...569, 594, making appropriation for the Army, there is a provision contained in section 6 of the act as follows : " That hereafter the service of a cadet...appointed to the United States Military Academy or to the N aval Academy shall not be counted in computing for any purpose the length of service of any officer...

...268 US 613. — In the Army Appropriation Act of August 24, 1912, 37 Stat. 569, 594, it was provided that "hereafter the service of a cadet who may hereafter...appointed to the United States Military Academy or to 434 Opinion of the Court the Naval Academy shall not be counted In computing for any purpose the length...

...military service. Such an interpretation of that section would require it to be read as if it said : That hereafter the service of a cadet who may hereafter...be appointed to the United States Military Academy * * * shall not be deemed to be service in any capacity in the military forces of the United States...

...24, 1912, and March 4 1913, respectively, directing that service in the Military and Naval Academies shall not be counted in computing for any purpose the length of service of an officer of the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps. Mr. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT delivered the opinion of the...

...service at the military academy occurred prior to the 1912 act, since that statute used the language "That hereafter the service of a cadet who may hereafter be appointed * * *" (italics supplied). Under the authority of the Noce decision, supra, we conclude that prior...

...sea 1627, ante. (CML No. 4, Aug. S6, 1924.) 1640. Add new paragraph and note: * * * Provided, That in computing for any purpose the length of service of any officer of the Army who was appointed to the United States Military Academy or the United States Naval Academy after August...

...upon completion of the academic coarse and preliminary to final graduation at the latter institution, shall not be counted in computing for any purpose the length of service of any officer of the Army." It may be proper to add that this sea service for which it is here proposed these marine officers shall...

...would have held if he had not been appointed to suld office is not possible under existing law. SEC. 6. .That hereafter the service of a. cadet who may hereafter...the length of service of any officer of the Army. SEC. 7. That the appropriations herein provided for the several departments consolidated under this...

...who may hereafter be appointed to the United States Naval Academy, or to the United States Military Academy, shall not be counted in computing for any purpose the length of service of any officer hi the Navy or in the Marine Corps. That so much of an Act entitled "An Act to reorganize and increase...

...who may hereafter be appointed to the United States Naval Academy, or to the United States Military Academy, shall not be counted in computing for any purpose the length of service of any officer in the Navy or in the Marine Corps. "That so much of an act * * * approved March third, eighteen hundred...