[CHAPTER 606—2D SESSION]

[S. 198]

AN ACT

To amend further section 2 of the Civil Service Retirement Act, approved May 29, 1930, as amended.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That paragraph (b) of section 2 of the Civil Service Retirement Act approved May 29, 1930, as amended, is amended by striking out the period at the end of the first sentence and inserting indieu thereof a colon and adding the following: "Provided, however, That nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to affect the rights of the annuitant's beneficiary if the annuitant has been receiving or had elected and was otherwise entitled to a reduced annuity under section 4 (d) and dies while so reemployed or continued in the service or within thirty days after the termination of his reemployment or continuation, but all such rights shall continue and may be enforced in the same manner as if the annuitant had not been reemployed or continued: And provided further, That during such reemployment or continuation there shall be deducted and withheld from the salary, pay, or compensation of such employee at each pay period a proportionate amount of the annual difference between the life annuity to which the employee would have been entitled and the reduced annuity elected by the employee. The amounts so deducted and withheld shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of civil service retirement and disability fund."

SEC. 2. The amendment made by the first section of this Act shall be effective as of January 1, 1940.

Approved December 19, 1944.

[CHAPTER 611-2D SESSION]

[H. R. 2644]

AN ACT

To grant additional powers to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and empowered within their discretion

(a) In accordance with such regulations as they may make, to provide for the waiver of payment by any person in the military service of the United States of any annual or other periodic fee required by law to be paid to the District of Columbia or to any District of Columbia board or commission as a condition to retaining or renewing any license or permit to engage in any business or calling or to practice any profession in the District of Columbia.

[CHAPTER 613-2D SESSION]

[H. R. 4867]

AN ACT

To extend the health regulations of the District of Columbia to Government restaurants within the District of Columbia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the regulations now or hereafter adopted or promulgated by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the protection of health, including the penalty provisions of such regulations, shall extend and apply to all restaurants, coffee shops, cafeterias, short-order cafes, luncheonettes, soda fountains, and all other eating and drinking establishments, operated within the District of Columbia on premises owned or held under lease by the Government of the United States or any Federal department or agency, irrespective of whether such establishments are operated by the United States or any Federal department or agency or by any other person, firm, association, or corporation, and also irrespective of whether such establishments are operated for profit or otherwise.

SEC. 2. This Act shall not apply to the United States Senate and House of Representatives restaurants.

Approved December 20, 1944.

(339)

[CHAPTER 624-2D SESSION]

[S. 1954]

AN ACT

To amend the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the use for war purposes of silver held or owned by the United States", approved July 12, 1943.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the use for war purposes of silver held or owned by the United States", approved July 12, 1943 (Public Law 137, Seventy-eighth Congress), is amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 2. This Act shall expire on December 31, 1945." Approved December 20, 1944.

(340)

[CHAPTER 627-2D SESSION]

[S. 2194] AN ACT

Authorizing appropriations for the United States Navy for additional ordnance manufacturing and production 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, $50,000,000 for necessary tools, equipment, and facilities for the manufacture or production of ordnance material, munitions, and equipment at either private or public plants. 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, erect or extend buildings, acquire the necessary machinery and equipment, and in private establishments provide plant-protection installations, 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 December 20, 1944.