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 652 48 Stat. 1021 . Post Office Depart- ment. Total; additional sum, increases in rates of exchange. Short title. May 3, 1939 [H. R. 2320] [Public, No. 62] Veterans of desig- nated wars, etc. Domiciliary care, medical, etc. , treat- ment, and burial bene- fits extended to cer- tain. 48 Stat. 9, 11; 49 Stat. 729. 38U.S.C.§§706, 717; Supp. IV, § 706. May 3, 1939 [H. R. 3134] [Public, No. 63] American Repub- lics, Philippine Is- lands, and Liberia. 52 Stat. 442. 5 U.S.C., Supp.IV, 118e. Temporary detail of United States em- ployees to, authorized. PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 107, 109, 11--MAY 2, 3, 1939 [53 STAT. For emergency conservation fund (transfer to War, Act June 19, 1934), $20.78. For increase of compensation, rivers and harbors, $5. Post Office Department-Postal Service (out of the Postal Revenues): For clerks, first- and second-class post offices, $200. For indemnities, domestic mail, $13.30. For Railway Mail Service, salaries, $448.12. For Rural Delivery Service, $394.09. For separating mails, $90. Total, audited claims, section 304 (b), $90,065.21, together with such additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency as specified in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office. SEC. 305. This Act may be cited as the "Second Deficiency Appro- priation Act, fiscal year 1939". Approved, May 2, 1939. [CHAPTER 109] AN ACT To provide domiciliary care, medical and hospital treatment, and burial benefits to certain veterans of the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, and the Boxer Rebellion. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That in addition to persons entitled to domiciliary care, medical and hospital treatment, and burial benefits under the provisions of sections 6 and 17, Public Law Numbered 2, Seventy-third Congress, as amended (U. S. C., title 38, secs. 706 and 717), and regulations issued pursuant thereto, as amended, those persons recognized as veterans of the Spanish-Ameri- can War, including the Boxer Rebellion and Philippine Insurrection, under public laws in effect on March 19, 1933, are hereby included within the provisions of the aforesaid section 6, as amended, and the second proviso of the aforesaid section 17, and regulations issued pursuant thereto, as amended, in the same manner and to the same extent as the provisions are now or may hereafter be applied to vet- erans of any war as specified therein. Approved, May 3, 1939. [CHAPTER 110] AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the temporary detail of United States employees, possessing special qualifications, to governments of American republics and the Philippines, and for other purposes", approved May 25, 1938. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the temporary detail of United States employees, possessing special qualifications, to governments of Ameri- can republics and the Philippines, and for other purposes", approved May 25, 1938, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: "That the President of the United States be, and hereby is, author- ized, whenever he finds that the public interest renders such a course advisable, upon agreement with the government of any other Ameri- can republic or the Government of the Commonwealth of the Phil- ippine Islands, or the Government of Liberia, if such government is desirous of obtaining the services of a person having special scientific or other technical or professional qualifications, other than those

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