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56 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 2D SESS.- CHS. 436, 443- -JUNE 22, 23 , 1942 [CHAPTER 436] AN ACT To make permanently effective the Act regulating interstate and foreign commerce in petroleum and its products. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 13 of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate interstate and foreign commerce in petroleum and its products by prohibiting the shipment in such commerce of petroleum and its products produced in violation of State law, and for other purposes", approved February 22, 1935 (49 Stat. 30), as amended, is hereby repealed. Approved, June 22, 1942. [CHAPTER 443] AN ACT To provide family allowances for the dependents of enlisted men of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard of the United States, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the Servicemen's Dependents Allowance Act of 1942. TITLE I SEC. 101. The dependent or dependents of any enlisted man of the fourth, fifth, sixth, or seventh grades in the Army of the United States, the United States Navy, the Marine Corps, or the Coast Guard, including any and all retired and reserve components of such services, shall be entitled to receive a monthly family allowance for any period during which such enlisted man is in the active military or naval service of the United States on or after June 1, 1942, during the existence of any war declared by Congress and the six months imme- diately following the termination of any such war. SEc. 102. The monthly family allowance payable under this title to the dependent or dependents of any such enlisted man shall consist of the Government's contribution to such allowance and the reduction in or charge to the pay of such enlisted man. SEC. 103. The dependents of any such enlisted man to whom a family allowance is payable under the provisions of this title shall be divided into two classes to be known as "Class A" and as "Class B" dependents. The Class A dependents of any such enlisted man shall include any person who is the wife, the child, or the former wife divorced of any such enlisted man. The Class B dependents of any such enlisted man shall include any person who is the parent, grand- child, brother, or sister of such enlisted man and who is found by the Secretary of the department concerned to be dependent upon such enlisted man for a substantial portion of his support. SEC. 104. A monthly family allowance shall be granted and paid by the United States to the Class A dependent or dependents of any such enlisted man upon written application to the department concerned made by such enlisted man or made by or on behalf of such dependent or dependents. A monthly family allowance shall be granted and paid by the United States to the Class B dependent or dependents of any such enlisted man upon written application to the department concerned made by such enlisted man, or upon written application to the department concerned made by or on behalf of such dependent or dependents in any case in which the Secretary of the department concerned finds that it is impracticable for such enlisted man to request the payment of such allowance. The payment of a monthly family allowance to any Class B dependent or dependents of any 381 June 22, 1942 [S. 2066] [Public Law 624] Petroleum and its products. Interstate and for- eign commerce. 15U. S. C.§715. June 23, 1942 [S. 2467] [Public Law 625] Servicemen's )e- pendents Allowance Act of 1942. Monthly family al- lowances. Enlisted men of designated grades. Composition of al- lowance. Classes of depend- ents. (Class A. Class B. Application for pay- ment. Class A. Class B. Termination of pay- ments to Class B de- pendents.