Volume 30
Public Law 55–346
To provide for the increased volume of work in the Adjutant-General’s Department of the Army, due to the calling out of volunteers and the increase of the Regular Army.
Approved May 18, 1898
Statutory text
An Act
To provide for the increased volume of work in the Adjutant-General’s Department of the Army, due to the calling out of volunteers and the increase of the Regular Army.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the President is authorized,
Army.
Appointment of additional assistant adjutants-general.
by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint one assistant adjutant-general with the rank of colonel, and one assistant adjutant-general with the rank of major: Provided, That the vacancy
Proviso.
Vacancy in grade of colonel, how filled, etc.
created in the grade of colonel by this Act shall be filled by the promotion of officers now in the Adjutant-General’s Department according to seniority, and that upon the mustering out of the volunteer forces and the reduction of the Regular Army to a peace basis no appointments shall be made in the Adjutant-General’s Department until the number of officers in each grade in that Department shall be
Vol. 24. p. 434.
Vol. 28, p. 234.
reduced to the number authorized by the law in force prior to the passage of this Act.
Approved, .