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Volume 68

Public Law 83–672

To increase the retired pay of certain members of the former Lighthouse Service.

Approved August 27, 1954

Statutory text

AN ACT

To increase the retired pay of certain members of the former Lighthouse Service.

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

That the annual rate of retired pay received by any person who was retired on or before June 30, 1953, under section 6 of the Act of June 20, 1918, as amended and supplemented (33 U. S. C., secs. 763–765), shall be increased, effective on the first day of the calendar month following enactment of this Act, by 15 per centum or $264, whichever is the lesser: Provided, That no retired pay shall be increased to an amount in excess of $2,160 by reason of this Act: And provided further, That the increases provided herein shall terminate, without subsequent resumption, on June 30, 1955.

Approved August 27, 1954.

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