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HISTORY OF DENTAL SURGEEY 153
committee of tlie Xational Dental Association and a third selected from the
eligible army contract dental surgeons.
This bill would have increased the corps to forty-five in number, instead
of one to one thousand of the regular army ; excluded all contract dental sur-
geons who were beyond the age of thirty when they signed their original con-
tracts from eligibility for commissions and made one year's satisfactory con-
tract service necessary to make the candidate eligible for appointment to the
permanent corps.
The bill, however, did not come up for passage, and all the laI)or of the
committee of the National Dental Association, the friends of the measure in
both houses of congress and the friends of the dental corps came to naught.
Since Dr. Marshall prepared the above, the Senate of the United States on
January 29, 1908, passed the following bill upon the recommendation of the
military committee
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled.
That to the Medical Department of the Army there shall be attached a corps
of dental surgeons, which corps shall not exceed in number the actual requirements nor
the proportion of one to one thousand authorized by law for service in the Regular Army,
and all original appointments to said corps shall be made to the rank of first lieutenant.
Sec 2. That the appointees must be citizens of the United States, between twenty-
two and thirty years of age, graduates of standard American dental colleges, of good
moral character, and of unquestionable professional repute, and shall be required to
pass the usual physical examination and a professional examination which shall include
tests of skill in practical dentistry and of proficiency in the usual subjects in a standard
dental course: Provided, That dental surgeons attached to the Medical Department
of the Army at the time of the passage of this Act may be eligible to appointment,
three of them to the rank of captain and the others to the rank of first lieutenant, on
the recommendation of the Surgeon-General, and subject to the usual physical and pro-
fessional examinations herein prescribed: Provided further. That the professional ex-
amination may be waived in the case of dental surgeons whose efficiency reports and
entrance examinations are satisfactory to the Surgeon-General; and the time served
as dental surgeons under the Act of February second, nineteen hundred and one, shall
be reckoned in computing the increase service pay of such as are appointed under
this Act.
Sec. 3. That the pay, allowances, and promotions of dental surgeons shall be
fixed and governed by the laws and regulations applicable to the medical corps; that
their right to command shall be limited to the members of the dental corps; that their
right to promotion shall be limited to the rank of captain after five years' service and
to the rank of major after ten years' service: Provided, That the number of majors
HISTORY OF DENTAL SURGEEY 153
committee of tlie Xational Dental Association and a third selected from the
eligible army contract dental surgeons.
This bill would have increased the corps to forty-five in number, instead
of one to one thousand of the regular army ; excluded all contract dental sur-
geons who were beyond the age of thirty when they signed their original con-
tracts from eligibility for commissions and made one year's satisfactory con-
tract service necessary to make the candidate eligible for appointment to the
permanent corps.
The bill, however, did not come up for passage, and all the laI)or of the
committee of the National Dental Association, the friends of the measure in
both houses of congress and the friends of the dental corps came to naught.
Since Dr. Marshall prepared the above, the Senate of the United States on
January 29, 1908, passed the following bill upon the recommendation of the
military committee
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled.
That to the Medical Department of the Army there shall be attached a corps
of dental surgeons, which corps shall not exceed in number the actual requirements nor
the proportion of one to one thousand authorized by law for service in the Regular Army,
and all original appointments to said corps shall be made to the rank of first lieutenant.
Sec 2. That the appointees must be citizens of the United States, between twenty-
two and thirty years of age, graduates of standard American dental colleges, of good
moral character, and of unquestionable professional repute, and shall be required to
pass the usual physical examination and a professional examination which shall include
tests of skill in practical dentistry and of proficiency in the usual subjects in a standard
dental course: Provided, That dental surgeons attached to the Medical Department
of the Army at the time of the passage of this Act may be eligible to appointment,
three of them to the rank of captain and the others to the rank of first lieutenant, on
the recommendation of the Surgeon-General, and subject to the usual physical and pro-
fessional examinations herein prescribed: Provided further. That the professional ex-
amination may be waived in the case of dental surgeons whose efficiency reports and
entrance examinations are satisfactory to the Surgeon-General; and the time served
as dental surgeons under the Act of February second, nineteen hundred and one, shall
be reckoned in computing the increase service pay of such as are appointed under
this Act.
Sec. 3. That the pay, allowances, and promotions of dental surgeons shall be
fixed and governed by the laws and regulations applicable to the medical corps; that
their right to command shall be limited to the members of the dental corps; that their
right to promotion shall be limited to the rank of captain after five years' service and
to the rank of major after ten years' service: Provided, That the number of majors
