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 53 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CHS. 14S, 149--MAY 24, 25 , 1939 "The total number of commissioned officers in the Coast Guard is hereby increased by one hundred and fifty-four line officers (exclusive of commissioned warrant officers) and two district commanders. Such additional line officers shall be distributed in grades in the same pro- portion as prescribed by the foregoing provisions of this section: Pro- vided, That the total number of vacancies created hereby in each of the grades of captain, commander, lieutenant commander, and lieu- tenant shall be filled at a rate not exceeding, in any one year following the enactment hereof, 20 per centum of such total number." SEC. 2. Section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to distribute the com- missioned line and engineer officers of the Coast Guard in grades, and for other purposes", approved January 12, 1923 (42 Stat. 1130; U. S . C ., title 14, sec. 12), is hereby amended by changing the second proviso thereof to read as follows: "Provided fwrther, That the engineer in chief, while so serving, shall have the rank of a rear admiral and the pay and allowances of a rear admiral (lower half), and hereafter the engineer in chief shall be selected from the active list of engineer offi- cers not below the grade of commander (engineering)." SEC. 3. Section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act to increase the efficiency of the personnel of the Revenue Cutter Service", approved April 16, 1908 (35 Stat. 61, as amended; U. S . C., title 14, sec. 11), is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following paragraph: "The President is authorized to appoint in the Coast Guard, by and withthe advice and consent of the Senate, one Assistant Commandant who shall serve for a term of four years unless sooner relieved by the President. The Assistant Commandant shall be selected from the active list of line officers not below the grade of commander, and such appointment shall not create a vacancy; and the Commandant of the Coast Guard shall make recommendations for the appointment of the Assistant Commandant. The Assistant Commandant shall have the rank of a rear admiral and the pay and allowances of a rear admiral (lower half) : Provided,That an officer whose term of service as Assist- ant Commandant has expired shall take his place on the lineal list in the grade that he would have attained had he not served as Assistant Commandant." Approved, May 24, 1939. [CHAPTER 149] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- wise appropriated, for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, namely: 757 Number increased. Distribution of ad- ditional line officers. Proviso. Filling of vacancies. Engineer in chief. 42 Stat. 1130 . 14U.S.. §12. Rank, pay, selec- tion. 35 Stat. 61. 14U.S.C.§11; Supp. IV, § 11. Assistant Comman- dant; appointment, term, selection, etc. Rank. pay, allow- ances. Promiso. Status on expiration of ternl of service. May 25, 1939 [iI. I. 61491 [Public, No. 901 Navy Department and naval service ap- propriations for fiscal year 1940. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES For traveling expenses of civilian employees, including not to Traveling expenses. exceed $2,500 for the expenses of attendance, at home and abroad, upon meetings of technical, professional, scientific, and other similar organizations when, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, such attendance would be of benefit in the conduct of the work of the

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