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 488 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 508-510--JUNE 19, 1948 [62 STAT. actions, the said right of action shall be limited to damages for physical injury except for pain and suffering resulting therefrom." SEC. 2. Section 327 of the Act entitled "An Act to establish a code 31 .satc. d24l 50l. of law for the District of Columbia", approved March 3, 1901, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: Suitsbyand against "SEC. 327. Executors and administrators shall have full power and executors and admin- istrators. authority to commence and prosecute any personal action at law or in equity which the testator or intestate might have commenced and Tort actions. prosecuted: Provided,however, That in tort actions, the said right of action shall be limited to damages for personal injury except for pain and suffering resulting therefrom; and they shall also be liable to be sued in the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia in any action at law or in equity, except as aforesaid, which might have been maintained against the deceased; and they shall be entitled to or answerable for costs in the same manner as the deceased would have been, and shall be allowed for the same in their accounts, unless it shall appear that there were not probable grounds for insti- tuting or defending the suits in which judgments or decrees shall have been given against them." Approved June 19, 1948. [CHAPTER 509] June 19,1948 8. 1470] [Public Law 678] National Guard, etc. Care of sick or injured. "In time of peace." Applicability to Air Force. 61 Stat. 495. 5 U.S. C., Supp. I, i 171 note. AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act to make provision for the care and treatment of members of the National Guard, Organized Reserves, Reserve Officers' Training Corps, and Citizens' Military Training Camps who are injured or contract diseases while engaged in military training, and for other purposes", approved June 15, 1936, as amended, 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 Act entitled "An Act to make provision for the care and treatment of members of the National Guard, Organized Reserve, Reserve Officers' Training Corps, and Citizens' Military Training Camps who are injured or contract disease while engaged in military training, and for other purposes", approved June 15, 1936 (49 Stat. 1507), as amended (Act July 15, 1939, 53 Stat. 1042; sec. 5, Act October 14, 1940, 54 Stat. 1137- 32 U. S. C. 164d; 10 U. S. C. 455e), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: "SEC. 2 . As used in this Act, the term 'in time of peace' shall include that period after September 2, 1945 (the date of formal surrender by Japan), which is prior to the first day on which the United States is, by action of the Congress, or the President, or both, no longer engaged in any war in which the United States is engaged on the date of enact- ment of this section. "SEC. 3 . The foregoing amendment shall be applicable to the Depart- ment of the Air Force to the same extent as if enacted prior to the passage of the National Security Act of 1947." Approved June 19, 1948. [CHAPTER 510] June 19, 1948 AN ACT Is. 1747] To authorize credit in certain accounts of United States property and disbursing [Public Law 6791 officers under the War Department, and for other purposes. Property and dis- bursing officers. 39 Stat. 166 . 10U.... 2et sq. Ante, p. 87. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled That payments made prior to July 1, 1942, out of moneys appropriated under the provisions of the National Defense Act, for the support of the National Guard

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