Chapter XVI. *in Relation to the Appointment of Midshipmen from the lately reconstructed States.* Jan. 30, 1869. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Navy Appointment of midshipmen to the United States Naval Ac
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Chap. XVI.— An Act *in Relation to the Appointment of Midshipmen from the lately reconstructed States.* Jan. 30, 1869. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Navy Appointment of midshipmen to the United States Naval Academy.be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to make the appointment of midshipmen to the United States Naval Academy, on or before the fourth day of March next, from any State in which the election of members of the House of Representatives to the Forty-first Congress does not by law take place previous to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, upon the nomination of the members of the House of Representatives from such States in the present Congress: *Provided,* That no such Proviso.appointment shall be made from any State not by law entitled to the appointment of midshipmen in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.
Approved, January 30, 1869.