An Act to amend section 1 of Joint Resolution 12 enacted by the 25th Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii, in the regular session of 1949 and approved by the 81st Congress of the United States of America at the 2nd session (Public Law 746, chapter  833)
PL 83-620 (H.R.6885), enacted 08/23/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 619-AUG. 23, 1954 
[68 STAT. 
Secretary. While so serving the officer shall have the rank of captain 
in the Navy and shall receive the pay and allowances now or hereafter 
prescribed by law for that rank and his permanent status as a com-
missioned officer of the Medical Service Corps shall not be disturbed 
by reason of such appointment. 
Retired pay. 
"(b) j^j-^ officer of the Mcdical Service Corps who is retired for any 
reason while serving as Chief of the Medical Service Corps, or who 
having so served for two and one-half years or more is subsequently 
retired while serving in a lower grade, may, in the discretion of the 
President, be retired with the rank held by him while serving as Chief 
of the Medical Service Corps and with retired pay based on the active-
duty pay of that rank." 
Approved August 23, 1954. 
Public Law 619 
CHAPTER 823 
August 23, 1954 
AN ACT 
[H- ^- ^280]— rp^ extend temporarily the rights of priority of nationals of Japan and certain 
nationals of Germany with respect to applications for patents. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
German Sationalsf United /States of AmeHca in Congress assembled^ That the rights of 
Patents. 
priority specified in section 1 of Public Law 690, Seventy-ninth 
Congress, approved August 8, 1946 (60 Stat. 940), which arose before 
April 1, 1950, are hereby extended, with respect to inventions made 
subsequent to January 1, 1946, in favor of nationals of Japan, and of 
nationals of Germany, excluding persons residing in or suLject to the 
jurisdiction of the zone of Germany occupied by the Union of Soviet 
Socialist Republics, the Soviet sector of Berlin or other areas of 
Germany under Soviet or Polish administration, to a date nine months 
after the enactment of this Act, subject to the conditions and limita-
tions specified in sections 1, 4, 10, 12, and 15 of said Public Law 690. 
For the purpose of this Act, the phrase "passage of this Act" in 
said Public Law 690 shall be understood to refer to the date of 
enactment of the present Act. 
Approved August 23, 1954. 
August 23, 1954 
Public Law 620 
CHAPTER 824 
AN ACT 
agust 23, 1954 
[R. R. 6885] 
To amend section 1 of Joint Resolution 12 enacted by the Twenty-tifth Legislature 
of the Territory of Hawaii, in tiie regular session of 1949 and approved by the 
Eighty-first Congress of the United States of America at the second session 
(Public Law 746, chapter 833). 
Hawaii. 
H o m e s t e ad 
Be it enacted hy the Senate atid House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 1 of 
leases"'"""'" °" Joint Resolution 12 enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of 
Hawaii in the regular session of 1949 and approved by the Eighty-first 
Congress of the United States of America, at the second session, 
64 Stat. 572. 
Public Law 746, chapter 833, be amended as follows: 
"SECTION 1. A fee simple patent shall be issued to every lessee under 
a nine hundred and ninety-nine year homestead lease of public lands 
where such lands have been improved under such lease or pursuant to 
a prior certificate of occupation and have been occupied as a place of 
residence by the lessee under such lease or under such lease and certifi-
cate of occupation for an aggregate continuous period of not less than 
ten years, upon the payment to the commissioner of public lands of a