Public Law 75–12

That section 10 of the Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provisions for the national defense, and for other purposes”, approved June 3, 1916, be amended by providing that on and after July 1, 1987, there shall be officers as now authorized by law, except that there shall be four assistants to the Surgeon General with the rank of brigadier general, one of whom shall be an officer in the Dental

Increase in authorized Army commissioned strength.

Corps, and one thousand one hundred and eighty-three officers of the Medical Corps and two hundred and fifty-eight officers of the Dental Corps, and the authorized commissioned strength of the Army is hereby increased by one hundred and fifty in order to provide for the increases herein authorized in the Medical and Dental Corps.

Sec. 2.

That the Act entitled “An Act to authorize officers of the Medical Corps to count certain service in computing their rights in retirement, and for other purposes”, approved May 29, 1928, be amended by adding at the end thereof “service as Contract Dental Surgeons and Acting Dental Surgeons shall be credited to the officers of the Dental Corps for the purpose of retirement.”