Volume 49 · 1092
Public Law 74–2
For the relief of certain officers on the retired list of the Navy and Marine Corps, who have been commended for their performance of duty in actual combat with the enemy during the World War.
Approved January 16, 1936
Statutory text
AN ACT
For the relief of certain officers on the retired list of the Navy and Marine Corps, who have been commended for their performance of duty in actual combat with the enemy during the World War.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That all officers of the Navy and Marine Corps who have been retired or who may hereafter be retired for physical disability and who have been commended for their performance of duty in actual combat with the enemy during the World War by the head of the executive department under whose jurisdiction such duty was performed shall be placed upon the retired list with the rank of the next higher grade:
Proviso.
No pay increase.
Provided, That such promotion shall not carry with it any increase in pay.
Approved, January 16, 1936.