Chapter 91. To authorize the issuance of Reserve Corps and National Army commissions in the lower grades of staff corps and to remove the fixed age limits requiring the discharge of Reserve Corps officers
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CHAP. 91.— An Act To authorize the issuance of Reserve Corps and National Army commissions in the lower grades of staff corps and to remove the fixed age limits requiring the discharge of Reserve Corps officers. October 6, 1917.[[H. R. 6350](/us/bill/65/hr/6350).][[Public, No. 76](/us/pl/65/76).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That during the existingArmy.Additional appointments in lower grades of Officers’ Reserve Corps and National Guard staff corps during the war. emergency the President is authorized, in addition to the grades now authorized, to appoint in the Officers’ Reserve Corps and the National Army in the grades of second and first lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps; second lieutenant in the Ordnance Corps and Signal Corps; second lieutenant, first lieutenant, and captain in The Adjutant General’s Department, such citizens as shall be found physically, mentally, and morally qualified for appointment.
During the existing emergency no member of the Officers’ ReserveOfficers’ Reserve Corps.Age limit for discharge suspended.Vol. 39, p. 190. Corps shall be discharged by reason of reaching the age limits provided in section thirty-seven of the national defense Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen. Approved, October 6, 1917.