Chapter 70.
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CHAP. 70.— An act to amend section twelve hundred and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes, concerning details of officers of the Army and Navy to educational institutions.January 13, 1891. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Detail of Army and Navy officers to colleges, etc. R. S., sec. 1225, p. 216, amended. That Section twelve hundred and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes, concerning details of officers of the Army and Navy to educational institutions, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to permit the President to Limit increased.detail, under the provisions of said act, not to exceed seventy-five officers of the Army of the United States; and the maximum number of officers of the Army and Navy to be detailed at any one time Vol. 25, pp. 491, 492, amended.under the provisions of the act passed September twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, amending said section twelve Limit increased.hundred and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes, is hereby increased *Proviso*.to eighty-five: *Provided*, That no officer shall be detailed to or Details only where military instruction.maintained at any of the educational institutions mentioned in said act where instruction and drill in military tactics is not given:Detail of engineer officers of the Navy. *Provided further*, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent the detail of officers of the Engineer Corps of the Navy as professors Vol. 20, p. 322.in scientific schools or colleges as now provided by Act of Congress approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled “An act to promote a knowledge of steam-engineering and iron shipbuilding among the students of scientific schools or colleges in the United States.
” Approved, January 13, 1891.