An Act to authorize the burial in national cemeteries of the remains of certain commissioned officers of the Public Health Service.
PL 84-501 (H.R.8728), enacted 04/30/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 501-APR. 30, 1956 
[70 ST A T . 
April 30,1956 
|H. R. 8728] 
Public Law 501 
CHAPTER 227 
AN ACT 
To authorize the burial in national cemeteries of the remains of certain 
commissioned officers of the Public Health Service. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America 
in Congress assembled, That burial in 
national cemeteries of the remains of commissioned officers of the 
United States Public Health Service who were detailed for duty with 
the Army or Navy during World War I pursuant to the Act of July 
46 use 654. 
1, 1902 (32 Stat. 712, TIB), as amended, and Executive Order Num-
bered 2571 dated April 3, 1917, and of the wife, widow, minor child 
and, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Army, unmarried adult 
child of these officers is authorized: Provided, That the remains of 
the wife, widow, and children may, in the discretion of the Secretary 
of the Army, be removed from a national cemetery proper and 
interred in the post section of a national cemetery if, upon death, 
the related officer is not buried in the same or an adjoining gravesite. 
Approved April 30, 1956. 
April 30, 1956 
[S. 1188] 
Public Law 502 
CHAPTER 228 
AN ACT 
To amend section 5240 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, relating to the 
examination of national banks. 
National banks. 
Examination* 
38 StaU 271. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first para-
graph of section 5240 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (12 U. S. C. 
481), is amended by deleting the first sentence thereof and substituting 
therefor the following sentences: "The Comptroller of the Currency, 
wdth the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall appoint 
examiners who shall examine every national bank twice in each 
calendar year, but the Comptroller, in the exercise of his discretion, 
may waive one such examination or cause such examinations to be 
made more frequently if considered necessary. 
The waiver of one 
such examination as above provided shall not be exercised more fre-
quently than once during any two-year period."; and by deleting 
from the second sentence thereof the following: ", or of any other 
member bank,". 
SEC. 2. The third paragraph of section 5240 of the Revised Stat-
utes, as amended (12 U. S. C. 482), is amended by deleting the second 
sentence thereof and substituting therefor the following: "The ex-
pense of the examinations herein provided for shall be assessed by 
the Comptroller of the Currency upon national banks in proportion 
to their assets or resources. The assessments may be made more 
frequently than annually at the discretion of the Comptroller of the 
Currency. 
The annual rate of such assessment shall be the same for 
all national banks, except that banks examined more frequently than 
twice in one calendar year shall, in addition, be assessed the expense 
of these additional examinations." 
SEC. 3. The seventh paragraph of section 5240 of the Revised 
Statutes, as amended (12 U. S. C. 482), is deleted and there is sub-
stituted therefor the following: "In addition to the expense of exami-
nation to be assessed by the Comptroller of the Currency as hereto-
fore provided, all national banl^ exercising fiduciary powers and 
all banks or trust companies in the District of Columbia exercising