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 152 SEVE NTY-F IRST CONGR ESS. SEss. II. Cia. 125. 1930 . Surgeons. (3) If in the grade of surgeon or of senior surgeon, he shall be reported as not in line of promotion, or placed on waiting orders Pay allowance, and paid at the rate of 21/ 2 per centum for each complete year of active commissioned service in the Public Health Service, but in no case to exceed 60 per centum of his active pay at the time he is place d on waiti ng or ders. Titles to be given SEC. 10 . (a) The President is authorized to prescribe appropriate commissioned officers other than medical. titl es fo r com missi oned offic ers of the Publ ic He alth Servi ce other than med ical off icers, co rrespond ing to t he grades of medi cal offic ers. as sistan t Sur geon s Hereafter officers of the Public Health Service in the grade of Ge ner al designated medical directors. Assistant Surgeon General (except those in charge of bureau divi- Number limitation sions) shall be known and designated as medical directors. The limi- repealed, tation now imposed by law upon the number of senior surgeons and Assistant Surgeons General at large of the Public Health Service on active duty is hereby repealed. Surgeon General. (b) Hereafter the urgeon General of the Public Health Service To have same pay, etc., as Surg e on Ge n- shall be entitled to the same pay and allowances as the Surgeon eraloftheArmy, General of the Army; and a regular commissioned officer of the Reversion to former Public Health Service who serves as Surgeon General shall, upon the grade if not reap- pointed. expiration of his commission, if not reappointed as Surgeon Gen- eral, revert to the grade and number in the regular corps that he would have occupied had he not served as Surgeon General. Chief of narcotics di- (c) The officer detailed as chief of the narcotics division of the vision design ated As - sistant Suigeon Gen- Public Health Service shall, while thus serving, be an Assistant eral. Surgeon General, subject to the provisions of law a pplic able to Assistant Surgeons General in charge of other administrative divi- sions of the Public Health Service. Ci vil Servic e ap- SEC. 11. Hereafter the Secretary of the Treasury shall appoint, pointm ents of person - nel other than com- in accordance with the civil service laws, all officers and employees, missioned officers. othe r tha n com missi oned offic ers, of th e Pub lic H ealth Serv ice, and may make any s uch a ppoin tment effe ctive as of the date on w hich the Pr oviso. officer or employee enters upon duty : Provided, That any regulations No preference to any school of medicine, which may be prescribed as to the qualifications as to the appointment of medi cal offi cers or e mployees shall gi ve no pr eference to any s chool of medicine. M edic al, etc ., serv- SEC. 12 . Hereafter officers of the Public Health Service when dis- ices to officers dis- abled in line of duty, abled on account of sickness or injury incurred in line of duty shall be entitled to medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may pre- scribe. H N atio nal Co un cil Advisory SEC. 13. He reaft er th e adv isory boar d for the Hygie nic L abora tory H ygie nic Lab ora tory shall be known as the National Advisory Health Council, and the to be known ac. Post, p. 379, Surgeon General of the Public Health Service with the approval of Additional members the Secretary of the Treasury, is authorized to appoint, from repre- to be appointed . Terms of service, sentatives of the public-health profession, five additional members of Du ties, such council. The terms of service, compensation, and allowances of such additional members shall be the same as the other members of such council not in the regular employment of the Government, except that the terms of service of the members first appointed shall be so arranged that the terms of not more than two members shall expire each year. Such council, in addition to its other function, shall advise the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service in respect to public-health activities. Appr oved, Apri l 9, 1930.

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