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 57 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 1 ST SESS.-CHS. 342, 343-DEC. 5, 17, 1943 five qualified physicians, of whom one only shall be an Army officer and one only a Navy officer, and the three remaining members shall be qualified civilian physicians not employed by the Federal Govern- ment, who shall examine the physical, mental, and moral qualification requirements for admission to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, and recommend to the President any changes therein which they believe can be made without impairing the efficiency of the armed services. The commission shall especially consider the establishment of special standards for men who will be inducted only for limited service. The Director of Selective Service shall cause to be reexamined those men, including those previously discharged from the armed services because of physical disability, who may qualify under any new standards established." SEC. 5. Any registrant within the categories herein defined when it appears that his induction will shortly occur shall, upon request, be ordered by his local board in accordance with schedules authorized by the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Director of Selective Service, to any regularly established induction station for a preinduction physical examination, subject to reexaminations. The commanding officer of such induction station where such physi- cal examination is conducted under this provision shall issue to the registrant a certificate showing his physical fitness or lack thereof, and this examination shall be accepted by the local board, subject to periodic reexamination. Those registrants who are classified as I-A at the time of such physical examination and who are found physically qualified for military service as a result thereof, shall remain so classified and report for induction in regular order. SEC. 6. The Director of Selective Service shall obtain full and com- plete information from the various agencies, departments, and branches of the Federal Government, and from other sources, con- cerning requests for deferment, deferments, exemptions, rejections, discharges, inductions, enlistments, replacement schedules, and other matters with respect to registrants, whether or not they are members of the armed forces, or whether or not they are Government or private employees; and he shall report that information, together with the manner in which the provisions of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, are being administered, to the Senate and House Committees on Military Affairs monthly or at such intervals as the Committees may designate from time to tine. SEC. 7. Except as provided in this Act, all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby suspended to the extent of such conflict for the period in which this Act shall be in force. Approved December 5, 1943. [CHAPTER 343] AN ACT To amend the Act providing for the payment of allowance on death of officer or enlisted man to widow, or person designated, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the payment of six months' pay to the widow, children, or other designated dependent relative of any officer or enlisted man of the Regular Army whose death results from wounds or disease not the result of his own misconduct" (41 Stat. 367), approved December 17, 1919, as amended and supplemented (42 Stat. 1385; 45 Stat. 249; 55 Stat. 796; 10 U. S. C. 903, 903a), be, and the same is hereby further amended by inserting at the end thereof the 599 Membership. Duties. Special standards for limited service. Preinduction physi- cal examination. Issuance of certifi- cate. Class I-A regis- trants. Information con- cerning registrants. Reports to Con- gress. 54 Stat. 8S5. 60T.S.C.app.i 301-318; Sulpp. I, 1I .102-316. Ante, pp. 164, :31. Suspension of con- flicting laws. December 17, 1943 [H. R. 2188] [Public Law 1981 Army. Payment of six months' death gra- tuity. 10 U. S. C., Supp. 1I, 486.

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