Chapter 56. To suspend for the period of the present war sections forty-five, forty-six, and fifty-six of an Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 56.— An Act To suspend for the period of the present war sections forty-five, forty-six, and fifty-six of an Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for other purposes. April 17, 1918. [[S. 3528](/us/bill/65/s/3528).] [[Public, No. 132](/us/pl/65/132).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That sections forty-five, forty-six,National Defense Act.
Details to Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, etc., modified during the war. and fifty-six of an Act entitled “An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, be, and they hereby are, suspended for and during the period of the present war, but for such period only, and that upon the termination of said war said suspension shall cease and terminate and said sections shall thereupon be and become reinstated and of the same force and effect as if this suspension had not been made.
Sec. 2. That during the present war the President be, and heDetails of active or retired officers as professors. Vol. 39. p. 192, amended. hereby is, authorized to detail such number of officers of the Army of the United States, either active or retired, not above the grade of colonel, as may be necessary for duty as professors and assistant professors of military science and tactics at institutions where one or more units of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps are main532Number increased.tained; but the total number of active officers so detailed at Service requirement reduced.educational institutions shall not exceed one thousand, and no officer shall be so detailed who has not had at least one year’s commissioned Retired officers to have full pay, etc.service in the Army of the United States.
Retired officers below the grade of lieutenant colonel so detailed shall receive the full pay and allowances of their grade, and retired officers above the grade of major so detailed shall receive the same pay and allowances as a retired major would receive under like detail. Sec. 3. Details of enlisted men. Vol. 39, p, 192, amended. That during the present war the President be, and he hereby is, authorized to detail for duty at institutions where one or more units of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps are maintained such number of enlisted men, either active or retired, of the Army Number increased.of the United States as he may deem necessary, but the active noncommissioned officers so detailed shall have had at least one year’s active service, and the total number of such active noncommissioned Additional to Army strength.
To receive active pay, etc.officers so detailed shall not exceed three thousand, and shall be additional in their respective grades to those otherwise authorized for the Army of the United States. While detailed under the provisions of this section retired noncommissioned officers of the Army of the United States shall receive active pay and allowances. Sec. 4. Military equipment and instructors to other schools, etc. Vol. 39, p. 197, amended. Vol. 39, p. 192. That during the present war such arms, tentage, and equipment as the Secretary of War shall deem necessary for proper military training shall be supplied by the Government to schools and colleges other than those provided for in section forty-seven of the national-defense Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, having a course of military training prescribed by the Secretary of War, and having not less than one hundred physically fit male students above the age of fourteen years, under such rules and Details from Army.regulations as he may prescribe; and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized during the present war to detail commissioned and noncommissioned officers of the Army of the United States to said schools and colleges, detailing not less than one such officer or noncommissioned Active service requirement.officer to each five hundred students under military instruction; but no officer or noncommissioned officer shall be so detailed who has not had at least one year’s active service in the Army of the United States.
Approved, April 17, 1918.