Chapter 338.
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CHAP. 338.— An act to regulate the promotion of graduates of the United States Military Academy.May 17, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Military Academy graduates. To be commissioned second lieutenants, if competent, in any arm or corps of the Army in which vacancy exists. R. S., sec. 1213, p. 214. To be additional second lieutenants if no vacancy exists. R. S., sec. 1216, p. 215. That when any cadet of the United States Military Academy has gone through all its classes and received a regular diploma from the academic staff, he may be promoted and commissioned as a second lieutenant in any arm or corps of the Army in which there may be a vacancy and the duties of which he may have been judged competent to perform; and in ease there shall not at the time be a vacancy in such arm or corps, he may, at the discretion of the President, be promoted and commissioned in it as an additional second lieutenant, with the usual pay and allowances of a second lieutenant, until a vacancy shall happen.
Approved, May 17, 1886.