefor”, approved February 23, 1931, as amended.Jul 19, 1939
  229. Public Law 76–331To provide certain benefits for World War veterans and their dependents, and for other purposes.Jul 19, 1939
  230. Public Law 76–334To empower the President of the United States to create new national forest units and make additions to existing national forests in the State of Montana.Jul 20, 1939
  231. Public Law 76–335To authorize an appropriation to meet such expenses as the President, in his discretion, may deem necessary to enable the United States to cooperate with the Republic of Panama in completing the construction of a national highway between Chorrera and Rio Hato, Republic of Panama, for defense purposes.Jul 20, 1939
  232. Public Law 76–336To amend the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended.Jul 20, 1939
  233. Public Law 76–337Consenting to an interstate oil compact to conserve oil and gas.Jul 20, 1939
  234. Public Law 76–338To provide for probationary appointments of officers in the Regular Army.Jul 25, 1939
  235. Public Law 76–339To authorize the Secretary of War to make contracts, agreements, or other arrangements for the supplying of water to the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District.Jul 25, 1939
  236. Public Law 76–340To transfer the control and jurisdiction of the Park Field Military Reservation, Shelby County, Tennessee, from the War Department to the Department of Agriculture.Jul 25, 1939
  237. Public Law 76–341Authorizing the States of Minnesota and Wisconsin to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Saint Croix River at or near Osceola, Wisconsin, and Chisago County, Minnesota.Jul 25, 1939
  238. Public Law 76–342Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Mississippi to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across Pearl River at or near Georgetown, Mississippi.Jul 25, 1939
  239. Public Law 76–343Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Mississippi or Madison County, Mississippi, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across Pearl River at or near Ratliffs Ferry in Madison County, Mississippi.Jul 25, 1939
  240. Public Law 76–344To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near a point between Morgan and Wash Streets in the city of Saint Louis, Missouri, and a point opposite thereto in the city of East Saint Louis, Illinois.Jul 25, 1939
  241. Public Law 76–345To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River between Saint Louis, Missouri, and Stites, Illinois.Jul 25, 1939
  242. Public Law 76–346Granting the consent of Congress to the county of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, to construct, maintain, and operate free highway bridges across the Monongahela River, in Allegheny County, State of Pennsylvania.Jul 25, 1939
  243. Public Law 76–347To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to accept on behalf of the United States certain land in the city of Seattle, King County, Washington, with improvements thereon.Jul 25, 1939
  244. Public Law 76–348To authorize major overhauls for certain naval vessels, to authorize the acquisition of two motor vessels for the Navy, and for other purposes.Jul 25, 1939
  245. Public Law 76–349To amend section 5 of the Act of April 3, 1939 (Public, Numbered 18, Seventy-sixth Congress).Jul 25, 1939
  246. Public Law 76–350Granting the consent of Congress to the Arkansas State Highway Commission to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Black River at or near the town of Black Rock, Arkansas.Jul 25, 1939
  247. Public Law 76–351To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Red River at or near a point suitable to the interests of navigation, from a point in Walsh County, North Dakota, at or near the terminus of North Dakota State Highway Numbered 17.Jul 25, 1939
  248. Public Law 76–352To provide for additional clerk hire in the House of Representatives, and for other purposes.Jul 25, 1939
  249. Public Law 76–353Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Minnesota or the Minnesota Department of Highways to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Little Falls, Minnesota.Jul 25, 1939
  250. Public Law 76–354Granting the consent of Congress to the Commissioners of Mahoning County, Ohio, to replace a bridge which has collapsed, across the Mahoning River at Division Street, Youngstown, Mahoning County, Ohio.Jul 25, 1939
  251. Public Law 76–355Granting the consent of Congress to Northern Natural Gas Company of Delaware to construct, maintain, and operate a pipe-line bridge across the Missouri River.Jul 25, 1939
  252. Public Law 76–356To amend the Act entitled “An Act to create a new division of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas”, approved May 26, 1928 (45 Stat. 747).Jul 25, 1939
  253. Public Law 76–357To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Winona, Minnesota.Jul 25, 1939
  254. Public Law 76–358To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Niagara River at or near the city of Niagara Falls, New York, and for other purposes.Jul 25, 1939
  255. Public Law 76–359To authorize the attendance of the United States Naval Academy Band at the New York World’s Fair on the day designated as Maryland Day at such fair.Jul 25, 1939
  256. Public Law 76–366To amend the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933.Jul 26, 1939
  257. Public Law 76–367To provide revenue for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.Jul 26, 1939
  258. Public Law 76–368To provide a right-of-way.Jul 26, 1939
  259. Public Law 76–369To grant to the State of California a retrocession of jurisdiction over certain rights-of-way granted to the State of California over a certain road about to be constructed in the Presidio of San Francisco Military Reservation.Jul 26, 1939
  260. Public Law 76–370Authorizing the State highway departments of North Dakota and Minnesota and the counties of Grand Forks of North Dakota and Polk of Minnesota, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Red River near Thompson, North Dakota, and Crookston, Minnesota.Jul 26, 1939
  261. Public Law 76–371To amend the Act approved June 25, 1910, authorizing establishment of the Postal Savings System.Jul 26, 1939
  262. Public Law 76–372To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge over Lake Sabine at or near Port Arthur, Texas, to amend the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 1008), and for other purposes.Jul 26, 1939
  263. Public Law 76–373To authorize the acquisition of additional land for military purposes.Jul 26, 1939
  264. Public Law 76–374To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge and causeway across the water between the mainland, at or near Cedar Point and Dauphin Island, Alabama.Jul 26, 1939
  265. Public Law 76–375To make uniform in the District of Columbia the law on fresh pursuit and to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to cooperate with the States.Jul 26, 1939
  266. Public Law 76–376To provide minimum national allotments for cotton.Jul 26, 1939
  267. Public Law 76–377To provide minimum national allotments for wheat.Jul 26, 1939
  268. Public Law 76–378Relating to section 322 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended.Jul 26, 1939
  269. Public Law 76–379To amend section 335 (c) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended.Jul 26, 1939
  270. Public Law 76–383To amend section 73 of the Hawaiian Organic Act, approved April 30, 1900, as amended.Jul 27, 1939
  271. Public Law 76–384To extend the period of restrictions on lands of the Quapaw Indians, Oklahoma, and for other purposes.Jul 27, 1939
  272. Public Law 76–385To grant to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts a retrocession of jurisdiction over the General Clarence R. Edwards Memorial Bridge, bridging Watershops Pond of the Springfield Armory Military Reservation in the city of Springfield, Massachusetts.Jul 27, 1939
  273. Public Law 76–386Relating to the acquisition of the site for the post-office building to be constructed in Poplarville, Mississippi.Jul 27, 1939
  274. Public Law 76–387To provide for the distribution of the judgment fund of the Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, and for other purposes.Jul 27, 1939
  275. Public Law 76–388To improve the efficiency of the Coast Guard, and for other purposes.Jul 27, 1939
  276. Public Law 76–389For the protection of the water supply of the city of Ketchikan, Alaska.Jul 27, 1939
  277. Public Law 76–390To provide means by which certain Filipinos can emigrate from the United States.Jul 27, 1939
  278. Public Law 76–393To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States”, approved July 1, 1898, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto.Jul 28, 1939
  279. Public Law 76–395To authorize the addition to Glacier National Park, Montana, of certain property acquired for the establishment of a fish hatchery, and for other purposes.Jul 31, 1939
  280. Public Law 76–396To transfer jurisdiction over commercial prints and labels, for the purpose of copyright registration, to the Register of Copyrights.Jul 31, 1939
  281. Public Law 76–397To amend the Act entitled “An Act to classify officers and members of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.”Jul 31, 1939
  282. Public Law 76–398To amend the Act entitled “An Act to regulate steam and other operating engineering in the District of Columbia”, approved February 28, 1887, as amended.Jul 31, 1939
  283. Public Law 76–399To amend section 1860 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (48 U. S. C. 1460), to permit retired officers and enlisted men of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard to hold civil office in any Territory of the United States.Jul 31, 1939
  284. Public Law 76–400To include Lafayette Park within the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the height, exterior design, and construction of private and semipublic buildings in certain areas of the National Capital”, approved May 16, 1930.Jul 31, 1939
  285. Public Law 76–401Relating to the exchange of certain lands in the State of Oregon.Jul 31, 1939
  286. Public Law 76–408To increase the amount of Federal aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled soldiers and sailors of the United States.Aug 1, 1939
  287. Public Law 76–409To provide for the registry of pursers and surgeons as staff officers on vessels of the United States, and for other purposes.Aug 1, 1939
  288. Public Law 76–410To prevent pernicious political activities.Aug 2, 1939
  289. Public Law 76–411To provide for the regulation of the sale of certain securities in interstate and foreign commerce and through the mails, and the regulation of the trust indentures under which the same are issued, and for other purposes.Aug 3, 1939
  290. Public Law 76–412Providing for the exchange of certain park lands at the northern boundary of Piney Branch Parkway, near Argyle Terrace, for other lands more suitable for the use and development of Piney Branch Parkway.Aug 3, 1939
  291. Public Law 76–413To amend the National Stolen Property Act.Aug 3, 1939
  292. Public Law 76–414To authorize the board of directors of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf to dedicate a portion of Mount Olivet Road Northeast and to exchange certain lands with the Secretary of the Interior, to dispose of other lands, and for other purposes.Aug 3, 1939
  293. Public Law 76–415To provide pensions to members of the Regular Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard who become disabled by reason of their service therein, equivalent to 75 per centum of the compensation payable to war veterans for similar service-connected disabilities, and for other purposes.Aug 4, 1939
  294. Public Law 76–416To promote nautical education, and for other purposes.Aug 4, 1939
  295. Public Law 76–417To amend certain provisions of the Merchant Marine and Shipping Acts, to further the development of the American merchant marine, and for other purposes.Aug 4, 1939
  296. Public Law 76–418To provide a feasible and comprehensive plan for the variable payment of construction charges on United States reclamation projects, to protect the investment of the United States in such projects, and for other purposes.Aug 4, 1939
  297. Public Law 76–419To provide that no statute of limitations shall apply to offenses punishable by death.Aug 4, 1939
  298. Public Law 76–420To provide for the acceptance of an easement with respect to certain lands in New Mexico, and for other purposes.Aug 4, 1939
  299. Public Law 76–421To provide for the adjudication by a Commissioner of claims of American nationals against the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.Aug 4, 1939
  300. Public Law 76–426To amend further the Civil Service Retirement Act, approved May 29, 1930.Aug 4, 1939
  301. Public Law 76–427To authorize the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to make certain allowances for losses by leakage and evaporation upon withdrawal of packages of brandy or fruit spirits under certain conditions.Aug 4, 1939
  302. Public Law 76–429To amend section 224 of the Criminal Code so as to penalize the making of false claims for the loss of insured mail matter.Aug 5, 1939
  303. Public Law 76–430To authorize the temporary appointment of a special judge for the District Court of the Virgin Islands.Aug 5, 1939
  304. Public Law 76–431To provide for the public auction of certain town lots within the city of Parker, Arizona.Aug 5, 1939
  305. Public Law 76–432To authorize the transfer to the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Treasury of portions of the property within the military reservation known as the Morehead City Target Range, North Carolina, for the construction of improvements thereon, and for other purposes.Aug 5, 1939
  306. Public Law 76–433To extend the privilege of retirement for disability to judges appointed to hold office during good behavior.Aug 5, 1939
  307. Public Law 76–434To amend the Criminal Code in regard to obtaining money by false pretenses on the high seas.Aug 5, 1939
  308. Public Law 76–435To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Columbia River at Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon.Aug 5, 1939
  309. Public Law 76–436Granting the consent of Congress to the Providence, Warren and Bristol Railroad Company to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge across the Warren River at or near Barrington, Rhode Island.Aug 5, 1939
  310. Public Law 76–437Granting the consent of Congress to the counties of Valley and McCone, Montana, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Missouri River at or near Frazer, Montana.Aug 5, 1939
  311. Public Law 76–438To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Arrow Rock, Missouri.Aug 5, 1939
  312. Public Law 76–439Granting the consent of Congress to the Iowa State Highway Commission to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Des Moines River at or near Red Rock, Iowa.Aug 5, 1939
  313. Public Law 76–440To reserve to the United States for the Bonneville project a right-of-way across certain Indian lands in the State of Washington, subject to the consent of the individual allottees and the payment of compensation, and for other purposes.Aug 5, 1939
  314. Public Law 76–441To amend the Act entitled “An act for the grading and classification of clerks in the Foreign Service of the United States of America, and providing compensation therefor”, approved February 23, 1931, as amended.Aug 5, 1939
  315. Public Law 76–442To prohibit the issuance and coinage of certain commemorative coins, and for other purposes.Aug 5, 1939
  316. Public Law 76–443To provide that pensions payable to the widows and orphans of deceased veterans of the Spanish-American War, Boxer Rebellion, or Philippine Insurrection shall be effective as of date of death of the veteran, if claim is filed within one year thereafter.Aug 5, 1939
  317. Public Law 76–444To authorize an exchange of lands between the War Department and the Department of Labor.Aug 5, 1939
  318. Public Law 76–445To make the United States Coast Guard Academy library a public depository for Government publications.Aug 5, 1939
  319. Public Law 76–446To provide for the abatement of personal taxes from insolvent building associations in the District of Columbia.Aug 5, 1939
  320. Public Law 76–447To provide a right-of-way.Aug 5, 1939
  321. Public Law 76–448To establish the status of funds and employees of the United States Naval Academy laundry.Aug 5, 1939
  322. Public Law 76–449Authorizing the sale of certain real estate in the District of Columbia no longer required for public purposes.Aug 5, 1939
  323. Public Law 76–450To amend sections 4886, 4887, 4920, and 4929 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 35, secs. 31, 32, 69, and 73).Aug 5, 1939
  324. Public Law 76–451To amend sections 4904, 4909, 4911, and 4915 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 35, secs. 52, 57, 59a, and 63).Aug 5, 1939
  325. Public Law 76–452To amend section 4903 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 35, Sec. 51).Aug 5, 1939
  326. Public Law 76–453To waive the age limit for appointment as second lieutenant, Regular Army, of certain persons now on active duty with the Air Corps.Aug 5, 1939
  327. Public Law 76–454To provide for the rank and title of lieutenant general of the Regular Army.Aug 5, 1939
  328. Public Law 76–455Providing for participation by the United States in the celebration to be held at Fort McHenry on September 14, 1939, in celebration of the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the writing of the Star-Spangled Banner.Aug 5, 1939
  329. Public Law 76–456Authorizing the Librarian of Congress to return to Williamsburg Lodge, Numbered Six, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Virginia, the original manuscript of the record of the proceedings of said lodge.Aug 5, 1939
  330. Public Law 76–457Providing that the farmers’ market in blocks 354 and 355 in the District of Columbia shall not be used for other purposes.Aug 5, 1939
  331. Public Law 76–477To perfect the consolidation of the Lighthouse Service with the Coast Guard by authorizing the commissioning, appointment, and enlistment in the Coast Guard, of certain officers and employees of the Lighthouse Service, and for other purposes.Aug 5, 1939
  332. Public Law 76–478To amend section 9 of the Act of July 3, 1926 (44 Stat. 817), entitled “An Act to readjust the commissioned personnel of the Coast Guard, and for other purposes.”Aug 5, 1939
  333. Public Law 76–479Authorizing the Secretary of War to permit Salt Lake City, Utah, to construct and maintain certain roads, streets, and boulevards across the Fort Douglas Military Reservation.Aug 5, 1939
  334. Public Law 76–480To authorize postmasters within the Territory of Alaska to administer oaths and affirmations, and for other purposes.Aug 5, 1939
  335. Public Law 76–481To provide for the disposition of certain records of the United States Government.Aug 5, 1939
  336. Public Law 76–482To permit the importation free of duty of certain literature for distribution at the Golden Gate International Exposition of 1939.Aug 5, 1939
  337. Public Law 76–483To approve the action of the Secretary of the Interior deferring the collection of certain irrigation construction charges against lands under the San Carlos and Flathead Indian irrigation projects.Aug 5, 1939
  338. Public Law 76–493To legalize a free highway bridge now being constructed across the Des Moines River, at Levy, Iowa.Aug 5, 1939
  339. Public Law 76–494To authorize the Assistant Secretary of the Navy to continue to serve as Acting Secretary of the Navy until the appointment of a Secretary, and for other purposes.Aug 5, 1939
  340. Public Law 76–495Authorizing the Joint Committee on the Library to procure an oil portrait of former President Herbert Hoover.Aug 5, 1939
  341. Public Law 76–500To amend the Federal Firearms Act (Public, Numbered 785, seventy-fifth Congress) so as to more adequately define the term “ammunition” as said term is defined in said Act.Aug 6, 1939
  342. Public Law 76–501To provide for the administration of the United States courts, and for other purposes.Aug 7, 1939
  343. Public Law 76–502To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the complete independence of the Philippine Islands, to provide for the adoption of a constitution and a form of government for the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes”.Aug 7, 1939
  344. Public Law 76–503Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Connecticut, acting by and through any agency or commission thereof, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Connecticut River at or near Hartford, Connecticut.Aug 7, 1939
  345. Public Law 76–504Granting the consent of Congress to the Secretary of the Interior, the State of Washington, and the Great Northern Railway Company to construct, maintain, and operate either a combined highway and railroad bridge or two separate bridges across the Columbia River, at or near Kettle Falls, Washington.Aug 7, 1939
  346. Public Law 76–505Authorizing the village of Cassville, Wisconsin, or its assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Cassville, Wisconsin, and to a place at or near the village of Guttenberg, Iowa.Aug 7, 1939
  347. Public Law 76–506To amend section 92 of the Judicial Code to provide for a term of court at Kalispell, Montana, and subject to the recommendation of the Attorney General of the United States to permit the provision of rooms and accommodations for holding court at Livingston, and Kalispell, Montana.Aug 7, 1939
  348. Public Law 76–507Authorizing the conveyance of certain lands to the State of Nevada.Aug 7, 1939
  349. Public Law 76–508To legalize a bridge across Bayou La Fourche at Cut Off, Louisiana.Aug 7, 1939
  350. Public Law 76–509Relating to the development of farm units on public lands under Federal reclamation projects with funds furnished by the Farm Security Administration.Aug 7, 1939
  351. Public Law 76–510Authorizing the county of Howard, State of Missouri, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Missouri River at or near Petersburg, Missouri.Aug 7, 1939
  352. Public Law 76–511To facilitate certain construction work for the Army, and for other purposes.Aug 7, 1939
  353. Public Law 76–512Authorizing the construction of a highway bridge across the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal at Saint Georges, Delaware.Aug 7, 1939
  354. Public Law 76–513To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River at or near Mauckport, Harrison County, Indiana.Aug 7, 1939
  355. Public Law 76–514To ratify and confirm act 58 of the Session Laws of Hawaii, 1939, extending the time within which revenue bonds may be issued and delivered under act 174 of the Session Laws of Hawaii, 1935.Aug 7, 1939
  356. Public Law 76–515To amend section 4 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide a civil government for the Virgin Islands of the United States”, approved June 22, 1936.Aug 7, 1939
  357. Public Law 76–516To amend an Act entitled “An Act to reserve lands to the Territory of Alaska for educational uses, and for other purposes”, approved March 4, 1915 (38 Stat. 1214–1215).Aug 7, 1939
  358. Public Law 76–517To amend the Act of March 2, 1929 (45 Stat. 536).Aug 7, 1939
  359. Public Law 76–518To authorize M. H. Gildow to construct a free, movable, pontoon footbridge across Muskingum River Canal at or near Beverly, Ohio.Aug 7, 1939
  360. Public Law 76–519Amending the Act of Congress of June 25, 1938 (C. 710, 52 Stat. 1207), authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to pay salaries and and expenses of the chairman, secretary, and interpreter of the Klamath General Council, members of the Klamath Business Committee and other committees appointed by said Klamath General Council, and official delegates of the Klamath Tribe.Aug 7, 1939
  361. Public Law 76–520To provide for the establishment of a cemetery within the Crab Orchard Creek Dam Project, Williamson County, Illinois.Aug 7, 1939
  362. Public Law 76–521To amend an Act entitled “An Act to require the registration of certain persons employed by agencies to disseminate propaganda in the United States and for other purposes”, approved June 8, 1938 (Public Law Numbered 583, Seventy-fifth Congress, third session).Aug 7, 1939
  363. Public Law 76–545To amend sections 6 and 7 of the Act entitled “An Act for the retirement of employees of the Alaska Railroad, Territory of Alaska, who are citizens of the United States”, approved June 29, 1936.Aug 7, 1939
  364. Public Law 76–546To amend the District of Columbia Revenue Act of 1939, and for other purposes.Aug 7, 1939
  365. Public Law 76–547To limit the operation of sections 109 and 113 of the Criminal Code and section 190 of the Revised Statutes of the United States with respect to counsel in certain cases.Aug 7, 1939
  366. Public Law 76–548Authorizing and requesting the President to accept the invitation of the Government of Norway to the Government of the United States to participate in an International Exhibition of Polar Exploration, which will be held at Bergen, Norway, in 1940; and authorizing an appropriation to cover the expenses of such participation.Aug 7, 1939
  367. Public Law 76–550To amend the Act entitled “An Act for the retirement of employees of the Alaska Railroad, Territory of Alaska, who are citizens of the United States”, approved June 29, 1936, and for other purposes.Aug 7, 1939
  368. Public Law 76–551To relieve disbursing officers and certifying officers of the Veterans’ Administration from liability for payment where recovery of such payment is waived under existing laws administered by the Veterans’ Administration.Aug 7, 1939
  369. Public Law 76–552Providing for the disposition of certain Klamath Indian tribal funds.Aug 7, 1939
  370. Public Law 76–553To amend the Act entitled “An Act to establish a Civilian Conservation Corps, and for other purposes”, approved June 28, 1937, as amended.Aug 7, 1939
  371. Public Law 76–554To extend the time for completing the construction of a bridge across the Columbia River near The Dalles, Oregon.Aug 7, 1939
  372. Public Law 76–555To amend sections 712, 802, and 902 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, relative to the requisitioning of vessels.Aug 7, 1939
  373. Public Law 76–556To provide for the establishment of a Coast Guard station on the shore of North Carolina at or near Wrightsville Beach, New Hanover County.Aug 7, 1939
  374. Public Law 76–557To amend section 194 of an Act entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States”, approved March 4, 1909 (35 Stat. L. 1088).Aug 7, 1939
  375. Public Law 76–558To exempt certain motorboats from the operation of sections 4 and 6 of the Motor Boat Act of June 9, 1910, and from certain other Acts of Congress, and to provide that certain motorboats shall not be required to carry on board copies of the pilot rules.Aug 7, 1939
  376. Public Law 76–559Authorizing the county of Saint Louis, State of Missouri, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Mississippi River near Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.Aug 7, 1939
  377. Public Law 76–560To authorize the city of Duluth, in the State of Minnesota, to construct a toll bridge across the Saint Louis River, between the States of Minnesota and Wisconsin, and for other purposes.Aug 7, 1939
  378. Public Law 76–561Amending section 2857 of the Internal Revenue Code.Aug 7, 1939
  379. Public Law 76–562To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938.Aug 7, 1939
  380. Public Law 76–563To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938.Aug 7, 1939
  381. Public Law 76–564To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938.Aug 7, 1939
  382. Public Law 76–565To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938.Aug 7, 1939
  383. Public Law 76–566To amend the Act of March 28, 1928 (45 Stat. 374), as amended, relating to the advance of funds in connection with the enforcement of Acts relating to narcotic drugs, so as to permit such advances in connection with the enforcement of the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, and to permit advances of funds in connection with the enforcement of the customs laws.Aug 7, 1939
  384. Public Law 76–567Granting the consent of Congress to the Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, Authority to construct, maintain, and operate a highway bridge across the Susquehanna River at or near the city of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.Aug 7, 1939
  385. Public Law 76–568To amend section 4894 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 35, sec. 37).Aug 7, 1939
  386. Public Law 76–569Granting the consent of Congress to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to reconstruct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Susquehanna River, from the borough of Wyoming, in the county of Luzerne, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to Jenkins Township, county of Luzerne, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.Aug 7, 1939
  387. Public Law 76–570Granting the consent of Congress to Frank O. Lowden, James E. Gorman, and Joseph B. Fleming, trustees of the estate of The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company, to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge across the Missouri River at or near Randolph, Missouri.Aug 7, 1939
  388. Public Law 76–571To amend Public Resolution Numbered 46, approved August 9, 1935, entitled “Joint resolution requesting the President to extend to the International Statistical Institute an invitation to hold its twenty-fourth session in the United States in 1939”.Aug 7, 1939
  389. Public Law 76–572To dissolve the United States Supreme Court Building Commission.Aug 7, 1939
  390. Public Law 76–605To amend section 13 (a) of the Act approved June 25, 1938 (52 Stat. 1069), entitled “Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938”.Aug 9, 1939
  391. Public Law 76–606To provide for the detail of a commissioned medical officer of the Public Health Service to serve as Assistant to the Surgeon General.Aug 9, 1939
  392. Public Law 76–607For the relief of certain Indians of the Winnebago Agency.Aug 9, 1939
  393. Public Law 76–608Creating the Louisiana-Vicksburg Bridge Commission; defining the authority, power, and duties of said Commission; and authorizing said Commission and its successors and assigns to purchase, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Delta Point, Louisiana, and Vicksburg, Mississippi.Aug 9, 1939
  394. Public Law 76–609To provide a right-of-way through the Chilkoot Barracks Military Reservation, Alaska.Aug 9, 1939
  395. Public Law 76–610To amend the naturalization laws in relation to an alien previously lawfully admitted into the United States for permanent residence and who is temporarily absent from the United States solely in his or her capacity as a regularly ordained clergyman or representative of a recognized religious denomination or religious organization existing in the United States.Aug 9, 1939
  396. Public Law 76–611Giving clerks in the Railway Mail Service the benefit of holiday known as Armistice Day.Aug 9, 1939
  397. Public Law 76–612Authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to prepare plans for the eradication and control of the pink bollworm, and for other purposes.Aug 9, 1939
  398. Public Law 76–613To establish the Benjamin Harrison Commission to formulate plans for the construction of a permanent memorial to the memory of Benjamin Harrison, twenty-third President of the United States.Aug 9, 1939
  399. Public Law 76–614To amend the Act approved June 26, 1935, entitled “An Act to create a national memorial military park at and in the vicinity of Kennesaw Mountain in the State of Georgia, and for other purposes.”Aug 9, 1939
  400. Public Law 76–615To regulate interstate and foreign commerce in seeds; to require labeling and to prevent misrepresentation of seeds in interstate commerce; to require certain standards with respect to certain imported seeds; and for other purposes.Aug 9, 1939
  401. Public Law 76–616To authorize the President to render closer and more effective the relationship between the American republics.Aug 9, 1939
  402. Public Law 76–617To repeal the minimum-price limitation on sale of the Akron, Ohio, old post-office building and site.Aug 9, 1939
  403. Public Law 76–618To provide for the seizure and forfeiture of vessels, vehicles, and aircraft used to transport narcotic drugs, firearms, and counterfeit coins, obligations, securities, and paraphernalia, and for other purposes.Aug 9, 1939
  404. Public Law 76–619To repeal section 4897 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 35, sec. 38), and amend sections 4885 and 4934 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 35, secs. 41 and 78).Aug 9, 1939
  405. Public Law 76–620To provide for insanity proceedings in the District of Columbia.Aug 9, 1939
  406. Public Law 76–621To provide a right-of-way.Aug 9, 1939
  407. Public Law 76–622Authorizing the selection of a site and the erection thereon of the Columbian Fountain in Washington, District of Columbia.Aug 9, 1939
  408. Public Law 76–633Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, and for prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1939, and June 30, 1940, and for other purposes.Aug 9, 1939
  409. Public Law 76–634To provide for the erection of a public historical museum in the Custer Battlefield National Cemetery, Montana.Aug 10, 1939
  410. Public Law 76–635To authorize the Postmaster General to contract for certain powerboat service in Alaska, and for other purposes.Aug 10, 1939
  411. Public Law 76–636To adjust the compensation of the members of the National Advisory Health Council not in the regular employment of the Government.Aug 10, 1939
  412. Public Law 76–637Creating the Memphis and Arkansas Bridge Commission; defining the authority, power, and duties of said Commission; and authorizing said Commission and its successors and assigns to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Memphis, Tennessee; and for other purposes.Aug 10, 1939
  413. Public Law 76–638To prohibit the use of the mails for the solicitation of the procurement of divorces in foreign countries.Aug 10, 1939
  414. Public Law 76–639To amend the Act of June 15, 1936 (49 Stat. 1516), authorizing the extension of the boundaries of the Hot Springs National Park, in the State of Arkansas, and for other purposes.Aug 10, 1939
  415. Public Law 76–640To provide for the establishment of the Chalmette National Historical Park in the State of Louisiana, and for other purposes.Aug 10, 1939
  416. Public Law 76–641To amend the Acts granting increased compensation to civilian employees for the period July 1, 1917, to June 30, 1924.Aug 10, 1939
  417. Public Law 76–642Relating to the retirement of employees to whom the provisions of section 6 of the Act approved June 20, 1918 (40 Stat. 608; U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 33, sec. 763), as amended, apply.Aug 10, 1939
  418. Public Law 76–643To amend section 4488 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended (U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 46, sec. 481).Aug 10, 1939
  419. Public Law 76–644To amend section 4471 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended (U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 46, sec. 464).Aug 10, 1939
  420. Public Law 76–645Giving the consent of the Congress to an agreement between the States of Iowa and Missouri establishing a boundary between said States.Aug 10, 1939
  421. Public Law 76–646To amend Public Resolution Numbered 112, Seventy-fifth Congress.Aug 10, 1939
  422. Public Law 76–647To provide for the observance and celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of the city of Gallipolis, Ohio.Aug 10, 1939
  423. Public Law 76–660To amend paragraph (1) of section 96 of title 2 of the Canal Zone Code relating to method of computing annuities.Aug 10, 1939
  424. Public Law 76–661To include within the Kaniksu National Forest certain lands owned or in course of acquisition by the United States.Aug 10, 1939
  425. Public Law 76–662Authorizing the restoration to tribal ownership of certain lands upon the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Oregon, and for other purposes.Aug 10, 1939
  426. Public Law 76–663To amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921.Aug 10, 1939
  427. Public Law 76–664To amend the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to define, regulate, and license real-estate brokers, business-chance brokers, and real-estate salesmen; to create a Real Estate Commission in the District of Columbia; to protect the public against fraud in real-estate transactions; and for other purposes”, approved August 25, 1937.Aug 10, 1939
  428. Public Law 76–665To amend the Government Losses in Shipment Act.Aug 10, 1939
  429. Public Law 76–666To amend the Social Security Act, and for other purposes.Aug 10, 1939
  430. Public Law 76–667To provide funds for the maintenance and operation of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts for the fiscal year 1940.Aug 10, 1939
  431. Public Law 76–682To admit the American-owned barges Prari and Palpa to American registry and to permit their use in coastwise trade.Aug 10, 1939
  432. Public Law 76–684To allow the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation to extend the period of amortization of home loans from fifteen to twenty-five years.Aug 11, 1939
  433. Public Law 76–685To amend the Employers’ Liability Act.Aug 11, 1939
  434. Public Law 76–686To change the designations of the Abraham Lincoln National Park, in the State of Kentucky, and the Fort McHenry National Park, in the State of Maryland.Aug 11, 1939
  435. Public Law 76–687To authorize acquisition of complete title to the Puyallup Indian Tribal School property at Tacoma, Washington, for Indian sanatorium purposes.Aug 11, 1939
  436. Public Law 76–688To provide for a national census of housing.Aug 11, 1939
  437. Public Law 76–689To amend subsection (n), section 77, of the Bankruptcy Act, as amended, concerning payment of preferred claims.Aug 11, 1939
  438. Public Law 76–690To facilitate the execution of arrangements for the exchange of surplus agricultural commodities produced in the United States for reserve stocks of strategic and critical materials produced abroad.Aug 11, 1939
  439. Public Law 76–691To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to make regulations to prevent and control the spread of communicable and preventable diseases.Aug 11, 1939
  440. Public Law 76–692To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for a tax on motor-vehicle fuels sold within the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved April 23, 1924.Aug 11, 1939
  441. Public Law 76–693To provide for the transfer of United States Employment Service records, files, and property in local offices to the States.Aug 11, 1939
  442. Public Law 76–694Authorizing and providing for the construction of additional facilities on the Canal Zone for the purposes of more adequately providing for the defense of the Panama Canal and for increasing its capacity for the future needs of interoceanic shipping.Aug 11, 1939
  443. Public Law 76–695To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to contract with the State Water Conservation Board of Montana and the Tongue River Water Users’ Association for participation in the costs and benefits of the Tongue River Storage Reservoir project for the benefit of lands on the Tongue River Indian Reservation, Montana.Aug 11, 1939
  444. Public Law 76–696To authorize the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation to purchase and distribute surplus products of the fishing industry.Aug 11, 1939
  445. Public Law 76–697To authorize the addition of certain lands to the Wenatchee National Forest.Aug 11, 1939
  446. Public Law 76–698Providing for the incorporation of certain persons as Group Hospitalization, Inc.Aug 11, 1939
  447. Public Law 76–699Amending previous flood-control Acts, and authorizing certain preliminary examinations and surveys for flood control, and for other purposes.Aug 11, 1939
  448. Public Law 76–700Authorizing the delegation of certain authority within the Department of Agriculture.Aug 11, 1939
  449. Public Law 76–701To authorize the sale of surplus agricultural commodities, and for other purposes.Aug 11, 1939
  450. Public Law 76–716To amend the Act of August 26, 1937.Aug 11, 1939
  451. Public Law 76–717Authorizing construction of water conservation and utilization projects in the Great Plains and arid and semiarid areas of the United States.Aug 11, 1939
  452. Public Law 76–718To amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the practice of the healing art to protect the public health in the District of Columbia”, known as the “Healing Arts Practice Act, District of Columbia, 1928”, approved February 27, 1929.Aug 11, 1939
  453. Public Law 76–719To provide for the refund or credit of the internal-revenue tax paid on spirits lost or rendered unmarketable by reason of the floods of 1936 and 1937 where such spirits were in the possession of the original taxpayer or rectifier for bottling or use in rectification under Government supervision as provided by law and regulations.Aug 11, 1939
  454. Private Law 76–12For the relief of Manuel D. A. Otero, as administrator of the estate of Teresita S. Otero, deceased.Mar 20, 1939
  455. Private Law 76–13For the relief of Emma Gomez.Mar 20, 1939
  456. Private Law 76–14For the relief of Charles E. Naghel, Special Disbursing Agent, Department of the Interior, and Kammeyer and Medack, contractors, from disallowance of chargee for additional work under a construction contract.Mar 21, 1939
  457. Private Law 76–23For the relief of Captain Francis H. A. McKeon.Mar 28, 1939
  458. Private Law 76–25To authorize Commander Henry Coyle, United States Coast Guard, to accept the decoration and diploma of the Marine Medal of Class One (gold), conferred upon him by the Government of Greece.Mar 28, 1939
  459. Private Law 76–29For the relief of Benjamin Weisenberg.Mar 29, 1939
  460. Private Law 76–30For the relief of Hyman Ginsberg.Mar 29, 1939
  461. Private Law 76–31For the relief of Jack Nelson, a minor.Mar 29, 1939
  462. Private Law 76–32For the relief of Charles T. Wise.Mar 29, 1939
  463. Private Law 76–33For the relief of C. R. Henderson.Mar 29, 1939
  464. Private Law 76–46To authorize and direct the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to reappoint David R. Thompson and Ralph S. Warner as members of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia.Apr 8, 1939
  465. Private Law 76–50For the relief of Fred H. Beauregard.Apr 10, 1939
  466. Private Law 76–51For the relief of John R. Holt.Apr 10, 1939
  467. Private Law 76–52For the relief of Lieutenant Malcolm A. Hufty, United States Navy.Apr 11, 1939
  468. Private Law 76–53To provide an additional sum for the payment of a claim under the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the reimbursement of certain officers and enlisted men or former officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps for personal property lost, damaged, or destroyed as a result of the earthquake which occurred at Managua, Nicaragua, on March 31, 1931”, approved January 21, 1935 (49 Stat. 2212).Apr 11, 1939
  469. Private Law 76–54For the relief of Alex St. Louis and Doctor J. P. Lake.Apr 11, 1939
  470. Private Law 76–55For the relief of Dierks Lumber and Coal Company.Apr 12, 1939
  471. Private Law 76–56For the relief of The Ocilla Star.Apr 12, 1939
  472. Private Law 76–57For the relief of The Fitzgerald Leader.Apr 12, 1939
  473. Private Law 76–63For the relief of the Fred Harvey Transportation Department.Apr 13, 1939
  474. Private Law 76–64For the relief of Hubert H. Clark and Doctor W. C. Copeland.Apr 13, 1939
  475. Private Law 76–65For the relief of Dolores P. de Williamson.Apr 13, 1939
  476. Private Law 76–66For the relief of George H. Pierce and Evelyn Pierce.Apr 13, 1939
  477. Private Law 76–67For the relief of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company.Apr 13, 1939
  478. Private Law 76–68For the relief of J. G. Mayfield.Apr 13, 1939
  479. Private Law 76–69For the relief of John B. Dow.Apr 13, 1939
  480. Private Law 76–72For the relief of Margaret Rose Uncapher, Milton E. Uncapher, Junior, and Andrew G. Uncapher.Apr 15, 1939
  481. Private Law 76–78For the relief of Roscoe C. Prescott, Howard Joslyn, Arthur E. Tuttle, and Robert J. Toulouse.Apr 20, 1939
  482. Private Law 76–79For the relief of Hallie H. Woods.Apr 20, 1939
  483. Private Law 76–80For the relief of Macey N. Bevan.Apr 20, 1939
  484. Private Law 76–81For the relief of the Shipowners and Merchants Towboat Company, Limited.Apr 20, 1939
  485. Private Law 76–82For the relief of Allen L. Abshier, Verne G. Adams, Oliver D. Chattin, William K. Heath, and Harry B. Jennings.Apr 20, 1939
  486. Private Law 76–83Conferring jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear and determine the claim of the Mack Copper Company.Apr 20, 1939
  487. Private Law 76–105To allow credit in the accounts of certain former disbursing officers of the Veterans’ Administration, and for other purposes.Apr 26, 1939
  488. Private Law 76–108For the relief of Junius Alexander.May 2, 1939
  489. Private Law 76–111For the relief of Ernest O. Robinette and others.May 3, 1939
  490. Private Law 76–112For the relief of Katherine Patterson.May 3, 1939
  491. Private Law 76–118To provide for the promotion on the retired list of the Navy of Fred G. Leith.May 8, 1939
  492. Private Law 76–120For the relief of Bozzani Motors, Limited.May 10, 1939
  493. Private Law 76–124For the relief of L. M. Bell and M. M. Bell.May 11, 1939
  494. Private Law 76–125For the relief of W, F. Towson.May 11, 1939
  495. Private Law 76–132For the relief of the Louisiana National Bank of Baton Rouge and the Hibernia Bank and Trust Company of New Orleans.May 12, 1939
  496. Private Law 76–138For the relief of Lofts and Son.May 16, 1939
  497. Private Law 76–163For the relief of John J. Trimble.May 31, 1939
  498. Private Law 76–164For the relief of the Atlas Powder Company.May 31, 1939
  499. Private Law 76–165For the relief of Charles H. Parr.May 31, 1939
  500. Private Law 76–166For the relief of Melvin Gerard Alvey.May 31, 1939
  501. Private Law 76–177For the relief of Homer C. Stroud.Jun 3, 1939
  502. Private Law 76–178For the relief of Bernard Woodruff.Jun 3, 1939
  503. Private Law 76–179For the relief of Harry L. Smigell.Jun 3, 1939
  504. Private Law 76–182For the relief of R. H. Gray.Jun 5, 1939
  505. Private Law 76–183For the relief of John T. Clarkson.Jun 5, 1939
  506. Private Law 76–187For the relief of R. Dove and Laura J. Dove.Jun 6, 1939
  507. Private Law 76–188For the relief of Edgar Green.Jun 6, 1939
  508. Private Law 76–189For the relief of Grace Rouse.Jun 6, 1939
  509. Private Law 76–194For the relief of Stanley Mercuri.Jun 7, 1939
  510. Private Law 76–213To provide for the reimbursement of certain personnel or former personnel of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps for the value of personal effects destroyed as a result of a fire at the Marine Barracks, Quantico, Virginia, on October 27, 1938.Jun 19, 1939
  511. Private Law 76–216For the relief of Jessie Denning Van Eimeren, A. C. Van Eimeren, and Clara Adolph.Jun 20, 1939
  512. Private Law 76–217For the relief of the Wisconsin Milling Company and Wisconsin Telephone Company.Jun 20, 1939
  513. Private Law 76–218For the relief of Kenneth B. Clark.Jun 20, 1939
  514. Private Law 76–219For the relief of Adam Casper.Jun 20, 1939
  515. Private Law 76–221For the relief of Frances Virginia McCloud.Jun 20, 1939
  516. Private Law 76–222For the relief of W. Elisabeth Beitz.Jun 20, 1939
  517. Private Law 76–223For the relief of Charlotte J. Gilbert.Jun 20, 1939
  518. Private Law 76–232For the relief of Russell Anderegg, a minor, and George W. Anderegg.Jun 20, 1939
  519. Private Law 76–233For the relief of A W. Evans.Jun 20, 1939
  520. Private Law 76–240For the relief of Roland P. Winstead.Jun 22, 1939
  521. Private Law 76–241For the relief of George Houston.Jun 22, 1939
  522. Private Law 76–245To provide for the reimbursement of certain enlisted men or former enlisted men of the United States Navy for the value of personal effects lost in the hurricane at the Submarine Base, New London, Connecticut, on September 21, 1938.Jun 27, 1939
  523. Private Law 76–251For the relief of Joseph N. Thiele.Jun 29, 1939
  524. Private Law 76–262For the relief of Evelyn Gurley-Kane.Jul 10, 1939
  525. Private Law 76–274For the relief of A. C. Williams, administrator of the estate of his wife, Julia F. Williams.Jul 14, 1939
  526. Private Law 76–275For the relief of Andrew J. Crockett and Walter Crockett.Jul 14, 1939
  527. Private Law 76–276For the relief of Loyd J. Palmer.Jul 14, 1939
  528. Private Law 76–277For the relief of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company.Jul 14, 1939
  529. Private Law 76–278For the relief of Naomi Straley and Bonnie Straley.Jul 14, 1939
  530. Private Law 76–279Authorizing the Comptroller General of the United States to adjust and settle the claim of E. Devlin, Incorporated.Jul 14, 1939
  531. Private Law 76–280For the relief of John Chastain and Mollie Chastain, his wife.Jul 14, 1939
  532. Private Law 76–292For the relief of Dica Perkins.Jul 15, 1939
  533. Private Law 76–293For the relief of Howard Arthur Beswick.Jul 15, 1939
  534. Private Law 76–294For the relief of Anthony Coniglio.Jul 15, 1939
  535. Private Law 76–295For the relief of Mrs. Quitman Smith.Jul 15, 1939
  536. Private Law 76–296To authorize certain officers and enlisted men of the United States Army to accept such medals, orders, and decorations as have been tendered them by foreign governments in appreciation of services rendered.Jul 15, 1939
  537. Private Law 76–297For the relief of Ray Wimmer.Jul 15, 1939
  538. Private Law 76–298To authorize Major Andrew S. Rowan, United States Army, retired, to accept the Order Carlos Manuel de Céspedes tendered him by the Government of Cuba in appreciation of services rendered.Jul 15, 1939
  539. Private Law 76–299For the relief of Albert Pina Afonso, a minor.Jul 15, 1939
  540. Private Law 76–300For the relief of Herbert M. Snapp.Jul 15, 1939
  541. Private Law 76–301For the relief of Ida May Lennon.Jul 15, 1939
  542. Private Law 76–302For the relief of F. E. Perkins.Jul 15, 1939
  543. Private Law 76–303For the relief of J. Vernon Phillips.Jul 15, 1939
  544. Private Law 76–304Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue to Martha Austin a patent to certain land.Jul 15, 1939
  545. Private Law 76–305For the relief of Ivan Charles Grace.Jul 15, 1939
  546. Private Law 76–306For the relief of Maria Enriquez, Crisanta, Anselmo, Agustin, and Irineo de los Reyes.Jul 15, 1939
  547. Private Law 76–307To provide for the reimbursement of certain members or former members of the United States Coast Guard for the value of personal effects lost in the hurricane of September 21, 1938, at several Coast Guard stations on the coasts of New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.Jul 15, 1939
  548. Private Law 76–308To extend to Sergeant Major Edwin O. Swift, United States Marine Corps (retired), the benefits of the Act of May 7, 1932, providing highest World War rank to retired enlisted men.Jul 15, 1939
  549. Private Law 76–309For the relief of Mrs. A. R. Barnard, Charles A. Stephens, Donald W. Prairie, and dependents of Vern A. Needles.Jul 15, 1939
  550. Private Law 76–310Providing for consideration of a recommendation for decoration of Sergeant Fred W. Stockham, deceased.Jul 15, 1939
  551. Private Law 76–311For the relief of Ida A. Deaver.Jul 17, 1939
  552. Private Law 76–312For the relief of the Barkman Lumber Company.Jul 17, 1939
  553. Private Law 76–317For the relief of William Carl Laude.Jul 17, 1939
  554. Private Law 76–325For the relief of the West Virginia Company.Jul 18, 1939
  555. Private Law 76–326To give proper recognition to the distinguished services of Colonel Ernest Graves.Jul 18, 1939
  556. Private Law 76–327For the relief of S. A. Rourke.Jul 18, 1939
  557. Private Law 76–332For the relief of the Canvas Decoy Company.Jul 19, 1939
  558. Private Law 76–333For the relief of Otis M. Culver, Samuel E. Abbey, Joseph Reger, and August H. Krueger.Jul 19, 1939
  559. Private Law 76–360For the relief of Margaret B. Nonnenberg.Jul 25, 1939
  560. Private Law 76–361For the relief of Frank M. Croman.Jul 25, 1939
  561. Private Law 76–362For the relief of H. W. Hamlin.Jul 25, 1939
  562. Private Law 76–363For the relief of Captain Robert E. Coughlin.Jul 25, 1939
  563. Private Law 76–364For the relief of John Marinis, Nicolaos Elias, Ihoanis or Jean Demetre Votsitsanos, and Michael Votsitsanos.Jul 25, 1939
  564. Private Law 76–365To provide a posthumous advancement in grade for the late Ensign Joseph Hester Patterson, United States Navy.Jul 25, 1939
  565. Private Law 76–380For the relief of Marguerite Kuenzi.Jul 26, 1939
  566. Private Law 76–381For the relief of Charles G. Clement.Jul 26, 1939
  567. Private Law 76–382For the relief of Mary A. Brummal.Jul 26, 1939
  568. Private Law 76–391For the relief of Virginia Guthrie, Jake C. Aaron, and Thomas W. Carter, Junior.Jul 27, 1939
  569. Private Law 76–392For the relief of William S. Huntley.Jul 27, 1939
  570. Private Law 76–394Authorizing the President to present a Distinguished Service Medal to Rear Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell, United States Navy.Jul 28, 1939
  571. Private Law 76–402For the relief of Anna Elizabeth Watrous.Jul 31, 1939
  572. Private Law 76–403For the relief of W. E. R. Covell.Jul 31, 1939
  573. Private Law 76–404For the relief of Captain Clyde E. Steele, United States Army.Jul 31, 1939
  574. Private Law 76–405For the relief of the Allegheny Forging Company.Jul 31, 1939
  575. Private Law 76–406For the relief of John G. Wynn.Jul 31, 1939
  576. Private Law 76–407For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. John Shebestok, parents of Constance and Lois Shebestok.Jul 31, 1939
  577. Private Law 76–422For the relief of Fae Banas.Aug 4, 1939
  578. Private Law 76–423For the relief of Dorothy Clair Hester, daughter of E. R. Hester.Aug 4, 1939
  579. Private Law 76–424For the relief of Hannis Hoven.Aug 4, 1939
  580. Private Law 76–425For the relief of Thomas A. Ross.Aug 4, 1939
  581. Private Law 76–428To confer jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of the Borg-Warner Corporation.Aug 4, 1939
  582. Private Law 76–458For the relief of Jessie M. Durst.Aug 5, 1939
  583. Private Law 76–459For the relief of John B. Jones.Aug 5, 1939
  584. Private Law 76–460For the relief of Jesse Claud Branson.Aug 5, 1939
  585. Private Law 76–461For the relief of Ernest Clinton and Frederick P. Deragisch.Aug 5, 1939
  586. Private Law 76–462For the relief of Grace S. Taylor.Aug 5, 1939
  587. Private Law 76–463To extend to Sergeant Major Leonard E. Browning, United States Marine Corps, the benefits of the Act of May 7, 1932, providing highest World War rank to retired enlisted men.Aug 5, 1939
  588. Private Law 76–464For the relief of Leslie J. Frane and Charles Frane.Aug 5, 1939
  589. Private Law 76–465For the relief of Virginia Pearson.Aug 5, 1939
  590. Private Law 76–466For the relief of Floyd M. Dunscomb.Aug 5, 1939
  591. Private Law 76–467For the relief of Franklin C. Richardson.Aug 5, 1939
  592. Private Law 76–468For the relief of Corinne W. Bienvenu (nee Corinne Wells).Aug 5, 1939
  593. Private Law 76–469For the relief of certain persons whose property was damaged or destroyed as a result of the crashes of two airplanes of the United States Navy at East Braintree, Massachusetts, on April 4, 1939.Aug 5, 1939
  594. Private Law 76–470To authorize Leonhard Stejneger, of the United States National Museum, to accept certain decoration from the Norwegian Government.Aug 5, 1939
  595. Private Law 76–471For the relief of Ada Fuller.Aug 5, 1939
  596. Private Law 76–472For the relief of G. E. Williams.Aug 5, 1939
  597. Private Law 76–473For the relief of the estate of Frank M. Smith.Aug 5, 1939
  598. Private Law 76–474To provide for the issuance of a license to practice chiropractic in the District of Columbia to George M. Corriveau.Aug 5, 1939
  599. Private Law 76–475To provide for the issuance of a license to practice chiropractic in the District of Columbia to Laura T. Corriveau.Aug 5, 1939
  600. Private Law 76–476For the relief of Leland J. Belding.Aug 5, 1939
  601. Private Law 76–484For the relief of Imogene Enley.Aug 5, 1939
  602. Private Law 76–485For the relief of William H. Keesey.Aug 5, 1939
  603. Private Law 76–486For the relief of Franklin Lopez, administrator of the goods, chattels, and credits which were of Alice C. Lopez, deceased.Aug 5, 1939
  604. Private Law 76–487For the relief of the estate of Arthur Weltner.Aug 5, 1939
  605. Private Law 76–488For the relief of the Ninety Six Oil Mill, of Ninety Six, South Carolina.Aug 5, 1939
  606. Private Law 76–489For the relief of J. Aristide Lefevre.Aug 5, 1939
  607. Private Law 76–490For the relif of Corabell Wuensch, Jackie Lee Wuensch, and Mary Rainbolt.Aug 5, 1939
  608. Private Law 76–491For the relief of Charles Enslow.Aug 5, 1939
  609. Private Law 76–492For the relief of Nicholas Contopoulos.Aug 5, 1939
  610. Private Law 76–496For the relief of the Rent-A-Car Company.Aug 5, 1939
  611. Private Law 76–497For the relief of Allie Holsomback and Lonnie Taylor.Aug 5, 1939
  612. Private Law 76–498For the relief of Earl J. Reed and Giles J. Gentry.Aug 5, 1939
  613. Private Law 76–499For the relief of Hugh A. Smith.Aug 5, 1939
  614. Private Law 76–522For the relief of Annie Bearden, Ruth Bearden, Essie Burton, Beatrice Carter, Mary Cobb, Addie Graham, Annie Grant, Sallie Harris, Minerva Holbrooks, Omie Keese, Sallie Marett, Josie McDonald, Jessie Morris, Martha O’Shields, Mae Phillips, Leila H. Roach, Belva Surrett, and Shelley Turner.Aug 7, 1939
  615. Private Law 76–523For the relief of Michael M. Cohen.Aug 7, 1939
  616. Private Law 76–524For the relief of Albert R. Rinke.Aug 7, 1939
  617. Private Law 76–525For the relief of Grace Campbell.Aug 7, 1939
  618. Private Law 76–526For the relief of C. E. Hendrickson and the Stephenville Hospital, Stephenville, Texas.Aug 7, 1939
  619. Private Law 76–527For the relief of Anna E. Hurley.Aug 7, 1939
  620. Private Law 76–528For the relief of J. C. Grice.Aug 7, 1939
  621. Private Law 76–529For the relief of Sigvard C. Foro.Aug 7, 1939
  622. Private Law 76–530For the relief of Johannes or John, Julia, Michael, William, and Anna Kostiuk.Aug 7, 1939
  623. Private Law 76–531For the relief of Anna H. Rosa.Aug 7, 1939
  624. Private Law 76–532For the relief of Joseph Lopez Ramos.Aug 7, 1939
  625. Private Law 76–533For the relief of Montie S. Carlisle.Aug 7, 1939
  626. Private Law 76–534For the relief of Elizabeth E. Burke.Aug 7, 1939
  627. Private Law 76–535For the relief of Joannes Josephus Citron.Aug 7, 1939
  628. Private Law 76–536For the relief of C. L. Herren.Aug 7, 1939
  629. Private Law 76–537For the relief of Russell B. Hendrix.Aug 7, 1939
  630. Private Law 76–538Authorizing the naturalization of John Ullmann, Junior.Aug 7, 1939
  631. Private Law 76–539For the relief of First Lieutenant Samuel E. Williams.Aug 7, 1939
  632. Private Law 76–540For the relief of the Women’s Board of Domestic Missions.Aug 7, 1939
  633. Private Law 76–541For the relief of Lucile Snider and Cliff Snider, Junior.Aug 7, 1939
  634. Private Law 76–542For the relief of James McConnachie.Aug 7, 1939
  635. Private Law 76–543For the relief of the estate of Harvey T. Combs.Aug 7, 1939
  636. Private Law 76–544For the relief of Violet Dewey.Aug 7, 1939
  637. Private Law 76–549For the relief of Joseph W. Parse.Aug 7, 1939
  638. Private Law 76–573For the relief of Hugh McGuire.Aug 7, 1939
  639. Private Law 76–574For the relief of Calliope Minaca Pilavakis.Aug 7, 1939
  640. Private Law 76–575For the relief of Harry K. Snyder.Aug 7, 1939
  641. Private Law 76–576For the relief of Joseph Alder, E. G. Allen, and E. G. Allen and By Hanchett jointly.Aug 7, 1939
  642. Private Law 76–577For the relief of Guy F. Allen, chief disbursing officer, Division of Disbursement, Treasury Department.Aug 7, 1939
  643. Private Law 76–578For the relief of Banks Business College.Aug 7, 1939
  644. Private Law 76–579For the relief of Frank Malles, Junior.Aug 7, 1939
  645. Private Law 76–580For the relief of Kyle Blair.Aug 7, 1939
  646. Private Law 76–581For the relief of Otho L. Curtner.Aug 7, 1939
  647. Private Law 76–582For the relief of Clarendon Davis.Aug 7, 1939
  648. Private Law 76–583For the relief of certain disbursing agents and employees of the Indian Service.Aug 7, 1939
  649. Private Law 76–584For the relief of W. C. and James Latane, and Willie Johnson.Aug 7, 1939
  650. Private Law 76–585For the relief of Celia Press and Bernard Press.Aug 7, 1939
  651. Private Law 76–586For the relief of Harry Vrountas and Theodore Vrountas.Aug 7, 1939
  652. Private Law 76–587For the relief of Anton Saganey, John J. Beatty, Frederick J. Coppenrath, Joseph R. Driscoll, Edward A. Morash, and Michael L. Siderowicz.Aug 7, 1939
  653. Private Law 76–588For the relief of the Toledo Terminal Railroad Company of Toledo, Ohio.Aug 7, 1939
  654. Private Law 76–589For the relief of M. F. Gubrud.Aug 7, 1939
  655. Private Law 76–590For the relief of William L. Rull.Aug 7, 1939
  656. Private Law 76–591For the relief of Mamie Hoffman.Aug 7, 1939
  657. Private Law 76–592For the relief of Harry W. Lyle.Aug 7, 1939
  658. Private Law 76–593For the relief of Mrs. Layer Taylor.Aug 7, 1939
  659. Private Law 76–594For the relief of Mina Keil.Aug 7, 1939
  660. Private Law 76–595For the relief of H. A. Dixon.Aug 7, 1939
  661. Private Law 76–596For the relief of V. H. Scheming, Elmer Eggers, and Thomas Fahey.Aug 7, 1939
  662. Private Law 76–597For the relief of H. H. Rhyne, Junior.Aug 7, 1939
  663. Private Law 76–598For the relief of Clyde Equipment Company.Aug 7, 1939
  664. Private Law 76–599For the relief of John E. Garrett.Aug 7, 1939
  665. Private Law 76–600For the relief of James D. Larry, Senior.Aug 7, 1939
  666. Private Law 76–601For the relief of the heirs of Emma J. Hall.Aug 7, 1939
  667. Private Law 76–602For the relief of Roscoe B. Huston and Simeon F. Felarca.Aug 7, 1939
  668. Private Law 76–603For the relief of Buford Lee Pratt.Aug 7, 1939
  669. Private Law 76–604To provide for the presentation of a medal to Howard Hughes in recognition of his achievements in advancing the science of aviation.Aug 7, 1939
  670. Private Law 76–623For the relief of the legal guardian of Dorothy Elizabeth Sisson, a minor.Aug 9, 1939
  671. Private Law 76–624For the relief of Evelyn Mary Locke.Aug 9, 1939
  672. Private Law 76–625For the relief of Virgil Kuehl, a minor.Aug 9, 1939
  673. Private Law 76–626For the relief of William H. Radcliffe.Aug 9, 1939
  674. Private Law 76–627For the relief of Francis A. Leete and Sarah Leete.Aug 9, 1939
  675. Private Law 76–628For the relief of Paul W. McCoy.Aug 9, 1939
  676. Private Law 76–629For the relief of James W. Gilson.Aug 9, 1939
  677. Private Law 76–630For the relief of James M. Harwood.Aug 9, 1939
  678. Private Law 76–631For the relief of Jack D. Collins.Aug 9, 1939
  679. Private Law 76–632For the relief of the Arkansas State Penitentiary.Aug 9, 1939
  680. Private Law 76–648For the relief of Mrs. Pacios Pijuan.Aug 10, 1939
  681. Private Law 76–649For the relief of A. E. Bostrom.Aug 10, 1939
  682. Private Law 76–650For the relief of Daumit Tannaus Saleah (Dave Thomas).Aug 10, 1939
  683. Private Law 76–651For the relief of Dorothy Clair, G. F. Allen, and Earl Wooldridge.Aug 10, 1939
  684. Private Law 76–652For the relief of Okie May Fegley.Aug 10, 1939
  685. Private Law 76–653To confer jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of Fiske Warren.Aug 10, 1939
  686. Private Law 76–654For the relief of certain postmasters.Aug 10, 1939
  687. Private Law 76–655For the relief of George A. Meffan, United States marshal, district of Idaho.Aug 10, 1939
  688. Private Law 76–656For the relief of Mrs. S. F. Sewell.Aug 10, 1939
  689. Private Law 76–657To amend an Act entitled “An Act for the relief of the Playa de Flor Land and Improvement Company”, approved May 21, 1934.Aug 10, 1939
  690. Private Law 76–658To provide for the presentation of a medal to Reverend Francis X. Quinn in recognition of his valor in saving the lives of two of his fellow citizens.Aug 10, 1939
  691. Private Law 76–659Readmitting Mary Cohen Bienvenu to citizenship.Aug 10, 1939
  692. Private Law 76–668To amend the Act entitled “An Act for the relief of Harry Bryan and Alda Duffield Mullins, and others”.Aug 10, 1939
  693. Private Law 76–669For the relief of George Slade.Aug 10, 1939
  694. Private Law 76–670For the relief of G. W. Netterville.Aug 10, 1939
  695. Private Law 76–671For the relief of Floyd Elton.Aug 10, 1939
  696. Private Law 76–672For the relief of Emmitt Courtney.Aug 10, 1939
  697. Private Law 76–673For the relief of J. Milton Sweney.Aug 10, 1939
  698. Private Law 76–674For the relief of J. Harry Walker.Aug 10, 1939
  699. Private Law 76–675For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. John Eckendorff, and Mr. and Mrs. Alexander G. Dorr.Aug 10, 1939
  700. Private Law 76–676To authorize cancelation of deportation in the case of Louise Wohl.Aug 10, 1939
  701. Private Law 76–677For the relief of W. R. Fuchs, former disbursing clerk, Department of Agriculture; J. L. Summers, former disbursing clerk; and G. F. Allen, chief disbursing officer, Division of Disbursement, Treasury Department.Aug 10, 1939
  702. Private Law 76–678For the relief of Benno von Mayrhauser and Oskar von Mayrhauser.Aug 10, 1939
  703. Private Law 76–679For the relief of Stacy C. Mosser, receiver for the Great Northern Majestic Building Corporation.Aug 10, 1939
  704. Private Law 76–680For the relief of Sam E. Woods.Aug 10, 1939
  705. Private Law 76–681For the relief of Matilda Larned Bouck.Aug 10, 1939
  706. Private Law 76–683For the relief of John L. Summers, former disbursing clerk, Treasury Department, and for other purposes.Aug 10, 1939
  707. Private Law 76–702For the relief of Mato, Miljenko, Bozo, and Augustin Cibilic, or Zibilich.Aug 11, 1939
  708. Private Law 76–703For the relief of Emil Friedrich Dischleit.Aug 11, 1939
  709. Private Law 76–704For the relief of Konstantinos Dionysiou Antiohos (or Gus Pappas).Aug 11, 1939
  710. Private Law 76–705For the relief of William E. Cowen.Aug 11, 1939
  711. Private Law 76–706For the relief of N. F. Glower and Elijah Williams.Aug 11, 1939
  712. Private Law 76–707To confer jurisdiction on the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claims of certain claimants who suffered loss by flood at or near Bean Lake in Platte County, and Sugar Lake in Buchanan County, in the State of Missouri, during the month of March 1934.Aug 11, 1939
  713. Private Law 76–708For the relief of Thomas J. Smith.Aug 11, 1939
  714. Private Law 76–709For the relief of the Columbus Iron Works Company.Aug 11, 1939
  715. Private Law 76–710For the relief of Caryl Burbank, Preston A. Stanford, and Fire Association of Philadelphia.Aug 11, 1939
  716. Private Law 76–711To pay salary of Ruth Dornsife.Aug 11, 1939
  717. Private Law 76–712For the relief of Mrs. Virgie B. Weaver.Aug 11, 1939
  718. Private Law 76–713To amend Private Law Numbered 310, Seventy-fifth Congress, first session, an Act for the relief of D. E. Sweinhart.Aug 11, 1939
  719. Private Law 76–714To amend Private Act Numbered 286, approved June 18, 1934, entitled “An Act for the relief of Carleton-Mace Engineering Corporation.”Aug 11, 1939
  720. Private Law 76–715For the relief of John L. Hicks, rural rehabilitation supervisor, Farm Security Administration, Department of Agriculture, Santa Rosa, New Mexico.Aug 11, 1939