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52 STAT.] 75TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CHS. 210-212-MAY 13, 1938 [CHAPTER 210] AN ACT Making the 11th day of November in each year a legal holiday. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the 11th day of November in each year, a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be hereafter celebrated and known as Armistice Day, is hereby made a legal public holiday to all intents and pur- poses and in the same manner as the 1st day of January, the 22d day of February, the 30th day of May, the 4th day of July, the first Monday of September, and Christmas Day are now made by law public holidays. Approved, May 13, 1938. [CHAPTER 211] AN ACT To ratify and confirm Act 23 of the Session Laws of Hawaii, 1937, extending the time within which revenue bonds may be issued and delivered under Act 174 of the Session Laws of Hawaii, 1935. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Act 23 of the Session Laws of Hawaii, 1937, amending section 17 of Act 174 of the Session Laws of Hawaii, 1935, so as to extend the time within which revenue bonds may be issued and delivered under said Act 174 is hereby ratified and confirmed and revenue bonds may be issued under and pursuant to the provisions of said Act 174 of the Session Laws of Hawaii, 1935, as amended by said Act 23, without the approval of the President of the United States and without the incurring of an indebtedness within the meaning of the Hawaiian Organic Act and said Act 174, as amended by said Act 23, shall constitute full authority for the issuance of said bonds without reference to and independent of the Hawaiian Organic Act. Approved, May 13, 1938. [CHAPTER 212] AN ACT To amend section 2 of the Act to incorporate The Howard University. 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 to incorporate The Howard University in the District of Columbia, approved March 2, 1867 (14 Stat. 438), is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2. That Samuel C. Pomeroy, Charles B. Boynton, Oliver 0. Howard, Burton C. Cooks Charles H. Howard, James B. Hutchinson, Henry A. Brewster, Benjamin F. Morris, Danforth B. Nichols, Wil- liam G. Finney, Roswell H. Stevens, E. M . Cushman, Hiram Barbour E. W . Robinson, W. F. Bascom, J. B. Johnson, and Silas L. Loomis be, and they are hereby, declared to be a body politic and corporate, with perpetual succession in deed or in law to all intents and pur- poses whatsoever, by the name, style, and title of "The Howard University", by which name and title they and their successors shall be competent, at law and in equity, to take to themselves and their successors, for the use of said university, any estate whatsoever in any messuage, lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, notes, bonds, stocks, moneys, and other effects, by gift, devise, grant, dona- tion, bargain, sale, conveyance, assurance, or will; and the same to 351 May 13, 1938 [H. R . 6656] [Public, No. 510] November 11 of each year made a legal holiday. May 13, 1938 [H. R. 8403] [Public, No. 511] Hawaii. Ratification of Act extending time for issuance of certain revenue bonds. 48U.S.C., ch.3; Supp. III, ch. 3. May 13, 1938 [H. R . 90421 [Public, No. 512] The Howard Uni- versity, District of Columbia. 14 Stat. 438. Incorporators. Corporate name and powers.