Volume 53
Private Law 76–365
To provide a posthumous advancement in grade for the late Ensign Joseph Hester Patterson, United States Navy.
Approved July 25, 1939
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide a posthumous advancement in grade for the late Ensign Joseph Hester Patterson, United States Navy.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the President
Ensign Joseph Hester Patterson.
Posthumous advancement in grade authorized.
is hereby authorized to issue posthumously to the late Ensign Joseph Hester Patterson, United States Navy, a commission as a lieutenant (junior grade) of the Navy with the date of rank as of June 4, 1939.
Approved, July 25, 1939.