of the Congress by unanimous vote on 15 June 1943 and became Public Law 74 on 1 July 1943; with the title of Nurse Training Act of 1943 but commonly referred to as the Bolton act. It provided for the training of nurses for the armed forces, government and civilian hospitals, health agencies, and war industries through grants to the institutions providing the training. It also contained a provision requiring that those trained under the act would comprise a uniformed body but without military status. The Division of Nurse Education was established in the USPHS to supervise the program; it was answerable to the surgeon general of the United States, Thomas Parran Jr. He appointed Lucile Petry (RN), a registered nurse, as its director. The federal security administrator was required to appoint an advisory committee to assist in guiding the nurse-training programs. The committee consisted of people in the nursing and related fields who were drawn from various parts of the country. On 25 June 1943, the committee met for the first time with government officials to establish the rules and regulations to carry out the act. As required, they were approved by the surgeon general and published in the Federal Register. The surgeon general then sent telegrams that outlined the program to 1,300 nursing schools in the United States and Puerto Rico. This was followed up with applications and instructions sent by mail. The Territory of Hawaii's two nursing schools were not eligible for the program because they were in a war zone and the Territory of Alaska had no nursing schools at the time. The regulations required interested nursing schools to: be state accredited; be connected with a hospital approved by the American College of Surgeons or a hospital of equal standards; maintain adequate instructional facilities and personnel; provide adequate clinical experience in four basic services—medicine, surgery, pediatrics, and obstetrics; provide maintenance and a stipend of $30.00 for all senior cadet nurses, or arrange for their requested transfer to federal or other hospitals (a student nurse became a senior cadet in the last six months before graduation); provide satisfactory living facilities and an adequate health service for students; provide for an accelerated program; and restrict its hours of practice. The standards of the National League for Nursing were adopted to evaluate the participating schools. After issuing these regulations, the surgeon general said: The CNC was open to all