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 Surgeon General, and while each such dental and sanitary engineer officer is so detailed, he shall have the grade, pay, and allowances of an Assistant Surgeon General as provided by section 2 of this Act. Temporary promo- SEC. 4. In time of war or national emergency determined by the tions. Ante, p. 24. President, any commissioned officer of the regular corps of the Public Health Service may be appointed to higher temporary grade with the pay and allowances thereof without vacating his permanent Acceptance date. appointment, and any officer so promoted to a higher grade at any time after December 7, 1941, shall be deemed for all purposes to have accepted his promotion to higher grade upon the date of approval, unless he shall expressly decline such promotion, and shall receive the pay and allowances of the higher grade from such date unless he is entitled under some other provision of law to receive the pay and allowances of the higher grade from an earlier date. Nonrenewalofoath. No such officer who shall have subscribed to the oath of office required 5U..C.1.' by section 1757, Revised Statutes, shall be required to renew such oath or to take a new oath upon his promotion to a higher grade, if his service after the taking of such an oath shall have been con- Distribution of re- tinuous. Hereafter reserve officers of the Public Health Service serve officers, may be distributed in the several grades without regard to the proportion which at any time obtains or has obtained among the Graduates of osteo- commissioned medical officers of such Service. For the duration pathic olleges. f the present war and for six months thereafter graduates of reputable osteopathic colleges shall be eligible for appointment as reserve officers in the Public Health Service. Separations. SEC. 5. The record of each commissioned officer of the regular corps initially appointed above the grade of Assistant Surgeon, after the first three years of service in such grade, shall be reviewed under regulations approved by the President, and any such officer who is found to be unqualified for further service shall be separated from the Service and paid six months' pay and allowances. Acting Surgeon SEC. 6. In case of the absence or disability of the Surgeon General General. and the Assistant to the Surgeon General, or in the event of a vacancy in the office of both, the Assistant Surgeons General shall act as Surgeon General in the order of their designation for such purpose by the Surgeon General. (,r.,issio, .. . . m- SEC. 7. Section 9 of the Act of April 9, 1930 (U. S. C. 42, sec. 37; 46 Stat. 151), is hereby amended by the addition of the following language at the end of said section: Original aPoi u t- "(d) Original appointments in the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service, regular and reserve, may be made to a junior grade which shall correspond to that held by a second lieutenant in the Medical Department of the Army and persons so appointed shall be entitled to the same pay and allowances as a second lieutenant in Promotions or sepa- the Medical Department of the Army. After not less than one nor rations, more than two years of service each such appointee in the regular corps may be examined under regulations prescribed by the President and upon such examination shall either be promoted to the grade of Assistant Surgeon or be separated from the Service." SEC. 8 . (a) For the purposes of this section- fitl l militarybene- (1) the term "full military benefits" means all rights, privileges, immunities, and benefits provided under any law of the United States in the case of commissioned military and naval personnel of the United States (including their surviving beneficiaries) on account of active military or naval service. including, but not limited tp, burial payments in the event of death, six months' pay in case of death, veterans' compensation and pensions and other veterans' benefits, retirement, including retirement for disability, the rights provided under the Soldiers' 588 PUBLIC LAWS--CH. 298-NOV. 11, 1943 [57 STAT.

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