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(c) Loran stations (1) required to serve the needs of the armed forces of the United States; or (2) required to serve the needs of the maritime commerce of the United States; or (3) required to serve the needs of the air commerce of the United States as determined by the Administrator of Civil Aeronautics.

SEC. 2. The Coast Guard in establishing, maintaining, or operating any aids to air navigation herein provided shall solicit the cooperation of the Administrator of Civil Aeronautics to the end that the personnel and facilities of the Civil Aeronautics Administration will be utilized to the fullest possible advantage. Before locating and operating any such aid on military or naval bases or regions, the consent of the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, or the Secretary of the Air Force, as the case may be, shall first be obtained. No such aid shall be located within the territorial jurisdiction of any foreign country without the consent of the government thereof. Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to limit the authority granted by the provisions of section 77 of the Act of January 12, 1895 (28 Stat. 621), or by section 5 (f) of the Air Commerce Act of 1926 (49 U. S. C. 175), or by title III of Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended (49 U. S. C. 451 and the following).

SEC. 3. Such aids to navigation other than Loran stations shall be established and operated only within the United States, its Territories and possessions, and beyond the territorial jurisdiction of the United States at places where naval or military bases of the United States are or may be located, and at other places where such aids to navigation have been established on the date of the enactment of this Act.

POST ROADS

[Act of June 8, 1872, 17 Stat. 308; Act of June 23, 1938, 52 Stat. 973]

Revised Statutes, Sec. 3964 [39 U. S. C. 481] The following are established post roads:

All the waters of the United States, during the time the mail is carried thereon.

All railroads or parts of railroads and all air routes which are now or hereafter may be in operation.

All canals, during the time the mail is carried thereon.

All plank roads, during the time the mail is carried thereon.

The road on which the mail is carried to supply any courthouse which may be without a mail, and the road on which the mail is carried under contract made by the Postmaster General for extending the line of posts to supply mails to post offices not on any established route, during the time such mail is carried thereon.

All letter-carrier routes established in any city or town for the collection and delivery of mail matters. (As amended by section 1107 (a) of the Civil Aeronautics Act.)

NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR

AERONAUTICS

[Act of March 3, 1915, 38 Stat. 930; as amended by Act of March 2, 1929, 45 Stat. 1451; Act of June 23, 1938, 52 Stat. 973; Act of May 25, 1948, 62 Stat. 266]

AN ACT

To promote the national defense by increasing the membership of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, [49 U. S. C. 241] That the eighth paragraph following the caption "Pay, miscellaneous" in the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for other purposes", approved March 3, 1915 (38 Stat. 930; U. S. C., title 49, sec. 241), as amended, is hereby amended to read or follows:

"NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS

"(a) There is hereby established a National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (hereinafter referred to as the 'Committee') to be composed of not more than seventeen members appointed by the President. Members shall serve as such without compensation, and shall include two representatives of the Department of the Air Force; two representatives of the Department of the Navy, from the office in charge of naval aeronautics; two representatives of the Civil Aeronautics Authority; one representative of the Smithsonian Institution; one representative of the United States Weather Bureau; one representative of the National Bureau of Standards; the chairman of the Research and Development Board of the National Military Establishment; and not more than seven other members selected from persons acquainted with the needs of aeronautical science, either civil or military, or skilled in aeronautical engineering or its allied sciences. Unless otherwise provided by law, each member not representing a government department or agency shall be appointed for a term of five years from the date of the expiration of the term of the member whom he succeeds, except that any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of a term shall be appointed for the unexpired term of the member whom he succeeds.

"(b) Under such rules and regulations as shall be formulated by the Committee, with the approval of the President, for the conduct of its work, it shall be the duty of the Committee (1) to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical solution, (2) to determine the problems which should be experimentally attacked, and to discuss their solution and their application to practical questions, and (3) to direct and conduct research and experiment in aeronautics in the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, the Flight Propulsion Research

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Laboratory, and in such other laboratory or laboratories as may, in whole or in part, be placed under the direction of the Committee.

"(c) An annual report to the Congress shall be submitted by the Committee through the President, including an itemized statement of expenditures."

SEC. 2. Each member of the National Advisory Committe for Aeronautics not representing a government department or agency who may be appointed initially to fill any vacancy created by the increase in the membership of the Committee authorized by the amendment made by the first section of this Act shall serve under such appointment for a term expiring December 1, 1950.

SEC. 3. The following parts of Acts are hereby repealed:

(a) That portion of the ninth paragraph following the caption "Pay, miscellaneous", in the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for other purposes", approved March 3, 1915 (38 Stat. 930; U. S. C., title 49, sec. 243), which reads as follows: "Provided, That an annual report to the Congress shall be submitted through the President, including an itemized statement of expenditures".

(b) That portion of the paragraph following the caption "National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics", in the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes", approved July 1, 1918 (40 Stat. 650; U. S. C., title 49, sec. 242), which reads as follows: "Provided, That the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to furnish office space to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in governmental buildings occupied by the Signal Corps".

(c) That portion of the first paragraph following the caption "National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics", in the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, and for other purposes", approved April 22, 1926 (44 Stat. 314; U. S. C., title 49, sec. 244), which reads as follows: ", hereafter to be known as the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory." (As amended May 25, 1948, 62 Stat. 266.)

AIRCRAFT CONFISCATION ACT

[Act of Aug. 9, 1939, 53 Stat. 1291]

AN ACT

To provide for the seizure and forfeiture of vessels, vehicles, and aircraft used to transport narcotics, drugs, firearms and counterfeit coins, obligations, securities, and paraphernalia, and for other purposes

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

UNLAWFUL USE OF VESSELS, VEHICLES, AND AIRCRAFTS; CONTRABAND ARTICLE DEFINED

SECTION 1 [49 U. S. C. 781] (a) It shall be unlawful (1) to transport, carry, or convey any contraband article, in, upon, or by means of

any vessel, vehicle, or aircraft; (2) to conceal or possess any contraband article in or upon any vessel, vehicle, or aircraft; or upon the person of anyone in or upon any vessel, vehicle, or aircraft; or (3) to use any vessel, vehicle, or aircraft to facilitate the transportation, carriage, conveyance, concealment, receipt, possession, purchase, sale, barter, exchange, or giving away of any contraband article.

(b) As used in this section, the term "contraband article" means: (1) Any narcotic drug which has been or is possessed with intent to sell or offer for sale in violation of any laws or regulations of the United States dealing therewith, or which is sold or offered for sale in violation thereof, or which does not bear appropriate tax-paid internalrevenue stamps as required by law or regulations;

(2) Any firearm, with respect to which there has been committed any violation of any provision of the National Firearms Act, as now or hereafter amended, or any regulation issued pursuant thereto; or

(3) Any falsely made, forged, altered, or counterfeit coin or obligation or other security of the United States or of any foreign government; or any material or apparatus, or paraphernalia fitted or intended to be used, or which shall have been used, in the making of any such falsely made, forged, altered, or counterfeit coin or obligation or other security.

SEIZURE AND FORFEITURE

SEC. 2 [49 U. S. C. 782] Any vessel, vehicle, or aircraft which has been or is being used in violation of any provision of section 1, or in, upon, or by means of which any violation of section 1 has taken or is taking place, shall be seized and forfeited: Provided, That no vessel, vehicle, or aircraft used by any person as a common carrier in the transaction of business as such common carrier shall be forfeited under the provisions of this Act unless it shall appear that (1) in the case of a railway car or engine, the owner, or (2) in the case of any other such vessel, vehicle, or aircraft, the owner or the master of such vessel or the owner or conductor, driver, pilot, or other person in charge of such vehicle or aircraft was at the time of the alleged illegal act a consenting party or privy thereto: Provided further, That no vessel, vehicle, or aircraft shall be forfeited under the provisions of this Act by reason of any act or omission established by the owner thereof to have been committed or omitted by any person other than such owner while such vessel, vehicle, or aircraft was unlawfully in the possession of a person who acquired possession thereof in violation of the criminal laws of the United States, or of any State.

DESIGNATION OF OFFICERS BY SECRETARY OF TREASURY; DUTIES OF OFFICERS

SEC. 3 [49 U. S. C. 783] The Secretary of the Treasury is empowered to authorize, or designate, officers, agents, or other persons to carry out the provisions of this Act. It shall be the duty of any officer, agent, or other person so authorized or designated, or authorized by law, whenever he shall discover any vessel, vehicle, or aircraft which has been or is being used in violation of any of the provisions of this Act, or in, upon, or by means of which any violation of this Act has taken or is taking place, to seize such vessel, or aircraft and to place it in the custody of such person as may be authorized or designated for that purpose by the Secretary of the Treasury, to await disposition

pursuant to the provisions of this Act and any regulations issued hereunder.

APPLICATION OF RELATED LAWS

SEC. 4 [49 U.S. C. 784] All provisions of law relating to the seizure, summary and judicial forfeiture, and condemnation of vessels and vehicles for violation of the customs laws; the disposition of such vessels and vehicles or the proceeds from the sale thereof; the remission or mitigation of such forfeitures; and the compromise of claims and the award of compensation to informers in respect of such forfeitures shall apply to seizures and forfeitures incurred, or alleged to have been incurred, under the provisions of this Act, insofar as applicable and not inconsistent with the provisions hereof: Provided, That such duties as are imposed upon the collector of customs or any other person with respect to the seizure and forfeiture of vessels and vehicles under the customs laws shall be performed with respect to seizures and forfeitures of vessels, vehicles, and aircraft under this Act by such officers, agents, or other persons as may be authorized or designated for that purpose by the Secretary of the Treasury.

AVAILABILITY OF APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 5 [49 U. S. C. 785] Any appropriation which has been or shall hereafter be made for the enforcement of the customs, narcotics, counterfeiting, or internal-revenue laws, and the provisions of the National Firearms Act shall be available for the defraying of expenses of carrying out the provisions of this Act.

CONSTRUCTION WITH OTHER LAWS

SEC. 6 [49 U. S. C. 786] The provisions of this Act shall be construed to be supplemental to, and not to impair in any way, existing provisions of law imposing fines, penalties, or forfeitures; or providing for the seizure, condemnation, or disposition of forfeited property or the proceeds thereof; or authorizing the remission or mitigation of fines, penalties, or forfeitures.

DEFINITIONS

SEC. 7 [49 U. S. C. 787] When used in this Act—

(a) The term "vessel" includes every description of watercraft or other contrivance used, or capable of being used, as means of transportation in water, but does not include aircraft;

(b) The term "vehicle" includes every description of carriage or other contrivance used, or capable of being used, as means of transportation, below, or above the land, but does not include aircraft;

(c) The term "aircraft" includes every description of craft or carriage or other contrivance used, or capable of being used, as means of transportation through the air;

(d) The term "narcotic drug" means any narcotic drug, as now or hereafter defined by The Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act, the internal-revenue laws or any amendments thereof, or the regulations issued thereunder; or marihuana as now or hereafter defined by the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 or the regulations issued thereunder;

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