Volume 67
Public Law 83–181
To extend the authority of the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs to establish and continue offices In the Republic of the Philippines.
Approved August 1, 1953
Statutory text
AN ACT
To extend the authority of the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs to establish and continue offices In the Republic of the Philippines.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Act of June
14, 1947, as amended (38 U. S. C. 693a note), is hereby amended to read as follows:
“That the authority in section 7 of the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924 (43 Stat. 609; 38 U. S. C. 430), and section 101 of the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 (58 Stat. 284; 38 U. S. C. 693a), to establish and continue regional offices, suboffices, contact units, or other subordinate offices may continue to be exercised by the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs with respect to territory of the Republic of the Philippines on and after the date of its independence if he deems such offices necessary, but in no event after June 30, 1960.”
Approved August 1, 1953.