<^' [HotTSt ok Representatives. No. 278. 1 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, December 13, 18G4.— Read first and second times, placed on the Calendar and ordered to be printed. [By Mr. Botce, from Committee on Xaval Affairs. | A BILL To increase the oember of aeting midshipmen in the t>avy, and to »cribe the manner of appointment 1 SECTION 1. 1 m( the C«nj 'et 'erate Stairs of America 2 do enact. That the number of acting midshipmen in the navy 3 shall be increi land fifty, who shall be ap- 4 pointed, rahject to the rulea and regulations for the government 5 of the naval school, a ra: One from each Congressional 6 district, upon t : .': nomination of the representative thereof in 7 Cong . two al 1 each Stab npon the nomination * there* b remaining eighteea 9 by the Pree RBJB