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Volume 49

Public Law 74–147

To amend the Act of February 16, 1929, entitled “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act to readjust the pay and allowances of the commissioned and enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the Public Health Service’, approved June 10, 1922, as amended.”

Approved March 18, 1936

Statutory text

AN ACT

To amend the Act of February 16, 1929, entitled “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act to readjust the pay and allowances of the commissioned and enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the Public Health Service’, approved June 10, 1922, as amended.”

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That section 5 of the Act of February 16, 1929, entitled “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act to readjust the pay and allowances of the commissioned and enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the Public Health Service’, approved June 10, 1922, as amended”, be amended to read as follows:

“Sec. 5.

That the Director of the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall be appointed and hold office as now authorized by law; his appointment shall not create a vacancy, and while holding said office he shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of a Chief of Bureau of the Navy Department.”

Approved, March 18, 1936.

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