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PUBLIC LAW 86-223-SEPT. 1, 1959

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SEC. 3. (a) Chapter 61 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "§ 3505. Forfeiture for subversive activities "(a) Any individual who is convicted after the date of enactment of this section of any offense listed in subsection (b) of this section shall, from and after the date of commission of such oifense, have no right to gratuitous benefits under laws administered by the Veterans' Administration based on periods of military, naval, or air service commencing before the date of the commission of such offense and no other person shall be entitled to such benefits on account of such individual. After receipt of notice of the return of an indictment for such an offense the Veterans' Administration shall suspend payment of such gratuitous benefits pending disposition of the criminal proceedings. If any individual whose right to benefits has been terminated pursuant to this section is granted a pardon of the offense by the President of the United States, the right to such benefits shall be restored as of the date of such pardon. " (b) The offenses referred to in subsection (a) of this section are those offenses for which punishment is prescribed (1) in the following 18 provisions of title 18, United States Code: sections 792, 793, 794, 798, 2157. u s e 21512381, 2382, 2383, 2384, 2385, 2387, 2388, 2389, 2390, and chapter 105; 10 USC 8 9 4, 9 0 4, (2) in the Uniform Code of Military Justice, articles 94,104, and 106; 906. Stat. 958. 68 (3) in the following sections of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954: 42 USC 2272sections 222, 223, 224, 225, and 226; and (4) in the following sections 2276. Stat. 9 9 1, 64 1029. of the Internal Security Act of 1950: sections 4, 112, and 113. s o u s e 783, 822, •'(c) The Attorney General shall notify the Administrator in each 823" case in which an individual is indicted or convicted of an offense listed in clauses (1), (3), or (4) of subsection (b) of this section. The Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the Treasury, as may be appropriate, shall notify the Administrator in each case in which an individual is convicted of an offense listed in clause (2) of subsection (b) of this section." 38 (b) The table of sections for such chapter 61 is amended by adding 3504, U S C 3501at the end thereof the following: •'."i.'O.j. Forfeiture for subversive activities."

Approved September 1, 1959.

Public Law 86-223 AN ACT

September 1, 1959

To amend section 2734 of title 10, United States Code, so as to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to settle claims arising in foreign countries incident to noncombat activities of the Coast Guard.

[H. R. 2741]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That title 10 of the ^jC_ o a s t Guard, United States Code is amended as follows: 72 st'at. i46i. (1) Section 2734 is amended as follows: (A) The catchline is amended to read as follows: "§ 2734. Property loss; personal injury or death: incident to noncombat activities of the armed forces; foreign countries." (B) Subsection (a) is amended as follows: (i) by striking out the words "of a military department" and inserting in place thereof the word "concerned"; and (ii) by striking out the words "the department concerned" and inserting in place thereof the words "the military department concerned or the Coast Guard, as the case may be."

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