For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office H. Res. 150 (Mr. Elliott of Alabama) Passed March 14, 1951 Eighty-second Congress of the United States of America AT THE FIRST SESSION Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, the third day of Resolution Resolved, That the compilation of Federal laws pertaining to veterans, 1914 to 1950, prepared for the Committee on Veterans Affairs by the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress, be printed as a House document. Attest: RALPH R. ROBERTS, Clerk of the House of Representatives. COMMITTEE ON VETERANS' AFFAIRS JOHN E. RANKIN, OLIN E. TEAGUE, Texas HAMILTON C. JONES, North Carolina WAYNE L. HAYS, Ohio W. J. BRYAN DORN, South Carolina EDITH NOURSE ROGERS, Massachusetts E. ROSS ADAIR, Indiana ALLAN O. HUNTER, California WILLIAM L. SPRINGER, Illinois WINSTON L. PROUTY, Vermont HARMAR D. DENNY, JR., Pennsylvania IDA ROWAN, Clerk III FOREWORD This publication contains provisions of Federal law pertaining to veterans, enacted from the Sixty-third Congress (1914) through the close of the Eighty-first Congress (1950). Marginal notes give citations to the Statutes at Large and the United States Code, and references to amendatory laws. The compilation does not include appropriations or measures of a private or strictly local nature. This document will be useful to Members of Congress and service organizations interested in tracing the development of these laws as they have been amended from time to time. A table of the statutes included herein, arranged by date, appears immediately preceding the index. The compilation was prepared by Margaret Fennell, legal analyst of the American Law Section of the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress, at the request of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. J. E. RANKIN, Chairman, Committee on Veterans' Affairs, V |