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Volume 56

1942 · 77th Congress · session 2 · 836 public laws.

  1. Public Law 77–1To amend the Act approved April 22, 1941 (Public Law 39, Seventy-seventh Congress), so as to increase the authorized enlisted strength of the Navy and Marine Corps.Jan 12, 1942
  2. Public Law 77–2To amend the District of Columbia License Act so as to permit the transportation of school children and occasional sightseeing operations in the District of Columbia without procurement of a license or payment of a tax in the case of certain vehicles performing such operations in connection with transportation to the District of Columbia.Jan 15, 1942
  3. Public Law 77–3To authorize transfer of enlisted men of the Naval and Marine Corps Reserve to the Regular Navy and Marine Corps.Jan 15, 1942
  4. Public Law 77–4To prohibit parking of vehicles upon public or private property in the District of Columbia without the consent of the owner of such property.Jan 15, 1942
  5. Public Law 77–6To regulate the distribution and promotion of commissioned officers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and for other purposes.Jan 19, 1942
  6. Public Law 77–7To promote the national security and defense by establishing daylight saving time.Jan 20, 1942
  7. Public Law 77–8Authorizing subsistence allowance provided for aviation cadets to be paid to messes in manner as prescribed by the Act of March 14, 1940 (Public, Numbered 433, Seventy-sixth Congress).Jan 20, 1942
  8. Public Law 77–9To amend the Act approved June 23, 1938, entitled “An Act to regulate the distribution, promotion, and retirement of officers of the line of the Navy, and for other purposes.”Jan 20, 1942
  9. Public Law 77–10To provide for the rank and title of the Commandant of the Marine Corps.Jan 20, 1942
  10. Public Law 77–11To further amend the Act approved June 23, 1938 (52 Stat. 944), as amended.Jan 20, 1942
  11. Public Law 77–12To create the Limited Service Marine Corps Reserve, and for other purposes.Jan 20, 1942
  12. Public Law 77–14To amend the Act entitled “An Act to expedite the provision of housing in connection with national defense, and for other purposes”, approved October 14, 1940, as amended.Jan 21, 1942
  13. Public Law 77–15To amend the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1910, and for other purposes”, approved March 3, 1909, as amended, so as to extend commissary privileges to such other persons as may be specifically authorized by the Secretary of the Navy.Jan 23, 1942
  14. Public Law 77–16To amend further the Civil Service Retirement Act, approved May 29, 1930, as amended.Jan 24, 1942
  15. Public Law 77–17To amend certain provisions of the Internal Revenue Code relating to the production of alcohol.Jan 24, 1942
  16. Public Law 77–18To amend section 606 of the Communications Act of 1934 for the purpose of granting to the President, in time of war or threatened war, certain powers with respect to communications by wire.Jan 26, 1942
  17. Public Law 77–19To maintain the secrecy of military information.Jan 26, 1942
  18. Public Law 77–20To provide protection of persons and property from bombing attacks in the United States, and for other purposes.Jan 27, 1942
  19. Public Law 77–21Authorizing vessels of Canadian registry to transport iron ore on the Great Lakes during 1942.Jan 27, 1942
  20. Public Law 77–22To enable the United States to become an adhering member of the Inter American Statistical Institute.Jan 27, 1942
  21. Public Law 77–23Validating certain conveyances heretofore made by Central Pacific Railway Company, a corporation, and its lessee, Southern Pacific Company, a corporation, involving certain portions of right-of-way, in the city of Tracy, in the county of San Joaquin, State of California, and in the town of Elk Grove, in the county of Sacramento, State of California, acquired by Central Pacific Railway Company under the Act of Congress approved July 1, 1862 (12 Stat. L. 489), as amended by the Act of Congress approved July 2, 1864 (13 Stat. L. 356).Jan 27, 1942
  22. Public Law 77–24To set aside certain lands in Oklahoma for the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Indians; and to carry out certain obligations to certain enrolled Indians under tribal agreement.Jan 29, 1942
  23. Public Law 77–25Authorizing appropriations for the United States Navy, additional shipbuilding and ship-repair facilities, and for other purposes.Jan 29, 1942
  24. Public Law 77–26To further the national defense and security by checking speculative and excessive price rises, price dislocations, and inflationary tendencies, and for other purposes.Jan 30, 1942
  25. Public Law 77–27Making supplemental appropriations for the national defense for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1942, and June 30, 1943, and for other purposes.Jan 30, 1942
  26. Public Law 77–28To authorize the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board to allocate one-half of the income from certain property to the Smithsonian Institution.Jan 30, 1942
  27. Public Law 77–29To amend section 3 of the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, as amended.Jan 30, 1942
  28. Public Law 77–30To authorize the sale, exchange, or other disposition of certain securities held by the Secretary of the Treasury.Jan 31, 1942
  29. Public Law 77–31To provide for regulating, inspecting, cleaning, and, when necessary, disinfecting railway cars, other vehicles, and other materials entering the United States from Mexico.Jan 31, 1942
  30. Public Law 77–32To amend section 392 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, so as to provide for separate appropriation accounts for administrative expenses of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, so as to modify the 1 and 2 per centum limitations on administrative expenses and to provide over-all limitations in lieu thereof, and for other purposes.Jan 31, 1942
  31. Public Law 77–33To amend the District of Columbia Revenue Act of 1939, and for other purposes.Feb 2, 1942
  32. Public Law 77–34To amend section 3 (a) of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to proceed with the construction of certain public works, and for other purposes”, approved June 2, 1939 (53 Stat. 800), so as to transfer the administration of the Naval Supply Depot, Oakland, to the Commandant, Twelfth Naval District.Feb 3, 1942
  33. Public Law 77–35To provide for performance of the duties of chiefs of bureau and the Judge Advocate General in the Navy Department, and the Major General Commandant of the Marine Corps, and for other purposes.Feb 3, 1942
  34. Public Law 77–36To increase the period for which leases may be made of public lands granted to the State of Idaho for educational purposes by the Act of July 3, 1890.Feb 6, 1942
  35. Public Law 77–37To prohibit payment of money allowance for subsistence and rental to retired officers of the Navy or Marine Corps for any period when not employed on active duty.Feb 6, 1942
  36. Public Law 77–38Authorizing the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs to grant an easement in certain lands of the Veterans’ Administration facility, Togus, Maine, to the State of Maine, for road-widening purposes.Feb 6, 1942
  37. Public Law 77–39Authorizing the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs to grant an easement in certain lands of the Veterans’ Administration Facility, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, to Rutherford County, Tennessee, for highway purposes.Feb 6, 1942
  38. Public Law 77–40To authorize the attendance of personnel of the Army of the United States as students at educational institutions and other places.Feb 6, 1942
  39. Public Law 77–41To amend section 124 of the Internal Revenue Code to simplify the procedure in connection with amortization of certain facilities.Feb 6, 1942
  40. Public Law 77–42To provide pay for officers in accordance with the rank and grade in which they were inducted and served in the land forces.Feb 6, 1942
  41. Public Law 77–43To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to proceed with the construction of certain public works, and for other purposes.Feb 6, 1942
  42. Public Law 77–44To provide for the adjustment of tobacco, wheat, and cotton-marketing quotas and acreage allotments in certain cases where farm land is acquired by the United States for defense purposes.Feb 6, 1942
  43. Public Law 77–45To authorize the construction of certain naval vessels, and for other purposes.Feb 6, 1942
  44. Public Law 77–46Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943, and additional appropriations therefor for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, and for other purposes.Feb 7, 1942
  45. Public Law 77–47To authorize the President of the United States to render financial aid to China, and for other purposes.Feb 7, 1942
  46. Public Law 77–48Authorizing the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs to grant an easement for highway purposes to the county of Macon, Alabama, in a strip of land located at Veterans’ Administration Facility, Tuskegee, Alabama.Feb 7, 1942
  47. Public Law 77–49To amend section 7 of the Natural Gas Act.Feb 7, 1942
  48. Public Law 77–52To extend the time during which orders and marketing agreements under the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, may be applicable to hops.Feb 10, 1942
  49. Public Law 77–53To amend the Act approved October 24, 1941, entitled “An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to provide salvage facilities, and for other purposes” (Public Law Numbered 280, Seventy-seventh Congress), so as to remove the limitation on the sum authorized to be appropriated annually to effectuate the purposes of the Act.Feb 10, 1942
  50. Public Law 77–54To authorize an appropriation for payment to the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District of construction costs assessed against certain lands within such district acquired by the United States for the benefit of certain Indians in the State of New Mexico.Feb 10, 1942
  51. Public Law 77–55To increase the earnings of the United States Government life-insurance fund and the national service life-insurance fund by expediting the investment of the moneys thereof, and for other purposes.Feb 10, 1942
  52. Public Law 77–56To amend the Act of June 11, 1940 (Public, Numbered 590, Seventy-sixth Congress, third session), providing for the relief of Indians who have paid taxes on allotted land.Feb 10, 1942
  53. Public Law 77–57Authorizing overtime pay for certain employees of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.Feb 10, 1942
  54. Public Law 77–69To amend section 602 (m) of the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940 (Public, Numbered 801, Seventy-sixth Congress), as amended, to enable a person in active service in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard to secure such insurance effective as of date of application by advance of active service pay, and for other purposes.Feb 11, 1942
  55. Public Law 77–71Making an appropriation to provide financial aid to China.Feb 12, 1942
  56. Public Law 77–72To release all the interest of the United States in certain land constituting a portion of the right-of-way granted to the Central Pacific Railway Company under the Act of July 1, 1862, as amended and supplemented.Feb 13, 1942
  57. Public Law 77–76To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to acquire, operate, and regulate public off-street parking facilities, and for other purposes.Feb 16, 1942
  58. Public Law 77–77To provide for temporary promotion in the Army of the United States of officers commissioned in the Air Corps or assigned to duty with the Air Corps.Feb 16, 1942
  59. Public Law 77–95To extend the time for examination of quarterly accounts covering expenditures by disbursing officers of the United States Navy.Feb 20, 1942
  60. Public Law 77–96To authorize the purchase from appropriations made for the Indian Service of supplies and materials for resale to natives, native cooperative associations, and Indian Service employees stationed in Alaska.Feb 20, 1942
  61. Public Law 77–98To provide for the deposit and expenditure of various revenues collected at schools and hospitals operated by the Indian Service in Alaska.Feb 20, 1942
  62. Public Law 77–104Amending section 7 of the Neutrality Act of 1939.Feb 21, 1942
  63. Public Law 77–105To authorize the transfer of lands from the United States to the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission under certain conditions, and to accept title to another tract to be transferred to the United States.Feb 21, 1942
  64. Public Law 77–106To provide that the Navy ration may include canned or powdered or concentrated fruit or vegetable juices.Feb 21, 1942
  65. Public Law 77–107To provide decentralization of the issuance of orders authorizing the payment of travel expenses in connection with the transfer of civilian employees from one station to another.Feb 21, 1942
  66. Public Law 77–108Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, and for prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, and for other purposes.Feb 21, 1942
  67. Public Law 77–110To provide for the advancement on the retired list of certain officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps.Feb 23, 1942
  68. Public Law 77–113Relating to lands of the Klamath and Modoc Tribes and the Yahooskin Band of Snake Indians.Feb 24, 1942
  69. Public Law 77–123To extend the time within which the amount of any national marketing quota for tobacco, proclaimed under section 312 (a) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, may be increased.Feb 28, 1942
  70. Public Law 77–124To abolish certain fees charged by clerks of the district courts; and to exempt defendants in condemnation proceedings from the payment of filing fees in certain instances.Mar 3, 1942
  71. Public Law 77–126To amend an Act entitled “An Act providing for the zoning of the District of Columbia and the regulation of the location, height, bulk, and uses of buildings and other structures and of the uses of land in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved June 20, 1938.Mar 4, 1942
  72. Public Law 77–127Authorizing the States of Arizona and California, jointly or separately, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Colorado River at or near Needles, California.Mar 4, 1942
  73. Public Law 77–128To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to permit the vestry of Rock Creek Parish to utilize for burial sites certain land within its present holdings in Rock Creek Cemetery.Mar 4, 1942
  74. Public Law 77–129To change the name of Conduit Road in the District of Columbia.Mar 4, 1942
  75. Public Law 77–130To authorize the United States Maritime Commission to acquire certain lands in Nassau County, New York.Mar 4, 1942
  76. Public Law 77–140To provide for the planting of guayule and other rubber-bearing plants and to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses.Mar 5, 1942
  77. Public Law 77–141Making additional appropriations for the national defense for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, and for other purposes.Mar 5, 1942
  78. Public Law 77–142To vest absolute in the city of Dearborn the title to lot 19 of the Detroit Arsenal grounds subdivision, Wayne County, Michigan.Mar 5, 1942
  79. Public Law 77–143To transfer Blair County, Pennsylvania, from the western judicial district of Pennsylvania to the middle judicial district of Pennsylvania.Mar 5, 1942
  80. Public Law 77–148To revise the boundaries of the Chickamauga-Chattanooga National Military Park in the States of Georgia and Tennessee.Mar 5, 1942
  81. Public Law 77–150To accept the cession by the State of Michigan of exclusive jurisdiction over the lands embraced within the Isle Royale National Park, and for other purposes.Mar 6, 1942
  82. Public Law 77–151To accept the cession by the State of Washington of exclusive jurisdiction over the lands embraced within the Olympic National Park, and for other purposes.Mar 6, 1942
  83. Public Law 77–152To provide for the addition of certain lands to the Isle Royale National Park, in the State of Michigan, and for other purposes.Mar 6, 1942
  84. Public Law 77–153To amend subsections (b), (d), and (e) of section 77 of the Judicial Code so as to transfer the county of Meriwether from the Columbus division of the middle district of Georgia to the Newnan division of the northern district of Georgia, and to change the terms of the district court for the Macon and Americus divisions in the middle district of Georgia.Mar 6, 1942
  85. Public Law 77–154To extend and amend Subtitle—Insurance of Title II of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended (Public, Numbered 677, Seventy-sixth Congress) approved June 29, 1940, and for other purposes.Mar 6, 1942
  86. Public Law 77–159To authorize the payment of a donation to and to provide for the travel at Government expense of persons discharged from the Army of the United States on account of fraudulent enlistment.Mar 7, 1942
  87. Public Law 77–160To authorize mailing of small firearms to officers and employees of enforcement agencies of the United States.Mar 7, 1942
  88. Public Law 77–161To correct the description of land added to the Bryce Canyon National Park pursuant to the Act of February 17, 1931.Mar 7, 1942
  89. Public Law 77–162To adjust the boundaries of the Cedar Breaks National Monument and the Dixie National Forest, in the State of Utah, and for other purposes.Mar 7, 1942
  90. Public Law 77–163To provide for the establishment of a commissary or canteen at Glenn Dale Sanatorium, Glenn Dale, Maryland.Mar 7, 1942
  91. Public Law 77–164To amend the Act of August 11, 1939 (53 Stat. 1418), entitled “An Act authorizing construction of water conservation and utilization projects in the Great Plains and arid and semiarid areas of the United States”, as amended by the Act of October 14, 1940 (54 Stat. 1119).Mar 7, 1942
  92. Public Law 77–165To amend subchapter two of chapter nineteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia.Mar 7, 1942
  93. Public Law 77–166To provide for continuing payment of pay and allowances of personnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, including the retired and Reserve components thereof; the Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Public Health Service, and civilian employees of the executive departments, independent establishments, and agencies, during periods of absence from post of duty, and for other purposes.Mar 7, 1942
  94. Public Law 77–167To direct the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to make an investigation and survey to determine the feasibility of the construction of subways in the District of Columbia for both streetcars and vehicular traffic.Mar 7, 1942
  95. Public Law 77–173To amend an Act to provide allowances for uniforms and equipment for certain officers of the Officers’ Reserve Corps of the Army so as to provide allowances for uniforms and equipment for certain officers of the Army of the United States.Mar 9, 1942
  96. Public Law 77–174For the relief of Multnomah County, Oregon.Mar 9, 1942
  97. Public Law 77–175To validate settlement claims established on sections 16 and 36 within the area withdrawn for the Matanuska Settlement project in Alaska, and for other purposes.Mar 9, 1942
  98. Public Law 77–178Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943, and for other purposes.Mar 10, 1942
  99. Public Law 77–179To amend the Act of August 5, 1939, entitled “An Act to provide for the disposition of certain records of the United States Government.”Mar 13, 1942
  100. Public Law 77–180To suspend the effectiveness during the existing national emergency of tariff duties on scrap iron, scrap steel, and nonferrous-metal scrap.Mar 13, 1942
  101. Public Law 77–186To amend the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, to provide for the coordination of the forwarding and similar servicing of water-borne export and import foreign commerce of the United States.Mar 14, 1942
  102. Public Law 77–187Authorizing appropriations for the United States Navy, additional ordnance manufacturing and production facilities, and for other purposes.Mar 17, 1942
  103. Public Law 77–188To legalize a bridge across Bayou Lafourche at Valentine, Louisiana.Mar 21, 1942
  104. Public Law 77–189To authorize the transfer of the custody of a portion of the Croatan National Forest, North Carolina, from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of the Navy.Mar 21, 1942
  105. Public Law 77–190To authorize the Federal Works Administrator to acquire title, on behalf of the United States, to not more than thirty-five acres of land subject to certain reservations in the grantors.Mar 21, 1942
  106. Public Law 77–191To provide a penalty for violation of restrictions or orders with respect to persons entering, remaining in, leaving, or committing any act in military areas or zones.Mar 21, 1942
  107. Public Law 77–196To revive and reenact the Act entitled “An Act authorizing 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”, approved December 16, 1940.Mar 23, 1942
  108. Public Law 77–197To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to release the claim of the United States to certain land within Coconino County, Arizona.Mar 27, 1942
  109. Public Law 77–198To provide for the financing of the War Damage Corporation, to amend the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, as amended, and for other purposes.Mar 27, 1942
  110. Public Law 77–199To further expedite the prosecution of the war.Mar 27, 1942
  111. Public Law 77–200To amend certain provisions of the Internal Revenue Code relating to the production of alcohol.Mar 27, 1942
  112. Public Law 77–201To amend the Act entitled “An Act to fix the hours of duty of postal employees, and for other purposes”, approved August 14, 1935, as amended, so as to permit payment for overtime for Saturday service in lieu of compensatory time.Mar 27, 1942
  113. Public Law 77–205To increase the debt limit of the United States, to further amend the Second Liberty Bond Act, and for other purposes.Mar 28, 1942
  114. Public Law 77–206To limit the initial base pay of $21 per month for enlisted men in the Army and Marine Corps to those of the seventh grade.Mar 28, 1942
  115. Public Law 77–207To consolidate the Police Court of the District of Columbia and the Municipal Court of the District of Columbia, to be known as “The Municipal Court for the District of Columbia”, to create “The Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia”, and for other purposes.Apr 1, 1942
  116. Public Law 77–208To provide for the expeditious naturalization of former citizens of the United States who have lost United States citizenship through service with the allied forces of the United States during the first or second World War.Apr 2, 1942
  117. Public Law 77–209To authorize the acquisition by the United States of lands lying between the present boundary of the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey, and the new boundary of Fort Dix, in the county of Ocean and State of New Jersey.Apr 6, 1942
  118. Public Law 77–210To authorize cases under the Expediting Act of February 11, 1903, to be heard and determined by courts constituted in the same manner as courts constituted to hear and determine cases involving the constitutionality of Acts of Congress, and further to define the powers of a district judge in certain suits.Apr 6, 1942
  119. Public Law 77–211To amend the Act known as the “Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930” (46 Stat. 531), approved June 10, 1930, as amended.Apr 6, 1942
  120. Public Law 77–220To provide for the payment for accumulative or accrued annual leave to certain employees of the United States, its Territories or possessions, or the District of Columbia, who voluntarily enlist or otherwise enter the military or naval forces of the United States.Apr 7, 1942
  121. Public Law 77–225For the relief of the city of Atlanta, Georgia.Apr 8, 1942
  122. Public Law 77–226To amend the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code by setting new maximum limits on allowances for losses of distilled spirits by leakage or evaporation while in internal revenue bonded warehouses, and for other purposes.Apr 8, 1942
  123. Public Law 77–227To extend the crediting of military service under the Railroad Retirement Acts, and for other purposes.Apr 8, 1942
  124. Public Law 77–228To authorize the renewal of the lease of the old naval hospital in the District of Columbia for an additional period of fifteen years.Apr 8, 1942
  125. Public Law 77–239To amend the Act entitled “An Act to expedite the provision of housing in connection with national defense, and for other purposes”, approved October 14, 1940, as amended.Apr 10, 1942
  126. Public Law 77–240To amend war-risk insurance provisions of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, in order to expedite ocean transportation and assist the war effort.Apr 11, 1942
  127. Public Law 77–241To provide decorations for outstanding conduct or service by persons serving in the American merchant marine.Apr 11, 1942
  128. Public Law 77–243Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Minnesota to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Mississippi River at or near the village of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota.Apr 20, 1942
  129. Public Law 77–244To amend certain provisions of law relative to the withdrawal of brandy for fortification of wines and production of wines, brandy, and fruit spirits so as to remove therefrom certain unnecessary restrictions.Apr 20, 1942
  130. Public Law 77–246Making appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943, for civil functions administered by the War Department, and for other purposes.Apr 28, 1942
  131. Public Law 77–247Making additional appropriations for the national defense for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, and for other purposes.Apr 28, 1942
  132. Public Law 77–248To eliminate the prohibition against the filling of the first vacancy occurring in the office of district judge for the District of New Jersey.Apr 28, 1942
  133. Public Law 77–249To suspend during war or a national emergency declared by Congress or by the President the provisions of section 322 of the Act of June 30, 1932, as amended, relating to certain leases.Apr 28, 1942
  134. Public Law 77–250To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to proceed with the construction of certain public works, and for other purposes.Apr 28, 1942
  135. Public Law 77–263To amend the Act entitled “An Act to require the registration of certain persons employed by agencies to disseminate propaganda in the United States, and for other purposes”, approved June 8, 1938, as amended.Apr 29, 1942
  136. Public Law 77–264To accept the cession by the States of North Carolina and Tennessee of exclusive jurisdiction over the lands embraced within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and for other purposes.Apr 29, 1942
  137. Public Law 77–265To create a Recreation Board for the District of Columbia, to define its duties, and for other purposes.Apr 29, 1942
  138. Public Law 77–266To increase the monthly maximum number of flying hours of air pilots, as limited by the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, because of the military needs arising out of the present war.Apr 29, 1942
  139. Public Law 77–273To amend the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a permanent instruction staff at the United States Coast Guard Academy”, approved April 16, 1937.May 2, 1942
  140. Public Law 77–277To amend Public Law Numbered 35, Seventy-seventh Congress, approved April 11, 1941.May 2, 1942
  141. Public Law 77–282To provide for longevity credit for enlisted men of the Naval Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, and the National Guard of the United States, and for other purposes.May 4, 1942
  142. Public Law 77–283Granting the consent and approval of Congress to an interstate compact relating to the better utilization of the fisheries (marine, shell, and anadromous) of the Atlantic seaboard and creating the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission.May 4, 1942
  143. Public Law 77–287To ratify and confirm act 20 of the Special Session Laws of Hawaii, 1941, extending the time within which revenue bonds may be issued and delivered under act 174 of the Session Laws of Hawaii, 1935.May 5, 1942
  144. Public Law 77–288To approve Act Numbered 70 of the Special Session Laws of Hawaii, 1941, reducing the rate of interest on loans and providing for the reamortization of indebtedness to the Farm Loan Board.May 5, 1942
  145. Public Law 77–294Providing for the suspension of annual assessment work on mining claims held by location in the United States, including the Territory of Alaska.May 7, 1942
  146. Public Law 77–295To permit appeals by the United States to the circuit courts of appeals in certain cases.May 9, 1942
  147. Public Law 77–296Authorizing the conveyance to Sandoval County, New Mexico, of the public land comprising part of the site of the county courthouse.May 9, 1942
  148. Public Law 77–297To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to lease for the exploitation of silica sand and other nonmetallic minerals, lands withdrawn by Executive Order Numbered 5105, dated May 3, 1929.May 9, 1942
  149. Public Law 77–298To reserve certain public lands in California for the benefit of the Manchester Band of Pomo Indians of the Manchester Rancheria.May 9, 1942
  150. Public Law 77–299To revive and reenact the Act entitled “An Act granting 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”, approved September 25, 1940.May 9, 1942
  151. Public Law 77–300Authorizing the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs to grant easements in certain lands of the Veterans’ Administration Facility, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, to the city of Murfreesboro, State of Tennessee, to enable the city to construct and maintain a water-pumping station and pipe line.May 9, 1942
  152. Public Law 77–301For the relief of dealers in certain articles or commodities rationed under authority of the United States.May 11, 1942
  153. Public Law 77–303To change the designation of the Bureau of Navigation of the Department of the Navy to the Bureau of Naval Personnel.May 13, 1942
  154. Public Law 77–304To establish the composition of the United States Navy, to authorize the construction of certain naval vessels, and for other purposes.May 13, 1942
  155. Public Law 77–306To amend subsection (c) of section 1 of Public, Numbered 846, Seventy-fourth Congress (S. 3055), an Act to provide conditions for the purchase of supplies and the making of contracts by the United States, and for other purposes.May 13, 1942
  156. Public Law 77–307Authorizing the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs to grant an easement in certain lands of the Veterans’ Administration facility, Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, to the State of Missouri for highway purposes.May 13, 1942
  157. Public Law 77–312To establish a Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps for service with the Army of the United States.May 14, 1942
  158. Public Law 77–313To amend the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by section 34 (c) of the Customs Administrative Act of 1938 (U. S. C., 1934 edition, Supp. IV, title 19, sec. 1001, par. 1529 (a)).May 14, 1942
  159. Public Law 77–314To amend existing law to provide privilege of renewing expiring five-year level-premium term policies for another five-year period.May 14, 1942
  160. Public Law 77–315To authorize the attendance of the Marine Band at the seventy-sixth anniversary convention of the Grand Army of the Republic to be held at Indianapolis, Indiana, September 13 to 18, inclusive, 1942.May 14, 1942
  161. Public Law 77–318To amend the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, to provide for the regulation of freight forwarders.May 16, 1942
  162. Public Law 77–319To amend the National Housing Act, and for other purposes.May 26, 1942
  163. Public Law 77–320To relieve disbursing and certifying officers of the United States of responsibility for overpayments made on transportation accounts under certain circumstances.Jun 1, 1942
  164. Public Law 77–321To amend section 32 of the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act of 1933, as amended.Jun 3, 1942
  165. Public Law 77–322To authorize an increase of the number of cadets at the United States Military Academy and to provide for maintaining the corps of cadets at authorized strength.Jun 3, 1942
  166. Public Law 77–323Declaring that a state of war exists between the Government of Bulgaria and the Government and the people of the United States and making provisions to prosecute the same.Jun 5, 1942
  167. Public Law 77–324Declaring that a state of war exists between the Government of Hungary and the Government and the people of the United States and making provisions to prosecute the same.Jun 5, 1942
  168. Public Law 77–325Declaring that a state of war exists between the Government of Rumania and the Government and the people of the United States and making provisions to prosecute the same.Jun 5, 1942
  169. Public Law 77–326To authorize the conveyance to the State of Illinois, for highway purposes only, a portion of the Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois.Jun 5, 1942
  170. Public Law 77–327To authorize aircraft flight rations for officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Navy and Marine Corps while engaged in flight operations.Jun 5, 1942
  171. Public Law 77–328To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to grant to the board of trustees. School District Numbered 20, Charleston County, South Carolina, a parcel of land situated in the city of Charleston, South Carolina.Jun 5, 1942
  172. Public Law 77–329To provide for the retirement, rank, and pay of heads of staff departments of the Marine Corps.Jun 5, 1942
  173. Public Law 77–330To amend the Act approved June 24, 1926, entitled “An Act to authorize the construction and procurement of aircraft and aircraft equipment in the Navy and Marine Corps, and to adjust and define the status of the operating personnel in connection therewith”, so as to provide for the establishment of the designation of naval aviation pilot (airship), and for other purposes.Jun 5, 1942
  174. Public Law 77–331To prescribe certain allowances for cadets of the United States Military Academy undergoing flight training, and for other purposesJun 5, 1942
  175. Public Law 77–332Making an additional appropriation for the marine and war-risk insurance fund.Jun 5, 1942
  176. Public Law 77–333To authorize the adjustment of land-ownership lines within the General Grant grove section of the Kings Canyon National Park, California, in order to protect equities established by possession arising in conformity with a certain survey, and for other purposes.Jun 5, 1942
  177. Public Law 77–334To authorize the addition of certain lands to the Plumas National Forest, California.Jun 5, 1942
  178. Public Law 77–335Validating a certain conveyance, heretofore made by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, a corporation, and its lessee. Southern Pacific Company, a corporation, involving certain portions of right-of-way in the town of Indio, in the county of Riverside, State of California, acquired under section 23 of the Act of March 3, 1871 (16 Stat. 573).Jun 5, 1942
  179. Public Law 77–336To provide that assistant or deputy heads of certain bureaus in the Department of the Interior shall be appointed under the civil-service laws, and for other purposes.Jun 5, 1942
  180. Public Law 77–337To change the designation of the Fort Marion National Monument, in the State of Florida, and for other purposes.Jun 5, 1942
  181. Public Law 77–338For the relief of persons in connection with the extraction of gold-bearing ore from the Ruck-A-Chucky dam site.Jun 5, 1942
  182. Public Law 77–339To authorize the sale of certain public lands in Alaska to the North Pacific Union Conference Association of Seventh-Day Adventists.Jun 5, 1942
  183. Public Law 77–340Providing for sundry matters affecting the Military Establishment.Jun 5, 1942
  184. Public Law 77–341To accept the cession by the Commonwealth of Kentucky of exclusive jurisdiction over the lands embraced within the Mammoth Cave National Park; to authorize the acquisition of additional lands for the park in accordance with the Act of May 25, 1926 (44 Stat. 635); to authorize the acceptance of donations of land for the development of a proper entrance road to the park; and for other purposes.Jun 5, 1942
  185. Public Law 77–342To add certain lands to the Boise National Forest, the Salmon National Forest, and the Targhee National Forest in the State of Idaho.Jun 5, 1942
  186. Public Law 77–343To amend section 1 of the Act approved August 19, 1937 (50 Stat. 700), entitled “An Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to notify the State of Virginia that the United States assumes police jurisdiction over the lands embraced within the Shenandoah National Park, and for other purposes.”Jun 5, 1942
  187. Public Law 77–344To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to investigate the claims of any landowner or water user on the Owyhee reclamation project, Oregon, arising in 1940 by reason of a break in the North Canal of such project.Jun 5, 1942
  188. Public Law 77–345Relating to the transfer to the Secretary of War of certain lands owned by the United States.Jun 5, 1942
  189. Public Law 77–346To authorize the lease or sale of public lands for use in connection with the manufacture of arms, ammunition, and implements of war, and so forth.Jun 5, 1942
  190. Public Law 77–347For the relief of the Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska.Jun 5, 1942
  191. Public Law 77–348To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to quitclaim to the States of Oregon and California, respectively, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the lands of Goose Lake in Oregon and California.Jun 5, 1942
  192. Public Law 77–349To expedite the settlement of claims and accounts incident to certain agricultural adjustment programs, and for other purposes.Jun 5, 1942
  193. Public Law 77–350Granting the consent of Congress to an amendment to the Constitution of the State of New Mexico, providing a method for executing leases for grazing and agricultural purposes on lands granted or confirmed to the State of New Mexico by the Act of Congress approved June 20, 1910.Jun 5, 1942
  194. Public Law 77–351To provide that the unexplained absence of any individual for seven years shall be deemed sufficient evidence of death for the purpose of laws administered by the Veterans’ Administration.Jun 5, 1942
  195. Public Law 77–352To authorize the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to issue notes, bonds, and debentures in the sum of $5,000,000,000 in excess of existing authority.Jun 5, 1942
  196. Public Law 77–353To amend section 1 of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize The Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company to extend its present track connection with the United States navy yard so as to provide adequate railroad facilities in connection with the development of Buzzards Point as an industrial area in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved June 18, 1932 (47 Stat. 322), as amended by the Act approved June 20, 1939 (53 Stat. 849).Jun 5, 1942
  197. Public Law 77–380To authorize the disposition of recreational demonstration projects, and for other purposes.Jun 6, 1942
  198. Public Law 77–381To change the name of the Black Warrior National Forest to the William B. Bankhead National Forest.Jun 6, 1942
  199. Public Law 77–382To amend section 125 of the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat. 216), as amended, so as to authorize citizens of foreign countries who are graduates of Air Corps advanced flying schools and Air Corps service schools to wear aviation badges.Jun 6, 1942
  200. Public Law 77–383To provide for the advancement on the retired list of certain officers of the United States Coast Guard and the Coast and Geodetic Survey.Jun 6, 1942
  201. Public Law 77–384To authorize the obligation of funds of the Coast Guard for work or material at Government-owned establishments, and for other purposes.Jun 6, 1942
  202. Public Law 77–385To amend the Coast Guard Auxiliary and Reserve Act of 1941 (Public Law 8, Seventy-seventh Congress), as amended by section 10 of the Act entitled “An Act to amend and clarify certain Acts pertaining to the Coast Guard, and for other purposes”, approved July 11, 1941 (Public Law 166, Seventy-seventh Congress).Jun 6, 1942
  203. Public Law 77–396Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943, and for other purposes.Jun 8, 1942
  204. Public Law 77–402To increase the rate of pension to World War veterans from $30 to $40 per month and for other purposes.Jun 10, 1942
  205. Public Law 77–403To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide Federal meat inspection during the present war emergency in respect of meat-packing establishments engaged in intrastate commerce only, in order to facilitate the purchase of meat and meat food products by Federal agencies, and for other purposes.Jun 10, 1942
  206. Public Law 77–404To mobilize the productive facilities of small business in the interests of successful prosecution of the war, and for other purposes.Jun 11, 1942
  207. Public Law 77–405Designating June 13, 1942, as MacArthur Day, and authorizing its appropriate observance.Jun 11, 1942
  208. Public Law 77–406To amend the Act entitled “An Act for the relief of present and former postmasters and acting postmasters, and for other purposes”, to permit payment of total compensation to certain employees of the Postal Service employed in a dual capacity.Jun 11, 1942
  209. Public Law 77–407To add to the Cleveland National Forest, California, certain contiguous lands of the United States which can be most effectively and economically protected and administered as parts of said national forest.Jun 11, 1942
  210. Public Law 77–413To readjust the pay and allowances of personnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service.Jun 16, 1942
  211. Public Law 77–414To provide for the retirement, with advanced rank, of certain officers of the Navy.Jun 16, 1942
  212. Public Law 77–415To amend the Act relating to preventing the publication of inventions in the national interest, and for other purposes.Jun 16, 1942
  213. Public Law 77–416To extend certain emergency laws relating to the merchant marine, and for other purposes.Jun 16, 1942
  214. Public Law 77–417To authorize the attendance of the Marine Band at the fifty-second annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans to be held at Chattanooga, Tennessee, June 23 to 26, inclusive, 1942.Jun 16, 1942
  215. Public Law 77–418To authorize the construction or acquisition of additional naval aircraft, and for other purposes.Jun 16, 1942
  216. Public Law 77–419To provide rental allowances for officers without dependents on sea duty when deprived of quarters on board ship.Jun 19, 1942
  217. Public Law 77–420To authorize inclusion of service on active duty as service on the active list in computation of service of commissioned warrant officers in the Navy for pay purposes.Jun 19, 1942
  218. Public Law 77–421Authorizing the charging of fees for brand inspection under the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, as amended.Jun 19, 1942
  219. Public Law 77–422Making an additional appropriation for the fiscal year 1942 for the training and education of defense workers.Jun 19, 1942
  220. Public Law 77–426To amend section 24 of the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917.Jun 20, 1942
  221. Public Law 77–427To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to assign officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force to duty in the detective bureau of the Metropolitan Police Department, and for other purposes.Jun 20, 1942
  222. Public Law 77–428To amend paragraph 31 of section 7 of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations to provide for the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, and for other purposes”, approved July 1, 1902, as amended.Jun 20, 1942
  223. Public Law 77–432To facilitate the employment by defense contractors of certain former members of the land and naval forces, including the Coast Guard, of the United States.Jun 22, 1942
  224. Public Law 77–433To amend the District of Columbia Income Tax Act, as amended, and for other purposes.Jun 22, 1942
  225. Public Law 77–434To 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 22, 1942
  226. Public Law 77–435To codify and emphasize existing rules and customs pertaining to the display and use of the flag of the United States of America.Jun 22, 1942
  227. Public Law 77–436To make permanently effective the Act regulating interstate and foreign commerce in petroleum and its products.Jun 22, 1942
  228. Public Law 77–443To provide family allowances for the dependents of enlisted men of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard of the United States, and for other purposes.Jun 23, 1942
  229. Public Law 77–444Making additional appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1941, 1942, and 1943, and for other purposes.Jun 23, 1942
  230. Public Law 77–447To prevent the making of photographs and sketches of military or naval reservations, naval vessels, and other naval and military properties, and for other purposes.Jun 25, 1942
  231. Public Law 77–448To amend the Act entitled “An Act to provide additional pay for personnel of the United States Navy assigned to duty on submarines and to diving duty”, to include additional pay for diving in depths of less than ninety feet under certain conditions, and for other purposes.Jun 27, 1942
  232. Public Law 77–449To extend for two additional years the reduced rates of interest on Federal land bank and Land Bank Commissioner loans.Jun 27, 1942
  233. Public Law 77–450Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943, and for other purposes.Jun 27, 1942
  234. Public Law 77–451To authorize the appointment of commissioned warrant and warrant officers to commissioned rank in the line and staff corps of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, and for other purposes.Jun 27, 1942
  235. Public Law 77–452Making 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, 1943, and for other purposes.Jun 27, 1942
  236. Public Law 77–453To exempt from duty personal and household effects brought into the United States under Government orders.Jun 27, 1942
  237. Public Law 77–454Continuing the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation as an agency of the United States.Jun 27, 1942
  238. Public Law 77–455To accord privileges of free importation to members of the armed forces of other United Nations, to enemy prisoners of war and civilian internees and detainees, and for other purposes.Jun 27, 1942
  239. Public Law 77–459To provide for a permanent postage rate of 3 cents per pound on books.Jun 30, 1942
  240. Public Law 77–460To provide for the placing in Gallinger Hospital of a memorial to George Earle Chamberlain.Jun 30, 1942
  241. Public Law 77–461To further expedite the prosecution of the war by authorizing the control of the exportation of certain commodities.Jun 30, 1942
  242. Public Law 77–462To provide for the better administration of officer personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps during the existing war, and for other purposes.Jun 30, 1942
  243. Public Law 77–463To amend section 13 (d) of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act.Jun 30, 1942
  244. Public Law 77–466To authorize payment to janitors and custodians of the public schools of the District of Columbia for services rendered for local boards of the selective-service system.Jul 1, 1942
  245. Public Law 77–467To exempt custodial employees of the District of Columbia Board of Education from the operation of the provisions of section 6 of the. Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act approved May 10, 1916.Jul 1, 1942
  246. Public Law 77–471To amend sections 1 and 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President to requisition certain articles and materials for the use of the United States, and for other purposes”, approved October 10, 1940 (54 Stat. 1090), to continue the Act in effect during the existing war, and for other purposes.Jul 2, 1942
  247. Public Law 77–472Making appropriations for the Department of State, the Department of Justice, the Department of Commerce, and the Federal Judiciary, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943, and for other purposes.Jul 2, 1942
  248. Public Law 77–473Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943, and for other purposes.Jul 2, 1942
  249. Public Law 77–474To amend the Defense Highway Act of 1941.Jul 2, 1942
  250. Public Law 77–475Making appropriations for the Department of Labor, the Federal Security Agency, and related independent agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943, and for other purposes.Jul 2, 1942
  251. Public Law 77–476Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, and for prior fiscal years, and for other purposes.Jul 2, 1942
  252. Public Law 77–477Making appropriations for the Military Establishment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943, and for other purposes.Jul 2, 1942
  253. Public Law 77–478Making appropriations to provide war housing and war public works in and near the District of Columbia.Jul 2, 1942
  254. Public Law 77–479Making appropriations for work relief and relief for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943.Jul 2, 1942
  255. Public Law 77–482Extending the period for which overtime rates of compensation may be paid under certain Acts.Jul 3, 1942
  256. Public Law 77–484To establish the naval procurement fund, and for other purposes.Jul 3, 1942
  257. Public Law 77–485To prescribe the relative rank of members of the Navy Nurse Corps in relation to commissioned officers of the Navy, and for other purposes.Jul 3, 1942
  258. Public Law 77–486To suspend the requirement for the performance of annual labor on certain mining claims.Jul 3, 1942
  259. Public Law 77–488To amend sections 12A and 19 of the Federal Reserve Act, as amended.Jul 7, 1942
  260. Public Law 77–489To provide for the appointment of a district judge for the northern district of California in order to fill a vacancy in the office of an additional district judge heretofore authorized for such district.Jul 7, 1942
  261. Public Law 77–493To create the title of flight officer in the Army Air Forces, to amend the Army Aviation Cadet Act, and for other purposes.Jul 8, 1942
  262. Public Law 77–494To authorize the use of a tract of land in California known as the Millerton Rancheria in connection with the Central Valley project, and for other purposes.Jul 8, 1942
  263. Public Law 77–495Authorizing the Secretary of War to sell and convey to the town of Marmet, West Virginia, two tracts of land to be used for municipal purposes.Jul 8, 1942
  264. Public Law 77–496Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the month of July 1942.Jul 9, 1942
  265. Public Law 77–497To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, with respect to marketing quotas for peanuts, and for other purposes.Jul 9, 1942
  266. Public Law 77–500Authorizing the head of the department or agency using the public domain for war purposes to compensate holders of grazing permits and licenses for losses sustained by reason of such use of public lands for war purposes.Jul 9, 1942
  267. Public Law 77–501To amend an Act entitled “An Act to 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”, so as to confer on any commissioned officer of the army retirement privileges provided in the Act of June 13, 1940.Jul 9, 1942
  268. Public Law 77–502Authorizing the construction of certain auxiliary vessels for the United States Navy, and for other purposes.Jul 9, 1942
  269. Public Law 77–503To establish the composition of the United States Navy, to authorize the construction of certain naval vessels, and for other purposes.Jul 9, 1942
  270. Public Law 77–504To amend subsection (3) of section 602 (d) of the National Service Life Insurance Act, as amended, and for other purposes.Jul 11, 1942
  271. Public Law 77–505To amend the Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Disabled American Veterans of the World War”, approved June 17, 1932, so as to change the name to “Disabled American Veterans”, and to extend membership eligibility therein to American citizens, honorably discharged from the active military or naval forces of the the United States, or of some country allied with the United States, who have been either wounded, injured, or disabled by reason of such active service during time of war.Jul 15, 1942
  272. Public Law 77–506Authorizing the States of Minnesota and Wisconsin, jointly or separately, to acquire bridges now existing or to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Saint Croix River, also known as Lake Saint Croix, at or near Hudson, Wisconsin.Jul 17, 1942
  273. Public Law 77–507To amend section 7 (a) of the Act of May 21, 1920 (41 Stat. 613), as amended by section 601 of the Act of June 30, 1932 (47 Stat. 417), to authorize interdepartmental procurement by contract, upon orders placed by the War Department, Navy Department, Treasury Department, Civil Aeronautics Administration, and the Maritime Commission.Jul 20, 1942
  274. Public Law 77–508To authorize officers and enlisted men of the armed forces of the United States to accept decorations, orders, medals, and emblems tendered them by governments of cobelligerent nations or other American republics and to create the decorations to be known as the “Legion of Merit”, and the “Medal for Merit”.Jul 20, 1942
  275. Public Law 77–509To authorize temporary appointments in the Army of the United States of officers on duty with the Medical Administrative Corps.Jul 20, 1942
  276. Public Law 77–515To convey certain property to the Southwest Texas State Teachers College.Jul 22, 1942
  277. Public Law 77–516Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943, and for other purposes.Jul 22, 1942
  278. Public Law 77–520To promote the national defense and to promptly facilitate and protect the transport of materials and supplies needful to the Military Establishment by authorizing the construction and operation of a pipe line and a navigable barge channel across Florida, and by deepening and enlarging the Intracoastal Waterway from its present eastern terminus to the vicinity of the Mexican border.Jul 23, 1942
  279. Public Law 77–521To amend section 1700 (a) (1) of the Internal Revenue Code to extend to the members of the armed forces of the United Nations the exemption from the tax on admissions in cases where admission is free, and to exempt from tax the amount paid for admissions to theatres and other activities operated by the War Department or the Navy Department within posts, camps, reservations, and other areas maintained by the Military or Naval Establishment.Jul 23, 1942
  280. Public Law 77–522To amend the Civilian Pilot Training Act of 1939 so as to provide for the training of civilian aviation technicians and mechanics.Jul 24, 1942
  281. Public Law 77–524Making supplemental appropriations for the national defense for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943, and for other purposes.Jul 25, 1942
  282. Public Law 77–526Relating to the jurisdiction over certain lands in the Isle Royale National Park.Jul 27, 1942
  283. Public Law 77–528To provide for the posthumous appointment to commissioned or noncommissioned grade of certain enlisted men and the posthumous promotion of certain commissioned officers and enlisted men.Jul 28, 1942
  284. Public Law 77–529To amend the joint resolution approved August 27, 1940 (54 Stat. 858), as amended, and the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 (54 Stat. 885), as amended, so as to remove the requirement that medical statements shall be furnished to those persons performing military service thereunder.Jul 28, 1942
  285. Public Law 77–530To establish additional commissioned warrant and warrant grades in the United States Navy, and for other purposes.Jul 28, 1942
  286. Public Law 77–531To amend the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act to permit exchange of land with private owners.Jul 28, 1942
  287. Public Law 77–532Providing for the filling of a vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution of the class other than Members of Congress.Jul 28, 1942
  288. Public Law 77–533To amend 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”, as amended.Jul 29, 1942
  289. Public Law 77–534To grant a preference right to certain oil and gas lessees.Jul 29, 1942
  290. Public Law 77–536To amend the Canal Zone Code.Jul 29, 1942
  291. Public Law 77–537To enable the United States Commission for the Celebration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Thomas Jefferson to carry out and give effect to certain approved plans.Jul 30, 1942
  292. Public Law 77–538To expedite the war effort by releasing officers and men for duty at sea and their replacement by women in the shore establishment of the Navy, and for other purposes.Jul 30, 1942
  293. Public Law 77–539To provide increases of pension payable to dependents of veterans of the Regular Establishment, and for other purposes.Jul 30, 1942
  294. Public Law 77–540To 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.Aug 1, 1942
  295. Public Law 77–541For the relief of the Bridgeport irrigation district.Aug 1, 1942
  296. Public Law 77–542To amend article of war 50½.Aug 1, 1942
  297. Public Law 77–543To amend section 13 of the Classification Act of 1923, as amended.Aug 1, 1942
  298. Public Law 77–544To amend the Act entitled “An Act authorizing vessels of Canadian registry to transport iron ore on the Great Lakes during 1942”, approved January 27, 1942 (Public Law 416, Seventy-seventh Congress), to continue it in force during the existing war.Aug 1, 1942
  299. Public Law 77–545Granting the consent of Congress to the States of Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska to negotiate and enter into a compact for the division of the waters of the Republican River.Aug 4, 1942
  300. Public Law 77–546To amend the Act entitled “An Act to provide additional pay for personnel of the United States Navy assigned to duty on submarines and to diving duty”, so as to increase the additional pay of officers and enlisted men of the United States Navy assigned to duty on submarines, and for other purposes.Aug 4, 1942
  301. Public Law 77–547To repeal certain laws and to amend other laws relating to naval aviation cadets, to provide for aviation cadets in the Naval Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve, and for other purposes.Aug 4, 1942
  302. Public Law 77–548To amend the Act entitled “An Act to authorize black-outs in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved December 26, 1941, and for other purposes.Aug 6, 1942
  303. Public Law 77–549To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to proceed with the construction of certain public works, and for other purposes.Aug 6, 1942
  304. Public Law 77–550To authorize the War Shipping Administration to sell or charter two merchant vessels to the Government of Ireland.Aug 6, 1942
  305. Public Law 77–551To amend the Act approved February 4, 1919 (40 Stat. 1056), entitled “An Act to provide for the award of medals of honor, distinguished-service medals, and Navy crosses, and for other purposes”, so as to change the conditions for the award of medals, and for other purposes.Aug 7, 1942
  306. Public Law 77–552To amend section 219 of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, by inserting “of part I” after “(12)”, and to amend subsection (b) of section 417 of such Act by changing a reference from “carrier” to “freight forwarder”.Aug 7, 1942
  307. Public Law 77–553To facilitate the disposition of prizes captured by the United States during the present war, and for other purposes.Aug 18, 1942
  308. Public Law 77–554To amend section 107 of the Servicemen’s Dependents Allowance Act of 1942.Aug 20, 1942
  309. Public Law 77–555To suspend temporarily the running of st statutes of limitations applicable to certain offenses.Aug 24, 1942
  310. Public Law 77–556Providing for the acceptance of title to the Widener art collection of Philadelphia, and for other purposes.Sep 3, 1942
  311. Public Law 77–557To authorize the incorporated town of Petersburg, Alaska, to undertake certain municipal public works, including the construction of a dam and improvements to the hydroelectric plant and system, improvements to the water system, and construction and equipment of a municipal hospital, and for such purposes to issue bonds in any sum not exceeding a total of $125,000.Sep 3, 1942
  312. Public Law 77–558Transferring the management of the Senate Restaurants to the Architect of the Capitol, and for other purposes.Sep 9, 1942
  313. Public Law 77–559To authorize the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia and the Secretary of the Interior to make exchanges with the Defense Homes Corporation of certain lands in Northwest Washington, and for other purposes.Sep 11, 1942
  314. Public Law 77–560To suspend in part the processing tax on coconut oil.Sep 16, 1942
  315. Public Law 77–561To provide for a method of voting, in time of war, by members of the land and naval forces absent from the place of their residence.Sep 16, 1942
  316. Public Law 77–562To amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the practice of the healing art to protect the public health in the District of Columbia”, approved February 27, 1929.Sep 26, 1942
  317. Public Law 77–563To amend section 7 of the Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the American War Mothers”, approved February 24, 1925 (43 Stat. 966; title 36, sec. 97, U. S. C., 1940 edition).Sep 26, 1942
  318. Public Law 77–564To amend the District of Columbia Emergency Rent Act.Sep 26, 1942
  319. Public Law 77–565To increase the penalty for indecent exposure in the District of Columbia.Sep 26, 1942
  320. Public Law 77–566Authorizing the President of the United States of America to proclaim October 11, 1942, General Pulaski’s Memorial Day for the observance and commemoration of the death of Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski.Sep 26, 1942
  321. Public Law 77–567To make transportation and storage facilities available for military use where military necessity exists, by authorizing the removal to other points of merchandise in customs custody.Sep 29, 1942
  322. Public Law 77–568To amend the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act to authorize payments in eases where farmers’ crops are acquired, prior to harvest, in connection with the acquisition of their farms for use in the national war effort, and to provide for the division of such payments.Sep 29, 1942
  323. Public Law 77–569Authorizing extensions of time for filing return of capital stock tax in 1942.Sep 29, 1942
  324. Public Law 77–570To amend section 61 of the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916, as amended, for the purpose of providing State and Territorial military forces with such arms, ammunition, clothing, and equipment as is deemed necessary to enable them to execute their internal security responsibilities within their respective States and Territories, and for other purposes.Oct 1, 1942
  325. Public Law 77–571To amend the Act of May 19, 1926, entitled “An Act to authorize the President to detail officers and enlisted men of the United States Army, Navy, and Marine Corps to assist the governments of the Latin-American republics in military and naval matters.”Oct 1, 1942
  326. Public Law 77–572To increase by $600,000,000 the amount authorized to be appropriated for defense housing under the Act of October 14, 1940, as amended.Oct 1, 1942
  327. Public Law 77–573To authorize a reduction in the course of instruction at the United States Military Academy.Oct 1, 1942
  328. Public Law 77–574To amend the Canal Zone Code in relation to the control of marihuana.Oct 1, 1942
  329. Public Law 77–575To amend section 1 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide books for the adult blind”, approved March 3, 1931, as amended.Oct 1, 1942
  330. Public Law 77–576To amend the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board Act.Oct 2, 1942
  331. Public Law 77–577Extending for two months the period for which overtime rates of compensation may be paid under the Acts of June 28, 1940 (54 Stat. 676), October 21, 1940 (54 Stat. 1205), and June 3, 1941 (55 Stat. 241).Oct 2, 1942
  332. Public Law 77–578To amend the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, to aid in preventing inflation, and for other purposes.Oct 2, 1942
  333. Public Law 77–579To amend the Act entitled “An Act to incorporate Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum, in the District of Columbia”, approved March 3, 1863 (12 Stat. 798).Oct 3, 1942
  334. Public Law 77–580To remove certain limitations on the cost of construction of Army and Navy living quarters.Oct 6, 1942
  335. Public Law 77–581To amend the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act of 1940, as amended, to extend the relief and benefits provided therein to certain persons, to include certain additional proceedings and transactions therein, to provide further relief for persons in military service, to change certain insurance provisions thereof, and for other purposes.Oct 6, 1942
  336. Public Law 77–582To permit appointment of White House police, in accordance with the civil- service laws, from sources outside the Metropolitan and United States Park Police forces.Oct 9, 1942
  337. Public Law 77–583To abolish the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park Commission, and for other purposes.Oct 9, 1942
  338. Public Law 77–584To reorganize the system of land offices and land districts in Alaska.Oct 9, 1942
  339. Public Law 77–585To amend the Nationality Act of 1940 to preserve the nationality of citizens residing abroad.Oct 9, 1942
  340. Public Law 77–586To amend the Act approved August 27, 1940 (54 Stat. 864), entitled “An Act increasing the number of naval aviators in the line of the Regular Navy and Marine Corps, and for other purposes”.Oct 10, 1942
  341. Public Law 77–587To authorize an exchange of land at Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, between Edgar Eberly and the United States.Oct 10, 1942
  342. Public Law 77–588To amend the Act approved March 2, 1933, by suspending the provisions relative to a Navy ration in kind, and for other purposes.Oct 10, 1942
  343. Public Law 77–589To suspend until June 30, 1945, the running of the statute of limitations applicable to violations of the antitrust laws.Oct 10, 1942
  344. Public Law 77–591To provide for medical care and funeral expenses for certain members of the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.Oct 13, 1942
  345. Public Law 77–592To authorize the Secretary of War to exchange certain lands of the United States located within the Fort De Russy Military Reservation, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, for certain land at Barbers Point, Oahu, owned by the Territory of Hawaii.Oct 13, 1942
  346. Public Law 77–601To amend the law relating to the care and custody of insane residents of Alaska, and for other purposes.Oct 14, 1942
  347. Public Law 77–602To provide for the sale by the Superintendent of Documents of copies of certain historical and naval documents printed by the Government Printing Office.Oct 14, 1942
  348. Public Law 77–603To authorize the transportation of dependents and household effects of personnel of the Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Coast and Geodetic Survey, incident to secret or confidential orders, and for other purposes.Oct 14, 1942
  349. Public Law 77–604To provide that promotions to higher grades of officers of the Army of the United States, or any components thereof, shall be deemed to have been accepted upon the dates of the orders announcing such promotions, and for other purposes.Oct 14, 1942
  350. Public Law 77–610To 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.Oct 16, 1942
  351. Public Law 77–613To suspend restrictions during the present war and for one year thereafter upon the service of certain officers of the Marine Corps in the Marine Corps Head-quarters, Washington, District of Columbia.Oct 16, 1942
  352. Public Law 77–614To amend section 10 of Public, Numbered 360, Seventy-seventh Congress, to grant National Service Life Insurance in the cases of certain Navy or Army flying cadets and aviation students who died as the result of aviation accident in line of duty between October 8, 1940, and June 3, 1941.Oct 17, 1942
  353. Public Law 77–615To authorize the Secretary of War to approve a standard design for a service flag and a service lapel button.Oct 17, 1942
  354. Public Law 77–617To amend the Act of March 5, 1942, relating to the planting of guayule and other rubber-bearing plants.Oct 20, 1942
  355. Public Law 77–618To authorize the Attorney General to stipulate to the exclusion of certain property from condemnation proceedings.Oct 21, 1942
  356. Public Law 77–619To provide revenue, and for other purposes.Oct 21, 1942
  357. Public Law 77–620To amend the Act entitled “An Act to prevent pernicious political activities”, approved August 2, 1939, as amended, with respect to its application to officers and employees of educational, religious, eleemosynary, philanthropic, and cultural institutions, establishments, and agencies, commonly known as the Hatch Act.Oct 24, 1942
  358. Public Law 77–621To amend the Home Owners’ Loan Act of 1933, as amended.Oct 24, 1942
  359. Public Law 77–622To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to establish a fuel depot at Middle and Orchard Points, Washington.Oct 26, 1942
  360. Public Law 77–623To provide that certain provisions of law relating to the Navy shall be held applicable to the personnel of the Coast Guard when that service is operating as a part of the Navy.Oct 26, 1942
  361. Public Law 77–624To authorize the use of certificates by officers of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard of the United States, in connection with pay and allowance accounts of military and civilian personnel under the jurisdiction of the War and Navy Departments.Oct 26, 1942
  362. Public Law 77–625Authorizing the construction of certain public works in the basin of the Connecticut River for flood control.Oct 26, 1942
  363. Public Law 77–626To amend the Act entitled “An Act to expedite national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June 28, 1940 (54 Stat. 676), and “Title IV of the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1941”, approved September 9, 1940 (54 Stat. 883).Oct 26, 1942
  364. Public Law 77–627To amend the Act entitled “An Act to establish a Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps for service with the Army of the United States”, approved May 14, 1942, to create the grade of field director in such corps, to provide for enrolled grades in such corps comparable to the enlisted grades in the Regular Army, to provide pay and allowances for all members of such corps at the same rates as those payable to members of the Regular Army in corresponding grades, and for other purposes.Oct 26, 1942
  365. Public Law 77–628To amend the Coast Guard Auxiliary and Reserve Act of 1941, as amended, so as to enable Filipinos to qualify for service thereunder.Oct 26, 1942
  366. Public Law 77–629Making supplemental appropriations for the national defense for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943, and for other purposes.Oct 26, 1942
  367. Public Law 77–630For the acquisition of Indian lands required in connection with the construction, operation, and maintenance of electric transmission lines and other works, Parker Dam power project, Arizona-California.Oct 28, 1942
  368. Public Law 77–631To provide for payment and settlement of mileage accounts of officers and travel allowance of enlisted men of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard.Oct 29, 1942
  369. Public Law 77–632To provide for the instruction of meteorological students in weather forecasting.Oct 29, 1942
  370. Public Law 77–633To amend the Act entitled “An Act to incorporate The American Legion”, approved September 16, 1919, so as to extend membership eligibility therein to certain American citizens, honorably discharged from the active military or naval forces of the United States, or of some country allied with the United States during World War II.Oct 29, 1942
  371. Public Law 77–634To provide for adjusting royalties for the use of inventions for the benefit of the United States, in aid of the prosecution of the war, and for other purposes.Oct 31, 1942
  372. Public Law 77–635To provide for the granting of rights-of-way for pipe lines for petroleum and petroleum products and for telephone and/or telegraph lines along and across certain parkway lands in the District of Columbia.Nov 9, 1942
  373. Public Law 77–636To amend the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act.Nov 9, 1942
  374. Public Law 77–637To amend the Organic Act of Alaska.Nov 13, 1942
  375. Public Law 77–638To amend the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 by providing for the extension of liability.Nov 13, 1942
  376. Public Law 77–639To amend the Coast Guard Auxiliary and Reserve Act of 1941, as amended, so as to expedite the war effort by providing for releasing officers and men for duty at sea and their replacement by women in the shore establishment of the Coast Guard, and for other purposes.Nov 23, 1942
  377. Public Law 77–640To provide for the disposition of trust or restricted estates of Indians dying intestate without heirs.Nov 24, 1942
  378. Public Law 77–641To amend the Federal Explosives Act, as amended, by removing from the application of the Act explosives or ingredients in transit upon aircraft in conformity with statutory law or rules and regulations of the Civil Aeronautics Board.Nov 24, 1942
  379. Public Law 77–642To amend the District of Columbia Traffic Act of 1925.Nov 25, 1942
  380. Public Law 77–643To amend the Act approved July 24, 1941 (34 U. S. C., Supp. I, 350f), so as to adjust the pay status of enlisted personnel appointed to commissioned rank for temporary service, and for other purposes.Nov 30, 1942
  381. Public Law 77–650Authorizing appointments to the United States Military Academy and United States Naval Academy of sons of soldiers, sailors, and marines who were killed in action or have died of wounds or injuries received, or disease contracted in active service, during the World War.Dec 1, 1942
  382. Public Law 77–651To provide for furnishing transportation for certain Government and other personnel necessary for the effective prosecution of the war, and for other purposes.Dec 1, 1942
  383. Public Law 77–656To permit the United States to be made a party defendant in certain cases.Dec 2, 1942
  384. Public Law 77–657To authorize the Secretary of War to transfer certain land to the Territory of Hawaii.Dec 2, 1942
  385. Public Law 77–658To provide for granting to the State of New Mexico the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to certain lands in New Mexico.Dec 2, 1942
  386. Public Law 77–659To amend the Act of October 9, 1940, entitled “An Act to 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”.Dec 2, 1942
  387. Public Law 77–668To provide benefits for the injury, disability, death, or enemy detention of employees of contractors with the United States, and for other purposes.Dec 2, 1942
  388. Public Law 77–669To amend the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942.Dec 2, 1942
  389. Public Law 77–670Authorizing the temporary appointment or advancement of commissioned officers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey in time of war or national emergency, and for other purposes.Dec 3, 1942
  390. Public Law 77–673For the benefit of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota.Dec 4, 1942
  391. Public Law 77–674To provide a uniform allowance for officers and warrant officers commissioned or appointed in the Army of the United States or any component thereof.Dec 4, 1942
  392. Public Law 77–679To authorize certain corrections in the tribal membership roll of the Puyallup Tribe of Indians in the State of Washington, and for other purposes.Dec 5, 1942
  393. Public Law 77–680To accord free entry to bona fide gifts from members of the armed forces of the United States on duty abroad.Dec 5, 1942
  394. Public Law 77–690Providing for the naturalization of certain alien veterans of the World War.Dec 7, 1942
  395. Public Law 77–691To authorize the exchange of certain lands in Minnesota.Dec 7, 1942
  396. Public Law 77–696To amend the Nationality Act of 1940, to preserve the nationality of a naturalized wife, husband, or child under twenty-one years of age residing abroad with husband or wife a native-born national of the United States.Dec 8, 1942
  397. Public Law 77–697To amend subsection (c) of section 19 of the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917 (39 Stat. 889; U. S. C., title 8, Sec. 155), as amended.Dec 8, 1942
  398. Public Law 77–712To add certain lands to the Sequoia National Forest, California.Dec 9, 1942
  399. Public Law 77–717To suspend for the duration of the war certain requirements of section 11 (a) of the Federal Register Act of 1935.Dec 10, 1942
  400. Public Law 77–720To discharge more effectively the obligations of the United States under certain treaties relating to the manufacture and distribution of narcotic drugs, by providing for domestic control of the production and distribution of the opium poppy and its products, and for other purposes.Dec 11, 1942
  401. Public Law 77–728To further amend section 126 of the Act of June 3, 1916, as amended, to authorize travel pay for certain military and naval personnel on discharge or release or relief from active duty.Dec 14, 1942
  402. Public Law 77–729To authorize the Secretary of War to designate the titles of certain offices and departments of instruction at the United States Military Academy.Dec 14, 1942
  403. Public Law 77–730To amend Article of War 114 so as to broaden the power to administer oaths and take acknowledgments.Dec 14, 1942
  404. Public Law 77–731To provide for the appointment of an additional circuit judge for the fifth circuit.Dec 14, 1942
  405. Public Law 77–732To amend paragraph 8, section 127a, of the National Defense Act so as to authorize certain service to be counted in determining precedence among officers when dates of rank are the same.Dec 14, 1942
  406. Public Law 77–734To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide that all cabs for hire in the District of Columbia be compelled to carry insurance for the protection of passengers, and for other purposes”, approved June 29, 1938.Dec 15, 1942
  407. Public Law 77–735Amending the first sentence of Article of War 52, relative to execution of court-martial sentences.Dec 15, 1942
  408. Public Law 77–736To amend the Act of January 24, 1920, so as to authorize the award of a silver star to certain persons serving with the Army of the United States.Dec 15, 1942
  409. Public Law 77–737To amend the Act approved March 14, 1936, entitled “An Act to provide for vacations for government employees, and for other purposes”.Dec 17, 1942
  410. Public Law 77–738To authorize the rank of rear admiral in the Dental Corps of the United States Navy.Dec 17, 1942
  411. Public Law 77–739To expedite the prosecution of war, and for other purposes.Dec 17, 1942
  412. Public Law 77–740To amend the Revenue Act of 1942.Dec 17, 1942
  413. Public Law 77–762To amend an Act entitled “An Act to create a board for the condemnation of insanitary buildings in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved May 1, 1906, as amended, and for other purposes.Dec 17, 1942
  414. Public Law 77–763To authorize the President to confer decorations and medals upon units of, or persons serving with, the military forces of cobelligerent nations.Dec 17, 1942
  415. Public Law 77–764To provide for the establishment and operation of a research laboratory in the Pennsylvania anthracite region for investigation of the mining, preparation and utilization of the mining, preparation and utilization of anthracite, for the development of new uses and markets, for improvement of health and safety in mining; and for a comprehensive study of the region to aid in the solution of its economic problems and to make its natural and human resources of maximum usefulness in the war effort.Dec 18, 1942
  416. Public Law 77–765To amend sections 1305 and 1306 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, to eliminate the prohibition against payment of deposits, and interest thereon, of enlisted men until final discharge.Dec 18, 1942
  417. Public Law 77–766To provide for the settlement of certain claims of the Government of the United States on behalf of American nationals against the Government of Mexico.Dec 18, 1942
  418. Public Law 77–767To further the war effort by authorizing the substitution of other materials for strategic metals used in minor coinage, to authorize the forming of worn and uncurrent standard silver dollars into bars, and for other purposes.Dec 18, 1942
  419. Public Law 77–768Relating to the appointment and retirement in the Naval and Marine Corps Reserve of persons with physical disabilities, and for other purposes.Dec 18, 1942
  420. Public Law 77–769Relating to the administration of grazing districts.Dec 18, 1942
  421. Public Law 77–780To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to establish fees or charges for services performed or publications furnished by the Department of Commerce.Dec 19, 1942
  422. Public Law 77–781Fixing the date of meeting of the first session of the Seventy-eighth Congress.Dec 19, 1942
  423. Public Law 77–797Amending the provisions governing the issuance of patent for certain lands to the town of Fletcher, Oklahoma.Dec 22, 1942
  424. Public Law 77–798Extending until April 30, 1943, the period for which overtime rates of compensation may be paid under the Acts of June 28, 1940 (54 Stat. 676), October 21, 1940 (54 Stat. 1205), and June 3, 1941 (55 Stat. 241), and for other purposes.Dec 22, 1942
  425. Public Law 77–799To provide for conveyance of lands to the town of Cordova, Alaska.Dec 22, 1942
  426. Public Law 77–800To authorize the exchange of lands not in Federal ownership within the Olympic National Park, Washington, for national forest lands in the State of Washington.Dec 22, 1942
  427. Public Law 77–801To permit the reemployment of persons retired under the Alaska Railroad Retirement Act.Dec 22, 1942
  428. Public Law 77–802To authorize increases in wages for certain employees of The Alaska Railroad for services rendered from September 1, 1941, to December 31, 1941, inclusive.Dec 22, 1942
  429. Public Law 77–803To authorize payment by the departments and agencies of the United States, notwithstanding section 89 of the Act of April 30, 1900 (31 Stat. 141), for the use, during a limited period, of certain wharves of the Territory of Hawaii.Dec 22, 1942
  430. Public Law 77–804To amend the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1943, so as to authorize the use of public-school buildings in the District of Columbia as and for day nurseries and nursery schools, and for other purposes.Dec 22, 1942
  431. Public Law 77–805To increase the pay and allowances of members of the Army Nurse Corps, and for other purposes.Dec 22, 1942
  432. Public Law 77–806To amend Public Law Numbered 623, approved June 22, 1942, entitled “Joint resolution to codify and emphasize existing rules and customs pertaining to the display and use of the flag of the United States of America”.Dec 22, 1942
  433. Public Law 77–810Extending seasons greetings to our armed forces.Dec 23, 1942
  434. Public Law 77–811To coordinate Federal reporting services, to eliminate duplication and reduce the cost of such services, and to minimize the burdens of furnishing information to Federal agencies.Dec 24, 1942
  435. Public Law 77–812To encourage the discovery of oil and gas on the public domain during the continuance of the present war.Dec 24, 1942
  436. Public Law 77–813To provide for the probate and distribution of restricted estates not exceeding $2,500 in value of deceased Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma.Dec 24, 1942
  437. Public Law 77–814To reimpose the trust on certain lands allotted to Indians of the Klamath River Reservation, California.Dec 24, 1942
  438. Public Law 77–815To eliminate certain lands from the Wapato Indian irrigation project, Yakima Reservation, Washington, cancel and adjust certain charges, and for other purposes.Dec 24, 1942
  439. Public Law 77–816To provide relief to the owners of former Indian-owned land within the Oroville-Tonasket Irrigation District, Washington, and for other purposes.Dec 24, 1942
  440. Public Law 77–817To provide for the appointment of an additional district judge for the eastern and western districts of Missouri.Dec 24, 1942
  441. Public Law 77–818To provide for means of egress for buildings in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.Dec 24, 1942
  442. Public Law 77–819To amend the Nationality Act of 1940, to preserve the nationality of naturalized veterans of the Spanish-American War and of the World War, and of their wives, minor children, and dependent parents.Dec 24, 1942
  443. Public Law 77–820To authorize the transfer of jurisdiction of a portion of the Colonial National Historical Park, Yorktown, Virginia, from the Department of the Interior to the Department of the Navy.Dec 24, 1942
  444. Public Law 77–821To provide for the orderly transaction of the public business in the event of the death or of the resignation or separation from office of the Chief Disbursing Officer.Dec 24, 1942
  445. Public Law 77–822To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire lands or interest in lands for the Geological Survey.Dec 24, 1942
  446. Public Law 77–823To protect the public health by the prevention of certain practices leading to dental disorders; and to prevent the circumvention of certain State or Territorial laws regulating the practice of dentistry.Dec 24, 1942
  447. Public Law 77–824To amend the Act of April 20, 1918, as amended, 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”.Dec 24, 1942
  448. Public Law 77–825Relating to the payment of fees, expenses, and costs of witnesses and jurors and the accounting therefor, and for other purposes.Dec 24, 1942
  449. Public Law 77–826To define the real property exempt from taxation in the District of Columbia.Dec 24, 1942
  450. Public Law 77–827To provide for the appointment of an additional district judge for the northern district of Alabama.Dec 24, 1942
  451. Public Law 77–828To amend sections 3, 4, 5, and 6 of the Act approved March 7, 1942 (Public Law 490, Seventy-seventh Congress), providing for continuing pay and allowances of certain missing persons.Dec 24, 1942
  452. Public Law 77–835To amend the Judicial Code to authorize the Chief Justice of the United States to assign circuit judges to temporary duty in circuits other than their own.Dec 29, 1942
  453. Public Law 77–836To further insure the protection of vessels in wartime by amending the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.Dec 29, 1942
  454. Private Law 77–5To appoint Captain Porter M. Hoidale, United States Marine Corps, a lieutenant, senior grade, in the United States Navy Medical Corps.Jan 15, 1942
  455. Private Law 77–13To provide for the presentation of a medal to Roland Boucher in recognition of his bravery and heroism in rescuing five children from drowning in Lake Champlain.Jan 20, 1942
  456. Private Law 77–50For the relief of Francis Howard Robinson.Feb 7, 1942
  457. Private Law 77–51For the relief of Mollie S. McHaney.Feb 9, 1942
  458. Private Law 77–58For the relief of Edna La Blanche Gillette.Feb 10, 1942
  459. Private Law 77–59For the relief of Reuben Owen.Feb 10, 1942
  460. Private Law 77–60For the relief of Ethel Ray Sowder.Feb 10, 1942
  461. Private Law 77–61For the relief of Mrs. Bertha M. Smith.Feb 10, 1942
  462. Private Law 77–62For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Saunders.Feb 10, 1942
  463. Private Law 77–63For the relief of Esco Wood.Feb 10, 1942
  464. Private Law 77–64For the relief of G. T. Elliott, Incorporated.Feb 10, 1942
  465. Private Law 77–65For the relief of Joseph Keeney.Feb 10, 1942
  466. Private Law 77–66For the relief of A. Paul Johnson.Feb 10, 1942
  467. Private Law 77–67For the relief of Doctor Hugh G. Nicholson.Feb 10, 1942
  468. Private Law 77–68For the relief of Willard R. Centerwall, formerly superintendent and special disbursing agent at the Tongue River Indian Agency.Feb 10, 1942
  469. Private Law 77–70For relief of the accounts of Lieutenant Colonel Joseph M. Kelly, United States property and disbursing officer for Kentucky.Feb 11, 1942
  470. Private Law 77–73For the relief of R. V. Thurston and Joseph Hardy, a partnership.Feb 13, 1942
  471. Private Law 77–74For the relief of Leslie Truax.Feb 13, 1942
  472. Private Law 77–75For the relief of Helen Rauch and Max Rauch.Feb 14, 1942
  473. Private Law 77–78For the relief of Carmella Ridgewell.Feb 16, 1942
  474. Private Law 77–79For the relief of the Portland Sportwear Manufacturing Company.Feb 16, 1942
  475. Private Law 77–80For the relief of Paul E. Cook.Feb 16, 1942
  476. Private Law 77–81For the relief of Arthur W. Jorgenson, and the legal guardian of Robert R. Jorgenson, a minor.Feb 16, 1942
  477. Private Law 77–82For the relief of the State Compensation Insurance Fund of California.Feb 16, 1942
  478. Private Law 77–83For the relief of the estate of Opal June Lindsay, Luck A. Lindsay, Thelma Louise Lindsay, and Laura Kathleen Lindsay.Feb 18, 1942
  479. Private Law 77–84For the relief of the San Diego Consolidated Gas and Electric Company.Feb 18, 1942
  480. Private Law 77–85For the relief of D. H. Dantzler.Feb 18, 1942
  481. Private Law 77–86For the relief of Brooks Equipment and Manufacturing Company.Feb 18, 1942
  482. Private Law 77–87For the relief of William Robert Shaneyfelt and Mildred Shaneyfelt.Feb 18, 1942
  483. Private Law 77–88For the relief of J. W. Daughtry.Feb 18, 1942
  484. Private Law 77–89To provide an additional sum for the payment of a claim under the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the reimbursement of certain Navy and Marine Corps personnel and former Navy and Marine Corps personnel and certain Federal civil employees for personal property lost or damaged as a result of the hurricane and flood at Parris Island, South Carolina, on August 11–12, 1940”, approved April 23, 1941.Feb 18, 1942
  485. Private Law 77–90For the relief of Solomon Brown.Feb 18, 1942
  486. Private Law 77–91For the relief of Dale L. Barthel and others.Feb 18, 1942
  487. Private Law 77–92For the relief of certain Basque aliens.Feb 19, 1942
  488. Private Law 77–93For the relief of Nettie Woolfolk Montague and Jerry L. Woolfolk and others.Feb 19, 1942
  489. Private Law 77–94For the relief of Mason C. Brunson.Feb 19, 1942
  490. Private Law 77–97For the relief of certain individuals in connection with the construction, operation, and maintenance of the Fort Hall Indian irrigation project, Idaho.Feb 20, 1942
  491. Private Law 77–99For the relief of Lulu Heron.Feb 20, 1942
  492. Private Law 77–100For the relief of Edwin B. Formhals.Feb 20, 1942
  493. Private Law 77–101For the relief of John King.Feb 20, 1942
  494. Private Law 77–102For the relief of G. F. Allen, chief disbursing officer, Treasury Department, and for other purposes.Feb 20, 1942
  495. Private Law 77–103For the relief of Mrs. Anna M. Paul.Feb 20, 1942
  496. Private Law 77–109For the relief of Libby, McNeill and Libby.Feb 21, 1942
  497. Private Law 77–111For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Lewenczuk.Feb 23, 1942
  498. Private Law 77–112For the relief of Katherine McCue.Feb 23, 1942
  499. Private Law 77–114For the relief of James Wood.Feb 24, 1942
  500. Private Law 77–115For the relief of the Branchland Pipe and Supply Company.Feb 24, 1942
  501. Private Law 77–116For the relief of O. C. Ousley.Feb 24, 1942
  502. Private Law 77–117For the relief of H. D. Bateman, Henry G. Conner, Junior, executor of the last will and testament of P. L. Woodard, and J. M. Creech.Feb 24, 1942
  503. Private Law 77–118For the relief of Catharine Schultze.Feb 24, 1942
  504. Private Law 77–119For the relief of the Burlington Auto Company.Feb 24, 1942
  505. Private Law 77–120For the relief of the estate of Mary E. Philpot, Sandra G. Philpot, and Mrs. R. L. Keckler.Feb 25, 1942
  506. Private Law 77–121For the relief of Hiram O. Lester, Grace D. Lester, and Florence E. Dawson.Feb 25, 1942
  507. Private Law 77–122To confer jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claims of Allen Pope, his heirs or personal representatives, against the United States.Feb 27, 1942
  508. Private Law 77–125For the relief of the estate of Charles D. Talbert, deceased.Mar 3, 1942
  509. Private Law 77–131For the relief of Richard Bove.Mar 4, 1942
  510. Private Law 77–132For the relief of Jean N. Burton and Laura Jones.Mar 4, 1942
  511. Private Law 77–133For the relief of J. G. Fox.Mar 4, 1942
  512. Private Law 77–134For the relief of John E. Newman.Mar 4, 1942
  513. Private Law 77–135For the relief of Lonnie Bales.Mar 4, 1942
  514. Private Law 77–136For the relief of Andrew Wichmann.Mar 4, 1942
  515. Private Law 77–137For the relief of the Louis Puccinelli Bail Bond Company.Mar 4, 1942
  516. Private Law 77–138For the relief of Mrs. Noel Wright and Bunny Wright.Mar 4, 1942
  517. Private Law 77–139For the relief of Lieutenant Colonel J. B. Conmy.Mar 4, 1942
  518. Private Law 77–144For the relief of C. M. Sherrod and Daisy Mimms, administratrix of the estate of Arthur Mimms.Mar 5, 1942
  519. Private Law 77–145For the relief of G. F. Brown.Mar 5, 1942
  520. Private Law 77–146For the relief of H. Earle Russell.Mar 5, 1942
  521. Private Law 77–147For the relief of Builders Specialities Company.Mar 5, 1942
  522. Private Law 77–149To approve and authorize the continuance of certain payments for the hospitalization and care of Leo Mulvey, and for other purposes.Mar 5, 1942
  523. Private Law 77–155For the relief of Ruth Steward, administratrix of the estate of Luther F. Steward.Mar 6, 1942
  524. Private Law 77–156For the relief of Bessie Pearlman and George Roth.Mar 6, 1942
  525. Private Law 77–157For the relief of Mrs. Willie M. Maye.Mar 6, 1942
  526. Private Law 77–158For the relief of Joseph Simon, lieutenant commander (SC), United States Navy, and R. D. Lewis.Mar 6, 1942
  527. Private Law 77–168For the relief of Catherine Ward.Mar 7, 1942
  528. Private Law 77–169For the relief of William H. Dugdale and wife.Mar 7, 1942
  529. Private Law 77–170For the relief of William H. Evens.Mar 7, 1942
  530. Private Law 77–171For the relief of John J. Jenkins.Mar 7, 1942
  531. Private Law 77–172For the relief of the legal guardian of Jane Hawk, a minor, and J. L. Hawk.Mar 7, 1942
  532. Private Law 77–176For the relief of National Heating Company, Washington, District of Columbia.Mar 9, 1942
  533. Private Law 77–177For the relief of Estella King.Mar 9, 1942
  534. Private Law 77–181For the relief of John H. Durnil.Mar 13, 1942
  535. Private Law 77–182For the relief of John Huff.Mar 13, 1942
  536. Private Law 77–183For the relief of David B. Byrne.Mar 13, 1942
  537. Private Law 77–184For the relief of Nell Mahoney.Mar 13, 1942
  538. Private Law 77–185For the relief of the estate of John J. Murray.Mar 13, 1942
  539. Private Law 77–192For the relief of Robert Lee Phillips and for the six minor children of Robert Lee Phillips and the late Estelle Phillips, namely, Robert Lee Phillips, Junior, James Rudolph Phillips, Katherine Phillips, Richard Eugene Phillips, Charles Ray Phillips, and David Delano Phillips.Mar 21, 1942
  540. Private Law 77–193For the relief of Pauline Caton Robertson.Mar 23, 1942
  541. Private Law 77–194For the relief of the heirs of Mrs. Nazaria Garcia, of Winslow, Arizona.Mar 23, 1942
  542. Private Law 77–195For the relief of the estate of O. K. Himley.Mar 23, 1942
  543. Private Law 77–202For the relief of James Franklin Smith.Mar 27, 1942
  544. Private Law 77–203For the relief of Bessie Walden.Mar 27, 1942
  545. Private Law 77–204To authorize certain officers and enlisted men of the Army of the United States to accept emblems, medals, orders, and decorations that have been tendered them by governments of the Western Hemisphere.Mar 27, 1942
  546. Private Law 77–212For the relief of Lieutenant Colonel S. W. McIlwain.Apr 6, 1942
  547. Private Law 77–213For the relief of Henry J. McCloskey.Apr 6, 1942
  548. Private Law 77–214For the relief of the estate of Mrs. Edna B. Crook.Apr 6, 1942
  549. Private Law 77–215For the relief of Geoffrey Orme.Apr 6, 1942
  550. Private Law 77–216For the relief of George Garcavy.Apr 6, 1942
  551. Private Law 77–217For the relief of Johnston-Hall Hospital, Calhoun, Georgia, and Doctor Z. V. Johnston, Calhoun, Georgia.Apr 6, 1942
  552. Private Law 77–218For the relief of Emmett Armstrong.Apr 6, 1942
  553. Private Law 77–219For the relief of Daniel Elliott and Helen Elliott.Apr 6, 1942
  554. Private Law 77–221For the relief of Albert Edward Whiteside.Apr 7, 1942
  555. Private Law 77–222For the relief of Karl K. Wilkes.Apr 7, 1942
  556. Private Law 77–223For the relief of the estate of Charles L. Clark.Apr 7, 1942
  557. Private Law 77–224For the relief of A. L. Freeman.Apr 7, 1942
  558. Private Law 77–229For the relief of Edd Nevins.Apr 8, 1942
  559. Private Law 77–230For the relief of Martin N. Mayrath.Apr 8, 1942
  560. Private Law 77–231For the relief of Martin J. Price.Apr 8, 1942
  561. Private Law 77–232For the relief of Ida Baird.Apr 8, 1942
  562. Private Law 77–233For the relief of Onie Martin and Betty Martin.Apr 8, 1942
  563. Private Law 77–234For the relief of William Horsman.Apr 8, 1942
  564. Private Law 77–235To 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.Apr 8, 1942
  565. Private Law 77–236For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. F. Wilder Temple.Apr 8, 1942
  566. Private Law 77–237For the relief of Mrs. Eddie A. Schneider.Apr 9, 1942
  567. Private Law 77–238For the relief of Allene Ruhlman and John P. Ruhlman.Apr 9, 1942
  568. Private Law 77–242For the relief of Lewis J. and Mary Black.Apr 15, 1942
  569. Private Law 77–245For the relief of Jacques Hailpern, Max Hailpern, and Sally Hailpern Zaharia.Apr 24, 1942
  570. Private Law 77–251For the relief of Dora Thompson.Apr 28, 1942
  571. Private Law 77–252For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Loard.Apr 28, 1942
  572. Private Law 77–253For the relief of Mary J. Crabtree.Apr 28, 1942
  573. Private Law 77–254For the relief of the Bell Grocery Company.Apr 28, 1942
  574. Private Law 77–255For the relief of Clyde Kingery.Apr 28, 1942
  575. Private Law 77–256For the relief of John Snure, Junior.Apr 28, 1942
  576. Private Law 77–257For the relief of Mrs. Agnes S. Hathaway.Apr 28, 1942
  577. Private Law 77–258For the relief of Mrs. William Meister.Apr 28, 1942
  578. Private Law 77–259For the relief of Pasqualina Lazzaro.Apr 28, 1942
  579. Private Law 77–260To amend Private Act Numbered 446, Seventy-sixth Congress, approved July 2, 1940, and for other purposes.Apr 28, 1942
  580. Private Law 77–251For the relief of Frank S. Mathias and Elsie Mathias.Apr 28, 1942
  581. Private Law 77–262For the relief of Tom G. Irving; Thomas G. Irving, Senior; J. E. Irving; Mata D. Irving; L. T. Dale; and Amelia Dale.Apr 28, 1942
  582. Private Law 77–267For the relief of Eugene Jackson.Apr 29, 1942
  583. Private Law 77–268For the relief of Bibiano L. Meer.Apr 29, 1942
  584. Private Law 77–269For the relief of Edward Keating and others.May 1, 1942
  585. Private Law 77–270For the relief of Olive Z. Ressler.May 1, 1942
  586. Private Law 77–271For the relief of the guardian of Charles Jirinec, an infant.May 1, 1942
  587. Private Law 77–272For the relief of the minor children of Mrs. Jesús Zamora Felix, deceased.May 2, 1942
  588. Private Law 77–274For the relief of Alice R. Swett.May 2, 1942
  589. Private Law 77–275For the relief of Alice R. Swett and the estate of Robert S. Swett.May 2, 1942
  590. Private Law 77–269For the relief of Howard L. Miller.May 2, 1942
  591. Private Law 77–278Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Treasury to reimburse Carrol D. Ward for the losses sustained by him by reason of the negligence of an employee of the Civilian Conservation Corps.May 2, 1942
  592. Private Law 77–279For the relief of the Phoenix Construction Associates, a partnership.May 2, 1942
  593. Private Law 77–280For the relief of Roy F. Lassly, former acting chief disbursing clerk, Department of the Interior, and G. F. Allen, chief disbursing officer, Division of Disbursement, Treasury Department.May 2, 1942
  594. Private Law 77–281For 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.May 2, 1942
  595. Private Law 77–284For the relief of Ideal Service Station.May 4, 1942
  596. Private Law 77–285For the relief of James A. Quillinan.May 4, 1942
  597. Private Law 77–286For the relief of the Clark County Lumber Company.May 4, 1942
  598. Private Law 77–289For the relief of the legal guardian of Vernon Clemons, Junior.May 5, 1942
  599. Private Law 77–290For the relief of Tommy Huddleston.May 5, 1942
  600. Private Law 77–291For the relief of Floyd P. Moritzky.May 6, 1942
  601. Private Law 77–292For the relief of George C. Dewey.May 6, 1942
  602. Private Law 77–293For the relief of Frank Sheppard.May 6, 1942
  603. Private Law 77–302For the relief of Lawrence Brizendine.May 11, 1942
  604. Private Law 77–305For the relief of James Warren.May 13, 1942
  605. Private Law 77–308For the relief of Mrs. Murray Freeman.May 13, 1942
  606. Private Law 77–309For the relief of Floyd Odom.May 13, 1942
  607. Private Law 77–310For the relief of Joe A, Mumford and the estate of W. C. Mumford.May 13, 1942
  608. Private Law 77–311For the relief of M. V. Forsythe.May 13, 1942
  609. Private Law 77–316For the relief of Weslie A. Coulter, Senior.May 14, 1942
  610. Private Law 77–317For the relief of J. Furman Richardson.May 14, 1942
  611. Private Law 77–354For the relief of Kathryn O. Sweeney and others.Jun 5, 1942
  612. Private Law 77–354Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to accept the final homestead proof submitted by Henry Martin Coffman.Jun 5, 1942
  613. Private Law 77–356For the relief of Lillian Last.Jun 5, 1942
  614. Private Law 77–357For the relief of James D. G. Alexander.Jun 5, 1942
  615. Private Law 77–358For the relief of George P. Crawford.Jun 5, 1942
  616. Private Law 77–359For the relief of Dorothy Silva.Jun 5, 1942
  617. Private Law 77–360For the relief of Wiley W. Watkins.Jun 5, 1942
  618. Private Law 77–361For the relief of L. H. Martin.Jun 5, 1942
  619. Private Law 77–362For the relief of Walter B. Williams, Junior.Jun 5, 1942
  620. Private Law 77–363For the relief of Joseph Donatelli and Rose Donatelli.Jun 5, 1942
  621. Private Law 77–364For the relief of Alfred Smith.Jun 5, 1942
  622. Private Law 77–365For the relief of James P. Crawford.Jun 5, 1942
  623. Private Law 77–366For the relief of E. M. Conroy.Jun 5, 1942
  624. Private Law 77–367For the relief of the San Diego Gas and Electric Company.Jun 5, 1942
  625. Private Law 77–368For the relief of Gerney M. Claiborne.Jun 5, 1942
  626. Private Law 77–369For the relief of James M. Hays.Jun 5, 1942
  627. Private Law 77–370For the relief of Edwin L. Wade.Jun 5, 1942
  628. Private Law 77–371For the relief of George W. Lyle under the jurisdiction of the United States Employees’ Compensation Commission.Jun 5, 1942
  629. Private Law 77–372For the relief of Anna Danielson and Betty Tiedeman.Jun 5, 1942
  630. Private Law 77–373For the relief of Glenn A. Hoss.Jun 5, 1942
  631. Private Law 77–374For the relief of Luther Herbert Tench and Mrs. Mildred Farmer Tench.Jun 5, 1942
  632. Private Law 77–375For the relief of Mrs. Julia Campbell.Jun 5, 1942
  633. Private Law 77–376For the relief of the legal guardian of Rudolph Treiber, Junior, a minor.Jun 5, 1942
  634. Private Law 77–377Confirming the claim of Augustin Dominique Tureaud for the Church of Saint Jacques to certain lands in the State of Louisiana, parish of Saint James, said claim being listed as number 392.Jun 5, 1942
  635. Private Law 77–378For the relief of Commander Cato D. Glover.Jun 5, 1942
  636. Private Law 77–379For the relief of Fred Farner and Doris M. Schroeder.Jun 5, 1942
  637. Private Law 77–386For the relief of the estate of Tom Gentry.Jun 6, 1942
  638. Private Law 77–387For the relief of Max Miller and Vera Caroline Miller, and others.Jun 6, 1942
  639. Private Law 77–388For the relief of Franklin Benjamin McNew.Jun 6, 1942
  640. Private Law 77–389For the relief of Harriett Boswell, guardian of Betty Fisher.Jun 6, 1942
  641. Private Law 77–390For the relief of Charles Brauch.Jun 6, 1942
  642. Private Law 77–391For the relief of Bob Sampley.Jun 6, 1942
  643. Private Law 77–392For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. George M. Legg and Loetta Trainer.Jun 6, 1942
  644. Private Law 77–393For the relief of Anthony W. Livingston.Jun 6, 1942
  645. Private Law 77–394For the relief of William Edward Fleming.Jun 6, 1942
  646. Private Law 77–395For the relief of Eileen Collins Treacy.Jun 6, 1942
  647. Private Law 77–397For the relief of Harold W. Burch and Lucille M. Burch.Jun 8, 1942
  648. Private Law 77–398Conferring jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims of the United States to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claims of the Beacon Oyster Company, the Point Wharf Oyster Company, and B. J. Rooks and Son.Jun 9, 1942
  649. Private Law 77–399For the relief of L. H. Goodman.Jun 9, 1942
  650. Private Law 77–400Conferring jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims of the United States to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of Albert M. Howard.Jun 9, 1942
  651. Private Law 77–401For the relief of Lieutenant William Stewart Walker.Jun 9, 1942
  652. Private Law 77–408For the relief of Jerry McKinley Thompson.Jun 11, 1942
  653. Private Law 77–409For the relief of Edgar B. Dunlap.Jun 11, 1942
  654. Private Law 77–410For the relief of the Quimby-Ryan Engineering Sales Company, Incorporated.Jun 11, 1942
  655. Private Law 77–411For the relief of the San Francisco Mountain Scenic Boulevard Company.Jun 11, 1942
  656. Private Law 77–412For the relief of Primo Giordanengo and Angie Giordanengo.Jun 12, 1942
  657. Private Law 77–423For the relief of Jeff Roberts.Jun 19, 1942
  658. Private Law 77–424For the relief of A. Mack Dodd and Henry Dodd.Jun 19, 1942
  659. Private Law 77–425For the relief of Leanna M. Stright.Jun 19, 1942
  660. Private Law 77–429For the relief of Alice W. Miller.Jun 20, 1942
  661. Private Law 77–430For the relief of James E. Savage.Jun 20, 1942
  662. Private Law 77–431To provide for the issuance of a license to practice chiropractic in the District of Columbia to Doctor Wesley K. Harris.Jun 20, 1942
  663. Private Law 77–437For the relief of Annie Brown.Jun 22, 1942
  664. Private Law 77–438For the relief of Chan Tsork-ying.Jun 22, 1942
  665. Private Law 77–439For the relief of Catherine R. Johnson.Jun 22, 1942
  666. Private Law 77–440For the relief of G. H. Condon, M. E. Cannon, W. J. Esterle, C. C. Gasaway, James F. Retallack, and L. G. Yinger.Jun 22, 1942
  667. Private Law 77–441For the relief of F. A. Holmes, former United States disbursing clerk for the State of Illinois.Jun 22, 1942
  668. Private Law 77–442For the relief of E. A. Wailes, receiver of Delta Oil Company.Jun 23, 1942
  669. Private Law 77–445For the relief of Harvey C. Artis.Jun 23, 1942
  670. Private Law 77–446To provide additional compensation for Joseph Sharfsin, Esquire, for professional services rendered the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.Jun 23, 1942
  671. Private Law 77–456For the relief of E. P. Corley.Jun 27, 1942
  672. Private Law 77–457For the relief of J. C. Lemon, Louis McCoy, and Patricia McCoy.Jun 27, 1942
  673. Private Law 77–458For the relief of Francis Corwin Circle.Jun 27, 1942
  674. Private Law 77–464For the relief of Clarence J. Meteyer, Lester W. Engels, and Dorothy B. Engels.Jun 30, 1942
  675. Private Law 77–465For the relief of David Caron.Jun 30, 1942
  676. Private Law 77–468For the relief of Madeleine Hammett, Olive Hammett, Walter Young, the estate of Laura O’Malley Young, deceased, and the legal guardian of Laura Elizabeth Young.Jul 1, 1942
  677. Private Law 77–469For the relief of William Tipton, Mrs. William Tipton, and Mrs. Eula Nelson.Jul 1, 1942
  678. Private Law 77–470For the relief of James Gilmore and Marian E, Gilmore.Jul 1, 1942
  679. Private Law 77–480For the relief of L. W. Marek, Junior.Jul 2, 1942
  680. Private Law 77–481For the relief of the estate of Julian B. Wiggins, deceased, and the estate of R. E. Thompson, deceased.Jul 2, 1942
  681. Private Law 77–483For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Ball.Jul 3, 1942
  682. Private Law 77–487For the relief of Carl L. Jones.Jul 3, 1942
  683. Private Law 77–490For the relief of Cleaver Kelley.Jul 7, 1942
  684. Private Law 77–491For the relief of Joseph Soulek.Jul 7, 1942
  685. Private Law 77–492For the relief of Alvira Manfredi,Jul 7, 1942
  686. Private Law 77–498For the relief of Doris Mongol Rai.Jul 9, 1942
  687. Private Law 77–499Directing the Attorney Generai to record the lawful admittance for permanent residence of Vivian Chang.Jul 9, 1942
  688. Private Law 77–510Conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of Ferd W. Meile, of Detroit, Michigan.Jul 20, 1942
  689. Private Law 77–511For the relief of Henry Daley, guardian for James Ray Daley and Norman Franklin Daley.Jul 20, 1942
  690. Private Law 77–512For the relief of Bella Cosgrove.Jul 21, 1942
  691. Private Law 77–513For the relief of Cecile McLaughlin.Jul 21, 1942
  692. Private Law 77–514For the relief of Edward P. Reilly.Jul 21, 1942
  693. Private Law 77–517For the relief of Mrs. Charles O. DeFord,Jul 22, 1942
  694. Private Law 77–518For the relief of Mrs. Jessie A. Beechwood.Jul 22, 1942
  695. Private Law 77–519For the relief of Charles E. Yates and the Motor Facts Sales Company.Jul 22, 1942
  696. Private Law 77–523For the relief of Charles L. Lair.Jul 24, 1942
  697. Private Law 77–525For the relief of the estate of Roy Owen, deceased.Jul 25, 1942
  698. Private Law 77–527For the relief of George S. Geer.Jul 27, 1942
  699. Private Law 77–535For the relief of Lemuel T. Root, Junior.Jul 29, 1942
  700. Private Law 77–590For the relief of Charles H. Koch.Oct 10, 1942
  701. Private Law 77–593For the relief of the legal guardian of Joy Montgomery, a minor.Oct 13, 1942
  702. Private Law 77–594For the relief of Mrs. Felix Belanger,Oct 13, 1942
  703. Private Law 77–595For the relief of Monroe Short.Oct 13, 1942
  704. Private Law 77–596For the relief of G. C. Barco and W. G. Knowles.Oct 13, 1942
  705. Private Law 77–597For the relief of Clara Wrobliski.Oct 13, 1942
  706. Private Law 77–598For the relief of O. R. Maxfield.Oct 13, 1942
  707. Private Law 77–599For the relief of Isabelle Fuller.Oct 13, 1942
  708. Private Law 77–600For the relief of Minnie C. Sanders.Oct 13, 1942
  709. Private Law 77–605For the relief of Mrs. Marilla C. Gray.Oct 14, 1942
  710. Private Law 77–606For the relief of Vernon Van Zandt.Oct 14, 1942
  711. Private Law 77–607For the relief of Lyle L. Bressler.Oct 15, 1942
  712. Private Law 77–608For the relief of Bayard M. Atwood.Oct 15, 1942
  713. Private Law 77–609Conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of James H. Lane.Oct 15, 1942
  714. Private Law 77–611For the relief of the Rock Hill Stone and Gravel Company, of St. Louis, Missouri.Oct 16, 1942
  715. Private Law 77–612For the relief of Ruth D. and Henry L. Brittingham.Oct 16, 1942
  716. Private Law 77–616For the relief of Henry (Heinz) Gabriel.Oct 17, 1942
  717. Private Law 77–644For the relief of Glenn A. Pike.Nov 30, 1942
  718. Private Law 77–645For the relief of Irving Cowen.Nov 30, 1942
  719. Private Law 77–646For the relief of Shirley Jones.Nov 30, 1942
  720. Private Law 77–647For the relief of Charles S. Smith.Nov 30, 1942
  721. Private Law 77–648For the relief of Lloyd A. Emick.Nov 30, 1942
  722. Private Law 77–649For the relief of N. C. Lloyd.Nov 30, 1942
  723. Private Law 77–652For the relief of J. C. Baker.Dec 1, 1942
  724. Private Law 77–653For the relief of Carolyn D. Griffin.Dec 1, 1942
  725. Private Law 77–654For the relief of the estate of Marlin Croft, deceased.Dec 1, 1942
  726. Private Law 77–655For the relief of Earl Carbauh.Dec 1, 1942
  727. Private Law 77–660To record the lawful admission to the United States for permanent residence of Ona Lovcikiene and children, Edmundos and Regina.Dec 2, 1942
  728. Private Law 77–661For the relief of Wilson N. Yost.Dec 2, 1942
  729. Private Law 77–662To grant the status of quota immigrants to Mr. William B. Fawkner and his wife, Mrs. Ida Fawkner.Dec 2, 1942
  730. Private Law 77–663For the relief of the Home Insurance Company and the American Insurance Company.Dec 2, 1942
  731. Private Law 77–664For the relief of Mrs. C. M. W. Hull.Dec 2, 1942
  732. Private Law 77–665For the relief of William S. Chapman, Clyde Gilbert, Paul Scherbel, and Frank Childs.Dec 2, 1942
  733. Private Law 77–666For the relief of Mrs. P. R. Yager.Dec 2, 1942
  734. Private Law 77–667For the relief of G, F. Allen, chief disbursing officer, Treasury Department, and for other purposes.Dec 2, 1942
  735. Private Law 77–671For the relief of Kurt G. Stern.Dec 3, 1942
  736. Private Law 77–672For the relief of Katherine S. Arthur.Dec 3, 1942
  737. Private Law 77–675For the relief of Luther Chitty and Susie Chitty.Dec 4, 1942
  738. Private Law 77–676For the relief of Claud R, Johnston.Dec 4, 1942
  739. Private Law 77–677For the relief of the heirs of John W. Adams.Dec 4, 1942
  740. Private Law 77–678For the relief of Anne Berbig and Alfred E. Berbig, Junior.Dec 4, 1942
  741. Private Law 77–681For the relief of W. E. Floding Company.Dec 5, 1942
  742. Private Law 77–682To provide compensation for Mrs. Marion Yarnott for injuries sustained by her in a collision between a United States mail truck and a car in which she was riding as a passenger on May 23, 1940, in Venice, California, and to appropriate money therefor, and for other purposes.Dec 5, 1942
  743. Private Law 77–683For the relief of B. H. Wilford.Dec 5, 1942
  744. Private Law 77–684For the relief of the estate of Emily Kraft, deceased.Dec 5, 1942
  745. Private Law 77–685For the relief of M. Ray Waldron.Dec 5, 1942
  746. Private Law 77–686For the relief of the estate of Paul W. Layman.Dec 5, 1942
  747. Private Law 77–687For the relief of Mildred G. Gordon.Dec 5, 1942
  748. Private Law 77–688For the relief of David E. Clark.Dec 5, 1942
  749. Private Law 77–689For the relief of Mrs. Claud Tuck and Darrell Claud Tuck, a minor.Dec 5, 1942
  750. Private Law 77–692For the relief of Mrs. Maude C. Massey, Ocala, Florida.Dec 7, 1942
  751. Private Law 77–693For the relief of Alfred Lee Poynor.Dec 7, 1942
  752. Private Law 77–694For the relief of Michael-Leonard Seed Company.Dec 7, 1942
  753. Private Law 77–695For the relief of D. A. Sullivan and Sons, Incorporated.Dec 7, 1942
  754. Private Law 77–698For the relief of Leslie Charteris (Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin) and Patricia Ann Charteris.Dec 8, 1942
  755. Private Law 77–699For the relief of Anthony Famiglietti.Dec 8, 1942
  756. Private Law 77–700For the relief of Percy Ray Greer, a minor.Dec 8, 1942
  757. Private Law 77–701To provide for the reimbursement of certain Navy personnel and former Navy personnel for personal property lost or damaged as a result of the fire which destroyed the Administration Building, Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, Virginia, on January 26, 1941.Dec 8, 1942
  758. Private Law 77–702For the relief of Dennis Hall.Dec 8, 1942
  759. Private Law 77–703For the relief of Beatriz Milan Vda. de Vazquez.Dec 8, 1942
  760. Private Law 77–704For the relief of Camilla C. Moore.Dec 8, 1942
  761. Private Law 77–705For the relief of Victoria Jessie Lodge Skin, now Standing Bear.Dec 8, 1942
  762. Private Law 77–706For the relief of Charles E. Naghel.Dec 8, 1942
  763. Private Law 77–707For the relief of Cecil Higgenbottom, Mrs. Cecil Higgenbottom, and Basil Hall.Dec 8, 1942
  764. Private Law 77–708For the relief of Gerhard R. Fisher.Dec 8, 1942
  765. Private Law 77–709For the relief of Emil Lassila, Martha Lassila, Ellen Huhta, and Sylvia Huhta.Dec 8, 1942
  766. Private Law 77–710For the relief of Mrs. Cecile Herzog and Lucille Herzog (an infant).Dec 8, 1942
  767. Private Law 77–711For the relief of Mrs. J. R. Bennett.Dec 8, 1942
  768. Private Law 77–713For the relief of Lillian LaBauve Linney.Dec 9, 1942
  769. Private Law 77–714For the relief of Charles Thomason, administrator of the estate of Iverson Thomason and the relief of L. D. Byrd, Junior.Dec 9, 1942
  770. Private Law 77–715For the relief of E. A. Williams.Dec 9, 1942
  771. Private Law 77–716For the relief of Mr. and Mrs. Werner M. Bertelson and Ellen W. Sessions.Dec 9, 1942
  772. Private Law 77–718For the relief of James B. Shuler.Dec 10, 1942
  773. Private Law 77–719For the relief of the legal guardian of Leonard Almas.Dec 10, 1942
  774. Private Law 77–721For the relief of Fred Walker, Senior; legal guardian for Fred Walker, Junior; the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.Dec 11, 1942
  775. Private Law 77–722For the relief of Guy E. Mish.Dec 11, 1942
  776. Private Law 77–723For the relief of the Mount Whitney Power and Electric Company.Dec 11, 1942
  777. Private Law 77–724For the relief of Hjalmar M. Seby.Dec 11, 1942
  778. Private Law 77–725For the relief of William H. Cogswell, Junior.Dec 11, 1942
  779. Private Law 77–726For the relief of Alex Gambia.Dec 12, 1942
  780. Private Law 77–727For the relief of Charles E. Salmons.Dec 12, 1942
  781. Private Law 77–733For the relief of the estate of Orion Knox, deceased.Dec 14, 1942
  782. Private Law 77–741For the relief of Hyram Colwell.Dec 17, 1942
  783. Private Law 77–742For the relief of Catherine Barrett.Dec 17, 1942
  784. Private Law 77–743For the relief of Bothilda Stender.Dec 17, 1942
  785. Private Law 77–744For the relief of Michael Leo Fitzpatrick.Dec 17, 1942
  786. Private Law 77–745For the relief of Gwendolyn Anne Olhava and Anthony L. Olhava.Dec 17, 1942
  787. Private Law 77–746For the relief of Alice Comas, Robert Comas, and Frances Williams.Dec 17, 1942
  788. Private Law 77–747For the relief of Clarence A. Houser and his wife, Mrs. Jewel Houser.Dec 17, 1942
  789. Private Law 77–748For the relief of Alex Lawson.Dec 17, 1942
  790. Private Law 77–749For the relief of I. Arthur Kramer.Dec 17, 1942
  791. Private Law 77–750For the relief of Jane A. Thornton.Dec 17, 1942
  792. Private Law 77–751For the relief of William M. Miller.Dec 17, 1942
  793. Private Law 77–752For the relief of Mrs. Esther Mann.Dec 17, 1942
  794. Private Law 77–753For the relief of Mrs. Bessie Schakett.Dec 17, 1942
  795. Private Law 77–754For the relief of Thomas W. Dowd.Dec 17, 1942
  796. Private Law 77–755For the relief of Mrs. Ada F. Ogle.Dec 17, 1942
  797. Private Law 77–756For the relief of Mr. Garland Gailey, of Baldwin, Georgia, and Mrs. Clara Mae Gailey, of Baldwin, Georgia.Dec 17, 1942
  798. Private Law 77–757For the relief of Elmore Lee Lane.Dec 17, 1942
  799. Private Law 77–758For the relief of Silas Frankel.Dec 17, 1942
  800. Private Law 77–759For the relief of Doctor J. M. Scott and Mrs. J. M. Scott.Dec 17, 1942
  801. Private Law 77–760For the relief of Arkansas Gazette, Hope Star, the Hope Journal, Arkansas Democrat Company.Dec 17, 1942
  802. Private Law 77–761For the relief of James E. Savage.Dec 17, 1942
  803. Private Law 77–770For the relief of George O. Hanford.Dec 18, 1942
  804. Private Law 77–771For the relief of the estate of Elmer White.Dec 18, 1942
  805. Private Law 77–772To reimburse F. E. Wester for labor and material used in the emergency construction of buildings and utilities at Civilian Conservation Corps Camp Escanaba.Dec 18, 1942
  806. Private Law 77–773For the relief of L. H. Miller.Dec 18, 1942
  807. Private Law 77–774For the relief of J. M. Jesse.Dec 18, 1942
  808. Private Law 77–775For the relief of Maude Leach.Dec 18, 1942
  809. Private Law 77–776For the relief of Joseph F. Gordon.Dec 18, 1942
  810. Private Law 77–777For the relief of Colonel Leo A. Luttringer, United States property and disbursing officer for Pennsylvania.Dec 18, 1942
  811. Private Law 77–778For the relief of Ensign Donald L. Grunsky.Dec 18, 1942
  812. Private Law 77–779Granting permission to Hugh S. Cumming, Surgeon General (retired) of the United States Public Health Service, to accept certain decorations bestowed upon him by the Republics of Colombia, Haiti, and Chile.Dec 19, 1942
  813. Private Law 77–782For the relief of Anna J. Krogoll.Dec 19, 1942
  814. Private Law 77–783For the relief of William E. Averitt.Dec 19, 1942
  815. Private Law 77–784For the relief of the estate of Mrs. H. L. Smith, deceased.Dec 19, 1942
  816. Private Law 77–785For the relief of Mrs. Ching Shee (Ching Toy Wun).Dec 19, 1942
  817. Private Law 77–786For the relief of William R. Ivey.Dec 19, 1942
  818. Private Law 77–787For the relief of Ronald Leroy Chen.Dec 19, 1942
  819. Private Law 77–788For the relief of Litchfield Brothers, Aurora, North Carolina.Dec 19, 1942
  820. Private Law 77–789For the relief of Grover C. Wedgwood.Dec 19, 1942
  821. Private Law 77–790For the relief of Mrs. J. C. Tommey.Dec 19, 1942
  822. Private Law 77–791For the relief of Mrs. James Q. Mattox.Dec 19, 1942
  823. Private Law 77–792For the relief of Madeline Fiori.Dec 19, 1942
  824. Private Law 77–793For the relief of Bernice Pyke, Arthur P, Fenton, Carl E. Moore, and Clifford W. Pollock.Dec 19, 1942
  825. Private Law 77–794For the relief of Ralph B. Randall, rural rehabilitation supervisor. Farm Security Administration, Visalia, California.Dec 19, 1942
  826. Private Law 77–795For the relief of William F. Perkins, rural rehabilitation supervisor, Farm Security Administration, Pinal County, Arizona.Dec 19, 1942
  827. Private Law 77–796For the relief of Warren M. Engstrand, grant supervisor, Farm Security Administration, Bakersfield, California.Dec 19, 1942
  828. Private Law 77–807For the relief of Mrs. William Butak, Dorothy Clyde, Mrs. Albert Westcott, Mrs. Albert Meyer, Florence Johnson, Marie Grill, Mrs. Leo Maloney, Marian McDonald, Mrs. Edward Beier, Mrs. E. L. Bly, Mrs. Lucien Miller, Lois Kehnl, Reka Berg, Mrs. Ollis Klicker, Wilma Vogler and Mary Chisholm.Dec 22, 1942
  829. Private Law 77–808To 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.Dec 22, 1942
  830. Private Law 77–809For the relief of Etta A. Thompson, Marion E. Graham, Ruth Irene Morgan, and Alice K. Weber.Dec 22, 1942
  831. Private Law 77–829Authorizing the Comptroller General of the United States to settle and adjust the claims of the Young Men’s Christian Association, the Young Women’s Christian Association, the Richland County Post Numbered 6 of The American Legion, and C. J. Nairn, all of Columbia, South Carolina.Dec 24, 1942
  832. Private Law 77–830For the relief of the Midwest Oil Company.Dec 24, 1942
  833. Private Law 77–831For the relief of Lillian J. Delavergne and Myrla Delavergne.Dec 24, 1942
  834. Private Law 77–832For the relief of John Sweeney.Dec 24, 1942
  835. Private Law 77–833Conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma to hear, determine, and render judgment upon the claim of D, X. Sanders.Dec 24, 1942
  836. Private Law 77–834For the relief of the Upham Telephone and Electric Company, Upham, North Dakota.Dec 26, 1942