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PUBLIC LAW 319-AUG. 9, 1955

commissioned grade, including a commissioned warrant grade, by an officer whose permanent status is enlisted."; and (c) deleting section 7(c). SKC. 2. (a) Any person who, on the date of enactment of this Act, is a member of the Fleet Reserve or Fleet Marine Corps Reserve and who prior to his transfer thereto— (1) was serving under a temporary appointment in a commissioned grade, and (2) had completed more than twenty years of active service in the Navy, Marine Corps, Army, Air Force, or (""oast Guard, or the reserve components thereof, including active duty for training, at least ten years of which was active commissioned service, may, in the discretion of the President, be placed on the retired list with the highest rank in which he served satisfactorily before his Transfer to the Fleet Reserve or Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, if application therefor is made within ninety days after the enactment of this Act. (b) Any person tram^ferred to the retired list under subsection (a) is entitled to retired pay at the rate of 2i/^ per centum of the active duty pay, with longevity credit, of the grade in which he is placed on the retired list, multiplied by the number of years of service for which entitled to credit in the computation of his active duty pay at the time of transfer to the Fleet Reserve or Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, not to exceed a total of 75 per centum of the active duty pay of that rank. A fractional year of six months or more shall be considered a full year in computing the number of years of service by which the rate of 21/2 per centum is multiplied. Approved August 9, 1955.

Public Law 319

34 USC 410c. F l e e t Reserve transferees. Rank.

Pay.

CHAPTER 679

AN ACT To amend title V of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 509 of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, is amended by striking out "December 31, 1955" and inserting "June 30, 1959". SEC. 2. Subsection 3 of section 502 of such Act, as amended, is amended by inserting before the period at the end thereof the following: ": Provided, however, That if the employer can establish to the satisfaction of the Secretary of Labor that the employer has provided or paid to the worker the cost of return transportation and subsistence from the place of employment to the appropriate reception center, the Secretary under such regulations as he may prescribe may relieve the employer of his obligation to the United States under this subsection." SEC. 3. Section 503 of such Act, as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "In carrying out the provisions of (1) and (2) of this section, provision shall be made for consultation with agricultural employers and workers for the purpose of obtaining facts relevant to the supply of domestic farm workers and the wages paid such workers engaged in similar employment. Information with respect to certifications under (1) and (2) shall be posted in the appropriate local public employment offices and such other public places as the Secretary may require." Approved August 9, 1955.

August 9, 1955 [H. R. 3822]

Mexican labor. Extension, etc. 67 Stat. 500. 7 USC 1461 note. 65 Stat. 119. 7 USC 1462.

7 USC 1463.

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