An Act to authorize the appointment of qualified women as physicians and specialists in the medical services of the Army, Navy, and Air Force
PL 82-408 (S.2552), enacted 06/24/1952

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PUBLIC LAW 408-JUNE 24, 1952 
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Public Law 407 
CHAPTER 456 
AN ACT 
June 24, 1952 
To amend section 631b of title 5, United States Code, by adding a new subsection 
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to be cited as subsection (c). 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and TImise of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Act of 
November 26, 1940, chapter 919, title 1, section 2 (54 Stat. 1212), as 
amended (U. S. C, 1946 edition, title 5, sec. 631b), is hereby amended 
by adding thereto a new subsection (c) as follows: 
* "(c) From and after the date of approval of this Act any person %°^^^ 
who shall have served for four years as a secretary, law clerk, or status, 
secretary and law clerk to any justice or judge of the United States, 
and whose separation from the service is involuntary and without 
prejudice, shall acquire, upon passing such suitable noncompetitive 
examination as the Civil Service Commission may prescribe, a classi-
fied civil-service status for transfer to a position in the classified civil 
service, notwithstanding any contrary provisions of the civil-service 
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laws or regulations; but any individual who may hold such a position 
in the judicial branch must obtain such a transfer within one year 
from the date of separation and nothing in this Act, as amended 
(U. S. C , 1946 edition, title 5, sees. 631a, 631b, 632, 635, 669, 681-684), 
shall be construed to impair any right of retransfer provided for 
under civil-service laws or regulations made thereunder." 
Approved June 24, 1952. 
employees. 
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Public Law 408 
CHAPTER 457 
AN ACT 
To authorize the appointment of qualitied women as physicians and specialists 
in the medical services of the Army, Navy, and Air Force. 
June 24, 1952 
[S. 2552] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That all laws or parts 
of laws, which now or hereafter authorize appointment of male com-
missioned officers in each of the several corps of the medical service of 
the Regular Army, and the reserve components thereof, or as medical, 
dental, and Medical Service Corps officers of the Regular Navy and 
Naval Reserve, or as officers of the Air Force designated to perform 
medical, dental, veterinarian, or medical service duties, shall be con-
strued to include authority to appoint female personnel thereunder and 
all laws and parts of laws now or hereafter applicable to male com-
missioned officers and former male commissioned officers of each of the 
several corps of the medical service of the Regular Army, and the re-
serve components thereof, or as medical, dental, and Medical Service 
Corps officers of the Regular Navy and Naval Reserve, or as officers 
of the Air Force designated to perform medical, dental, veterinarian, 
or medical service duties, and to their dependents and beneficiaries, 
shall, in like cases, be applicable to commissioned female officers and 
former commissioned officers so appointed and to their dependents and 
beneficiaries: Provided, That, except with respect to the Career Com-
pensation Act of 1949, the husbands of female officers appointed under 
the provisions of this Act shall not be considered dependents unless 
they are in fact dependent on their wives for their chief support, and 
the children of such officers shall not be considered dependents unless 
their father is dead or they are in fact dependent on their mother for 
Arrned Forces. 
Women phy si-
cians and special-
ists. 
63 Stat. 802. 
37 u s e 231 note. 
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their chief support: Provided fm^tfier^ That the cognizant Secretary, 
under the circumstances and in accordance with regulations prescribed 
by the President, may terminate the commission of any officer ap-
pointed pursuant hereto. 
Approved June 24, 1952. 
Public Law 409 
CHAPTER 458 
June 24, 1952 
[S. 2748] 
C an a di an ves-
sels. 
Iron ore trans-
portation. 
46 u s e 883. 
AN ACT 
Authorizing vessels of Canadian registry to transport iron ore between United 
States ports on the Great Lalies during 1952. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That, by reason of 
emergency conditions in transportation on the Great Lakes, notwith-
standing the provisions of section 27 of the Act of June 5, 1920 (41 
Stat. 999), as amended by the Act of April 11, 1935 (49 Stat. 154), 
and by Act of July 2, 1935 (49 Stat. 442), or the provisions of any 
other Act, or regulation, vessels of Canadian registry shall be per-
mitted to transport iron ore between United States ports on the Great 
Lakes until December 31, 1952, or until such earlier time as the Con-
gress by concurrent resolution or the President by proclamation may 
designate. 
Approved June 24, 1952. 
Public Law 410 
CHAPTER 459 
June 25. 1952 
[S. 3019] 
Career Compen-
sation Act, amend-
ment. 
63 Stat. 802. 
37 u s e 23 J note, 
234. 
Physicians and 
dentists. 
AN ACT 
To amend the Career Compensation Act of 1949, as amended, to extend the 
application of the special-inducement pay provided thereby to physicians and 
dentists, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Career 
Compensation Act of 1949, as amended, is further amended by— 
(a) Amending subsection 203 (a) to read as follows: 
"(a) The term 'commissioned officers', as used in this section, shall 
be interpreted to mean only (1) those commissioned officers in the 
Medical and Dental Corps of, or designated as medical or dental 
officers in, the Kegular Army, Navy, and Air Force and commis-
sioned medical and dental officers of the Regular Corps of the Public 
Health Service who were on active duty on September 1, 1947; (2) 
those commissioned officers in the Medical and Dental Corps of, or 
designated as medical or dental officers in, the Regular Army, Navy, 
and Air Force and commissioned medical and dental officers of the 
Regular Corps of the Public Health Service, who were retired prior 
to September 1, 1947, and who thereafter but prior to July 1, 1953, 
have been or may be assigned to active duty; (3) those officers who, 
lieretofore but subsequent to September 1, 1947, have been or who, 
prior to July 1, 1953, may be commissioned in the Medical and Dental 
Corps of, or designated as medical or dental officers in, the Regular 
Army, Navy, and Air Force or as medical and dental officers of the 
Regular Corps of the Public Health Service; (4) such officers who 
on September 1, 1947, were or who thereafter have been or may be 
commissioned in the Medical and Dental Corps of, or designated as 
medical or dental officers in, the Officers' Reserve Corps, the United 
States Air Force Reserve, the Naval Reserve, the National Guard, 
the National Guard of the United States, the Air National Guard,