Volume 29
Public Law 54–221
To commission passed assistant surgeons in the United States Navy, and to provide for their examination preliminary to their promotion to the grade of surgeon.
Approved February 13, 1897
Statutory text
An Act
To commission passed assistant surgeons in the United States Navy, and to provide for their examination preliminary to their promotion to the grade of surgeon.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That passed assistant surgeons
Navy.
Paused assistant surgeons to be commissioned.
R. S., sec. 1368, p.246.
now borne upon the Navy Register shall be commissioned as such by the President, such commissions to bear the dates upon which said passed assistant surgeons, respectively, received their appointments as
Examinations.
such; and hereafter assistant surgeons shall be regularly promoted and commissioned as passed assistant surgeons, and passed assistant surgeons as surgeons, subject to such examinations as may be prescribed
Proviso.
Effect.
by the Secretary of the Navy: Provided, however, That no examination of passed assistant surgeons shall be ordered until the expiration of six months from the passage of this Act, during which time promotions shall be made as now provided by law.
Approved, .