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(b) In the case of a warrant officer distributed or redistributed 

under section 4 or appointed under section 17 of this Act, the term 

"active service" as used in this Act, shall include all service which 

he has performed before the effective date of this Act, and which under 

laws in effect on the day before the effective date of this Act, would be 

credited in determining his eligibility for retirement as a permanent 

warrant officer of the regular service. 

(c) The effective date of the retirement of any person retired pursuant to this Act shall be subject to the Act of April 23,1980 (ch. 200, 

46 Stat. 253). 

EFFECTIVE DATE 

SEC. 22. This Act shall be effective on the first day of the sixth 

month following the month in which it is enacted. 

Approved May 29, 1954. 

June 1,1954 

Public Law 380 CHAPTER 250 

AN ACT 

[H. R. 7786] rpo honor veterans on the 11th day of November of each year, a day dedicated to 

world peace. 

Veterans Day. 

Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the 

United States of America in Congress assemhled, That the Act entitled 

"An Act making the 11th day of November in each year a legal 

holiday"', approved May 13, 1938 (52 Stat. 351; 5 U. S. C, sec. 87a), 

is hereby amended by striking out the word "Armistice" and inserting 

in lieu thereof the word "Veterans". 

Approved June 1, 1954.^ 

Public Law 381 CHAPTER 251 

Jvine 3,1954 

[H. R. 4231] 

U. S. Military , 

Naval , an d Ai r 

Force Academies. 

Appointments. 

59 Stat. 586. 

AN ACT 

To authorize appointments to the United States Military Academy and United 

States Naval Academy of sons of certain individuals who were killed in action 

or who died or shall die as a result of active service in World W^ar I, World 

War II, or between the period beginning June 27, 1950, and ending on a date 

proclaimed by the President or the Congress. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of ths 

United States of America in Congress assembled^ That so much of the 

second paragraph of the Act entitled "An Act to establish a department of economics, government, and history at the United States Military Academy, at West Point, New York, and to amend chapter 174 

of the Act of Congress of April 19, 1910, entitled 'An Act making 

appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal 

year ending June 30,1911, and for other purposes""', approved June 8, 

1926, as amended (34 U. S. C, sec. 1036a), as precedes the colon 

preceding the first proviso thereof is amended to read as follows: 

"That the number of midshipmen now authorized by law at the United 

States Naval Academy is hereby increased by forty from the United 

States at large, to be appointed by the President from among the sons 

of members of the land or naval forces (including male and female 

members of the Army, Air Force, Njivy, Marine Corps, and Coast 

Guard, and of all components thereof) of the United States, who were 

killed in action or who have died, or may hereafter die, of wounds or 

injuries received, or disease contracted or preexisting injury or disease