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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 45 STAT. · May 23, 1928 · Chapter 715

Chapter 715. to readjust the pay and allowances of the commissioned and enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service.” Chapter 715 45 Stat. 719 1928-05-23 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 1

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Chap. 715: To amend the Act entitled “An Act to readjust the pay and allowances of the commissioned and enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service.” Chapter 715 45 Stat. 719 1928-05-23 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 1 public Chapter 715.— An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to readjust the pay and allowances of the commissioned and enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service.
” May 23, 1928.[[H. R. 5718](/us/bill/70/hr/5718).][[Public, No. 489](/us/pl/70/489).] *Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That paragraph Army, Navy, etc., pay readjustment.5, section 1, of the Act approved June 10, 1922 (volume 42, Statutes Vol. 42, p. 626, amended.at Large, chapter 212, page 626), entitled “An Act to readjust the pay and allowances of the commissioned and enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service,” be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:
“The pay of the fourth period shall Rates of pay.Fourth period.Grade and service entitling to.be paid to lieutenant colonels of the Army, commanders of the Navy, and officers of corresponding grade who are not entitled to the pay of the fifth or sixth period; to majors of the Army, lieutenant commanders of the Navy, and officers of corresponding grade who have completed fourteen years’ service, or whose first appointment in the permanent service was in a grade above that corresponding to second 720lieutenant in the Army, or who were appointed to the Regular Army to fill vacancies created by the increase of the commissioned personnel thereof in 1920; to captains of the Army, lieutenants of the Navy, and officers of corresponding grade who have completed seventeen Exceptions.*Post,* p. 788.years’ service, except those whose promotion is limited by law to this grade and who are not entitled under existing law to the pay and allowances of a higher grade; and to lieutenant commanders and lieutenants of the Staff Corps of the Navy, and lieutenant commanders, Coast Guard.lieutenants, and lieutenants (junior grade) of the line and engineer corps of the Coast Guard whose total commissioned service equals that of lieutenant commanders of the line of the Navy, drawing *Provisos.*Effective July 1, 1926.No back pay, etc.the pay of this period.”: *Provided,* That this amendment shall be effective from July 1, 1926: *Provided,* That no back pay or allowance shall accrue by reason of the passage of this Act.
Approved, May 23, 1928.
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