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 58 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CHS. 268, 269-JUNE 22, 1944 possessions, and the District of Columbia; and the phrases "termina- tion of hostilities in the present war", "termination of the present war", and "termination of the war", mean termination of the war as declared by Presidential proclamation or concurrent resolution of the Congress. SEC. 1503. A discharge or release from active service under condi- tions other than dishonorable shall be a prerequisite to entitlement to veterans' benefits provided by this Act or Public Law Numbered 2, Seventy-third Congress, as amended. SEC. 1504. The Administrator shall transmit to the Congress annually a report of operations under this Act. If the Senate or the House of Representatives is not in session, such reports shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House of Representatives, as the case may be. SEC. 1505. In the event there shall hereafter be authorized any allowance in the nature of adjusted compensation, any benefits received by, or paid for, any veteran under this Act shall be charged against and deducted from such adjusted compensation; and in the event a veteran has obtained a loan under the terms of this Act, the agency disbursing such adjusted compensation shall first pay the unpaid balance and accrued interest due on such loan to the holder of the evidence of such indebtedness to the extent that the amount of adjusted compensation which may be payable will permit. Approved June 22, 1944. [CHAPTER 269] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, and additional appropriations therefor for the fiscal year 1944, 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 following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- wise appropriated, for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, and additional appropriations therefor for the fiscal year 1944, namely: NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES For traveling expenses of civilian employees, including travel of dependents of employees to and from navy yards or stations outside the continental limits of the United States; expenses of attendance, at home and abroad, upon meetings of technical, professional, scientific, and other similar organizations when, in the judgment of the Secre- tary of the Navy (hereafter in this Act referred to as the Secretary), such attendance would be of benefit in the conduct of the work of the Navy Department; physical examinations by civilian physicians and in other than naval hospitals of civilian employees engaged in haz- ardous occupations; expenses of courts and boards; purchase of law and reference books; expenses of prisoners and prisons; clerical assist- ance; witnesses' fees and traveling expenses; promoting accident pre- vention and safety in shore establishments of the Navy, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary; newspapers and periodicals for the naval service; all advertising of the Navy Department and its bureaus Prerequisite to en- titlement. 48Stat. 8. 38U.S.C.§701- 721; Supp. m, 7701. Report to Congress. Adjusted compensa- tion, deductions. Application to amount due on loan. June 22, 1944 [H. R. 4559] [Public Law 347] Naval Appropria- tion Act, 1945. Pot,p. 867 . Physical examina- tion of civilian em- ployees.

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