An Act to amend section 12 of the Missing Persons Act, as amended, relating to travel by dependents and transportation of household and personal effects
PL 82-131 (H.R.1199), enacted 08/29/1951

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at the intersection of the south line of Pass Christian Road and 
the east line of Peters Lane; thence north one degree eighteen 
minutes west, one thousand three hundred seventy-four and 
twenty one-hundredths feet to a point on the east line of Peters 
Lane; thence continuing along the east line of Peters Lane north 
one degree three minutes west, one thousand six hundred sixteen 
and eighty one-hundredths feet to the true point of beginning; 
thence leaving the east line of Peters Lane north forty-five degrees 
eighteen minutes east, one thousand one hundred sixty-three and 
forty one-hundredths feet to a point on the south shore line of 
the Back Bay of Biloxi; thence following the south shore line 
of said bay in a northwesterly direction one thousand one hundred 
feet, more or less, to its intersection with the easterly line of 
Peters Lane extended; thence south one degree three minutes 
east, one thousand four hundred and sixty feet, more or less, 
along the east line of Peters Lane extended to the true point of 
beginning; 
both tracts being as shown in color on map designated as "Keesler 
Field, Mississippi, DRNG. 727", dated May 28, 1944, on file in the 
Office, Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army. 
Approved August 29, 1951. 
Public Law 131 
CHAPTER 356 
AN ACT 
To amend section 12 of the Missing Persons Act, as amended, relating to travel 
by dependents and transportation of household and personal effects. 
August 29, 1951 
[H. R. 1199] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 12 of 
the Missing Persons Act, as amended, is hereby further amended to 
read as follows: 
"SEC. 12. The dependents and household and personal effects of any 
person in active service (without regard to pay grade) who is officially 
reported as dead, injured, missing for a period of thirty days or more, 
interned in a neutral country, or captured by the enemy, upon appli-
cation by such dependents, may be moved (including packing and 
unpacking of household effects), upon receipt by such dependents of 
such official report, to such location as may be determined in advance 
or subsequently approved by the head of the department concerned or 
by such persons as he may designate. The cost of such transportation, 
including packing and unpacking of household effects, shall be charged 
against appropriations currently available. In lieu of transportation 
authorized by this section for dependents, the head of the department 
concerned may authorize the payment in money of amounts equal to 
such commercial transportation costs for the whole or such part of 
travel for which transportation in kind is not furnished, when such 
travel shall have been completed. When the person is in an 'injured' 
status, the movement of dependents or household and personal effects 
provided for herein may be authorized only in cases where the antici-
pated period of hospitalization or treatment will be of prolonged 
duration. No transportation shall be authorized pursuant to this sec-
tion unless a reasonable relationship exists between the condition and 
circumstances of the dependents and the destination to which trans-
portation is requested. Beginning June 25,1950, and for the purposes 
of this section only, the terms 'household and personal effects' and 
'household effects' may include, in addition to other authorized weight 
allowances, not to exceed one privately owned motor vehicle, shipment 
Missing Persons 
Act, amendment. 
50) Stat. 146. 
50 U. S. C. a p p . 
§ 1012. 
Transportation of 
dependents and 
ef-
fects 
Payment in lieu of 
transportation. 
Restriction. 
Motor vehicle. 
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Claims 
bursement. for reim-
Applicability. 
Ratification of prior 
payments. 
of which at Government expense is authorized in those cases where 
the vehicle is located outside the continental limits of the United 
States or in Alaska." 
SEC. 2. (a) Claims for travel by dependents and for transportation 
of household and personal effects which arose under section 12 of the 
Missing Persons Act, as amended, incident to the death of a person 
in active service, and which were not presented for reimbursement 
or were presented and were rejected or disallowed, may, until three 
years after the date of approval of this Act, be presented for consider-
ation or reconsideration and reimbursement under the provisions of 
section 12 of the Missing Persons Act, as amended by this Act: Pro-
vided^ That this section shall be applicable only to such claims which 
arose on or after September 8, 1939, and prior to the date of approval 
of this Act. 
(b) Payments made by disbursing officers for travel by dependents 
and for transportation of household and personal effects pursuant to 
section 12 of the Missing Persons Act, as amended, on or after March 
7, 1942, and prior to the date of approval of this Act, heretofore not 
allowed by virtue of inability to establish death or injury as a result 
of military or naval operations, are hereby ratified. 
(c) Payments made by disbursing officers on or after June 25,1950, 
and prior to the date of approval of this Act for the transportation, 
packing, and unpacking of privately owned motor vehicles trans-
ported under the conditions set forth in section 12 of the Missing 
Persons Act, as amended by section 1 of this Act, are hereby ratified. 
Approved August 29, 1951. 
August 29, 1951 
[H. J. Res. 320] 
Public Law 132 
CHAPTER 357 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Amending an Act making temporary appropriations for the fiscal year 1952, and 
for other purposes. 
Ante, p. 149. 
Aid to refugees from 
Palestine. 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That clause (c) of section 4 
of the joint resolution of July 1,1951 (Public Law 70), as amended, is 
hereby amended by striking out "August 31,1951" and inserting in lieu 
thereof "September 30,1951". 
SEC. 2. The amount appropriated by subsection (e) of section 1 of 
such joint resolution, as amended, for Aid to Refugees from Palestine 
is hereby increased by such amount as may be necessary to permit such 
activity to continue under such joint resolution at a rate not in excess 
of that permitted by the amount appropriated therefor for the month 
of August, 1951. 
Approved August 29, 1951. 
Public Law 133 
CHAPTER 367 
August 30, 1951 
[S. 950] 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act authorizing the segregation and expenditure of trust funds 
held in joint ownership by the Shoshone and Arapaho Tribes of the Wind 
River Reservation for the purpose of extending the time in which payments 
are to be made to members of such tribes under such Act, and for other 
purposes. 
Shoshone and Arap-
aho Tribes. 
Trust funds. 
Be it enMcted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the second 
proviso of section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the segre-
gation and expenditure of trust funds held in joint ownership by 
the Shoshone and Arapaho Tribes of the Wind River Reservation",