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 SIX’1*Y-FOU'RTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 134. 1916. 175 “ February second, nineteen hundred and one, are hereby extended to apply to sand aviation officers and to vacancies created in any arm, corps, or department of the Army by the detail of said officers therefrom; but nothing in said Act or m any other law now in force mutans et proishall be held to prevent the detail or redetail at any time, to fill a °'°“* °""°°"· vacancy among the aviation officers authorized by this Act, of any officer who, during prior service as an aviation officer of the aviation section, sha1l have ecome proicient in military aviation. Bmw 0, ,,,,,,0,, Aviation pmcers may, when qualified therefor, be rated as junior ¤¢¤¤•¤· military aviators or as military aviators, ·but no person shall be so ,,,,°{’,‘§§°°,§,f °‘°”°" rated until there shall have been issued to him a certihcate to the ’ effect that he is qualified for the rating, and no certificate shall be issued to an person until an aviation examining board, which shall be composedyo three officers of experience in the aviation service and two medical officers, shall have examined him, under general regulali10I]S to be lprescribed by the Secretary of War and published to the Armyebiv the War Department, and shall have· reported him to be qualifi for the ratin. _ No person shall receive the rating of military $°"'*°° '°q“*'°‘· aviator until he shall have served creditagglfor three years as an aviation officer with the rating of a gunior  aviator; ‘ Each aviation officer authorized y this Act all, while on duty A**¤¢*¤¤ ¤¢¤¤•¤· that requires him to particgpate regularly and frequently m aerial flights, receive an increase twenty-five per centum in the pag of ¥¤¤·•¤•¤¤ W- e and lmth of   un er his commission. Eac uly m{s¤¤i¤*¤*¤¤r¥•v¤- q junior   aviator shall, while so serving, have the rank, nimm in pas, my, and allowances 0 one grade higher than that h d by him under *’°’· °‘°· ` commission if his rank under said commission be not higher than that of captain, and while on duty re uiring him to participate regularly and fr§uently in aerial flights (lie shall receive in a dition an _ increase of tiger centum in the cpay of his grade and length of }f,2}‘:£°{,,‘°f§d,’ service_under commission. Ea military aviator shall, while v¤y.•¤= so serving, have the_ rank, pay, and allowances of one grade higher than that held by him under his commission if his ran under said commission be not higher than that of captain, and while on duty requiring him to participate regularly and requently in aerial flights he shall receive m addition an increase of seventy-five per centum of the pay of his Edo and length of service under his commission: §[,‘;f§",g'· ,,,.,,,,,,,,,,, Promkled {urther, at the provisions of the Act of March second, ¤Q;6•,l·g,, ,05 nineteen undred and thirteen, allowing increase of pay and allow- ’P' ` ances to officers detailed by the Secretaiiyil of War on aviation dug, are hereby repealed: Provided further at hereafter married o - ,,,§$""°“°*“°‘”°“‘*' cers of the line of the Army shall be eligible equally with unmarried officers, and subject to the same conditions, or etail to aviation duty; and the Secretary of War shall have authority to cause as many ¤¤M•·¤¤¤¤¤ enlisted men of the aviation section to be instructed in the art of flying as he may deem necessary: Provided further, That hereafter As•¤·¤i¤¤¤¤¤v·¤· _ the age of officers shall not be a bar to their first detail m the aviation section of the Signal Corps, and neither their age nor their rank shall be a bar to their subsequent details in said section: Provided further, appemmme anvi- That, when it shall be impracticable to obtam from the Army officers °“’” "°“‘°*"“"°· suitable for the aviation section of the Signal Corps in the number allowed by law the difference between that number and the number of suitable officers actually available for duty in said section may be made up by a pointments in the grade of aviator, S§nal Cox, and Gr¤d¤<=r¤¤·¤¤<1- that grade is hereby created. The personnel for said {ade all be obtained from es ecially gualiiied civilians who shall e appomted and commissioned in said grade: Provided further, That w enever mschnrn. any aviator shall have become unsatisfactory he shall be discharged from the Army as such aviator. The base of an aviator, Signal *"*Y·°'°- 001138. shall be $150 per month, and he sh ave the allowances of