Volume 30
Public Law 55–371
To suspend certain provisions of law relating to hospital stewards in the United States Army, and for other purposes.
Approved June 2, 1898
Statutory text
An Act
To suspend certain provisions of law relating to hospital stewards in the United States Army, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That all provisions of law
Army.
Hospital stewards.
Suspension of certain provisions of law relating to.
Vol. 29. p. 61.
Vol. 24, p. 435.
Ante, p. 325.
limiting the number of hospital stewards in service at any one time to one hundred, and requiring that a person to be appointed a hospital steward shall first demonstrate his fitness therefor by actual service of not less than twelve months as acting hospital steward, and that limit the amount to be expended for the pay of civil employees in the Medical Department of the Army in one year to forty thousand dollars
Proviso.
Limit in number of.
be, and the same are hereby, suspended during the existing war: Provided, That the increase of hospital stewards under this Act shall not exceed one hundred.
Approved, .