Chapter 113. Providing for the readmission of certain deficient midshipmen to the United States Naval Academy
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CHAP. 113.— An Act Providing for the readmission of certain deficient midshipmen to the United States Naval Academy. October 22, 1921.[[S. 2504](/us/bill/67/s/2504).][[Public, No. 83](/us/pl/67/83).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of the Naval Academy.Reinstatement of midshipmen resigned as deficient in 1921.Navy is authorized, upon application, to admit to and reinstate in the United States Naval Academy, subject to examination as to physical qualifications, as provided by law, but waiving the provisions of law as to age requirements, all former midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy found deficient at the end of the first term of the academic year 1920–21 whose resignations were asked for and received by the Superintendent of the Naval Academy: *Provisos*.In lower class.Conditions.*Provided*, That they shall upon admission be placed in the class one year behind their former class in each case; *Provided further*, That said midshipmen affected by this Act must signify their acceptance of the benefits thereof by presenting themselves for physical examination within one month of the date of its approval, and if found qualified will enter the Naval Academy immediately.
Sec. 2. That the clause in the Act approved June 5, 1920 (Forty-first Provisions for reexamination if found deficient repealed.Vol. 41, p. 1028, repealed.Statutes, page 1028), entitled “An Act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending 208June 30, 1920, and for other purposes,” which reads as follows: “That until otherwise provided by law no midshipman found deficient at the close of the last and succeeding academic terms shall be involuntarily discontinued at the Naval Academy or in the service unless he shall fail upon reexamination in the subjects in which found deficient at an examination to be held at the beginning of the next and succeeding academic terms, and the Secretary of the Navy shall provide for the special instruction of such midshipmen in the subjects in which found deficient during the period between academic terms,” be, and the same hereby is, repealed, and section 1519 of the Revised Statutes restored to its full force and effect.
Approved, October 22, 1921.