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 542 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 393-OCT. 6, 1945 [59 STAT. enlisted man. Whenever any option under this subsection is exer- cised, payments pursuant thereto shall begin at a date to be pre- Charg against en- scribed by the Secretary of the Department concerned. The monthly listed man's pay. stedmanspay. pay of any enlisted man of the first, second, or third grade who is provided with public quarters for his dependents and any of whose dependents is receiving a family allowance shall be reduced by, or charged with, 90 cents per day." Timelimitation. (c) The exercise of an option under the amendment made by this 37 U.S. C. . S,pp. section to receive the family allowance shall in no event have the Iv, i 201 seq. VAn, p. 6 41. effect of entitling the enlisted man to continue to have such family allowance beyond the period during which family allowance pay- ments are authorized to be made under the Servicemen's Dependents Allowance Act of 1942. Fre mailing privi- SE. 10. Any first-class letter mail matter admissible to the mails leg as ordinary mail matter which is sent by a member of the military or naval forces of the United States (including the United States Coast Guard), while on active duty or in the active military or naval service of the United States, to any person in the United States, including the Territories and possessions thereof, shall be trans- mitted in the mails free of postage, subject to such rules and regula- tions as the Postmaster General shall prescribe. This section shall cease to be in effect after December 31, 1947. 58 St.27,2pp. SEC. 11. (a) Part VIII of Veterans Regulation Numbered 1 (a) Iv, note fol. i. (added thereto by title II of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944) is amended by inserting at the end thereof a new paragraph reading as follows: "12. For the purposes of this part, the present war shall not be considered as terminating, in the case of any individual, before the termination of such individual's first period of enlistment or reenlist- ment contracted within one year after the date of the enactment of the Armed Forces Voluntary Recruitment Act of 1945." 38 Us. 29 d,upp. (b) Section 500 of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 is IV,§ 9. amended by inserting at the end thereof a new subsection reading ,p. as follows: "(d) For the purposes of this title, the present war shall not be considered as terminating, in the case of any individual, before the termination of such individual's first period of enlistment or reen- listment contracted within one year after the date of the enactment of the Armed Forces Voluntary Recruitment Act of 1945." 38 S..C ., Supp. (c) Section 700 of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 IV, 696. is amended by inserting at the end thereof a new subsection reading as follows: "(c) For the purposes of this title, neither the present war nor hostilities therein shall be considered as terminating, in the case of any individual, before the termination of such individual's first period of enlistment or reenlistment contracted within one year after the date of the enactment of the Armed Forces Voluntary Recruit- ment Act of 1945." 6 Stat 3 . C6 upp. SEC. 12. Section 2 of the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942, as IV, 102i amended, is amended by striking out ": Provided further, That this section shall be effective from December 7, 1941, and shall cease to be in effect twelve months after the termination of the present war is proclaimed by the President". Cost uard. SEC. 13. Wherever the terms "Navy" or "Naval Establishment" are used in this Act the term shall be deemed to include the Coast Guard, and wherever authority is given to the Secretary of the Navy similar authority shall be deemed given to the Secretary of the Treasury to be exercised with respect to the Coast Guard at such time or times as the Coast Guard shall be operating under the. Treasury Department.

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