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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 12 STAT. · August 2, 1861 · Chapter XXXVI

Chapter XXXVI. *to amend an Act entitled “An Act supplementary to the Act entitled ‘An Act providing for a Naval Peace Establishment and for other Purposes,’ passed March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and four.”* August 2, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of A

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Chap. XXXVI.— An Act *to amend an Act entitled “An Act supplementary to the Act entitled ‘An Act providing for a Naval Peace Establishment and for other Purposes,’ passed March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and four.”* August 2, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *1804, ch. 53. Vol. ii. p. 297.1861, ch. 20 Vol. ii. p. 110.Superintendents of navy yards and heads of bureaus may be taken from captains or commanders.
That the above entitled act be, and the same is hereby, amended by inserting after the word “captain,” where the same first occurs in said act, the words “or commander,” so that the President shall be authorized to select the superintendents of the several navy yards and heads of bureaus from the captains or commanders of the navy of the United States. Approved, August 2, 1861. Chapter XXXVII: concerning the Attorney-General and the Attorneys and marshals of the several Districts. 11 Stat. 285 1861-08-02 Chapter XXXVII 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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*to amend an Act entitled “An Act supplementary to the Act entitled ‘An Act providing for a Naval Peace Establishment and for other Purposes,’ passed March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and four.”* August 2, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of A
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