Chapter 290.
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CHAP. 290.— Joint Resolution Authorizing the reappointment of Frederick Mears as a commissioned officer of the Regular Army and making him available, when so reappointed, for service as chairman and chief engineer of the Alaskan Engineering Commission. August 24, 1922. [[H. J. Res. 316](/us/bill/67/hjres/316).] [[Pub. Res., No. 68](/us/bill/67/pubres/68).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President be, andArmy.
Reappointment of Frederick Mears to specified grade, etc. he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to reappoint Frederick Mears to the Regular Army in the grade and with the date of rank to which he would have been entitled at the time of such reappointment had he remained an officer of the Regular Army continuously from the time he first became an officer thereof: *Provided*, That after such reappointment*Provisos.* Status thereafter. said Frederick Mears shall be regarded as having in contemplation of law the same status, rights, and privileges as an officer of the Regular Army that he would have had if he had remained a commissioned officer of the Regular Army continuously, under the various commissions in the Regular Army, issued to and accepted by him from the date of his first appointment therein.
Sec. 2. That notwithstanding the provisions of sections 1222,Continuance on Alaskan Engineering Commission, authorized. [R. S. secs. 1222, 1224, 1763–1765, pp. 205](/us/rs/s1222/1224/1763–1765/pp205). Vol. 19, p. 243; Vol. 28, p. 205; Vol. 39, pp. 120, 582. 1224 (as amended by the Act of February 28, 1877, Nineteenth Statutes, page 243), 1763, 1764, and 1765, Revised Statutes, the provisions of section 2 of the Act of July 31, 1894 (Twenty-eighth Statutes, page 205), and the provisions of section 6 of the Act of May 10, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes, page 120), as amended by the Act of August 29, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes, page 582), or the provisions of other existing statutes of like import, the said Frederick Mears may, after having been reappointed an officer of the Regular Army under the provisions of the preceding section, continue in office under an existing commission as chairman and chief engineer of the Alaskan Engineering Commission or accept a new appointment as such, and may exercise the functions of said civil office without prejudice to his commission as an officer of the Regular Army or to his standing as such, and may receive the compensation duly prescribed from time to time for the incumbent of said civil office, less the pay and allowances to which he may be entitled as an officer of the Regular Army.
Approved, August 24, 1922.