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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 13 STAT. · Feb. 25, 1865 · Chapter LIII

Chapter LIII. *to increase the Efficiency of the Medical Corps of the Army.* Feb. 25, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the medical director of Rank and pay of certain medical director.an army in the field consisting of two

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Chap. LIII.— An Act *to increase the Efficiency of the Medical Corps of the Army.* Feb. 25, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the medical director of Rank and pay of certain medical director.an army in the field consisting of two or more army corps, and the medical director of a military department in which there are United States general hospitals containing four thousand beds or upwards, shall have the rank,pay, and emoluments of a colonel of cavalry; and the medical di-438THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 54, 55. 1865.rector of an army corps in the field, or of a department in which there are United States general hospitals containing less than four thousand beds, shall have the rank, pay, and emoluments of a lieutenant-colonel of cavalry. Increase, how long to continue. Assignments to duty.But this increased rank and pay shall only continue to medical officers while discharging such special duties; and the assignments from time to time to such duty shall be at least two thirds of them made from among the surgeons and assistant surgeons of volunteers.
Approved, February 25, 1865.
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