Volume 40
Public Law 65–104
To authorize the President to organize provisionally as Field Artillery or Infantry and to use as Field Artillery or Infantry during the existing emergency such regiments of Cavalry as he may designate.
Approved October 6, 1917
Statutory text
An Act
To authorize the President to organize provisionally as Field Artillery or Infantry and to use as Field Artillery or Infantry during the existing emergency such regiments of Cavalry as he may designate.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That during the present emergency the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to organize provisionally as Field Artillery or Infantry and to use as Field Artillery or Infantry during the existing emergency such regiments of
Proviso.
Reorganization as Cavalry afterwards.
Cavalry as he may designate: Provided, That immediately after the termination of the existing emergency such regiments shall be reorganized as Cavalry regiments in accordance with the prescribed organization of such regiments.
Approved, October 6, 1917.