58 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 2D SESS. --CHS. 522-524, 546-DEC. 7, 8, 1944 for actual attendance on days when the court is in session or the judge or a jury is present. In case the position of crier or bailiff is to be filled by the appointment of a person who has not previously served as either crier or bailiff, preference in the appointment shall be given to a person who has served in the military or naval forces of the United States in time of war and who has been honorably discharged there- from, if in the opinion of the appointing officer such person is as well qualified as any other available person to perform to the satisfaction of the appointing officer all the duties of the position being filled." SEC. 2. That section 715 of the Revised Statutes is hereby repealed. Approved December 7, 1944. [CHAPTER 523] AN ACT To increase the service-connected disability rates of pension for certain Regular Establishment veterans and veterans of wars prior to World War I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the monthly rates of pension for service-connected disability, exclusive of special awards and allowances fixed by law, payable under laws administered by the Veterans' Administration to veterans not included in section 1 of Public Law Numbered 312, Seventy-eighth Congress, approved May 27, 1944, are hereby increased by 15 per centum, effective as of the first day of June 1944. Approved December 7, 1944. [CHAPTER 524] AN ACT To transfer jurisdiction over the Chattanooga National Cemetery, Chattanooga Tennessee, from the Department of the Interior to the War Department, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Chat- tanooga National Cemetery, Chattanooga, Tennessee, is hereby trans- ferred from the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior to the jurisdiction of the Secretary of War for administration in accordance with the laws and regulations applicable to national cemeteries administered by the War Department. The unexpended balance of any funds available for administration of the Chattanooga National Cemetery, as determined by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, shall be transferred to the Secretary of War, and may be expended hereafter by him for the same purposes for which such funds were made available. Approved December 7, 1944. ICHAPTER 546] AN ACT 797 Military or naval preference. 28 U.S. C.. 595. December 7, 1944 [H. R. 4999] [Public Law 469] Service-connected disability rates of pension. Ante, p. 22 . December 7, 1944 [H. R . 5232] [Public Law 470] Chattanooga National Cemetery, Tenn. Transfer of Jurisdic- tion. Transfer of funds. December 8,1944 To grant pensions to certain unremarried dependent widows of Civil War veterans [H. R. 86] who were married to the veteran subsequent to June 26, 1905. [Public Law 47 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the dependent unremarried widow of a Civil War veteran who is barred from the receipt of pension because her marriage to-the veteran occurred sub- sequent to June 26 1905, but who is otherwise entitled to such pen- sion either under the Act of May 1, 1920 (41 Stat. 585), or under the Pensions. Unremarried de- pendent widows of CUvil War veterans 38 U. S.C. 128.
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