Volume 21
Public Law 46–150
to amend section fourteen hundred and eighty-six of the Revised Statutes in order to preserve the meaning of the original law from which it was taken, with reference to the rank of engineer officers, graduates of the Naval Academy.
Approved March 3, 1881
Statutory text
An act
to amend section fourteen hundred and eighty-six of the Revised Statutes in order to preserve the meaning of the original law from which it was taken, with reference to the rank of engineer officers, graduates of the Naval Academy.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section fourteen hundred and eighty-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended by inserting after the word “accordingly”, at the end of the section the words, “Provided, That nothing in this section shall be so construed as to give to any officer of the staff corps precedence of, or a higher relative rank than that of, another staff officer in the same grade and corps, and whose commission in such grade and corps antedates that of such officer.”
Approved, March 3, 1881.