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 61 STAT.] 80TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 512-AUG. 7, 1947 such service, may, in the discretion of the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, when retired, be placed on the retired list with the highest grade or rank held by him while on the active list: Provided, That no increase in retired pay shall accrue solely as the result of such advancement in rank on the retired list. RETIREMENT AGE LIMIT FOR OFFICERS SEC. 416. (a) Nothing in titles I through IV of this Act shall be held to supersede, amend, or repeal the provisions of existing law relating to the retirement of officers attaining the age of sixty-two years. (b) Nothing in titles I through IV of this Act shall be held to repeal sections 1506 or 1507 of the Revised Statutes. AMENDMENT OF THE ACT OF APRIL 18, 1946 (PUBLIC LAW 347 SEVENTY- NINTH CONGRESS) SEC. 417. The Act of April 18, 1946 (Public Law 347, Seventy- ninth Congress), is hereby amended as follows: Substitute a comma for the period at the end of section 4 and add the following: "and such authorized number of commissioned officers shall include officers now or hereafter carried under any provision of law as additional or extra numbers in grade." AMENDMENT OF THE ACT OF AUGUST 27, 1940 (54 STAT. 864), AS AMENDED (34 U.S. C . 737, 737 (A)) SEC. 418. The Act of August 27, 1940 (54 Stat. 864), as amended (34 U. S. C. 737, 737 (a)), is hereby further amended as follows: Insert a period after the word "necessary" in the first sentence of section 2 and delete from the same said first sentence the following: "and the authorized number of commissioned officers of the line of the Navy and Marine Corps is increased accordingly." AMENDMENT OF THE ACT OF JUNE 27, 1942 (56 STAT. 422) SEC. 419. The Act of June 27, 1942 (56 Stat. 422), as amended, is hereby further amended as follows: Insert a period after the word "necessary" in the first sentence of section 1 and delete from the same said first sentence the following: "and the authorized number of commissioned officers of the line and of each staff corps to which such appointments may be made is increased accordingly." AMENDMENT OF THE ACT OF JUNE 30, 1914 (38 STAT. 404), AS AMENDED SEC. 420. So much of the Act of June 30, 1914 (38 Stat. 404), as amended by the Acts of August 29, 1916 (39 Stat. 576), July 1, 1918 (40 Stat. 708), and June 25, 1940 (54 Stat. 527), as relates to the com- missioned officer strength of the active list of the staff corps of the Navy, is hereby further amended to read as follows: "The total authorized number of commissioned officers of the active list, exclusive of commissioned warrant officers, of the Supply Corps and Civil Engineer Corps shall be 12 and 3 per centum, respectively, of the total authorized number of commissioned officers of the active list of the line of the Navy. The total authorized number of com- missioned officers of the Medical Corps, Dental Corps, Chaplain Corps, and Nurse Corps shall be sixty-five one-hundredths of 1 per centum, twenty one-hundredths of 1 per centum, and one hundred and twenty-five one-thousandths of 1 per centum, and six-tenths of 1 per 877 34U. .C.§§341, 342. 60 Stat. 92. 34 U.S. C. 2etseq. A nte, pp. 738,867. 34U.S.. ii 33s 338g. 34U.S.C.13et eq. Ante, p. 96 . Authorized number of officers.

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