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PUBLIC LAWS OF THE SEVENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Friday, the third day of January, 1936, and was adjourned without day on Saturday, the twentieth day of June, 1936 . FRANKLIN D . ROOSEVELT, President ; JOHN N . GARNER, Vice President ; KEY PITTMAN, President of the Senate pro tempore ; JOSEPH W . BYRNS,' Speaker of the House of Representatives ; WILLIAM B . BANKHEAD, elected Speaker of the House of Representatives June 4, 1936 . [CHAPTER 1 .] AN ACT January pry16, 1936. To amend the Act entitled "An Act to provide additional pay for personnel of the [Public, No. 415 .1 United States Navy assigned to duty on submarines and to diving duty", to include officers assigned to duty at submarine training tanks and diving units, and for other purposes . Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act to provide additional pay for personnel of the United States Navy assigned to duty on submarines and to diving duty" (45 St at. 412 ; U. S . C ., Supp . VII I title 34, sec . 886) is hereby amended by inserting after the words submarine of the Navy in line 3 of said Act the words "including submarines under construction for the Navy from the time builders' trials commence, or on duty at submarine escape training tanks, the Navy Deep Sea Diving School, or the Naval Experimental Diving Unit", and by inserting after the words "submarine of the Navy" in lines 6 and 7 of said Act the words "including submarines under construction for the Navy from the time builders' trials commence", so that the said Act as amended will read as follows : "That hereafter all officers of the Navy on duty on board a submarine of the Navy, including submarines under construction for the Navy from the time builders' trials commence, or on duty at submarine escape training tanks, the Navy Deep Sea Diving School, or the Naval Experimental Diving Unit, shall, while so serving, receive 25 per centum additional of the pay for their rank and service as now provided by law ; and an enlisted man of the United States Navy assigned to duty aboard a submarine of the Navy, including submarines under construction for the Navy from the time builders' trials commence, or to the duty of diving, shall, in lieu of the additional pay now authorized, receive pay, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, at the rate of not less than $5 per month and not exceeding $30 per month, in addition to the pay and allowances of his rating and service Provided, That divers employed in actual salvage operations in depths of over ninety feet shall, in addition to the foregoing, receive the sum of $5 per hour for each hour or fraction thereof so employed . Approved, January 16, 1936 . Died, June 4, 1936,12 :15 a. m . 1091 1 Navy . atine and dlving u, Vol11 pp41 ss7. Additional provisions pay Ueep0diving pay ; salvage operations . 1092 74Tir CONGRESS . SESS . II . CHS . 2, 3 . JANUARY 16, 1936 . [CHAPTER 2 .1 AN ACT January 16, 1936 . [S . 2774 .] [Public, No . 416 .1 Navy and Marine Corps . Retired list rank, certain officers . Proviso . No pay increase . For the relief of certain officers on the retired list of the Navy and Marine Corps, who have been commended for their performance of duty in actual combat with the enemy during the World War . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That all officers of the Navy and Marine Corps who have been retired or who may hereafter be retired for physical disability and who have been commended for their performance of duty in actual combat with the enemy during the World War by the head of the executive department under whose jurisdiction such duty was performed shall be placed upon the retired list with the rank of the next higher grade Provided That such promotion shall not car with it any yincrease, in pay . Approved, January 16, 1936 . [CHAPTER 3 .1 AN ACT January 936 . 2s6 [Public, No. 417.] Naval Academy and Postgraduate school. Annuity policies for civilian teachers . Purchase of. Proviso . credits . Retiring age. Ext ens Extension . f Benefits to present Retirement provi. lions . To provide for the retirement and retirement annuities of civilian members of the teaching staffs at the United States Naval Academy and the Postgraduate School, United States Naval Academy . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That civilian memhers of the teaching staffs of the United States Naval Academy and Postgraduate School, whose employment commences from and after the date of approval of this Act, shall, as a part of their contracts of employment, be required to carry, during such employment, a deferred annuity policy, having no cash surrender or loan provision, from a joint-stock life insurance corporation, incorporated under the laws of any State of the United States, which has a charter restriction that its business must be conducted without profit to its stockholders . SEC . 2 . Toward the purchase of said deferred annuity, each member of such teaching staffs shall be required to register a monthly allotment through the Navy Allotment Office, Navy Department, Washington, District of Columbia, equivalent in amount to 10 per centum of his monthlyybasic salary : PProvided,~ That for each month such allotment is registered, the pay accounts of such member shall be credited monthly from such appropriations as may be made for this purpose with an additional sum equivalent to 5 per centum of his monthly basic salary. SEC. 3 . The retiring age for all civilian members of the teaching staffs set forth in this Act shall be the 30th day of June following their sixty-fifth birthday, or any date between their sixty-fifth birthday and the following 30th day of June upon which their employment may be terminated : Provided, That in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, such retiring age may be extended to not beyond the seventieth birthday in individual and special cases . SEC . 4. Civilian members of the teaching staffs of the Naval Academy and Postgraduate School, who are so employed on the date of approval of this Act, may, at their own request, if made within sixty days thereafter to the Secretary of the Navy, participate in the benefits under the provisions of sections 1 and 2 of this Act . Each such member of the teaching staffs who so participates and who, upon reaching the date of retirement as set forth in section 3 of this Act has an insufficient accumulation of premium payments to his credit to have purchased for him an annuity of $1,200 per annum, shall be paid by the Secretary of the Navy from such appropriations as may