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PUBLIC LAW 85-861-SEPT. 2, 1958

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ADDITIONAL SERVICE CREDITABLE UNDER CHAPTER 67 O F TITLE 10 SEC. 15. (a) Notwithstanding section 1332(b)(6) of title 10, United States Code, a person is entitled to count his service as an Army field clerk or as a field clerk. Quartermaster Corps, as active service in 1337 ^^ ^ '^^'' determining his entitlement to retired pay under chapter 67 of title 10, United States Code, and in computing his retired pay under that chapter. (b) Notwithstanding section 1332(b)(6) of title 10, United States Code, a warrant officer is entitled to count classified service as an Army headquarters clerk or as a clerk of the Army Quartermaster Corps that he performed under any law in effect before August 29, 1916, as active service in determining his entitlement to retired pay under chapter 67 of title 10, United States Code, and in computing his retired pay under that chapter. OBLIGATION OF F U N D S U N D E R S E C T I O N 2233 O F TITLE 10 SEC. 16. Not more than $080,000,000 may be obligated for the purposes of section 2233 of title 10, United States Code, before July 1, 1958. This limitation does not apply to the expenses for the leasing of property under section 2233(a)(1) of that title. C L A I M S FOR P E R S O N A L I N J U R Y OR D E A T H U N D E R S E C T I O N 2733 O F TITLE 10, UNITED STATES C O D E: L I M I TATION SEC. 17. A claim for personal injury or death under section 2733 of title 10, United States Code, may not be allowed for more than the cost of reasonable medical, hospital, and burial expenses actually incurred, if the claim accrued before March 30, 1956. SERVICE CREDIT FOR SPECIALISTS SEC. 18. I n place of any applicable period of service under section 3287 (a)(2) of title 10, United States Code, each of not more than 200 persons who are originally appointed before July 20, 1958^ in commissioned grades in the Regular Army, except in the Medical Corps, Dental Corps, Army Nurse Corps, or Army Medical Specialist Corps, and who are outstanding specialists in a critical field according to criteria prescribed by the Secretary of the Army and approved by the President, may, in the discretion of the Secretary, be credited at the time of his appointment with a period of service, not to exceed eight years, equal to the number of days, months, and years by which his age exceeds 27 years. The name of each such person who was appointed during the period covered by the report, the grade to which appointed, and the justification therefor shall be reported to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives before July 16, 1958, and the names and grades of the remainder, and the justification for their appointment, shall be so reported before July 16, 1959.

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