Volume 56
Public Law 77–9
To amend the Act approved June 23, 1938, entitled “An Act to regulate the distribution, promotion, and retirement of officers of the line of the Navy, and for other purposes.”
Approved January 20, 1942
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Act approved June 23, 1938, entitled “An Act to regulate the distribution, promotion, and retirement of officers of the line of the Navy, and for other purposes.”
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 15 of
Marine Corps.
the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the distribution, promotion, and retirement of officers of the line of the Navy, and for other purposes”, approved June 23, 1938 (52 Stat. 953), is hereby amended
by inserting at the end thereof the following new subsection:
“(h) Selection boards to recommend brigadier generals of the line
Selection boards for recommending promotion.
for promotion to major general shall be composed of officers of the permanent grade of major general on the active list of the Marine Corps to the extent that such officers are deemed available for this duty by the Secretary of the Navy, and the remainder of the board shall be composed of rear admirals on the active list of the line of the Navy, not restricted by law to the performance of shore duty only.”
Approved, January 20, 1942.