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 54 STAT.] 76 TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CHS. 875, 876-OCT. 14, 1940 therefrom to the purchase of feed, supplementing the regular allow- ance and issue for the animals of the said units, and for the purchase of stable equipment, and horseshoers', saddlers', blacksmiths', and wagoners' tools not an article of issue to such organizations." SEc. 5. That the Act of July 15, 1939 (53 Stat. 1042), be, and the same is hereby, repealed and reenacted to read as follows: "That neither of the provisions of the Act of June 15, 1936 (49 Stat. 1507), nor any other law of the United States shall be construed as limiting the power and authority of the Secretary of War, under such regulations as he may prescribe, to require the hospitalization, medical, and surgical treatment and end domiciliary care so long as any or all are necessary of persons in the active military service or on active duty, or in training, under the provisions of sections 92, 94, 97, 99, and 113 of the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916, as amended, and to incur obligations with respect thereto, without reference to their line-of-duty status: Provided, That this Act shall not include those individuals who are on an armory-drill status except officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the National Guard who suffer personal injury (as distinguished from disease) when participating in aerial flights prescribed under the provisions of section 92: And provided further, That this Act shall not apply to officers and enlisted men who are treated in private hospitals or by civilian physicians while on furloughs or leaves of absence in excess of twenty-four hours." Approved, October 14, 1940. [CHAPTER 876] AN ACT To revise and codify the nationality laws of the United States into a comprehensive nationality code. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the nationality laws of the United States are revised and codified as follows: 1137 32U.S . C., Supp. V, 164d. 10U.S.C ., Supp. V, §455a-d; 32 U. . C., Supp. V, §§164a-c. Required hospitali- zation and medical treatment. 39 Stat. 206, 207, 211. Proviso. Exclusion of indi- viduals on armory- drill status; exoeption. Private treatment. October 14, 1940 [H. R . 9980] [Public, No. 853] Nationality Act of 1940. TITLE I SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the Nationality Act of 1940. 8horttitle. CHAPTER I-DEFINITIONS SEC. 101. For the purposes of this Act- (a) The term "national" means a person owing permanent alle- "National." giance to a state. (b) The term "national of the United States" means (1) a citizen "National of the United States, or (2) a person who, though not a citizen of the United tates United States, owes permanent allegiance to the United States. It does not include an alien. (c) The term "naturalization" means the conferring of nationality 'Naturalizat of a state upon a person after birth. (d) The term "United States" when used in a geographical sense "United stat means the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands of the United States. (e) The term "outlying possessions" means all territory, other than "Outlying as specified in subsection (d), over which the United States exercises rights of sovereignty, except the Canal Zone. (f) The term "parent" includes in the case of a posthumous child "Parent." a deceased parent. (g) The term "minor" means a person under twenty-one years of "Mnor." age. of the ion. " oses." posses- 193470--41 -PT. I - 72

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