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handle is hein.usccsset/usconset29944 and id is 1 raw text is: 57TH CONGRESS, SENATE. DOCU31ENT SPeC;/wl sc8in. No. 1. PRIVILEGES OF COMMISSIONED OFFICER3; IN NAVAL SERVICE PROMOTED FROM THE RANKS. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, IN RESPONSE TO RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE OF MARCH 1, 1901, DIRECTING THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY TO INFORM THE SENATE WHETHER COMMISSIONED OFFICERS IN THE NAVAL SERVICE PROMOTED FROM THE RANKS ARE DEBARRED THE USE OF THE UNIFORM AND OTHER PRIVILEGES OF COMMISSIONED OFFICERS OF THE NAVY. MARCH 8, 1901.-Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs and ordered to be printed. NAVY DEPARTMENT, TV2ashngton, J[areh 7, 1901. SIR: The Department is in receipt of the resolution of March 1, which is as follows: IN TIE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, lfarch 1, 1901. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, directed to inform the Senate if commissioned officers in the naval service promoted from the ranks are in any respect debarred the use of the uniform and other privileges of commissioned officers of the Navy; whether there is any distinction in the insignia of office of such officers and the officers graduates of the Naval Academy, and if so, why, and what steps are being taken, if any, to pemnit this class of officers to wear the regular insig- nia and uniform of the naval officers graduated at the Naval Academy. Attest: CHARLES G. BENasmr, Secretary. In reply the Department begs leave to state that commissioned officers in the naval service promoted from the ranks are not debarred from privileges enjoyed by other commissioned officers of the Navy, but that they are not given the use of some uniform used by certain other commissioned officers of the Navy, just as the latter in one grade or corps are not given the same uniform as others of them in another grade or corps. There is a distinction between the insignia of office of officers promoted from the ranks and of officers who have graduated

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