61 STAT.]
80TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 512-AUG. 7 , 1947
(g) Temporary appointments effected pursuant to subsection (e)
of this section shall be effected with such dates of rank and registered
numbers as shall maintain for each officer the precedence held by him
at the time of the establishment of the lineal list established pursuant
to subsection (a) of this section: Provided, That for the purpose of
this subsection such precedence shall be determined without regard
to temporary appointments in the grades of admiral or vice admiral
or in a grade to which appointed for a period of limited duration.
(h) (1) As soon as practicable after the establishment of the lineal
list for line officers as prescribed by subsection (a) of this section the
Secretary of the Navy shall convene a board, composed of officers of
the line and of each staff corps of the Navy, and such board, which
is authorized to conduct its studies in appropriate panels but to make
determinations only by the full board after a majority vote, shall
recommend the assignment of running mates from among line officers
on such lineal list to all officers of the grade of lieutenant (junior
grade) and above of the various staff corps of the Navy or Naval
Reserve on active duty on the date of establishment of such lineal
list: Provided, That running mates shall not be assigned to the fol-
lowing officers of the staff corps: (1) Officers of the same categories
as the line officers described in clauses (1) through (6) of the first
proviso of subsection (a) of this section, and (2) officers serving in
the grade of ensign.
(2) In recommending the assignment of running mates the board
will be governed by the following principles except with respect to
officers of the Nurse Corps:
a. Each staff officer shall, except as provided in paragraph d of this
subsection, have assigned as his running mate a line officer who, on
the date of approval of this Act, is serving in the same grade as such
staff officer.
b. If there be more than one line officer who, on the date of approval
of this Act, is serving in the same grade and with the same date of
rank as a particular staff officer, one of such line officers shall be
assigned as the running mate of such staff officer.
c. If there be no line officer who, on the date of approval of this
Act, is serving in the same grade and with the same date of rank as a
particular staff officer, such staff officer shall have assigned as his
running mate the line officer serving in the same grade who has the
next earlier date of rank in such grade, and if there be no such line
officer, he shall have assigned as his running mate the senior line
officer in the same grade.
d. An officer of a staff corps who, on the date of approval of this
Act or subsequently, is serving under a temporary appointment in a
grade above rear admiral or in a grade to which appointed for a period
of limited duration shall be assigned a running mate based upon the
rank and precedence he would have held had he not been so serving.
(3) The assignment of running mates as recommended by the Board
convened pursuant to this subsection and approved by the Secretary
of the Navy shall be accomplished not later than sixty days after the
date of approval of this Act.
(i) As soon as practicable, but not later than thirty days after the
assignment of running mates is completed, as prescribed in subsection
(h) of this section, the Secretary of the Navy shall establish a single
lineal list, for each staff corps of the Navy, of all staff officers who were
assigned running mates pursuant to such subsection, and such officers
shall be placed on such list in the order of seniority of their running
mates as of the date of establishment of the line officers lineal list
pursuant to subsection (a) of this section: Provided, That in the event
that more than one officer in the same staff corps is assigned the same
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