An Act to continue the effectiveness of the Missing Persons Act, as amended and extended, until February 1, 1954
PL 83-16 (S.1229), enacted 04/04/1953

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PUBLIC LAW 16-APR. 4, 1953 
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C o m tn i • sioned 
officer as Director 
or Deputy Director. 
Military status, 
etc. 
sioned officers of the armed services, whether in an active or retired 
status, or from among individuals in civilian life: Provided^ however, 
That at no time shall the two positions of the Director and Deputy 
Director be occupied simultaneously by commissioned officers of the 
armed services, whether in an active or retired status. 
"(b) (1) If a commissioned officer of the armed services is appointed 
as Director, or Deputy Director, then— 
"(A) in the performance of his duties as Director, or Deputy 
Director, he shall be subject to no supervision, control, restriction, 
or prohibition (military or otherwise) other than Mould be oper-
ative with respect to him if he were a civilian in no way connected 
with the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, 
the Department of the Air Force, or the armed services or any 
component thereof; and 
"(B) he shall not possess or exercise any supervision, control, 
powers, or functions (other than such as he possesses, or is author-
ized or directed to exercise, as Director, or Deputy Director) with 
respect to the armed services or any component thereof, the 
Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, or the 
Department of the Air Force, or any branch, bureau, unit, or 
division thereof, or with respect to any of the personnel (military 
or civilian) of any of the foregoing. 
"(2) Except as provided in paragraph (1), the appointment to the 
office of Director, or Deputy Director, of a commissioned officer of the 
armed services, and his acceptance of and service in such office, shall 
in no way affect any status, office, rank, or grade he may occupy or hold 
in the armed services, or any emolument, perquisite, right, privilege, or 
benefit incident to or arising out of any such status, office, rank, or 
grade. 
Any such commissioned officer shall, while serving in the office 
of Director, or Deputy Director, continue to liold rank and grade not 
lower than that in which serving at the time of his appointment and to 
receive the military pay and allowances (active or retired, as the case 
may be, including personal money allowance) payable to a commis-
sioned officer of his grade and length of service for which the appro-
priate department shall be reimbursed from any funds available to 
defray the expenses of the Central Intelligence Agency. 
He also shall 
be paid by the Central Intelligence Agency from such funds an annual 
compensation at a rate equal to the amount by Avhich the compensation 
established for such position exceeds the amount of his annual military 
pay and allowances. 
"(3) The rank or grade of any such connnissioned officer shall, 
during the period in which such commissioned officer occupies the 
office of Director of Central Intelligence, or Deputy Director of Central 
Intelligence, be in addition to the numbers and percentages otherwise 
authorized and appropriated for the armed service of which he is a 
member." 
Approved April 4, 1953. 
AprU 4, 1953 
[S. 1229] 
Public Law 16 
CHAPTER 17 
AN ACT 
To continue the effectiveness of the Missing Persons Act, as amended and 
extended, until February 1, 1954. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
A^"^nd^*e'nt"! United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Missing 
io5i-i^il.^ «pp- Persons Act (ch. 166, sees. 1-12, 14, and 15; 56 Stat. 143-147), as 
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amended (ch. 828, 56 Stat. 1092-1093; ch. 371, 58 Stat. 679-682; ch. 
70, 61 Stat. 96; ch. 356, 65 Stat. 207), as extended by section 4 (e) of 
the Act of June 24, 1948 (62 Stat. 608), and as it read before the 
enactment of Public Laws 313 and 450, Eighty-second Congress, is 
further amended as follows: 
(a) Section 2 (58 Stat. 679) is amended by deleting "interned in a 
neutral country, captured by an enemy" and inserting in lieu thereof 
"interned in a foreign country, captured by a hostile force". 
(b) Section 6 (56 Stat. 145) is amended by deleting "in the hands 
of an enemy or is interned in a neutral country" and inserting in lieu 
thereof "in the hands of a hostile force or is interned in a foreign 
country". 
(c) Section 9 (58 Stat. 681) is amended by deleting "in the lands of 
an enemy" and inserting in lieu thereof "in the hands of a hostile 
force" and by deleting "such enemy" and inserting in lieu thereof 
"such hostile force". 
(d) Section 12 (65 Stat. 207) is amended by deleting "interned in 
a neutral country, or captured by the enemy" and inserting in lieu 
thereof "interned in a foreign country, or captured by a hostile force". 
(e) Section 14 (56 Stat. 147) is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 14. The provisions of this Act applicable to persons captured 
by a hostile force shall also apply to any person beleaguered or besieged 
by a hostile force." 
(f) Section 15 (56 Stat. 147,1093) is amended by deleting everything 
following the words "and shall remain in effect until" and inserting in 
lieu thereof "February 1,1954". 
SEO. 2. Section 1 (a) (7) of the Emergency Powers Continuation 
Act (ch. 570, 66 Stat. 331) is repealed without effect upon rights 
accrued, liabilities incurred, or actions taken thereunder. 
Approved April 4, 1953. 
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Repeal. 
Public Law 17 
CHAPTER 18 
AN ACT 
To amend section 3841 of the Revised Statutes relating to the schedules of the 
arrival and departure of the mail, to repeal certain obsolete laws relating to 
the postal service, and for other purposes. 
i^ril 4, 1953 
[H. R. 3062] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 3841 
of the Revised Statutes (sec. 7, title 39, United States Code) is hereby 
amended by striking out the clause reading: "and he shall cause to 
be kept and returned to the Department, at short and regular intervals, 
registei-s, showing the exact times of the arrivals and departures of 
the mail.", and by inserting, in lieu thereof, a clause to read as fol-
lows : "and he shall cause to be kept- and forwarded to the Depart-
ment, or designated field offices, such reports as he may consider 
necessary." 
SEC. 2. The Act entitled "An Act to reclassify postmasters and 
employees of the postal service and readjust their salaries and com-
pensation on an equitable basis," approved June 5, 1920 (41 Stat. 
1045), as amended, is hereby further amended by striking out the 
paragraph reading: 
"A clerk in charge is defined as a clerk in charge of a railway post 
office, terminal railway post office, or transfer office whether he per-
forms service alone or has a crew of clerks under his supervision, or 
of a tour or a crew within a tour of a terminal railway post office or 
transfer office." 
Postal Service. 
Mail reports. 
Repeals. 
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