Volume 56
Public Law 77–803
To 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.
Approved December 22, 1942
Statutory text
AN ACT
To 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.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That notwithstanding
Hawaii.
Payment for use of wharves.
the provision of section 89 of the Act of Congress approved April 30, 1900, that “no tolls or charges shall be made by the Government of the Territory of Hawaii for the use of any such property by the United States, or by any vessel of war, tug, revenue cutter, or other boat or transport in the service of the United States”, the departments and agencies of the United States are authorized to pay to the Territory of Hawaii, the reasonable value, as determined by the department or agency concerned, of such use. during the period commencing on January 1, 1942, and ending, unless Congress shall fix an earlier date, six months after the termination of the present war.
Approved, December 22, 1942.