Section, acts [Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041], [70A Stat. 313]; Sept. 2, 1958, [Pub. L. 85–861, § 1(112)], [72 Stat. 1491], placed upper limits on number of women officers on active list of Marine Corps holding permanent appointments in grades of lieutenant colonel and major and required the Secretary to make computations at least once annually of numbers of women officers authorized under this section to hold permanent appointments in such grades, with authority to make prescribed temporary increases. See [section 5452 of this title].
