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[CITE: 10USC3745]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                            Subtitle B--Army
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                   CHAPTER 357--DECORATIONS AND AWARDS
 
Sec. 3745. Medal of honor; distinguished-service cross; 
        distinguished-service medal: delegation of power to award
        
    The President may delegate his authority to award the medal of 
honor, distinguished-service cross, and distinguished-service medal, to 
a commanding general of a separate army or higher unit in the field.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 216.)

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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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3745..................................  10:1410.                             Ju
ly 9, 1918, ch. 143 (16th par.,
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ess words after semicolon, under
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`Ordnance Department''), 40 Stat.
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72.
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    The words ``under such conditions, regulations, and limitations as 
he shall prescribe'' are omitted as surplusage. The words ``his 
authority'' are substituted for the words ``the power conferred upon him 
by sections 1403, 1406-1408, 1409-1412, 1416, 1420, 1422, 1423, and 1424 
of this title''.
