Miscellaneous Bills: Hearing Before the Committee on Naval Affairs, United States Senate, Seventy-seventh Congress, Second Session, on S. 2153, a Bill Authorizing Additional Appropriations for Shipbuilding, Ship Repair, and Ordnance Manufacturing Facilities; S. 2169, a Bill to Create a Limited Service Marine Corps Reserve; S. 2139, a Bill Providing for the Performance of Duties of Chiefs of Bureau, and Judge Advocate General in the Navy Department, and the Major General Commandant of the Marine Corps; H.R. 5135, an Act to Appoint Capt. Porter M. Hoidale, Marine Corps, a Lieutenant in the Navy Medical Corps; S. 2089, a Bill to Transfer Portion of Croatan National Forest from Department of Agriculture to the Department of the Navy; S. 2095, a Bill to Amend the Navy Selection Law. January 7, 1942

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Page 15 - Department, the assistant or deputy of such chief or of such officer, or if there be none, then the chief clerk of such Bureau, shall, unless otherwise directed by the President, as provided by section one hundred and seventy-nine, perform the duties of such chief or of such officer until a successor is appointed or such absence or sickness shall cease.
Page 15 - The Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps, and then the officers of the Marine Corps, not restricted in the performance of duty, on duty at the headquarters of the Marine Corps in the order of their seniority, shall, unless otherwise directed by the President, perform the duties of the Commandant of the Marine Corps during his absence, disability, or in the event of a temporary vacancy in that office.
Page 15 - In ca.se of the death, resignation, absence, or sickness of the chief of any bureau, or of any officer thereof, whose appointment is not vested in the head of the department, the assistant or deputy of such chief or of such officer, or if there be none, then the chief clerk of such bureau...
Page 5 - Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $300,000,000 for essential equipment and facilities at either private or naval establishments for building or equipping any complete naval vessel or portion thereof heretofore or hereafter authorized; $160,000,000 for essential equipment and facilities...
Page 17 - by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Agriculture be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to collect and publish statistics of the quantity of leaf tobacco in all forms in the United States, in the possession of dealers, manufacturers, growers' cooperative associations, warehousemen, brokers, holders, or owners, other than the original growers of tobacco.
Page 17 - Provided, That in the event the area transferred pursuant to the provisions of this Act shall cease to be used for military purposes, it shall revert to its former national-forest status.
Page 19 - SEC. 11. Officers transferred by this Act to the grade of lieutenant commander or lieutenant of the line shall, at their own request, in lieu of the honorable discharge provided in section 12 (c) of the Act approved June 23, 1938 (52 Stat. 948; USC, title 34, sec. 404 (c)), be retired on June 30 of the fiscal year in which they fail of selection as best fitted the second time or in which they complete...
Page 19 - In an opinion of the Judge Advocate General, approved by the Secretary of the Navy, it was held that the word "loss...
Page 1 - ... for essential equipment and facilities at either private or public plants for repairing, altering, or converting any vessel operated by the Navy or being prepared for naval use...
Page 15 - TO PROVIDE FOR PERFORMANCE OF THE DUTIES OF CHIEFS OF BUREAU AND THE JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL IN THE NAVY DEPARTMENT, AND THE MAJOR GENERAL COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES NAVY DEPARTMENT, Washington, December 16, 1941.

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