Volume 21
Public Law 46–24
relating to the appointment of professors of mathematics in the Navy.
Approved January 20, 1881
Statutory text
An Act
relating to the appointment of professors of mathematics in the Navy.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That hereafter no person shall be appointed a professor of mathematics in the Navy until he shall have passed a physical examination before a board of naval surgeons, and a professional examination before a board of professors of mathematics in the Navy, to be convened for that purpose by the Secretary of the Navy, and received a favorable report from said boards.
Approved, January 20, 1881.