63 STAT.] 81ST CONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 278-JUNE 29, 1949 secretaries and clerks in service on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, on vessels abroad, shall continue as such until such vessel shall return to the United States on the termination of its cruise." So much of the fifth paragraph of the Act of March 3, 1883, as it appears on page 473, volume 22, Statutes at Large, and which reads as follows: "And all officers of the Navy shall be credited with the actual time they may have served as officers or enlisted men in the regular or volunteer Army or Navy, or both, and shall receive all the benefits of such actual service in all respects in the same manner as if all said service had been continuous and in the regular Navy in the lowest grade having graduated pay held by such officer since last entering the service: Provided, That nothing in this clause shall be so construed as to authorize any change in the dates of commission or in the relative rank of such officer: Provided further, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to give any additional pay to any such officer during the time of his service in the volunteer Army or Navy." Section 2 of the Act of August 3, 1886 (24 Stat. 215), as amended. So much of section 5 of the Act of June 29, 1888, as it appears on page 210, volume 25, Statutes at Large, and which reads as follows: "shall receive the sea-pay of his grade, and * * *." The second paragraph under the heading "Pay of the Navy" of the Act of March 3, 1901, which is the first full paragraph on page 1108, volume 31, Statutes at Large, and which reads as follows: "That the advancement in rank of officers of the Navy and Marine Corps, whensoever made, for service rendered during the war with Spain, pursuant, respectively, to the provisions of sections fifteen hundred and six and sixteen hundred and five of the Revised Statutes, shall not interfere with the regular promotion of officers otherwise entitled to promotion, but officers so advanced, by reason of war service, shall, after they are promoted to higher grades, be carried thereafter as additional to the numbers of each grade to which they may at any time be promoted; and each such officer shall hereafter be promoted in due course, contemporaneously with and to take rank next after the officer immediately above him; and all advancements made by reason of war service shall be appropriately so designated upon the official Navy list: Provided, however, That no pronmotion shall be made to fill a vacancy occasioned by the promotion, retirement, death, resigna- tion, or dismissal of any officer d who, at lte time of siuch promlotion, retirement, death, resignation, or dismissal, is an additional member of his grade under the foregoing provisions." So much of the first sentence after the subheading "Bureau of Supplies and Accounts" of the Act of March 18, 1904, as it appears on page 121, volume 33, Statutes at Large, and which reads as follows: "a civilian assistant, who shall perform the duties of chief clerk. and in case of the death, resignation, sickness, or absence of both the Pay- master General of the Navy or his assistant, now provided for by law, unless otherwise directed by the President, as provided by section one hundred and seventy-nine, Revised Statutes, such civilian assistant shall become the acting chief of the Bureau." So much of the fourth paragraph under the subheading "Increase of the Navy, Equipment" of the Act of May 13, 1908, as it appears on page 159, volume 35, Statutes at Large, and which reads as follows: "and monitors now owned by the United States or hereafter built may be named as the President may direct." The second paragraph under the subheading "Contingent, Navy" of the Act of March 4, 1911, which appears on page 1267, volume 36, Statutes at Large, and which reads as follows: "That officers on the active list of the line of United States Navy 301 34U.S.C.§231. 34U. S. C. §481. 33 U.J. c. . 451. 34 U.S.C. §344. 34 U. S. C. §5341, 670. 5U.S. . 450. 5U.S.0. 6. 34U.S.C.§461 note. 34 U.S.C. §74.
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