An Act to facilitate civil service appointment of persons who lost opportunity therefore because of service in the Armed Forces after June 30, 1950, and to provide certain benefits upon appointment
PL 83-121 (S.1684), enacted 07/16/1953

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Public Law 121 
CHAPTER 198 
AN ACT 
To facilitate civil-service appointment of persons who lost opportunity therefor 
because of service in the Armed Forces after June 30, 1950, and to provide 
certain benefits upon appointment. 
July 16, 1953 
[S. 1684] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) any person 
(1) who serves in the Armed Forces of the United States at anjr time 
after June 30, 1950, and prior to the expiration of the authority to 
induct persons into the Armed Forces under the Universal Military 
Training and Service Act, as amended, (2) whose name appears on 
any civil-service register after June 30,1950, with respect to a position 
in the Government of the United States or in the municipal govern-
ment of the District of Columbia, and (3) during whose service in 
the Armed Forces subsequent to June 30,1950, another eligible stand-
ing lower on such list of eligibles received a probational appointment 
therefrom, shall be entitled to be placed on the original or appropriate 
successor register for certification for probational appointment, 
(b) The Civil Service Commission is authorized and directed to 
place such persons on such original registers or appropriate successor 
registers with the same priority accorded persons entitled to the 
benefits of the Act entitled "An Act to provide benefits for certain 
employees of the United States who are veterans of World War I I 
and lost opportunity for civil-service appointments by reason of their 
service in the Armed Forces of the United States", approved July 31, 
1946 (Public Law 577, Seventy-ninth Congress), as amended. 
(c) Upon the probational appointment of any such person as a 
result of such restored eligibility, he shall, for the purpose of deter-
mining (1) his rate of basic compensation, (2) his seniority rights, 
(3) in the case of a position in the postal field service, his grade and 
time-in-grade, and (4) in the case of a position to which the Classi-
fication Act of 1949, as amended, applies, his within-grade step 
increases (including credit for that period of time not used in deter-
mining his rate of basic compensation), be held to have been appointed 
to such position as of the earliest date the Civil Service Commission 
finds, in accordance with section 1 (a) of this Act, a lower ranking 
eligible was probationally appointed. 
(d) No regular employee in the postal field service shall be reduced 
to substitute status by reason of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 2. (a) No person shall be entitled to the benefits of this Act 
unless— 
(1) he shall have been separated or relieved from active duty 
under honorable conditions from the Armed Forces; 
(2) he is qualified to perform the duties of the position for 
which the register on which he is to be placed is established; and 
(3) he makes application to be placed on such original register 
or appropriate successor register within ninety days after (A) 
the date of his separation or relief from active duty from the 
Armed Forces, (B) the date of the termination of hospitalization 
continuing for a period of not more than one year after his sepa-
ration or relief from active duty from the Armed Forces, or (C) 
the date of enactment of this Act, whichever is later. 
(b) No person shall be entitled to the benefits of this Act who— 
(1) voluntarily continues service (including reenlistments) in 
other than a reserve component of the Armed Forces and who 
serves more than four years (plus any additional service imposed 
pursuant to law) or 
Veterans. 
R e s t o r a t i o n of 
civil-service 
e l i -
gibility. 
65 Stat. 75. 
50 USCapp.4Sl, 
et seq. 
Priority. 
60 Stat. 749. 
5 u s e 645a and 
note, 645b. 
63 Stat. 954. 
5 u s e 1071 note. 
P o s t a l 
f i e l d 
service. 
R e quire me nt s. 
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R e s t r i c t i o n on 
compensation. 
(2) serves more than four years after the date of entering upon 
active duty, or serves beyond the date upon which he is able to 
obtain orders relieving him from active duty following four years 
of service, in the Armed Forces (other than for the purpose of 
determining his plwsical fitness) whether or not voluntarily, in 
response to an order or call to active duty. 
SEC. 3. No person shall be entitled to any basic compensation by 
reason of the enactment of this Act for any period prior to the date 
of his probational appointment in accordance with this Act. 
Approved July 16, 1953. 
July 16, 1953 
[H. R. 
Public Law 122 
CHAPTER 199 
AN ACT 
1515J 
To convey by quitclaim deed certain land to the State of Texas. 
Texas. 
Conveyance. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of th& 
United States of America in Congress assembled-) That the Secretary 
of the Army is hereby authorized to convey by quitclaim deed to the 
State of Texas, for public park and recreational purposes only, such, 
areas within the portion of Denison Dam and Reservoir project, 
Texas, designated as Eisenhower State Park, as he shall deem essential 
to provide building sites for permanent buildings and other improve-
ments for public park and recreational purposes, but not to exceed 
one hundred and sixty acres, at fair market value as determined by 
him, which in no event shall be less than the cost to the Government 
of acquiring such areas, and under such terms and conditions as he 
shall deem advisable to assure that the use of said areas by the State 
will not interfere with the operation of said dam and reservoir project 
and such additional terms and conditions as he shall deem advisable 
in the public interest. 
The conveyance authorized by this Act shall not pass any right, 
title, or interest in oil, gas, fissionable materials, or other minerals. 
In the event actual construction of the said buildings and improve-
ments has not commenced within five years from the effective date of 
this Act, or in the event said property shall cease to be used for public 
park and recreational purposes for a period of two successive years, 
then title thereto shall immediately revert to the United States. 
, Approved July 16, 1953. 
Public Law 123 
CHAPTER 200 
July 16, 1953 
AN ACT 
—t^' 1544] 
rjiQ repeal the authority to purchase discharge from the Army, the Navy, the 
Air Force, and the Marine Corps. 
10 use 651. 
34 use 196. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 4 of 
the Act of June 16, 1890 (26 Stat. 158), and that part of the Act of 
March 3, 1893 (27 Stat. 717), which provides "and in time of peace 
the President may in his discretion, and under such rules and upon 
such conditions as he may prescribe, permit any enlisted man to pur-
chase his discharge from the Navy, or the Marine Corps, the amounts 
received therefrom to be covered into the Treasury", are hereby 
repealed. 
Approved July 16, 1953.