An Act to amend sections 3526 and 3528 of the Revised Statutes relating to the coinage of subsidiary silver coins and minor coins of the United States
PL 84-677 (H.R.10230), enacted 07/09/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 677-JULY 9, 1956 
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Other retirement 
benefits. 
Involuntary sep-
aration. 
66 Stat. 491. 
50 u s e 963. 
38 u s e 691, 901 
note. 
*^nvoluntary re-
lease". 
readjustment pay under this section or disability compensation under 
laws administered by the Veterans' Administration, but not both. 
Election of readjustment pay shall not deprive a person of any dis-
ability compensation to which he may become entitled, on the basis 
of subsequent service, under laws administered by the Veterans' 
Administration. 
"(c) The acceptance of readjustment paj under this section shall 
not deprive a person of any retired pay, retirement pay, retainer pay, 
or other retirement benefits from the United States to which he would 
otherwise become entitled. 
"(d) Under regulations prescribed by the appropriate Secretary, 
which regulations shall be as uniform as practicable, a member of 
a reserve component who is on active duty and is within two years 
of qualifying for retired pay, retirement pay, or retainer pay under 
any purely military retirement system, shall not be involuntarily 
separated from that duty before he qualifies for that pay unless his 
separation is approved by the appropriate Secretary. 
"(e) A member of a reserve component who on the effective date 
of this section is serving on active duty under an agreement author-
ized by section 235 of this Act, and who is involuntarily released from 
active duty before completing his agreed term of service, may elect, in 
lieu of separation payment under that section, to receive readjustment 
pay under this section. 
"(f) Any payments accruing to a person under this section shall 
be reduced by the amount of any payment previously received by that 
person under this section, unless he has already refunded the prior 
payment to the United States. If he has refunded the earlier pay-
ment, the period covered by the earlier payment shall be considered 
as a period for which no payment has been made under this Act. 
"(g) A person who receives readjustment pay under this section is 
not entitled to mustering-out pay under the Slustering Out Payment 
Act of 1944 or under the Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 
1952. 
"(h) For the purpose of this section, the term 'involuntary release' 
shall include release under conditions wherein a member of a reserve 
component, who has completed a tour of duty, volunteers for an 
additional tour of duty and the service concerned does not extend or 
accept the volunteer request of the member for the additional tour." 
Approved July 9, 1956. 
i
uly 9, 1956 
1. R. 10230] 
Public Law 677 
CHAPTER535 
AN ACT 
To amend sections 3526 and 3528 of the Revised Statutes relating to the coinage 
of subsidiary silver coins and minor coins of the United States. 
eoinage. 
68 Stat. 336. 
64 Stat. 157. 
31 u s e 320. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 3528 
of the Kevised Statutes, as amended (31 U. S. C. 340), is further 
amended by striking out "$2,000,000" and inserting in lieu thereof 
"$3,000,000^'. 
SEC. 2, The third sentence of section 3526 of the Revised Statutes, 
as amended (31 U. S. C. 335), is amended to read as follows: "This 
fund shall be charged with the cost of the alloy metal, with the 
wastage incurred in such coinage, with the recoinage loss on silver 
coins recoined pursuant to section 9 of the Act of March 14, 1900 (31 
Stat. 48), as amended, and with the cost of distributing silver coins." 
Approved July 9, 1956.