An Act to establish and equalize the Grade of Line Officers of the United States Navy
Law as written, continued;
SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That in calculating the graduated pay of boatswains, gunners, carpenters, and sailmakers in the navy, as established by law, the sea service shall be computed from the dates of their appointments or entry into the service in their respective grades in lieu of the dates of their warrants.
SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he hereby is, authorized to assign clerks and laborers attached to one bureau to duty in another, and also to detail a surgeon or assistant surgeon, or passed assistant surgeon, as assistant to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, who shall receive the highest shore pay of his grade.
SEC. 19. And be it further enacted, That all officers while at sea, or attached to a sea-going vessel, shall be allowed one ration.
SEC. 20. And be it further enacted, That the relative rank between officers of the navy and army on the retired list shall be the same as on the active list, and the annual pay of retired naval officers shall be as follows, viz:
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 list. And the pay of all naval officers appointed by virtue of an act entitled "An act to provide for the temporary increase of the navy." approved July twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall be the same as that of officers of a like grade in the regular navy.
APPROVED, July 16, 1862.
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