An Act to extend benefits of the Policemen and Firemen's Retirement and Disability Act Amendments of 1957 to widows and surviving children of former members of the Metropolitan Police force, the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, the United States Park Police force, the White Hbuse Police force, or the United States Secret Service Division, who were retired or who died in the service of any such organization prior to the effective date of such amendments
PL 87-601 (S.1918), enacted 08/24/1962

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PUBLIC LAW 87-601-AUG. 24, 1962 
[76 STAT. 
Public Law 87-601 
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August 24, 1962 
AN ACT 
[S. 1918] 
rj,„ extend benefits of the Policemen and Firemen's Retirement and Disability Act 
Amendments of li>o7 to widows and surviving children of former members of 
the Metropolitan Police force, the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, 
the United States Park Police force, the White Hbuse Police force, or the 
United States Secret Service Division, who were retired or who died in the 
.service of any such organization prior to the effective date of such amendments. 
D. c. 
Former police-
men, firemen, etc. 
Survivors' bene-
fits. 
D. C. Code 
4-531 note. 
Effective date. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That each widow or 
cliild who, on or after the effective date of this Act, was receiving or is 
now receiving or shall hereafter be entitled to receive relief or annuity 
by reason of service in the Metropolitan Police force, the Fire Depart-
ment of the District of Columbia, the United States Park Police force, 
the White House Police force, or the United States Secret Service 
Division, of a deceased former officer or member who died in the service 
of any such organization prior to the effective date of the Policemen 
and Firemen's Retirement and Disability Act Amendments of 1957, 
approved August 21,1957 (71 Stat. 391), or who retired prior to such 
effective date, shall be entitled to benefits computed in accordance with 
the provisions of subsection (k) of section 12 of the Act approved Sep-
tember 1, 1916 (39 Stat. 718), as amended (section 4-531, District of 
Columbia Code, 1951 ed., supp. VIII). 
SEC. 2. Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to reduce the relief or 
retirement compensation any person receives, or is entitled to receive, 
on the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 3. The effective date of this Act shall be the fii-st day of the first 
month following the date of enactment. 
Approved August 24, 1962. 
August 24, 1962 
[H. R. 10852] 
Public Law 87-602 
AN ACT 
To continue for a temporary period the existing suspension of duties on certain 
classifications of spun silk yarn, and to provide for the free entry of a towing 
carriage for the use of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. 
Silk yam. 
Duty suspen-
sion. 
19 u s e 1001, 
par. 1202 note. 
Towing car-
riage. 
Free entry. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembied, That the Act entitled 
"An Act to suspend for three years the import duties on certain classi-
fications of spun silk yarn", approved September 8,1959 (Public Law 
86-235; 73 Stat. 470), is amended by striking out "during the three-
year period beginning on the sixtieth day after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act" and inserting in lieu thereof "during the period 
beginning on the 60th day after the date of the enactment of this Act 
and ending with the close of November 7,1965". 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to 
admit free of duty one towing carriage and appurtenances (whether 
arriving in one shipment or in separate shipments) importea for the 
use of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. 
^proved August 24, 1962. 
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