60 STAT.] 79TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CHS. 523 , 526 -JUNE 29, 1946 Service, shall be $6,600; and the annual base pay of a major general of the Army or the Marine Corps and of a rear admiral (upper half) of the Navy, the Coast Guard, or the Coast and Geodetic Survey, or the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service shall be $8,800. Every such officer shall be entitled to the money allowances for sub- sistence and for rental of quarters authorized in sections 5 and 6 of this Act for officers receiving the pay of the sixth period." SEC. 4. The second paragraph of section 1 of the Pay Readjust- ment Act of 1942, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: "The first period, $2,160; the second period, $2,400; the third period, $2,760; the fourth period, $3,300; the fifth period, $3,850; and the sixth period, $4,400. SEC. 5 . The increases in pay resulting from the amendments made by this Act to the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942, as amended, shall be applicable to the active duty, retired, retirement, or retainer pay of all persons whose pay is governed by, or by reference to, those sec- tions of the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942, as amended, which are amended by this Act. SEO. 6 . Hereafter the retired or retirement pay of any person whose name is borne on the emergency officers' retired list of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard of the United States and who is entitled to receive retired or retirement pay shall, in lieu of being computed upon the basis of the pay to which he was entitled at the time of his discharge from his commissioned service, be computed upon the basis of the rate provided in the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942, as amended by this Act, for an officer of corresponding grade who is credited with the same number of years of service for longevity purposes as the number with which such person is credited. SEC. 7. The increases in pay provided by this Act shall become effec- tive on the first day of the first calendar month following its enact- ment, and no increase in pay for any period prior thereto shall accrue by reason of the enactment of this Act. Approved June 29, 1946. [CHAPTER 526] AN ACT To amend the Second War Powers Act, 1942, as amended. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congressassembled, That title XV, section 1501, of the Second War Powers Act, 1942, approved March 27, 1942, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "SEc. 1501. Titles I, II, IV, V, VII, and XIV of this Act, and the amendments to existing law made by any such title, shall remain in force only until March 31, 1947, or until such earlier time as the two Houses of Congress by concurrent resolution, or the President may designate, and title III of this Act, and the amendments to existing law made by such title, shall remain in force only until March 31, 1947 (except that for purposes of allocations of building materials, and facilities related to the utilization of building materials, such title III, and the amendments to existing law made by such title, shall remain in force until June 30, 1947), or until such earlier time as the two Houses of Congress by concurrent resolution, or the President, may designate, and after such amendments cease to be in force any pro- vision of law amended thereby shall be in full force and effect as though this Act had not been enacted; but no court proceedings brought under any such title shall abate by reason of the termination hereunder of such title." 345 56 Stat. 361. 37 U. S. O., Supp. V, §§ 105, 106. 56 Stat. 359. 37 U. S. C., Supp. V, § 101. Base pay for pe riods. Applicability of pay increases. 56 Stat. 359. 37 U. 8. C., Supp. V, §§ 101-120 . Post, pp. 858860, 868. Emergency officers' retired list. Effective date. lune 29, 1946 [H. R. 5716] [Public Law 476] 56 Stat. 187. 60 U. S. C., Supp. V, app. 645. Time limit. 56 Stat. 176, 177, 180,181 , 186. 50U.S.C., unpp. V, app. §§ 631-632a, 634, 635, 637, 644-644b . 56 Stat. 177. 50 U. S. C., Supp. V, app. § 633. Post, p. 868 .
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