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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 426, 427-JUNE 20, 1942 Provisos. Traveling expenses. Transfer of wives and dependent minor children. Household effects, etc. Transportation of remains, etc. Appropriation an- thorized. June 20, 1942 [H. R. 6782] [Public Law 618] inspectors shall be promoted successively to grades 2 and 3 at the beginning of the next quarter following one year's satisfactory service (determined by a standard of efficiency which is to be defined by the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, with the approval of the Attorney General) in the next lower grade; and to grades 4 and 5 for meritorious service after no less than one year's service in grades 3 and 4, respectively: Provided further, That when offi- cers, inspectors, or other employees of the Immigration and Natural- ization Service are ordered to perform duty in a foreign country, or transferred from one station to another, in the United States or in a foreign country, they shall be allowed their traveling expenses in accordance with such regulations as the Attorney General may deem advisable. and they may also be allowed, within the discretion and under written orders of the Attorney General, the expenses incurred for the transfer of their wives and dependent minor chil- dren; their household effects and other personal property, including the expenses for packing, crating, freight, and drayage thereof in accordance with the Act of October 10, 1940 (54 Stat. 1105; U. S . C . title 5, sec. 73c-1). The expense of transporting the remains of such officers, inspectors, or other employees who die while in, or in transit to, a foreign country in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country for interment, and the ordinary and necessary expenses of such interment and preparation for shipment at their posts of duty or at home, are hereby authorized to be paid on the written order of the Attorney General: Pro- vided further, That the appropriation of such sum as may be necessary for the enforcement of this Act is hereby authorized." Approved, June 20, 1942. [CHAPTER 427] AN ACT To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to assign officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force to duty in the detective bureau of the Metropolitan Police Department, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Depaortment D c United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter the Assignments to de- Commissioners of the District of Columbia may assign to duty as assistant to the inspector commanding the detective bureau in the Metropolitan Police Department any officer or member of the Metro- politan Police force and, during the period of such assignment, the Rnnk anlpy. said officer or menber shall hold the rank and receive the pay of a captain of police and shall be eligible for assignment, by the said Commissioners, as chief of detectives. For the duration of such latter assignment such officer or member shall hold the rank and receive the pay of an assistant superintendent of police. Amendment. SEC. 2. That section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act to fix the salaries of officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force, the United States Park Police force, and the Fire Department of the District of D.C . Code 4-108 . Columbia", approved May 27, 1924 (43 Stat. 174), is amended by striking therefrom (1) the colon following the phrase readi "lieutenants, $2,700 each" and (2) the proviso reading "Provided That the lieutenant assigned as assistant to the inspector commandin the detective bureau, shall during the period of such assignment hold the rank and receive the pay of a captain." Approved, June 20, 1942. 374 [56 STAT.

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