Pamphlets: United States Navy], Volume 2

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1879
 

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Page 32 - When an officer of the Navy has been thirty years in the service, he may, upon his own application, in the discretion of the President, be retired from active service and placed upon the retired list with three-fourths of the highest pay of his grade: And provided further.
Page 26 - Foss introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed.
Page 14 - One science only will one genius fit ; So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in those confin'd to single parts.
Page 3 - The Chief of Engineers is authorized, with the approval of the Secretary of War, to regulate and determine the number, quality, form, and dimensions of the necessary vehicles, pontoons, tools, implements, arms, and other supplies for the use of the battalion of engineer soldiers.
Page 4 - Board to cause to be prepared by the engineer secretary of the board, or by such officer of engineers of the army as may be detailed for that service, all plans, drawings, specifications, and estimates of cost, of all illuminating and other apparatus, and of construction and repair of towers, buildings, etc., connected with the Lighthouse Establishment...
Page 5 - That for the purpose of promoting knowledge of military science among the young men of the United States...
Page 31 - Section 179 of the Revised Statutes, perform the duties of such chief until his successor is appointed or such absence or sickness shall cease.
Page 31 - In case of the death, resignation, absence, or sickness of the chief of any Bureau...
Page 5 - That for the purpose of promoting a kuowlcdge of steam-engineering and ironship building among the young men of the United States, the President may, upon the application of an established scientific school or college within the United States, detail an officer from the Engineer Corps of the navy as professor in such school or college...
Page 42 - the relative rank of" are hereby amended so as to read "the rank of," but officers whose rank is so defined shall not be entitled, in virtue of their rank to command in the line or in other staff corps.

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