Chapter XIII. *to provide for the temporary Increase of the Navy.* July 24, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That for and during the present insurrection the Secretary of the Navy shall be, and he is hereby, authorized Tempora
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Chap. XIII.— An Act *to provide for the temporary Increase of the Navy.* July 24, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That for and during the present insurrection the Secretary of the Navy shall be, and he is hereby, authorized Temporary increase of navy.to hire, purchase, or contract for such vessels as may be necessary for the temporary increase of the navy of the United States, and he is also hereby authorized to furnish any vessel or vessels which may be purchased or contracted for with such ordnance, ordnance stores, and munitions of war, as may be necessary to enable such vessel or vessels to render the most efficient service, pursuant to the orders which may be given to their respective commanders.
Sec. 2. Temporary appointments by Secretary of Navy confirmed, &c. *And be it further enacted,* That the temporary appointments made, or which may be made, by the Secretary of the Navy, of acting THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 14, 15. 1861.273lieutenants, acting paymasters, acting assistant surgeons, acting masters and masters’ mates, are hereby ratified and confirmed as temporary acting appointments, until the return of the vessels in which they are respectively employed, or until the suppression of the present insurrection, as*Post*, pp. 587, 818. may be deemed necessary; and the rate of compensation allowed for the several grades specified is hereby legalized and approved.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That for the purpose of carryingAppropriation. into effect the foregoing act, and to suppress piracy, and render more effective the closing of the ports of the insurgents, there be appropriated and placed at the disposal of the Navy Department the sum of three millions of dollars. Approved, July 24, 1861. Chapter XIV: for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of the Officers, Seamen, and Marines of the United States Sloop-of-war Levant, and for other Purposes. 11 Stat. 273 1861-07-24 Chapter XIV Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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Chapter XIII
*to provide for the temporary Increase of the Navy.* July 24, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That for and during the present insurrection the Secretary of the Navy shall be, and he is hereby, authorized Tempora
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