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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 35 STAT. · May 16, 1908 · Chapter 171

Chapter 171. To create the office of captain in the Philippine Scouts

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CHAP. 171.— An Act To create the office of captain in the Philippine Scouts. May 16, 1908.[[S. 652.]](/us/bill/70/s/652)[[Public, No. 118](/us/pl/70/118).] *Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the office of captain inPhilippine scouts.Office of captain in, created. the Philippine Scouts is hereby created as a grade of rank in the military establishment. Such captains shall be selected from officers of the grade of first lieutenants in said scouts, and shall be given provisionalProvisional appointments;Term. appointments for periods of four years each, and no such appointments shall be continued for a second or subsequent period unless the officers’ conduct shall have been satisfactory in. every respect: *Provided*,*Proviso.*Maximum number.
That the number of officers provisionally appointed under the terms of this Act shall not at any time exceed the number of companies of said native troops which may be formed by the President from time to time for service in the Philippine Islands. Approved, May 16, 1908.
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