An Act to equalize the treatment accorded to commissioned officers of the Veterinary Corps with that accorded to commissioned officers of other corps of the Army Medical Service, and for other purposes
PL 83-459 (S.932), enacted 06/30/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 459-JUNE 30, 1954 
357 
SEC. 736. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used drfe^J^^etcf' ^°""" 
for the construction, replacement, or reactivation of any bakery, 
^s, e c. 
laundry, or dry-cleaning facility in the United States, its Territories, 
or possessions, as to which the Secretary of Defense does not certify, 
in writing, giving his reasons therefor, that the services to be fur-
nished by such facilities are not obtainable from commercial sources 
at reasonable rates. 
SEC. 737. In order more effectively to administer the funds appro- 
Te^pori^'^^osi-
priated to the Department of Defense, the President, to the extent he tions. 
deems it necessary and appropriate in the interest of national defense, 
may authorize positions in the Department of Defense to be placed 
temporarily in grades 16, 17, and 18 of the General Schedule of the 
Classification Act of 1949 in accordance with the procedures and 
standards of that Act, and such positions shall be additional to the 
number authorized by section 505 of that Act. 
Under authority 
herein, grades 16, 17, and 18 in the Department of Defense may be 
increased only to the extent that the total of such grades in the Depart-
ment of Defense shall not exceed two hundred. 
SEC. 738. During the fiscal year 1955, appropriations of the De-
partment of Defense shall be available for reimbursement to the Post 
Office Department for payment of costs of commercial air transporta-
tion of military mail between the United States and foreign countries. 
SEC. 739. This Act may be cited as the "Department of Defense 
short title. 
Appropriation Act, 1955." 
Approved June 30, 1954. 
63 Stat. 954. 
5 u s e 10 71 note. 
5 u s e 1105. 
Post Office De-
partment. 
Public Law 459 
CHAPTER 433 
AN ACT 
To equalize the treatment accorded to commissioned officers of the Veterinary 
Corps with that accorded to commissioned officers of other corps of the Army 
Medical Service, and for other purposes. 
June 30, 1954 
[S. 932] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That (a) the first 
proviso contained in numbered paragraph (1) of subsection 505 (b) 
of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 is amended to read as follows: 
'•'"Provided^ That in the Medical Corps, Dental Corps, Veterinary 
Corps, and chaplains promotion lists there shall be no second lieuten-
ants, and the numbers authorized in the grade of first lieutenant in such 
promotion lists shall be all those not authorized in higher grades:". 
(b) The third clause of the second sentence of subsection 506 (c) 
of such Act is amended to read as follows: "each person appointed 
and commissioned an officer of the Veterinary Corps shall, at the time 
of appointment, be credited with an amount of service equal to three 
years;". 
(c) The third sentence of subsection 506 (g) of such Act is amended 
to read as follows: "Effective December 31, 1947, each commissioned 
officer of the Medical Corps who on that date has less than four years' 
service credit, each commissioned officer of the Dental Corps, each 
Regular Army Chaplain, each commissioned officer of the Judge 
Advocate General's Department, and each commissioned officer of the 
Veterinary Corps, who as of that date had less than three years' 
service credit, shall, for promotion, seniority, and promotion-list-
position purposes, be credited as of that date with four years' service 
and three years' service, respectively." 
(d) Each person appointed and commissioned an officer of the 
Veterinary Corps subsequent to December 31, 1947, who, at time of 
Veterinary eorps 
officers. 
Service credit. 
61 Stat. 888. 
10 u s e 559. 
10 u s e 506c. 
358 
PUBLIC LAW 4 60-JUNE 30, 1954 
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appointment, was credited with less than three years' service under the 
second sentence of subsection 506 (c) of the Officer Personnel Act of 
1947, shall, for promotion, seniority, and promotion-list-position pur-
poses, be credited as of the date of appointment with three years' 
service: Provided^ That no back pay or allowances shall be held to 
have accrued as the result of the enactment of this subsection for any 
period prior to the date of enactment thereof. 
Approved June 30, 1954. 
June 30, 1954 
[S.3481] 
Public Law 460 
CHAPTER 434 
AN ACT 
To amend sections 23A and 24A of the Federal Reserve Act, as amended. 
Bank premises* 
48 Stat. 
Stat. 717. 183; 49 
48 Stat. 184. 
48 Stat. 162. 
12 u s e 221a. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Re'presentatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the third para-
graph of section 23A of the Federal Reserve Act, as amended (U. S. C , 
1952 edition, title 12, sec. 37lc), is amended by deleting therefrom the 
words "on June 16, 1934," and substituting in lieu thereof the word 
"solely"; and by deleting therefrom the words "or in maintaining and 
operating properties acquired for banking purposes prior to such 
date". 
SEC. 2. Section 24A of the Federal Reserve Act, as amended 
(U. S. C, 1952 edition, title 12, sec. 37ld), is amended by inserting 
after the words "investments and loans" a comma and the words 
"together with the amount of any indebtedness incurred by any such 
corporation which is an aifiliate of the bank, as defined in section 2 of 
the Banking Act of 1933, as amended,". 
Approved June 30, 1954. 
June 30, 1954 
[H. R. 3413] 
Public Law 461 
CHAPTER 
435 
AN ACT 
To grant oil and gas in lands and to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
issue patents in fee on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana, to individ-
ual Indians in certain cases. 
Fort Peck Indian 
Reservation, Mont. 
O i l 
a n d 
g a s 
grants. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the oil and gas 
in land located within the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana, 
allotted on or after March 3, 1927, which is now reserved to the 
Indians having tribal rights on such reservation by the first section 
of the Act of March 3,1927 (44 Stat. 1401), relating to oil and gas in 
certain tribal lands within the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Mon-
tana, is hereby granted to the allottee of such lands, or, if such Indian 
Lieu allotments, is deceased, to his heirs or devisees: Provided^ That if the allottee or 
his heirs or devisees, relinquished such allotment and received a lieu 
allotment of other lands in the said reservation or transferred title to 
such allotment to the Fort Peck Tribe and, in exchange therefor, 
received an assignment of the same or other lands in the said reserva-
tion, the oil and gas hereby granted shall be only that in the land in 
the lieu allotment or the exchange assignment, as the case may be. 
SEC. 2. If on or after March 3, 1927, the allottee or his heirs or 
devisees, relinquished an allotment made prior to March 3, 1927, and 
received a lieu allotment of other lands in the said reservation or 
transferred title to such allotment to the Fort Peck Tribe and, in 
exchange therefor, received an assignment of the same or other lands