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 62 STAT.] 80TH CONG., 2n SESS.-CHS. 149-151, 157-MAR. 25, 1948 87 new building to be located on such site and for the remodeling of the existing main post office all to provide additional postal facilities in said city. The cost of such plans and specifications and the acquisition of the site shall not exceed $300,000. Approved March 25, 1948. [CHAPTER 150] AN ACT March 25, 1948 To ratify the administrative promotions of employees on military furlough from [H. R. 5315] the field postal service, in certain cases, and for related purposes. [Public Law 458] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That if an employee in the field postal service was promoted, after September 15, 1940, and before January 1, 1948, to the position of special clerk or to any other position not then in an automatic grade, and the promotion was unauthorized by law only because the employee was then absent on military furlough, the promotion is hereby ratified. SEC. 2. Such an employee is hereby relieved of all liability to refund to the United States any amounts paid to him as a result of the pro- motion; and in the audit and settlement of the accounts of any post- master, or of any other designated disbursing officer of the Post Office Department or postal service, the amounts paid as a result of the promotion shall be considered to have been authorized. Any amounts heretofore credited to the employee or refunded by him to the United States on account of any overpayment made as a result of the pro- motion shall be repaid out of any money available for the payment of salaries of employees in the service in which he is employed. Approved March 25, 1948. Postal Service. Promotions during military furlough. Relief of liability. [CHAPTER 151] JOINT RESOLUTION March 25, 1948 To authorize the issuance of a special series of stamps commemorative of the i. J. Res. 320] one-hundredth anniversary of the creation of the Territory of Minnesota. [Public Law 4591 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congressassembled, That the Postmaster General is authorized and directed to prepare for issuance on March 3, 1949, a special series of 3-cent postage stamps, of such design as he shall prescribe, in commemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the creation of the Territory of Minnesota. Approved March 25, 1948. [CHAPTER 157] AN ACT To provide for inactive duty training pay for the Organized Reserve Corps, to provide uniform standards for inactive duty training pay for all Reserve com- ponents of the armed forces, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of the National Defense Act, as amended, be further amended by striking out the words "the Officers Reserve Corps, the Organized Reserves, and the Enlisted Reserve Corps," and inserting in lieu thereof the words "and the Organized Reserve Corps". SEC. 2. That section 37a of the National Defense Act of 1916, as amended, is amended by deleting therefrom the following sentence: "A Reserve officer shall not be entitled to pay and allowances except when on active duty." Minnesota, 100th anniversary. Commemorative stamp. March 25, 1948 [S. 1174] (Public Law 460] Organized Reserve Corps, Army. 48 Stat. 153 . 10U. S .. . 2. 41 Stat. 776. 10 U. . C. 361l.

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