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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 40 STAT. · March 3, 1919 · Chapter 112

Chapter 112. Granting to members of the Army Nurse Corps (female) and Navy Nurse Corps (female)

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CHAP. 112.— An Act Granting to members of the Army Nurse Corps (female) and Navy Nurse Corps (female). Army field clerks, field clerks, Quartermaster Corps, and civil employees of the Army pay and allowances during any period of involuntary captivity by the enemy of the United States. March 3, 1919.[[H. R. 12860](/us/bill/65/hr/12860).][[Public, No. 340](/us/65/pl/340).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That members of the ArmyPrisoners of war.Pay to specified Army and Navy employees, etc., during captivity, as.
Nurse Corps (female) or of the Navy Nurse Corps (female), Army field clerks, field clerks, Quartermaster Corps, and civil employees of the Army, shall be entitled to full pay and allowances during any period of involuntary captivity by the enemy of the United States; and their right to such full pay and allowances shall not be abridged or lost by reason of absence from duty when that absence is caused by involuntary captivity by the enemy of the United States. Any captivity by the enemy shall be construed to be involuntary until the contrary shall be affirmatively established.
All rights and privileges hereunder shall be in force from AprilEffective from April 6, 1917. sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to the end of the existing war. Approved, March 3, 1919.
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