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October 28, 1949
[S. 2382]
[Public Law 424]
Army Quarter-
master Corps.
Research labor-
atory.
October 28, 1949
[H. R . 3826]
[Public Law 425]
PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 777, 778-OCT. 28, 1949
[CHAPTER 777]
AN ACT
[63 STAT.
To authorize the construction of a research laboratory for the Quartermaster
Corps, United States Army, at a location to be selected by the Secretary of
Defense.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby
authorized to be appropriated not to exceed $11,000,000 for the acqui-
sition of land and for the construction thereon of a research laboratory
for the Quartermaster Corps, United States Army, at a location to be
selected by the Secretary of Defense, and for such utilities and appur-
tenances thereto as, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Army,
may be necessary in connection therewith. The site shall be chosen
on the basis of recommendations of an impartial ad hoc committee of
experts to be appointed by the Research and Development Board.
Approved October 28, 1949.
[CHAPTER 778]
AN ACT
To amend the Act of January 16, 1883, an Act to regulate and improve the civil
service of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
Caeniee
ActntUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the third para-
graph of the second clause of section 2 of the Act of January 16,
1883, an Act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United
States (22 Stat. 403; 5 U. S . C. 633), is hereby amended to read as
follows:
appoinrtit'sment
o
"Third, appointments to the public service aforesaid in the depart-
ments at Washington shall be apportioned among the several States
and Territories and the District of Columbia upon the basis of popu-
amincation for
ex
-
lation as ascertained at the last preceding census. Hereafter every
application for examination before the Civil Service Commission for
appointment in the departmental service in the District of Columbia
shall be accompanied by a certificate of an officer, with his official seal
attached, of the county and State of which the applicant claims to be
a citizen, that such applicant was, at the time of making such applica-
tion, a legal or voting resident of said State, and had been such
resident for a period of not less than one year next preceding, or a
statement under oath setting forth his or her legal voting residence
for one year next preceding the time of making such application,
and such statement shall be accompanied by letters from three rep-
utable citizens of the State in which residence is claimed, corroborating
such statement, but this provision shall not apply to persons who
may be in the service with civil-service status and seek promotion
or appointment in other branches of the Government.
Repeal.
SEC. 2. The proviso of the second paragraph under the caption
"Civil Service Commission" in the Act entitled "An Act making
appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses
of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen
hundred and ninety-one, and for other purposes", approved July 11,
6 U.s. c.
3
.
1890 (26 Stat. 235), and the Act of May 15, 1937 (50 Stat. 168), are
hereby repealed.
Approved October 28, 1949.
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