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 538 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 390, 3 9 3 -O pt. 26 1945 [59 STAT. [CHAPTER 390 JOINT RESOLUTION September 26, 1946 Is. J3Res. 781 To provide for designation of the Veterans' Administration Hospital at Crugers- [Public Law 189 on-Hudson, near Peekskill, New York, as "Franklin Delano Roosevelt Hospital". Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Franklin Delano United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proposed evet ospital. Veterans' Administration hospital at Crugers-on -Hudson, near Peekskill, New York, shall be known and designated on the public records as the "Franklin Delano Roosevelt Hospital". Approved September 26, 1945. [CHAPTER 393] AN ACT October 6, 1945 LH. R. 3951] To stimulate volunteer enlistments in the Regular Military and Naval Establish- [Public Law 190] ments of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Armed Forces Vol- United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may untary Recruitment ActofIst. be cited as the "Armed Forces Voluntary Recruitment Act of 1945'. Recruiting cam- S. 2 . The Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy paigns. are authorized and directed to initiate and carry forward intensive recruiting campaigns to obtain volunteer enlistments and reenlist- ments in the Regular Military and Naval Establishments. SEC. 3 . (a) The Act entitled "An Act to provide for enlistments in the Regular Army during the period of the war, and for other Ante, p.2O. purposes", approved June 1, 1945 (Public Law 72, Seventy-ninth Congress), is hereby amended to read as follows: Enlistments ande- "That notwithstanding the limitations contained in any other pro- enlistments in Regu- larArmy. vision of law, the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to Optional periods, accept original enlistments and reenlistments in the Regular Army for periods of eighteen months or two or three years, at the option of the person so enlisted, from among qualified male persons not less than seventeen years of age, including persons in active service in the Army of the United States or any component thereof: Provided, Persons under21. That upon the presentation of satisfactory evidence as to his age and upon written application for discharge by his parent or guardian presented to the Secretary of War within six months after the date of his enlistment, any man enlisted under the provisions of this Act who is under twenty-one years of age and who has enlisted without the written consent of his parent or guardian, if any, shall be dis- charged from that portion of his contract of enlistment as extends beyond the duration of the present wars and six months thereafter: Provided further, That such person, when discharged from the service, shall receive the form of discharge and the travel and other allowances to which his service after enlistment shall entitled him: Persons under 18. Provided further, That no person under the age of eighteen years shall be enlisted without the written consent of his parents or guard- ians, and the Secretary of War shall, upon the application of the parents or guardians of any such person enlisted without their writ- ten consent, discharge such person from the military service with pay and with the form of discharge certificate to which the service of such person, after enlistment, shall entitle him. Nothing con- tained in this Act shall be construed to deprive any person of any right to reenlistment in the Regular Army under any other provision berlifb rty of o em of law. Any qualified and acceptable member of the Army of the United States, or of any component thereof, who has performed active service therein for a period of not less than six months, shall, upon his application, be accepted for an enlistment period of one

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