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 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3 D SESS.-CHS. 248, 249-JUNE 6, 1940 Jackson's Hole, Wyoming, elk refuge, consisting of one and four hundred and seventy-eight one-thousandths acres, more or less, described by metes and bounds as follows: Beginning at a point which Description. is north eighty-nine degrees fifty-eight minutes east forty feet from a point on the west line of section 27, township 41 north, range 116 west, of the sixth principal meridian Wyoming, which is north no degrees two minutes west one thousand eight hundred and two feet from the southwest corner of said section 27; thence north no degrees two minutes west three hundred and eight feet along a line parallel with and forty feet distant, when measured at right angles, from the west line of said section 27; thence north eighty-nine degrees fifty-eight minutes east two hundred and nine feet; thence south no degrees two minutes east three hundred and eight feet; thence south eighty-nine degrees fifty- eight minutes west two hundred and nine feet to the point of beginning. Approved, June 6, 1940. [CHAPTER 249] AN ACT June 6, 1940 To amend an Act entitled "An Act to increase the efficiency of the Coast Guard", [H. R. 8423] approved January 12, 1938. [Public, No. 556] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 2 of Coa t Guard the Act entitled "An Act to increase the efficiency of the Coast Guard", approved January 12, 1938 (52 Stat. 4), is hereby amended v 14llb. s., Su pp . to read as follows: "SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury, at the direction of the Personnel Board, President, shall assemble annually a Coast Guard Personnel Board a lmeetig. (hereinafter referred to as the Board), to be composed of not less Composition. than five commissioned officers of the rank of captain or above on the active list of the Coast Guard. It shall be the duty of the Board rReeommendations (a) to recommend for retirement such commissioned officers of the forretirement, etc. Coast Guard who have thirty or more years of service, as the Board determines, in its discretion, should be retired from active service, (b) to recommend for retirement such commissioned officers of the Coast Guard who have been placed out of line of promotion and who have ten years or more of commissioned service, as the Board determines, in its discretion, should be retired from active service, and (c) to recommend for placing out of line of promotion such lieutenant commanders on the active list, as the Board determines, in its discretion, should be placed out of line of promotion. The Review ofRBord's proceedings, findings, and recommendations of the Board shall be proedinetc. transmitted to the Commandant of the Coast Guard for review. If Notification to offi- the Commandant shall approve the recommendations of the Board, c ned. notification thereof shall be given by him in writing to each officer concerned, who, for the first time under this Act, is recommended for retirement or for placing out of line of promotion; and any such Pte; reconsder officer who, within thirty days after receipt of such notification, files annual Board. with the Commandant a written protest of the action taken by the Board in his case, shall not be retired involuntarily or placed out of line of promotion under this Act unless a subsequent annual Board, none of the members of which were members of the previous Board which recommended such officer's retirement or placing out of line of promotion, determines, in its discretion, that such officer should be retired or placed out of line of promotion, and so recommends, in which case such officer may, upon approval by the President, be Retirment, et., retired from active service with retired pay as prescribed by section 3 President. hereof, or be placed out of line of promotion, as the case may be, as 239

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