An Act to amend the Army-Navy-Public Health Service Medical Officer Procurement Act of 1947, as amended, so as to provide for appointment of doctors of osteopathy in the Medical Corps of the Army and Navy
PL 84-763 (H.R.483), enacted 07/24/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 76a-JULY 24, 1956 
[70 STAT. 
Public Law 762 
CHAPTER 674 
July 24, 1956 
AN ACT 
[S. 3482] 
rpQ provide for transfer of title of certain lands to the Carlsbad Irrigation 
District, New Mexico. 
Carlsbad In-iga-
t i o n 
D i s t r i c t , 
Be it enacted hy the Seriate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Amsrica in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary 
N. Mex. 
' o f the Interior is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed 
to the Carlsbad Irrigation District, Carlsbad, New Mexico, at no cost 
to the district, all rights, title, and interest of the United States in and 
to the following described land situated in Eddy County, State of 
New Mexico: lots 1 and 3, block 43; Stevens addition to the town of 
Eddy, now city of Carlsbad, Eddy County, New Mexico, located at the 
corner of Fox and Canal Streets in the city of Carlsbad, New Mexico. 
Approved July 24, 1956. 
Public Law 763 
CHAPTER 675 
July 24, 1956 
AN ACT 
[H. R. 483] 
rpjj amend the Army-Navy-Public Health Service Medical Officer Procurement 
Act of 1^7, as amended, so as to provide for appointment of doctors of 
osteopathy in the Medical Corps of the Army and Navy. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
A^point'm^t'of United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the second 
fcaf*CM**\V*"^***" sentence of section 201 (a) of the Army-Navy-Public Health Service 
Ante, p.'ii9. 
Medical Officer Procurement Act of 1947, as amended, is amended 
(1) by inserting " ( 1 ) " immediately before the word "qualified" and 
(2) by striking the period at the end thereof and inserting a comma 
and the following: "or (2) doctors of osteopathy who are qualified 
under subsection (g) hereof." 
(b) Sections 201 (b) and (e) of such Act are amended (1) by insert-
ing immediately after the word "medicine" wherever it appears 
therein "or osteopathy'' and (2) by inserting in the second sentence of 
section 201 (b) and in section 201 (e) after the word "medical" the 
following: ", osteopathic". 
(c) Section 201 of such Act is further amended by adding at the 
end thereof the following new subsection: 
"(g) to be eligible for appointment under this Act a doctor of 
osteopathy must (1) be a citizen of the United States, (2) be a gradu-
ate of a college of osteopathy whose graduates are eligible for licensure 
to practice medicine or surgery in a majority of the States, and be 
licensed to practice medicine, surgery, or osteopathy in one of the 
States or Territories of the United States or in the District of Colum-
bia, (3) possess such qualifications as the Secretary concerned may 
prescribe for his service, after considering recommendation for such 
appointment by the Surgeon General of the Army or the Air Force 
or the Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the Navy, and 
(4) under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense have 
completed a number of years of osteopathic and preosteopathic edu-
cation equal to the numhJer of years of medical and premedical educa-
tion prescribed for persons entering recognized schools of medicine 
who became doctors of medicine and Avho Avould be qualified for 
appointment under this title in the grade for which such doctor of 
osteopathy is applying." 
Approved July 24, 1956. 
Ante, p. 120.