Executive Order 8523—Regulations Governing the Payment of Additional Compensation to Enlisted Men of the Coast Guard Specially Qualified in the Use of Arms

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 18 of the Act entitled "An Act To readjust the pay and allowances of the commissioned and enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service", approved June 10, 1922, 42 Stat. 632, it is hereby ordered that enlisted men of the Coast Guard who have established their special qualifications in the use of the arm or arms which they may be required to use according to standards of efficiency that may be prescribed from time to time by the Secretary of the Treasury, and who are so stationed by their commanding officers that they may be required to use such arm or arms, including periods while transferred for temporary duty away from the unit to which permanently attached (provided the commanding officer of the unit to which they are permanently attached has retained them in the stations where they normally use such arm or arms), shall receive additional compensation, for such periods of time as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, as follows:

First Class-----------------$5.00 per month
Second Class---------------4.00 per month
Third Class-----------------3.00 per month
Fourth Class---------------2.00 per month
Fifth Class-----------------1.00 per month.

Executive Order No. 3724, of August 17, 1922, prescribing regulations governing the payment of additional compensation to enlisted men of the Coast Guard specially qualified in the use of arms, is hereby superseded.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
August 22, 1940.