Volume 53
Public Law 76–285
To provide for acceptance and cashing of Government pay checks of retired naval personnel and members of the Naval and Marine Corps Reserves by commissary stores and ship’s stores ashore, located outside the continental limits of the United States.
Approved July 15, 1939
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for acceptance and cashing of Government pay checks of retired naval personnel and members of the Naval and Marine Corps Reserves by commissary stores and ship’s stores ashore, located outside the continental limits of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That notwithstanding
Government pay checks.
Acceptance of, by certain commissary stores, etc., from designated personnel.
R. S. §§ 3639, 3651.
the provisions of section 3639 and 3651, Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U. S. C. 521, 543), the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, may hereafter authorize the officer in charge of any commissary store or ship’s store ashore, located outside the continental limits of the United States, to accept Government checks tendered by retired personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps and by members of the Naval and Marine Corps Reserves in payment of amounts due by such personnel to any such commissary store or ship’s store ashore, and to refund, in cash, to the payees of the tendered checks any difference between the amounts due and the amounts of the tendered checks.
Approved, July 15, 1939.