Volume 45
Public Law 70–261
For recognition of meritorious service performed by Lieutenant Commander Edward Ellsberg, Lieutenant Henry Hartley, and Boatswain Richard E. Hawes.
Approved February 18, 1929
Statutory text
An Act
For recognition of meritorious service performed by Lieutenant Commander Edward Ellsberg, Lieutenant Henry Hartley, and Boatswain Richard E. Hawes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the President of the United States be, and is hereby, authorized to appoint Edward Ellsberg, now a naval constructor with the rank of lieutenant commander m the Naval .Reserve, a naval constructor with the rank of commander in the Naval Reserve; and Chief Boatswain R. E. Hawes, United States Navy, an ensign in the Navy; and to advance Lieutenant Henry Hartley, United States Navy, thirty-five numbers on the list of lieutenants of the Navy, in recognition of their services in the salvage of the United States Ships S–4 and S–51.
Sec. 2.
Officers to be additional numbers in the grades.
That these officers shall be additional numbers in the grades to which or in which they are hereby advanced, and in any to which they may hereafter be promoted.
Approved, February 18, 1929.