Number of civilians, officers, and enlisted men at each Navy yard, naval station, or other shore activity, September 30, 1926 Number of civilians, officers, and enlisted men at each Navy yard, naval station, or other shore activity, September 30, 1926-Continued Enlisted men Navy Corps Marine Navy Number of civilians, officers, and enlisted men at each Navy yard, naval station, or other shore activity, September 30, 1926 Number of civilians, officers, and enlisted men at each Navy yard, naval station, or other shore activity, September 30, 1926-Continued [No. 11] TO AMEND THE PROVISION CONTAINED IN THE ACT APPROVED AUGUST 29, 1916, RELATING TO THE ASSIGNMENT TO DUTY OF CERTAIN OFFICERS OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY AS FLEET AND SQUADRON ENGINEERS NAVY DEPARTMENT, Washington, December 3, 1926. The CHAIRMAN, COMMITTEE ON NAVAL AFFAIRS, House of Representatives. MY DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: There is inclosed herewith a copy of a letter, together with a copy of a proposed bill to amend the provision contained in the act approved August 29, 1916, relating to the assignment to duty of certain officers of the United States Navy as fleet and squadron engineers, this day forwarded to the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Sincerely yours, CURTIS D. WILBUR, P16-3/OF13/A18-1(261113) L NAVY DEPARTMENT, Washington, December 3, 1926. The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington, D. C. MY DEAR MR. SPEAKER: I have the honor to transmit herewith a proposed draft of a bill to amend the provision contained in the act approved August, 29, 1916, relating to the assignment to duty of certain officers of the United States Navy as fleet and squadron engineers. The existing law (act approved August 29, 1916, 39 Stat. 580) provides: Officers of the line of the Navy not below the grade of lieutenant may, upon application, and with the approval of the Secretary of the Navy, be assigned to engineering duty only, and that when so assigned and until they reach the grade of commander, they shall perform duty as prescribed in section four of the personnel act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and thereafter shore duty only as now prescribed for officers transferred to the line from the former Engineer Corps, except that commanders may be assigned to duty as fleet and squadron engineers * Under this law officers for "engineering duty only" of the rank of commander may be assigned to sea duty as fleet or squadron engineers and no other sea duty, and of the rank of captain to shore duty only. The proposed amendment, if enacted, will modify existing law in three respects. Firstly, it will grant authority to the Navy Department to assign officers on the "engineering duty only" list in the ranks above that of commander to sea duty as fleet or squadron. |