Volume 50 · 724
Public Law 75–716
To amend Articles of War 50½ and 70.
Approved August 20, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend Articles of War 50½ and 70.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the third and fifth paragraphs of Article of War 50½ (41 Stat. 797–799) be amended by adding to each of said paragraphs the following: “ Provided, That the functions prescribed in this paragraph to be performed by the President may be performed by the Secretary of War or Acting Secretary of War. ”
Sec. 2.
That Article of War 70 (41 Stat. 802) is hereby amended by inserting in the first line of the second paragraph after the word “referred” the words “to a general court martial”, so that the first
Investigation before trial.
sentence of said paragraph will read as follows: “No charge will be referred to a general court martial for trial until after a thorough and impartial investigation thereof shall have been made”.
Approved, August 20, 1937.