Estimates Submitted by the Secretary of the Navy, 1916: Hearings Before, Committee on Naval Affairs, House of Representatives, Sixty-fourth Congress, First Session, on Estimates Submitted by the Secretary of the Navy, 1916, Volume 1

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Página 355 - That after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, there shall be allowed at the Naval Academy two midshipmen for each Senator. Representative, and Delegate in Congress, one for Porto Rico, two for the District of Columbia...
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