Chapter 3520. To promote the efficiency of the Revenue-Cutter Service
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CHAP. 3520.— An Act To promote the efficiency of the Revenue-Cutter Service. June 23, 1906. [[S. 3044](/us/bill/59/s/3044).] [[Public, No. 273](/us/pl/59/273).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Revenue-Cutter Service.Third lieutenants limited. That on and after the passage of this Act the number of officers on the. active list in the grade of third*Proviso.*Promotion of cadets. lieutenant in the Revenue-Cutter Service shall not exceed thirty-seven: *Provided*, That until such time as the grade of third lieutenant shall be tilled as provided in this Act there may be advanced to that grade any cadet of the line who has served not less than two years as such cadet, and is recommended for advancement by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Sec. 2. That hereafter the number of cadets of the line allowed inCadets.Number allowed. the Revenue-Gutter Service shall be such as to provide for tilling the vacancies that may occur in the grade of third lieutenant in said Service: *Provided*, That a person to be eligible for appointment as*Provisos.*Qualifications. a cadet of the line shall produce satisfactory evidence of good moral character, shall be not less than eighteen nor more than twenty-four years of age at the time of appointment, and shall pass a satisfactory physical examination by a board of officers of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, and a satisfactory educational examination,Competitive examination. which must in all cases be written and strictly competitive, by a board of commissioned officers of the Revenue-Cutter Service, both examinations to be conducted under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided.* That no person who has beenDisqualifications. dismissed or compelled to resign from the Military Academy or from the Naval Academy of the United States for hazing, or for any other improper conduct, shall be eligible for appointment as a cadet in the Revenue-Cutter Service: *Provided*, That no person shall become aService required. cadet of the line who does not obligate himself, in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, to serve at least three years as an officer in said Service after graduation, if his services be so long required: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of the TreasuryDismissals. may summarily dismiss from the Service any cadet who, during his probationary term, is found unsatisfactory in either studies or conduct, or may be deemed not adapted for a career in the Service.
Sec. 3. That hereafter appointments into the grade of second assistant,Second assistant engineers.Probationary term. engineer in the Revenue-Cutter Service shall be as at present except that, before being commissioned, the candidate who has success fully passed the required examinations shall serve a probationary term of not less than six months as a cadet engineer to determine his fitness for a commission in said Service, and during which probationary term he shall receive a salary of seventy-five dollars per month and one ration per day: *Provided*, That, no person shall be commissioned a*Proviso.*Age requirement. second assistant engineer who is less than twenty-one or more than twenty-six years of age, nor until he shall have served the probationary term herein required. 453 Sec. 4.
The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to employCivilian instructors. two civilian instructors in the Revenue-Cutter Service, one at a salary of two thousand dollars per annum and one at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum. Sec. 5. That hereafter it shall not be necessary for any commissionedPay accounts. officer of the Revenue-Cutter Service to make oath to his pay accounts. Sec. 6. That a chief engineer of the Revenue-Cutter Service, to beConstructor.Commission, pay, etc. selected for his special ability in naval construction from the present list of chief engineers by the Secretary of the Treasury, may be commissioned a constructor for engineering duty in said Service with the rank, pay, and emoluments now provided by law for a chief engineer: *Provided*, That the vacancy created in the list of chief engineers by*Proviso*.No vacancy created such transfer shall not be tilled by promotion or otherwise, but the number of chief engineers now authorized by law shall be reduced by one, and that no additional expense shall be incurred by reason of commissioning such chief engineer a constructor.
Approved, June 23, 1906.