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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 618, 626 -JULY 12,15, 194 Notification of death. Transmission of in- ventory. Observance of testa- mentary directions. Aiding in proceed- ings, etc. Safeguarding prop- erty. July 15, 1940 [S. 1341 [Public, No. 743] Retired emergency officers. Continuance of pay. 45 Stat. 735. 38U.S.C. 581, 582. Disability require- ment. Pro/isos. Active commis. sioned service. Determination of disability. "1710. For the information of the representative of the deceased, the consular officer, or, if no consular officer is present, a diplomatic officer, in the settlement of his estate shall immediately notify his death in one of the gazettes published in the consular district, and also to the Secretary of State, that the same may be notified in the State to which the deceased belonged; and he shall, as soon as may be, transmit to the Secretary of State an inventory of the effects of the deceased taken as before directed. "1711. When a citizen of the United States dies in a foreign country and leaves, by any lawful testamentary disposition, special directions for the custody and management, by the consular officer, or in his absence a diplomatic officer, within whose jurisdiction the death occurred, of the personal property in the foreign country which he possessed at the time of death, such officer shall, so far as the laws of the foreign country permit, strictly observe such direc- tions if not contrary to the laws of the United States. If such citizen has named, by any lawful testamentary disposition, any other person than a consular officer or diplomatic officer to take charge of and manage such property, it shall be the duty of the officer, whenever required by the person so named, to give his official aid in whatever way may be practicable to facilitate the proceedings of such person in the lawful execution of his trust, and, so far as the laws of the country or treaty provisions permit, to protect the property of the deceased from any interference by the authorities of the country where such citizen died. To this end it shall be the duty of the consular officer, or if no consular officer is present a diplomatic officer, to safeguard the decedent's property by placing thereon his official seal and to break and remove such seal only upon the request of the person designated by the deceased to take charge of and manage his property." Approved, July 12, 1940. [CHAPTER 626] AN ACT Providing for continuing retirement pay, under certain conditions, of officers and former officers of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps of the United States, other than officers of the Regular Army, Navy or Marine Corps, who incurred Ihysical disability while in the service of the United States during the World War, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, notwith- standing the provisions of any law of the United States, any person who served as an officer of the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States during the World War, other than as an officer of the Regular Army, Navy, or Marine Corps during the World War, who made valid application for retirement under the provisions of Public Law Numbered 506, Seventieth Congress, enacted May 24, 1928 (U. S. C., Supp. VII, title 38, secs. 581 and 582), and who prior to the passage of this Act has been granted retirement with pay and is shown to have been heretofore correctly rated, shall be entitled to continue to receive retirement pay at the monthly rate paid him on March 19, 1933, if the disability for which he has been retired resulted from disease or injury or aggravation of a preexisting disease or injury incurred in such service in fact in line of duty and directly resulting from the performance of duty: Provided,That such person rendered active service as a commissioned officer within the period between April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918: Provided further, That where the disability is now or hereafter determined to be 760 [54 STAT.

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