Volume 67 · 177
Public Law 83–129
To amend the Act of July 28, 1942 (ch. 528. 56 Stat. 722), relating to posthumous appointments and commissions, and for other purposes.
Approved July 17, 1953
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Act of July 28, 1942 (ch. 528. 56 Stat. 722), relating to posthumous appointments and commissions, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Act of July 28, 1942 (ch. 528, 56 Stat. 722), is amended as follows:
By deleting the words “Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy”, and the words “Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy” wherever they appear therein and inserting in lieu thereof the words “appropriate Secretary”;
By deleting the words “in the military or naval service” wherever they appear therein and inserting in lieu thereof the words “in the military service”;
By deleting the words “War or Navy Department” wherever they appear therein and inserting in lieu thereof the words “military department concerned”;
By deleting the words “be, and they are hereby, severally” in section 4 and inserting in lieu thereof the word “is”; and
By renumbering section 5 as “Sec. 6” and inserting immediately
after section 4 a new section 5 as follows:
“Sec. 5.
For the purposes of this Act, in any case where the date
Date of death.
of death is established or determined under the Missing Persons Act, as amended, the date of death is the date of receipt by the head of
the department concerned of evidence that the person is dead, or the date the finding of death is made under section 5 of that Act, as amended.”
Sec. 2.
This amendatory Act is effective June 25, 1950.
Approved July 17, 1953.