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[CITE: 14USC185]

 
                          TITLE 14--COAST GUARD
 
                       PART I--REGULAR COAST GUARD
 
                     CHAPTER 9--COAST GUARD ACADEMY
 
Sec. 185. Cadets; appointment as ensign

    The President may, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, 
appoint as ensigns in the Coast Guard all cadets who shall graduate from 
the Academy. Ensigns so commissioned on the same date shall take rank 
according to their proficiency as shown by the order of their merit at 
date of graduation.

(Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, 63 Stat. 508.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 14, U.S.C., 1946 ed., Sec. 15a-1 (May 25, 1943, ch. 
99, 57 Stat. 84).
    Said section has been divided. The proviso is incorporated in 
section 182 of this title. The other part is incorporated in this 
section.
    The last sentence of this section is new as a statute; it makes 
statutory what has been the practice of years, and is similar to the 
third sentence of title 34, U.S.C., 1946 ed., Sec. 1057, applicable to 
graduates of the Naval Academy. 81st Congress, House Report No. 557.
