Chapter 55. To amend section fifteen hundred and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States providing for the suspension from promotion of officers of the Navy if not professionally qualified
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CHAP. 55.— An Act To amend section fifteen hundred and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States providing for the suspension from promotion of officers of the Navy if not professionally qualified.March 11, 1912.[[S. 2004](/us/bill/62/s/2004).][[Public, No. 99](/us/pl/62/99).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Navy.[R. S. sec., 1505, p. 259, amended](/us/rs/s1505/p259). That section fifteen hundred and five of the Revised Statutes be, and is hereby, amended to read as follows:
" “Sec. 1505. Any officer of the Navy on the active list below theOfficers.Suspended from promotion for six months if failing on examination. rank of commander who, upon examination for promotion, is found not professionally qualified, shall be suspended from promotion for a period of six months from the date of approval of said examination, and shall suffer a loss of numbers equal to the average six months’ rate of promotion to the grade for which said officer is undergoing examination during the five fiscal years next preceding the date of approval of said examination, and upon the termination of said suspension from promotion he shall be reexamined, and in case of his failure upon suchReexamination, etc. reexamination he shall be dropped from the service with not more than one year’s pay: *Provided*, That the provisions of this Act shall*Proviso*.In effect from January 1, 1911. be effective from and after January first, nineteen hundred and eleven.
” " Approved, March 11, 1912.