[CHAPTER 93-2D SESSION] [S. 1668] AN ACT Authorizing appropriations for the United States Navy for additional ship repair facilities, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $130,000,000 for essential equipment and facilities at either private or public plants for repairing, altering, or converting any vessel operated by the Navy or the War Shipping Administration or being prepared for the use of either. SEC. 2. The authority herein granted shall include the authority to acquire lands at such locations as the Secretary of the Navy may deem best suited to the purpose of the authority herein contained, erect or extend buildings, acquire the necessary machinery and equipment, and shall be in addition to all authority heretofore granted for these purposes. SEC. 3. The Secretary of the Navy from time to time, but not less frequently than every sixty days, shall transmit to the Congress a full report of all acquisitions of land, by lease or otherwise, effected under the authority of this Act. Approved March 14, 1944. [CHAPTER 123-2D SESSION] [H. R. 1201] AN ACT To permit prosecutions after the lapse of a temporary statute for offenses committed prior to its expiration. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 4 of the Act of February 25, 1871 (16 Stat. 432, Rev. Stats., sec. 13, U. S. Code, title 1, sec. 29) be, and it hereby is, amended to read as follows: "The repeal of any statute shall not have the effect to release or extinguish any penalty, forfeiture, or liability incurred under such statute, unless the repealing Act shall so expressly provide, and such statute shall be treated as still remaining in force for thepurpose of sustaining any proper action or prosecution for the enforcement of such penalty, forfeiture, or liability. The expiration of a temporary statute shall not have the effect to release or extinguish any penalty, forfeiture, or liability incurred under such statute, unless the temporary statute shall so expressly provide, and such statute shall be treated as still remaining in force for the purpose of sustaining any proper action or prosecution for the enforcement of such penalty, forfeiture, or liability.” Approved March 22, 1944. [CHAPTER 124-2D SESSION] AN ACT For the protection of the water supply of the city of Sitka, Alaska. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the tract of land hereinafter described, situated in the Territory of Alaska, is hereby reserved from all forms of location, entry, or appropriation, whether under the mineral or nonmineral land laws of the United States, and set aside as a municipal water-supply reserve for the use and benefit of the people of the city of Sitka, a municipal corporation of the Territory of Alaska, as follows, to wit: Beginning at corner numbered 1, identical with milespost 1, on line of United States Survey 1763 between corners numbered 2 and 3 thereof; thence north sixty-four degrees fifty-five minutes fifty seconds east twenty-seven and seventy one-hundredths chains to corner numbered 2 identical with corner numbered 3 of United States Survey Numbered 1763; thence following the summit of the drainage area of Cascade Creek approximately five and one-half miles to corner numbered 3; thence south ten, degrees east approximately seventy chains to corner numbered 4 at diversion dam on Cascade Creek; thence south thirty degrees east approximately twenty-five chains to corner numbered 5; thence south seventy degrees east approximately eightythree chains to corner numbered 1, the place of beginning and containing approximately three thousand two hundred and thirty-five acres. SEC. 2. The lands hereinbefore described and reserved for municipal water-supply purposes, which are partly within the Tongass National Forest, shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture, for the purpose of storing, conserving, and protecting from pollution the said water supply, and preserving, improving, and increasing the timber growth on said lands, to more fully accomplish such purposes; and to that end said municipality shall have the right, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture, to the use of any and all parts of the lands reserved for the storage and conveying of water and construction and maintenance thereon of all improvements for such purposes: Provided, That the merchantable timber on the land to be used by the said municipality may be sold by the Secretary of Agriculture under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him: And provided further, That the right to the use by the city of Sitka of the lands reserved by this Act shall terminate upon the abandonment of the use by such municipality in accordance with the terms of this Act and upon a finding of such nonuse or abandonment, for a period of two years, by the Secretary of Agriculture, whereupon the reservation created by this Act shall terminate to the extent of such lands involved. י! SEC. 3. The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to prescribe and enforce such regulations as may be found necessary to carry out the purpose of this Act, including the right to forbid persons other than those authorized by him and the municipal authorities of said municipal corporation from entering or otherwise trespassing upon these lands, and any violation of this Act or of regulations issued thereunder shall be a misdemeanor and shall be punishable as is provided for in section 5050, Compiled Laws of Alaska, 1933. SEC. 4. Nothing herein contained shall affect any valid right or claim to any part of said lands heretofore acquired under any law of the United States. SEC. 5. This Act shall not become operative as to the lands set aside for the use of the War Department under Executive Order Numbered 9114, until such area is removed from the status of a military reservation and shall not become operative with respect to any part of the water supply reserve lying within the area reserved for military purposes until relinquishment of such area from military control, otherwise it shall become effective immediately. Approved March 22, 1944. [CHAPTER 128-2D SESSION] [H. R. 3763] AN ACT To relieve former postal employees who performed postal duties after induction into the military service. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That notwithstanding the provisions of law relating to dual compensation, the Comptroller General of the United States is hereby authorized and directed to allow credit in the settlement of disbursing officers' accounts, and relieve certifying officers of liability, for payments made to postal employees who, after induction into the armed forces of the United States, performed postal duties while on furlough or otherwise relieved of active military duties, of the amounts to which such employees would have been legally entitled had they not been in the armed forces. SEC. 2. If credit is allowed in disbursing officers' accounts, in accordance with section 1 of this Act, the employee receiving the payment shall not be required to refund the amount thereof; and any such amount which has been collected from such employee because improper under dual compensation laws shall be refunded to him, or if deceased, to his legal representative. SEC. 3. This Act shall be applicable only to services rendered prior to January 1, 1943. Approved March 24, 1944. |