Chapter 501. To provide for appointment as warrant officers of the Regular Army of such persons as would have been eligible therefor but for the interruption of their status, caused by military service rendered by them as commissioned officers during the World War
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CHAP. 501.— An Act To provide for appointment as warrant officers of the Regular Army of such persons as would have been eligible therefor but for the interruption of their status, caused by military service rendered by them as commissioned officers during the World War.March 4, 1927.[[S. 5112](/us/bill/69/s/5112).][[Public, No. 795](/us/pl/69/795).] *Be it enacted by the Senate, and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Army.Appointment as warrant officers of quarter-master clerks with commissioned World War service, etc.
That the Secretary of War is authorized to appoint as warrant officers of the Regular Army any persons whose commissioned service in the Army during the World War, added to their prior service as quartermaster clerk, amounted to twelve years or more of continuous service prior to June 4, 1920, and who were deemed not eligible for appointment as field clerks, Quartermaster Corps, because of the interruption of their twelve years’ requisite service as quartermaster clerks to render com- 1417 missioned service in the World War, and who also had sufficient military service under the provisions of section 4a of the Act of JuneVol. 41, p. 761. 4, 1920, for appointment as warrant officers, but were not eligible for such appointment by reason of having returned to a civilian status at the end of their said commissioned service: *Provided*, That in determining*Provisos*.Credit for all military service. length of service for longevity pay and retirement they shall be credited with and entitled to count the same military service as authorized for warrant officers and all classified service rendered as clerks of the Quartermaster Department and Quartermaster Corps: *Provided further*, That the limitation in the Act of June 30, 1922, onNumber limit not applicable.Vol. 41, p. 761. the number of warrant officers, United States Army, shall not apply to appointees hereunder.
Approved, March 4, 1927.