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in the area specifically approving the waiver of the requirements of said section 313. The Administrator shall act as promptly as practicable on any request which complies with the provisions of this section 505 and is fully supported as herein required.

"(c) In filling vacancies in any housing for which rights are relinquished or transferred under subsection (a) of this section, preference shall be given to veterans of World War II or servicemen, who are students at the educational institution, and their families: Provided, That the educational institution shall be deemed to comply with this subsection (c) if it makes available to veterans of World War II or servicemen and their families accommodations in any housing of the institution equal in number to the accommodations in the housing for which such rights are relinquished or transferred." SEC. 2. (a) Any Federal agency (including any wholly owned Government corporation) administering utility installations connected to a utility system for housing under the jurisdiction of the Housing and Home Finance Administrator is authorized

(1) to continue to provide utilities and utility services to such housing as long as it is under the jurisdiction of the Administrator; (2) to contract with the purchasers or transferees of such housing to continue the utility connection with such installations and furnish such utilities and services as may be available and needed in connection with such housing, for such period of time (not exceeding the period of Federal administration of such installations) and subject to such terms (including the payment of the pro rata cost to the Government or the market value of the utilities and services furnished, whichever is greater) as may be determined by the head of the agency;

(3) to dispose of such installations, when excess to the needs of the agency, and where not excess to grant an option to purchase, to the purchasers or transferees of such housing, for an amount not less than the appraised value of the installations and upon such terms and conditions as the head of the agency shall establish. (b) Any Federal agency (including any wholly owned Government corporation) having under its jurisdiction lands across which run any part of a utility system for housing under the jurisdiction of the Administrator is authorized to grant to the Administrator, or to the purchasers or transferees of such housing, easements (which may be perpetual) on such land for utility purposes.

SEC. 3. Section 4 of the Act entitled "An Act to expedite the provision of housing in connection with national defense, and for other purposes", approved October 14, 1940, as amended, is hereby amended by striking out the period at the end thereof and adding the following: "Provided further, That, for the purposes of this section, housing constructed or acquired under the provisions of Public Law 781, Seventy-sixth Congress, approved September 9, 1940, or Public Law 9, 73, or 353, Seventy-seventh Congress, approved, respectively, March 1, 1941, May 24, 1941, and December 17, 1941, shall be deemed to be housing constructed or acquired under this Act."

SEC. 4. Section 313 of the Act entitled "An Act to expedite the provision of housing in connection with national defense, and for other purposes", approved October 14, 1940, as amended, is hereby amended by striking out the following words in the second sentence:

"two years after the President declares that the emergency declared by him on September 8, 1939, has ceased to exist" and inserting in lieu thereof "January 1, 1950".

SEC. 5. The Defense Homes Corporation is authorized to convey, without reimbursement therefor, to Howard University, a corporation organized pursuant to an Act of Congress, all of its right, title, and interest in certain lands in the District of Columbia, together with the improvements constructed thereon and the personal property used in connection therewith, and commonly known as Lucy Diggs Slowe Hall, 1919 Third Street Northwest, and George Washington Carver Hall, 211 Elm Street Northwest: Provided, That no employee of the United States or of the District of Columbia who, on the date of approval of this Act, is a tenant of either Lucy Diggs Slowe Hall or George Washington Carver Hall shall, unless quarters were assigned to such tenant on a transient basis or on the sole basis that the tenant was enrolled at an educational institution, be evicted from such halls within four years after the approval of this Act, except where such tenant commits a nuisance or otherwise violates any obligation of tenancy.

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation is hereby authorized and directed to discharge the indebtedness of the Defense Homes Corporation to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in an amount equal to the Defense Homes Corporation's net investment in these properties as of the date of transfer, as determined by the President of the Defense Homes Corporation, and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to discharge the indebtedness of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to the Treasury in like amount as of the same date.

SEC. 6. The right, title, and interest in any lands, together with the improvements constructed thereon, which are conveyed pursuant to the authority granted by section 5 hereof, shall revert to the United States upon a written finding made by the President prior to July 1, 1963, that the property is needed by the United States in connection with a national defense emergency.

Approved June 28, 1948.

[PUBLIC LAW 864-80TH CONGRESS]

[CHAPTER 784-2D SESSION]

[S. 2790]

AN ACT

To amend the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, as amended, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That title III of the National Housing Act, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"TITLE III-FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE

ASSOCIATION

"CREATION AND POWERS OF THE FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION "SEC. 301. (a) The Administrator is further authorized and empowered to provide for the establishment of a Federal National Mortgage Association (hereinafter referred to as the "Association") which shall be authorized, subject to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Association

"(1) to purchase, service, or sell any mortgages, which are insured after April 30, 1948, under section 203 or section 603 of this Act, or guaranteed under section 501, 502, or 505 (a) of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, as amended: Provided, however, That

"(A) no mortgage shall be offered to the Association for purchase by, or if it covers property held by, Federal, State, or municipal instrumentalities;

"(B) no mortgage may be purchased for an amount exceeding the unpaid principal balance thereof, plus accrued interest, at the time of purchase;

"(C) no mortgage shall be offered to the Association for purchase if the original principal obligation of the loan exceeds or exceeded $10,000 for each family residence or dwelling unit covered by the mortgage or other lien securing the loan;

"(D) no mortgage shall be offered to the Association for purchase unless offered by the original mortgagee prior to any other sale thereof;

"(E) no mortgage shall be offered to the Association for purchase by any one mortgagee (1) unless such mortgage is secured by property used, or designed to be used, for residential purposes and (2) if the unpaid principal balance thereof, when added to the aggregate amount paid for all mortgages purchased by the Association from such mortgagee pursuant to authority contained herein, exceeds 25 per centum of the original principal amount of all mortgages made by

such mortgagee which, except for this subparagraph (E), meet the requirements of this section.

"(F) no mortgage shall be purchased by the Association unless the mortgagee certifies that the housing with respect to which the mortgage was made meets the construction standards prescribed for insurance of mortgages on the same class of housing under the National Housing Act, as amended. "(2) to borrow money for any of the foregoing purposes through the issuance of notes or other such obligations as hereinafter provided.

"(b) The Federal National Mortgage Association, a subsidiary of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and established pursuant to the provisions of this title as in effect prior to June 1, 1948, shall be the Association referred to in subsection (a) of this section. The Board of Directors of the Association shall consist of not less than five persons to be appointed by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, or the Acting Chairman in the case of a vacancy in the office of Chairman, from the Directors, officers, or employees of such Corporation and the officers shall be appointed by the Board of Directors from the Directors, officers, or employees of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

"(c) The Association created under this section shall have succession from the date of its organization unless it is dissolved by order of the Administrator as hereinafter provided, or by Act of Congress, and shall have power

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"(1) to adopt and use a corporate seal;

"(2) to make contracts;

"(3) to sue and be sued; complain and defend, in any court of law or equity, State or Federal;

"(4) to conduct its business in any State of the United States, or in the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands, and to have one or more offices in such State, or in the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, or Puerto Rico, one of which offices shall be designated at the time of organization as its principal office;

"(5) to do all things as are necessary or incidental to the proper management of its affairs and the proper conduct of its business. "(d) The Association may have a capital stock of not to exceed $20,000,000 and paid-in surplus of $1,000,000, subscribed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

"(e) The Association, for the purpose of all actions by or against it, real, personal, or mixed, and all suits in equity, shall be deemed a citizen of the place in which its principal office is located.

"(f) No individual, association, partnership, or corporation, except the Association organized under this section, shall hereafter use the words 'Federal National Mortgage Association' or any combination of such words, as the name or a part thereof under which he or it shall do business. Every individual, partnership, association, or corporation violating this prohibition shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding $100 or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or both, for each day during which such violation is committed or repeated. The provisions of section 5243 of the

Revised Statutes shall not apply to the Association created under this title.

"OBLIGATIONS

"SEC. 302. The Association is authorized to issue and have outstanding at any time notes or other obligations in an aggregate amount not to exceed (1) forty times the amount of its capital and surplus, and in no event to exceed (2) the current unpaid principal of mortgages held by it and insured under the provisions of titles II and VI of this Act and guaranteed under section 501, 502, or 505 (a) of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, as amended, plus the amount of its cash on hand and on deposit and the amortized value of its investments in bonds or other obligations of, or in bonds or other obligations guaranteed as to principal and interest by, the United States.

"INVESTMENT OF FUNDS

"SEC. 303. Moneys of the Association not invested in mortgages or in operating facilities shall be kept in cash on hand or on deposit, or invested in bonds or other obligations of, or in bonds or other obligations guaranteed as to principal and interest by, the United States; except that the Association shall keep and maintain such reserves as it may deem necessary.

"TAXATION PROVISIONS

"SEC. 304. The Association, including its franchise, capital, reserves, surplus, mortgage loans, income, and stock shall be exempt from all taxation now or hereafter imposed by the United States, by any Territory, dependency, or possession thereof, or by any State, county, municipality, or local taxing authority, except that any real property of the Association shall be subject to State, Territorial, county, municipal, or local taxation to the same extent according to its value as other real property is taxed.

"MANAGEMENT OF ACQUIRED PROPERTIES

"SEC. 305. The Association shall have power to deal with, rent, renovate, modernize, or sell for cash, with a view to assuring a maximum financial return to the Association, any property acquired by it as a result of foreclosure proceedings or otherwise.

"LIQUIDATION

"SEC. 306. The Administrator shall have power to terminate the existence of the Association and order its liquidation and the winding up of its affairs whenever the Administrator determines, in his judg ment, that the need therefor no longer exists. The Association shall make a report of its activities to the Administrator in January and July of each year for the preceding six months' period, which report shall be transmitted to the Congress, together with the Administrator's recommendations thereon."

SEC. 2. Nothing in the amendment made by the first section of this Act shall limit the authority of the Federal National Mortgage Association to service or sell any mortgage purchased prior to the date of the enactment of this Act, or to purchase, service, or sell any mortgage

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