Volume 52 · 942
Public Law 75–593
To amend section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes”, approved July 1, 1918, to increase the authorized percentage of privates, first-class, in the Marine Corps from 25 to 40 per centum of the whole number of privates.
Approved June 22, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes”, approved July 1, 1918, to increase the authorized percentage of privates, first-class, in the Marine Corps from 25 to 40 per centum of the whole number of privates.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and
nineteen, and for other purposes”, approved July 1, 1918 (40 Stat. 714; title 34 U. S. C., sec. 691c), is hereby amended by striking out the words “twenty-five” appearing in lines 6 and 7 of the said section and substituting therefor the word “forty”.
Approved, June 22, 1938.