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THIRTYUSEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 183-186. 1862. 587 and he hereby is, authorized to assign clerks and laborers attached to one Duty of clerks, bureau to duty in another, and also to detail a surgeon or assistant sur- &°· geon, or passed assistant surgeon, as assistant to the Bureau of Medicine Assimuees and Surgery, who shall receive the highest shore pay of his grade. B“’€%“ ef Sec. 19. And be it further enacted, That all officers while at sea, or Med1°m°’&°’ attached to a sea-going vessel, shall be allowed one ration. Rations. Sec. 20. And be it further enacted, That the relative rank between Relative rank oflicers of the navy and army on the retired list shall be the same as on gfsglggg ggv the active list, and the annual pay of retired naval officers shall be as fol- on 1;;,;,,,,1 may ows, viz : W- Admirals, two thousand dollars. Commodores, eighteen hundred dollars. Captains, sixteen hundred dollars. Commanders, fourteen hundred dollars. Lieutenant commanders, thirteen hundred dollars. Lieutenants, one thousand dollars. Masters, eight hundred dollars. Ensigns, five hundred dollars. And no ration shall be allowed to any officers of the navy on the retired No ration. list. And the pay of all naval officers appointed by virtue of an act Pay Of <>Hi¢¢¤‘¤ entitled “An act to provide for the temporary increase of the navy," ap- g£fl§§_°°t 1861* proved July twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall be the Am p_ 2.,2 same as that of officers of a like grade in the regular navy. i APPROVED, July 16, 1862. CHAP.·CLXXXIV. —An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to U/‘izrther promote the July mi 1862- Ejiczency of the Navy," approved December twenlyyirst, eighteen hun red and sixty-one. 1862, 0h_ 1, § S_ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Amt P' 330' States of America in Congress assembled, That section eight of an act m§l;;:gS‘$·mb°l to further promote the efficiency of the navy, approved December twenty- wages at navy first, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, be amended so as to read as fol- Y’“dS· lows: That the hours of labor and the rate of wages of the employees in the navy yards shall conform, as nearly as is consistent with the public interest, with those of private establishments in the immediate vicinity of the respective yards, to be determined by the commandants of the navy yards, subject to the approval and revision of the Secretary of the Navy. Approved, July 16, 1862. cmp. cnxxxv. -4.. Aa ¢m..ya.~.·..y the warm. canzm me from as was to J¤ly16.186¤- the Navy Department. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Western g¤¤· States of America in Congress assembled, That the western gunboat fleet H35F2Q1Q3i1f,;':,';?' constructed by the War Department For operations on the western waters Department, shall be transferred to the Navy Department, which will be hereafter charged with the expense of its repair, support, and maintenance: Pro- Certain vessels, vided, That all vessels now under construction or repair by authority of har; gt bj1°°*P(i the War Department shall be completed and paid for under the authority £,:_° an pm of that department from appropriations made for that purpose. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect and when Mt . . takes eifect. be in force from and after its passage. Approved, July 16, 1862. CHAP. CLXXXVI. ·—— An Act to enlarge the Lake Superior Land District, in the State July 16, 1862, tf Illichigan. ‘*—"""""" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all that portion of the