Pub. L. 89-789, tit. II, sec. 208

Sec. 208. Section 2 of the Act of June 28, 1879 (21 Stat. 37; 33 U.S.C. 642), is amended (1) by inserting in the third sentence thereof after “and the commissioners appointed under this Act” a comma and the following: “except those appointed from civil life,” and (2) by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: “Each commissioner appointed from civil life after the date of enactment of this sentence shall be appointed for a term of nine years.”