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Naval Academy Graduates Denied Final Examination Letter If Addicted to the Habit of Intoxication: General Order, 17 May 1858

GENERAL ORDER

 

Hereafter no commanding officer of any vessel of the United States Navy, under whom the graduates of the Naval Academy shall serve, will give letters which will entitle them to their final examination, if addicted to the habit of intoxication.

Isaac Toucey
[Secretary of the Navy]

Navy Department
May 17th, 1858

Published: Tue Sep 12 15:01:56 EDT 2017