Volume 13 · 183
Public Law 38–CLII
to amend the Act of the twenty-five December, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, entitled “An Act to further promote the Efficiency of the Navy.”
Approved June 25, 1864
Statutory text
An Act
to amend the Act of the twenty-five December, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, entitled “An Act to further promote the Efficiency of the Navy.”
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the first section of the act of the twenty-first of December, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-one, entitled “An act to further promote the efficiency of the navy,” shall not be so construed as to retire any officer under the age of sixty-two
Certain navy officers not to be retired, if, &c.
years, and whose name shall not have been borne upon the navy register for a period of forty-five years after he had arrived at the age of sixteen years.
Approved, .