Volume 69
Private Law 84–95
To authorize the President to promote Paul A. Smith, a commissioned officer of the Coast and Geodetic Survey on the retired list, to the grade of rear admiral (lower half) in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, with entitlement to all benefits pertaining to any officer retired in such grade.
Approved June 22, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the President to promote Paul A. Smith, a commissioned officer of the Coast and Geodetic Survey on the retired list, to the grade of rear admiral (lower half) in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, with entitlement to all benefits pertaining to any officer retired in such grade.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the President is authorized to promote Paul A. Smith, captain, Coast and Geodetic Survey (retired), to the rank of rear admiral (lower half), on the retired list of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and that such grade will entitle him to all the benefits and privileges commensurate with that grade.
Approved June 22, 1955.