An Act to provide running mates for certain staff corps officers in the naval service, and for other purposes
PL 84-581 (H.R.4229), enacted 06/15/1956

70 STAT. 1 
PUBLIC LAW 582-JUNE 15, 1956 
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Public Law 581 
CHAPTER 389 
AN ACT 
j„„e 15, 1956 
To provide running mates for certain staff corps officers in the naval service, 
[H. R. 4229]— 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That paragraph (3) 
of section 311 (d) of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947, as amended, 
is further amended by— 
(a) inserting in the first sentence after the comma which fol-
lows the parenthetical phrase "(Public Law 347, Seventy-ninth 
Congress)" the words "or the Act of August 13, 1946 (ch. 962, 60 
Stat. 1057), and except those appointed from graduates of the 
United States Naval Academy,"; and 
(b) Substituting a colon for the period at the end of the para-
graph and adding the following: '"''Provided further^ That each 
officer appointed in the grade of ensign in the Navy under the 
Act of August 13, 1946 (ch. 96.2, 60 Stat. 1057), or upon gradu-
ation from the United States Naval Academy who is serving as 
an officer in a staff corps at the time of his promotion to lieuten-
ant (junior grade) shall, upon promotion, be assigned as his run-
ning mate the line lieutenant (junior grade) with date of rank in 
the same calendar year who would be next senior to him had the 
officer of the staff corps been originally appointed to the grade of 
ensign in the line and continued to serve as a line officer to the 
date of his promotion to lieutenant (junior grade) or if there be 
no such officer the line officer who would have been next junior." 
SEC. 2. Each officer of a staff corps, who is a graduate of the United 
States Naval Academy or who was appointed as an ensign under the 
Act of August 13, 1946 (ch. 962, 60 Stat. 1057), and who prior to the 
effective date of this Act, was assigned a running mate in the grade of 
lieutenant (junior grade) under paragraph (3) of section 311 (d) of 
the Officer Personnel Act of 1947, as amended, shall have assigned as 
his running mate, in the grade in which he is serving on the effective 
date of this Act, the line officer who would have been his running mate 
in that grade had paragraph (3) of section 311 (d) been amended as 
provided in section 1 of this Act prior to the date upon which he was 
assigned a running mate in the grade of lieutenant (junior grade). 
SEC. 3. No back pay or allowances shall accrue to any officer of the 
naval service as the result of the enactment of this Act. 
Approved June 15, 1956. 
Navy. 
Running m a t e s 
for staff officers* 
61 Stat. 856. 
34 u s e 306f. 
34 u s e 1020. 
34 u s e 1020. 
Restriction. 
Public Law 582 
CHAPTER 390 
AN ACT 
Relating to withholding for State employee retirement system purposes, on the 
compensation of certain civilian employees of the National Guard and the 
Air National Guard. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in ('ongress assembled^ That where— 
(1) the law of Jiny State or Territory provides for the payment 
of employee contributions to State or Territorial employee retire-
ment systems by withholding sums from the compensation of 
State or Territorial employees and making returns of such sums 
to the authorities of such State or Territory; and 
June IS, 1956 
[H. R. 4437] 
National G u a r d 
employees. 
Retirement con-
tributions. 
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(2) civilian employees of the National Guard and the Air 
National Guard other than those employed by the National Guard 
l^ureau are eligible for membership in a State or Territorial 
employee retirement system, then the Secretary of Defense, pur-
suant to such regulation as may be promulgated by the President, 
is authorized and directed to enter into an agreement with such 
State or Territory within one hundred and twenty days of the 
request for agreement from the proper official of such State or 
Territory. 
Such agreement shall provide that the Department 
of Defense shall comply with the requirements of such law in the 
case of employees subject to this Act who are eligible for mem-
bership in a retirement system for State or Territorial employees, 
and the disbursing officers paying such employees shall withhold 
and pay over to such retirement system the employee contribu-
tions for such employees. 
Approved June 15, 1956. 
June 15, 1956 
[H. R. 4569] 
Public Law 583 
CHAPTER 391 
AN ACT 
To provide for renewal of and adjustment of compensation under contracts 
for carrying mail on water routes. 
Postal Service. 
68 Stat. 998. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the last two 
paragraphs of section 3951 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (39 
U. S. C. 434), are amended by striking out the word "inland" wher-
ever it appears in such paragraphs. 
Approved June 15, 1956. 
June 15, 1956 
[H. R. 4704] 
Public Law 584 
CHAPTER 392 
AN ACT 
To provide for the examination preliminary to promotion of oflBcers of the 
naval service. 
Navy. 
Examination 
promotions. 
34 u s e 274. 
for 
34 u s e 350. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1496 
of the Revised Statutes is amended to read as follows: 
"No officer in the grade of ensign in the Regular Navy shall be 
promoted permanently to the next higher grade on the active list of 
the Navy until he shall demonstrate to the satisfaction of a board 
of examining officers such mental, moral, and professional qualifica-
tions as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe. No officer in a 
grade above that of ensign and below that of captain shall be promoted 
to the next higher grade on the active list until he shall demonstrate 
to the satisfaction of a board of examining officers such professional 
qualifications as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe. The Sec-
retary of the Navy shall issue regulations governing the procedures 
to be followed by such examining boards as he may convene from 
time to time, including regulations to insure a full and fair hearing 
to officers whose cases come before the boards and who demand a 
hearing. 
The Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, suspend 
in whole or in part the operation of the provisions of this section 
in connection with the promotion of officers under the Act of July 
24,1941 (55 Stat. 603), as amended."