Section 2
SEC. 2. To carry into effect the purposes of this Act, the President of the Philippines is authorized and directed to detail an officer of the regular force having the grade at least of colonel to act as the chief of staff from and after January first, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, any previous detail notwithstanding, and upon such detail, these officers of the regular force who on such date have the grade of major-general shall ipso facto become brigadier-generals, their respective rank as such to be thereupon determined by the President of the Philippines.