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 [56 STAT. PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 669, 670-DEC. 2, 3, 1942 enlisted or held appointments as warrant officers or Army field clerks or as commissioned warrant officers in any of the services mentioned in the title of this Act, or in the Regular Army Reserve, or in the organized Militia prior to July 1, 1916, or in the National Guard, or in the National Guard Reserve, or in the National Guard of the United States, or in the enlisted Reserve Corps, or in the Naval Militia, or in the National Naval Volunteers, or in the Naval Reserve Force, Naval Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve force, Marine Corps Reserve, Coast Guard Reserve, and the Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service, or in the Philippine Scouts, or in the Philippine Limitation on total Constabulary. The provisions of this section shall not be construed pay and allowances. to permit any commissioned officer to receive pay and allowances in excess of the maximum limitations imposed upon the total pay and allowances of any rank or grade by any of the provisions of this Act." Effective date. SEC. 4. This Act shall become effective as of June 1, 1942, but no back pay or allowances for any period prior to such date shall accrue by reason of the enactment of this Act. Approved, December 2, 1942. [CHAPTER 670] AN ACT December 3, 1942 [H. R . 7556] Authorizing the temporary appointment or advancement of commissioned officers [Public Law 786] of the Coast and Geodetic Survey in time of war or national emergency, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Coast and Geodetic United States of America in Congress assembled, That personnel Temyporary ap- of the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall be subject in like manner promotions and to the same extent and with the same relative conditions as Anie, p. 6. are provided for personnel of the Navy to the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the temporary appointment or advancement of certain personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps, and for other purposes", 55 Stat. 63. approved July 24, 1941 (Public, Numbered 188, Seventy-seventh s 334u5.Supp. 1, Congress), except that temporary appointments and promotions shall Ante, pp . 465. 1023 . be limited as follows: Officersin servlce o (1) Commissioned officers in the service of the War Department W^or Navyp art or of the Navy Department, under the provisions of section 16 of 33 U. S. C. I 854- the Act of May 22, 1917 (40 Stat. 87), may, upon recommendation, 858. respectively, of the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy, be temporarily promoted to higher ranks or grades. ffcers in serveicof (2) Commissioned officers in the service of the Coast and Geodetic Coast snd Geodetic A ( p fil Survey. Survey may be temporarily promoted to fill vacancies in ranks and grades caused by the transfer of commissioned officers to the service and jurisdiction of the War or Navy Departments under the pro- 33 U.. S.. 8s- visions of section 16 of the Act of May 22, 1917 (40 Stat. 87). Deck officers and (3) Regularly appointed deck officers and junior engineers may juniorengineers, be temporarily appointed to the rank and grade of ensign: Provided, . That the number of deck officers and junior engineers holding such temporary appointments shall not exceed the number of officers trans- ferred to the War and Navy Departments under provisions of section 33U.S.. . § 854- 16 of the Act of May 22, 1917 (40 Stat. 87). Commissioned off- SEC. 2. Commissioned officers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey assgned uto haz- who are assigned, during the period of the present war, to duty on Rightsandbenefits. projects for the War Department or the Navy Department in areas outside the continental United States or in Alaska, or in coastal areas of the United States, determined by the War or Navy Depart- ment to be of immediate military hazard, shall, while on such duty, be entitled to the rights and benefits provided by law for officers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey who are actually transferred to the 1038

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