Chapter 89. To provide for the payment of six months’ gratuity to the widow, children, or other previously designated dependent relative of retired officers or enlisted men on active duty
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CHAP. 89.— An Act To provide for the payment of six months’ gratuity to the widow, children, or other previously designated dependent relative of retired officers or enlisted men on active duty. October 6, 1917.[[H. R. 6306](/us/bill/65/hr/6306).][[Public, No. 74](/us/pl/65/74).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Navy.Six months’ gratuity to beneficiaries of officers, etc., dying in service extended to retired officers, etc., on active duty in the war.Vol. 37, p. 329, amended.Vol. 38, p. 938.
That the paragraph of the Act approved August twenty-second, nineteen hundred and twelve, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the Naval Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes,” as amended by the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and fifteen, which provides for the payment of six months’ gratuity to the widow or children or other previously designated dependent relative of a deceased officer or enlisted man on the active list of the Navy and Marine Corps, be, and the same is hereby, amended by inserting after the words “on the active list of the Navy or Marine Corps” a comma and the words “or of any retired officer or enlisted man serving on active duty during the continuance of the present war.
” Approved, October 6, 1917.