February 18. Not incided in the code [PUBLIC LAW 301-79TH CONGRESS] AN ACT Reducing certain appropriations and contract authorizations available for the TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS In addition to the transfers authorized by section 3 of the Military Army War College, $23,819; Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, $30,189; Quartermaster Service, Army, $7,881,967; Rock Island Bridge, Rock Island, Illinois, $5,719; Instruction in armored force activities, $389,756; Maintenance and Operation, United States Military Academy, $1,323,884; Army of the Philippines, $200,000,000: Provided, That service in the organized military forces of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, while such forces were in the service of the armed forces of the United States pursuant to the military order of the President of the United States dated July 26, 1941, shall not be deemed to be or to have been service in the military or naval forces of the United States or any component thereof for the purposes of any law of the United States conferring rights, privileges, or benefits upon any person by reason of the service of such person or the service of any other person in the military or naval forces of the United States or any component thereof, except benefits under (1) the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940, as amended, under contracts heretofore entered into, and (2) laws administered by the Veterans' Administration providing for the payment of pensions on account of service-connected disability or death: Provided further, That such pensions shall be paid at the rate of one Philippine peso for each dollar authorized to be paid under the laws providing for such pensions Provided further, That any payments heretofore made under any such law to or with respect to any number of the military forces of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines who served in the service of the armed forces of the United States shall not be deemed to be invalid by reason of the circumstances that his service was not service in the military or naval forces of the United States or any component thereof within the meaning of such law. SEC. 301. This Act may be cited as the "First Supplemental Surplus Appropriation Rescission Act, 1946". Approved February 18, 1946. Amended July 25, 1947, 61 May 27, 1946, 60 Stat. 223-4 [PUBLIC LAW 391-79TH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 271-2D SESSION] [H. R. 5604] AN ACT Reducing or further reducing certain appropriations and contractual authorizations available for the fiscal year 1946, and for other purposes. U'. S. C. 10: 336 TITLE II-MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT Office of Secretary of War. Expediting Production of Equipment and Supplies for National Defense, 1940-1946, $20,545,000. General Staff Corps: Special Field Exercises, Army, 1942–1946, $2,413,868. Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 1942-1946, $20,000. Finance Department: Finance Service, Army, 1942-1946, $4,704,700, and subappropriations under this head are hereby decreased as follows: (1) expenses of courts martial, $4,700; (2) apprehension of deserters, $450,000; (3) Finance Service, $4,000,000, and (4) claims for damages due to loss or destruction of property, or personal injury, or death, $250,000: Provided, That of the provisions of law of the United States conferring rights, privileges, or benefits upon any person by reason of the service of such person or the service of any other person in the armed forces of the United States or any component thereof, only those conferring rights, privileges, or benefits upon persons during the time they are on active duty and those listed below shall, after the date of enactment of this Act, be deemed to apply to persons for service in the Philippine Scouts under the provisions of section 14 of the Act approved October 6, 1945 (Public Law 190, Seventy-ninth Congress): (1) The provisions of the Act of March 9, 1928 (45 Stat. 251), as amended, relating to funeral expenses; (2) Provisions of law authorizing the payment to enlisted men of a travel allowance upon discharge; (3) Provisions of law authorizing retirement and prescribing or governing pay for Philippine Scouts placed on the retired list; (4) The provisions of the Act of December 17, 1919 (41 Stat. 367), as amended, authorizing the payment of a death gratuity equal to six months' active-duty pay to the dependents of military personnel whose death occurs while on active duty; (5) The provisions of the Mustering-Out Payment Act of 1944 (Public Law 225, Seventy-eighth Congress), except that for the purpose of computing such payments for service in the Philippine Scouts, service wholly performed in the Philippine Islands shall be compensated for on the same basis as service wholly performed within the United States; and (6) The provisions of laws administered by the Veterans' Provided further, That payments made under the provisions of any SEC. 301. This Act may be cited as the "Second Supplemental Sur- June 14, 1947, 61 Stat. 132 U. S. C. 38: 693a, note [PUBLIC LAW 91-80TH CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 103-1ST SESSION] [S. J. Res. 115] JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to continue and establish June 14. 1950. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Superseded States of America in Congress assembled, That the authority in section 7 of the World War Veterans' Act, 1924 (43 Stat. 609; 38 U. S. C. 430), and section 101 of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (58 Stat. 284; 38 U. S. C. 693a) to establish regional offices, suboffices, contact units, or other subordinate offices may continue to be exercised by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs with respect to territory of the Republic of the Philippines on and after the date of its independence if he deems such offices necessary, but in no event after June 30, 1948. Approved June 14, 1947. |