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56 Termination of bond.

R e c o V e ry o f losses.

Appropriation.

Repeals.

PUBLIC LAW 5 8 - J U N E 13, 1953

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SEC. 4. Any bond given by Army, Navy, or Coast Guard mail clerks or assistant mail clerks or by Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard postal clerks or assistant postal clerks, may be terminated by the Secretary of the Department concerned, but such termination shall not affect the liability of any person or surety thereunder for losses or shortages occurring prior to such termination. SEC. 6. (a) The Secretaries of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Treasury shall take such action as may be available to them to effect recovery of amounts paid under the provisions of this Act from the persons responsible for the losses or shortages. (b) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. SEC. 6. The Act of August 21, 1941 (ch. 392,55 Stat. 656), as amended by the Act of June 30, 1947 (ch. 170, 61 Stat. 211; 39 U.S.C. 138); paragraph 23 of the heading. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, of the Act of May 27, 1908 (ch. 206, 35 Stat. 417-418), as amended (39 U.S.C. 134); section 3 of the Act of August 24, 1912 (ch. 389, 37 Stat. 554), as amended (39 U.S.C. 135), and all other laws or parts of laws to the extent that they may be inconsistent or in conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed. Approved June 6, 1953. Public Law 58

June 13. 1953 [S. J. Res. 76]

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CHAPTER 112

JO^NT RESOLUTION Designating the week beginning June 14, 1953, as "Theodore Roosevelt Week".

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the week beginning June 14, 1953, is hereby designated as "Theodore Roosevelt W e e k ' in honor of our former President. The President is authorized and requested to issue a proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to observe such week by paying tribute to the achievements and memory of the late Theodore Roosevelt. Approved June 13, 1953.