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That the President of the United States, as Commander in Chief of the Army, is authorized to make such regulations governing the prohibition of alcoholic liquors in or near military camps and to officers and enlisted men of the Army as he may from time to time deem necessary or advisable. * * * It shall be unlawful to sell any intoxicating liquor, including beer, ale, or wine, to any officer or member of the military forces while in uniform, * Any person, corporation, partnership, or association violating the provisions of this section of the regulations made thereunder shall, unless otherwise punishable under the Articles of War, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment for not more than twelve months, or both. Sec. 12, act of May 18, 1917 (40 Stat. 82).

The second paragraph of this section is changed to read as above.

316. Restrictions on activities; holding office in Diplomatic and Consular Service.

By section 1, act of May 24, 1924 (43 Stat. 140), the Diplomatic and Consular Service was thereafter to be known as the Foreign Service of the United States.

322a. Retirement; date effective. That hereafter retirement authorized by law of Federal personnel of whatever class, civil, military, naval, judicial, legislative, or otherwise, and for whatever cause retired, shall take effect on the 1st day of the month following the month in which said retirement would otherwise be effective, and said 1st day of the month for retirements hereafter made shall be for all purposes in lieu of such date for retirement as may now be authorized; except that the rate of active or retired pay or allowance shall be computed as of the date retirement would have occurred if this Act had not been enacted. Sec. 1, act of Apr. 23, 1930 (46 Stat. 253); U. S. C. 5: 47a.

By section 2 of this act it was to become effective July 1, 1930, and all laws in conflict therewith were repealed.

336a. Retirement of officers of the Veterinary Corps; service counted.-That for purposes of promotion, longevity pay, and retirement there shall be credited to officers of the Veterinary Corps all full-time service rendered by them as veterinarians in the Quartermaster Department, Cavalry, or Field Artillery prior to June 3, 1916. Sec. 1, act of June 28, 1930 (46 Stat. 829); U. S. C. 10: 145a. 338a. Retirement of members of Army Nurse Corps for disability.-That pursuant to regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy, as the case may be, when a member of the Army Nurse Corps or of the Navy Nurse Corps shall be found by a board of medical officers to have become disabled in line of duty from performing the duties of a nurse, and such findings are approved by the head of the department concerned, she shall be retired from active service and placed upon the Nurse Corps retired list of the appropriate department in the grade to which she belonged at the time of her retirement and with retired pay at the rate of 75 per centum of the active service pay received by her at the time of her transfer to the retired list. Act of June 20, 1930 (46 Stat. 790); U. S. C. 10: 937.

560. Repatriation of veterans of allied armies.-Twelfth. That any person who, while a citizen of the United States and during the existing war in Europe, entered the military or naval service of any country at war with a country with which the United States is now at war, who shall be deemed to have lost his citizenship by reason of any oath or obligation taken by him for the purpose of entering such service, may resume his citizenship by taking the oath of allegiance to the United States prescribed by the naturalization law and regulations, and such oath may be taken before any court of the United States or of any State authorized by law to naturalize aliens or before any consul of the United States, and certified copies thereof shall be sent by such court or consul to the Department of State and the Bureau of Naturalization, and the Act (Public Fifty-five, Sixty-fifth Congress, approved October fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen), is hereby repealed.

Any individual who claims to have resumed his citizenship under the provisions of this subdivision may, upon the payment of a fee of $1, make application to the Commissioner of Naturalization, accompanied by two photographs of the applicant, for a certificate of repatriation. Upon proof to the satisfaction of the commissioner that the applicant is a citizen and that the citizenship was resumed as claimed, such individual shall be furnished a certificate of repatriation by the commissioner, but only if such individual is at the time within the United States. The certificate of repatriation issued under this subdivision shall have the same effect as a certificate issued by a court having naturalization jurisdiction, and the provisions of subdivisions (b) and (c) of section 33 shall apply in respect of proceedings and certificates of repatriation under this subdivision in the same manner and to the same extent, including penalties, as they apply in respect of proceedings and certificates of citizenship issued under such section. Par. 12 added to sec. 4, act of June 29, 1906, by sec. 1, act of May 9, 1918 (40 Stat. 545), as amended by act of June 21, 1930 (46 Stat. 791); U. S. C. 8: 18. The original text of this section has been amended as above.

561. Naturalization; Filipinos, Porto Ricans, and aliens in military service or honorably discharged therefrom.

The Regular Army Reserve referred to in this section was abolished by section 30, national defense act of 1920.

565a. Naturalization; alien veterans.-That (a) as used in this Act, the term "alien veteran' means an individual, a member of the military or naval forces of the United States at any time after April 5, 1917, and before November 12, 1918, who is now an alien not ineligible to citizenship; but does not include (1) any individual at any time during such period or thereafter sepa

rated from such forces under other than honorable conditions, (2) any conscientious objector who performed no military duty whatever or refused to wear the uniform, or (3) any alien at any time during such period or thereafter discharged from the military or naval forces on account of his alienage.

Sec. 1, act of May 26, 1926 (44 Stat. 654); U. S. C. 8: 241.

An alien veteran, as defined in section 1 of the Act of May 26, 1926 (c. 398, 44 Stat. 654, title 8, sec. 241, U. S. Code Sup. 1), shall, if residing in the United States, be entitled, at any time within two years after the enactment of this Act, to naturalization upon the same terms, conditions, and exemptions which would have been accorded to such alien if he had petitioned before the armistice of the World War, except that such alien shall be required to appear and file his petition in person and to take the prescribed oath of allegiance in open court. Sec. 3, act of Mar. 4, 1929 (45 Stat. 1546); U. S. C. 8: 392a.

The above provisions were omitted from the original text of the Military Laws of 1929.

566. Appointment; certificate of health.

Retirement:

Date effective, 678a.
For age-

General provisions, 679.

Automatic separation, 680.

Employees included, 681.

Method of computing annuities, 682. Computation of accredited service, 683. For disability, 684.

Involuntary separation, 685.

Benefits extended to those already re

tired, 686.

Credit for past service, 687.
Funds-

Deductions and donations, 688.
Investments and accounts, 689.
Return of amounts deducted from sal-

aries, 690.

Payment of annuities and form

application, 691.

Miscellaneous provisions

of

Credits for unclassified service, 692.
Duties of Civil Service Commission,

693.

Board of actuaries, 694.
Administration, 695.

Assignment and execution of funds,
696.

Section 7, act of March 3, 1919 (40 Stat. 1293), U. S. C. 5: 644, on which this section was based, was specifically repealed by section 21, act of June 18, 1929 (46 Stat. 26).

573. Appointment, examination; places where held.

This section, based on section 7, act of March 3, 1919 (40 Stat. 1293), U. S. C. 5: 644, was specifically repealed by section 21, act of June 18, 1929 (46 Stat. 26).

622. Details from executive departments; to Veterans' Bureau.

The citation to this section should be changed to read: Sec. 10, act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 610), as amended by sec. 1, act of July 2, 1926 (44 Stat. 790); as amended by sec. 2, act of July 3, 1930 (46 Stat. 991); U. S. C. 38: 434.

623. Same; to Personnel Classification Board.

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There is hereby authorized to be appropriated annually for salaries and expenses of the Personnel Classification Board such sums as may be necessary to enable them to carry into effect the provisions of the Classification Act of 1923 and amendments thereto: Provided, That nothing contained herein shall be interpreted to preclude the temporary detail to the board of officers or employees of the several departments possessed of special knowledge, ability,

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or experience required in the classification of positions as now authorized by law. Sec. 5, act of July 3, 1930 (46 Stat, 1005); U. S. C. 5: 663a.

The above provision is added as a new paragraph of this section.

623a. Same; to United States Tariff Commission. The commission shall in appropriate matters act in conjunction and cooperation with * * * any other departments, or independent establishments of the Government, and such departments and independent establishments of the Government shall cooperate fully with the commission for the purposes of aiding and assisting in its work, and, when directed by the President, shall furnish to the commission, on its request, all records, papers, and information in their possession relating to any of the subjects of investigation by the commission and shall detail, from time to time, such officials and employees to said commission as he may direct. Sec. 334, act of June 17, 1930 (46 Stat. 700); U. S. C. 19: 1334.

625. Details to branches of the War Department from military headquarters. This provision, based on act of February 28, 1929 (45 Stat. 1353), making appropriations for the support of the War Department, U. S. C. 5: 189, is not included in the corresponding act for the fiscal year 1931.

636. Employment of clerks; general provisions.-There is authorized to be employed in each executive department, independent establishment, and the municipal government of the District of Columbia, for services in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, such number of employees of the various classes recognized by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended (U. S. C., title 5, ch. 13), as may be appropriated for by Congress from year to year: Provided, That the head of any department or independent establishment may delegate to subordinates, under such regulations as he may prescribe, the power to employ such persons for duty in the field services of his department or establishment. R. S. 169 as amended by act of June 26, 1930 (46 Stat, 817); U. S. C. 5: 43. The original text of this section has been amended to read as above. 637. Engineers, Air Corps.

The title of this section should read "Employment authorized; engineers, Air Corps." 639a. Same; expert assistance in arts and sciences, Chief of Engineers.-The Chief of Engineers is hereby authorized to engage under agreement, when deemed necessary, expert assistance in the various arts and sciences, including expert stenographic assistance for reporting the proceedings of public hearings held in connection with preliminary examinations, surveys, or improvements of rivers and harbors, upon terms and rates of compensation for services and incidental expenses in excess of the maximum of the salaries authorized by the Classification Act of March 4, 1923, as amended by the Act of May 28, 1928; and all agreements heretofore entered into for such purposes are hereby validated to the amount of the current rates charged for such services. Sec. 6, act of July 3, 1930 (46 Stat. 948), authorizing improvements on rivers and harbors; U. S. C. 33: 569a.

649. Same; technical services in Office of Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks.

* * * Provided further, That not to exceed in all a total of $30,000 of the funds appropriated under this title for the fiscal year 1930 and herein appropriated shall be available for preparing plans and estimates for the improvement of the Washington Monument Grounds to conform to the Lincoln Memorial Grounds and the approved plans for the Mall, including printing and binding, and including special technical personal services, by contract or otherwise, at rates of pay as may be fixed by the director, not exceeding those usual for