Volume 4
Public Law 21–VII
to amend an act, entitled “An act for the better organization of the medical department of the navy,” approved twenty-fourth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.(a)(a) See notes to act of May 24, 1828, ch. 121.
Approved January 21, 1829
Statutory text
An Act
to amend an act, entitled “An act for the better organization of the medical department of the navy,” approved twenty-fourth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.(a)(a) See notes to act of May 24, 1828, ch. 121.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,
That every surgeon who was in the navy, at the time of the passage of the act for the better organization of the medical department. of the navy, approved twenty-fourth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, shall be entitled to the additional pay and rations (according to length of service) provided for by the fourth section of that act, notwithstanding such surgeons may not have been examined, or received their appointments in the manner prescribed by the first section thereof.
Approved, .