1,008 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 413. 1899. authorized by the Secretary of the Navy to appear before said d board, and, where candidates from civil life and from the naval service possess equal qualifications, the preference shall be given to those from the naval service. Pa:. vm w¤¤¤¤¤ Sec. 15. That the pay of warrant machinists shall be the same as ""°*"'""" that of warrant officers, and they shall be retired under the provisions of existing law for warrant officers. Warrant machinists shall receive at first an acting appointment, which may be made permanent under regulations established by the Navy Department for other warrant officers. They shall take rank with other warrant officers according to date of appointment and shall wear such uniform as may be prescribed by the Navy Department. arms or museum. Sec. 16. That hereafter the term of enlistment of all enlisted men of _m]:u§;,_*““· *’· ”°· the Navy shall he tour years: Provided, That section fifteen hundred mma. and seventy- three, Revised Statutes, be amended to read: “If any §"“g¥'$€“{g73_ p_ enlisted man or apprentice, being honorably discharged, shall reenlist ¤••.•¤·¤¤·i¤i- f for four years within four months thereafter, he shall, on presenting his `°°°°" my "` honorable discharge or on accounting in a satisfactory manner for its loss, be entitled to pay during the said four months equal to that to which he would have been entitled if he had been employed in actual .1umm ofpay m. service; and that any man who has received an honorable discharge from his last term of enlistment, or who has received a recommendation for reenlistmeut upon the expiration of his last term of service of not less than three years, who reenlists for a term of four years within four months from the date of his discharge, shall receive an increase of one. dollar and thirty-six cents per month to the pay prescribed for the rating in which he serves for each consecutive reenlistmeut.” ummm or en. Sec. 17. That when an enlisted man or appointed petty officer has hmm"- served as such thirty years in the United States Navy, either as an enlisted man or petty officer, or both, he shall, by making application to the President, be placed on the retired list hereby created, with the rank held by him at the date of retirement; and he shall thereafter receive seventy-tive per centum of the pay and allowances of the rank {'·rmw. _ _ or rating upon which he was retired: Provided, That if said enlisted c,$u’f’{,i{§f‘§{;'§§"°° "‘ man or appointed petty oincer had active service in the Navy or in the Army or Marine Corps, either as volunteer or regular, during the civil or Spanish-American war, such war service shall be computed as double Retirement sev- time in computing the thirty years necessary to entitle him to be retired: And provided further, That applicants for retirement under this section sltiall, unless physically disqualified for service, be at least fifty years 0 age. g¤¤¤¤sgg3g;m¤° Sec. 18. That from and after the date of the approval of this Act the R.0S]?.Ih0ec.1596,p.‘H2; active list of the line officers of the United States Marine Corps shall •¤¤¤¤·*¤**· consist of one brigadier-gen eral commandant, five colon els, live lieutenant colonels, ten maiors, sixty captains, sixty first lieutenants and sixty $r:::¢:;m_ hn second lieuteuants: Provided, That vacancies in all grades in the line sms, _ ’ created by this section shall be filled as far as possible by promotion by _,,§_¤;*Q;¥;g°j_i,*;'_;jm*°· seniority from the hue officers on the active list of said Corps: And provided further, That ·the commissions of officers now in the Marine 0,‘{_¤:=¤g§;;;_ i;·u$¤• Corps shall not be vacated by this act: And provided further, That g g ‘ vacancies in the grade of brigadiecgeneral shall be filled by selection from officers on the active list of the Marine Corps not below the grade of field officer. hugygagsl ~·¤<=¤¤·=i<>¤. _ Sec. 19. That the vacancies existing in said Corps after the promo— · ‘ tions and appointments herein provided for shall be filled by the President_from time to time, whenever the actual needs of the naval service require it, first, from the graduates of the Naval Academy in the manner now provided by law; or second, from those who are serving or who have served as second lieutenants in the Marine Corps during the war _ with Spam; or, third, from meritorious noncommissioned officers of the §f,°Q;';;0m,m_m,, Marine Corps; or, fourth, from civil life: Provided, That after said frqm wu Me afwr vacancies are once filled there shall be no further appointments from v €XlBtlIlg VBCB D C l 8 B - · · sued. civil life.
