Any commission issuing under the provisions of this subtitle shall, where the rank remains unchanged, bear the date of the commission held on Feb. 18, 1909; and any officer who has served continuously in the same grade may be recommissioned with rank from date of his original commission to that grade.
D.C. Code § 49-802
Date of commissions
Mar. 1, 1889, 25 Stat. 781, ch. 328; as added Feb. 18, 1909, 35 Stat. 636, ch. 146, § 76
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