Acting pay officers. shall immediately take possession of the safe and of the keys of the storerooms of such pay officer, and report all the facts in the case to the senior officer present. The latter shall, without delay, direct a board of officers to take an inventory of the papers, money, and stores then on hand; and shall appoint a suitable person to take charge of the same, and to perform the duties of such pay officer until otherwise directed by competent authority. (2) The senior officer present shall also appoint another suitable person to complete the vouchers, transfer the accounts, close up the books, and to have the custody of the same and of all papers necessary to the complete settlement of the account of such pay officer, and to be responsible for their proper transmission to the Department. (3) Both the above-named appointees shall be present when the above inventories are taken, and shall be furnished with copies thereof; which copies, duly certified, shall be considered satisfactory vouchers for the money and stores thus ascertained to be on hand. (4) If a pay officer unable to settle his accounts shall, while of sound mind, have nominated in writing the person to be selected to have custody of the books, vouchers, and other papers, and to complete accounts as above mentioned, the senior officer present shall, unless manifestly contrary to the public interest, conform to such nomination, and shall inform the Department without delay of his entire action in the matter; but nothing in this paragraph shall apply to a pay officer relieved from duty for misconduct. 1048. When the office of paymaster or assistant paymaster becomes vacant, by death or otherwise, in ships at sea, or on foreign stations, or on the Pacific coast of the United States, the senior officer present may make an acting appointment of any fit person, who shall perform the duties thereof until another paymaster or assistant paymaster shall report for duty. (Sec. 1381, R. S., and Art. 1051.) CHAPTER XXIV. PAY AND ALLOWANCES. SECTION 1.-PAY AND BOUNTIES, NAVY. 1049. When a volunteer naval service is authorized by law, Pay of volunthe officers therein shall be entitled to receive the same pay as teer officers. officers of the same grades, respectively, in the Regular Navy. (Sec. 1559, R. S.) Extra pay or bidden. 1050. No officer in any branch of the public service, or any other person whose salary, pay, or emoluments are fixed by law emoluments foror regulations, shall receive any additional pay, extra allowance, or compensation, in any form whatever, for the disbursement of public money, or for any other service or duty whatever, unless the same is authorized by law, and the appropriation therefor explicitly states that it is for such additional pay, extra allowance, or compensation. (Sec. 1765, Ř. S.) Persons acting abroad. 1051. Any person performing the duties of paymaster or assistant paymaster in a ship at sea by appointment of the senior as paymaster officer present in case of vacancy of such office, as provided in article 1048, shall be entitled to receive the pay of such grade while so acting. (Sec. 1564, R. S.) 1052. The Secretary of the Navy shall deduct from the pay due each officer and enlisted man in the Navy and Marine Corps, the sum of twenty cents per month, to be applied to the fund for naval hospitals. (Secs. 1614 and 4808, R. S.) 1053. (1) Officers are entitled to sea pay while attached to and serving on board any ship in commission under the control of the Navy Department, the Coast Survey, or the Bureau of Fisheries, or while embarked as a passenger in any such vessel by order of competent authority. (2) Officers attached to a ship in commission receive sea pay. when temporarily absent. (3) Credit for sea service does not necessarily depend upon the right to draw sea pay. Hospital fund. Sea pay. Sea service. When sea pay 1054. (1) The sea pay of all officers begins from the date of reporting on board the ship named in their orders, provided such begins. ship be actually in commission. (2) The sea pay of commissioned officers ordered to join a ship in foreign waters begins from the date of sailing from the United States. 1055. (1) Officers of the Navy when performing, under orders, any duty which does not entitle them to sea pay (Art. 1053) receive shore pay. (2) All commissioned officers of the Navy on shore duty beyond the continental limits of the United States shall while so serving receive ten per centum additional of their pay as provided by law, Shore pay. Ordered to duty under Coast Survey or Bureau of Fisheries, etc. Temporary ab sence. Leave pay. Suspension from duty by sentence of court-martial. ed. Sick or wound Absent out leave. and such increase shall commence from the date of sailing from the United States for shore duty beyond the seas. (3) Officers proceeding to and from their stations under orders are entitled to pay as on duty, provided there is no unnecessary delay on their part. (4) Officers not on sea pay, when ordered for attendance before or on a court or board, receive shore pay from the time of leaving their domiciles until their return thereto by order of proper authority, though they may have been in the interval temporarily relieved from attendance by the president of the court or board. (5) Officers ordered to report by letter to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor for duty in the Coast Survey, the LightHouse Board, or under the Bureau of Fisheries, are entitled to shore pay from the date of their reporting by letter in obedience to said orders. (6) Where no “waiting orders" pay is provided by law, officers in that status receive shore pay. 1056. A temporary leave of absence does not detach an officer from duty nor affect his rate of pay.. 1057. (1) All commissioned officers of the Navy other than those whose pay is fixed by section 1556, R. S., when on duty or waiting orders shall be allowed, at the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, thirty days' leave of absence without change of pay or allowance in any one year, or sixty days, provided that the same be taken once in two years, or three months if taken once only in three years, or four months if taken once only in four years. If the absence does not cover the entire period allowed, the balance thereof shall be placed to the officer's credit as belonging to the last year or years of the four considered, and may be made available for future leave. For all absence in excess of that provided for above, leave pay shall be allowed. (Sec. 1265, R. S.) (2) Officers entitled to full pay on leave under the provisions of paragraph 1 of this article shall receive half pay for all leave in excess of that specified therein. Other officers when on leave or waiting orders shall receive the leave or waiting orders pay fixed by section 1555, R. S. (3) An officer suspended from duty by sentence of court-martial shall receive the pay to which he would be entitled if waiting orders, unless otherwise provided in the sentence. 1058. All commissioned officers of the Navy other than those whose pay is fixed by section 1556, R. S., suffer no change in pay on account of absence due to sickness or wounds, or when lawfully absent from duty, with the exception of the ten per cent increase of pay for sea duty, or shore duty beyond the seas, which can not be credited unless the officer concerned is actually performing such with- duty. When absent without leave, all officers forfeit pay and allowances during such absence, unless the absence is excused as unavoidable. Preparatory orders. Furlough pay. Retired pay. 1059. Preparatory orders do not change the rate of pay of an officer receiving them. 1060. Officers on furlough shall receive only one-half of the pay to which they would have been entitled if on leave of absence. (Sec. 1557, R. S.) 1061. (1) An officer on the retired list shall receive only his retired pay; if ordered to active duty he shall receive the pay and allowances of the grade from which he was retired. (2) Until June 6, 1912, any naval officer on the retired list may, at the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, be ordered to such duty as he may be able to perform at sea or on shore, and while so employed shall receive the pay and allowances of an officer of the active list of the grade from which he was retired. 1062. An officer of the Navy wholly retired is entitled to not An officer more than one year's pay of his grade, and his name shall be wholly retired. omitted from the Navy Register. the service. 1063. (1) The pay of an officer of the Navy upon his original Pay on origientry into the service, except when he is required to give an al entry into official bond, shall begin upon the date of his taking the oath of office if his acceptance of the appointment bears the same or a prior date, or upon the date of acceptance if the latter bears a later date. When he is required to give a bond, his pay shall begin upon the date of the approval of his bond by the Secretary of the Navy, provided he has already accepted his appointment and taken the oath of office. (2) An officer not bonded, on first claiming pay after his entry into the service, shall furnish the pay officer with a copy of his appointment and oath of allegiance, or of the letter accompanying his commission or warrant, certified by himself to be correct; and in his certificate he shall state the date of his acceptance of the appointment and of his taking the oath required. A bonded officer shall furnish a certified copy of the letter approving his bond, in addition to the above. Dates for lon 1064. An officer entitled to increased pay for length of service or promotion shall be credited with such increase upon the books gevity pay. of the pay officer having his accounts as soon as it becomes due. The pay officer shall file as vouchers with his rolls for the quarter in which the increase begins the originals, or certified copies, of all papers which establish the correctness of the credit, and shall note on the roll any other data by which he is governed. In any case where the claim for such credit is not perfectly established, the pay officer shall apply to the Secretary of the Navy for instructions, forwarding with such application all the papers bearing upon the case. 1065. A pay officer, when promoted, is entitled to increased Promotion of pay from the date of his promotion, his bond in the lower grade pay officer. being binding until his new bond in the higher grade is approved. officer. ac 1066. (1) When a pay officer is detached from duty involving Personal accounts with the Treasury Department, and is ordered to his home counts of payin the United States, and directed to settle accounts, his personal account shall be forwarded to the Auditor for the Navy Department with his final returns, and shall not again be taken up, either by himself or another pay officer, except under authorization from the Auditor. (2) When a pay officer is detached from duty involving accounts with the Treasury Department, and is at once ordered to similar or other duty, his personal account may be taken up by himself or another pay officer upon presentation of certificate to the fact that all public funds have been properly deposited or transferred; this certificate shall accompany the returns to the Auditor. (3) When detached from duty which does not involve accounts with the Treasury Department, authorization from the Auditor for the transfer of a pay officer's personal account is unnecessary. Accounts of 1067. When an officer is granted leave of absence, placed on officers not on furlough, or directed to await orders, his account shall be transduty. ferred to the pay officer of such shore station as he may prefer. Orders involv- 1068. An officer whose orders involve a change in the rate of ing a change of his pay shall present them to the pay officer having his accounts, rate of pay. for the preparation of such copies of the orders and endorsements as he may require. The officer shall certify the copies and also the time he left or arrived at his station or domicile. Officers failing 1069. If an officer fails to pass the examination preliminary to pass examina- to promotion, and passes upon a subsequent one, or if he fails to tion for promo- attend when ordered or permitted to be thus examined, for any tion at proper time. cause other than physical disability, and afterwards, on examination, is found qualified and promoted, his pay for the higher grade shall begin on the date of his new commission. Officers leav 1070. Officers dismissed or resigning shall be paid including ing the service. the date they receive official notice of dismissal or acceptance of resignation unless another date is specified as the one from which it shall take effect. The proper pay officer shall be notified, by the officer under whom the dismissed or resigning officer is serving, of such final date. (Art. 1348.) Pay, allowances, etc., of nurse corps. Checked for hospital fund. Accounts, where carried. Honorable 1071. (1) The superintendent and chief nurses, and nurses, of the nurse corps (female) shall, respectively, receive the same pay and allowances, emoluments, and privileges as are now or may hereafter be provided by or in pursuance of law for the nurse corps (female) of the Army. (2) All members of the nurse corps (female) shall be checked twenty cents a month for the hospital fund as in the cases of officers and enlisted men. (3) The accounts of members of said corps shall be carried by the pay officer of the station to which they are attached, on the regular navy pay rolls, but shall be entered and recapitulated separately. 1072. (1) If any enlisted man, being honorably discharged, discharge money. shall reenlist for four years within four months thereafter, he shall, on presenting his honorable discharge or on accounting in a satisfactory manner for its loss, be entitled to pay during the said four months equal to that to which he would have been entitled if he had been employed in actual service. Continuous service pay. Detention be (2) Any man who has received an honorable discharge from his last term of enlistment, or who has received a recommendation for reenlistment upon the expiration of his last term of service of not less than three years, who reenlists for a term of four years within four months from the date of his discharge, shall receive an increase of one dollar and thirty-six cents per month to the pay prescribed for the rating in which he serves for each consecutive reenlistment. 1073. (1) All petty officers and persons of inferior rating, yond expiration serving afloat either on foreign station or in home squadrons, who of enlistment. may be detained in the service after the expiration of their enlist ment, under the provisions of section 1422 of the Revised Statutes, or who may reenter to serve until the return to an Atlantic or Pacific port of the vessel to which they belong, and until their regular discharge therefrom, shall receive, for the time during which they are so detained or shall so serve beyond their original terms of enlistment, an addition of one-fourth of their former pay. (2) In order to sustain a charge for such additional payment, the pay officer must produce, upon the settlement of his account, a certificate of the captain that the persons to whom such additional |