An Act to authorize the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia to establish daylight saving time in the District
PL 82-24 (H.R.2612), enacted 04/25/1951

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PUBLIC LAW 24—APR. 25, 1951 
[65 STAT. 
premium shall be waived under this section for any period prior to 
the date of application therefor: Provided^ That if the term of any 
five-year level premium term insurance on which premiums have 
been waived under this section expires while the insured is in active 
service, such term shall be automatically renewed for an additional 
five-year period and the premiums due at the then attained age shall 
be waived as provided above: Provided further^ That the election by 
an insured of the premium waiver benefits of this section shall thereby 
render his contract of insurance nonparticipating during the period 
mrat^oVbeneflK^^^" such premium waiver is in effect: Provided further^ That whenever 
benefits under such insurance become payable because of the maturity 
of such policy of insurance while the insured is in active service or 
within one hundred and twenty days thereafter, liability for payment 
of sucli benefits shall be borne by the United States in an amount 
which, when added to any reserve of the policy at the time of maturity, 
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will equal the then value of such benefits under such policy. 
Where 
life contingencies are involved in the calculation of the value of such 
benefits, the calculation of such liability or liabilities shall be based 
upon such mortality table or tables as the Administrator may pre-
scribe with interest at the rate of 214 per centum per annum as to 
Arue,^.z%. 
insurance issued under sections 620 and 621, at the rate of 3 per centum 
per annum as to other national service life insurance, and 3^/2 per 
centum per annum as to United States Government life insurance. 
Transfer o
f funds. 
fpi-^g Administrator is authorized and directed to transfer from time 
to time from the national service life insurance appropriation to the 
National Service Life Insurance Fund and from the military and 
naval insurance appropriation to the United States Government Life 
Insurance Fund such sums as may be necessary to carry out the pro-
visions of this section." 
38u.^s.c!\'802(m) 
SEC. 11. The first sentence of section 602 (m) (2) of the National 
(2)- 
Service Life Insurance Act of 1940, as amended, is hereby amended to 
read as follows: 
Nonforfeiture. 
"(2) In any case in which the insured provided for the payment of 
premiums on his insurance by authorizing in writing the deduction of 
premiums from his service pay, such insurance shall be deemed not to 
have lapsed or not to have been forfeited because of desertion under 
54 Stat. 1013. 
section 612, so long as he remained in active service prior to the date 
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^^ enactment of the Insurance Act of 1946, notwithstanding the fact 
38U.s.c.i80inote; that deduction of premiums was discontinued because— 
Sup. IV, §802. 
u ^^^ |.jjg insured was discharged to accept a commission; or 
" ( B ) the insured was absent without leave, if restored to active 
duty: or 
"(C) the insured was sentenced by court martial, if he was 
restored to active duty, required to engage in combat, or killed in 
combat." 
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SEC. 12. Nothing contained in part I or part I I of this Act shall be 
construed to cancel or restrict any rights under insurance contracts 
issued on or prior to the date of this enactment. 
Short title. 
SEC. 13. This part may be cited as the "Insurance Act of 1951". 
Approved April 25, 1951. 
Public Law 24 
CHAPTER 40 
AprU25,1951 
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ACT 
[H- R- 2612] 
IJIQ authorize the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia to establish 
daylight saving time in the District. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
time?D.*c.*****^'°'' United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Board of 
65 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 26—MAY 7, 1951 
Commissioners of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance 
the standard time applicable to the District one hour for the period 
commencing not earlier than the last Sunday of April 1951 and ending 
not later than the last Sunday of September 1951. Any such time 
established by the Commissioners under the authority of this Act 
shall, during the period of the year for which it is applicable, be 
the standard time for the District of Columbia. 
Approved April 25, 1951. 
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April 28,1951 
(H.J. Res. 223] 
Charters of vessels. 
E xtension to citizens 
of P. I. 
Public Law 25 
CHAPTER 41 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To give the Department of Commerce the authority to extend certain charters 
of vessels to citizens of the Republic of the Philippines, and for other pui-poses. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That, notwithstanding any 
other provisions of existing law, the Secretary of Commerce shall have 
the authority to extend and continue the present charters of vessels to 
citizens of the Republic of the Philippines, which charters were made 
and entered into under the terms of section 306 (a) of the Act of April 
30, 1946 (Public Law 370, Seventy-ninth Congress). Such charters 
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may be extended for such periods of time and under such terms and § i786 (a);' siip. iv," 
conditions as the Secretary may, from time to time, determine to be * ^^^ "
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required in the interest of the economy of the Philippines, but any such 
charter shall contain a provision requiring that the vessel shall be 
operated only in the interisland commerce in the Philippines. No such 
vessel shall be continued under charter beyond the completion of the 
first voyage terminating after April 30,1952. 
Approved April 28, 1951. 
Public Law 26 
CHAPTER 44 
AN ACT 
May 7,1951 
[S. 271] 
To authorize the transfer to the Vermont Agricultural College of certain lands 
in Addison County, Vermont, for agricultural purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary tuS'i^iiege.^^"''"^" 
of Agriculture is authorized and directed to transfer and convey to 
conveyance, 
the Vermont Agricultural College, a State-owned corporation, upon 
acceptance by said agricultural college, without cost, the real property 
comprising nine hundred forty-two and forty-two one-hundredths 
acres, more or less, of the United States Morgan Horse Farm located 
in Addison County, town of Weybridge, Vermont, and such of the 
personal property of this station as may be agreed upon, in writing, 
by the Secretary of Agriculture and the dean of the Vermont Agri-
cultural College. 
Such real and personal property and research 
records shall be transferred upon the express condition that they 
shall be used by the Vermont Agricultural College for the benefit of 
agriculture for such period as may be agreed upon by the Secretary 
and the said college at the time of transfer. 
The authority herein contained shall expire on June 30,1951, unless, thorlty!* 
prior to such expiration date, the dean of the Vermont Agricultural 
College shall have notified the Secretary of Agriculture of the accept-
ance of the lands and other property of the station under the terms 
of this Act. 
Approved May 7, 1951. 
Expiration of au-