Volume 45
Public Law 70–209
To permit certain warrant officers to count all active service rendered under temporary appointments as warrant or commissioned officers in the regular Navy, or as warrant or commissioned officers in the United States Naval Reserve Force, for purpose of promotion to chief warrant rank.
Approved February 15, 1929
Statutory text
An Act
To permit certain warrant officers to count all active service rendered under temporary appointments as warrant or commissioned officers in the regular Navy, or as warrant or commissioned officers in the United States Naval Reserve Force, for purpose of promotion to chief warrant rank.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That for the purpose of computing the six years’ service required for promotion from warrant to chief warrant rank, all active service, for purposes other than training heretofore rendered during the period from April 6, 1917, to December 31, 1921, under a temporary appointment as a warrant or commissioned officer in the United States Navy, or as a warrant or commissioned officer in the United States Naval Reserve Force,
Provisos.
Status if heretofore commissioned.
shall be counted: Provided, That officers who have heretofore been commissioned chief warrant officers shall for all purposes be regarded as having been so commissioned from the date of completion of such six years’ service including the service authorized to
No back pay, etc.
be counted by this Act: Provided further, That no back pay or allowances shall be held to have accrued prior to the passage of this Act.
Approved, February 15, 1929.