Chapter 196.
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CHAP. 196.— Joint Resolution To establish a reserve of the Public Health Service. October 27, 1918.[[S. J. Res. 63](/us/bill/65/sjres/63).][[Pub. Res., No. 45](/us/bill/65/pubres/45).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of Public Health Service.Reserve of, to be organized.securing a reserve for duty in the Public Health Service in time of national emergency there shall be organized, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, under such rules and regulations as the President shall prescribe, a reserve of the Public Health Qualifications for commissions.Service.
The President alone shall be authorized to appoint and commission as officers in the said reserve such citizens as, upon examination prescribed by the President, shall be found physically, mentally, and morally qualified to hold such commissions, and said Term, etc.commissions shall be in force for a period of five years, unless sooner terminated in the discretion of the President, but commission in said reserve shall not exempt the holder from military or naval service: *Provided*, That the officers commissioned under *Proviso*.Rank, etc.this Act, none of whom shall have rank above that of assistant surgeon general, shall be distributed in the several grades in the same proportion as now obtains among the commissioned medical officers of the United States Public Health Service and shall at all times be subject to call to active duty by the Surgeon General and when on Pay while on active duty.such active duty shall receive the same pay and allowances as are now provided by law and regulation for the commissioned medical officers in the said regular commissioned medical corps.
Approved, October 27, 1918.