Chapter CCXXVI. *for the Relief of certain Officers of the Navy.*May 28, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That in conformity with and Certain navy officers to be restored, &c., to original position on navy list
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CHAP. CCXXVI.— An Act *for the Relief of certain Officers of the Navy.*May 28, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That in conformity with and Certain navy officers to be restored, &c., to original position on navy list. Vol. xvi. p. 383to carry into effect the recommendation and conclusions of the board of officers organized in pursuance of the #x201C;Resolution for the relief of certain officers of the navy,” approved July first, eighteen hundred and seventy, the President of the United States be, and be is hereby, authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to restore Commodore Joseph F.
Green to his original position on the navy list nextJoseph F. Green, John De Camp, Charles W. Pickering. below Rear-Admiral Boggs; to promote Commodore John DeCamp to his original relative position as a rear-admiral on the retired list; to promote Commodore Charles W. Pickering to the grade of commodore on the retired list, with the retired pay of his advanced rank; to advanceFORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 226-229. 1872.164Egbert Thompson, Samuel R. Franklin, John H. Russell and others.Captain Egbert Thompson in rank next below Captain Thomas G.
Corbin; to promote Commander Samuel R. Franklin to take rank next after Commander James S. Thornton; to restore Commander Edward Y. McCauley to his original rank, next after Commander W. D. Whiting; to restore Commanders John H. Russell, A. W. Johnson, P. C. Jolinson, John Watters, A. E. K. Benham, Austin Pendergrast, and W. P. McCann, respectively, to their original places on the navy list. Approved, May 28, 1872.