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62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CHS. 823 -825- -JULY 3, 1948 SEC. 2. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the estab- lishment of a working capital fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1949, $2,500,000, such fund to be used only for the payment of expenses for transportation, lodging, and subsistence in connection with the temporary migration of foreign agricultural workers from foreign countries within the Western Hemisphere, and workers from Puerto Rico, to and between places of employment within the continental United States and return to the place of origin. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the employers utilizing such workers shall be required to reimburse such fund to such extent and in such manner and under such terms and conditions as the Administrator of the Federal Security Agency may by regulation or otherwise prescribe. Approved July 3, 1948. 1239 Appropriation au- thorized. Ante, p. 1032 . [CHAPTER 824] JOINT RESOLUTION July 3, 194I To authorize the issuance of a special series of stamps commemorative of Juliette [H. . Res. 327] Low, founder and organizer of Girl Scouting in the United States of America. [Public Law 894] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Americain Congress assembled, That the Postmaster General is authorized and directed to issue at the earliest practicable date, a special series of 3-cent postage stamps, of such design as he shall prescribe, in commemoration of Juliette Low, the founder and organ- izer of Girl Scouting in the United States of America. Approved July 3, 1948. [CHAPTER 825] AN ACT To amend section 5, Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Anmerica in Congress assembled, That subsection (i) of section 5 of the Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933, as amended, is hereby amended by adding the following provision at the end thereof: "Any Federal savings and loan association may convert itself into a savings and loan type of institution organized pursuant to the laws of the State, District, or Territory (hereinafter referred to in this section as the State) in which the principal office of such Federal association is located: Provided, (1) That the State permits the conversion of any savings and loan type of institution of such State into a Federal sav- ings and loan association; (2) that such conversion of a Federal savings and loan association into such a State institution is determined upon the vote in favor of such conversion cast in person or by proxy at a special meeting of members called to consider such action, specified by the law of the State in which the home office of the Federal associa- tion is located, as required by such law for a State-chartered institution to convert itself into a Federal association, but in no event upon a vote of less than 51 per centum of all the votes cast at such meeting, and upon compliance with other requirements reciprocally equivalent to the requirements of such State law for the conversion of a State- chartered institution into a Federal association; (3) that notice of the meeting to vote on conversion shall be given as herein provided and no other notice thereof shall be necessary; the notice shall expressly state that such meeting is called to vote thereon, as well as the time and place thereof, and such notice shall be mailed, postage prepaid, at least twenty and not more than thirty days prior to the date of the meeting, to each member of record of the Federal association at his last address as shown on the books of the Federal association and to the General Juliette Low. Commemorative postage stamp. July 3, 1948 {[. R. 2798) [Public Law 896] Home Owners' Loan Act of 1l93, amendment. 48 Stat. 134 . 12t. S.('. 1464 (). ('onverslons to State MVsatins d loia Institutions.