Chapter 19.
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CHAP. 19.— An act to regulate appointments in the Marine Hospital Service of the United States.January 4, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Marine Hospital Service. Appointment of surgeons. That medical officers of the Marine Hospital Service of the United States shall hereafter be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and no person shall be so appointed until after passing a satisfactory examination in the several branches of medicine, surgery, and hygiene before a board of medical officers of the said service.
Said examination shall be conducted according to rules prepared by the Supervising Surgeon-General, and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury and the President. Sec. 2. That original appointments in the service shall only be madeOriginal appointments. to the rank of assistant surgeon: and no officer shall be promoted to the rank of passed assistant surgeon until after four years’ service and a second examination as aforesaid; and no passed assistant surgeon shall be promoted to be surgeon until after due examination: *provided*,*Proviso*.
That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to affect the 640 Promotion.rank or promotion of any officer originally appointed before the adoption of the regulations of eighteen hundred and seventy-nine; and the President is authorized to nominate for confirmation the officers in the service on the date of the passage of this act. Approved, January 4, 1889.