Chapter LXXXIX. *to appoint certain Officers of the Navy.*May 17, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That, for and during the presentActing lieutenant commanders and commanders may be appointed;— pay. insurrection, the President, b
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CHAP. LXXXIX.— An Act *to appoint certain Officers of the Navy.*May 17, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That, for and during the presentActing lieutenant commanders and commanders may be appointed;— pay. insurrection, the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, is hereby authorized to appoint acting lieutenant commanders and acting commanders, who shall have the same rate of compensation as is allowed to officers of similar grade in the navy.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the proviso inProviso in § 10 ch. 183, act of 1862 repealed.Vol. xii p. 584Substitute therefor. section ten, chapter one hundred and eighty-three, of an act to establish and equalize the grade of line officers of the United States navy, approved July sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and that said section shall read as follows:— Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That any person whoActing volunteer lieutenants and masters may be confirmed and put in line of promotion. shall have received, or shall hereafter receive, a temporary appointment as acting volunteer lieutenant or acting master in the navy, from civil life, authorized by act of congress of July twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, may be confirmed in said appointment in the navy and placed in the line of promotion, from the date of said confirmation, if,Seamen may be promoted and receive a gratuity and medal of honor. upon the recommendation of the President, he receives the thanks of congress for highly meritorious conduct in conflict with the enemy.
Seamen distinguishing themselves in battle, or by extraordinary heroism in the line of their profession, may be promoted to forward warrant officers or acting 80 THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 92, 93. 1864.masters’ mates, as they may be best qualified, upon the recommendation of their commanding officer, approved by the flag-officer and the department. Upon such promotion, they shall receive a gratuity of one hundred dollars, and a medal of honor to be prepared by the navy department.
Approved, May 17, 1864.