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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 43 STAT. · April 28, 1924 · Chapter 140

Chapter 140.

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CHAP. 140.— Joint Resolution Granting permission to Hugh S. Cumming, Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service, to accept certain decorations bestowed upon him by the Republics of France and Poland. April 28, 1924.[[H. J. Res. 222](/us/bill/68/hjres/222).][[Priv, Res. No. 1](/us/bill/68/privres/1).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Hugh S. Cumming.May accept decorations from France and Poland.
That Hugh S. Cumming, Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service, be authorized to accept and wear the decoration of Officer of the Legion of Honor of France, tendered by His Excellency, the French Ambassador, in the name of the Republic of France; and the decoration of the Order of Polonia Restituta, grade Commander with the Star, tendered by His Excellency, the Minister from Poland, in the name of the Republic of Poland, both of which decorations have been conferred upon Surgeon General Hugh S.
Cumming, by the Republics Delivery to be made.mentioned, for scientific service, and that the Department of State is hereby authorized and permitted to deliver the above-mentioned decorations to Hugh S. Cumming, Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service. Approved, April 28, 1924.
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