Chapter 61. To amend section eight of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States,” approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen
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CHAP. 61.— An Act To amend section eight of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States,” approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen. April 20, 1918.[[H. R. 9902](/us/bill/65/hr/9902).][[Public, No. 137](/us/pl/65/137).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Army emergency increase.*Ante*, p. 81, amended. That the last sentence of section eight of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States,” approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, be, and the same hereby is, amended to read as follows:
" General officers for emergency.Filling resulting vacancies in the Army.Vol. 39, p. 211.“Vacancies in the grades of the Regular Army resulting from the appointment of officers thereof to higher grades in the forces other than the Regular Army herein provided for shall be filled by temporary promotions and appointments in the manner prescribed by Appointments by President alone provided.section one hundred and fourteen of the national defense Act, approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, except that such promotions and appointments may be made by the President alone 535when such vacancies are in grades not above that of colonel;
Permanent status retained.and officers appointed under the provisions of this Act to higher grades in the forces other than the Regular Army herein provided for shall not vacate their permanent commissions or be prejudiced in their relative or lineal standing in the Regular Army. " Approved, April 20, 1918.