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PUBLIC LAW 76a-JULY 24, 1956

Public Law 762 July 24, 1956 [S. 3482]

[70 S T A T.

CHAPTER 674

AN ACT rpQ provide for transfer of title of certain lands to the Carlsbad Irrigation District, New Mexico.

Be it enacted by the Seriate and House of Representatives of the United States of Amsrica in Congress assembled, That the Secretary ' of the Interior is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed to the Carlsbad Irrigation District, Carlsbad, New Mexico, at no cost to the district, all rights, title, and interest of the United States in and to the following described land situated in Eddy County, State of New Mexico: lots 1 and 3, block 43; Stevens addition to the town of Eddy, now city of Carlsbad, Eddy County, New Mexico, located at the corner of Fox and Canal Streets in the city of Carlsbad, New Mexico. Approved July 24, 1956.

Carlsbad In-igat i on District,

N. Mex.

Public Law 763 July 24, 1956 [H. R. 483]

CHAPTER 675

AN ACT rpjj amend the Army-Navy-Public Health Service Medical Officer Procurement Act of 1^7, as amended, so as to provide for appointment of doctors of osteopathy in the Medical Corps of the Army and Navy.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the A^point'm^t'of United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the second fcaf*CM**\V*"^***" sentence of section 201(a) of the Army-Navy-Public Health Service Ante, p.'ii9. Medical Officer Procurement Act of 1947, as amended, is amended (1) by inserting " (1) " immediately before the word "qualified" and (2) by striking the period at the end thereof and inserting a comma and the following: "or (2) doctors of osteopathy who are qualified under subsection (g) hereof." Ante, p. 120. (b) Sections 201(b) and (e) of such Act are amended (1) by inserting immediately after the word "medicine" wherever it appears therein "or osteopathy'' and (2) by inserting in the second sentence of section 201(b) and in section 201(e) after the word "medical" the following: ", osteopathic". (c) Section 201 of such Act is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: " (g) to be eligible for appointment under this Act a doctor of osteopathy must (1) be a citizen of the United States, (2) be a graduate of a college of osteopathy whose graduates are eligible for licensure to practice medicine or surgery in a majority of the States, and be licensed to practice medicine, surgery, or osteopathy in one of the States or Territories of the United States or in the District of Columbia, (3) possess such qualifications as the Secretary concerned may prescribe for his service, after considering recommendation for such appointment by the Surgeon General of the Army or the Air Force or the Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the Navy, and (4) under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense have completed a number of years of osteopathic and preosteopathic education equal to the numhJer of years of medical and premedical education prescribed for persons entering recognized schools of medicine who became doctors of medicine and Avho would be qualified for appointment under this title in the grade for which such doctor of osteopathy is applying." Approved July 24, 1956.

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