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 55 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 1ST SESS. -CHS. 235, 251, 252-JUNE 24, 25, 1941 further, That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with this claim, and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. Approved, June 24, 1941. [CHAPTER 2511 AN ACT Relating to certain Carey Act lands in Wyoming. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for use in connection with the Eden water conservation and utility project in the State of Wyoming and subject to such terms and conditions as he may prescribe, the Secretary of Agriculture may accept on behalf of the United States the reconveyance of any lands within the Eden project which have been patented to the State of Wyoming pursuant to the provisions of section 4 of the Act of August 18, 1894 (28 Stat. 372, 422, as amended). Approved, June 25, 1941. [CHAPTER 252] AN ACT To amend section 17 of the Joint Service Pay Act approved June 10, 1922, as amended. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the last sentence of the third proviso of section 17 of the Act entitled "An Act to readjust the pay and allowances of the commissioned and enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service", approved June 10, 1922 (42 Stat. 632), as amended (37 U. S . C . 26), reading: "Retired officers of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Coast and Geodetic Survey below the grade of brigadier general or conimnodore and retired warrant officers and enlisted men of those services, shall, when on active duty, receive full pay and allowances", is hereby amended by deleting the words "below the grade of brig- adier general or commodore and by inserting after the words "warrant officers" a comma and the word "nurses" so that as amended this sentence will read as follows: "Retired officers of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Coast and Geodetic Survey and retired warrant officers, nurses, and enlisted men of those services, shall, when on active duty, receive full pay and allowances". SEC. 2 . At the end of section 17 insert the following: "That in the computation of the retired pay of officers heretofore or hereafter retired with pay at the rate of 21/2 or 3 per centum of the active-duty pay received by them at the time of retirement multiplied by the number of years of service for which entitled to credit in the com- putation of their pay on the active list, not to exceed a total of 75 per centum of said active-duty pay, active duty performed by such retired officers subsequent to the date of their retirement shall be counted for the purpose of computing percentage increases in their retired pay. These increases shall be at the rate of 21⁄22 or 3 per 263 1 Limitation on attor- ney's, etc., fees. June 25, 1941 [S. 879] [Public Law 131] Eden project, Wyo. Acceptance of re- conveyance of certain lands in. 43 U. 8.C. 641. June 25, 1941 [H. R. 2279] [Public Law 132] Joint Service Pay Act, amendments. Retired personnel on active duty. Credit in computing retired pay.

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