Chapter CCXL. *fixing the Rank of Professors of Mathematics in the United States Navy.*May 31, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Number and rank of professors of mathematics in the United States navy
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CHAP. CCXL.— An Act *fixing the Rank of Professors of Mathematics in the United States Navy.*May 31, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Number and rank of professors of mathematics in the United States navy.That the ninth section of the naval appropriation bill, approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, be amended by inserting, after the clause relating to the chaplains, the following clause : 1871, ch. 117, § 9.There shall be three professors of mathematics, who shall have the relative Vol. xvi. p. 536.rank of captain; four that of commander; and five that of lieutenant commander or lieutenant.
Approved, May 31, 1872.