Public Law 77–530

Navy.

Additional commissioned warrant and warrant grades.

That the commissioned warrant grades of chief ship’s clerk, chief aerographer, chief photographer, and chief torpedoman, and the warrant grades of ship’s clerk, aerographer, photographer, and torpedoman, are hereby established in the United States Navy.

Sec. 2.

All persons appointed in such grades, in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, shall have the same rank, pay, allowances, and other benefits as now are or may hereafter be allowed other commissioned warrant and warrant officers in the Navy.

Sec. 3.

Chief torpedomen and torpedomen shall be eligible for appointment to the grade of ensign under the restrictions imposed by law upon the appointment of other warrant and commissioned officers to that grade: Provided, That the limitation as to age contained in

Provisos.

Appointments of assistant paymasters.

34 U. S. C. § 61.

section 1379 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, relating to appointments of assistant paymasters in the Navy, shall not apply to chief ship’s clerks and ship’s clerk who must be not more than thirty-five years of age at the time of appointment as assistant paymaster: Provided further, That the preceding proviso shall not be construed as giving any preference in appointment as assistant paymaster other than the limitation of age.