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182 SIXTY·FOUR'1`H c0NGRnSs. Sess. 1. cn. 134. 1916. President may prescribe, their suitability moral, professional, and physical fitness for such permanent appointrnent, but should any appointee fail so to demonstrate his suitability and fitness, .1].IS Pr°°°u°m` appointment shall terminate;_and should any officer become ehgrble for promotion to a vacancy m a higher grade and quahfy therefor before the e iration of two years from the date of his prigmal appointmentiqlie shall receive a sprgovisronal appomtment m such higher grade, which appomtment ll be made permanent when_he T I t. H H not shall have qualified for dpermanent appomtment upon the eislpuation quam:. ‘° . of two years from the ate of ongmal appomtment, or all terminate 1f he shall fail so to qualify. . ¥¤;·=¤¤¤¤• *0 *;•,¤:=¤*¤ Srzc. 24. Irvcmzzasn T0 BE Mann nv mm rNonnunNTs.—yExcept as dmili mm m` otherwise specifically provided by this Act, the increases in the commissioned and enlisted ersonnel of the Regular Army fprovided lglthns Act shall be made in iiire annual increments, each o which sh be, in each grade of each arm, corps, and department as nearly as practi- T { m cable one-fifth of the total increase authorized for each arm, corps, p.m2i?s, ° ° °°” and department. Officers promoted to vacancies created or caused by the addition of the first increment shall be promoted to rank from July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and those romoted to vacancies created or caused by the second increment shall be promoted to rank from July Erst, nineteen hundred and seventeen; those promoted to vacancies created or caused by the addition of the third increment shall be romoted to rank from July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen; liliose promoted to vacancies created or caused bg the addition of the fourth increment shall be promoted to rank om July first, nineteen hundred and nineteen; and those promoted to vacancies created or caused by the addition of the fifth increment shall be promoted to rank from July first, nineteen hundred nsumkcnmu in and twenty: Promded, That in the event of actual or threatened °'°°°"'°’· war or similar emergency in which the public safety demands it the President is authorized to immediately organize the entire increase authorized by this Act, or so much thereof as he may deem necessary, and when, in the judgment of the President war becomes imminent, all of said organizations that shall then be below the maximum enlisted strength authorized by law shall be raised forthwith to that strength, and shall be maintained as nearly as possible thereat so lorpg as war, er the imminence of war, shall continue. gmc u¤¤¢•¤¤¤¤;& acancies m the grade of second Lieutenant, created or caused by miesfias Aa." ’ the increases due to this Act, in any fiscal year shall be filled by °·**°'·*· appointment m the following order: (I) Of cadets graduated from t e United States Military Academy durin the preceding Escal year _ for whom vacancies did not become availalge during the fiscal year in E¤‘*S*°° '°°°· which they were graduated; (2) under the revisions of existing law, of enliste men, includ` officers of the &’h.ilippine Scouts, whose fitness for promotion slilil have been determmed b competitive °*¤j>¤¤’ ¤·=°"· examination; (3) of members of the OfllCBfS’ Reserve (lorps between Gilliam: cum. the ages of twenty-one and twenty-seven ears; (4) of commissioned officers of the National Guard between tlie ages of twenty-one and mgegg 0* twenty-seven years; (5) of such honor aduates, between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-seven years, ogr distinguished colleges as are _ _ _ now or may hereafter be entitled to preference by general orders of Cmim- the War Department; and (6) of candidates from civil life between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-seven ears; and the President is _ authorized to make the necessggy rules and regulations to carry these {g,°£,;•;·Mdd6my provisions into effect:_ , That any such original vacancies mama;. not so filled, and remaming at the time of graduation of any class at the United States Military Academy, may be filled by the appointocnamsmis. ment of members of that class; and all vacancies in the grade of F second heutenant not created or caused by the increases due to this "°*—"°·P· ‘°‘·’· Act shall be filled as provided in the Act making appropriation for