Volume 68 · a73
Private Law 83–416
To authorize the appointment as United States Commissioner, International Boundary and Water Commission. United States and Mexico, of Colonel Leland Hazelton Hewitt, United States Army, retired, and for other purposes.
Approved June 11, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the appointment as United States Commissioner, International Boundary and Water Commission. United States and Mexico, of Colonel Leland Hazelton Hewitt, United States Army, retired, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That, notwithstanding
Col. Leland H. Hewitt.
the provisions of section 2 of the Act of July 31, 1894 (28 Stat. 205), as amended (5 U. S. C. 62), Colonel Leland Hazelton Hewitt, United States Army, retired, may be appointed as the United States Commissioner, International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, designated by Article 2 of a treaty between the United States of America and Mexico regarding the utilization of waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande River, signed in Washington on February 3, 1944.
Sec. 2.
Colonel Leland Hazelton Hewitt’s appointment to and acceptance of this commissionership shall in no way affect any status, office, rank, or grade he may occupy or hold as a retired officer of the United States Army, or any emolument, perquisite, right, privilege, or benefit incident to or arising out of any such status, office, rank or grade. He shall, however, receive the compensation provided for the office of United States Commissioner of said International Boundary and Water Commission, in lieu of retired pay to which he would be entitled as a retired officer of the United States Army.
Approved June 11, 1954.