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Public Law 79–474

To amend an Act entitled “An Act to allow credit in connection with certain homestead entries for military or naval service rendered during World War II”.

Approved June 25, 1946

Statutory text

AN ACT

To amend an Act entitled “An Act to allow credit in connection with certain homestead entries for military or naval service rendered during World War II”.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That section 1 of the Act approved September 27, 1944, entitled “An Act to allow credit in connection with certain homestead entries for military or naval service

58 Stat. 747.

43 U. S. C., Supp. V, § 279.

rendered during World War II” (Public, Numbered 434, Seventy-eighth Congress, second session), is hereby amended by deleting the period at the end thereof, by substituting a colon, and by inserting

Age.

the following proviso: “Provided, That no person who has served or may serve in the military or naval forces of the United States for a period of at least ninety days during World War II and is honorably discharged shall be disqualified from making homestead entry or from any other benefits of this Act merely by reason of not having reached the age of twenty-one years.”

Approved June 25, 1946.

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