SIXTIETH CONGRESS. S1-zss. I. C11. 150. 1908. 67 Department; fourteen colonels, twenty-four lieutenant-colonels, one hundred and five majors, and three hundred captains or first lieutenants, who shall have rank, pay, and allowances of officers of corresponding grades in the cavalry arm of the service. Immediately segdfrgo {,*1 ¤°***’° following the approval of this Act all officers of the Medical De rt. missioned, JZ.t°°°m` ment then in active-service, other than the Surgeon—General, shallube recommissioned in the correspondin rades in the Medical Corps established by this Act in the order og their seniority and without loss of relative rank in the Army, as follows: Assistant surgeons-general, G°”'d°"‘“°”"‘ with the rank of colonel, as colonels; deputy surgeons-general, with rank of lieutenant-colonel, as lieutenant-colonels; surgeons, with the rank of major, as majors; assistant surgeons, who at the time of the approval of this Act shall have served three years "or more, as captains; an assistant surgeons, with the rank of first lieutenant, who at the time of the a proval of this Act shall have served less than three ears as such, as first lieutenants; and hereafter first lieutenants shdl be Promoriv. . piomoted to the grade of captain after three years’ service in the edical Come. . Sec. 3. That romotions in the Medical Corps to fill vacancies in V‘“““‘°“° the several gradhs created or caused by this Act, or hereafter occurring, shall be made according to seniorit , but all such promotions and all appointments to the grade of first lieutenant in said co shall _ be subject to examination as hereinafter provided: Prwidgf That Qi,},",;,,, ,.,,,1, the increase in grades of colonel, lieutenant-colonel, and maljpr pro- i¤•=¤¤·¤¤i¤s¤d¤¤- vided for in this Act shall be filled by promotion each calen r year of not exceeding two lieutenant-colonels to be colonels, three majors ·to be lieutenant-colonels, fourteen captains to be majors, and of the increase in the grade of first lieutenant not more than twenty-five per . centum of the total of such increase shall be appointed in any one _ calendar year: Pr0mZded fwrther, That those assistant surgeons who SHR,;?,';,, ‘Qc_““"°""‘ at the time of the approval of this Act shall have attained their cap- ' taincy by reason of service in the volunteer forces under the provisions of the Act of February second, nineteen hundred and one, sec- V°l- 3L P· 752- · tion eighteen, or who will receive their captaincy upon the approval of this Act by virtue of such service, shall take ran among the officers in or subse uently promoted to that grade, according to date of entrance into the (Medical Department of the Army as commissioned officers. Sec. 4. That no person shall receive an a pointment as tirst lieutenant §:,•:g:g¢i¤3|¤z2; in the Medical Corps unless he shall have been examined and approved llgutenanz. by an army medical board consisting of not less than three o `cers of the Medical Corps desi nated by the Secretary of War. Sec. 5. That no oililzer of the Medical Corps below the rank of cJ,f°'§€‘g§l‘;}",§jk°‘f‘,g lieutenant-colonel shall be promoted therein until he shall have suc- ¤¤¤=¤¤a¤¤t¤g:;¤¤l-rw cessfully passed an examination before an amiy medical board consist- quired, ing of not less than three officers of the Medical Corps, to be designated by the Secretary of War, such examination to be prescribed by the Secretar of War and to be held at such time anterior to the accruing of the right to romotion as may be for the best interests of the service: Provided, That should any officer of the Medical Corps {row- um h fail in his physical examination and be found incapacitated for service ically ax¤t1m.· P W by reason of physical disability contracted in the line of duty, he shall be retired with the rank to which his seniority entitled him to be promoted; but if he should be found disqualiiied for promotion for any t,£¤mggg:;;§§; - other reason, a second examination shall not be allowed, but the Sec- qmanq. retary of War shall appoint a board of review to consist of three ,,0§,Pd’,§§Q?,$i'§',$“° °l officers of the Medical Corps superior in rank to the officer examined, none of whom shall have served as a member of the board which examined him. If the unfavorable finding of the examining 18 Hégcpou ar asqquau. concurred in by the board of review, the officer reported disqpahfied °' ""°"‘°""“‘ for promotion shall, if a first lieutenant or captain, beilionora ly dis-
