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PUBLIC LAW 614-AUG. 21, 1954

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SEC. 2. The amendment made by this Act shall apply to payments with respect to the care given to disabled soldiers, sailors, and airmen on and after the first day of the month next following the month during which this Act is enacted: Provided, That said payments shall be made regardless of whether said veteran may be receiving domiciliary care or hospitalization in said home and the appropriations of the Veterans' Administration for medical, hospital, and domiciliary care shall be available for this purpose: Provided further, That no such payment to a State or Territory shall be made until the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs determines that the veteran, on whose account such payment is requested, is eligible for such care in a Veterans' Administration facility, and after such determination of eligibility such payment shall be made covering the period of eligibility from the date such care commenced, except that no such payment shall be made effective prior to the date of receipt by the Veterans' Administration of an appropriate request for determination of eligibility in the case of any eligible veteran with respect to whom such request is not received within ten days following the date such care commenced. Approved August 21, 1954. Public Law 614 August 21 1954 [H. R. 9000]

Army. J udg e Adv oc a t e ' s promotion list.

61 Stat. 795. 34 USC 3a note.

CHAPTER 783

AN ACT To integrate the Judf?e Advocate's promotion list with that of the Army to restore lost seniority and grade, 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 first paragraph of section 247 of the Universal Military Training and Service Act (formerly the Selective Service Act of 1948 (62 Stat. 643; 10 U.S.C. 65)) be amended to read: "Regular Army officers shall be permanently appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, in the Judge Advocate General's Corps in the commissioned officer grades of major general, brigadier general, colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, captain, and first lieutenant." SEC. 2, The names of officers on the Judge Advocate's promotion list who were transferred thereto from the Army promotion list shall be entered on the Army promotion list in the positions they would have attained if they had not been transferred to the Judge Advocate's promotion list: Provided, That the names of officers on the Judge Advocate's promotion list in the permanent grade of colonel shall be entered on the Army promotion list without change in the order of their precedence on the Judge Advocate's promotion list. SEC. 3. The names of officers on the Judge Advocate's promotion list, other than those provided for in section 2, shall be entered on the Army promotion list in the positions they would have attained if they had been entered on the Army promotion list at the time of original appointment. SEC. 4. To the extent necessary to give effect to sections 2 and 3, officers on the Judge Advocate s promotion list who would have attained a higher grade had they been carried on the Army promotion list rather than on the Judge Advocate's promotion list shall, within one hundred and twenty days after the date of enactment of this Act and in the manner prescribed in the Officer Personnel Act of 1947, be considered for and, if selected, be promoted to such higher grade. Officers considered for promotion to the grades of captain, major, and lieutenant colonel under the provisions of this section but not selected

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