57STAT.] 78TH CONG., 1T SESS.-CHS. 329, 330-NOV. 28 , 1943 [CHAPTER 329] AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to settle certain claims. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept the surrender of any lease issued pursuant to any of the provisions of the Act of February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 437; 30 U. S . C ., sec. 181 and the following), or any amendment thereof, where the surrender is filed in the General Land Office sub- sequent to the accrual but prior to the payment of the yearly rental due under the lease, upon payment of the accrued rental on a pro rata monthly basis for the portion of the lease year prior to the filing of the surrender. The authority granted to the Secretary of the Interior by this Act shall extend only to cases in which he finds that the failure of the lessee to file a timely surrender of the lease prior to the accrual of the rental was not due to a lack of reasonable diligence, but it shall not extend to claims or cases which have been referred to the Depart- ment of Justice for purposes of suit. Approved November 28, 1943. [CHAPTER 330] AN ACT To authorize the transportation of dependents and household effects of personnel of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard under certain conditions, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That officers and enlisted men of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, and the reserve components thereof when on active duty, of grades entitling them to transportation of dependents and household effects on change of station (a) when on duty at places designated by the Secretary of the Navy as within zones from which their dependents should be evacuated for military reasons or for the purpose of relieving con- gestion in the vicinity of naval activities or where Government quar- ters for their dependents are not available; (b) or upon transfer or assignment of such officers and enlisted men to sea duty, as such duty may be defined by the Secretary of the Navy; (c) or upon transfer or assignment of such officers and enlisted men to duty at places where their dependents for military reasons are not permitted to join them or where Government quarters for their dependents are not available, may, upon application of such personnel or their dependents, be allowed, subject to such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, transportation for their dependents and household effects, including packing, crating, and unpacking thereof, from their stations or places of storage in the United States to any other points in the United States, and from such points to new stations in the United States to which such personnel may be subsequently ordered for duty, and at which their dependents are not restricted from joining them or Government quarters for their dependents are available. SEC. 2. Whenever the Chief of Naval Personnel, Commandant of the Marine Corps, Commandant of the Coast Guard, or such subor- dinates as they may designate, certify that the personnel included in (b) and (c) of section 1 hereof have been transferred to sea duty or to duty at places beyond the continental limits of the United States where their dependents for military reasons are not permitted to join 593 November 28, 1943 [S. 364] [Public Law 192] Secretary of the In- terior. Acceptance of sur- render of certain leases 30 U. S. C., Supp. II, §§ 221-222h , 223. Limitation. November 28, 1943 [S. 1336] [Public Law 193] Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. Transportation of dependents and house- hold effects. 81077'- 44-PT. I - --88
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