Volume 52 · 354
Public Law 75–219
To amend the Act of March 2, 1899, as amended, to authorize the Secretary of War to permit allotments from the pay of military personnel and permanent civilian employees under certain conditions.
Approved May 16, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Act of March 2, 1899, as amended, to authorize the Secretary of War to permit allotments from the pay of military personnel and permanent civilian employees under certain conditions.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the first sentence of section 16, Act of Congress approved March 2, 1899, as amended (10 U. S. C. 894), be, and the same is hereby, further amended to read as follows: “The Secretary of War is authorized to permit officers, members of the Army Nurse Corps, contract surgeons, and enlisted men of the Army, active or retired, and also permanent civilian employees on duty in Alaska or outside of the continental limits of the United States, to make allotments from their pay, under such regulations as he may prescribe, for the support of their families or relatives or for other proper purposes which in his discretion warrant such action.”
Approved, May 16, 1938.