An Act to authorize an increase in the number of flag officers who may serve on certain selection boards in the Navy and in the number of officers of the Naval Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve who are eligible to serve on selection boards considering Reserves for promotion.
PL 91-199 (H.R.8664), enacted 02/26/1970

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PUBLIC LAW 91-199-FEB. 26, 1970 
[84 STAT, 
February 26, 1970 
[H. R. 8664] 
Public Law 91-199 
AN ACT 
To authorize an increase in the number of flag officers who may serve on certain 
selection boards in the Navy and in the number of officers of the Naval Reserve 
and Marine Corps Reserve who are eligible to serve on selection boards con-
sidering Reserves for promotion. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
U.S. Navy. 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That section 6701 of 
Selection Dosrd 
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officers, increase, title 10, Uiiited Statcs Code, is amended by— 
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(J) amending subsBction (a) (3) to read as follows: 
" (3) A board to recommend captains for promotion to the grade 
of rear admiral and a board to recommend commanders for pro-
motion to the grade of captain, each consisting of not less than 
nine officers serving in the grade of rear admiral or above."; and 
(2) adding the following sentence at the end of subsection (c) : 
"When a board convened under subsection (a) (3) consists of more 
than nine members, only nine officers may act upon the case of any 
officer designated for engineering duty, aeronautical engineering 
duty, or special duty; namely, the three alternate members of the 
same designation as the officer under consideration (or the lesser 
available number of such officers) plus the number of the most 
senior members not restricted in the performance of duty necessary 
to make a total of nine.". 
Navai^a^nd Marine 
S?:c. 2. The secoud seuteiice of section 5893(b) of title 10, United 
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States Code, is amended to read as follows: "All members of each 
board must be serving in a grade above the grade in which the officers 
that are to be considered by the board are serving.". 
Approved February 26, 1970. 
Corps Reserve 
72 Stat. 1500. 
February 26, 1970 
[H. R. 9485] 
Public Law 91-200 
AN ACT 
To remove the $10,000 limit on deposits under section 1035 of title 10, United 
States Code, in the case of any member of a uniformed service who is a prisoner 
of war, missing in action, or in a detained status during the Vietnam conflict. 
Uniformed 
services. 
Prisoners of 
war, etc. 
Savings de-
posits. 
80 Stat. 347. 
80 Stat. 625. 
37 u s e 551. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Amenca in Congress assembled, That section 1035(b) 
of title 10, United States Code, is amended as follows: 
(1) By inserting ", except that such limitation shall not apjjly 
to deposits made on or after September 1,1966, in the case of those 
members in a missing status, as defined in section 551 (2) of title 37, 
during the Vietnam conflict" after "$10,000" in the second sentence. 
(2) By adding the following new sentence at the end: "For 
purposes of this subsection, the Vietnam conflict begins on Febru-
ary 28, 1961, and ends on the date designated by the President by 
Executive order as the date of the termination of combatant activi-
ties in Vietnam." 
Approved February 26, 1970.