* * Rank: Advanced Officer detailed as personal physician to the President, 288. Register, Army: To publish roll of honor of persons con- Regulation of sale of intoxicants, 310. Retirement: Date effective, 322a. Service counted; officers of the Vet- Members of Army Nurse Corps- 161a. Detail to board on beach erosion and shore protection; officers of the Corps of Engineers.-* that there shall be organized under the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, by detail from time to time from the Corps of Engineers and from the engineers of State agencies charged with beach erosion and shore protection, a board of seven members, of whom four shall be officers of the Corps of Engineers and three shall be selected with regard to their special fitness by the Chief of Engineers from among the State agencies cooperating with the War Department. * * Sec. 2, act of July 3, 1930 (46 Stat. 945), * authorizing improvements on rivers and harbors; U. S. C. 33: 426. 170a. Detail to District of Columbia government. That within twenty days after the approval of this Act the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, is hereby authorized to appoint two persons, who, with an officer of the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army, whose lineal rank shall be above that of Captain, shall be Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and who, from and after July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, shall exercise all the powers and authority now vested in the Commissioners of said District, except as are hereinafter limited or provided, and shall be subject to all restrictions and limitations and duties which are now imposed upon said Commissioners. The Commissioner who shall be an officer detailed, from time to time, from the Corps of Engineers, by the President, for this duty, shall not be required to perform any other, nor shall he receive any other compensation than his regular pay and allowances as an officer of the Army. * * Sec: 2, act of June 11, 1878 (20 Stat. 103). The President of the United States may detail from the Engineer Corps of the Army not more than three officers, junior to the engineer officer belonging to the Board of Commissioners of said District, to act as assistants to said Engineer Commissioner in the discharge of the special duties imposed upon him by the provisions of this Act. Sec. 5, act of June 11, 1878 (20 Stat. 107), as amended by act of Aug. 7, 1894 (28 Stat. 246). * * Hereafter such Engineer Commissioner may, in the discretion of the President of the United States, be detailed from among the captains or officers of higher grade having served at least fifteen years in the Corps of Engineers of the United States. Pub. res. Dec. 24, 1890 (26 Stat. 1113). The above provisions were omitted from the original text of the Military Laws of 1929. By act of March 3, 1881 (21 Stat. 460), it is provided that the Engineer Commissioner shall be entitled to receive such compensation, in addition to his Army pay and allowances, as will make his compensation equal to $5,000 per annum, and recent District of Columbia appropriation acts have provided for compensating him at such rate in grade 8 of the professional and scientific service of the Classification Act of 1923 as may be determined by the Board of Commissioners. 177. Detail to Federal Power Commission; officers of the Engineer Corps.* * * The commission may request the President to detail an officer or officers from the Corps of Engineers, or other branches of the United States Army, to serve the commission as engineer officer or officers, or in any other capacity, in field work outside the seat of government, their duties to be prescribed by the commission; and such detail is hereby authorized. * * * Sec. 2, act of June 10, 1920 (41 Stat. 1063), as amended by sec. 1, act of June 23, 1930 (46 Stat. 798); U. S. C. 16: 793. The original text of this section was amended to read as above, 181. Detail to advisory board for Hygienic Laboratory; officer of the Medical Department. By section 13, act of April 9, 1930 (46 Stat. 152), the advisory board for the Hygienic Laboratory was thereafter to be known as the National Advisory Health Council, and by section 1, act of May 26, 1930 (40 Stat. 379), the Hygienic Laboratory was designated as the National Institute of Health, all laws, authorizations, and appropriations pertaining to the former being made applicable to the latter. 182. Detail in connection with Indian education. Citation to second paragraph of this section should read: Act of July 31, 1882 (22 Stat. 181); U. S. C. 25: 276. 232. Discharge of enlisted men; by purchase. * * * * * in all $134,357,519, less $800,000 to be supplied by the Secretary of War for this purpose from funds received during the fiscal year 1931 from the purchase by enlisted men of the Army of their discharges, $133,557,519; Title I, act of May 28, 1930 (46 Stat. 436), making appropriations for the support of the War Department. 66 The above provision appeared under the heading 'Pay, and so forth, of the Army," in the act cited. It is added as a new paragraph of this section. 266. Prisoners; confinement in penitentiary or disciplinary barracks. * * * * * The military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, including all the buildings, grounds, and other property connected therewith, is hereby transferred from the Department of War to the Department of Justice, to be known as the United States Penitentiary, and to be used for the confinement of persons convicted in the United States courts of crimes against the United States and sentenced to imprisonment in a penitentiary, or convicted by courts-martial of offenses now punishable by confinement in a penitentiary and sentenced to terms of impris onment of more than one year; U. S. C. 18:762. ** Act of Mar. 2, 1895 (28 Stat. 957); This provision, omitted from the original text of the Military Laws of 1929, is added as a new paragraph of this section, By section 8, act of May 14, 1930 (46 Stat. 327), creating a Bureau of Prisons, transportation of prisoners convicted by courts-martial to place of confinement is to be by agents of the Department of War, expenses to be paid out of the Treasury in the manner prescribed by law. 267. Prisoners; confinement in narcotic farms. By a provision in Title I, act of May 15, 1930 (46 Stat. 348), making appropriations for the Treasury Department, appropriations for the office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury for the fiscal year 1931 were made available for payment of expenses incident to the selection of sites as provided in the first paragraph of this section. 279. Promotion of officers of the Medical Department; length of service. That for purposes of promotion, longevity pay, and retirement there shall be credited to officers of the Veterinary Corps all full-time service rendered by them as veterinarians in the Quartermaster Department, Cavalry, or Field Artillery prior to June 3, 1916. Sec. 1, act of June 28, 1930 (46 Stat. 829); U. S. C. 10: 145a. The above provision is added as a new paragraph of this section. 282. Promotion of retired officers. * * * * * That all commissioned officers who served in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and/or Coast Guard of the United States during the World War, and who have been or may be hereafter retired according to law, except those retired under the provisions of section 24b of the Act of June 4, 1920, shall, on the date of the approval of this Act or upon retirement in the case of those now on the active list of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and/or Coast Guard, be advanced in rank on the retired list to the highest grade held by them during the World War: Provided, That any such officer on the active or retired list who died or may die prior to the approval of this Act, or on the active list who may hereafter die before retirement, shall be advanced in rank to said higher grade as of the date of death: Provided further, That no increase of active or retired pay or allowances shall result from the provisions of this section. Sec. 1, act of June 21, 1930 (46 Stat. 793); U. S. C. 10: 1028a. The above provision is added as a new paragraph of this section. 288. Rank, advanced; officer detailed as personal physician to the President.That the officer of the Medical Corps, United States Army, or of the Medical Corps, United States Navy, below the rank of colonel or captain, respectively, who is now, or hereafter may be, assigned to duty as physician to the White House, shall have the temporary rank and the pay and allowances of a colonel, Medical Corps, United States Army, or of a captain, Medical Corps, United States Navy, while so serving: Provided, That the officer now assigned to that duty shall have the rank, pay, and allowances herein provided from March 6, 1929, the date of assignment as such. Act of Apr. 4, 1930 (46 Stat. 140); U. S. C. 10: 515. The original text of this section based on act of May 16, 1928 (45 Stat. 570), is superseded by the above. 308. Army Register; to publish roll of honor of persons connected with yellow-fever investigations in Cuba. By act of June 25, 1930 (46 Stat. 809), the name James A. Andrus was corrected to read "John H. Andrus." |