61 STAT.]
80TH CONG., 1ST SESS.- CH. 512-AUG. 7, 1947
(v) Officers recommended for retirement in the report of a board
convened pursuant to subsections (1), (m), and (t) of this section, as
approved by the President, shall, if not otherwise retired pursuant to
law, be placed on the retired list on June 30 of the then current fiscal
year with retired pay at the rate of 21/2 per centum of their active-duty
pay in the grade in which serving at the time of retirement multiplied
by the number of years of service for which they would be entitled to
credit in the computation of pay on the active list had they been serv-
ing in the grade of colonel at the time of their retirement, but retired
pay so computed shall not exceed a total of 75 per centum of said
active-duty pay.
(w) From among the officers designated for supply duty who are
eligible for consideration for continuation on the active list, the board
shall recommend for such continuation those officers whom it considers
best fitted for continued service on the active list in number equal to
the number furnished the board by the Secretary of the Navy.
(x) Nothing in this section shall be held to reduce the retired rank
or pay to which an officer would be entitled under other provisions of
law.
(y) The report of a board convened pursuant to the provisions of
subsections (1), (m), and (t) of this section shall be submitted to the
President for approval or disapproval; if the President shall disap-
prove the recommendations of the board in whole or in part, the board
shall then recommend additional appropriate general officers for retire-
ment equal to the number disapproved by the President.
DETERMINATION OF UPPER AND LOWER HALF REAR ADMIRALS
SEC. 315. Rear admirals on the active list of the line in the upper
half of that grade, exclusive of officers carried as additional numbers
in grade, shall be entitled to the pay and allowances
prescribed by
law for rear admirals of the upper half: Provided, That for the
purpose of determining the number of rear admirals in the upper
half, there shall be excluded those officers carried as additional num-
bers in that grade, and each rear admiral carried as an additional
number in that grade shall be entitled to such pay and allowances
from the date on which the officer next junior to him becomes entitled
thereto pursuant to this section: And provided further, That for
the purposes of determining the number of rear adn(irals in the
upper half, an officer serving in the grade of admiral or vice admiral
shall be regarded as serving in the grade to which he would be
entitled other than by virtue of his appointment in the grade of
admiral or vice admiral.
SPECIAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 316. (a) No officer serving in warrant grade shall be tempo-
rarily advanced to commissioned warrant officer until he shall have
completed six years of service in warrant or higher grade.
(b) So much of paragraphs 2 and 3 of subsection (c) of section 5
of the Act of April 18, 1946 (Public Law 347, Seventy-ninth Con-
gress, second session), as relates to the assignment or reassignment
of running mates to officers in the Staff Corps is hereby repealed.
(c) Nothing in this title shall be held to confer permanent commis-
sioned status in the Regular Navy or Marine Corps upon any Reserve
officer or any person temporarily appointed to the grade of ensign or
above from a grade or rating below ensign.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, the Presi-
dent is authorized to terminate any temporary appointment effected
pursuant to authority of titles I through IV of this Act.
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Retired pay.
Recommendation
for continuation on
active list.
Retired rank, etc.
Submission of re-
port to President.
Officer serving in
warrant grade.
Repeal.
60 Stat. 93.
34U.S.C. 15(c)(2),
(3).
Permanent commis-
sioned status.
Termination of tem-
porary appointment.
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