The North-Carolina standard., 1849-02-21

exceed twelve that they shall be appointed and
commissioned by the President of the United States,
by and with the advice and consent of the Senate,
and shall perform such duties may be assigned them
order of the Secretary of the Navy, at the Naval
School; ;the Observatory, and board ships-ofwar,
in instucting the midshipmen of thelnavy other
wise That when duty, the pay of professor of
mathematics shall be at the rate of fifteen hund red
dollars per annum, with ration; and when on leave
of absence or waiting Drders the pay shall be at the
rate of eight hundred dollars per annum. a1 s5sfi
SEC. 49, 4ndb be at further en1ced That the SeeTe-
tary of the Navy be- and he is hereby to
cause persons in the naval service marine corps,
who shall become insane while in the service, to be
placed in such lunatic hospital in his opinion will
be most convenient and bestealcuated to promise a
restoration of reason and that in addition to the
tpay which may from time to time be due to such
person. he may, from the annual appropriation for the
naval service, under the head of contingent enumer-
ated, pay, any deficiency of reasonable expense;
provided sthat in each case it does not exceed
hundred dollars per annum. ai 1ou HIr s0t----f-.
SEC. Ia. find be 1T further eaocted That the provi
of the act of August fourth eighteen hundred and
forty-two limiting the number of officers of the navy
of the grade of midshipmen to the number that
in service on the first day of January, eighteen hun
dred and forty-one, be, ands hereby, so modified as
authorize the appointment of officers of that grade
to the number of four hundred and sixtyfour: Pro
Utded, That the appointments shall be made accord
ing to the directions of the fifth section of the act ap
proved March third, eighteen hundred and fortyve,
entitled can act making appropriations for the
naval service for the year ending hirteth June, egh
teen hundred and fortysX >; and In appointing from
each Sate hereafter, its proportion of officers of that
grade the appointments shall beapportioned, as near
y practicable equally among the several Congress
sional districts therein:5a zr'.t s.. I:I- q
SEC. Is. find be 1T further enacted, That from and
after the passage of this ac the annual pay of boat
swain, gunners, carpenters, and sail-makers at the
navy-yard, at Pensacola shall be the same as now
allowed by law to the forward warrant officers at the
navy-yards at Boston, N ew Y ork, and Norfolk.
SEC. I6. find be it further enacted, That the re-
striction established by the fourth section of the act
approved March third, eighteen hundred and forty
five, whereby no more than one hundred and eighty
passed nidshipmen and those senior in rank, shall
at the time receive the pay xed by law for that
class of officers, be suspended in its operation from
the passage of this act, until the class of eighteen
hundred and fory-one and eghteen hundred and for
ty-two shall have been examined, and the relative
rank established among those who shall pass their
examination. a,.%
ts. ROBT. @. WINTHROP, ..,l
~ Speaker of the House of Representatives.
..-....# sIlt G. M. DALLAS, p ii a:tetfaTg
-- Vice President Of the United States, and ..f
-s.. 49, President of the Senate.
Approved August 3, ls4s.