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[CITE: 41USC49]

 
                       TITLE 41--PUBLIC CONTRACTS
 
                      CHAPTER 1--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 49. Defense employment; honorable discharge from land and 
        naval forces as equivalent to birth certificate
        
    No defense contractor shall deny employment, on account of failure 
to produce a birth certificate, to any person who submits, in lieu of a 
birth certificate, an honorable discharge certificate or certificate 
issued in lieu thereof from the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, or 
Coast Guard of the United States, unless such honorable discharge 
certificate shows on its face that such person may have been an alien at 
the time of its issuance.

(June 22, 1942, ch. 432, Sec. 1, 56 Stat. 375; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, 
title II, Secs. 205(a), 207(a), (f), 61 Stat. 501-503.)

                         Change of Name

    Air Force inserted in text under authority of section 207(a), (f) of 
act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 502, 503. Department of 
War designated Department of the Army and title of Secretary of War 
changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of such act July 26, 
1947. Sections 205(a) and 207(a), (f) of act July 26, 1947 were repealed 
by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 
of act Aug. 10, 1956, enacted ``Title 10, Armed Forces'', which in 
sections 3010 to 3013 and 8010 to 8013 continued Departments of the Army 
and Air Force under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army 
and Secretary of the Air Force, respectively.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 50 of this title.
