An Act to facilitate the settlement of the accounts of deceased members of the uniformed services, and for other purposes.
PL 84-147 (S.933), enacted 07/12/1955

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PUBLIC LAW 147-JULY 12, 1955 
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Public Law 145 
CHAPTER 326 
AN ACT 
To repeal the Act of January 19, 1929 (ch. 86, 45 Stat. 1090), entitled "An Act 
to limit the date of filing claims for retainer pay". 
July 12,1955 
[S. 800] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Act of 
January 19, 1929 (ch. 86, 45 Stat. 1090), is hereby repealed. 
Approved July 12, 1955. 
Naval reserves. 
34 u s e 771, 772. 
Public Law 146 
CHAPTER 327 
AN ACT 
To amend the Universal Military Training and Service Act, as amended, to 
remove the requirement for a final physical examination for inductees who 
continue on active duty in another status in the Armed Forces. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the second 
sentence of subsection 9 (a) of the Universal Military Training and 
Service Act (62 Stat. 614), as amended, is amended by changing the 
final period to a colon and adding at the end thereof the following-
proviso : ^''Provided further^ That, if upon completion of training and 
service under this title, such person continues on active duty without 
an interruption of more than seventy-two hours as a member of the 
Armed Forces of the United States, a physical examination upon 
completion of such training and service shall not be required unless 
it is requested by such person, or the medical authorities of the 
Armed Force concerned determine that the physical examination is 
warranted.". 
Approved July 12, 1955. 
July 12, 1955 
[S. 802] 
Universal M i l i -
tary Training and 
S e r v i c e 
A c t , 
amendment. 
50 USCapp.459. 
Public Law 147 
CHAPTER 328 
A N A C T 
j y j ^ I2ti?55 
To facilitate the settlement of the accounts of deceased members of the uniformed 
_ 
services, and for other purposes. 
ily 12. 19i 
% 933] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That for the pur-
poses of this Act the term "Department" shall mean the Department 
of the Army, the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Air 
Force, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Commerce, 
or the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, as the case may 
be, and the terms "uniformed services," "member" and "Secretary" 
shall have the respective meanings given those terms in section 102 of 
the Career Compensation Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 804), as amended, on 
the date of enactment of this Act, except that "the Secretary of 
Health, Education, and Welfare"' shall be substituted for "the Federal 
Security Administrator" in the definition of the term "Secretary". 
SEC. 2. In the settlement of the account of any deceased member of 
the uniformed services or of the National Guard or the Air National 
Guard, the amount found due therein from the uniformed service of 
which the decedent was a member shall be paid to the person or persons 
surviving at the date of death in the following order of precedence: 
First, to the beneficiary or beneficiaries named to receive any such 
amount in a written designation executed by the member and received. 
Uniformed serv-
ices. 
Accounts of de-
ceased members. 
37 use 231. 
P r e c e dence of 
beneficiaries.