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PUBLIC LAW 4 5 9 - J U N E 30, 1954

SEC. 736. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used drfe^J^^etcf' ^°""" for the construction, replacement, or reactivation of any bakery, ^s, e c. laundry, or dry-cleaning facility in the United States, its Territories, or possessions, as to which the Secretary of Defense does not certify, in writing, giving his reasons therefor, that the services to be furnished by such facilities are not obtainable from commercial sources at reasonable rates. SEC. 737. I n order more effectively to administer the funds appro- Te^pori^'^^osipriated to the Department of Defense, the President, to the extent he tions. deems it necessary and appropriate in the interest of national defense, may authorize positions in the Department of Defense to be placed temporarily in grades 16, 17, and 18 of the General Schedule of the Classification Act of 1949 in accordance with the procedures and 63 Stat. 954. standards of that Act, and such positions shall be additional to the 5 USC 10 71 note. number authorized by section 505 of that Act. Under authority 5 USC 1105. herein, grades 16, 17, and 18 in the Department of Defense may be increased only to the extent that the total of such grades in the Department of Defense shall not exceed two hundred. P o s t Office DeSEC. 738. During the fiscal year 1955, appropriations of the De- partment. partment of Defense shall be available for reimbursement to the Post Office Department for payment of costs of commercial air transportation of military mail between the United States and foreign countries. SEC. 739. This Act may be cited as the "Department of Defense short title. Appropriation Act, 1955." Approved June 30, 1954. Public Law 459

CHAPTER 433

AN ACT To equalize the treatment accorded to commissioned officers of the Veterinary Corps with that accorded to commissioned officers of other corps of the Army Medical Service, and for other purposes.

June 30, 1954 [S. 932]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Veterinary e o r p s United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the first officers. proviso contained in numbered paragraph (1) of subsection 505(b) Service credit. 888. of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 is amended to read as follows: 61 Stat. 559. 10 USC '•'"Provided, That in the Medical Corps, Dental Corps, Veterinary Corps, and chaplains promotion lists there shall be no second lieutenants, and the numbers authorized in the grade of first lieutenant in such promotion lists shall be all those not authorized in higher grades:". (b) The third clause of the second sentence of subsection 506(c) of such Act is amended to read as follows: "each person appointed 10 USC 506c. and commissioned an officer of the Veterinary Corps shall, at the time of appointment, be credited with an amount of service equal to three years;". (c) The third sentence of subsection 506(g) of such Act is amended to read as follows: "Effective December 31, 1947, each commissioned officer of the Medical Corps who on that date has less than four years' service credit, each commissioned officer of the Dental Corps, each Regular Army Chaplain, each commissioned officer of the Judge Advocate General's Department, and each commissioned officer of the Veterinary Corps, who as of that date had less than three years' service credit, shall, for promotion, seniority, and promotion-listposition purposes, be credited as of that date with four years' service and three years' service, respectively." (d) Each person appointed and commissioned an officer of the Veterinary Corps subsequent to December 31, 1947, who, at time of

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