Payment for

light.

Requisitions for fuel.

Course of requlsition.

Public bills.

Heat allow

ance for quar

arate plant.

1119. (1) In arranging payment on account of light furnished to officers, each officer shall forward the bills from the dealers supplying the illuminant to the general storekeeper, with a certificate that the light has been supplied for his personal or family use only and has not been sold or exchanged, and is not in excess of his accumulated allowance for the fiscal year to the end of the period covered by the bill. In the case of an excess, cash, check, or money order shall accompany the bill for the excess in full herefor at contract rates. The general storekeeper shall prepare public bills covering such issues and attach to the originals thereof the certificates of the officers concerned. (2) In the case of fuel, blank fuel-allowance requisitions shall be furnished on application to general storekeepers, and officers shall make requisitions as needed, stating the character and amount required, and certifying as provided in article 1118, paragraph 3, and that upon receipt of the fuel required the accumulated allowance for the fiscal year, including the calendar month covered, will not be exceeded. In every case where the accumulated allowance is exceeded, requisition shall be accompanied by cash, check on local bank, or money order, for payment in full at the contract price, for the amount in excess.

(3) Ordinarily, officers shall not submit requisitions for less than the equivalent of half a cord of oak wood, or oftener than once each calendar month.

(4) Requisitions prepared as above shall be forwarded to the general storekeeper of the station (or, in the case of officers on duty where there is no station, to the general storekeeper of the nearest navy yard or station), who shall notify the contractor to deliver the quantity of fuel requird. The requisition shall then be returned to the officer who made it, who shall receipt and return it to the general storekeeper. Requisitions shall not be receipted in advance of delivery. An officer on detached duty shall also furnish the dealer's bill for the quantity delivered, which bill shall bear the officer's certificate that he has inspected and passed the fuel, both as to quantity and quality.

(5) The general storekeeper shall prepare public bills covering such issues and attach to the originals thereof the requisitions and certificates of the officers referred to in the preceding paragraph.

(6) In cases where officers are occupying quarters other than public, which are not heated by separate plant, or for which it ters without sep- is impracticable to furnish fuel in kind, requisitions shall be submitted for the full authorized allowance of fuel, as such, at the rate of four dollars per cord, accompanied by a certificate that the service thereby covered has been rendered for the personal or family use only of the officer, and indicating to whom payment shall be made. General storekeepers shall prepare vouchers in favor of such persons, attaching thereto the certificates mentioned.

Quarters heated by govern

ment plant.

(7) Officers who occupy quarters heated by a government plant shall be restricted to the quantity of fuel required for kitchen uses only. Requisitions for such fuel shall be certified accordingly.

Money trans- (8) Money paid by officers for heat and light shall be transferred by gen- ferred by the general storekeeper to the paymaster of the yard eral storekeeper. or station with a statement in duplicate showing the amount

received from each officer, one copy of which, receipted by the yard paymaster, shall be returned to the general storekeeper.

Amounts taken

of yard.

(9) The amounts so transferred shall be taken up by the paymaster of the yard or station in the accounts of the quarter up by paymaster in which the payments were made, so that the total receipts from this source shall agree with the amounts paid to the general storekeeper, as shown on the quarterly abstract.

Certificate of

(10) Each general storekeeper shall certify at the foot of the quarterly abstract that the amount stated therein has been trans- general storekeeper. ferred to the paymaster of the yard or station. In the event of a change of paymasters during the quarter, the amount of money transferred to each shall be stated separately.

Statement of

(11) General storekeepers shall attach to each abstract of heat and light furnished a statement of all vouchers prepared vouchers. by them covered by such abstracts; also a summary of the titles to which the expenditures are chargeable. For heat and light issued free the titles shall be those to which the pay of the officers concerned is chargeable. The amounts paid for fuel issued in excess of allowance at contract prices shall be summarized, the total of the summary thus aggregating the total bills prepared.

1120. (1) All officers of the Navy, except commissioned officers of the line, Medical and Pay Corps, and commissioned warrant officers, are entitled to one ration, or to commutation therefor, while attached to and doing duty on board of a seagoing vessel.

(2) Rations shall not be allowed to officers on the retired list. (Sec. 1595, R. S.)

(3) The law does not provide for the allowance of rations to commissioned officers of the Marine Corps.

(4) All enlisted men in the Navy attached to any United States vessel or station and doing duty thereon, and midshipmen, shall be allowed a ration or commutation thereof. (Sec. 1579, R. S.)

(5) Petty officers of the Navy, performing duty which deprives them of quarters and their rations or commutation thereof, shall receive nine dollars per month in addition to the pay of their rating.

(6) The noncommissioned officers, privates, and musicians of the Marine Corps attached to ships of the Navy shall each be entitled to receive one navy ration daily. (Sec. 1615, R. S., and act of March 2, 1891.)

(7) Enlisted men on board a ship for duty or passage, but not borne upon the rolls, are supernumeraries entitled to pay, and shall be rationed with the crew upon the order of the captain.

(8) The rations of enlisted men shall be commuted only upon the written order of the captain. (Art. 1237.)

Rations.

1121. Prisoners embarked in a naval vessel shall be subsisted, Subsistence of and payment shall be made by the pay officer to messes for each prisoners embarked in ships prisoner subsisted therein at the following daily rates: Cabin, of the Navy. two dollars; wardroom, one dollar and fifty cents; other officers' messes, one dollar. If not in an officers' mess, one ration shall be allowed. No other charge shall be made, nor shall any person thus subsisted be required to pay any compensation to the mess in which he may live.

1122. For the subsistence of pilots, one dollar and fifty cents per day shall be allowed to a wardroom mess, and one dollar per day to any other officers' mess. When messed in any other than an officers' mess, or by themselves, they shall be allowed one ration each.

Subsistence of

pilots.

Subsistence of 1123. (1) No allowance shall be made to any mess for the naval or civil of subsistence of officers ordered to take passage in a ship of the Navy.

ficers as passengers.

Deduction of

from account of

(2) There being no allowance for a minister or other civil officer for whom passage may be ordered in a government ship, provision must be made and the expense defrayed by such passenger himself.

1124. (1) The value of one ration per day shall be deducted value of ration from the account of every naval or marine officer admitted into a persons in hospi- naval hospital during his continuance therein, which amount shall be credited to the naval hospital fund by the pay officers on whose books such persons are borne. (Sec. 4812, R. S.)

tal.

Rations of off

(2) In computing the number of days patients are subsisted in hospital, the day of admission shall be disregarded and the day of discharge shall be included.

1125. Officers of the Navy on sea service, with the exceptions cers temporarily mentioned in article 1120, paragraph 1, are entitled to their rations while temporarily doing the duty of the ship on shore.

on shore.

Pay clerks assisting in settlement of accounts. Subsistence

while cooperating with Army.

Army and navy hospitals.

to

Persons

other

1126. A pay clerk assisting a pay officer to settle his accounts shall be allowed pay, but not rations, during the time so employed. 1127. Officers and men of the Navy or Marine Corps under orders to act on shore in coöperation with the land troops, will be rationed, upon requisition of the commanding officer, by the Subsistence Department of the Army.

SECTION 8.-MISCELLANEOUS ALLOWANCES.

1128. (1) Authority for admission to an army and navy general hospital may be obtained by all persons of the Navy and Marine Corps, on the active and retired lists, from the Surgeon General of the Navy on the report of a board of medical survey or, when that is impracticable, on the certificate of a naval medical officer, clearly stating the applicant's disability.

(2) The hospital accommodation will be divided between patients of the military and naval services and the Marine Corps. The length of treatment in hospital will be determined by the medical officer in command.

sent 1129. (1) Officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine than Corps when on duty at a place where there is no naval hospital, naval hospitals. may be sent to other hospitals upon the order of the commander

in-chief, or the senior officer present, and the expenses of such
persons shall be paid from the naval hospital fund; and no other
charge shall be made against their accounts than such as are made
for persons under treatment at naval hospitals.

Pay of enlist- (2) The pay of an enlisted man, when under treatment at a
ed man in hos- hospital in the United States, ceases upon the expiration of his
pital, etc.
term of enlistment. (Arts. 792, par. 7, and 799, par. a.)

Pensions

of

1130. Whenever any officer, seaman, or marine entitled to a persons in Naval pension is admitted to the Naval Home, Philadelphia, or to a Home or hospital. naval hospital, his pension, while he remains there, shall be deducted from his accounts and paid to the Secretary of the Navy for the benefit of the fund from which such home or hospital, respectively, is maintained. (Act of May 4, 1898.)

Expenses in- 1131. (1) Expenses incurred by an officer of the Navy for curred for medi- medicines and medical attendance shall not be allowed unless cines, etc. they were incurred when he was on duty, and the medicines could not have been obtained from naval supplies, or the attendance

of a naval medical officer could not have been had. (Sec. 1586, R. S.)

(2) Officers of the Navy or Marine Corps on duty where the services of a naval medical officer are not available shall, as a basis of claim for expenses, report any sickness or injury, as soon as they are able, to the Surgeon General of the Navy.

(3) All claims for expenses incurred for medicines and medical attendance shall be forwarded to the Surgeon General of the Navy for examination and approval. After approval such claims shall be forwarded to the Paymaster General for payment by such officer as he may designate. Claims shall be accompanied by receipted bills and all other papers pertaining thereto.

(4) Where the services of a naval medical officer are obtainTreatment by able, officers in a duty status may have, under the control of the specialist. medical officer in charge, when the latter is not in his own opinion sufficiently skilled to properly treat the affection, the benefit of consultation with and treatment by a specialist: Provided, That such consultation and treatment are by the prior authority of the Surgeon General, and under the direction and control of the medical establishment of the Department, as the law does not permit the allowance of expense of consultation with or treatment by a specialist when it is incurred upon the mere volition of the officer concerned. Ordinarily it is assumed that such consultation with a specialist is for the purpose of confirming the diagnosis and outlining the treatment, the medical officer in charge of the case being regarded as professionally capable of carrying out further treatment.

(5) Expenses for medicines and medical attendance shall not be Expenses in allowed in the case of enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps case of enlisted where naval medical supplies are available and where the services man. of a naval medical officer can be had; nor shall they be allowed unless the sickness or injury has been promptly reported to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery by the officer in command; or, if on detached duty, as at wireless telegraph stations, subrecruiting stations, with naval militia, etc., by the enlisted man himself as soon as able.

(6) When officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Where there Corps, on detached duty, require immediate hospital treatment is no government hospital. where a naval hospital or a hospital of the United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service is not available, and when transportation to one or the other is not practicable, they will be admitted to a civil hospital and prompt information of the fact, together with a full statement as to the nature of the disability, shall be communicated to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery through official channels-either by the officer in command or, if on detached duty as set forth in paragraph 5 of this article, by the patient himself as soon as able.

in

1132. In the absence of the persons mentioned in article 248, Expenses paragraph 1, officers required to make oath in answering inter- curred in making oath. rogatories concerning the fitness of officers of the Navy or Marine Corps for promotion, shall do so before some other person authorized by law to administer oaths. In such case officers shall be careful to procure the necessary services at as reasonable a rate as possible, and transmit to the Department a voucher stating the sum paid. If, in the opinion of the Department, such sum is reasonable and proper, the necessary steps for reimbursement will be taken.

For service as divers.

seamen gunners,

1133. Enlisted men of the Navy, not under instruction or diving for practice, shall, when employed in submarine diving, receive extra compensation therefor, to be charged to the bureau for which the service is performed, at the rate of one dollar and twenty cents per hour for the actual time so employed under water.

Extra pay for 1134. (1) Every enlisted man who has been rated a seaman graduates of pet-gunner or holds a gun captain's certificate, or a certificate of ty officers' school, graduation from one or more classes of a petty officers' school of instruction, shall receive two dollars per month in addition to the pay of his rating for each such certificate. (Art. 786.)

etc.

For good con

(2) Every enlisted man of the Navy shall receive seventy-five duet medals, etc. cents per month in addition to the pay of his rating for each good conduct medal, pin, or bar which he may be awarded. The date of the award of a good conduct medal, pin, or bar shall be the date of the holder's discharge by reason of the expiration of the enlistment for which the medal, pin, or bar is given, the allowance of seventy-five cents per month to be reckoned from said date of award.

(3) Enlisted men of the Navy, after having qualified as gun pointers, according to standards of marksmanship and rules that may be prescribed from time to time by the Secretary of the Navy, and who are regularly detailed as gun pointers by the commanding officer of a vessel, shall receive monthly, in addition to the pay of their respective ratings, extra pay as follows:

(a) Heavy gun pointers (for guns of 8-inch caliber or larger) first class, ten dollars; second class, six dollars.

(b) Intermediate gun pointers (for guns from 4-inch to 7-inch, inclusive) first class, eight dollars; second class, four dollars.

(c) Secondary gun pointers (for guns from 1-pounder to 3-inch, inclusive) first class, four dollars; second class, two dollars.

(d) Extra pay shall be allowed a gun pointer qualified prior to November 28, 1907, during not less than two years from and after the date of his qualification; if qualified on or subsequent to November 28, 1907, during such time only as he remains qualified: Provided, That extra pay shall only be allowed a gun pointer while he is regularly detailed as a gun pointer at a gun of the class at which he qualified.

(4) Enlisted men of the Navy regularly detailed by the commanding officer of a vessel as gun captains, except at secondary battery guns, shall receive, in addition to the pay of their respective ratings, five dollars per month which, in the case of men holding certificates as gun captains or of graduation from the gun captain class, petty officers' school, shall include the two dollars per month to which such certificates entitle them.

(5) Besides the five dollars per month extra pay allowed them for submarine service, enlisted men serving with submarine torpedo boats who have been reported by their commanding officers to the Navy Department (Bureau of Navigation) as qualified for submarine torpedo boat work shall receive one dollar additional pay for each day during any part of which they shall have been submerged in a submarine torpedo boat while under way, but such further additional pay shall not exceed fifteen dollars in any one calendar month. (Executive order, November 8, 1905.)

(6) Men to be eligible for recommendation by their commanding officers as "qualified for submarine torpedo boat work," in