Chapter 249. relating to machinists in the Navy
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CHAP. 249.— An Act relating to machinists in the Navy.June 16, 1880. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That all men now serving in 291 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 249, 250, 251. 1880. the Navy who may be discharged as machinists, with continuous-service Machinists honorably discharged from the Navy since November 20, 1879; additional payment.certificates entitling them to honorable discharge, and those discharged in the said rating with such certificates since the twentieth day of November, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, shall receive one-third of one year’s pay as a machinist for each good-conduct badge they have received, or may receive, not exceeding three in number under the said certificates, the said gratuity to be received in lieu of reenlistment as a machinist under such certificate, and to be in full and in lieu of all claims against the United States in connection therewith, for extra pay for reenlisting, or for continuous service, or for enlistment as a petty-officer; and the amount necessary to carry out the provisions of this actAppropriation. is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: *Provided*, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent*Proviso.* the reenlistment of machinists in the Navy.
Approved, June 16, 1880.