Public Law 38–CCI

That

Persons in military service, how transferred to naval service.

any person enlisted in the military service of the United States, who shall apply to the Navy Department to be transferred to the navy or marine corps shall, if his application be approved by the President of the United States, be transferred to the navy or marine corps to serve the residue of his term of enlistment therein, subject to the laws and regulations for the government of the navy:

Proviso.

Provided, That such transfer shall not release the transferred person from any indebtedness to the government, nor, without the consent of the President of the United States, from any penalty incurred for a breach of military law.

Sec. 2.

And be it further enacted, That

Seamen, &c., drafted into military service may be transferred to naval service.

any seaman or mariner, or person who may have served as such, drafted into the military service, may, by order of the President of the United States, be transferred to the naval service, to serve therein, subject to the laws and regulations for the. government of the navy, for the term, or residue of the term, for which he was drafted.

Sec. 3.

And be it further enacted, That

Enlistments into navy or marine corps, how credited.

all enlistments into the naval service or marine corps during the present war shall be credited to the appropriate township, precinct, or district, in the same manner as enlistments for the army.

Sec. 4.

And be it further enacted, That

Persons enlisting into navy or marine corps to receive same bounty as if enlisting in army.

Repeal of resolution.

Pub. Res. No. 15.

Post, p. 402.

Proviso.

persons hereafter enlisted into the naval service or marine corps during the present war shall be entitled to receive the same bounty as if enlisted in the army. And the resolution approved February twenty-four, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled “A resolution relative to the transfer of persons in the military service to the naval service,” is hereby repealed: Provided, nevertheless, That such sums as may have been paid as bounty to persons transferred from the military to the naval service or marine corps shall be charged to, and paid out of, the proper naval appropriation, or appropriation for the marine corps.