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50 USC 1262.

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PUBLIC LAW 116-JUNE 30, 1955

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qualified for promotion. A nonunit officer so removed from a recommended list shall, for the purposes of section 311 be deemed to have been considered and not recommended for promotion." SEC. 8. Section 314 is amended by inserting the words "other than the Judge Advocate General's Corps" after the words "special branch" appearing in subsection (a) and by substituting "sections 303, 311, or 333" for "section 311" appearing m subsection (d). SEC. 9. Section 325 is amended by inserting a colon after the words "Eetired Reserve", by deleting that portion of the section following such colon, and by adding the following new subsections: " (a) If not on active duty, within ninety days after the second selection board submits its report to the convening authority; or "(b) If on active duty, one hundred twenty days after being notified of his second nonselection." SEC. 10. Section 333 is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 333. (a) A Reserve officer on active duty who is promoted to a grade higher than that in which he is serving shall continue to serve on active duty in the grade in which he was serving immediately before that promotion and shall, unless he expressly declines such promotion, be deemed to have accepted, effective on the date of such promotion, a temporary appointment in the grade in which serving. If he does not desire to continue on active duty in the grade in which serving, he may. except as provided in subsection (b) hereof, elect to be relieved from active duty and shall be promoted on the day subsequent to such relief or on the day he would have been promoted had he remained on active duty, whichever is the later. If his relief from active duty occurs subsequent to the date he would have been promoted had he remained on active duty, he shall be credited with the amount of promotion service that he would have had if he had remained on active duty and been promoted. "(b) A Reserve officer on active duty who is recommended or found qualified for promotion and who has not completed his period of required active duty as a member of a reserve component under any provision of law or regulation shall not have the election of relief from active duty as provided in subsection (a) hereof but may decline a promotion if he does not desire to serve on active duty in a grade lower than his permanent grade. A person who so declines a promotion shall, if he applies therefor, be promoted upon being temporarily promoted to that higher grade or, subject to subsection (a), ui^on completing his period of required active duty." SEC. 11. Section 337 of such Act is hereby repealed. Approved June 30, 1955.

Public Law 116 June 30, 1955 [H. R. 2973]

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CHAPTER 248

AN ACT To provide for the conveyance of all right, title, and interest of the United States in a certain tract of land in Macon County, Georgia, to the Georgia State Board of Education.

Be it enacted by the Senate and Home of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That upon the written consent of the Georgia Livestock Development Authority, the United States of America, acting through the Administrator of the Farmers Home Administration, is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed to the Georgia State Board of Education, its successors and assigns, all of the right, title, and interest retained by the United States of America in its quitclaim deed to the Georgia State

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