An Act to authorize the Postmaster General to provide for the use in first- and second-class post offices of a special canceling stamp or post-marking die bearing the words ""Pray for peace.""
PL 84-600 (H.R.692), enacted 06/20/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 601-JUNE 20, 1956 
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Public Law 599 
CHAPTER 409 
AN ACT 
To provide that no fee shall be charged a veteran discharged under honorable 
conditions for furnishing him or his next of kin or legal representative a copy 
of a certiticate showing his service in the Armed Forces, 
June 19, 1956 
[H. R. 6274] 
Be it encicted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress as-senihled. That no person who 
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has been discharged or released from tlie Army, Navy, Air Force, pers, fees. 
Marine Corps, or Coast Guard under lionorable conditions, or his next 
of kin or legal representative, shall be charged a fee for a copy of a 
certiticate showing his service in the Armed Forces. 
Approved June 19, 1966. 
Public Law 600 
CHAPTER 411 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Postmaster General to provide for the use in first- and second-
class post offices of a special canceling stamp or postmarlcing die bearing 
the words "Pray f<n- peace". 
June 20, 1956 
[H.R. 692] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in i 'ongress assembled^ That section 2 of the 
Act entitled "An Act authorizing the Postmaster General to grant 
j)ermission to use special canceling stamps or postmarking dies", 
approved May 11, 1922 (39 U. S. C., sec. 368), is amended to read as 
follows: 
"SEC. 2. (a) Any permission granted by the Postmaster General 
under the first section of this Act shall be revocable in the event the 
Government shall find it expedient or necessary to use special canceling 
stamps or postmarking dies for its own purposes. 
"(b) The Postmaster General is authorized to provide for the use 
in each first- and second-class post office, of a special canceling stamp 
or postmarking die bearing the words 'Pray for peace'." 
SEC. 2. The >^econd ])roviso in the first section of such Act of May 
11,1922, is amended by striking out ''nothing in this Act" and inserting 
in lieu thereof ''nothing in this section". 
Approved June 20, 1956. 
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Public Law 601 
CHAPTER 412 
AN ACT 
To amend title III of the Army and Air Force Vitalization and Retirement 
Equalization Act of 1948 to provide that service as an Army field clerk, or as a 
field clerk, Quartermaster Corps, shall be counted for purposes of retirement 
under title III of that Act, and for other purposes. 
June 20, 19S6 
[H. R. 5516] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That subsection 802 
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Act of 1948 (62 Stat. 1087), as amended (10 U. S. C. 1036a (a)), is 
further amended by inserting the words "Army field clerk, field clerk. 
Quartermaster Corps," after the w^ords "flight officer," and by insert-
ing the following additional proviso after the words "December 31, 
1946": '^And provided further^ That for the purposes of this section, 
all periods of classified field service as an Army headquarters clerk 
or as a clerk of the Army Quartermaster Corps under laws in effect 
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Restriction. 
prior to August 29, 1916, shall, in the case of warrant officers, be con-
sidered as satisfactory Federal service performed in the status of a 
warrant officer". 
SEC. 2. Xo person shall, by virtue of section 1, be entitled to retired 
pay for any period prior to the effective date of this Act. 
Approved June 20, 1956. 
June 20, 1956 
[H. R. ^913] 
Public Law 602 
CHAPTER 413 
AN ACT 
Authorizing the Adiuinistrator of General Services to effect the exchange of 
properties between the United States and the city of Cape Girardeau, 
Missouri. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
^Cape Girardeau, f'-^^^g^ States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Adminis-
ci^'°V*^** *''" trator of General Services is authorized and directed to convey by 
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quitclaim deed to the city of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, all right, title, 
and interest of the United States of America in and to the following 
described lands lying and being in Cape Girardeau, County of Cape 
Girardeau, State of Missouri: Beginning at a point in the easterly 
line of Lorimier Street which point is distant 100 feet northwardly 
from the intersection of the easterly line of Lorimier Street with 
the center line of Themis Street extended eastwardly; running thence 
south 82 degrees 59 minutes east, on a line parallel with the center line 
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of Themis Street extended, a distance of 240 feet to a point; thence 
south 6 degrees and 58 minutes west, on a line parallel with the easterly 
line of Lorimier Street, a distance of 280 feet to a point; thence north 
82 degrees 59 minutes west, on a line parallel with the center line of 
Themis Street extended, a distance of 240 feet to a point in the easterly 
line of Lorimier Street: thence north 6 degrees 58 minutes east along 
the easterly line of Lorimier Street a distance of 280 feet to the point 
or place of beginning, as shown on plat of Post Office and Court House 
Site, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, made by Albert J. Chandler, Assistant 
Construction Engineer, dated June 10, 1941, and by reference made 
a part thereof: together with the improvements thereon except the 
library building. As consideration for such conveyance, the city of 
Cape Girardeau, Missouri, shall, concurrent therewith, convey by 
deed to the United States of America, free of all liens, taxes and en-
cumbrances, all right, title and interest of the city of Cape Girardeau, 
Missouri, in and to the following described lands lying and being in 
Cape Girardeau, county of Cape Girardeau, State of Missouri: Front-
ing 125.5 feet on the southerly side of Broadway Street and extend-
ing of that width in a southwardly direction along the easterly side 
of Fountain Street a distance of 165.175 feet to the northerly side of 
a 9-foot alley; being the same premises acquired by the United States 
November 19, 1907, in condemnation proceedings instituted in the 
Circuit Court of the United States for the Southeastern Division, 
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Judicial District of Missouri, and designated as Case No. 19 in the 
records of said court. 
SEC. 2. The conveyance authorized pursuant to this Act shall re-
store all right, title, and interest to lands formerly owned by and 
exchanged between the L^nited States of America and the City of 
Cape Girardeau, Missouri. 
The Attorney General of the United 
States of America shall approve in writing the title to the property 
to be conveyed by the City of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, prior to the 
delivery of the deed from the L^nited States. 
Approved June 20, 1956. 
Re s tor ation of 
rights. 
Title approval.