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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 93, 104-MAR. 14, 20, 1946 [CHAPTER 93] March 14, 1946 [S. 15 32 1 To authorize the appointment of certain persons as permanent brigadier generals [Public Law 326] of the line of the Regular Army. Regular Army Permanent brigadier generals. Post, p. 936. March 20, 146 [H. R. 52391 [Public Law 327] 50 Stat. 662. 31 U S. C., Supp. V, i§ 215-217 notes, 222e, 2221, 223d. Post, pp. 333, 846. Coast Guard. Settlement of claims. 31U.S.C.if215- 217; Supp. V, i 215- 217 notes. Post, p. 846. Coast and Geodetic Survey; PHS. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, notwithstand- ing any other provision of law, the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, is authorized to appoint as perma- nent brigadier generals of the line of the Regular Army the follow- ing persons: Hoyt S. Vandenberg, presently serving in the temporary grade of lieutenant general in the Army of the United States; James H. Doolittle, presently serving in the temporary grade of lieutenant general in the Army of the United States; Raymond S. McLain, presently serving in the temporary grade of lieutenant gen- eral in the Army of the United States; Curtis E. LeMay, presently serving in the temporary grade of major general in the Army of the United States; and Lauris Norstad, presently serving in the tempo- rary grade of major general in the Army of the United States. SEC. 2. Any persons appointed pursuant to the provisions of the first section of this Act shall be counted for the purposes of provi- sions of law establishing the authorized number of brigadier generals of the line of the Regular Army. Approved March 14, 1946. [CHAPTER 104] AN ACT To amend Public Law 277, Seventy-ninth Congress, so as to provide the Coast Guard, at such time as it is transferred back to the Treasury Department, with a system of laws for the settlement of claims, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Public Law 277, Seventy-ninth Congress, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sections: "SEC. 5 . The provisions of this Act shall apply to the Coast Guard and to the personnel of the Coast Guard, military and civil, when the Coast Guard is not operating as a part of the Navy. In such cases, the Secretary of the Treasury shall have and exercise, as to claims caused by military or civilian employees of the Coast Guard while acting within the scope of their employment or otherwise incident to the activities of the Coast Guard and as to the claims of the personnel of the Coast Guard, the authority conferred by this Act upon the Secretary of the Navy, and payment or reimbursement in kind of such claims shall be made from appropriations available to the Treasury Department which appropriations are hereby author- ized. The Act of December 28, 1922 (42 Stat. 1066), shall be inappli- cable to the Coast Guard sixty days after approval of this Act. "SEC. 6 . The provisions of this Act shall apply to the personnel of the Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Public Health Service when serving with the Navy." Approved March 20, 1946. 56 [60 STAT. AN APT

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