Chapter 116. Authorizing transfer of certain retired Army officers to the active list
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CHAP. 116.— An Act Authorizing transfer of certain retired Army officers to the active list. February 23, 1917.[[S. 6850](/us/bill/64/s/6850).][[Public, No. 349](/us/pl/64/349).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That hereafter the PresidentArmy.Officers retired for Panama Canal service may be restored to active list.Vol. 38, p. 1191. be, and he is hereby, authorized, within one year of the approval of this Act, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to transfer, upon application, to the active list of the Army any officer under fifty years of age who may have been transferred heretofore from the active to the retired list of the Army under the Act to provide for recognizing the services of certain officers of the Army, Navy, and Public Health Service for their services in connection with the construction of the Panama Canal, and for other purposes, approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and fifteen: *Provided,* That such*Provisos*.Rank as additional number in former grade. officers shall take rank at the foot of the respective grades which they held at the time of their retirement and shall be carried as an additional number in the grade to which he may be transferred or at any time thereafter promoted, and shall be promoted on the same date as the officer next above him in rank, and shall be commissioned in the arm or department of the Army from which he was retired: *Provided further,* That such officer shall stand a satisfactoryExaminations. medical examination, and when promoted shall stand the medical and professional examinations provided for by law: *And provided further,*Further retirement, etc., limit.
That any officer transferred to the active list under this Act shall not again be entitled to the benefits of the Panama Canal Act described above, except when retired for age or for physical disability incurred in the line of duty. Approved, February 23, 1917.