Naval Hospitals.

1207..He will report daily to the Commandant the names of all persons attached to the navy yard who should be excused from duty on account of sickness, and to the officer in command of marines the names of all marines who may be unfit for duty.

1208.. He will attend the families of officers attached to the yard, if necessary.

1209.. He will inspect the persons of all recruits who may offer to enlist in the marine corps at the navy yard, and of all candidates for any appointment in the Navy who may present themselves under proper authority. The report in each case must be made according to Form No. 24, Appendix. (See Section 18-Officers in Charge of Stores.)

SECTION 11.-Naval Hospitals.

1210..When officers of the Navy are admitted into a naval hospital with any disease, they are entitled to remain under treatment in, and to have all the advantages of, such hospital, until cured, unless in the case of chronic disorders which, after an appropriate period, shall appear to the Surgeon of the hospital as not susceptible of cure. In all such cases the Surgeon of the hospital shall make a report to the Commandant of the navy yard, and request a medical survey thereon, which survey shall be ordered by the Commandant of the navy yard. If the report of the survey shall recommend a continuance of treatment, the officer or officers surveyed shall be continued on treatment until a subsequent survey or surveys shall recommend a discharge from the hospital; and in all such cases, when a medical survey, duly approved, shall recommend the discharge of an officer from a hospital, it shall be at the option of such officer, if disabled or decrepit, to be transferred to the Naval Asylum at Philadelphia. A copy of all the papers in such cases shall be forwarded by the Commandant of the navy yard to the Secretary of the Navy.

1211..The fact that an officer has been treated within a naval hospital on account of any disease or disability for four months, or for a longer period, is not to be considered as a bar to his readmission to the same, or to any other naval hospital. Sick, wounded, or disabled officers are entitled to the benefits of naval medical

Surgeons of Naval Hospitals, etc.-Paymaster of a Navy Yard.

and surgical attendance, either within or without a naval hospital or asylum, so long as they remain sick, wounded, or disabled.

SECTION 12.-Surgeon of a Naval Hospital.

1212..In addition to the "Instructions for the Government of Medical Officers," the Surgeon of a hospital will conform to the following:

1213.. Whenever patients are left in a hospital after the sailing of the vessel from which they were sent, he must, whenever any of them are in a situation to justify their removal, report to the Commandant of the station, that they may be sent to some other vessel.

1214.. Whenever any enlisted person shall not have so far recovered as to justify his removal from the hospital when his term of service shall have expired, the Surgeon must immediately report such cases to the Commandant of the station, making a particular statement of all the facts and circumstances connected with each case within his knowledge.

1215..If any clothing or other articles be furnished to men while in a hospital, a statement of them, with their cost, is to be made upon the back of the clothes lists which accompanied them to the hospital, and this is to be duly certified by the proper officer of the hospital, in order that the articles may be charged against the pay of those who received them. All regulations for a hospital must be submitted to the Secretary of the Navy.

SECTION 13.-Passed and other Assistant Surgeons of a Navy Yard or Hospital.

1216.. They will be guided by the regulations prescribed for medical officers of the same grade attached to vessels for sea service.

SECTION 14.-Paymaster of a Navy Yard.

1217..The Paymaster of a navy yard shall pay all officers and enlisted persons belonging to the navy attached to the yard and to vessels in ordinary at the yard, and, if so ordered, of those belonging to receiving vessels, and of such officers as may have their accounts transferred to the station for pay

Inspectors in charge of Paymaster's Stores.

1218.. He shall pay all mechanics and laborers who may be employed under the direction of the Commandant, upon pay-rolls, (which shall have been properly made out, certified, and approved,) after he shall have satisfied himself of the correctness of the calculation.

1219.. As it is important that no more of the working day be absorbed in paying the men than can be avoided, they are therefore to be divided into convenient gangs, not exceeding one hundred each, and be conducted to the pay-office by the foremen or quartermen in the order of their names on the rolls. The names of absentees will be called a second time, after the gang to which they belong has been paid, and all those who do not answer the second call, except in cases of sickness, shall not be paid until the next pay day. The foremen or quartermen will be held responsible for the quiet and proper deportment of the men.

1220.. He will make all payments in specie, or in funds which he may receive from the government for public use.

1221..He shall make requisitions monthly, under the direction and with the approval of the Commanding Officer, for such amount of money as may be deemed necessary for the public service in his department, such requisitions to be registered and certified to by the Commandant's first clerk.

1222....He shall keep distinct accounts of moneys received and expended under the different appropriations, and never apply them to any other objects than those for which they were drawn, except by special written authority from the Secretary of the Navy.

1223..He will forward to the Department, every two weeks, a summary statement, showing his receipts and expenditures during that time, with the balances then on hand, under each head of appropriation; also, an estimate of the amount required under each head for the succeeding month.

SECTION 15.-Inspectors in charge of Paymaster's Stores.

1224..Inspecting officers at navy yards, connected with the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, in addition to the duties prescribed in the "Instructions for the Government of Inspectors in Charge of Stores, Naval Storekeepers, Paymasters, and Assistant

Naval Constructors.

Paymasters," are charged with the following: To receive and inspect all stores offered, by authority, for delivery under contract, and to prepare for issue all such as strictly conform to the conditions of the contract and to the samples where they have been provided; to receive stores from ships returned from sea, and to keep and issue them; but articles of clothing and small stores which have been injured by use will not thus be received.

1225.. The term "stores," as applicable to articles belonging to the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, is to be understood as meaning provisions, clothing, small stores, candles, Paymaster's stationery and blanks, and Paymaster's Yeoman's stores.

1226..Inspectors in charge are hereby required to exercise a con.stant supervision over the stores in their custody, and to protect them against deterioration by every means in their power. They are not to issue clothing that does not conform strictly to the uniform. (See Article 18-Officers in Charge of Stores.)

SECTION 16.-Naval Constructors.

1227.. The Naval Constructor will act under the' orders of the Commandant of the Yard.

1228..He will have the general superintendence and charge of the construction and repair of all vessels depending upon the Bureau of Construction and Repair, and also the immediate superintendence and direction of all foremen, mechanics, and laborers employed on the work confided to him by the Commandant, and give them their instructions accordingly.

1229.. He will conform strictly to the instructions he may receive for the building, repair, and equipment of ships, being furnished with copies of orders and contracts relating thereto; if, in the course of the repairs of any vessel, defects should be discovered which were not previously known, and which will be likely to increase the expense or delay the work, he will make immediate report of the same to the Commandant for further instructions, suggesting such modifications as will be likely to diminish the expense or increase the utility of the work. He will prepare bills of materials and schedules for advertisements, and also the accounts of cost of building and repairing ships, for transmission, when duly approved, to the Bureau of Construction and Repair, through the Commandant.

Naval Constructors.

1230..He will, before the end of each fiscal year, submit to the Commandant a report of the vessels that have been built, repaired, and for which work has been done, giving the original estimate and the actual expenditure.

1231..He will make such suggestions to the Commandant of the Yard, in the line of his profession or duty, as he may consider to be to the interest of the service.

1232..He will inform the Commandant, in writing, of the number of persons required, and suggest names in the various departments under his control, and will recommend their respective wages; when the services of any are no longer required, he will report to the Commandant the persons that may be dispensed with; and he will report any irregularity, incompetence, neglect, or misconduct. of persons under his direction.

1233..The inspection and measurement of all materials used on work under his charge, and the storage and preservation of timber and wood materials for the same, will be under his supervision. He will adopt measures to prevent the use or conversion of any timber or other wood' material, or metals, until such account is taken of them as will secure a correct expenditure; and he will cause daily returns to be made to the inspector of timber of the wood materials which may have been used or converted, and to what object applied, that he may be able to furnish the information necessary, in order that requisitions may be made to cover the expenditure. He will have such records and registers of timber kept as may be prescribed, that the particular species and quantities remaining on hand may at all times be known. All condemned timber shall be expended as such, and shall be included in the semi-monthly requisitions accordingly, as if expended in any other manner.

1234..He will examine and certify to the correctness of all bills for materials and supplies for work under his charge; will examine and certify as to the correctness of the pay-roll for labor; will have made and sign the semi-monthly and other reports in his depart ment that are required to be made by the Commandant of the yard to the Bureau of Construction and Repair, the Commandant causing him to be furnished with the costs and expenditures necessary for this purpose.

1235.. All requisitions for materials or articles in his depart