Chapter 396.
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CHAP. 396.— An act to regulate the course at the Naval Academy.March 2, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Naval Academy. Division of fourth Class. That the Academic Board of the Naval Academy shall on or before the thirtieth day of September in each year separate the first class of naval cadets then commencing their fourth year into two divisions, as they may have shown special aptitude for the duties of the respective corps, in the proportion which the aggregate number of vacancies occurring in the preceding fiscal year ending on the thirtieth day of June in the lowest grades of commissioned officers of the line of the Navy and Marine Corps of the Course of study for line and Marine Corps.Navy shall bear to the number of vacancies to be supplied from the Academy occurring during the same period in the lowest grade of commissioned officers of the engineer corps of the Navy; and the cadets so assigned to the line and Marine Corps division of the first class shall thereafter pursue a course of study arranged to fit them for service in the line of the Navy, and the cadets so assigned to the Engineer Corps division of the first class shall thereafter pursue a separate course of study arranged to tit Engineer Corps.them for service in the Engineer Corps of the Navy. and the cadets shall thereafter. and until final graduation, at the end of their six years’ course, take rank by merit with those in the same division, m Appointments from graduates.according to the merit marks; and from the final graduates of the line and Marine Corps division, at the end of their six years’ course, appointments shall be made hereafter as it shall be necessary to fill vacancies in the lowest grades of commissioned officers of the line of the Navy and Marine Corps; and the vacancies in the lowest grades of the commissioned officers of the Engineer Corps of the Navy shall be filled in like manner by appointments from the final graduates of the Engineer division at the end of their six years’ course: *Provided*,*Proviso*.
Appointments not to exceed vacancies occurring. That no greater number of appointments into the said lowest grades of commissioned officers shall be made each year than shall equal the number of vacancies which shall have occurred in 879 the same grades during the fiscal year then current; such appointments to be made from the final graduates of the year, in the order of merit as determined by the Academic Board of the Naval Academy, the assignment to be made by the Secretary of the Navy upon the recommendation of the Academic Board at the conclusion of the fiscal year then current; but nothing contained herein or in the naval appropriationReduction of appointments.
Vol. 22, p. 285. act of August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, shall reduce the number of appointments of final graduates at the end of their six years course below twelve in each year to the line of the Navy, and not less than two shall be appointed annually to the Engineer Corps of the Navy, nor less than one annually to the Marine Corps; and if the number of vacancies in the lowest gradesFilling vacancies. aforesaid, occurring in any year shall be greater than the number of final graduates of that year, the surplus vacancies shall be filled from the final graduates of following years, as they shall become available; and it is provided that in addition to the appointments to the Engineer Corps of the Navy hereby authorized, there may also be appointed five Assistant Engineers from the graduates, in the Five assistant engineers from class of 1886.order of merit, of the Naval Academy of the class which finished its six years course in June eighteen hundred and eighty-six, to take rank and receive pay only from the date of their appointment; and said Engineer Corps is hereby enlarged for the purpose of the additional appointments hereby authorized.
Sec. 2. That after the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred andAge of admission. R. S. sec. 1517, p. 261, amended. eighty-nine, the minimum age of admission of cadets to the Academy shall be fifteen years and the maximum age twenty years. Approved, March 2, 1889.