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SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS . SESS. III . CHs . 206-208. 1931 .

1165 empl oyees of the motor-vehicle service, and carriers in the City Delivery Service and in the village delivery service, and employees of the Railway Mail Service, to perform service in excess of four hours on Saturday they shall be allowed compensatory time for such service on one day within five working days next succeeding the Saturday on which the excess service was performed : Provided, Provisos. Com pen sat ory ti me That employees who are granted compensatory time on Saturday for for Sunday and holiday work performed the preceding Sunday or the preceding holiday employment, shall be given the benefits of this Act on one day within five working days following the Saturday when said compensatory time was Provided further, That the Postmaster General may, if the overtime in lien of granted :

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comp ensat ory ti me at exigencies of the service require it, authorize the payment of over- close of calendar year . ti me for servi ce in exces s of four h ours on the last three Saturdays in the calendar year in lieu of compensatory time : And provided fur- Railwa y clerks as . ther, That for the purpose of extending the benefits of this Act to signed to road duty. railway postal clerks the service of said railway p ostal clerks assigned to road duty shall be based on an average not exceeding seven hours and twenty minutes per day for three hundred and six days per annum, including a proper allowance for all service required on lay-off periods as provided in Post Office Department circular letter numbered 1348, dated May 12, 1921 ; and railw ay fn caO verti me sh, etc . payments postal clerks required to perform service in excess of seven hours and twenty minutes daily, as herein provided, shall be paid in cash at the annual rate of pay or granted compensatory time, at their option, for such overtime . Th is Act shal l take effe ct at the b eginning of the second quarter after its passage . Appro ved Februa ry 17, 19 31 . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secre- tary of the Interior, for the purpose of eliminating private holdings of land within the Chaco Canyon National Monument, New Mexico, is hereby empowered, in his discretion, to obtain for the Uni ted States the complete title to any or all alienated lands within the b oundaries of the Ch aco Canyo n National Monument, New Mexi co, as now or as may be hereafter defined, by accepting from the owners of such alienated lands complete relinquishment thereof and by granting and patenting to the owners, in exchange therefor, surveyed, nonmineral, and unreserved public lands of equal quality and acreage or of equal value as may be agreed upon situated elsewhere in the State of New Mexico, after due notice of the pro- posed exchange has been given by publication for not less than thirty days in the counties where the lands proposed to be exchanged Designated servicesin exce ss of four hours on Satu rday given com . pensatory time . Effective date. February 17, 1931 . CHAP . 207.-An Act To authorize appropriations for construction of a [H . R. 6867.] s toreh ouse for am munit ion a t Fort Benj amin H arris on .

[Public, No. 673.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That th ere is hereby authorized to be appropriated a sum not to exceed $4,500 for t he pu rpose of co nstru cting two m agazi nes in whic h to store ammun i- ti on at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana . Approved February 17 1931 . For t Benj amin Har- rison, Ind. Construction of am- munition magazi nes, authorized. February 17, 1931 . CHAP. 208 .-An Act To authorize exchange of lands with owners of private- [H.R. 10576.] land holdings within the Ch aco Canyon Nat ion al Mon ume nt New M exi co, and for other purposes . [Public, No .674.1 Ch aco Canyon Na- tio nal M onumen t, N . Met . Acquisition of pri- vately court lands in . E cchange for, of pub- lic lands .