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Volume 54

1939–1941 · 76th Congress · sessions 2–3 · 943 public laws.

  1. Public Law 76–1To make provision for certain expenses incident to the second session of the Seventy-sixth Congress.Oct 11, 1939
  2. Public Law 76–2To preserve the neutrality and the peace of the United States and to secure the safety of its citizens and their interests.Nov 4, 1939
  3. Public Law 76–1To provide for the protection of witnesses appearing before any department, independent establishment, or other agency of the United States, or the Congress of the United States.Jan 13, 1940
  4. Public Law 76–2To add certain lands to the Siuslaw National Forest in the State of Oregon.Jan 17, 1940
  5. Public Law 76–3To provide for the refunding of the bonds of municipal corporations and public-utility districts in the Territory of Alaska, to validate bonds which have heretofore been issued by a municipal corporation or any public-utility district in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes.Jan 17, 1940
  6. Public Law 76–11To provide that the district judge for the western district of Washington, authorized to be appointed under the Act of May 31, 1938, shall be a district judge for the eastern and western districts of Washington.Jan 20, 1940
  7. Public Law 76–12Relating to the filing of affidavits of prejudice in the district court for the District of Alaska.Jan 25, 1940
  8. Public Law 76–13To amend section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act.Jan 25, 1940
  9. Public Law 76–14Authorizing States owning lands or interests therein acquired from the United States to include the same in certain agreements for the conservation of oil and gas resources.Jan 26, 1940
  10. Public Law 76–16To provide for the acquisition by the United States of the estate of Patrick Henry in Charlotte County, Virginia, known as Red Hill.Jan 29, 1940
  11. Public Law 76–17To extend, for three additional months, the time during which articles imported free of duty for exhibition at the Golden Gate International Exposition or the New York Worlds Fair, may be sold or abandoned.Jan 31, 1940
  12. Public Law 76–18To amend section 355 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, to make permissive the acquisition of legislative jurisdiction over land or interests in land acquired by the United States.Feb 1, 1940
  13. Public Law 76–19To amend the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act of 1933, as amended.Feb 1, 1940
  14. Public Law 76–20To provide for the transfer of certain land owned by the United States to the State of Texas; and certain other land to the county of Galveston, Texas.Feb 6, 1940
  15. Public Law 76–21For the relief of World War sailors and marines who were discharged from the United States Navy or United States Marine Corps because of minority or misrepresentation of age.Feb 9, 1940
  16. Public Law 76–22Giving the consent of Congress to the addition of lands to the State of Texas and ceding jurisdiction to the State of Texas over certain parcels or tracts of land heretofore acquired by the United States of America from the United Mexican States.Feb 9, 1940
  17. Public Law 76–25To make effective in the District Court of the United States for Puerto Rico rules promulgated by the Supreme Court of the United States governing pleading, practice, and procedure in the district courts of the United States.Feb 12, 1940
  18. Public Law 76–27Making supplemental appropriations for the Military and Naval Establishments, Coast Guard, and Federal Bureau of Investigation, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for other purposes.Feb 12, 1940
  19. Public Law 76–28Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for other purposes.Feb 12, 1940
  20. Public Law 76–30To amend the Act of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 460), as amended, with regard to the limitation of cost upon the construction of buildings in national parks.Feb 13, 1940
  21. Public Law 76–31Making available for the fiscal year 1940 an additional amount from the special funds heretofore set up for the payment of compensation benefits authorized by certain Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts.Mar 1, 1940
  22. Public Law 76–32To authorize the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to transfer by quitclaim deed to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, for right-of-way purposes, a small strip of land at Veterans Administration facility, Coatesville, Pennsylvania.Mar 2, 1940
  23. Public Law 76–33To amend the Annual and Sick Leave Acts of March 14, 1936.Mar 2, 1940
  24. Public Law 76–34To provide for increasing the lending authority of the Export-Import Bank of Washington, and for other purposes.Mar 2, 1940
  25. Public Law 76–37To amend the District of Columbia Revenue Act of 1939.Mar 2, 1940
  26. Public Law 76–38To aid the States and Territories in making provisions for the retirement of employees of the land-grant colleges.Mar 4, 1940
  27. Public Law 76–39To extend until March 4, 1944, the time during which petitions may be filed by farmers under section 75 of the Bankruptcy Act.Mar 4, 1940
  28. Public Law 76–40To establish the Kings Canyon National Park, California, to transfer thereto the lands now included in the General Grant National Park, and for other purposes.Mar 4, 1940
  29. Public Law 76–41To 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.Mar 4, 1940
  30. Public Law 76–44To facilitate the procurement of aircraft for the national defense.Mar 5, 1940
  31. Public Law 76–45To facilitate control of soil erosion and flood damage on lands within the Ozark and Ouachita National Forests in Arkansas.Mar 5, 1940
  32. Public Law 76–46Providing payment to employees, Bureau of Reclamation, for mileage traveled in privately owned automobiles.Mar 6, 1940
  33. Public Law 76–47To amend the Bonneville Project Act.Mar 6, 1940
  34. Public Law 76–48To authorize the United States Maritime Commission to acquire certain lands at Saint Petersburg, Florida.Mar 9, 1940
  35. Public Law 76–49Authorizing the payment of necessary expenses incurred by certain Indians allotted on the Quinaielt Reservation, State of Washington.Mar 9, 1940
  36. Public Law 76–51Granting easements on Indian lands of the Wind River or Shoshone Indian Reservation, Wyoming, for dam site and reservoir purposes in connection with the Riverton reclamation project.Mar 14, 1940
  37. Public Law 76–52To provide for allowance of expenses incurred by Veterans Administration beneficiaries and their attendants in authorized travel for examination and treatment.Mar 14, 1940
  38. Public Law 76–53To amend the Act entitled An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes, approved July 1, 1902 (32 Stat. 662), relative to the payment of the commuted rations of enlisted men.Mar 14, 1940
  39. Public Law 76–56Creating a commission to arrange for the celebration of the sesquicentennial anniversary of the signing of the first United States patent law.Mar 15, 1940
  40. Public Law 76–57To amend section 23 of the Act of March 4, 1909, relating to copyrights.Mar 15, 1940
  41. Public Law 76–58To authorize the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to exchange certain property located at Veterans Administration facility, Tuskegee, Alabama, title to which is now vested in the United States, for certain property of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute.Mar 15, 1940
  42. Public Law 76–59To protect scenic values along the Catalina Highway within the Coronado National Forest, Arizona.Mar 15, 1940
  43. Public Law 76–60To amend section 9a, National Defense Act, as amended, so as to provide specific authority for the employment of warrant officers of the Regular Army as agents of officers of the finance department for the disbursement of public funds.Mar 15, 1940
  44. Public Law 76–61To amend section 55, National Defense Act, as amended, to provide for enlistment of men up to forty-five years of age in technical units of the Enlisted Reserve Corps.Mar 15, 1940
  45. Public Law 76–62To authorize an exchange of lands between the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company and the United States, at Quantico, Virginia.Mar 15, 1940
  46. Public Law 76–65To amend the Act of May 4, 1898 (30 Stat. 369), so as to authorize the President to appoint one hundred acting assistant surgeons for temporary service.Mar 18, 1940
  47. Public Law 76–66To amend section 602 (e) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, relating to a study of radio requirements for ships navigating the Great Lakes and inland waters of the United States.Mar 18, 1940
  48. Public Law 76–71Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for other purposes.Mar 25, 1940
  49. Public Law 76–71To amend the Act entitled An Act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes, approved June 15, 1917, as amended, to increase the penalties for peacetime violations of such Act.Mar 28, 1940
  50. Public Law 76–73To amend section 45 of the United States Criminal Code to make it applicable to the outlying possessions of the United States.Mar 28, 1940
  51. Public Law 76–74To amend the Act authorizing the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes.Mar 29, 1940
  52. Public Law 76–75To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to delegate certain regulatory functions.Apr 4, 1940
  53. Public Law 76–76Providing for the filling of a vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution of the class other than Members of Congress.Apr 5, 1940
  54. Public Law 76–77Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, to provide supplemental appropriations for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.Apr 6, 1940
  55. Public Law 76–78To approve the action of the Secretary of the Interior in deferring the collection of certain irrigation charges against lands under the Blackfeet Indian irrigation project.Apr 11, 1940
  56. Public Law 76–79To amend section 40 of the Act entitled An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes, approved September 7, 1916, as amended.Apr 11, 1940
  57. Public Law 76–80To reimpose the trust on certain lands allotted to Indians of the Crow Tribe, Montana.Apr 11, 1940
  58. Public Law 76–81To amend section 33 of the Act entitled An Act to amend and consolidate the Acts respecting copyright, approved March 4, 1909, and for other purposes.Apr 11, 1940
  59. Public Law 76–82Authorizing the construction and maintenance of a dike or dam across Stansbury Creek in Baltimore County, Maryland.Apr 11, 1940
  60. Public Law 76–83Granting the consent of Congress to the Mississippi State Highway Commission to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Pearl River at or near Carthage, in the State of Mississippi.Apr 11, 1940
  61. Public Law 76–96To extend the authority of the President under section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended.Apr 12, 1940
  62. Public Law 76–97To amend the joint resolution creating the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission.Apr 12, 1940
  63. Public Law 76–100To provide for terms of the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Arkansas at Fayetteville.Apr 17, 1940
  64. Public Law 76–101To amend the Judicial Code with respect to the continuation of grand juries to finish investigations.Apr 17, 1940
  65. Public Law 76–104To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to accept, without cost to the United States, a fee-simple conveyance of sixteen and four-tenths acres, more or less, of land at Floyd Bennett Field in the city and State of New York.Apr 18, 1940
  66. Public Law 76–105To amend section 6 of the Organic Act of Alaska.Apr 18, 1940
  67. Public Law 76–106For the transfer of funds to the town of Wrangell, Alaska.Apr 18, 1940
  68. Public Law 76–107Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for other purposes.Apr 18, 1940
  69. Public Law 76–108To legalize a bridge across the Nestucca River at Pacific City, Oregon.Apr 18, 1940
  70. Public Law 76–109To authorize the Secretary of War to furnish certain markers for certain graves.Apr 18, 1940
  71. Public Law 76–116Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to sell certain surplus land owned by the United States in Bremerton, Washington.Apr 20, 1940
  72. Public Law 76–117To extend original jurisdiction to district courts in civil suits between citizens of the District of Columbia, the Territories of Hawaii or Alaska, and any State or Territory.Apr 20, 1940
  73. Public Law 76–118To 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.Apr 20, 1940
  74. Public Law 76–119Authorizing appropriations to be made for the disposition of the remains of personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps and certain civilian employees of the Navy, and for other purposes.Apr 20, 1940
  75. Public Law 76–123To authorize an exchange of lands between the city of San Diego, California, and the United States, and acceptance by gift of certain lands from the city of San Diego, California.Apr 22, 1940
  76. Public Law 76–124To amend the Locomotive Inspection Act of February 17, 3911, as amended, so as to change the title of the chief inspector and assistant chief inspectors of locomotive boilers.Apr 22, 1940
  77. Public Law 76–125To amend section 1 of an Act entitled An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to employ engineers and economists for consultation purposes on important reclamation work, approved February 28, 1929 (45 Stat. 1406).Apr 22, 1940
  78. Public Law 76–126To reenact section 259 of the Judicial Code, relating to the traveling and subsistence expenses of circuit and district judges.Apr 22, 1940
  79. Public Law 76–127To amend the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act.Apr 22, 1940
  80. Public Law 76–128To amend laws for preventing collisions of vessels.Apr 22, 1940
  81. Public Law 76–129Authorizing the reconstruction or replacement of certain bridges necessitated by the Rio Grande canalization project and authorizing appropriation for that purpose.Apr 22, 1940
  82. Public Law 76–130Providing for the incorporation of the United Spanish War Veterans.Apr 22, 1940
  83. Public Law 76–131To regulate, in the District of Columbia, the disposal of certain refuse, and for other purposes.Apr 22, 1940
  84. Public Law 76–132To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to permit the payment of the costs of repairs, resurfacing, improvement, and enlargement of the Arrowrock Dam in twenty annual installments, and for other purposes.Apr 22, 1940
  85. Public Law 76–133To authorize an increase in the White House police force.Apr 22, 1940
  86. Public Law 76–134To change the name of a portion of Twenty-fourth Street Northwest to Williamsburg Lane.Apr 22, 1940
  87. Public Law 76–135To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Randolph, Missouri.Apr 22, 1940
  88. Public Law 76–136To authorize and direct the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to accept and maintain a memorial fountain to the members of the Metropolitan Police Department.Apr 22, 1940
  89. Public Law 76–137To authorize the construction of a waiting room and comfort station in Commodore Barney Circle, United States Reservation 5556, and for other purposes.Apr 22, 1940
  90. Public Law 76–138To protect the copyrights and patents of foreign exhibitors at the Golden Gate International Exposition, to be held at San Francisco, California, in 1940.Apr 22, 1940
  91. Public Law 76–139Authorizing the granting of permits to the Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies on the occasion of the inauguration of the President-elect in January 1941, and for other purposes.Apr 22, 1940
  92. Public Law 76–140To provide for the maintenance of public order and the protection of life and property in connection with the Presidential inaugural ceremonies of 1941.Apr 22, 1940
  93. Public Law 76–152To amend an Act to provide for the fifteenth and subsequent decennial censuses and to provide for apportionment of Representatives in Congress, approved June 18, 1929, so as to change the date of subsequent apportionments.Apr 25, 1940
  94. Public Law 76–153To amend the Naval Reserve Act of 1938 (Public, Numbered 732, 52 Stat. 1175).Apr 25, 1940
  95. Public Law 76–154Authorizing the adoption for the Foreign Service of an accounting procedure in the matter of disbursement of funds appropriated for the Department of State.Apr 25, 1940
  96. Public Law 76–155To amend laws for preventing collisions of vessels, to regulate equipment of certain motorboats on the navigable waters of the United States, and for other purposes.Apr 25, 1940
  97. Public Law 76–156To amend the provisions of law relating to the use of private vehicles for official travel in order to effect economy and better administration.Apr 25, 1940
  98. Public Law 76–157To provide for the quartering, in certain public buildings in the District of Columbia, of troops participating in the inaugural ceremonies.Apr 25, 1940
  99. Public Law 76–158To amend section 5 of Public Law Numbered 360, Sixty-sixth Congress.Apr 25, 1940
  100. Public Law 76–159For forest protection against the white-pine blister rust, and for other purposes.Apr 26, 1940
  101. Public Law 76–160To provide for rearrangement of the location of the several boards of local inspectors.Apr 30, 1940
  102. Public Law 76–161Granting the consent of Congress to the General State Authority, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and/or the Pennsylvania Bridge and Tunnel Commission, either singly or jointly, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Susquehanna River at or near the city of Middletown, Pennsylvania.Apr 30, 1940
  103. Public Law 76–162Granting the consent of Congress to the General State Authority, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and/or the Pennsylvania Bridge and Tunnel Commission, either singly or jointly, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Susquehanna River at or near the city of Millersburg, Pennsylvania.Apr 30, 1940
  104. Public Law 76–163To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Delaware River between the village of Barryville, New York, and the village of Shohola, Pennsylvania.Apr 30, 1940
  105. Public Law 76–164To amend section 35B of the United States Criminal Code to prohibit purchase or receipt in pledge of clothing and other supplies issued to veterans maintained in Veterans Administration facilities.Apr 30, 1940
  106. Public Law 76–165Providing for sick leave for substitute postal employees.Apr 30, 1940
  107. Public Law 76–166To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River near Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.Apr 30, 1940
  108. Public Law 76–167To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge or bridges across the Saint Louis River at or near the city of Duluth, Minnesota, and the city of Superior, Wisconsin, and to amend the Act of August 7, 1939, and for other purposes.Apr 30, 1940
  109. Public Law 76–168Amending Acts extending the franking privilege to widows of ex-Presidents of the United States.Apr 30, 1940
  110. Public Law 76–169Authorizing The Superior Oil Company, a California corporation, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge or causeway, and approaches thereto, across the old channel of the Wabash River from Cut-Off Island, Posey County, Indiana, to White County, Illinois.Apr 30, 1940
  111. Public Law 76–170Granting the consent of Congress to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Susquehanna River, at or near Wyalusing, between Terry and Wyalusing Townships, in the county of Bradford, and in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.Apr 30, 1940
  112. Public Law 76–171To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge or bridges across the Mississippi River at or near the cities of Dubuque, Iowa, and East Dubuque, Illinois, and to amend the Act of July 18, 1939, and for other purposes.Apr 30, 1940
  113. Public Law 76–172To amend the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, as amended by the Act of June 30, 1932 (ch. 314, sec. 209, 47 Stat. 405).Apr 30, 1940
  114. Public Law 76–173To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Little Falls, Minnesota.Apr 30, 1940
  115. Public Law 76–174Granting the consent of Congress to the State Highway Department of South Carolina to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Great Pee Dee River, at or near Cashua Ferry, South Carolina.Apr 30, 1940
  116. Public Law 76–175To amend the Act of August 23, 1912 (37 Stat. 414; U. S. C., title 31, sec. 679).Apr 30, 1940
  117. Public Law 76–176To provide for the transfer of United States prisoners in certain cases.Apr 30, 1940
  118. Public Law 76–180Authorizing the Secretary of War to execute an easement deed to the State of New Mexico for the use and occupation of lands and water areas at Conchas Dam and Reservoir project, New Mexico.May 1, 1940
  119. Public Law 76–182For the relief of officers and soldiers of the volunteer service of the United States mustered into service for the War with Spain and who were held in service in the Philippine Islands after the ratification of the treaty of peace, April 11, 1899.May 2, 1940
  120. Public Law 76–183Authorizing the President of the United States of America to proclaim I Am An American Citizenship Day, for the recognition, observance, and commemoration of American citizenship.May 3, 1940
  121. Public Law 76–184Amending Public Resolution Numbered 112 of the Seventy-fifth Congress and Public Resolution Numbered 48 of the Seventy-sixth Congress.May 3, 1940
  122. Public Law 76–185To amend section 5 (b) of the Act of October 6, 1917, as amended, and for other purposes.May 7, 1940
  123. Public Law 76–186Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to accept on behalf of the United States a bequest of certain personal property of the late Dudley F. Wolfe.May 11, 1940
  124. Public Law 76–187To extend to the 1940 New York Worlds Fair and the 1940 Golden Gate International Exposition the provisions according privileges under certain customs and other laws to the expositions of 1939.May 11, 1940
  125. Public Law 76–188To authorize the striking of an appropriate medal in commemoration of the three-hundredth anniversary of the establishment of Greenwich, Connecticut, as a town.May 13, 1940
  126. Public Law 76–189Making appropriations for the Departments of State, Commerce, and Justice, and for The Judiciary, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for other purposes.May 14, 1940
  127. Public Law 76–190To authorize the Director of the Geological Survey, under the general supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, to acquire certain collections for the United States.May 14, 1940
  128. Public Law 76–191To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire property for the Antietam Battlefield site in the State of Maryland, and for other purposes.May 14, 1940
  129. Public Law 76–192To provide allowances for uniforms and equipment for certain officers of the Officers Reserve Corps of the Army.May 14, 1940
  130. Public Law 76–193To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant a right-of-way to the Highway Commission of the State of Montana.May 14, 1940
  131. Public Law 76–194To amend the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916, as amended, to provide for enlistments in the Army of the United States in time of war, or other emergency declared by Congress, and for other purposes.May 14, 1940
  132. Public Law 76–195To amend section 10, National Defense Act, as amended, with relation to the maximum authorized enlisted strength of the Medical Department of the Regular Army.May 14, 1940
  133. Public Law 76–196To amend the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930, as amended, and for other purposes.May 14, 1940
  134. Public Law 76–197To authorize the establishment of boundary lines for the Wilmington National Cemetery, North Carolina.May 14, 1940
  135. Public Law 76–198To provide for participation of the United States in the Golden Gate International Exposition at San Francisco in 1940, to continue the powers and duties of the United States Golden Gate International Exposition Commission, and for other purposes.May 14, 1940
  136. Public Law 76–199To amend the joint resolution entitled Joint resolution authorizing Federal participation, in the New York Worlds Fair, 1939, authorizing an appropriation therefor and for other purposes, approved July 9, 1937, to provide for participation in the New York Worlds Fair, 1940, to authorize an appropriation therefor, and for other purposes.May 14, 1940
  137. Public Law 76–200To amend section 8 (f) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended.May 14, 1940
  138. Public Law 76–201To suspend section 510 (g) of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, during the present European war, and for other purposes.May 14, 1940
  139. Public Law 76–203To amend section 24e, National Defense Act, as amended, so as to add an alternative requirement for appointment in the Dental Corps.May 15, 1940
  140. Public Law 76–204To amend sections 16 and 17 of chapter II of the Act of June 19, 1934, entitled An Act to regulate the business of life insurance in the District of Columbia.May 20, 1940
  141. Public Law 76–205To amend the Mount Rushmore Memorial Act of 1938.May 22, 1940
  142. Public Law 76–206To authorize the purchase of certain lands adjacent to the Turtle Mountain Indian Agency in the State of North Dakota.May 24, 1940
  143. Public Law 76–209To provide for the appointment of additional district and circuit judges.May 24, 1940
  144. Public Law 76–210To authorize an appropriation to assist in defraying the expenses of the American Negro Exposition to be held in Chicago, Illinois, during 1940.May 24, 1940
  145. Public Law 76–211To designate the lock and dam at Alton, Illinois, as the Henry T. Rainey Dam.May 27, 1940
  146. Public Law 76–212To amend the Act approved February 15, 1929, entitled An Act to permit certain warrant officers to count all active service rendered tinder temporary appointments as warrant or commissioned officers in the Regular Navy, or as warrant or commissioned officers in the United States Naval Reserve Force, for purpose of promotion to chief warrant rank, so as to permit service in the National Naval Volunteers to be counted for purposes of promotion.May 27, 1940
  147. Public Law 76–213To amend the Act entitled An Act to authorize an exchange of lands between the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company and the United States at Quantico, Virginia, approved June 24, 1935 (49 Stat. 395), so as to permit the removal of certain encumbrances on the lands concerned.May 27, 1940
  148. Public Law 76–214To extend the time for completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near La Crosse, Wisconsin.May 27, 1940
  149. Public Law 76–215To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Friar Point, Mississippi, and Helena, Arkansas.May 27, 1940
  150. Public Law 76–216To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River at or near Mauckport, Harrison County, Indiana.May 27, 1940
  151. Public Law 76–217To grant the consent of Congress to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Allegheny River at or near Port Allegany, Liberty Township, in the County of McKean, and in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.May 27, 1940
  152. Public Law 76–218To grant the consent of Congress to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Monongahela River, at a point between the boroughs of Elizabeth, in Elizabeth Township, and West Elizabeth, in Jefferson Township, in the county of Allegheny, and in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.May 27, 1940
  153. Public Law 76–219To make better provision for the teacher of music, the leader of the Military Academy Band.May 27, 1940
  154. Public Law 76–220To authorize the withdrawal of national-forest lands for the protection of watersheds from which water is obtained for municipalities, and for other purposes.May 28, 1940
  155. Public Law 76–221Authorizing the Secretary of War to convey to the Port of Cascade Locks, Oregon, certain lands for municipal purposes.May 28, 1940
  156. Public Law 76–222Providing for the sale of certain lands to the Arizona State Elks Association Hospital.May 28, 1940
  157. Public Law 76–223To legalize a bridge across Bayou Lafourche at Galiano, Louisiana.May 28, 1940
  158. Public Law 76–224To authorize the granting of a right-of-way for roadway purposes on the Fort Thomas Military Reservation, Kentucky, in exchange for the release of property rights in and to a certain road on said reservation.May 28, 1940
  159. Public Law 76–225To increase the number of brigadier generals of the line of the Regular Army by four.May 28, 1940
  160. Public Law 76–226To provide for a more permanent tenure for persons carrying the mail on star routes.May 31, 1940
  161. Public Law 76–227Authorizing the continuance of the Prison Industries Reorganization Administration, established by Executive Order Numbered 7194 of September 26, 1935, to June 30, 1941.May 31, 1940
  162. Public Law 76–228To amend section 5 of the Act entitled An Act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, approved March 3, 1025 (43 Stat. 1190; 34 U. S. C. 893), so as to authorize the payment of a per diem in connection with naval aerial surveys and flight checking of aviation charts.May 31, 1940
  163. Public Law 76–229To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to accept real estate granted to the United States by the city of Miami, Florida, and for other purposes.Jun 3, 1940
  164. Public Law 76–230To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to acquire land at Key West, Florida.Jun 3, 1940
  165. Public Law 76–231Providing for the taking effect of Reorganization Plan Numbered V.Jun 4, 1940
  166. Public Law 76–232To prohibit the exportation of tobacco seed and plants, except for experimental purposes.Jun 5, 1940
  167. Public Law 76–236Authorizing the President of the United States of America to proclaim October 11, 1940, General Pulaskis Memorial Day for the observance and commemoration of the death of Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski.Jun 6, 1940
  168. Public Law 76–237To amend section 335 (d) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938.Jun 6, 1940
  169. Public Law 76–238Authorizing the conveyance to the Commonwealth of Virginia a portion of the naval reservation known as Quantico in Prince William County, Virginia.Jun 6, 1940
  170. Public Law 76–239To incorporate the Navy Club of the United States of America.Jun 6, 1940
  171. Public Law 76–240To authorize the conveyance of the United States Fish Hatchery property at Put in Bay, Ohio, to the State of Ohio.Jun 6, 1940
  172. Public Law 76–241To amend section 289 of the Criminal Code.Jun 6, 1940
  173. Public Law 76–242To amend section 2 of the Act of March 4, 1931 (46 Stat. 1528), in regard to service of process on the United States in foreclosure actions.Jun 6, 1940
  174. Public Law 76–243To authorize the acquisition by the United States of lands in Manchester and Jackson Townships of the county of Ocean and State of New Jersey for use in connection with the Naval Air station, Lakehurst, New Jersey.Jun 6, 1940
  175. Public Law 76–244To amend the Act entitled An Act to regulate proceedings in adoption in theDistrict of Columbia, approved August 25, 1937.Jun 6, 1940
  176. Public Law 76–245Authorizing the Bradenton Company, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across Sarasota Pass, and across Longboat Pass, county of Manatee, State of Florida.Jun 6, 1940
  177. Public Law 76–246To provide increased pensions for veterans of the Regular Establishment with service-connected disability incurred in or aggravated by service prior to April 21, 1898.Jun 6, 1940
  178. Public Law 76–247To amend section 79 of the Judicial Code, as amended.Jun 6, 1940
  179. Public Law 76–248To convey certain lands to the State of Wyoming.Jun 6, 1940
  180. Public Law 76–249To amend an Act entitled An Act to increase the efficiency of the Coast Guard, approved January 12, 1938.Jun 6, 1940
  181. Public Law 76–250To provide for the enlargement of the Coast Guard depot at Seattle, Washington, and for the establishment of a Coast Guard servicing base at or near Chattanooga, Tennessee.Jun 6, 1940
  182. Public Law 76–251Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to accept on behalf of the United States a gift of the yacht Freedom from Sterling Morton.Jun 6, 1940
  183. Public Law 76–252To transfer Hardeman County, Texas, from the Fort Worth division to the Wichita Falls division of the northern judicial district of Texas.Jun 6, 1940
  184. Public Law 76–253To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to provide for the parking of automobiles in the Municipal Center.Jun 6, 1940
  185. Public Law 76–254To amend an Act entitled An Act to establish a Board of Indeterminate Sentence and Parole for the District of Columbia and to determine its functions, and for other purposes, approved July 15, 1932, and for other purposes.Jun 6, 1940
  186. Public Law 76–255To amend the Act entitled An Act to provide books for the adult blind, approved March 3, 1931.Jun 6, 1940
  187. Public Law 76–256To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a railroad bridge across the Missouri River at or near Randolph, Missouri.Jun 6, 1940
  188. Public Law 76–257To amend and clarify certain Acts pertaining to the Coast Guard, and for other purposes.Jun 6, 1940
  189. Public Law 76–267Authorizing the Bureau of Labor Statistics to make studies of productivity and labor costs in industryJun 7, 1940
  190. Public Law 76–276To confer jurisdiction on the State of Kansas over offenses committed by or against Indians on Indian reservations.Jun 8, 1940
  191. Public Law 76–277To amend the Act of June 30, 1936 (49 Stat. 2041), providing for the administration and maintenance of the Blue Ridge Parkway, in the States of Virginia and North Carolina, by the Secretary of the Interior, and for other purposes.Jun 8, 1940
  192. Public Law 76–278For the protection of the bald eagle.Jun 8, 1940
  193. Public Law 76–279To extend the provisions of the Forest Exchange Act, as amended, to certainlands so that they may become part of the Ochoco National Forest, Oregon.Jun 8, 1940
  194. Public Law 76–280For the benefit of the Indians of the Crow Reservation, Montana, and for other purposes.Jun 8, 1940
  195. Public Law 76–281To provide for the conservation and transfer of accumulated sick leave and vacation time due classified civil-service employees who succeed to the position of postmaster, and for other purposes.Jun 8, 1940
  196. Public Law 76–282To repeal the prohibition against the filling of a vacancy in the office of district judge for the southern district of New York.Jun 8, 1940
  197. Public Law 76–283Granting to the regents of the University of New Mexico the right to alienate certain lands conveyed to them under authority of the Act of Congress, approved August 19, 1935 (49 Stat. 659), in exchange for an equivalent amount of land more expediently situated.Jun 8, 1940
  198. Public Law 76–284To repeal certain laws with respect to manifests and vessel permits.Jun 8, 1940
  199. Public Law 76–285To set aside certain lands for the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe in the State of Minnesota, and for other purposes.Jun 8, 1940
  200. Public Law 76–286To make it a crime to wreck or attempt to wreck a train engaged in interstate commerce.Jun 8, 1940
  201. Public Law 76–287Authorizing the county of Knox, State of Nebraska, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Missouri River at or near Niobrara, Nebraska.Jun 8, 1940
  202. Public Law 76–288To authorize the county of Burt, State of Nebraska, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Missouri River at or near Decatur, Nebraska.Jun 8, 1940
  203. Public Law 76–289To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Petersburg, Missouri.Jun 8, 1940
  204. Public Law 76–290To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant to the county of Wayne, State of Michigan, an easement over certain land of the United States in Wayne County, Michigan, for a sewage-disposal line.Jun 8, 1940
  205. Public Law 76–291To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Winona, Minnesota.Jun 8, 1940
  206. Public Law 76–292To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Saint Lawrence River at or near Ogdensburg, New York, and for other purposes.Jun 8, 1940
  207. Public Law 76–293To accept the grant to the United States of certain land by the State of South Carolina and to authorize its use by the United States Coast Guard.Jun 8, 1940
  208. Public Law 76–294Authorizing the removal of the statue of John Marshall from its present site on the Capitol Grounds to a new site in proximity to the Supreme Court Building.Jun 8, 1940
  209. Public Law 76–295To authorize compacts or agreements between or among the States bordering on the Atlantic Ocean with respect to fishing in the territorial waters and bays and inlets of the Atlantic Ocean on which such States border, and for other purposes.Jun 8, 1940
  210. Public Law 76–301To amend section 5136 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, to authorize charitable contributions by national banking associations.Jun 11, 1940
  211. Public Law 76–302To declare Frankford Creek, Pennsylvania, to be a nonnavigable stream.Jun 11, 1940
  212. Public Law 76–303To extend the existence of the Alaskan International Highway Commission for an additional four years, and for other purposes.Jun 11, 1940
  213. Public Law 76–304To provide for the establishment of the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia.Jun 11, 1940
  214. Public Law 76–305To postpone for one year the date of the transmission to Congress by the United States Coronado Exposition Commission of a statement of its expenditures.Jun 11, 1940
  215. Public Law 76–306Providing for an annual appropriation to meet the share of the United States toward the expenses of the International Technical Committee of Aerial Legal Experts, and for participation in the meetings of the International Technical Committee of Aerial Legal Experts and the commissions established by that Committee.Jun 11, 1940
  216. Public Law 76–307Providing for more uniform coverage under the Railroad Retirement Acts of 1935 and 1937, the Carriers Taxing Act of 1937, and subchapter B of chapter 9 of the Internal Revenue Code.Jun 11, 1940
  217. Public Law 76–313Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for other purposes.Jun 11, 1940
  218. Public Law 76–314To facilitate the control of soil erosion and/or flood damage originating upon lands within the exterior boundaries of the Cleveland National Forest in San Diego County, California.Jun 11, 1940
  219. Public Law 76–315For the relief of Indiana who have paid taxes on allotted lands for which patents in fee were issued without application by or consent of the allottees and subsequently canceled, and for the reimbursement of public subdivisions by whom judgments for such claims have been paid.Jun 11, 1940
  220. Public Law 76–316To facilitate the control of soil erosion and/or flood damage originating upon lands within the exterior boundaries of the Angeles National Forest, California.Jun 11, 1940
  221. Public Law 76–317Authorizing the selection of a site in the District of Columbia and the erection thereon of a statue of George Washington.Jun 11, 1940
  222. Public Law 76–318To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the State of North Carolina for use in connection with the Blue Ridge Parkway certain land within the Cherokee Indian Reservation in the State of North Carolina.Jun 11, 1940
  223. Public Law 76–319To amend the service pension Acts pertaining to the War with Spain, Philippine Insurrection, and the China Relief Expedition to include certain continuous service.Jun 11, 1940
  224. Public Law 76–320To transfer the site and buildings of the Tomah Indian School to the State of Wisconsin.Jun 11, 1940
  225. Public Law 76–321To establish the Hot Springs division of the Western Judicial District of Arkansas.Jun 11, 1940
  226. Public Law 76–322To transfer certain Indian lands to the Grand River Dam Authority, and for other purposes.Jun 11, 1940
  227. Public Law 76–323To amend the Criminal Code so as to confer concurrent jurisdiction on courts of the United States over crimes committed on certain Federal reservations.Jun 11, 1940
  228. Public Law 76–324To amend section 4370 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (U. S. C., 1034 edition, title 46, sec. 316).Jun 11, 1940
  229. Public Law 76–325To limit the interpretation of the term products of American fisheries.Jun 11, 1940
  230. Public Law 76–326Making it a misdemeanor to stow away on vessels and providing punishment therefor.Jun 11, 1940
  231. Public Law 76–327To make temporary emergency provision for the determination of foreign construction costs under section 502 (b) of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended.Jun 11, 1940
  232. Public Law 76–333Making 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, 1941, and for other purposes.Jun 12, 1940
  233. Public Law 76–334Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to grant to the State of Montana for the use and benefit of the Montana School of Mines a patent to a certain tract of land.Jun 12, 1940
  234. Public Law 76–335To provide for a change in the time for holding court at Rock Hill and Spartanburg, South Carolina.Jun 12, 1940
  235. Public Law 76–336To amend section 73 of an Act entitled An Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii, approved April 30, 1900, as amended.Jun 12, 1940
  236. Public Law 76–337To provide for the examination of civilian nautical schools and for the inspection of vessels used in connection therewith, and for other purposes.Jun 12, 1940
  237. Public Law 76–339To amend sections 798 and 800 of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, relating to murder in the first degree.Jun 12, 1940
  238. Public Law 76–340Relating to the hours of service of persons employed upon the Government-owned Wiota-Fort Peck Railroad in the State of Montana.Jun 12, 1940
  239. Public Law 76–341To amend section 107 of the Judicial Code, as amended, to eliminate the requirement that suitable accommodations for holding the court at Winchester, Tennessee, be provided by the local authorities.Jun 12, 1940
  240. Public Law 76–342To provide educational employees of the public schools of the District of Columbia with leave of absence, with part pay, for purposes of educational improvement, and for other purposes.Jun 12, 1940
  241. Public Law 76–343Making appropriations for the Military Establishment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for other purposes.Jun 13, 1940
  242. Public Law 76–344To provide for the promotion of promotion-list officers of the Army after specified years of service in grade, and for other purposes.Jun 13, 1940
  243. Public Law 76–345Granting the consent of Congress to the States of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming to negotiate and enter into a compact or agreement for division of the waters of the Little Missouri River.Jun 13, 1940
  244. Public Law 76–346To promote on the retired list officers who were decorated and recommended for promotion for distinguished service during the World War and who have not attained the rank to which recommended.Jun 13, 1940
  245. Public Law 76–347To amend the Act entitled An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes, approved July 1, 1902 (32 Stat. 662), so as to provide uniformity in the pay of all civilian employees of the Navy Department appointed for duty beyond the continental limits of the United States and in Alaska.Jun 13, 1940
  246. Public Law 76–348To amend the Act entitled An Act to establish a Civilian Conservation Corps, and for other purposes, approved June 28, 1937, as amended.Jun 13, 1940
  247. Public Law 76–349Authorizing the sale of fuel, electric current, ice, and water at isolated naval stations.Jun 13, 1940
  248. Public Law 76–350To provide that fines for failure to pay license taxes in Alaska shall be disposed of as provided for the disposition of such taxes.Jun 13, 1940
  249. Public Law 76–351To prevent retardation in promotion and in pay and allowances of permanent professors of the United States Military Academy appointed by the President from the commissioned officers of the Regular Army.Jun 13, 1940
  250. Public Law 76–352Granting the consent of Congress to the Secretary of the Interior and the State of Washington to construct, maintain, and operate a highway bridge across the Spokane River, Washington.Jun 13, 1940
  251. Public Law 76–353Granting the consent of Congress to the Secretary of the Interior and Stevens County, State of Washington, to construct, maintain, and operate a highway bridge across the Kettle River, near Marcus, Washington.Jun 13, 1940
  252. Public Law 76–354Granting the consent of Congress to the Secretary of the Interior and the Great Northern Railway Company to construct, maintain, and operate two railroad bridges across the Kettle River, near Marcus, Washington.Jun 13, 1940
  253. Public Law 76–355To donate to the city of Seattle a totem pole carved by the Alaskan native Civilian Conservation Corps.Jun 13, 1940
  254. Public Law 76–356To authorize the Secretary of War to grant an easement for pipe lines across public lands reserved for military purposes in the parish of Plaquemines, Louisiana.Jun 13, 1940
  255. Public Law 76–357Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to grant to the city of Port Lauderdale, Florida, an casement or easements authorizing such city to construct and maintain a highway and utility facilities over the United States Coast Guard Reservation known as base six at Fort Lauderdale, Florida.Jun 13, 1940
  256. Public Law 76–358To amend the Canal Zone Code.Jun 13, 1940
  257. Public Law 76–359To amend section 1 of the Act providing punishment for the killing or assaulting of Federal officers.Jun 13, 1940
  258. Public Law 76–360To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, and for other purposes.Jun 13, 1940
  259. Public Law 76–364To establish the composition of the United States Navy, to authorise the construction of certain naval vessels, and for other purposes.Jun 14, 1940
  260. Public Law 76–365To authorize the Secretaries of War and of the Navy to assist the governments of American republics to increase their military and naval establishments, and for other purposes.Jun 15, 1940
  261. Public Law 76–366To amend the Federal Credit Union Act (June 26, 1934, ch. 750, par. 1, 48 Stat. 1216, sec. 1761).Jun 15, 1940
  262. Public Law 76–367To facilitate and simplify national-forest administration.Jun 15, 1940
  263. Public Law 76–371To authorize the postponement of payment of amounts payable to the United States by the Republic of Finland on Its indebtedness under agreements between that Republic and the United States dated May 1, 1923, and May 23, 1932.Jun 15, 1940
  264. Public Law 76–372Granting the consent of Congress to the States of Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming to negotiate and enter into a compact or agreement for division of the waters of the Yellowstone River.Jun 15, 1940
  265. Public Law 76–373To require the payment of prevailing rates of wages on Federal public works in Alaska and Hawaii.Jun 15, 1940
  266. Public Law 76–374To regulate the number of warrant and commissioned warrant officers in the Marine Corps.Jun 15, 1940
  267. Public Law 76–375To authorize the construction or acquisition of naval aircraft, the construction of certain public works, and for other purposes.Jun 15, 1940
  268. Public Law 76–389Authorizing the Bureau of Labor Statistics to collect information as to amount and value of all goods produced in State and Federal Prisons.Jun 17, 1940
  269. Public Law 76–390To extend the time limit for cooperation between the Bureau of Reclamation and the Farm Security Administration in the development of farm units on public lands under Federal reclamation projects.Jun 17, 1940
  270. Public Law 76–391To facilitate the control of soil erosion and/or flood damage originating upon lands within the exterior of boundaries of the Sequoia National Forest, California.Jun 17, 1940
  271. Public Law 76–392To extend the provisions of the Forest Exchange Act, as amended, to certain lands, so that they may become parts of the Whitman, Malheur, or Umatilla National Forests.Jun 17, 1940
  272. Public Law 76–393To amend the Act entitled An Act to authorize the city of Pierre, South Dakota, to construct, equip, maintain, and operate on Farm Island, South Dakota, certain amusement and recreational facilities; to charge for the use thereof; and for other purposes, approved August 16, 1937.Jun 17, 1940
  273. Public Law 76–395Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for other purposes.Jun 18, 1940
  274. Public Law 76–396Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for other purposes.Jun 18, 1940
  275. Public Law 76–397To amend the Code of the District of Columbia to provide for the organization and regulation of cooperative associations, and for other purposes.Jun 19, 1940
  276. Public Law 76–398To amend an Act to authorize the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy to make certain disposition of condemned ordnance, guns, projectiles, and other condemned material in their respective Departments.Jun 19, 1940
  277. Public Law 76–399Authorizing the recognition of the two-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the University of Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and the beginning of university education in the United States, and providing for the representation of the Government and people of the United States in the observance of the anniversary.Jun 20, 1940
  278. Public Law 76–400Providing for the reorganization of the Navy Department, and for other purposes.Jun 20, 1940
  279. Public Law 76–407To amend the Act approved May 24, 1938, entitled An Act for the relief of the Comision Mixta Demarcadora de Limites Entre Colombia y Panama and for the relief of Jose Antonio Sossa D.Jun 20, 1940
  280. Public Law 76–408For 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.Jun 20, 1940
  281. Public Law 76–409To provide for the alteration of certain bridges over navigable waters of the United States, for the apportionment of the cost of such alterations between the United States and the owners of such bridges, and for other purposes.Jun 21, 1940
  282. Public Law 76–410Authorizing a grant to the city of Fargo, North Dakota, of an easement in connection with the construction of water and sewer systems.Jun 24, 1940
  283. Public Law 76–411Authorizing the purchase of a site and the erection of a building in the State of Massachusetts for use as a radio-monitoring station, and for other purposes.Jun 24, 1940
  284. Public Law 76–412To authorize the sale of lumber and other forest products obtained from the forests on Indian reservations by Indian enterprises.Jun 24, 1940
  285. Public Law 76–413Authorizing the transfer of title of the Hayward Indian School to the State of Wisconsin.Jun 24, 1940
  286. Public Law 76–414To provide for the local delivery rate on certain first-class mail matter.Jun 24, 1940
  287. Public Law 76–415Making appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, for civil functions administered by the War department, and for other purposes.Jun 24, 1940
  288. Public Law 76–416To amend sections 2803 (c) and 2903 of the Internal Revenue Code.Jun 24, 1940
  289. Public Law 76–417To eliminate the tax on brandy and wine spirits used in the fortification of wine; to increase the tax on wine; to compensate for the loss of revenue occasioned by the elimination of the tax on brandy and wine spirits used in the fortification of wine; and for other purposes.Jun 24, 1940
  290. Public Law 76–419To provide for the expenses of national preparedness by raising revenue and issuing bonds, to provide a method for paying for such bonds, and for other purposes.Jun 25, 1940
  291. Public Law 76–420To transfer the active list of the Construction Corps to the line of the Navy, and for other purposes.Jun 25, 1940
  292. Public Law 76–421Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and. for other purposes.Jun 25, 1940
  293. Public Law 76–422To amend section 210 of the Communications Act of 1934, approved June 19, 1934 (48 Stat. 1073; 47 U. S. C. 210), so as to permit communication utilities to contribute free services to the national defense.Jun 25, 1940
  294. Public Law 76–423To amend section 301 (a) of the Sugar Act of 1937.Jun 25, 1940
  295. Public Law 76–424To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to grant to the Road Department of the State of Florida an easement for a road right-of-way over the Coast Guard Reservation at Flagler Beach, Florida.Jun 25, 1940
  296. Public Law 76–425To allow moving expenses to employees in the Railway Mail Service.Jun 25, 1940
  297. Public Law 76–426For the protection against unlawful use of the badge, medal, emblem, or other insignia of veterans organizations incorporated by Act of Congress, and providing penalties for the violation thereof.Jun 25, 1940
  298. Public Law 76–427To authorize the purchase by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation of stock of Federal home-loan banks; to amend the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, as amended, and for other purposes.Jun 25, 1940
  299. Public Law 76–428Making appropriations for the Department of Labor, the Federal Security Agency, and related independent agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for other purposes.Jun 26, 1940
  300. Public Law 76–429To authorize the attendance of the Marine Band at the convention of the Grand Army of the Republic to be held at Springfield, Illinois, September 8 to 13, inclusive, 1940.Jun 26, 1940
  301. Public Law 76–430Making supplemental appropriations for the national defense for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for other purposes.Jun 26, 1940
  302. Public Law 76–431To amend section 4 of Public Resolution Numbered 54, approved November 4, 1939, entitled Joint resolution to preserve the neutrality and the peace of the United States and to secure the safety of its citizens and their interests.Jun 26, 1940
  303. Public Law 76–432Making appropriations for work relief and relief, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941.Jun 26, 1940
  304. Public Law 76–437Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1940, and June 30, 1941, and for other purposes.Jun 27, 1940
  305. Public Law 76–438To 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.Jun 28, 1940
  306. Public Law 76–439To prohibit certain subversive activities; to amend certain provisions of law with respect to the admission and deportation of aliens; to require the fingerprinting and registration of aliens; and for other purposes.Jun 28, 1940
  307. Public Law 76–440To expedite national defense, and for other purposes.Jun 28, 1940
  308. Public Law 76–441To extend for two additional years the reduced rates of interest on Federal land bank and Land Bank Commissioner loans.Jun 29, 1940
  309. Public Law 76–442To make emergency provision for the maintenance of essential vessels affected by the Neutrality Act of 1939, and for adjustment of obligations with respect to such vessels.Jun 29, 1940
  310. Public Law 76–443To divest prize-fight films of their character as subjects of interstate or foreign, commerce, and for other purposes.Jun 29, 1940
  311. Public Law 76–444To provide for the administration of the Washington National Airport, and for other purposes.Jun 29, 1940
  312. Public Law 76–445To give the Supreme Court of the United States authority to prescribe rules of pleading, practice, and procedure with respect to proceedings in criminal cases prior to and including verdict, or finding or plea of guilty.Jun 29, 1940
  313. Public Law 76–446To provide for leave of absence, with pay, for any employee of the United States or of the District of Columbia who may be called upon for jury service in any State court or court of the United States.Jun 29, 1940
  314. Public Law 76–447To amend the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, to provide for marine war-risk insurance and reinsurance and for marine risk reinsurance, and for other purposes.Jun 29, 1940
  315. Public Law 76–448Authorizing the temporary detail of John L. Savage, an employee of the United States, to service under the Government of the State of New South Wales, Australia, and the Government of the Punjab, India.Jun 29, 1940
  316. Public Law 76–449To amend certain laws governing Federal prisoners, and for other purposes.Jun 29, 1940
  317. Public Law 76–450To amend section 1 of the Act entitled An Act for the retirement of employees cf the Alaska Railroad, Territory of Alaska, who are citizens of the United States, approved June 29, 1936.Jun 29, 1940
  318. Public Law 76–451To authorize the furnishing of steam from the Central Heating Plant to the National Academy of Sciences, and for other purposes.Jun 29, 1940
  319. Public Law 76–452For the marking, care, and maintenance of the Mount of Victory plot in the Cypress Hills Cemetery, in Brooklyn, New York.Jun 29, 1940
  320. Public Law 76–453Permitting official mail of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau to be transmitted in penalty envelopes.Jun 29, 1940
  321. Public Law 76–454For the exchange of lands adjacent to the San Juan National Forest and the Rio Grande National Forest in Colorado.Jun 29, 1940
  322. Public Law 76–455To prohibit the receipt, possession, or disposition of money or property feloniously taken from a bank organized or operating under the laws of the United States or any member of the Federal Reserve System.Jun 29, 1940
  323. Public Law 76–456To amend the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930, as amended, to include as a perishable agricultural commodity cherries in brine, and for other purposes.Jun 29, 1940
  324. Public Law 76–457To amend the Act to regulate the practice of podiatry in the District of Columbia.Jun 29, 1940
  325. Public Law 76–458To grant per diem compensation to the appointed members of the Board of Steam and Other Operating Engineers of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.Jun 29, 1940
  326. Public Law 76–459To amend the Act entitled An Act to provide for the establishment of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore in the State of North Carolina, and for other purposes, approved August 17, 1937 (50 Stat. 669).Jun 29, 1940
  327. Public Law 76–460For the acquisition of Indian lands for the Grand Coulee Dam and Reservoir, and for other purposes.Jun 29, 1940
  328. Public Law 76–461To authorize appropriations for construction at military posts, and for other purposes.Jun 29, 1940
  329. Public Law 76–462To authorize the acquisition of additional land for military purposes.Jun 29, 1940
  330. Public Law 76–492Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to sell certain land to the Conconully Cemetery Association.Jun 29, 1940
  331. Public Law 76–493To clear title to certain real estate.Jun 29, 1940
  332. Public Law 76–494Authorizing a reduction in the rate of interest to be paid on certain loans and advances made to the District of Columbia by the United States of America through the Public Works Administration.Jul 1, 1940
  333. Public Law 76–495To amend an Act entitled An Act relating to the naturalization of certain women born in Hawaii, approved July 2, 1932.Jul 1, 1940
  334. Public Law 76–496To authorize the appropriation for payment of the cost of providing additional water for the Wapato Indian irrigation project, Washington.Jul 1, 1940
  335. Public Law 76–497For expenditure of funds for cooperation with the public-school board, Cass County, Minnesota, for the construction, extension, equipment, and improvement of public-school facilities to be available to Indian children in the district.Jul 1, 1940
  336. Public Law 76–498To authorize defraying cost of necessary work between the Yuma project and Boulder Dam.Jul 1, 1940
  337. Public Law 76–499To provide for exercising the right with respect to red cedar shingles reserved in the trade agreement concluded November 17, 1938, between the United States of America and Canada, and for other purposes.Jul 1, 1940
  338. Public Law 76–500Amending the Bankruptcy Act with respect to the basis of property.Jul 1, 1940
  339. Public Law 76–501To amend the Act relating to preventing the publication of inventions in the national interest, and for other purposes.Jul 1, 1940
  340. Public Law 76–502To amend the Immigration Act of 1924 to require aliens admitted into the United States as officials of foreign governments either to maintain their status or to depart from the United States, with the approval of the Secretary of State.Jul 1, 1940
  341. Public Law 76–507To provide a license to the Atlantic Refining Company, and for other purposes.Jul 1, 1940
  342. Public Law 76–508To expedite the strengthening of the national defense.Jul 2, 1940
  343. Public Law 76–509To repatriate native-born women residents of the United States who have heretofore lost their citizenship by marriage to an alien.Jul 2, 1940
  344. Public Law 76–510To amend section 2810 (a), Internal Revenue Code, to exclude petroleum stills from the requirement of registration.Jul 2, 1940
  345. Public Law 76–511To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a dam and dike for preventing the flow of tidal waters into North Slough in Coos County, Oregon.Jul 2, 1940
  346. Public Law 76–512To permit certain aliens whose childhood was spent in the United States, if eligible to citizenship, to become naturalized without filing declaration of intention.Jul 2, 1940
  347. Public Law 76–513To amend the Act for the regulation of the practice of dentistry in the District of Columbia, and for the protection of the people from empiricism in relation thereto, approved June 6, 1892, and Acts amendatory thereof.Jul 2, 1940
  348. Public Law 76–514To amend section 5 of the Act of Congress approved June 26, 1906, relative to the Alaska Salmon fishery.Jul 2, 1940
  349. Public Law 76–515To limit the importation of products made, produced, processed, or mined under process covered by unexpired valid United States patents, and for other purposes.Jul 2, 1940
  350. Public Law 76–516To authorize the setting aside of an area within the Canal Zone to preserve and conserve its natural features for scientific study, for providing and maintaining facilities for such study, and for other purposes.Jul 2, 1940
  351. Public Law 76–517Authorizing, the Administrator of the Federal Works Agency to transfer certain property in San Francisco, California, to the city and county of San Francisco for street purposes.Jul 2, 1940
  352. Public Law 76–518To amend section 10 of chapter 5 of Public Act Numbered 436, Seventy-third Congress, approved June 19, 1934.Jul 2, 1940
  353. Public Law 76–519To amend section 40, National Defense Act, as amended, relating to the organization of the Reserve Officers Training Corps, so as to provide for an exception with respect to the University of Alaska.Jul 2, 1940
  354. Public Law 76–520To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River at or near Shawneetown, Illinois.Jul 2, 1940
  355. Public Law 76–521To amend the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, and for other purposes.Jul 2, 1940
  356. Public Law 76–522To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Susquehanna River at or near the city of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.Jul 2, 1940
  357. Public Law 76–523To enlarge and extend the power and jurisdiction of the Board of Education over degree-conferring institutions operating within the District of Columbia.Jul 2, 1940
  358. Public Law 76–524To amend the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act.Jul 2, 1940
  359. Public Law 76–525To amend and clarify section 6, subsection 2, of the Act approved June 1, 1938, known as Juvenile Court Act of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.Jul 2, 1940
  360. Public Law 76–526Extending the jurisdiction of the Civil Aeronautics Authority over certain air-mail services, and for other purposes.Jul 2, 1940
  361. Public Law 76–527To provide for the recording and releasing of liens by entries on certificates of title for motor vehicles and trailers, and for other purposes.Jul 2, 1940
  362. Public Law 76–528Authorizing the county of Lawrence, Ohio, to acquire and operate as a unit certain privately owned toll bridges across the Ohio River adjoining such county.Jul 2, 1940
  363. Public Law 76–529Declaring a forfeiture of certain land heretofore granted by the United States to the board of commissioners of the Orleans Levee District, in the city of New Orleans, State of Louisiana, for levee and street purposes.Jul 2, 1940
  364. Public Law 76–530To amend section 13 (d) of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act.Jul 2, 1940
  365. Public Law 76–548Relating to rentals in certain oil and gas leases issued under authority of the Act of February 25, 1920, as amended, and for other purposes.Jul 8, 1940
  366. Public Law 76–549Authorizing Alabama Bridge Commission (an agency of the State of Alabama) to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge and causeway between Dauphin Island and the mainland at or near Cedar Point, within the State of Alabama.Jul 8, 1940
  367. Public Law 76–550To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Arrow Rock, Missouri.Jul 8, 1940
  368. Public Law 76–551To defray the cost of returning to the United States the remains, families, and effects of officers and employees dying abroad, and for other purposes.Jul 8, 1940
  369. Public Law 76–552For the acquisition of Indian lands for the Parker Dam and Reservoir project, and for other purposes.Jul 8, 1940
  370. Public Law 76–553To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to lease certain of the public lands to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California for the extraction of sodium chloride for water-conditioning purposes.Jul 8, 1940
  371. Public Law 76–554To provide for the leasing of restricted allotments of deceased Indians in certain circumstances, and for other purposes.Jul 8, 1940
  372. Public Law 76–555Relating to adoption of minors by Indiana.Jul 8, 1940
  373. Public Law 76–565To authorize exchanges of lands within the Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona.Jul 10, 1940
  374. Public Law 76–566To amend the Act entitled An Act granting additional quarantine powers and imposing additional duties upon the Marine Hospital Service, approved February 15, 1893, as amended.Jul 10, 1940
  375. Public Law 76–567To amend the law limiting the operation of statutes of limitations in certain cases.Jul 10, 1940
  376. Public Law 76–568To amend the District of Columbia Revenue Act of 1937, as amended.Jul 10, 1940
  377. Public Law 76–577Authorizing Colonel Donald H. Connolly to hold the office of Administrator of Civil Aeronautics in the Department of Commerce.Jul 11, 1940
  378. Public Law 76–579Granting the consent of Congress to the States of Maryland and West Virginia and the Commonwealths of Virginia and Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia as signatory bodies, to enter into a compact for the creation of a Potomac Valley Conservancy District and the establishment of the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River basin.Jul 11, 1940
  379. Public Law 76–580To authorize the payment of compensation to recess appointees in certain cases.Jul 11, 1940
  380. Public Law 76–581Granting the consent and approval of Congress to an interstate compact relating to control and reduction of pollution in the Ohio River drainage basin.Jul 11, 1940
  381. Public Law 76–582To provide for the transportation and distribution of mails on motor-vehicle routesJul 11, 1940
  382. Public Law 76–583Authorizing advancements from the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works for the construction of a recorder of deeds building in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.Jul 11, 1940
  383. Public Law 76–618To provide for the disposition of estates of American citizens who die abroad.Jul 12, 1940
  384. Public Law 76–626Providing for continuing retirement pay, under certain conditions, of officers and former officers of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps of the United States, other than officers of the Regular Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, who incurred physical disability while in the service of the United States during the World War, and for other purposes.Jul 15, 1940
  385. Public Law 76–629To authorize the use of certain facilities of Indian reservations, national parks, and national monuments for elementary school purposes.Jul 16, 1940
  386. Public Law 76–630To withdraw certain portions of land within the Hawaii National Park and to transfer the same to the jurisdiction and control of the Secretary of War for military purposes.Jul 16, 1940
  387. Public Law 76–632Extending the benefits of the Emergency Officers Retirement Act of May 24, 1928, to provisional, probationary, or temporary officers of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard who served during the World War.Jul 18, 1940
  388. Public Law 76–633To 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 were physically injured in line of duty while performing active duty or engaged in authorized training between dates of February 28, 1925, and July 15, 1939, both inclusive, and for other purposes.Jul 18, 1940
  389. Public Law 76–634To repeal sections 3711, 3712, and 3713 of the Revised Statutes which relate to the purchase in the District of Columbia of coal and wood for public use, and for other purposes.Jul 18, 1940
  390. Public Law 76–635To amend the Act entitled An Act to provide for the disposition, control, and use of surplus real property acquired by Federal agencies, and for other purposes, approved August 27, 1935 (Public, Numbered 351, Seventy-fourth Congress), and for other purposes.Jul 18, 1940
  391. Public Law 76–636To amend the United States Grain Standards Act, to provide for the grading of soybeans, and for other purposes.Jul 18, 1940
  392. Public Law 76–637To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Chester, Illinois.Jul 18, 1940
  393. Public Law 76–638Relating to the admission to Saint Elizabeths Hospital of persons resident or domiciled in the Virgin Islands of the United States.Jul 18, 1940
  394. Public Law 76–639Making an appropriation to enable the United States Maritime Commission to establish the marine and war-risk insurance fund.Jul 18, 1940
  395. Public Law 76–640To extend to certain officers and employees in the several States and the District of Columbia the provisions of the Act entitled An Act to prevent pernicious political activities, approved August 2, 1939.Jul 19, 1940
  396. Public Law 76–641To provide for the transfer of certain land in the De Soto National Forest to the Secretary of War for use for military purposes.Jul 19, 1940
  397. Public Law 76–642To encourage travel in the United States, and for other purposes.Jul 19, 1940
  398. Public Law 76–643Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to promulgate and to put into effect charges for electrical energy generated at Boulder Dam, providing for the application of revenues from said project, authorizing the operation of the Boulder Power Plant by the United States directly or through agents, and for other purposes.Jul 19, 1940
  399. Public Law 76–644To establish the composition of the United States Navy, to authorize the construction of certain naval vessels, and for other purposes.Jul 19, 1940
  400. Public Law 76–647To provide for the rank and title of lieutenant general of the Regular Army in the military departments of Panama and Hawaii.Jul 31, 1940
  401. Public Law 76–648Making an additional appropriation for the Tennessee Valley Authority for the fiscal year 1941 to provide facilities to expedite the national defense.Jul 31, 1940
  402. Public Law 76–649To increase the credit resources of Commodity Credit Corporation.Aug 9, 1940
  403. Public Law 76–650To authorize the incorporated town of Sitka, Alaska, to purchase and enlarge certain public utilities and for such purpose to issue bonds in the sum of $200,000 in excess of present statutory debt limit.Aug 9, 1940
  404. Public Law 76–651To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of bridges across the Monongahela River in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.Aug 9, 1940
  405. Public Law 76–662To extend the jurisdiction of the United States District Court, Territory of Hawaii, over the Midway Islands, Wake Island, Johnston Island, Sand Island, Kingman Reef, Kure Island, Baker Island, Howland Island, and Jarvis Island, and for other purposes.Aug 13, 1940
  406. Public Law 76–663To provide for the operation of the recreational facilities within the Chopawamsic recreational demonstration project, near Dumfries, Virginia, by the Secretary of the Interior through the National Park Service, and for other purposes.Aug 13, 1940
  407. Public Law 76–664To provide for more uniform coverage of certain persons employed in coal-mining operations with respect to insurance benefits provided for by certain Federal Acts, and for other purposes.Aug 13, 1940
  408. Public Law 76–665To authorize the construction of certain facilities in Marjorie Park, Davis Island, Tampa, Florida, and for other purposes.Aug 13, 1940
  409. Public Law 76–666To amend the Transportation Act, 1920, as amended.Aug 13, 1940
  410. Public Law 76–684To amend the Act entitled An Act for the protection of certain enlisted men of the Army, approved August 19, 1937, and for other purposes.Aug 16, 1940
  411. Public Law 76–686To provide for the registration and regulation of investment companies and investment advisers, and for other purposes.Aug 22, 1940
  412. Public Law 76–687Relating to the issuance by the Secretary of the Interior of a patent to the State of Minnesota for certain lands in that State.Aug 22, 1940
  413. Public Law 76–688To provide for the deposit of certain collections for overtime immigration services to the credit of the appropriation chargeable with the payment for such services, and for other purposes.Aug 22, 1940
  414. Public Law 76–689To strengthen the common defense and to authorize the President to order members and units of reserve components and retired personnel of the Regular Army into active military service.Aug 27, 1940
  415. Public Law 76–690Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to furnish mats for the reproduction in magazines and newspapers of photographs of national park scenery.Aug 27, 1940
  416. Public Law 76–691Granting to certain claimants the preference right to purchase certain public lands in the State of Florida.Aug 27, 1940
  417. Public Law 76–692To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to accept payment of an annual equitable overhead charge in connection with the repayment contract between the United States and the Strawberry Water Users Association of Payson, Utah, in full satisfaction of delinquent billings upon the basis of an annual fixed overhead charge, and for other purposes.Aug 27, 1940
  418. Public Law 76–693Relating to transportation of foreign mail by aircraft.Aug 27, 1940
  419. Public Law 76–694Increasing the number of naval aviators in the line of the Regular Navy and Marine Corps, and for other purposes.Aug 27, 1940
  420. Public Law 76–695To permit American vessels to assist in the evacuation from the war zones of certain refugee children.Aug 27, 1940
  421. Public Law 76–704For the relief of the Greenlee County Board of Supervisors.Aug 27, 1940
  422. Public Law 76–705To provide for the transfer of the duplicates of certain books in the Library of Congress to the Beaufort Library of Beaufort., South Carolina.Aug 30, 1940
  423. Public Law 76–706To increase the number of midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy.Sep 4, 1940
  424. Public Law 76–715To amend the Federal Aid Act, approved July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented, and for other purposes.Sep 5, 1940
  425. Public Law 76–717Making supplemental appropriations for the national defense for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for other purposes.Sep 9, 1940
  426. Public Law 76–718To amend the Act approved March 4, 1925, entitled An Act providing for sundry matters affecting the naval service, and for other purposes, as amended.Sep 11, 1940
  427. Public Law 76–719To authorize Jesse H. Jones, Federal Loan Administrator, to be appointed to, and to perform the duties of, the Office of Secretary of Commerce.Sep 13, 1940
  428. Public Law 76–720To provide for the common defense by increasing the personnel of the armed forces of the United States and providing for its training.Sep 16, 1940
  429. Public Law 76–721To authorize the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to make loans for the development of deposits of strategic and critical minerals which in the opinion of the Corporation would be of value to the United States in time of war, and to authorize the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to make more adequate loans for mineral developmental purposes.Sep 16, 1940
  430. Public Law 76–722To amend the Act to regulate commerce, approved February 4, 1887, as amended, so as to provide for unified regulation of carriers by railroad, motor vehicle, and water, and for other purposes.Sep 18, 1940
  431. Public Law 76–723To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to proceed with the construction of certain public works, and for other purposes.Sep 18, 1940
  432. Public Law 76–724To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to accept on behalf of the United States certain lands in the city of National City, California.Sep 21, 1940
  433. Public Law 76–725To authorize Commander Howard L. Vickery to hold the office of a member of the United States Maritime Commission.Sep 24, 1940
  434. Public Law 76–726Making additional appropriations for the Military Establishment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941.Sep 24, 1940
  435. Public Law 76–727To provide for the disposition of certain photographed records of the United States Government, and for other purposes.Sep 24, 1940
  436. Public Law 76–728Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue patents for lands held under color of title.Sep 24, 1940
  437. Public Law 76–729To extend the age limits for applicants for appointment as midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy.Sep 24, 1940
  438. Public Law 76–730To establish a Commission for the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Thomas Jefferson.Sep 24, 1940
  439. Public Law 76–733Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Michigan to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge or series of bridges, causeways, and approaches thereto, across the Straits of Mackinac at or near a point between Saint Ignace, Michigan, and the Lower Peninsula of Michigan.Sep 25, 1940
  440. Public Law 76–734To provide for increasing the lending authority of the Export-Import Bank of Washington, and for other purposes.Sep 26, 1940
  441. Public Law 76–735To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Memphis, Tennessee.Sep 27, 1940
  442. Public Law 76–736To provide for the advancement on the retired list of any officer of the Navy or Marine Corps retired pursuant to the provisions of section 13 or 15 (e) of the Act of June 23, 1938.Oct 4, 1940
  443. Public Law 76–742To further amend section 13a of the National Defense Act so as to authorize officers detailed for training and duty as aircraft observers to be so rated, and for other purposes.Oct 4, 1940
  444. Public Law 76–743To provide for the burial and funeral expenses of deceased veterans of the Regular Establishment who were discharged for disability incurred in the service in line of duty, or in receipt of pension for service connected disability.Oct 5, 1940
  445. Public Law 76–744Authorizing the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to grant an easement in certain land to the city of Memphis, Tennessee, for street-widening purposes.Oct 5, 1940
  446. Public Law 76–745To amend section 4021 of the Revised Statutes and to repeal section 4023 of the Revised Statutes relating to establishment of postal agencies.Oct 5, 1940
  447. Public Law 76–746To authorize the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to grant an easement in a small strip of land at Veterans' Administration Facility, Los Angeles, California, to the county of Los Angeles, California, for sidewalk purposes.Oct 5, 1940
  448. Public Law 76–756Making supplemental appropriations for the national defense for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for other purposes.Oct 8, 1940
  449. Public Law 76–757To provide revenue, and for other purposes.Oct 8, 1940
  450. Public Law 76–758To authorize the United States Maritime Commission to furnish to the State of Pennsylvania a vessel suitable for the use of the Pennsylvania State nautical school, and for other purposes.Oct 8, 1940
  451. Public Law 76–759To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933.Oct 8, 1940
  452. Public Law 76–760To re-form the lease for the Sellwood station of the Portland (Oregon) post office.Oct 8, 1940
  453. Public Law 76–761To provide funds for cooperation with public school districts (organized and unorganized) in Mahnomen, Itasca, Pine, Saint Louis, Clearwater, Koochiching, and Becker Counties, Minnesota, in the construction, improvement, and extension of school facilities to be available to both Indian and white children.Oct 8, 1940
  454. Public Law 76–762Relating to the statue of retired officers of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard of the United States, and to amend section 113 of the Criminal Code.Oct 8, 1940
  455. Public Law 76–763Authorizing the conveyance to the Commonwealth of Virginia of a portion of the naval reservation known as Naval Proving Ground, Dahlgren, Virginia.Oct 8, 1940
  456. Public Law 76–764To amend section 3483 of the Internal Revenue Code, formerly section 404 of the Sugar Act of 1937.Oct 8, 1940
  457. Public Law 76–765To authorize the appointment of graduates of the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps to the line of the Regular Navy, and for other purposes.Oct 8, 1940
  458. Public Law 76–777To amend section 4472 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 46, Sec. 465) to provide for the safe carriage of explosives or other dangerous or semidangerous articles or substances on board vessels; to make more effective the provisions of the International Convention for Safety of Life at Sea, 1929, relating to the carriage of dangerous goods; and for other purposes.Oct 9, 1940
  459. Public Law 76–778To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to order retired commissioned and warrant officers of the Coast Guard to active duty during time of national emergency, and for other purposes.Oct 9, 1940
  460. Public Law 76–779To assist in the national-defense program by amending sections 3477 and 3737 of the Revised Statutes to permit the assignment of claims under public contracts.Oct 9, 1940
  461. Public Law 76–780Making supplemental appropriations for the support of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for other purposes.Oct 9, 1940
  462. Public Law 76–781To authorize the leasing of certain Indian lands subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior.Oct 9, 1940
  463. Public Law 76–782For the relief of certain former disbursing officers for the Civil Works Administration and the Federal Emergency Relief Administration.Oct 9, 1940
  464. Public Law 76–783To remove the restriction placed upon the use of certain lands acquired in connection with the expansion of Mitchel Field, New York.Oct 9, 1940
  465. Public Law 76–784To repeal sections 4588 and 4591 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.Oct 9, 1940
  466. Public Law 76–785To confer jurisdiction upon certain United States commissioners to try petty offenses committed on Federal reservations.Oct 9, 1940
  467. Public Law 76–786To amend the Commodity Exchange Act, as amended, to extend its provisions to fats and oils, cottonseed, cottonseed meal, and peanuts.Oct 9, 1940
  468. Public Law 76–787To permit the States to extend their sales, use, and income taxes to persons residing or carrying on business, or to transactions occurring, in Federal areas, and for other purposes.Oct 9, 1940
  469. Public Law 76–788Providing for the barring of claims against the United States.Oct 9, 1940
  470. Public Law 76–789Granting the consent of Congress to the Minnesota Department of Highways and the counties of Benton and Stearns in Minnesota, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Sauk Rapids, Minnesota.Oct 9, 1940
  471. Public Law 76–790To authorize the acceptance of donations of property for the Vicksburg National Military Park, in the State of Mississippi, and for other purposes.Oct 9, 1940
  472. Public Law 76–791To provide an eight-hour workday and payment for overtime for dispatchers and mechanics-in-charge in the motor-vehicle service of the Postal Service.Oct 9, 1940
  473. Public Law 76–792To provide for the regulation of the business of fire, marine, and casualty insurance, and for other purposes.Oct 9, 1940
  474. Public Law 76–793To amend section 355 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, to authorize the Attorney General to approve the title to low-value lands and interests in lands acquired by or on behalf of the United States subject to infirmities, and for other purposes.Oct 9, 1940
  475. Public Law 76–794To authorize the maintenance and operation of fish hatcheries in connection with the Grand Coulee Dam project.Oct 9, 1940
  476. Public Law 76–795Authorizing the Indiana State Toll Bridge Commission to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Wabash River at or near Mount Vernon, Posey County, Indiana.Oct 9, 1940
  477. Public Law 76–796To restrict or regulate the delivery of checks drawn against funds of the United States, or any agency or instrumentality thereof, to addresses outside the United States, its Territories, and possessions, and for other purposes.Oct 9, 1940
  478. Public Law 76–797Providing for the acquisition by the Railroad Retirement Board of data needed in carrying out the provisions of the Railroad Retirement Acts.Oct 9, 1940
  479. Public Law 76–798To exempt from the tax on admissions amounts paid for admission tickets sold by authority of the Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies on the occasion of the inauguration of the President-elect in January 1941.Oct 9, 1940
  480. Public Law 76–836To authorize the President to requisition certain articles and materials for the use of the United States, and for other purposes.Oct 10, 1940
  481. Public Law 76–837To amend the Act entitled An Act to provide better facilities for the enforcement of the customs and immigration laws, approved June 26, 1930.Oct 10, 1940
  482. Public Law 76–838To expedite national defense by suspending, during the national emergency, provisions of law that prohibit more than eight hours labor in any one day of persons engaged upon work covered by contracts of the United States Maritime Commission, and for other purposes.Oct 10, 1940
  483. Public Law 76–839Relating to the conditions for payment with respect to sugarcane harvested from certain plantings in the mainland cane-sugar area.Oct 10, 1940
  484. Public Law 76–840Authorizing the participation of the United States in the celebration of a Pan American Aviation Day, to be observed on December 17, of each year, the anniversary of the first successful flight of a heavier-than-air machine.Oct 10, 1940
  485. Public Law 76–841To simplify the accounts of the Treasurer of the United States, and for other purposes.Oct 10, 1940
  486. Public Law 76–842To amend the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, approved June 25, 1938, as amended June 20, 1939, and for other purposes.Oct 10, 1940
  487. Public Law 76–843To transfer the essential language of section 518, title IV, of the Tariff Act of 1930, approved June 17, 1930, into the Judicial Code of the United States and to provide for its reenactment as part of said Judicial Code, to take effect from the date of its passage, including the allowance to the judges of the United States Customs Court for traveling expenses incurred for maintenance while absent from New York on official business and to repeal all Acts inconsistent therewith to the extent of such inconsistency, and for other purposes.Oct 10, 1940
  488. Public Law 76–844Authorizing a per capita payment of $10 each to the members of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians from any funds on deposit in the Treasury of the United States to their credit.Oct 10, 1940
  489. Public Law 76–845To further amend the Alaska game law.Oct 10, 1940
  490. Public Law 76–846To approve Act numbered 65 of the Session Laws of 1939 of the Territory of Hawaii, entitled An Act to amend Act 29 of the Session Laws of Hawaii, 1929, granting to J. K. Lota and associates a franchise for electric light, current, and power in Hanalei, Kauai, by including Moloaa within such franchise.Oct 10, 1940
  491. Public Law 76–847To approve Act numbered 214 of the Session Laws of 1939 of the Territory of Hawaii, entitled An Act to amend Act 105 of the Session Laws of Hawaii, 1921, granting franchise for the manufacture, maintenance, distribution, and supply of electric current for light and power within Kapaa and Waipouli in the district of Kawaihau on the island and county of Kauai, by including within said franchise the entire district of Kawaihau, island of Kauai.Oct 10, 1940
  492. Public Law 76–848To provide for uniformity of allowances for the transportation of household goods of civilian officers and employees when transferred from one official station to another for permanent duty.Oct 10, 1940
  493. Public Law 76–849To amend the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended.Oct 10, 1940
  494. Public Law 76–850Authorizing allocation of funds for the construction of Saco Divide unit, Milk River project, and for other purposes.Oct 10, 1940
  495. Public Law 76–851To consolidate certain exceptions to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes and to improve the United States Code.Oct 10, 1940
  496. Public Law 76–852To further amend the Act of July 30, 1937, authorizing the conveyance of a portion of the Stony Point Light Station Reservation to the Palisades Interstate Park Commission.Oct 10, 1940
  497. Public Law 76–853Granting the consent of Congress to the Department of Highways and the county of Big Stone, State of Minnesota, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Whetstone Diversion Channel at or near Ortonville, Minnesota.Oct 10, 1940
  498. Public Law 76–857Making an additional appropriation for national defense housing for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for other purposes.Oct 14, 1940
  499. Public Law 76–858To amend the National Defense Act, as amended, so as to provide for retirement of assistant chiefs of branches and of wing commanders of the Air Corps with the rank and pay of the highest grade held by such officers as assistant chiefs and wing commanders, and for other purposes.Oct 14, 1940
  500. Public Law 76–859To amend the Civil Service Retirement Act and other retirement Acts.Oct 14, 1940
  501. Public Law 76–860To provide for the retirement of certain members of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, the United States Park Police force, the White House Police force, and the members of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia.Oct 14, 1940
  502. Public Law 76–861To amend an Act entitled An Act authorizing construction of water conservation and utilization projects in the Great Plains and arid and semiarid areas of the United States, approved August 11, 1939 (53 Stat. 1418), and an Act entitled An Act to promote conservation in the arid and semiarid areas of the United States by aiding in the development of facilities for water storage and utilization, and for other purposes, approved August 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 869).Oct 14, 1940
  503. Public Law 76–862To expedite the provision of housing in connection with national defense, and for other purposes.Oct 14, 1940
  504. Public Law 76–871To protect producers, manufacturers, distributors, and consumers from the unrevealed presence of substitutes and mixtures in spun, woven, knitted, felted, or otherwise manufactured wool products, and for other purposes.Oct 14, 1940
  505. Public Law 76–872To make unlawful the transportation of convict-made goods in interstate commerce, and for other purposes.Oct 14, 1940
  506. Public Law 76–875Relating to changes in the administration of the National Guard of the United States bearing on Federal recognition, pay, allotment of funds, drill, training, and so forth.Oct 14, 1940
  507. Public Law 76–876To revise and codify the nationality laws of the United States into a comprehensive nationality code.Oct 14, 1940
  508. Public Law 76–877To amend the Act of June 23, 1938 (52 Stat. 944).Oct 14, 1940
  509. Public Law 76–878To empower and authorize special agents and such other employees of the Division of Investigations, Department of the Interior, as are designated by the Secretary of the Interior for that purpose, to administer oaths in the performance of their official duties.Oct 14, 1940
  510. Public Law 76–879Authorizing special arrangements in the transportation of mail within the Territory of Alaska.Oct 14, 1940
  511. Public Law 76–884To authorize the Secretary of War to accept, as loans, from States and political subdivisions thereof, funds to be immediately used in the prosecution of authorized flood-control work, and for other purposes.Oct 15, 1940
  512. Public Law 76–885To increase the authorized numbers of warrant officers and enlisted men in the Army Mine Planter Service, and for other purposes.Oct 15, 1940
  513. Public Law 76–886To provide for the completion of certain local protection works at East Hartford, Connecticut.Oct 15, 1940
  514. Public Law 76–887To extend, for an additional year, the provisions of the Sugar Act of 1937 and the taxes with respect to sugar.Oct 15, 1940
  515. Public Law 76–888To promote and strengthen the national defense by suspending enforcement of certain civil liabilities of certain persons serving in the Military and Naval Establishments, including the Coast Guard.Oct 17, 1940
  516. Public Law 76–889To authorize the lease or sale of certain public lands in Alaska, and for other purposes.Oct 17, 1940
  517. Public Law 76–890To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to sell or lease for park or recreational purposes, and to sell for cemetery purposes, certain public lands in Alaska.Oct 17, 1940
  518. Public Law 76–891To amend the Act to provide for the retirement of disabled nurses of the Army and the Navy.Oct 17, 1940
  519. Public Law 76–892To authorize the exchange of certain patented lands in the Death Valley National Monument for Government lands in the monument.Oct 17, 1940
  520. Public Law 76–893To amend section 202 (3), World War Veterans Act, 1924, as amended, to provide more adequate and uniform administrative provisions in veterans laws, and for other purposes.Oct 17, 1940
  521. Public Law 76–894For the protection of the water supply of the town of Petersburg, Alaska.Oct 17, 1940
  522. Public Law 76–895Authorizing the improvement of certain rivers and harbors in the interest of the national defense, and for other purposes.Oct 17, 1940
  523. Public Law 76–896To amend section 4551 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, and for other purposes.Oct 17, 1940
  524. Public Law 76–897To require the registration of certain organizations carrying on activities within the United States, and for other purposes.Oct 17, 1940
  525. Public Law 76–898To amend further the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act.Oct 17, 1940
  526. Public Law 76–899To provide for an extension of the conditions under which a money allowance for quarters may be paid to certain non-commissioned officers of the Army of the United States.Oct 17, 1940
  527. Public Law 76–903Establishing overtime rates for compensation for employees of the field services of the War Department, and the field services of the Panama Canal, and for other purposes.Oct 21, 1940
  528. Public Law 76–904To amend section 61 of the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916, by adding a proviso which will permit States to organize military units not a part of the National Guard, and for other purposes.Oct 21, 1940
  529. Public Law 76–906To amend the Act entitled An Act to establish a Civilian Conservation Corps, and for other purposes, approved June 28, 1937, as amended.Oct 21, 1940
  530. Public Law 76–908To provide for the use and disposition of the bequest of the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes to the United States, and for Other purposes.Oct 22, 1940
  531. Public Law 76–910To authorize the acquisition of a suitable frame for the painting of the signing of the Constitution to be used in mounting said painting in the Capitol Building.Oct 29, 1940
  532. Public Law 76–914To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938.Nov 22, 1940
  533. Public Law 76–915To add certain lands to the Siuslaw National Forest in the State of Oregon.Nov 25, 1940
  534. Public Law 76–916To authorize the disposal of tools and equipment on the New England hurricane damage project.Nov 25, 1940
  535. Public Law 76–917To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, and for other purposes.Nov 25, 1940
  536. Public Law 76–919Extending the classified executive civil service of the United States.Nov 26, 1940
  537. Public Law 76–920To amend section 107 of the Judicial Code, to redistrict the State of Tennessee, to provide the duties and powers of the district judges of the State of Tennessee, and for other purposes.Nov 27, 1940
  538. Public Law 76–921For the relief of the Cherokee Indian Nation or Tribe, and for other purposes.Nov 27, 1940
  539. Public Law 76–922To make the excess land provisions of the Federal reclamation laws inapplicable to the lands of the Washoe County Water Conservation District, Truckee storage project, Nevada, and the Pershing County Water Conservation District, Nevada.Nov 29, 1940
  540. Public Law 76–923To authorize the discontinuance of professional examinations for promotion in the Regular Army of officers of the Medical, Dental, and Veterinary Corps.Nov 29, 1940
  541. Public Law 76–924To transfer the jurisdiction of the Arlington Fann, Virginia, to the jurisdiction of the War Department, and for other purposes.Nov 29, 1940
  542. Public Law 76–926To amend an Act entitled An Act to punish the willful injury or destruction of war material, or of war premises or utilities used in connection with war material, and for other purposes, approved April 20, 1918.Nov 30, 1940
  543. Public Law 76–927To amend the Act of June 25, 1938, entitled An Act extending the classified civil service to include postmasters of the first, second, and third classes, and for other purposes.Dec 6, 1940
  544. Public Law 76–928To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Columbia River at Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon, and for other purposes.Dec 16, 1940
  545. Public Law 76–929Authorizing the State of Michigan, acting through The International Bridge Authority of Michigan, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge or series of bridges, causeways, and approaches thereto, across the Saint Marys River, from a point in or near the city of Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, to a point in the Province of Ontario, Canada.Dec 16, 1940
  546. Public Law 76–930To legalize the construction by the State Highway Board of Georgia of a free highway bridge across the Withlacoochee River, between Valdosta, Georgia, and Madison, Florida, at Horns Ferry.Dec 16, 1940
  547. Public Law 76–931Authorizing the President to appoint an Under Secretary of War during national emergencies, fixing the compensation of the Under Secretary of War, and authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe duties.Dec 16, 1940
  548. Public Law 76–932Extending the time for submitting the 6nal report of the Temporary National Economic Committee.Dec 16, 1940
  549. Public Law 76–934Authorizing the President to invite foreign countries to participate in the Pan American Cotton Congress.Dec 17, 1940
  550. Public Law 76–936To amend the Act entitled An Act in relation to pandering, to define and prohibit the same and to provide for the punishment thereof , approved June 25, 1910.Jan 3, 1941
  551. Public Law 76–938To amend section 204 of (he Act entitled An Act to provide for the termination of Federal control of railroads and systems of transportation; to provide for the settlement of disputes between carriers and their employees; to further amend an Act entitled An Act to regulate commerce, approved February 4, 1887, as amended, and for other purposes, approved February 28, 1920.Jan 7, 1941
  552. Public Law 76–939To permit the relinquishment or modification of certain restrictions upon the use of lands along the Natchez Trace Parkway in the village of French Camp, Mississippi.Jan 7, 1941
  553. Public Law 76–941To extend the date for filing a report by the United States Commission for the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Thomas Jefferson.Jan 9, 1941
  554. Private Law 76–4For the relief of certain workers performing emergency work at Cairo, Illinois, in the Ohio River flood of 1937.Jan 17, 1940
  555. Private Law 76–5For the relief of the American Insurance Company of New Jersey.Jan 17, 1940
  556. Private Law 76–6For the relief of the heirs of John Cauley, deceased.Jan 17, 1940
  557. Private Law 76–7For the relief of the estates of Marie R. Morkovsky and Alphons Morkovsky, both deceased.Jan 17, 1940
  558. Private Law 76–8For the relief of Major Noe C. Killian.Jan 17, 1940
  559. Private Law 76–9For the relief of George E. Miller.Jan 17, 1940
  560. Private Law 76–10For the relief of the Nevada Silica Sands, Incorporated.Jan 17, 1940
  561. Private Law 76–15For the relief of Charles H. LeGay.Jan 26, 1940
  562. Private Law 76–23For the relief of E. C. Beaver.Feb 9, 1940
  563. Private Law 76–24Granting six months pay to Sidney M. Bowen.Feb 9, 1940
  564. Private Law 76–26For the relief of the Missoula Brewing Company.Feb 12, 1940
  565. Private Law 76–29For the relief of Roy D. Cook, a minor.Feb 12, 1940
  566. Private Law 76–35For the relief of M. L. Parish.Mar 2, 1940
  567. Private Law 76–36For the relief of Katheryn S. Anderson.Mar 2, 1940
  568. Private Law 76–42For the relief of Major Herbert A. Jacob.Mar 4, 1940
  569. Private Law 76–43For the relief of Ben Willie Jones, as legal representative of Thelma Jones, a deceased minor.Mar 4, 1940
  570. Private Law 76–50For the relief of George H, Eiswald.Mar 14, 1940
  571. Private Law 76–54For the relief of Robert Stockman.Mar 14, 1940
  572. Private Law 76–55For the relief of the R. G. Schreck Lumber Company.Mar 14, 1940
  573. Private Law 76–63To authorize the posthumous appointment of the late Arthur Mortimer Fields, Junior, to be an ensign of the United States Navy.Mar 15, 1940
  574. Private Law 76–64For the relief of Inez Gillespie.Mar 15, 1940
  575. Private Law 76–67For the relief of Ernestine Huber Neuheller.Mar 18, 1940
  576. Private Law 76–68For the relief of Hubert Richardson.Mar 18, 1940
  577. Private Law 76–69Authorizing the Comptroller General of the United States to settle and adjust the claims of Mary Pierce and John K. Quackenbush.Mar 18, 1940
  578. Private Law 76–70Authorizing the Comptroller General of the United States to settle and adjust the claim of Edith Easton and Alma E. Gates.Mar 18, 1940
  579. Private Law 76–84For the relief of Nathan Kaplan.Apr 11, 1940
  580. Private Law 76–85For the relief of Ernest S. Frazier.Apr 11, 1940
  581. Private Law 76–86For the relief of Max J. Mobley.Apr 11, 1940
  582. Private Law 76–87For the relief of George Louis Artick.Apr 11, 1940
  583. Private Law 76–88Conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of George Lancellotta.Apr 11, 1940
  584. Private Law 76–89For the relief of Alabama Lewis Poole.Apr 11, 1940
  585. Private Law 76–90For the relief of Louis Simons.Apr 11, 1940
  586. Private Law 76–91For the relief of Edward J. Gebhart.Apr 11, 1940
  587. Private Law 76–92For the relief of Dane Goich.Apr 11, 1940
  588. Private Law 76–93For the relief of Mary Nouhan.Apr 11, 1940
  589. Private Law 76–94For the relief of Stanley Falk, Howard Franklin, Mrs. Nathan Falk, and Rose Winter.Apr 11, 1940
  590. Private Law 76–95To provide an additional sum for the payment of a claim under the Act entitled An Act to 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, approved June 19, 1939.Apr 11, 1940
  591. Private Law 76–98For the relief of W. B. Tucker, Helen W. Tucker, Louie Meadows, and Susie Meadows.Apr 13, 1940
  592. Private Law 76–99Granting jurisdiction to the Court of Claims to reopen and readjudicate the case of Carrie Howard Steedman and Eugenia Howard Edmunds.Apr 13, 1940
  593. Private Law 76–102For the relief of the Pacific Airmotive Corporation, Burbank, California.Apr 17, 1940
  594. Private Law 76–103Authorizing Captain William Bowie, former Chief of the Division of Geodesy in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, Department of Commerce, to accept and wear the decoration of the Cross of Grand Officer of the Order of Saint Sava.Apr 17, 1940
  595. Private Law 76–110For the relief of Ray E. Nies.Apr 18, 1940
  596. Private Law 76–111For the relief of Francisco R. Acosta.Apr 18, 1940
  597. Private Law 76–112For the relief of the estate of George B. Spearin, deceased.Apr 18, 1940
  598. Private Law 76–113For the relief of James Henry Rigdon.Apr 18, 1940
  599. Private Law 76–114For the relief of Howard Daury.Apr 18, 1940
  600. Private Law 76–115To authorize certain officers of the Army of the United States to accept such medals, orders, and decorations as have been tendered them by foreign governments.Apr 18, 1940
  601. Private Law 76–120For the relief of the International Grain Company, Incorporated.Apr 20, 1940
  602. Private Law 76–121For the relief of R. D. Torian.Apr 20, 1940
  603. Private Law 76–122For the relief of Floyd H. Roberts.Apr 20, 1940
  604. Private Law 76–141For the relief of Joseph Sciortino.Apr 22, 1940
  605. Private Law 76–142For the relief of the Keuffel and Esser Company of New York.Apr 22, 1940
  606. Private Law 76–143For the relief of the estate of J. D. Warlick.Apr 22, 1940
  607. Private Law 76–144For the relief of Charles Sidenstucker.Apr 22, 1940
  608. Private Law 76–145For the relief of Robert Faughnan, a minor.Apr 22, 1940
  609. Private Law 76–146For the relief of Richard L. Calder.Apr 22, 1940
  610. Private Law 76–147For the relief of Marguerite P. Carmack.Apr 22, 1940
  611. Private Law 76–148For the relief of Ella Ragotski.Apr 22, 1940
  612. Private Law 76–149For the relief of Morrison-Knudsen Company, Incorporated, and W. C. Cole.Apr 22, 1940
  613. Private Law 76–150For the relief of OBrien Brothers, Incorporated, New York City, New York.Apr 22, 1940
  614. Private Law 76–151For the relief of Tom Kelly.Apr 23, 1940
  615. Private Law 76–177For the relief of Gerald Henry Simpson.Apr 30, 1940
  616. Private Law 76–178For the relief of Esther Cottingham Grab.Apr 30, 1940
  617. Private Law 76–179To authorize the President to present the Distinguished Flying Cross to Frank W. Seifert and Lieutenant V. Hine, deceased.Apr 30, 1940
  618. Private Law 76–181For the relief of Madeline Vera Buchholz.May 1, 1940
  619. Private Law 76–202For the relief of Stina Anderson.May 15, 1940
  620. Private Law 76–207For the relief of Morris Hoppenheim, Lena Hoppenheim, Doris Hoppenheim, and Ruth Hoppenheim.May 24, 1940
  621. Private Law 76–208For the relief of Luise Ehrenfeld.May 24, 1940
  622. Private Law 76–233For the relief of Priscilla M. Noland.Jun 6, 1940
  623. Private Law 76–234For the relief of Katherine Scott, Mrs. J. H. Scott, Jettie Stewart, and Ruth Mincemeyer.Jun 6, 1940
  624. Private Law 76–235For the relief of Isadore J. Friedman.Jun 6, 1940
  625. Private Law 76–258For the relief of Alan C. Winter, Junior, and Elisabeth Winter.Jun 6, 1940
  626. Private Law 76–259For the relief of the legal representative of Anna Barbara Kosick, deceased.Jun 6, 1940
  627. Private Law 76–260For the relief of Roxie Richardson.Jun 6, 1940
  628. Private Law 76–261For the relief of Luther Devoe.Jun 6, 1940
  629. Private Law 76–262To amend an Act entitled An Act for the relief of Mrs. A. R. Barnard, Charles A. Stephens, Donald W. Prairie, and dependents of Vern A. Needles, approved July 15, 1939.Jun 6, 1940
  630. Private Law 76–263For the relief of the estate of Lewis Marion Garrard Hale.Jun 6, 1940
  631. Private Law 76–264For the relief of George F. Lewis, administrator of the estate of Margaret R. Lewis.Jun 6, 1940
  632. Private Law 76–265For the relief of Mrs. Gottlieb Metzger.Jun 6, 1940
  633. Private Law 76–266For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Kaplan.Jun 6, 1940
  634. Private Law 76–268Conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claims of Parker McKee, Senior, and Louise McKee.Jun 7, 1940
  635. Private Law 76–269For the relief of Anna M. Shea.Jun 7, 1940
  636. Private Law 76–270For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Finley.Jun 7, 1940
  637. Private Law 76–271For the relief of Major John R. Holt.Jun 7, 1940
  638. Private Law 76–272For the relief of C. T. Jensen.Jun 7, 1940
  639. Private Law 76–273For the relief of Dorothy Crossing.Jun 7, 1940
  640. Private Law 76–274For the relief of the estate of K. J. Foss.Jun 7, 1940
  641. Private Law 76–275For the relief of the heirs of Lieutenant William Lee Clemmer. Coast GuardJun 7, 1940
  642. Private Law 76–296Conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the District of Montana to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of the estate of Joseph Mihelich.Jun 8, 1940
  643. Private Law 76–297For the relief of J. Frank Kuner, private, uniformed force, United States Secret Service.Jun 8, 1940
  644. Private Law 76–298For the relief of John R. Elliott.Jun 8, 1940
  645. Private Law 76–299For the relief of the Gallup Mercantile Company of Gallup, New Mexico.Jun 8, 1940
  646. Private Law 76–300For the relief of the Hermosa-Redondo Hospital, C. Max Anderson, Julian O. Wilke, Curtis A. Wherrv, H Hollie B. Murray, Ruth M. Laird, Sigrid I. Olsen, and Stella S. Guy.Jun 8, 1940
  647. Private Law 76–308For the relief of Thomas G. Abbitt.Jun 11, 1940
  648. Private Law 76–309For the relief of Le Roy Breithaupt.Jun 11, 1940
  649. Private Law 76–310For the relief of Walter R. Maguire.Jun 11, 1940
  650. Private Law 76–311For the relief of Barnet Warren.Jun 11, 1940
  651. Private Law 76–312For the relief of Erich Hecht, Grete J. L. Hecht, and Erich F. Hecht, Junior.Jun 11, 1940
  652. Private Law 76–328For the relief of Bruno Arena.Jun 11, 1940
  653. Private Law 76–329For the relief of Walter J. Hogan and W. R. Larkin, in connection with the construction, operation, and maintenance of the Fort Hall Indian irrigation project, Idaho.Jun 11, 1940
  654. Private Law 76–330For the relief of Charles H. Parr.Jun 11, 1940
  655. Private Law 76–331For the relief of Verle S. Ward.Jun 11, 1940
  656. Private Law 76–332For the relief of Esther Ross.Jun 11, 1940
  657. Private Law 76–338To authorize the cancelation of deportation proceedings in the case of John L. Harder and children, Paul William Harder, Irvin W. Harder, Edna Justina Harder, Elsie Anna Harder, and Elizabeth Harder.Jun 12, 1940
  658. Private Law 76–361To repeal the provisions of Private Law Numbered 347, Seventy-first Congress,pertaining to Victoria Kessel.Jun 13, 1940
  659. Private Law 76–362For the relief of John A. Farrell.Jun 13, 1940
  660. Private Law 76–363Authorizing the issuance to Orville Wright of honorary aircraft pilots certificate numbered 1.Jun 13, 1940
  661. Private Law 76–368For the relief of Harry Huston.Jun 15, 1940
  662. Private Law 76–369To authorize the presentation of a special gold medal to William Sinnott.Jun 15, 1940
  663. Private Law 76–370For the relief of Laura Trice Converse.Jun 15, 1940
  664. Private Law 76–376For the relief of the Acme Die-Casting Corporation.Jun 15, 1940
  665. Private Law 76–377For the relief of Thermal Syndicate, Limited.Jun 15, 1940
  666. Private Law 76–378For the relief of Charles B. Chrystal.Jun 15, 1940
  667. Private Law 76–379For the relief of Joseph F. Tondre.Jun 15, 1940
  668. Private Law 76–380For the relief of Harold W. Kinderman.Jun 15, 1940
  669. Private Law 76–381Authorizing the President to present the Navy Cross to Captain Frank N. Roberts, United States Army.Jun 15, 1940
  670. Private Law 76–382To provide for the advancement of John L. Hines on the retired list of the Army.Jun 15, 1940
  671. Private Law 76–383For the relief of Nadine Sanders.Jun 15, 1940
  672. Private Law 76–384For the relief of Andrew Olson.Jun 15, 1940
  673. Private Law 76–385For the relief of Roy F. Lassly, former Acting Chief Disbursing Clerk, Department of the Interior.Jun 15, 1940
  674. Private Law 76–386For the relief of the Lewis State Bank of Tallahassee, Florida.Jun 15, 1940
  675. Private Law 76–387For the relief of Alice C. Wainwright.Jun 15, 1940
  676. Private Law 76–388For the relief of Major L. P. Worrall, and for other purposes.Jun 15, 1940
  677. Private Law 76–394For the relief of Edward Smith.Jun 17, 1940
  678. Private Law 76–401Directing the Secretary of the Interior to issue to Albert W. Gabbey a patent to certain lands in the State of Wyoming.Jun 20, 1940
  679. Private Law 76–402For the relief of Janet Hendel, nee Judith Shapiro.Jun 20, 1940
  680. Private Law 76–403For the relief of Lena Hendel, nee Lena Goldberg.Jun 20, 1940
  681. Private Law 76–404For the relief of Kurt Wessely.Jun 20, 1940
  682. Private Law 76–405For the relief of Maria Teresa Valdes Thompson.Jun 20, 1940
  683. Private Law 76–406To confer jurisdiction upon the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Florida to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of Zook Palm Nurseries, Incorporated, a Florida corporation.Jun 20, 1940
  684. Private Law 76–418To amend the Act of August 27, 1935 (49 Stat. 2194), and for other purposes.Jun 24, 1940
  685. Private Law 76–433For the relief of Albert L. Barnholtz.Jun 26, 1940
  686. Private Law 76–434For the relief of H. S. Wayman.Jun 26, 1940
  687. Private Law 76–435For the relief of Wilbur P. Riddlesbarger and Josephine Riddlesbarger.Jun 26, 1940
  688. Private Law 76–436For the relief of Thomas Boyd.Jun 26, 1940
  689. Private Law 76–463For the relief of Edwin Forsman.Jun 29, 1940
  690. Private Law 76–464For the relief of Dan Yancey.Jun 29, 1940
  691. Private Law 76–465For the relief of Charles Flack.Jun 29, 1940
  692. Private Law 76–466For the relief of James P. Bruce, Junior.Jun 29, 1940
  693. Private Law 76–467For the relief of S. T. Enloe.Jun 29, 1940
  694. Private Law 76–468For the relief of Angie Ward.Jun 29, 1940
  695. Private Law 76–469For the relief of John Engblom.Jun 29, 1940
  696. Private Law 76–470For the relief of Leland G. Myers.Jun 29, 1940
  697. Private Law 76–471For the relief of Rose Bilaitis.Jun 29, 1940
  698. Private Law 76–472For the relief of Joe Carter.Jun 29, 1940
  699. Private Law 76–473For the relief of Maude Sullivan.Jun 29, 1940
  700. Private Law 76–474For the relief of Mary Camastro, a minor.Jun 29, 1940
  701. Private Law 76–475Conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claims of Mat Hensley, Arnold Blanton, Lillie Price, Clyde Thorpe, and D. L. Mason.Jun 29, 1940
  702. Private Law 76–476For the relief of Stanley V. Smith.Jun 29, 1940
  703. Private Law 76–477For the relief of Thomas Lewellyn and Drusilla Lewellyn.Jun 29, 1940
  704. Private Law 76–478For the relief of Don E. Hicks.Jun 29, 1940
  705. Private Law 76–479For the relief of Minnie Lowery and Winell Lowery.Jun 29, 1940
  706. Private Law 76–480For the relief of Raymond C. Knight.Jun 29, 1940
  707. Private Law 76–481For the relief of Elizabeth L. Riley.Jun 29, 1940
  708. Private Law 76–482For the relief of the Pennsylvania State College.Jun 29, 1940
  709. Private Law 76–483For the relief of Charles H. Upton.Jun 29, 1940
  710. Private Law 76–484For the relief of Eliza Warren and George T. Warren.Jun 29, 1940
  711. Private Law 76–485For the relief of Frances M. Hannah.Jun 29, 1940
  712. Private Law 76–486For the relief of J. Montrose Edrehi.Jun 29, 1940
  713. Private Law 76–487For the relief of C. S. Hobson.Jun 29, 1940
  714. Private Law 76–488For the relief of Mary D. Briggs and Simeon G. Rigor.Jun 29, 1940
  715. Private Law 76–489For the relief of Nathan A. Buck.Jun 29, 1940
  716. Private Law 76–490For the relief of James L. Kinney.Jun 29, 1940
  717. Private Law 76–491For the relief of Harold C. Preble, naval architect.Jun 29, 1940
  718. Private Law 76–503For the relief of Gus Roth.Jul 1, 1940
  719. Private Law 76–504Conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of Geraldine Ash.Jul 1, 1940
  720. Private Law 76–505For the relief of Anna T. Sifferman Varga.Jul 1, 1940
  721. Private Law 76–506For the relief of Louis Rosenstone.Jul 1, 1940
  722. Private Law 76–531For the relief of the Black Hills Methodist Hospital of Rapid City, South Dakota.Jul 2, 1940
  723. Private Law 76–532For the relief of Malachy Ryan.Jul 2, 1940
  724. Private Law 76–533For the relief of Naoma Kinder, a minor.Jul 2, 1940
  725. Private Law 76–534For the relief of Evelyn L. Ratcliffe.Jul 2, 1940
  726. Private Law 76–535For the relief of Mary S. Arthur, as executrix of the estate of Richard M. Arthur, deceased.Jul 2, 1940
  727. Private Law 76–536For the relief of Beatrice Lola Rucker.Jul 2, 1940
  728. Private Law 76–537For the relief of Mrs. E. J. McCardle.Jul 2, 1940
  729. Private Law 76–538For the relief of Stuart Bastow.Jul 2, 1940
  730. Private Law 76–539For the relief of Morrissey Construction Company.Jul 2, 1940
  731. Private Law 76–540For the relief of T. Jack Neal.Jul 2, 1940
  732. Private Law 76–541For the relief of Edward P. Glenn, Junior.Jul 2, 1940
  733. Private Law 76–542For the relief of Clarence D. Green.Jul 2, 1940
  734. Private Law 76–543For relief of Edna Emery.Jul 2, 1940
  735. Private Law 76–544For the relief of Simon A. Brieger, as legal representative of the estate of Thomas Gerald Brieger, a deceased minor.Jul 2, 1940
  736. Private Law 76–545For the relief of John Owen.Jul 2, 1940
  737. Private Law 76–546For the relief of Charles E. Molster, former disbursing clerk for the Department of Commerce and the National Recovery Administration; J. L. Summers, deceased, former chief disbursing clerk, Division of Disbursement, Treasury Department, and Guy F. Allen, chief disbursing officer, Division of Disbursement, Treasury Department.Jul 2, 1940
  738. Private Law 76–547Providing for the extension of nonquota status to Frederick Beck.Jul 2, 1940
  739. Private Law 76–556For the relief of Ethel G. Hamilton.Jul 8, 1940
  740. Private Law 76–557To provide for the reimbursement of certain personnel or former personnel of the United States Marine Corps for the value of personal effects destroyed as a result of a fire at Raritan Arsenal, Metuchen, New Jersey, on October 10, 1938.Jul 8, 1940
  741. Private Law 76–558To provide for the reimbursement of certain officers and enlisted men or former officers and enlisted men of the United States Navy for personal property lost in the hurricane and flood at New London, Connecticut, on September 21, 1938.Jul 8, 1940
  742. Private Law 76–559For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Black, and Marion Rabren.Jul 10, 1940
  743. Private Law 76–560For the relief of A. A. Ramsay.Jul 10, 1940
  744. Private Law 76–561For the relief of Earl P. Collins.Jul 10, 1940
  745. Private Law 76–562For the relief of M. E. MeGivern.Jul 10, 1940
  746. Private Law 76–563For the relief of A. S. Tait.Jul 10, 1940
  747. Private Law 76–564For the relief of Harry D. Gann.Jul 10, 1940
  748. Private Law 76–569To authorize the cancelation of deportation proceedings in the case of Florence Sinclair Cooper and daughter, Margaret Lavallie, and Philip P. Roy.Jul 10, 1940
  749. Private Law 76–570For the relief of Jose Mauri.Jul 10, 1940
  750. Private Law 76–571For the relief of Henry Gideon Schiller.Jul 10, 1940
  751. Private Law 76–572For the relief of James George Mayfield.Jul 10, 1940
  752. Private Law 76–573For the relief of Dexter and Elizabeth Shiomi.Jul 10, 1940
  753. Private Law 76–574For the relief of Louise ThorneJul 10, 1940
  754. Private Law 76–575Relating to the citizenship of William Lawrence Tan.Jul 10, 1940
  755. Private Law 76–576For the relief of Alfred G. Balls.Jul 10, 1940
  756. Private Law 76–578For the relief of Anne Howard Lay.Jul 11, 1940
  757. Private Law 76–584To confer jurisdiction on the Court of Claims or the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Georgia to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of Mrs. J. W. Marks, of Stephens County, Georgia.Jul 11, 1940
  758. Private Law 76–585For the relief of Edward Hagenson.Jul 11, 1940
  759. Private Law 76–586For the relief of C. F. Cooley, administrator of the estate of Charles F. Cooley, Junior.Jul 11, 1940
  760. Private Law 76–587For the relief of Cothran Motors, Incorporated.Jul 11, 1940
  761. Private Law 76–588For the relief of Edmund S. Dennis.Jul 11, 1940
  762. Private Law 76–589For the relief of Mary Boyd.Jul 11, 1940
  763. Private Law 76–590For the relief of Lloyd S. Harris.Jul 11, 1940
  764. Private Law 76–591Authorizing the naturalization of Thomas A. Lambie.Jul 11, 1940
  765. Private Law 76–592For the relief of Edward J. Ross, and the legal guardian of Betty Ross, a minor.Jul 11, 1940
  766. Private Law 76–593For the relief of Bessie Sharrah.Jul 11, 1940
  767. Private Law 76–594For the relief of Clarence E. Enders and Gertrude Ray Enders.Jul 11, 1940
  768. Private Law 76–595For the relief of Twila Snyder.Jul 11, 1940
  769. Private Law 76–596For the relief of Velvie W. Smith, and the legal guardian of Glenn Richard Smith.Jul 11, 1940
  770. Private Law 76–597For the relief of the Rodgers Tile Company.Jul 11, 1940
  771. Private Law 76–598For the relief of Thomas L. Gardner.Jul 11, 1940
  772. Private Law 76–599For the relief of Ina May Everett.Jul 11, 1940
  773. Private Law 76–600For the relief of Charles N. Barber, former United States property and disbursing officer, Vermont National Guard, and for other purposes.Jul 11, 1940
  774. Private Law 76–601For the relief of George O. Elliott and Winslow Farr Smith.Jul 11, 1940
  775. Private Law 76–602For the relief of Vernon C. Brown and F. L. Copeland.Jul 11, 1940
  776. Private Law 76–603For the relief of Guy F. Allen, chief disbursing officer. Division of Disbursement, Treasury Department.Jul 11, 1940
  777. Private Law 76–604To relieve, certain employees of the Veterans Administration from financial liability for certain overpayments and allow such credit therefor as is necessary in the accounts of certain disbursing officers, and for other purposes.Jul 11, 1940
  778. Private Law 76–605For the relief of Captain David H. Passell and First Lieutenant Paul E. LaMaster.Jul 11, 1940
  779. Private Law 76–606For the relief of Lawrence T. Post, G. F. Allen, and D. Buddrus.Jul 11, 1940
  780. Private Law 76–607To provide for the reimbursement of Philip A. Penston, pharmacists mate, first class, United States Coast Guard, for the value of personal and household effects lost and destroyed during the hurricane of September 21, 1938, at New London, Connecticut.Jul 11, 1940
  781. Private Law 76–608For the relief of Elizabeth E. Peeples.Jul 11, 1940
  782. Private Law 76–609For the relief of J. H. Wootton.Jul 11, 1940
  783. Private Law 76–610For the relief of Alfred Joseph Wright.Jul 11, 1940
  784. Private Law 76–611For the relief of the First National Bank of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as legal guardian of the three minor children of Dale W. Guise and Gladys M. Guise, both deceased, and Sally C. Guise, Martha G. and Arnold E. Orner.Jul 11, 1940
  785. Private Law 76–612For the relief of George L. Sheldon.Jul 11, 1940
  786. Private Law 76–613For the relief of the legal guardian of Betty Lou Frady, and W. L. Frady.Jul 11, 1940
  787. Private Law 76–614For the relief of Clifford J. Williams.Jul 11, 1940
  788. Private Law 76–615For the relief of certain settlers in the town site of Ketchum, Idaho.Jul 11, 1940
  789. Private Law 76–616For the relief of certain purchasers of, and entrymen upon, opened lands of certain Indian reservations.Jul 11, 1940
  790. Private Law 76–617To authorize the Attorney General to donate on behalf of the United States to H. S. Scott, D. W. Collins, Fred M. Gross, trustees, Ashland District Council, Boy Scouts of America, the log house known as the John Secrest home, located on the site of the Federal Correctional Institution near Ashland, Kentucky.Jul 11, 1940
  791. Private Law 76–619For the relief of Marjorie Buchek.Jul 12, 1940
  792. Private Law 76–620For the relief of Ina Jones.Jul 12, 1940
  793. Private Law 76–621For the relief of Edward J. Broggi.Jul 12, 1940
  794. Private Law 76–622To enable Sadao Tanaka to remain permanently in the United States.Jul 12, 1940
  795. Private Law 76–623For the relief of John Nicholas Chicouras.Jul 12, 1940
  796. Private Law 76–624For the relief of certain disbursing agents and certifying officers of the Indian Service, the United States Veterans Administration, and the Treasury Department.Jul 12, 1940
  797. Private Law 76–625For the relief of Hannah S. Bray, Jane Bickers, and Frances Bickers.Jul 12, 1940
  798. Private Law 76–627For the relief of the Leesburg Welding and Garage Company.Jul 15, 1940
  799. Private Law 76–628For the relief of the legal guardian of Paul Sanford, a minor.Jul 15, 1940
  800. Private Law 76–631For the relief of Nile Shaw and Edgar C. Bardin.Jul 16, 1940
  801. Private Law 76–645For the relief of Katherine M. Drier.Jul 19, 1940
  802. Private Law 76–646For the relief of Antal or Anthony or Tony Zaicek or Zaiczek.Jul 19, 1940
  803. Private Law 76–652For the relief of Francis G. McDougall.Aug 9, 1940
  804. Private Law 76–653For the relief of Carl Hurt.Aug 9, 1940
  805. Private Law 76–654For the relief of Fulton Combs.Aug 9, 1940
  806. Private Law 76–655For the relief of Frank Spears.Aug 9, 1940
  807. Private Law 76–656For the relief of the captain and crew of the fishing boat Unione Numbered 1.Aug 9, 1940
  808. Private Law 76–657For the relief of the estate of J. L. Fretwell.Aug 9, 1940
  809. Private Law 76–658For the relief of J. E. Dambach.Aug 9, 1940
  810. Private Law 76–659For the relief of Clyde Caietti, a minor.Aug 9, 1940
  811. Private Law 76–660For the relief of Rufus K. Sanderlin.Aug 9, 1940
  812. Private Law 76–661For the relief of Fred Shelton.Aug 9, 1940
  813. Private Law 76–667For the relief of Thomas Miralia and Betty Miralia.Aug 13, 1940
  814. Private Law 76–668For the relief of Robert L. Taylor.Aug 13, 1940
  815. Private Law 76–669For the relief of Clyde E. Malle.Aug 13, 1940
  816. Private Law 76–670To correct the military records of DeRosey C. Cabell, McFarland Cockrill, James N. Caperton, Junius H. Houghton, Otto F. Lange, Paul B. Parker, James deB. Walbach, and Victor W. B. Wales.Aug 13, 1940
  817. Private Law 76–671For the relief of Theodore R. King.Aug 13, 1940
  818. Private Law 76–672For the relief of Elizabeth Buxton Hospital.Aug 13, 1940
  819. Private Law 76–673For the relief of certain disbursing officers of the Division of Disbursement, Treasury Department.Aug 13, 1940
  820. Private Law 76–674For the relief of Willie Perry.Aug 13, 1940
  821. Private Law 76–675For the relief of Zoe Hoyt Wagner and Io F. Hoyt.Aug 13, 1940
  822. Private Law 76–676For the relief of May C. Taylor.Aug 13, 1940
  823. Private Law 76–677For the relief of Thomas R. Fox.Aug 13, 1940
  824. Private Law 76–678For the relief of Edna S. Gardiner.Aug 13, 1940
  825. Private Law 76–679For the relief of Doctor A. C. Wade.Aug 13, 1940
  826. Private Law 76–680For the relief of certain claimants on account of loss by fire for which the United States was adjudged liable.Aug 13, 1940
  827. Private Law 76–681For the relief of the widow of Donald D. Elliott.Aug 13, 1940
  828. Private Law 76–682For the relief of certain disbursing officers of the Treasury Department, the Department of the Interior, and the Army.Aug 13, 1940
  829. Private Law 76–683For the relief of the Charles H. Amos Handle Company.Aug 14, 1940
  830. Private Law 76–685For the relief of Walter Chwalek.Aug 20, 1940
  831. Private Law 76–696For the relief of Wade Crawford, formerly Superintendent of the Klamath Indian Agency.Aug 27, 1940
  832. Private Law 76–697AN ACT For the relief of Nannie E. Teal.Aug 27, 1940
  833. Private Law 76–698For the relief of Captain Robert W. Evans.Aug 27, 1940
  834. Private Law 76–699For the relief of John L. Pennington.Aug 27, 1940
  835. Private Law 76–700To provide an additional sum for the payment of a claim under the Act entitled An Act to 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, approved June 19, 1939.Aug 27, 1940
  836. Private Law 76–701For the relief of James H. Hearon.Aug 27, 1940
  837. Private Law 76–702For the relief of Charles P. Madsen.Aug 27, 1940
  838. Private Law 76–703For the relief of George W. Coon.Aug 27, 1940
  839. Private Law 76–707For the relief of Mrs. Guy A. McConoha.Sep 4, 1940
  840. Private Law 76–708For the relief of John P. Shorter.Sep 4, 1940
  841. Private Law 76–709To confer jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of Suncrest Orchards, Incorporated.Sep 4, 1940
  842. Private Law 76–710To provide for the acquisition of flowage rights and the payment of certain damages in connection with the operation of the Fort Hall Indian irrigation project, Idaho.Sep 4, 1940
  843. Private Law 76–711For the relief of Violet Knowlen, a minor.Sep 4, 1940
  844. Private Law 76–712For the relief of Hazel Thomas.Sep 4, 1940
  845. Private Law 76–713For the relief of Pearl Waldrep Stubbs.Sep 4, 1940
  846. Private Law 76–714For the relief of Mary Janiec and Ignatz Janiec.Sep 4, 1940
  847. Private Law 76–716To carry out the findings of the Court of Claims in the case of Lester P. Barlow against the United States.Sep 6, 1940
  848. Private Law 76–731To confer jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim or claims of the Recording and Computing Machines Company, of Dayton, Ohio.Sep 24, 1940
  849. Private Law 76–732For the relief of Xenophon George Panos.Sep 24, 1940
  850. Private Law 76–737For the relief of W. J. Hance.Oct 4, 1940
  851. Private Law 76–738For the relief of Louis St. Jacques.Oct 4, 1940
  852. Private Law 76–739For the relief of James Murphy, Senior.Oct 4, 1940
  853. Private Law 76–740For the relief of Louis A. Charland.Oct 4, 1940
  854. Private Law 76–741For the relief of John A. Kames.Oct 4, 1940
  855. Private Law 76–747For the relief of Emelie Witzenbacher.Oct 5, 1940
  856. Private Law 76–748For the relief of Roland Hanson, a minor, and Doctor E. A. Julien.Oct 5, 1940
  857. Private Law 76–749For the relief of Euel Caidwell.Oct 5, 1940
  858. Private Law 76–750For the relief of La Vera Hampton.Oct 5, 1940
  859. Private Law 76–751For the relief of Charles F. Martin, a minor.Oct 5, 1940
  860. Private Law 76–752For the relief of David J. Williams, Junior, a minor.Oct 5, 1940
  861. Private Law 76–753For the relief of Regina Howell.Oct 5, 1940
  862. Private Law 76–754For the relief of John Toepel, Robert Scott, Widmer Smith, and Louis Knowlton.Oct 5, 1940
  863. Private Law 76–755For the relief of Joe L. McQueen.Oct 5, 1940
  864. Private Law 76–766For the relief of Ben L. Kessinger and M. Carlisle Minor.Oct 8, 1940
  865. Private Law 76–767For the relief of the estate of Alfred Batrack.Oct 8, 1940
  866. Private Law 76–768For the relief of Wasyl Kuhnatycki.Oct 8, 1940
  867. Private Law 76–769For the relief of Henry J. Wise.Oct 8, 1940
  868. Private Law 76–770For the relief of Arthur Joseph Reiber, a minor.Oct 8, 1940
  869. Private Law 76–771For the relief of Paul J. Kohanik.Oct 8, 1940
  870. Private Law 76–772For the relief of John J. Murphy.Oct 8, 1940
  871. Private Law 76–773For the relief of Albert DePonti.Oct 8, 1940
  872. Private Law 76–774For the relief of the estate of James A. Rivera.Oct 8, 1940
  873. Private Law 76–775For the relief of George R. Stringer.Oct 8, 1940
  874. Private Law 76–776For the relief of Rufus E. Farmer.Oct 8, 1940
  875. Private Law 76–799For the relief of the Franco-American Construction Company.Oct 9, 1940
  876. Private Law 76–800For the relief of Nell Mullen.Oct 9, 1940
  877. Private Law 76–801For the relief of Umberto Tedeschi.Oct 9, 1940
  878. Private Law 76–802For the relief of Emma Knutson.Oct 9, 1940
  879. Private Law 76–803For the relief of June Thompson, a minor.Oct 9, 1940
  880. Private Law 76–804For the relief of Josefina Alvarado.Oct 9, 1940
  881. Private Law 76–805For the relief of Alex Silberstein, Magdalene Silberstein, Alice Silberstein, Eleanor Goldfarb, Lillian Goldfarb, Jackie Goldfarb, and Florence Karp, minors.Oct 9, 1940
  882. Private Law 76–806For the relief of Sallie Barr.Oct 9, 1940
  883. Private Law 76–807To record the lawful admission to the United States for permanent residence of Esther Klein.Oct 9, 1940
  884. Private Law 76–808For the relief of Rosa Paone.Oct 9, 1940
  885. Private Law 76–809For the relief of Major Clarence H. Greene, United States Army, retired.Oct 9, 1940
  886. Private Law 76–810For the relief of Isaac Surmany.Oct 9, 1940
  887. Private Law 76–811For the relief of John P. Hart.Oct 9, 1940
  888. Private Law 76–812For the relief of John E. Avery.Oct 9, 1940
  889. Private Law 76–813For the relief of the Wallie Motor Company.Oct 9, 1940
  890. Private Law 76–814For the relief of F. W. HeatonOct 9, 1940
  891. Private Law 76–815For the relief of George F. Kermath.Oct 9, 1940
  892. Private Law 76–816For the relief of Mrs. Hama Torii Emerson.Oct 9, 1940
  893. Private Law 76–817For the relief of Esther Jacobs.Oct 9, 1940
  894. Private Law 76–818For the relief of Salvatore Taras.Oct 9, 1940
  895. Private Law 76–819For the relief of Walter B. McDougall and Herbert Maier.Oct 9, 1940
  896. Private Law 76–820For the relief of Lillian Brown, and Silas Young.Oct 9, 1940
  897. Private Law 76–821For the relief of the parents of Charldean Finch.Oct 9, 1940
  898. Private Law 76–822For the relief of Estelle M. Corbett.Oct 9, 1940
  899. Private Law 76–823For the relief of Boston and Maine Railroad.Oct 9, 1940
  900. Private Law 76–824For the relief of Betty Jane Bear Robe.Oct 9, 1940
  901. Private Law 76–825For the relief of Antonio Sabatini.Oct 9, 1940
  902. Private Law 76–826For the relief of Allen B. Boyer.Oct 9, 1940
  903. Private Law 76–827For the relief of Ernest Lyle Greenwood and Phyllis Joy Greenwood.Oct 9, 1940
  904. Private Law 76–828To amend the records at the port of New York to show the admission of Steve Zegura, Junior, and B. Dragomir Zegura as aliens admitted for permanent residence.Oct 9, 1940
  905. Private Law 76–829To provide for the reimbursement of certain officers and men of the Coast and Geodetic Survey for the value of personal effects lost, damaged, or destroyed in a fire aboard the Coast and Geodetic Survey launch Mikawe at Norfolk, Virginia, on October 27, 1939.Oct 9, 1940
  906. Private Law 76–830To provide for the issuance of a license to practice the healing art in the District of Columbia to Doctor A. L. Ridings.Oct 9, 1940
  907. Private Law 76–831For the relief of Bela Karlovitz.Oct 9, 1940
  908. Private Law 76–832For the relief of William M. Irvine.Oct 9, 1940
  909. Private Law 76–833For the relief of Anthony Borsellino.Oct 9, 1940
  910. Private Law 76–834Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue to Henry W. Shurlds and W. H, White a patent to certain lands in the State of Mississippi.Oct 9, 1940
  911. Private Law 76–835Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue to Ruth Gainey Branscome a patent to certain lands in the State of Mississippi.Oct 9, 1940
  912. Private Law 76–854For the relief of C. Z. Bush and W. D. Kennedy.Oct 10, 1940
  913. Private Law 76–855For the relief of Warren Zimmerman.Oct 10, 1940
  914. Private Law 76–856For the relief of James Robert Harman.Oct 10, 1940
  915. Private Law 76–863For the relief of William A. Reithel.Oct 14, 1940
  916. Private Law 76–864For the relief of Frank Hall.Oct 14, 1940
  917. Private Law 76–865For the relief of Joseph B. Rupinski and Maria Zofia Rupinski.Oct 14, 1940
  918. Private Law 76–866For the relief of Howard R. M. Browne.Oct 14, 1940
  919. Private Law 76–867For the relief of Leo Neumann anti his wife, Alice Neumann.Oct 14, 1940
  920. Private Law 76–868For the relief of Ralph W. Daggett, formerly lieutenant, Quartermaster Corps, United States Army.Oct 14, 1940
  921. Private Law 76–869For the relief of Howard Mondt.Oct 14, 1940
  922. Private Law 76–870To record the lawful admission to the United States for permanent residence of Nicholas G. Karas.Oct 14, 1940
  923. Private Law 76–873To confer jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to hear and determine the claim of Lambom and Company.Oct 14, 1940
  924. Private Law 76–874For the relief of Guy F. Allen, chief disbursing officer, Treasury Department, and for other purposes.Oct 14, 1940
  925. Private Law 76–880For the relief of Verdie Barker and Fred Walter.Oct 14, 1940
  926. Private Law 76–881For the relief of Samuel Roberts.Oct 14, 1940
  927. Private Law 76–882Granting six months pay to Lillian M. Reymonds.Oct 14, 1940
  928. Private Law 76–883For the relief of the late John L. Summers, former disbursing clerk, Treasury Department.Oct 14, 1940
  929. Private Law 76–900For the relief of J. J. Greenleaf.Oct 17, 1940
  930. Private Law 76–901For the relief of Mrs. E. V. Maki.Oct 17, 1940
  931. Private Law 76–902For the relief of Adolph Burstein.Oct 17, 1940
  932. Private Law 76–905Authorizing and directing the Comptroller General of the United States to allow credit in the accounts of Lieutenant Colonel Frank H. Lusse, formerly of the Kentucky National Guard.Oct 21, 1940
  933. Private Law 76–907For the relief of certain Navajo Indians, and for other purposes.Oct 21, 1940
  934. Private Law 76–909For the relief of the widows of the late George A. Meffan and John Glenn.Oct 25, 1940
  935. Private Law 76–911For the relief of Elliott L. Hovel.Oct 29, 1940
  936. Private Law 76–912To confer jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of Theodore R. Troendle, sole stockholder of the Dawson Springs Construction Company.Oct 29, 1940
  937. Private Law 76–913For the relief of Charles S. Ladinsky and Moe Kanner.Oct 29, 1940
  938. Private Law 76–918Granting a pension to Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston.Nov 25, 1940
  939. Private Law 76–925For the relief of Mrs. George C. Hamilton and Nanette Anderson.Nov 29, 1940
  940. Private Law 76–933For the relief of the estate of Doctor B. L. Pursifull, Grace Pursifull, Eugene Pursifull, Ralph Pursifull, Bobby Pursifull, and Dora Little.Dec 16, 1940
  941. Private Law 76–935To provide for the issuance of a license to practice chiropractic in the District of Columbia to Lou Davis.Dec 30, 1940
  942. Private Law 76–937For the relief of Herbert Zucker, Emma Zucker, Hanni Zucker, Dorrit Claire Zucker, and Martha Hirsch.Jan 3, 1941
  943. Private Law 76–940For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Ramsey.Jan 7, 1941