Chapter CCXIX. to authorize assimilated Rank to be given to the Warrant Officers of the United States Navy, and for other Purposes
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Chap. CCXIX.— An Act to authorize assimilated Rank to be given to the Warrant Officers of the United States Navy, and for other Purposes.July 2, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatAssimilated rank to warrant officers in die navy. the President of the United States is hereby authorized, if, in his judgment, it shall be conducive to the interest of the service, to give assimilated rank to the warrant officers of the navy, viz: boatswains, gunners, carpenters, and sail-makers, as follows:
After five years of service to rank with ensigns; and after ten years service to rank with masters. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That,To be called “warrant officers,” &c. from and after the passage of this act, the officers named in the preceding section shall be known as “warrant officers in the naval service of the United States,” and shall be so entered upon the Naval Register. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* ThatExpenses of confinement of persons found in captured vessels. in all cases where it has been, or may be, found necessary during the present war to detain in confinement persons found on board of captured vessels, the expenses of the detention of such persons, when not chargeable to the proceeds of prize or other fund, shall be paid out of the appropriation for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, and that the expenses of prisoners sentenced by naval court-martial to confinement in a penitentiary shall be defrayed from the same fund.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* ThatAdditional clerks in the Navy Department. the following addition be made to the clerical force now authorized by law in the Navy Department;— Bureau of provisions and clothing, two clerks of the third class and two of the first class. Bureau of ordnance, one clerk of the third class. Bureau of equipment and recruiting, one clerk of the second class and one clerk of the first class. Approved, July 2, 1864.