United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 26
Chap. XXVI.—An Act to amend the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five.”
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,3d sec. act 17th June 1844, ch. 107, not applicable to officers on foreign stations, until after receipt of information of its passage. That the third section of the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five,” approved June seventeen, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, shall not be understood or construed to apply to the claim of an officer employed on a foreign station who would be entitled, under the provisions of previous acts of Congress, to receive the pay of a higher grade, while temporarily performing the duties of such higher grade, until information of the passage of the said act shall have been received on board of the vessel to which such officer was or is attached.
Approved, February 26, 1845.