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PUBLIC LAW 85-155-AUG. 21, 1957

(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an officer of the Army Nurse Corps, Regular Army, or the Army Medical Specialist Corps, Regular Army, who, on the effective date of this Act, has been nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate for appointment to any regular grade, may be appointed in that grade. SEC. 105. This title may be cited as the "Army Nurse and Medical Specialist Act of 1957."

Short title.

TITLE II—NAVY SEC. 201. Subtitle C of title 10, United States Code, is amended as follows: 70A Stat. 304. (1) Section 5444(b) is amended to read as follows: St af f c o r p s of"(b) The number of officers serving on active duty in the grades ficers. of captain and commander in the Nurse Corps may not exceed, re- Active dvity. spectively, 2/10 of 1 per cent and 5 per cent of the number of officers serving on active duty in that corps." (2) Section 5444(c) is amended by— (A) adding the word "and" after the semicolon in clause (1), and striking out clauses (2) and (3) and inserting in place thereof the following clause: "(2) the number of captains and commanders authorized under this section for the Nurse Corps."; (B) striking out in the third sentence the words "in the grade of captain in the Medical Service Corps, or in the grade of commander or lieutenant commander in the Nurse Corps" and inserting in place thereof the words "or in the grade of captain or commander in the Nurse Corps"; and (C) striking out in the last sentence the word "commander" and the words "lieutenant commander" and inserting in place thereof the word "captain" and the word "commander", respectively. (3) Section 5444(e) is amended by striking out the last sentence. 70A Stat. 311. (4) Section 5449 is amended by— (A) repealing subsection (c) and relettering subsections (d), Permanent grade. (e), and (f), a s (c), (d), and (e), respectively; (B) amending the first sentence of present subsection (d) to read as follows: "The number of officers on the active list of the Navy in the Nurse Corps holding permanent appointments in the grades of captain and commander may not exceed, respectively, 2/10 of 1 per cent and 5 per cent of the number of officers on the active list of the Navy in that Corps."; and (C) striking out in the last sentence of present subsection (e) the words "lieutenant commander" and the word "commander" and inserting in place thereof the word "commander" and the word "captain", respectively. 70A Stat. 337. (5) Section 5702 is amended by— (A) striking out in clause (2) of subsection (a) the words Selection boards. "each corps and each grade" and inserting in place thereof the words "each corps, other than the Medical Service Corps and the Nurse Corps, and for each grade"; (B) adding to subsection (a) the following clauses: "(3) A board for the Medical Service Corps to recommend captains for continuation on the active list, and a board for the Nurse Corps to recommend captains and commanders for continuation on the active list, each consisting of not less than three or rnore than six officers of the Regular Navy in the Medical Corps serving in the grade of rear admiral. 84352 O - 58 - 2 7

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