Laws of the 79th Congress

Public Law 79-1 · February 13, 1945 · H.R. 621 AN ACT To further amend section 22 of the Act approved March 4, 1925, entitled "An Act providing for sundry matters affecting the naval service, and for other purposes", by changing the limitation on the total personnel… Public Law 79-2 · February 13, 1945 · H.R. 1427 AN ACT Relating to the compensation of telephone operators on the United States Capitol telephone exchange. Public Law 79-3 · February 24, 1945 · H.R. 1808 AN ACT To grant to the Hawaiian Electric Company, Limited, the right to construct certain ditches, tunnels, and oil pipe lines in Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii. Public Law 79-4 · February 24, 1945 · S. 375 AN ACT To provide for the effective administration of certain lending agencies of the Federal Government. Public Law 79-5 · February 28, 1945 · H.J.Res. 85 JOINT RESOLUTION Making an additional appropriation for the fiscal year 1945 for the Census of Agriculture. Public Law 79-6 · February 28, 1945 · H.J.Res. 100 JOINT RESOLUTION Making an additional appropriation for the fiscal year 1945 for the Public Health Service. Public Law 79-7 · February 28, 1945 · S. 210 AN ACT To repeal the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the conveyance of the old lighthouse keeper's residence in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, to the Otto Oas Post, Numbered 659, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, … Public Law 79-8 · February 28, 1945 · S. 213 AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to grant to the city of Canton, Ohio, for highway purposes only, a strip of land situated within the United States Naval Ordnance Plant at Canton, Ohio. Public Law 79-9 · February 28, 1945 · S. 216 AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to convey to Oahu Railway and Land Company an easement for railway purposes in certain lands situated at Halawa, Ewa, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii. Public Law 79-10 · February 28, 1945 · S. 218 AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to lease certain lands situated in San Diego County, State of California. Public Law 79-11 · February 28, 1945 · S. 219 AN ACT To amend section 1442, Revised Statutes, relating to furlough of officers by the Secretary of the Navy. Public Law 79-12 · February 28, 1945 · S. 338 AN ACT To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, and sections 7 to 17 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, to encourage the growing of war crops by protecting the allotmen… Public Law 79-13 · March 1, 1945 · H.R. 626 AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to proceed with the construction of certain public works, and for other purposes. Public Law 79-14 · March 2, 1945 · S. 35 AN ACT Authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes. Public Law 79-15 · March 9, 1945 · S. 340 AN ACT To express the intent of the Congress with reference to the regulation of the business of insurance. Public Law 79-16 · March 13, 1945 · S. 217 AN ACT To authorize an exchange of lands between the city of Eastport, Maine, and the United States, and the conveyance of a roadway easement to the city of Eastport, Maine. Public Law 79-17 · March 13, 1945 · S. 222 AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of War to grant to the Duke Power Company a one-hundred-and-eighty-foot perpetual easement across Camp Croft, in the State of South Carolina. Public Law 79-18 · March 13, 1945 · S. 290 AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of War to grant to the Orange and Rockland Electric Company a one-hundred-and-fifty-foot perpetual easement across the West Point Military Reservation in the State of New York. Public Law 79-19 · March 21, 1945 · H.R. 197 AN ACT To establish the grade of general in the Marine Corps, and for other purposes. Public Law 79-20 · March 21, 1945 · H.R. 1646 AN ACT To establish the grade of admiral in the Coast Guard, and for other purposes. Public Law 79-21 · March 24, 1945 · H.R. 1429 AN ACT To permit the Administrator, War Shipping Administration, and the United States Maritime Commission, during the national emergency, to pay the tax imposed under section 1410 of the Internal Revenue Code without r… Public Law 79-22 · March 24, 1945 · H.R. 2506 AN ACT To amend an Act regulating the height of buildings in the District of Columbia, approved June 1, 1910, as amended. Public Law 79-23 · March 29, 1945 · H.J.Res. 142 JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the employment of Government employees for folding speeches and pamphlets, House of Representatives. Public Law 79-24 · March 31, 1945 · H.R. 2126 AN ACT Making appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1946, for civil functions administered by the War Department, and for other purposes. Public Law 79-25 · March 31, 1945 · H.R. 2745 AN ACT To amend section 8 of the Act entitled "An Act to establish standard weights and measures for the District of Columbia; to define the duties of the Superintendent of Weights, Measures, and Markets of the District… Public Law 79-26 · March 31, 1945 · H.J.Res. 141 JOINT RESOLUTION Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, in lieu of certain appropriations contained in H. R. 2374, Seventy-ninth Congress, first session, and for other purposes. Public Law 79-27 · March 31, 1945 · S. 681 AN ACT To amend the National Housing Act, as amended, and for other purposes. Public Law 79-28 · April 3, 1945 · H.R. 2404 AN ACT To increase the debt limit of the United States, and for other purposes. Public Law 79-29 · April 3, 1945 · H.J.Res. 115 JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to determination and payment of certain claims against the Government of Mexico. Public Law 79-30 · April 12, 1945 · S. 298 AN ACT To continue Commodity Credit Corporation as an agency of the United States, increase its borrowing power, revise the basis of the annual appraisal of its assets, and for other purposes. Public Law 79-31 · April 16, 1945 · H.R. 2013 AN ACT To extend for one year the provisions of an Act to promote the defense of the United States, approved March 11, 1941, as amended. Public Law 79-32 · April 17, 1945 · H.R. 510 AN ACT Granting to Galveston County, a municipal corporation of the State of Texas, certain easements and rights-of-way over, under, and upon the San Jacinto Military Reservation in Galveston County, Texas. Public Law 79-33 · April 19, 1945 · H.R. 685 AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act for the acquisition of buildings and grounds in foreign countries for use of the Government of the United States of America", approved May 7, 1926, as amended, to permit of the s… Public Law 79-34 · April 19, 1945 · H.R. 914 AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the States of Colorado and Kansas to negotiate and enter into a compact for the division of the waters of the Arkansas River. Public Law 79-35 · April 19, 1945 · H.R. 1534 AN ACT To amend the Fact Finders' Act. Public Law 79-36 · April 23, 1945 · S. 530 AN ACT Authorizing the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to grant an easement in certain lands of the Veterans' Administration, Dallas, Texas, to Dallas County, Texas, for highway purposes. Public Law 79-37 · April 23, 1945 · S. 531 AN ACT To authorize the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to transfer by quitclaim deed to the city of Los Angeles, California, for fire-station purposes, the title to certain land located at Veterans' Administration f… Public Law 79-38 · April 24, 1945 · H.R. 2252 AN ACT Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1946, and for other purposes. Public Law 79-39 · April 24, 1945 · S. 37 AN ACT To amend sections 4, 7, and 17 of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187) for the purpose of extending the time in which amendatory contracts may be made, and for other related purposes. Public Law 79-40 · April 25, 1945 · H.R. 2374 AN ACT Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, and for prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June… Public Law 79-41 · April 27, 1945 · H.R. 2122 AN ACT To extend to June 30, 1946, the period during which females may be employed in the District of Columbia for more than eight hours a day, or forty-eight hours a week, under temporary permits. Public Law 79-42 · April 27, 1945 · S. 105 AN ACT To extend the life of the Smaller War Plants Corporation. Public Law 79-43 · April 27, 1945 · S. 122 AN ACT To amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish standard weights and measures for the District of Columbia; to define the duties of the Superintendent of Weights, Measures, and Markets, of the District of Columbia;… Public Law 79-44 · April 27, 1945 · S. 124 AN ACT To amend section 16 of the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Act entitled 'An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Education of the District of Co… Public Law 79-45 · April 27, 1945 · S. 638 AN ACT To amend the Code of Laws of the District of Columbia by adding a new section 548a, and providing for the recording of veterans' discharge certificates. Public Law 79-46 · April 28, 1945 · S. 123 AN ACT To amend section 14 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for commitments to, maintenance in, and discharges from the District Training School, and for other purposes", approved March 3, 1925, and to amend secti… Public Law 79-47 · April 30, 1945 · H.R. 1525 AN ACT Relating to escapes of prisoners of war and interned enemy aliens. Public Law 79-48 · May 3, 1945 · H.R. 689 AN ACT To enable the Department of State, pursuant to its responsibilities under the Constitution and statutes of the United States, more effectively to carry out its prescribed and traditional responsibilities in the f… Public Law 79-49 · May 3, 1945 · H.R. 1984 AN ACT Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1946, and for other purposes. Public Law 79-50 · May 3, 1945 · H.J.Res. 18 JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the celebration in 1945 of the one-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. Public Law 79-51 · May 4, 1945 · H.R. 1701 AN ACT To amend section 2, Public Law 140, Seventy-seventh Congress. Public Law 79-52 · May 4, 1945 · H.R. 2689 AN ACT Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1946, and for other purposes. Public Law 79-53 · May 5, 1945 · H.J.Res. 174 JOINT RESOLUTION Making additional appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945. Public Law 79-54 · May 9, 1945 · H.R. 2625 AN ACT To extend the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended. Public Law 79-55 · May 15, 1945 · S. 62 AN ACT To amend section 3 (b) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, so as to permit exemption of security issues not exceeding $300,000 from the provisions of such Act. Public Law 79-56 · May 15, 1945 · S. 655 AN ACT Amending the Act of June 25, 1938 (52 Stat. 1207), authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to pay salary and expenses of the chairman, secretary, and interpreter of the Klamath General Council, members of the K… Public Law 79-57 · May 15, 1945 · S. 701 AN ACT To provide a method for the wartime reduction of temporary grades held by general officers of the Army of the United States. Public Law 79-58 · May 15, 1945 · H.R. 2992 AN ACT To extend the provisions of the Act of July 11, 1941 (Public Law 163, Seventy-seventh Congress). Public Law 79-59 · May 15, 1945 · H.R. 3070 AN ACT To extend the provisions of the Act of November 29, 1940 (Public Law 884, Seventy-sixth Congress). Public Law 79-60 · May 16, 1945 · H.R. 3038 AN ACT To amend section 409 of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended. Public Law 79-61 · May 21, 1945 · H.R. 2603 AN ACT Making appropriations for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary, and the Federal Loan Agency for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1946, and for other purposes. Public Law 79-62 · May 29, 1945 · H.R. 2907 AN ACT Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1946, and for other purposes. Public Law 79-63 · May 29, 1945 · H.R. 533 AN ACT Authorizing the State of Minnesota Department of Highways to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Hastings, Minnesota. Public Law 79-64 · May 29, 1945 · H.R. 1184 AN ACT To authorize Slater Branch Bridge and Road Club to construct, maintain, and operate a free suspension bridge across the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River at or near Williamson, West Virginia. Public Law 79-65 · May 29, 1945 · H.R. 1652 AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Louisiana to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Mississippi River at or near New Orleans, Louisiana. Public Law 79-66 · May 29, 1945 · H.R. 1659 AN ACT Authorizing the Department of Highways of the State of Minnesota to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Pigeon River. Public Law 79-67 · May 29, 1945 · H.R. 2068 AN ACT To provide for the settlement of claims of military personnel and civilian employees of the War Department or of the Army for damage to or loss, destruction, capture, or abandonment of personal property occurring… Public Law 79-68 · May 29, 1945 · H.J.Res. 177 JOINT RESOLUTION Repealing a portion of the appropriation and contract authorization available to the Maritime Commission. Public Law 79-69 · May 29, 1945 · S. 645 AN ACT To suspend until six months after the termination of the present wars section 2 of the Act of March 3, 1883 (22 Stat. 481), as amended. Public Law 79-70 · May 29, 1945 · S. 647 AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to convey to the State of Rhode Island, for highway purposes only, a strip of land within the naval advance base depol at North Kingstown, Rhode Island. Public Law 79-71 · May 31, 1945 · H.J.Res. 113 JOINT RESOLUTION Granting the consent of Congress to an agreement amending the original agreement entered into by the States of New York and Vermont relating to the creation of the Lake Champlain Bridge Commission. Public Law 79-72 · June 1, 1945 · H.R. 2388 AN ACT To provide for enlistments in the Regular Army during the period of the war, and for other purposes. Public Law 79-73 · June 2, 1945 · H.R. 1947 AN ACT To authorize an increase in the pay of the chaplain at the United States Military Academy while serving under reappointment for an additional term or terms. Public Law 79-74 · June 4, 1945 · H.R. 1804 AN ACT To amend the Act of Congress entitled "An Act for the relief of the Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska", approved June 5, 1942. Public Law 79-75 · June 5, 1945 · S. 938 AN ACT To provide for emergency flood-control work made necessary by recent floods, and for other purposes. Public Law 79-76 · June 5, 1945 · S. 383 AN ACT To provide for the further development of cooperative agricultural extension work. Public Law 79-77 · June 7, 1945 · S.J.Res. 66 JOINT RESOLUTION To extend the statute of limitations in certain cases. Public Law 79-78 · June 8, 1945 · H.R. 2600 AN ACT To amend section 9 of the Act entitled "An Act to facilitate the construction, extension, or completion of interstate petroleum pipe lines related to national defense, and to promote interstate commerce", approve… Public Law 79-79 · June 8, 1945 · S. 633 AN ACT To amend the Criminal Code so as to punish anyone injuring a party, witness, or juror on account of his having acted as such. Public Law 79-80 · June 9, 1945 · H.R. 1527 AN ACT To exempt the members of the Advisory Board appointed under the War Mobilization and Reconversion Act of 1944 from certain provisions of the Criminal Code. Public Law 79-81 · June 9, 1945 · S. 889 AN ACT To amend section 47c of the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916, as amended, so as to authorize credit to students now or hereafter enrolled in the senior division of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps for mil… Public Law 79-82 · June 9, 1945 · H.J.Res. 208 JOINT RESOLUTION Making an appropriation for emergency flood-control work and for other purposes. Public Law 79-83 · June 12, 1945 · H.J.Res. 212 JOINT RESOLUTION Making a supplemental appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, for the Children's Bureau, Department of Labor, and for other purposes. Public Law 79-84 · June 12, 1945 · S. 510 AN ACT To amend sections 11 (c) and 16 of the Federal Reserve Act, as amended, and for other purposes. Public Law 79-85 · June 13, 1945 · H.R. 3109 AN ACT Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1946, and for other purposes. Public Law 79-86 · June 13, 1945 · H.R. 3267 AN ACT To further extend the effectiveness of the Act approved December 17, 1941, relating to additional safeguards to the radio communications service of ships of the United States, as amended, and for other purposes. Public Law 79-87 · June 23, 1945 · H.R. 3322 AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act to expedite the provisions of housing in connection with national defense, and for other purposes , approved October 14, 1940, as amended. Public Law 79-88 · June 23, 1945 · S. 502 AN ACT To permit the continuation of certain subsidy payments and certain purchase and sale operations by corporations created pursuant to section 5d (3) of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, as amended, and fo… Public Law 79-89 · June 29, 1945 · S. 58 AN ACT To amend an Act entitled "An Act authorizing the temporary appointment or advancement of certain personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps, and for other purposes", approved July 24, 1941, as amended, and for other … Public Law 79-90 · June 29, 1945 · S. 118 AN ACT Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain lands on the Gila reclamation project, Arizona, to the University of Arizona. Public Law 79-91 · June 29, 1945 · S. 427 AN ACT To repeal section 3 of the Act approved April 13, 1938, as amended, relating to hops. Public Law 79-92 · June 29, 1945 · S. 612 AN ACT To amend the National Defense Act, as amended, so as to eliminate provisions for retirement of wing commanders of the Air Corps. Public Law 79-93 · June 29, 1945 · S. 880 AN ACT To provide for designation of the United States Veterans' Administration hospital at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, as the Royal C. Johnson Veterans Memorial Hospital. Public Law 79-94 · June 29, 1945 · S. 916 AN ACT To remove the limitation on the right to command of officers of the Dental Corps of the Army which limits such officers to command in that corps. Public Law 79-95 · June 29, 1945 · H.J.Res. 206 JOINT RESOLUTION Extending the time for the release of powers of appointment for the purposes of certain provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. Public Law 79-96 · June 29, 1945 · H.R. 2416 AN ACT Authorizing the State of Alabama to lease or sell and convey all or any part of the Salt Springs land granted to said State by the Act of March 2, 1819. Public Law 79-97 · June 30, 1945 · H.R. 378 AN ACT Authorizing an appropriation to carry out the provisions of the Act of May 3, 1928 (45 Stat. 484), and for other purposes. Public Law 79-98 · June 30, 1945 · H.R. 2113 AN ACT To amend the Federal Farm Loan Act, the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act of 1933, the Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation Act, the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, and for other purposes. Public Law 79-99 · June 30, 1945 · H.R. 2944 AN ACT To continue in effect section 6 of the Act of July 2, 1940 (54 Stat. 714), as amended, relating to the exportation of certain commodities. Public Law 79-100 · June 30, 1945 · H.R. 3059 AN ACT Authorizing the Postmaster General to continue to use post-office clerks and city letter carriers interchangeably.