CHAPTER 24 ADMINISTRATION OF OATHS Oaths to expense accounts, 1337. Oaths in connection with claims pending before international tribunals, 1338a. 1337. Oaths to expense accounts. Citation should be changed to read: Sec. 8, act of Aug. 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 487), making appropriations for sundry civil expenses; U. S. C. 5:97; 16: 454. 1338a. Oaths in connection with claims pending before international tribunals. That whenever any claim in which the United States or any of its nationals is interested is pending before an international tribunal or commission, established pursuant to an agreement between the United States and any foreign government or governments, each member of such tribunal or commission, or the clerk or a secretary thereof, shall have authority to administer oaths in all proceedings before the tribunal or commission; Sec. 1, act of July 3, 1930 (46 Stat. 1005); U. S. C. 22: 270. 68 CHAPTER 25 ORGANIZED RESERVES Status of reserve officers not on active duty, Training, 1366. 1361a. * 1361a. Status of reserve officers not on active duty.Reserve officers while not on active duty shall not, by reason solely of their appointments, oaths, commissions, or status as reserve officers, or any duties or functions performed or pay or allowances received as reserve officers, be held or deemed to be officers or employees of the United States, or persons holding any office of trust or profit or discharging any official function under or in connection with any department of the Government of the United States. Sec. 37, act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat. 189), as amended by sec. 32, act of June 4, 1920 (41 Stat. 776), as amended by act of July 1, 1930 (46 Stat. 841); U. 8. C. 10: 372. 1366. Training.—* * no part of such total sum shall be available for any expense incident to giving flight training to any officer of the Officers' Reserve Corps unless he shall be found physically and professionally qualified to perform aviation service as an aviation pilot, by such agency as the Secretary of War may designate: * * *. Title I, act of Feb. 23, 1931 (46 Stat. 1297), making appropriations for the support of the War Department. The original text of this section, based on act of February 28, 1929 (45 Stat. 1370), making appropriations for the support of the War Department, is superseded by the above. 69 CHAPTER 26 PATENTS Applications for patents important to armament or defense not to be regarded as abandoned, 1367. Inventions by military or civilian personnel of the Government, 1369. 1367. Applications for patents important to armament or defense not to be regarded as abandoned. That section 4894 of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended by striking out the words "one year" wherever they appear and substituting therefor the words “six months." Sec. 1, act of Mar. 2, 1927 (44 Stat. 1335); U. S. C. 35: 37. The above provision, omitted from the original text of the Military Laws, 1929, is added as the second paragraph of this section. 1369. Inventions by military or civilian personnel of the Government. "U. S. C. 50: 84" should be added to the citation to the second paragraph of this section. 70 1374. Base pay; officers below grade of brigadier general. By public resolution of February 3, 1930 (46 Stat. 63), a joint congressional committee was appointed to make an investigation and report recommendations relative to the readjustment of the pay and allowances of the commissioned and enlisted personnel of the several services. 1375. Base pay of officers; service counted. That hereafter the service of a cadet who may hereafter be appointed to the United States Military Academy or to the Naval Academy shall not be counted in computing for any purpose the length of service of any officer of the Army. Sec. 6, act of Aug. 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 594), making appropriations for the support of the Army; U. S. C. 10: 684. "U. S. O. 10:683" should be eliminated from the citation to the first paragraph of this section. The original text of the third paragraph based on War Department appropriation acts of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 481); Feb. 12, 1925 (43 Stat. 896); Apr. 15, 1926 (44 Stat. 257), U. S. C. 10: 684, is omitted as expired. The above provision should be substituted therefor. 1383. Base pay, retired officers;' general provisions. "U. S. C. 10: 972" should be omitted from the citation to the second paragraph of this section, and "U. S. C. 10: 972a" from the citation to the third paragraph. 1389. Base pay of retired officers; service counted. The second paragraph of this section, based on section 1, act of June 10, 1922 (42 Stat. 626), U. S. C. 10: 972; 37: 3, should be omitted as superseded. 66 “U. S. C. 10: 972" should be eliminated from the citation to the third paragraph. “U. S. C. 10: 972" should be eliminated from the citation to the first paragraph of this section, and "U. S. O. 10: 972a" from the citation to the second paragraph. * * shall be retired 1394. Same; retired warrant officers, Army Mine Planter Service.And provided further, That warrant officers * as now provided by law for officers of the Army, * 9, 1918 (40 Stat. 882); U. S. C. 10:276. Ch. IX, act of July The above provision, referring to warrant officers, Army Mine Planter Service, omitted from the original text of the Military Laws, 1929, is added as the first paragraph of this That pursuant to regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy, as the case may be, when a member of the Army Nurse Corps or of the Navy Nurse Corps shall be found by a board of medical officers to have become disabled in line of duty from performing the duties of a nurse, and such findings are approved by the head of the department concerned, she shall be retired from active service and placed upon the Nurse Corps retired list of the appropriate department in the grade to which she belonged at the time of her retirement and with retired pay at the rate of 75 per centum of the active service pay received by her at the time of her transfer to the retired list. Act of June 20, 1930 (46 Stat. 790); U. S. C. 10: 937. That the Act approved June 20, 1930, entitled "An Act to provide for the retirement of disabled nurses of the Army and the Navy," shall be construed, from its effective date, as authorizing the pay of members of the Army Nurse Corps and the Navy Nurse Corps retired thereunder to be computed upon the basis of the entire amount of the active-service pay received by each, respec tively, at the time of her transfer to the retired list, including in the cases of |