An Act to provide wage credits under title II of the Social Security Act for military service before July 1, 1955, and to extend the time for filing application for lump-sum death payments under such title with respect to the death of certain individuals dying in the service who are reinterred
PL 83-269 (H.R.4151), enacted 08/14/1953

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PUBLIC LAW 269-AUG. 14, 1953 
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S T A T . 
64 Stat. 830. 
50 u s e 882, 883. 
50 u s e 881 note. 
Commencing at a point in the east line of section 29, township 8 
north, range 10 east, fourth principal meridian, said point being the 
center line of Bowman Street; thence west one thousand three hundred 
and ten feet to a point, said point being the west line of Wright Street, 
which is the point of beginning; thence north four hundred and fifty 
feet more or less along the west line of Wright Street to a point in 
the center line of Sullivan Street; thence west along the center line 
of Sullivan Street to a point in the east line of Hoffman Street; 
thence south four hundred and fifty feet more or less to a point in the 
center line of Bowman Street; thence east along the center line of 
Bowman Street to the point of beginning. 
SEC. 2. Any contribution of funds by the Secretary of Defense to 
the State of Wisconsin, for the construction of facilities as provided 
in section 3 (c) of the National Defense Facilities Act of 1950 (Public 
Law 783, Eighty-first Congress) shall, in addition to the limitation 
provided in section 4 (d) of said Act, be reduced in an amount equiva-
lent to the fair value of the real estate described in section 1, excluding 
the improvements thereon, as determined by the Department of the 
Army: Provided^ That funds contributed by the Federal Government 
for the construction of a National Guard Armory shall be conditioned 
upon joint construction and joint utilization within the meaning of 
Public Law 783, Eighty-first Congress, as may be necessary to house 
other reserve component units in the area: And provided 
fwther^ 
That the conveyance herein authorized shall be made subject to the 
condition and limitation that if the property shall cease to be used 
for the training and maintaining of reserve component units, the title 
to the land so conveyed shall revert to and revest in the United States. 
Approved August 14, 1953. 
August 14, 1953 
[H. R. 4151] 
Public Law 269 
CHAPTER 483 
AN ACT 
To provide wage credits under title II of the Social Security Act for military 
service before July 1, 1955, and to extend the time for filing application for 
lump-sum death payments under such title with respect to the death of certain 
individuals dying in the service who are reinterred. 
death 
Veterans 
payments. 
66 Stat. 774. 
42 u s e 417. 
64 Stat. 487. 
42 u s e 402(i). 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That section 217 
(e) of the Social Security Act relating to "Benefits in Case of Vet-
erans" is amended by striking out "January 1, 1954" each place it 
appears and inserting in lieu thereof "July 1, 1955". 
SEC. 2. Section 202 (i) of such Act is amended by adding at the 
end thereof the following new sentence: "In the case of any individual 
who died outside the forty-eight States and the District of Columbia 
after December 1953 and before July 1955, whose death occurred 
while he was in the active military or naval service of the United 
States, and who is returned to any of such States, the District of 
Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands for 
interment or reinterment, the provisions of the preceding sentence 
shall not prevent payment to any person under the second sentence of 
this subsection if application for a lump-sum death payment with 
respect to such deceased individual is filed by or on behalf of such 
person (whether or not legally competent) prior to the expiration of 
two years after the date of such interment or reinterment." 
Approved August 14, 1953.