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PUBLIC LAW 85-143-AUG. 14, 1957

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accept all or any part of such retirement pay by a waiver signed and filed with the Secretary of the Treasury. Such waiver may be revoked in writing at any time, but no payment of the retirement pay waived shall be made covering the period during which such waiveiwas in effect." Approved August 14, 1957.

Public Law 85-143 August 14, 1957 [S. 1941]

Publ i c Ro ads employees. Transportation, etc. 39 Stat. 355. 23 USC 48 and note.

63 Stat. 166. 5 USC 835 note.

AN ACT To authorize the payment by the Bureau of Public Roads of transportation and subsistence costs to temporary employees on direct Federal highway projects. Be it ermcted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That funds authorized to be appropriated under the Federal-Aid Koad Act approved July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented, for direct Federal highway projects, and funds made available to the Bureau of Public Roads from other Federal agencies for such Federal projects shall be available, under regulations approved by the Secretary of Commerce, for payment of transportation expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence expenses, in accordance with the Travel Expense Act of 1949, and the Standardized Travel Eegulations insofar as consistent with this Act, for travel of seasonal employees between points of hire and project locations and while performing duty at project locations. Approved August 14, 1957.

Public Law 85-144 August 14, 1957 [S. 1489]

e o a s t Guard. 63 Stat. 517.

Retirement, e o m m i s s ioned officers.

70A Stat. 104.

AN ACT To amend title 14, United States Code, entitled "Coast Guard" with respect to warrant officers' rank on retirement, 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 243 of title 14, United States Code, entitled ''Coast Guard", be amended to read as follows: "§ 243. Retirement in cases where higher grade has been held " (a) Any commissioned officer, other tlian a commissioned warrant officer, who is retired under any provision of section 230, 231, 232, or 234 of this title, or that provision of section 235 of this title which provides for retirement of officers after thirty years' service, shall be retired from active service with the highest grade held by him while on active duty in which, as determined by the Secretary, his performance of duty was satisfactory, but not lower than his permanent grade, with retired pay of the grade with which retired. "(b) Any commissioned warrant officer who is retired under any provision of section 564, 1263, 1293, or 1305 of title 10, shall be retired from active service with the highest commissioned grade above chief Avarrant officer, W-4, held by him on active duty in which, as determined by the Secretary, his performance of duty was satisfactory, with retired pay of the grade with which retired. However, when the rate of pay of such highest grade is less than the pay of the warrant grade with which the officer would otherwise be retired under section 1371 of title 10, the retired pay shall be based on the higher rate of pay."

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