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
PL 83-17 (H.R.3062), enacted 04/04/1953

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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Act (ch. 570, 66 Stat. 331) is repealed without effect upon rights 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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SEC. 3. Section 3975 of the Revised Statutes (sec. 493, title 39, 
U. S. C.) is hereby amended by striking out the semicolon and the 
following: "but where such service is performed over a route not 
established by law, he shall report the same to Congress at its meeting 
next thereafter, and such service shall cease at the end of the next 
session of Congress, unless such route is established a post route by 
Congress". 
Approved April 4, 1953. 
April 4, 1953 
[H. R. 3073] 
Public Law 18 
CHAPTER 19 
AN ACT 
To amend the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, witli respect to the 
survivorship benefits granted to Members of Congress. 
Congress. 
Survivorship ben-
efits. 
53 Stat. 1201, 
5 u s e 698. 
Effective date. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That subsection (d) 
of section 4 of the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as 
amended by the Act of August 4, 1939 (Public, Numbered 263, 
Seventy-sixth Congress), which is referred to in paragraph (5) of 
section 3A of such Act, is amended by striking out the colon after 
the word "section" and the following: '"''Provided^ That no election 
in lieu of the life annuity provided herein shall become effective in 
case an employee dies within thirty days after the effective date of 
retirement, and in the event of such death within this period, such 
death shall be considered as a death in active service". 
SEC. 2. The amendment made by this Act shall take effect as of 
January 1,1953. 
Approved April 4, 1953. 
AprU 4, 1953 
[H. R. 3658] 
Public Law 19 
CHAPTER 20 
AN ACT 
To extend for an additional two years the existing privilege of free importation 
of gifts from members of the Armed Forces of the United States on duty 
abroad. 
65 Stat. 3. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 2 of 
the Act of December 5, 1942, entitled "An Act to accord free entry 
to bona fide gifts from members of the Armed Forces of the United 
States on duty abroad", as amended (U. S. C, title 50 App., sec. 847), 
is hereby amended by striking out "July 1, 1953" and inserting in 
lieu thereof "July 1,1955". 
Approved April 4, 1953. 
April 4, 1953 
[H. R. 3659] 
Public Law 20 
CHAPTER 21 
AN ACT 
To extend until July 1, 1955, the period during which personal and household 
effects brought into the United States under Government orders shall be 
exempt from duty. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first sen-
tence of section 2 of the Act of June 27, 1942, entitled "An Act to