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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 40 STAT. · October 6, 1917 · Chapter 101

Chapter 101. To provide for the promotion of first lieutenants in the Regular Army and National Guard to the grade of captain, and respecting the Dental Corps of the Army and medical and dental students, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 101.— An Act To provide for the promotion of first lieutenants in the Regular Army and National Guard to the grade of captain, and respecting the Dental Corps of the Army and medical and dental students, and for other purposes. October 6, 1917.[[H. R. 4897](/us/bill/65/hr/4897).][[Public, No. 86](/us/pl/65/86).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That during the existing Army.Emergency promotions in Medical Corps of, and National Guard.Vol. 39, p. 171.emergency first lieutenants in the Medical Corps of the Regular Army and of the National Guard shall be eligible to promotion as captain upon such examination as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War.
Hereafter the Dental Corps of the Army shall consist of commissioned Dental Corps.Personnel, etc., modified.Vol. 39, p. 173, amended.officers of the same grade and proportionally distributed among such grades as are now or may be hereafter provided by law for the Medical Corps, who shall have the rank, pay, promotion and allowances of officers of corresponding grades in the Medical Corps, including the right to retirement as in the case of other officers, and Number authorized.there shall be one dental officer for every thousands of the total strength of the Regular Army authorized from time to time by law: *Provided further*, That dental examining and review boards shall *Provisos*.Examining boards.consist of one officer of the Medical Corps and two officers of the Dental Corps: *Provided further*, That immediately following the Recommissions to present officers.approval of this Act all dental surgeons then in active service shall be recommissioned in the Dental Corps in the grades herein authorized in the order of their seniority and without loss of pay or allowances or of relative rank in the Army: *And provided further*, That no dental Confirmation required.surgeon shall be recommissioned who has not been confirmed by the Senate.
All regulations concerning the enlistment of medical students in Continuance of students in college course.the Enlisted Reserve Corps and their continuance in their college course while subject to call to active service, shall apply similarly to dental students. Approved, October 6, 1917.
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