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124 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 165. 1894. after service in a diiferent branch of the Navy, shall have all the beneiits of their previous service in the same manner as if said appoint- Nseumuntaen ts ments were a reentry into the N avy. Any alien of theage of twenty- '*“°““· one years and upward who has enlisted or may enlist in the United States Navy or Marine Corps, and has served or may hereafter serve five consecutive years in the United States Navy or one enlistment in the United States Marine Corps, and has been or may hereafter be honorably discharged, shall be admitted to become a citizen of the United States upon his petition, without any previous declaration of his intention to become such; and the court admitting such alien shall, in addition to proof of good moral character, be satisned by competent proof of such person’s service in and honorable discharge from the vmpcm. enqigv United States Navy or Marine Corps: Provided further, That in order Q}'2§,$'°°°"°°°g‘"°°” to iill vacancies that may exist in the grade of ensign in the Navy and in the grade of assistant engineer in the Navy, the Secretary of the Navy shall, in ease the number of vacancies in either of such grades exceeds the number of naval cadets in the line division or in the engineer division of the class of naval cadets finally graduated in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, or in any one year thereafter, select Stg;¤¤¤¤ef~¤m,11:{*· a number equal to such excess from the nnal graduates of said class iifvi.i0iilig1°°°r°r ° in the engineer division or in the line division, as the case may require, who shall be reported as proficient and be recommended thereto by the Academic Board, and such final graduates shall be appointed to fill vacancies in the grade of ensign in the Navy or in the grade of assistant engineer in the Navy, respectively, and the naval cadets so Bunk- appointed to fill vacancies in such grades shall take rank in those respective grades next after the naval cadets appointed hom the line division or from the engineer_ division, as the case may be, to fill vacancies in those grades, but among themselves according to merit as determined by the Academic Board. Migggugggoug PAY, For commissions and interest;‘transportation of funds; exchange; mileage to officers while traveling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers while traveling abroad under orders, and for traveling expenses of apothecaries, yeomen, and civilian employees, and for actual and necessary traveling expenses of naval cadets while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as cadets; lor rent and furniture of buildings and offices not in navy-yards; expenses of courtsanartial. prisoners and prisons, and courts of inquiry, boards of investigation, examining boards, with clerks’ and "witnesses! fees, and traveling expenses and costs; stationery and recording; expenses of purchasing paymasters’ offices of the various cities, including clerks, furniture, fuel, stationery, and incidental expenses; newspapers and advertising; foreign postage; telegraphing, foreign and domestic; telephones; copying; care of library, including purchaseof books, photographs, prints, manuscripts, and periodicals; terriage, tolls, and express fees; costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress; canal tolls and pilotage; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports; professional investigation; cost of special instruction, at home or abroad, in maintenance of students and attaches and information from abroad, and the collection and classification thereof, and other necessary incidental expenses; in all, two hundred and forty thousand dollars. contingent. Coxrmeimvr, NAVY: For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department, or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices, at Washington, District of Columbia, seven thousand dollars.