Chapter 7. To provide for the temporary promotion of commissioned officers of the Marine Corps serving with the Army
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CHAP. 7.— An Act To provide for the temporary promotion of commissioned officers of the Marine Corps serving with the Army. January 12, 1919. [[H. R. 12916](/us/bill/65/hr/12916).] [[Public, No. 247](/us/pl/65/247).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Marine Corps. Officers serving in the Army eligible to temporary promotions therein during emergency. [R. S., sec. 1621, p. 274](/us/rs/s1621/p274). *Ante*, p. 76.
That commissioned officers of the Marine Corps, detached for duty with the Army under the provisions of section sixteen hundred and twenty-one, Revised Statutes, shall be eligible, in the same manner as officers of the Regular Army, for temporary promotion to higher grades in any of the forces provided by the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States,” approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and *Provisos*.
Permanent status retained.seventeen: *Provided*, That officers of the Marine Corps temporarily promoted to higher grades in any of the forces of the Army under the provisions of this Act shall not thereby vacate their permanent appointments or commissions, or be prejudiced in their relative lineal Temporary vacancies filled.standing in the Marine Corps: *Provided further*, That temporary vacancies in the Marine Corps caused by the appointment of officers to higher grades in the Army shall be temporarily filled in the same Limitation of promotion.manner as is now prescribed by law: *And provided further*, That the temporary promotions herein authorized shall continue only while such officers are detached for duty with the Army.
Approved, January 12, 1919.