56 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CHS. 670, 673, 674-DEC. 3, 4 , 1942 service of the War Department or the Navy Department: Provided, That the benefits of this section shall be applicable also to com- missioned officers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey serving in the Philippine Islands on December 7, 1941. SEC. 3. Any commissioned officer of the Coast and Geodetic Survey promoted to a higher grade at any time after December 7, 1941, shall be deemed for all purposes to have accepted his promotion to higher grade upon the date such promotion is made by the President unless he shall expressly decline such promotion, and shall receive the pay and allowances of the higher grade from such date unless he is entitled under some other provision of law to receive the pay and allowances of the higher grade from an earlier date. No such officer who shall have subscribed to the oath of office required by section 1757, Revised Statutes, shall be required to renew such oath or to take a new oath upon his promotion to a higher grade, if his service after the taking of such an oath shall have been continuous. Approved, December 3, 1942. [CHAPTER 673] AN ACT For the benefit of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, subject to the execution of proper relinquishments by the duly authorized tribal officials of the Red Lake Band and the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, all right, title, and interest of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe in and to the so-called Red Lake Indian ceded lands, including any adminis- trative reserves, is hereby declared extinguished and title thereto vested in the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians; and all right title, and interest of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians in and to the ceded lands restored to the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota, including any administrative reserves, is hereby declared extinguished and title thereto vested in the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. The lands involved shall continue to be held in trust by the United States, and any funds hereafter derived from said lands shall be the property of the respective band or tribe of Chippewa Indians vested with title to the lands. Approved, December 4, 1942. [CHAPTER 674] 1039 Proviso. Acceptance date of promotion. Pay and allowances. Oath of office. 5U.S. . j 16. December 4, 1942 [H. R. 4321] [Public Law 787] Chippewa Indians of Minnesota. Segregation of cer- tain ceded lands. AXT Afr"' i-" m December 4, 194 To provide a uniform allowance for officers and warrant officers commissioned or [H. R . 7708] appointed in the Army of the United States or any component thereof. [Public Law 788] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of May 14, 1940 (54 Stat. 212), the Act of March 9, 1942 (Public Law 492, Seventy-seventh Congress), and any provision of any other law authorizing the payment of a uniform allowance to any person upon being appointed a commissioned or warrant officer in any component of the Army of the United States, are hereby repealed, but any pay- ments heretofore made pursuant thereto, if otherwise correct, are hereby validated. SEC. 2 . Except as otherwise provided in this Act, an allowance of $250 for uniforms and equipment is hereby authorized to be paid to the following personnel of the Army of the United States or any component thereof: Army of the U. S. Commissioned and warrant officers. 10 T. S.C.§36b. Ante, p. 148 . Allowance for uni- forms and equipment. Persons eligible.
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