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 498 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SEss. I. CHs. 522-524 . 1928 . May 11,1928. CHAP. 522.-An Act To amend the provision contained in the Act approved [x .R. 553 1 .] August 29, 1916, relating to the assignment'to duty of certain officers of the United States Navy as fleet and squadron engineers. Navy. Be it enacted by the Senate and Rouse of Representatives of the Engineering duty. Vol.39,p.580 United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions ,, amended. of the Act approved August 29, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 580), relating to the assignment to duty of commanders of the Navy as fleet and squadron engineers are hereby amended by Matter stricken out . striking out the clause " except that commanders may be assigned to duty as fleet and squadron engineers," appearing in lines 8 and 9 of said Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 580, and by substituting Matter substituted. therefor the following : " except that, upon their own request, such officers of the ranks of commander and above may be assigned to sea duty as fleet or squadron engineers or as engineer officers of ships," so that said provision will read as follows Assig nmen t of line officers for engineering " Officers of the line of the Na not bel ow the grade of li eutena nt dut y only, upon appli- - may, up on app licati on, an d with the a pproval of th e Secr etary of the cation therefor. Duties . Navy, be assigned to engineering duty only, and that when so as- Vol. 30, p. 1005 . Assignment as fleet signed and until they reach the grade of commander, they shall per- or squadron engineers form duty as prescribed in section 4 of the Personnel Act approved or officers of ships, of y co mmanders and March 3, 1899, and thereafter shore duty only as now prescribe d for ab° °°' officers transferred to the line from the former Engineer Corps, except that, upon their own request, such officers of the ranks of commander and above may be assigned to_ sea duty as fleet or squad- ron engineers or as engineer officers of ships : Provided, That when so assigned they shall retain their place with respect to other line officers in the grades they now or may hereafter occupy, and also the right to succession to command on shore in accordance with their seniority, and shall be promoted as vacancies occur subject to physical examination and to such examination in engineering as the Secretary Number of a ssi gn- of the Navy may prescribe : Provided further, That the number ments in any year. of officers so assigned in any one year shall be in accordance with the requirements of the service as determined by the Secretary of the Navy ." Approved, May 11, 1928 . [Public, No . 365.] Provisios. Status in li ne tai ned . re- May 11, 1928 . [H. R. 5465.]	CHAP. 523.-An Act To amend section 1571 of the Revised Statutes to [Public, No . 366.] permit officers of the Navy to count duty on airships as sea duty . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1571, Revised Statutes, is hereby amended by changing the period at the end of said section to a colon and by adding thereto the following : "Prov ided, That when officers are assigned to airships on duty requi ring them to p artic ipate reg ularl y and freq uent ly in aeri al flights the Secretary of the Navy shall determine and certify whether or not, in his judgment, the service to be performed is equivalent to sea duty. If such service is thus determined to be equivalent to sea duty, it shall be considered to be actual sea service on sea-going ships for all purposes ." Approved, May 11, 1928 . CHAP. 524 .-An Act To provide for date of precedence of certain offiers of the staff corps of the Navy . Navy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the P reced ence of line United States o f America in Congress assembled, That any officer o ffice rs tr ansf erred to a staff corps. of the line of the Navy who, since July 1, 1923, has been transferred Navy. Sea duty . R. S., sec . 1571, p . 269, amended . Duty of officers on airships equivalent to sea duty. U. S. Code, p. 1107. May 11, 1928. [H. R.21.] [Pub lic, No . 367.]

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