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 78TH CONG., 2D SESS.-OH. 9 - -FEB. 3,1944 Army specialized training program, (B) the Army Air Forces college training program, or (C) any similar program under the jurisdiction of the Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard; (6) any member of the armed forces for any active service performed prior to the date of his discharge from such forces for the purpose of entering the United States Military Academy, the United States Naval Academy, or the United States Coast Guard Academy; (7) any member of the armed forces whose sole service has been as a cadet at the United States Military Academy or the United States Coast Guard Academy, or as a midshipman at the United States Naval Academy, or in a preparatory school after nomination as a principal, alternate, or candidate for admission to any of said Academies; and (8) any commissioned officer unless he is discharged or relieved from active service within three years after the termination of the present war as proclaimed by the President. SEc. 2. (a) Mustering-out payment for persons eligible under section 1 shall be in sums as follows: (1) $300 for persons who, having performed active service for sixty days or more, have served outside the continental limits of the United States or in Alaska. (2) $200 for persons who, having performed active service for sixty days or more, have served no part thereof outside the continen- tal limits of the United States or in Alaska. (3) $100 for persons who have performed active service for less than sixty days. (b) Each person eligible to receive mustering-out payment under subsection (a) (1) shall receive one-third of the stipulated amount at the time of final discharge or ultimate relief from active service; and the remaining amount of such payment shall be paid in two equal installments--one month and two months, respectively, from the date of the original payment. Each person eligible to receive mustering-out payment under subsection (a) (2) shall receive one- half of the stipulated amount at the time of final discharge or ulti- mate relief from active service; and the remaining amount of such payment shall be paid one month from the date of the original pay- ment. Each person eligible to receive mustering-out payment under subsection (a) (3) shall receive the stipulated amount at the time of such discharge or relief from active service. SEC. 3. Any member of the armed forces entitled to mustering-out payment who shall have been discharged or relieved from active service under honorable conditions before the effective date of this Act shall, if application therefor is made within two years after the date of enactment of this Act, be paid such mustering-out payment by the War Department or the Navy Department, as the case may be, beginning within one month after application has been received and approved by such department: Provided, That no member of the armed forces shall receive mustering-out payment under this Act more than once, and such payment shall accrue and the amount thereof shall be computed as of the time of discharge for the purpose of effecting a permanent separation from the service or of ultimate relief from active service. SEC. 4. If any member of the armed forces, after his discharge or relief from active service, shall die before receiving any portion of or the full amount of his mustering-out payment, the balance of the amount due him shall be payable, on appropriate application there- for, to his surviving spouse, if any; and if he shall leave no surviv- Discharge for pur- pose of entering U. S. Academies. Cadets, midship- men, etc. Certain commis- sioned officers. Rates. Payment. Discharge before effective date of Act. Nonduplication of payment. Payment in event of death. 9 58 STAT.]

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