Chapter 591. to fix the status in the Navy of certain cadet engineers
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CHAP. 591.— An Act to fix the status in the Navy of certain cadet engineers.July 9, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Cadet engineers, Navy.Grade and rank of certain, established. That for the purpose of placing certain cadet engineers (graduates) in their proper grade and rank in the Navy, the President of the United States be, and is hereby, authorized to appoint and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, commission, as assistant engineers in the Navy, the cadet engineers of the classes of eighteen hundred and eighty-one and eighteen hundred and eighty-two now in the Navy: 242FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Chs. 591, 592. 1888. *Provided*, That the commissions of the class of eighteen hundred and*Provisos*.Date of commission.Class of 1881. eighty-one be dated from July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and their names be placed on the Navy Register immediately after the name of William D. Weaver, and that they take precedence in their grade and corps according to their proficiency as shown by their order of merit at the date of graduation; Class of 1882.and that the commissions of the class of eighteen hundred and eighty-two be dated from July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and their names be placed on the Navy Register immediately after the name of Charles E.
Rommell, and that they take precedence in their grade and corps according to their proficiency as shown by their order of merit at the date of graduation: *Provided*, That any of such cadet engineers Physical examinations.who failed to pass the physical examination at the Naval Academy made at the time of their graduation shall be subjected to further examinations before receiving their appointments, as above authorized. Approved, July 9, 1888.