Executive Order 10861—Suspension of Certain Provisions of Section 5762 of Title 10 of the United States Code Which Relate to the Promotion of Officers of the Supply Corps, Chaplain Corps, Civil Engineer Corps, and Medical Service Corps of the Navy

By virtue of the authority vested In me by section 5785 (b) of title 10 of the United States Code, it is ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. Except as to the provision which reads

The Secretary of the Navy shall furnish the appropriate selection board convened under chapter 643 of this title with the number of officers, not restricted In the performance of duty, other than women officers appointed under section 5590 of this title, that may be recommended for promotion to the grade of captain or commander In the Medical Corps, the Supply Corps, the Chaplain Corps, the Civil Engineer Corps, Dental Corps, or the Medical Service Corps * * *,

the provisions of section 5762 (a) of title 10 of the United States Code, to the extent that such provisions are applicable to promotions to the grade of captain In the Supply Corps, the Chaplain Corps, the Civil Engineer Corps, and the Medical Service Corps, are hereby suspended until June 30 of the fiscal year following that in which the national emergency proclaimed by Proclamation No. 2914 of December 16, 1950. shall end.

SEC. 2. Except as to the provision which reads

The Secretary shall furnish the appropriate selection board convened under chapter 643 of this title with the number of male officers In the Supply or the Civil Engineer Corps, not restricted In the performance of duty, that may be recommended for promotion to the grade of lieutenant commander or lieutenant • • •, the provisions of section 5762(b) of title 10 of the United States Code, are hereby suspended until June 30 of the fiscal year following that in which the national emergency proclaimed by Proclamation No. 2914 of December 16, 1950, shall end.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

February 11, 1960.