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Public Law 77–414
To provide for the retirement, with advanced rank, of certain officers of the Navy.
Approved June 16, 1942
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the retirement, with advanced rank, of certain officers of the Navy.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That any officer of the Navy who may be retired while serving as the commander of a fleet or subdivision thereof in the rank of admiral or vice admiral, or who has served or shall have served one year or more as such commander, may, if such rank was conferred pursuant to the provisions of section 18 of the Act of May 22, 1917 (40 Stat. 89; U. S. C., title
34. sec. 212), or the Act of July 17, 1941 (Public Law Numbered 180, Seventy-seventh Congress), in the discretion of the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, when retired, be placed on the retired list with the highest grade or rank held by him while
Provisos.
No increase in retired pay.
Officers heretofore retired.
on the active list: Provided, That no increase in retired pay shall accrue as the result of such advanced rank on the retired list: Provided further, That the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, may in his discretion extend the privilege herein granted to such officers as have heretofore been retired and who satisfy the foregoing conditions.
Sec. 2.
The President is further authorized, without reference to the power conferred upon him by this Act, to continue with the rank of admiral on the retired list the officer who, as commander in chief of the Asiatic Fleet, rendered conspicuous and distinguished service in operations against the enemy in the Far East from December 7, 1941, until February 14, 1942.
Approved, June 16, 1942.