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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 39 STAT. · February 15, 1916 · Chapter 24

Chapter 24.

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CHAP. 24.— AN ACT Providing for an increase in number of midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy. February 15, 1916.[[H. R. 9224](/us/bill/64/hr/9224).][[Public, No. 18](/us/pl/64/18).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That hereafter there shall Naval Academy.Allowance of midshipmen increased.R. S., sec. 1513, p. 260, amended.Vol. 38, pp. 103, 410.*Post,* pp. 576, 1182.be allowed at the United States Naval Academy three midshipmen for each Senator, Representative, and Delegate in Congress, one for Porto Rico, two tor the District of Columbia, ten appointed each year at large, and fifteen appointed annually from enlisted men of the Navy as now authorized by law.
Sec. 2. That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions Inconsistent laws repealed.of this Act are hereby repealed. Approved, February 15, 1916.
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