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PUBLIC LAW 601-JUNE 20, 1956

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Public Law 599

CHAPTER 409 AN ACT

To provide that no fee shall be charged a veteran discharged under honorable conditions for furnishing him or his next of kin or legal representative a copy of a certiticate showing his service in the Armed Forces,

June 19, 1956 [H. R. 6274]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as-sembled. That no person who ^"c1ia?'ge pahas been discharged or released from the Army, Navy, Air Force, pers, fees. Marine Corps, or Coast Guard under lionorable conditions, or his next of kin or legal representative, shall be charged a fee for a copy of a certiticate showing his service in the Armed Forces. Approved June 19, 1966. CHAPTER 411

Public Law 600 AN ACT

To authorize the Postmaster General to provide for the use in first- and secondclass post offices of a special canceling stamp or postmarlcing die bearing the words "Pray f<n- peace".

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in i 'ongress assembled, That section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the Postmaster General to grant permission to use special canceling stamps or postmarking dies", approved May 11, 1922 (39 U.S.C., sec. 368), is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2. (a) Any permission granted by the Postmaster General under the first section of this Act shall be revocable in the event the Government shall find it expedient or necessary to use special canceling stamps or postmarking dies for its own purposes. "(b) The Postmaster General is authorized to provide for the use in each first- and second-class post office, of a special canceling stamp or postmarking die bearing the words 'Pray for peace'." SEC. 2. The >^econd proviso in the first section of such Act of May 11, 1922, is amended by striking out ''nothing in this Act" and inserting in lieu thereof ''nothing in this section". Approved June 20, 1956. Public Law 601

June 20, 1956 [H.R. 692]

P o s t a l Service. Cancelling stannp. 42 Stat. 540.

"Pray for p e a c e *.

39 USC 368.

CHAPTER 412 AN ACT

To amend title III of the Army and Air Force Vitalization and Retirement Equalization Act of 1948 to provide that service as an Army field clerk, or as a field clerk, Quartermaster Corps, shall be counted for purposes of retirement under title III of that Act, and for other purposes.

June 20, 19S6 [H. R. 5516]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That subsection 802

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(a). Army and Air J^orce \ itahzation and Ketirement Equalization tirement. Act of 1948 (62 Stat. 1087), as amended (10 U.S.C. 1036a (a)), is further amended by inserting the words "Army field clerk, field clerk. Quartermaster Corps," after the words "flight officer," and by inserting the following additional proviso after the words "December 31, 1946": 'And provided further, That for the purposes of this section, all periods of classified field service as an Army headquarters clerk or as a clerk of the Army Quartermaster Corps under laws in effect

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