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 [House op Represeitatives, No. 279.] 
 
 HOUSE OF REPRF8ENTATIVES, December 13, 1864.— Read 
 first and Recond time?, placed on the Calendar and ordered to be 
 printed. 
 
 [By Mr. Boyce, from Coaniittce on Naval Affairs.] 
 
 ^ BILL 
 
 To provide for the transfer of certain mechanics, artizans and other 
 persons, from the army to the navy. 
 
 1 Section 1. Tht Congress of the Confederate States of America 
 
 2 do enod, That the mechanics, artizans and other experts, indi.s- 
 
 3 pensa))le for the construction of vessels and machinery for the 
 
 4 same, ihe manufacture of ordnance and ordnance stores, and 
 
 5 in preparing and forwarding supplies for the navy, detailed from 
 i\ t!;c army or from conscripts, and now employed under tlie direc- 
 
 7 tion of the Secretary of the Navy, and who shall request a trans- 
 
 8 fer to that service, be and the same are hereby transferred from 
 
 9 the army to the navy ; and the Secretary of the Navy isauthor- 
 lO ized to enlist them in the naval service. 
 
 1 Skc. 2. That all acte and parts of acts inconsistent with the 
 
 2 jtrovisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
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