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 58 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 2o SESS. - CHS. 84, 86, 87-MAR. 4, 10, 11, 1944 [CHAPTER 84] JOINT RESOLUTION To limit the operation of sections 109 and 113 of the Criminal Code, and sections 361, 365, and 366 of the Revised Statutes, and certain other provisions of law. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That nothing in section 109 or 113 of the Criminal Code (U. S . C ., 1940 edition, title 18, sees. 198 and 203), or in section 361, 365, or 366 of the Revised Statutes (U. S . C., 1940 edition, title 5, sees. 306, 314, and 315), or in any other provision of Federal law imposing restrictions, requirements, or penalties in relation to the employment of persons, the performance of services, or the payment or receipt of compensation in connection with any claim, proceeding, or matter involving the United States, shall apply with respect to counsel serving under the provisions of H. Res. 105, Seventy-eighth Congress, adopted February 9, 1943, or H. Res. 386, Seventy-eighth Congress, adopted December 18, 1943. Approved March 4, 1944. [CHAPTER 861 AN ACT To provide retirement benefits for certain persons who serve as Administrator of Veterans' Affairs. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, is hereby authorized to appoint any former officer of the Regular Army, who, after active military service of more than fifteen years, has resigned his commis- sion and who subsequently served for a period of more than fifteen years either as Director of the Veterans' Bureau or as Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, or both, an officer on the active list of the Regu- lar Army in the grade held by him at the time of such resignation and thereafter immediately place him on the retired list of the Army in that grade and with the retired pay thereof. SEC. 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any such person may be so appointed and retired while holding civil office, and may continue to hold, or be appointed to, civil office to which compensation is attached, but, while entitled to receive the pay or compensation attached to any such civil office, shall not be entitled to receive active or retired pay by virtue of his military status Approved March 10, 1944. [CHAPTER 871 AN ACT To amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States", approved July 1, 1898, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives-of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That sections 75 (a), 75 (b), and 75 (c) of the Act of July 1, 1898, entitled "An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States", as amended, is amended to read as follows: "SEc. 75. (a) Every United States district court of bankruptcy shall appoint not more than twenty persons in any one district to be known as 'conciliation commissioners. One such commissioner shall be 113 March 4, 1944 [H. J . Res. 230] [Public Law 249] Limitation of opera- tion of designated statutes. 35 Stat. 1107, 1109. March 10, 1944 [S. 872] [Public Law 2601 Administrator of Veterans' Affairs. Retirement benefits. Continuance In civil office. March 11, 1944 [H. R. 4166] [Public Law 251] Bankruptcy Act of 1898, amendments. 47 Stat. 1470. 11 U.S . C. 1 .203(a), (b), (c). Conciliatlon am- mimionrm 350-45 -- -PT . -- --- 8

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