SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 417. 1916. 573 appointed therein in accordance with the provisions of this Act shall have the same rank, pay, and allowances as are now or may hereafter be allowed other warrant officers. Pharmacists shall, after six years from the date of warrant, be §m,,§°§}’pl}§lff,'1‘,$i"*" commissioned chief pharmacists after passing satisfactorily such examinations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, and shall, when so commissioned, have the same rank, pay, and allowances as now or maygiereafter be allowed other commissioned warrant officers: Provided, at the pharmacists at present in the service who have §}g',§{,';;m , mm served or may hereafter serve six or more ears in that grade shall vwmwimbe eligible for promotion to the grade of chief pharmacist upon satisfactorily passinglthe examinations provided for in this Act. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby empowered to limit and Ex the L“““· numbers in the various ratings. hmmm. tc Section three of an Act entitled "An Act to organize a Hospital reggsled. ujgs’° " Corps of the Navy of the United States; to define its duties and regu- °1‘°°*"‘"°· late its pay/’ approved Jnme seventeenth, e' hteen hundred and mnety-eight, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and the ay, allowances, and emoluments of the enlisted men of the Hospital llorps shall be the same as are now, or mag hereafter be, allowed for respective corresponding ratings, except the rating of turret ca tain of the fiist p,,,,,,_,,,_ class in the seaman branch of the Navy: Provided, {That the pay of mfg? Pb¤¤‘·¤¤°*$*’S the rating of the chief pharmacist’s mate shall be the same as that now ` allowed or the existing rating of hospital steward. Hospm, and mm Hospital and ambulance service with such commands and at such imcumm. places as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, shall be performed by members of said corps, and the corps shall be a con- smug. stituent part of the Medical Department of the Navy; and the enlisted nienNthereof shall be a part of the enlisted force provided by law for t e a . Officgs and enlisted men of the Medical Department of the Navy, ,,,,S§§§‘°§, ‘_{,.l‘,,‘;",,§§
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accor ance with the provisions of section sixteen hundred and twenty- " 'p' ' one of the Revised Statutes, shall, while so serving, be subject to the rules and articles of war prescribed for the government of the Army in the same manner as the officers and men of the Marine Corps while S0 Serving` Naval Dental Corps NAVAL DENTAL conrs. ` That the President of the United States is hereb authorized to R§’,',§:}l,€`§{;'§Ys“guappoint and commission, by and with the advice and, consent of the *¤°*’i=°d- Senate, dental surgeons in the Navy at the rate of one for each one thousand of the authorized enlisted strength of the Navy and Marme Corps, who shall constitute the Naval Dental Corps, and shall be a part of the Medical Department of the Navy. Original appoint- ¤*¤*>¤“¤¤· ments to the Naval Dental Corps shall be probationary for a period ` of two {ears and ma be revoke at any time during the probationary ,,m,m_ period y the President: Provided, That the rank of such officers of mm: among iam. the same date of appointment among themselves at the end of said ’°l"°"" probationary psrio shall be determined by the recommendations of an examining oard appointed by the Secretary of the Navy, which board shall conduct a competitive examination, based upon both service record and professional attainments, in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, and the rank of such officers so determined shall be as of date of original appointment with reference to other appointments to the naval Qmlmmtms service: Provided further, That all appointees to the grade of dental ` sur een shall be citizens of the United States between twenty-four enc? thirty years of age, and shall be graduates of standard medical or dental colleges an trained in the several branches of dentistry, and who shall, before appointment, have successfully passed moral,
