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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 384-AUG. 21, 1941 Longevity pay in- crease. Aerial flights, pay. Original permanent appointments. Service require- ments. To be in Regular Army; termination. Number. Proviso. Limitation. Temporary appoint- ments. Number. Duration of service. Rank, pay, and allowances. Proviso. Designations to fourth and third pay periods. officers receiving the pay of the second pay period, and all warrant officers shall receive, as a permanent addition to their pay, an increase of 5 per centum of their base pay for each four years of active service now counted for pay purposes, not to exceed 25 per centum. All warrant officers of the Army shall receive an increase of 50 per centum of their pay when by orders of competent authority they are required to participate regularly and frequently in aerial flights, and when in consequence of such orders they do participate in regular and frequent aerial flights as defined by such Executive orders as have heretofore been, or may hereafter be, promulgated by the President. SEC. 2. Hereafter, original permanent appointments in the grade of warrant officer (junior grade) shall be made only from among those persons who have served at least one year on active duty in the Army of the United States, and original permanent appointments in the grade of chief warrant officer shall be made only from among those warrant officers who have completed at least a total of ten years' active service either as warrant officer (junior grade) or as warrant officers under existing law, or both, and from among masters and chief engineers, Army Mine Planter Service, hereafter appointed as such under the provisions of existing law. All such permanent appointments shall be made in the Regular Army and may be termi- nated under such regulations as the Secretary of War shall prescribe, and the action of the Secretary of War in terminating the appoint- ment of a warrant officer shall be final and conclusive. The total number of permanent appointments in the grades of chief warrant officer and warrant officer (junior grade) shall be as prescribed by the President from time to time, but shall not exceed 1 per centum of the enlisted strength of the Regular Army as authorized by law: Provided, That not more than 40 per centum of the total actual number of permanent warrant officers in active service shall be appointed in the grade of chief warrant officer. SEC. 3. In time of war or during the period of any national emer- gency declared by Congress or proclaimed by the President, the Secretary of War is authorized, under such regulations as he shall prescribe, to make temporary appointments in the grades of chief warrant officer and warrant officer (junior grade). Such temporary appointments shall be in the Army of the United States, shall not exceed a number equal to one-half of 1 per centum of the enlisted strength of the Army of the United States in active military service, and shall remain in effect at the pleasure of the Secretary of War, but in no case shall they continue beyond six months after the termi- nation of the war or period of national emergency. Persons appointed in the Army of the United States as temporary chief warrant officers or as temporary warrant officers (junior grade), while in active Federal service, shall, while so serving, be entitled to the rank, pay, and allowances of the grades to which they are tempo- rarily appointed, and shall be entitled to count such service as warrant or enlisted service for all purposes: Provided,That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to designate by name a number of perma- nent or temporary chief warrant officers (not exceeding 1 per centum of the maximum authorized number of permanent and temporary warrant officers) to receive the base pay and allowances provided by existing law for officers in the fourth pay period, and to designate by name an additional number of permanent or temporary chief warrant officers (not exceeding 2 per centum of the maximum authorized number of temporary and permanent warrant officers) to receive the base pay and allowances provided by existing law for officers in the third pay period, but no chief warrant officer so designated shall receive such base pay and allowances except during 652 [55 STAT.

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