An Act to provide for the relief of certain members of the uniformed services
PL 84-626 (H.R.8922), enacted 06/29/1956

70 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 62&-JUNE 29, 1956 
373 
SEC, 2. Section 1 of said Act of August 18, 1941, is further amended 
by changing the period at the end thereof to a colon and by inserting 
thereafter: ^''Provided further^ That the Secretary of the Interior 
is authorized to prescribe by regulations the extent to which, the times 
when, and the means by which, walruses may be taken for purposes 
other than food and clotliing and the extent to which such walruses 
or the parts thereof may be possessed, sold, bartered, purchased, or 
exported. Any regulations so prescribed shall prohibit the hunting 
of walruses witli the use of airplanes and helicopters and shall prohibit 
the taking of any walrus by a nonnative other than one bull walrus per 
year which may be taken only when the nonnative is accompanied by a 
native guide. The meat of any walrus taken by a nonnative shall 
be given to natives, and the Secretary of the Interior is directed to 
prohibit the taking of walruses by nonnatives whenever he determines 
that such taking may endanger the food supply of the natives. No 
nonnative shall take any walrus under any regulations prescribed 
by the Secretary of the Interior without first having procured a walrus 
hunting license which shall be issued in the manner prescribed by sub-
division I, section 10, of the Alaska game law of January 13, 1925, 
as amended (43 Stat. 744; 48 U. S. C. 199). The fee for such license 
shall be $25 for nonnative residents of the Territory of Alaska and $50 
for nonresidents. For the purposes of this Act, residence shall be 
governed by the conditions prescribed in section 3 of said Alaska 
game law. After deducting the amount that may be retained as 
compensation by persons authorized to sell such licenses, the amount 
of such retained compensation to be determined in accordance with 
subdivision K of section 10 of said Alaska game law, the proceeds 
from the sale of walrus hunting licenses shall be accounted for and 
disposed of in the manner prescribed by the said subdivision K." 
Approved June 29, 1956. 
Public Law 626 
CHAPTER 461 
AN ACT 
June 29, 1956 
To provide for the relief of certain members of the uniformed services. 
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Armed Forces. 
R e e n l i s t m e n t 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assenibled^ That all payments 
of reenlistment bonuses heretofore made under the provisions of sec- bomTseir 
tion 208 of the Career Compensation Act of 1949, as added by section 
2 of the Act of July 16, 1954 (68 Stat. 488), are hereby validated to 
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the extent that such bonuses were computed on the basis that reenlist-
ments entered into by the member concerned subsequent to September 
30, 1949, for which he did not receive a reenlistment bonus under sec-
tion 207 of the Career Compensation Act of 1949, were not counted in g^^a S|a t. 811; 68 
determining the reenlistment involved. Any member who has made 
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repayment to the United States of any amount so paid to him as a 
reenlistment bonus is entitled to have refunded the amount repaid. 
SEC. 2. The Comptroller General of the United States, or his desig-
nee, shall relieve disbursing officers, including special disbursing 
agents, of the United States, from accountability for any payments 
described in section 1 of this Act, and shall allow credits in the settle-
ment of the accounts of those officers or agents for payments which 
are found to be free from fraud and collusion. 
SEC. 3. Appropriations available for the pay and allowances of 
members of the uniformed services, as defined in the Career Com-
pensation Act of 1949, are available for refunds under this Act. 
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Approved June 29, 1956.