Volume 68 · 650
Public Law 83–562
To provide for two additional Assistant Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, respectively.
Approved August 3, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for two additional Assistant Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, respectively.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.,
That section 102 (a) of the Army Organization Act of 1950 (64 Stat. 264), is hereby amended to read as follows:
“There shall be in the Department of the Army an Under Secretary of the Army
Army.
and four Assistant Secretaries of the Army, who shall be appointed from civilian life by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who shall receive the compensation prescribed by law. One of the Assistant Secretaries authorized herein shall be designated Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management, and may also act as Comptroller of the Army, if so designated by the Secretary of the Army.”
Subsections (b) and (c) of section 101 of the Army Organization Act of 1950 (64 Stat. 264), are amended by deleting the word
“either”, wherever appearing, and inserting in lieu thereof the word “an”.
Sec. 2.
Two Assistant Secretaries of the Navy may be appointed
Navy.
from civilian life by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Such Assistant Secretaries shall be in addition to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy authorized under section 1 of the Act of July 11, 1890 (26 Stat. 254), as amended, and the Assistant
Secretary of the Navy for Air authorized under section 4 of the Act of June 24, 1926 (44 Stat. 767), as amended, making a total of
four Assistant Secretaries. Each such additional Assistant Secretary shall perform such functions as the Secretary of the Navy may from time to time prescribe and each shall receive compensation at the rate prescribed by law for Assistant Secretaries of military departments. One of the Assistant Secretaries authorized herein shall be designated as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Financial Management, and may also act as Comptroller of the Navy, if so designated by the Secretary of the Navy. The Assistant Secretaries of the Navy shall succeed to the Office or the Secretary of the Navy during his temporary absence in the position provided for the Assistant Secretary of the Navy and the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air by section 10 of the Act of March 5, 1948 (62 Stat. 66), and the Assistant Secretaries
62 Stat. 69.
of the Navy shall take order among themselves in the order prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy or if no order is prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy then in the order in which the several Assistant Secretaries of the Navy took office as such.
Sec. 3.
Subsection (a) of section 102 of the Air Force Organization Act of 1951 (65 Stat. 327), is hereby amended to read as follows:
“There shall be in the Department of the Air Force an Under
Air Force.
Secretary of the Air Force and four Assistant Secretaries of the Air Force, who shall be appointed from civilian life by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who shall receive the compensation prescribed by law. One of the Assistant Secretaries authorized herein shall be designated Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management, and may also act as Comptroller of the Air Force, if so designated by the Secretary of the Air Force.”
Subsection (d) of section 207 of the National Security Act
61 Stat. 502.
of 1947 (61 Stat. 495), is hereby amended by deleting the word “two” and inserting in lieu thereof the word “four”.
Subsections (b) and (c) of section 101 of the Air Force
Organization Act of 1951 (65 Stat. 327), are amended by deleting the word “either”, wherever appearing, and inserting in lieu thereof the word “an”.
Approved August 3, 1954.