Chapter 37. To extend the provisions of the homestead laws touching credit for period of enlistment to the soldiers, nurses, and officers of the Army and the seamen, marines, nurses, and officers of the Navy and the Marine Corps of the United States who have served or will have served with the Mexican border op
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CHAP. 37.— An Act To extend the provisions of the homestead laws touching credit for period of enlistment to the soldiers, nurses, and officers of the Army and the seamen, marines, nurses, and officers of the Navy and the Marine Corps of the United States who have served or will have served with the Mexican border operations or during the war between the United States and Germany and her allies. February 25, 1919.[[H. R. 13353](/us/bill/65/hr/13353).][[Public, No. 273](/us/pl/65/273).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That subject to the conditions Homestead entries.Soldiers’ privileges extended to service on Mexican border and War with Germany.[R.
S., secs. 2304, 2305, p. 422](/us/rs/s2304/p422).therein expressed, as to length of service and honorable discharge, the provisions of sections twenty-three hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and five, Revised Statutes of the United States, shall be applicable in all cases of military and naval service rendered in connection with the Mexican border operations or during the war with Germany and its allies as defined by public resolution numbered thirty-two, approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page six Vol. 39, p. 671.*Ante*, p. 248.hundred and seventy-one), and the Act approved July twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and seventeen (Fortieth Statutes at Large, page two hundred and forty-eight).
Approved, February 25, 1919.