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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 339, 340 -JUNE 5, 1942 r Lands exlued. is qualified to own and hold real estate in Alaska: Provided, That the conveyance hereby authorized shall not include any land needed for public purposes or covered by a valid existing right initiated Reservation of min- under the public-land laws: Providedfurther, That the coal and other er rigs mineral deposits in the land shall be reserved to the United States, together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same. Approved, June 5, 1942. [CHAPTER 340] June 5, 1942 [H. R. 4476] [Public Law 580] Military Establish- ment. Welfare of enlisted personnel. Ante, p. 227; post, p. 615. Employment of in- ternes. Post, p. 621. Personnel strength. Suspension of limi- tations. Civilian employees. Appointment or transfer for duty out- side U. 8. Transportation costs. Shipment of per- sonal effects. Removal of depend- ents and household effects from restricted zones. Protso. Temporary duty away from permanent station. AN ACT Providing for sundry matters affecting the Military Establishment. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and hereby is, authorized out of any moneys available for the War Department to provide for entertainment and instruc- tion in connection with the welfare of enlisted personnel; to provide for the employment of internes who are graduates of or have suc- cessfully completed at least four years' professional training in reputable schools of medicine or osteopathy in the Medical Depart- ment, at not to exceed $720 per annum. SEC. 2. That all provisions of existing law limiting the strength of any branch of the Army, the number of aviation cadets in the Army Air Corps, the number of assistant superintendents of the Army Nurse Corps, the number and grade of reserve officers who may be ordered to extended active duty and the number of officers of the Army who may be required to participate regularly and fre- quently in aerial flights are hereby suspended. SEC. 3. (a) That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to effect appointments of civilian employees in the United States, or to effect the transfer of such employees in the Federal Service in the United States, for duty at any point outside the continental limits of the United States or in Alaska at which it may be found necessary to assign such civilian employees, and to pay the costs of transportation of such employees from the place of engagement in the United States, or from the present post of duty in the United States or in Alaska, if already in the Federal Service, to the post of duty outside the United States and return upon relief therefrom, and to provide for the shipment of personal effects of persons so appointed or transferred from the place of engagement or transfer to the post of duty outside the continental United States or in Alaska and return upon relief therefrom. (b) When civilian employees are on duty at places designated by the Secretary of War as within zones from which their dependents should be evacuated for military reasons, or upon transfer or assign- ment to duty of such civilian employees to places where their depend- ents are not for military reasons permitted to accompany them, their dependents and household effects may be moved at Government expense under such regulations as the Secretary of War may pre- scribe, to such locations as may be designated by the employee con- cerned and later from such locations to a duty station to which the employee is assigned and at which the above restrictions do not apply: Provided, That the provisions of this subsection shall be applicable to travel performed by dependents and household effects moved on and after December 8. 1941. (c) When civilian employees are assigned to temporary duty away from their permanent station on orders which do not provide for return to the permanent station, or which do not specify or imply any [56 STAT.

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