SECTION 13.-UNIFORM. ulations. etc., not to be 203. All persons belonging to the Navy must strictly conform Conformance to such regulations for uniforms as may be published from time to uniform regto time by the Navy Department. 204. The clothes, arms, military outfits, and accouterments Clothes, arms, furnished by the United States to any enlisted person in the sold, etc. Navy or Marine Corps, or required by such persons as a part of their prescribed uniforms or outfits, shall not be sold, bartered, exchanged, pledged, loaned, or given away, except by competent authority therefor. SECTION 14.-REVEILLE AND TATTOO. 205. Reveille shall be sounded in port when all hands are called in the morning. Tattoo shall be sounded at 9 p. m. 206. Flagships in all ports of the United States, and in all foreign ports where the local regulations admit, shall fire a morning and evening gun, the former at the beginning of reveille and the latter at the end of tattoo. Reville and tattoo. Morning and evening guns. CHAPTER IV. · INSTRUCTIONS FOR OFFICERS IN GENERAL. Observance of 207. (1) Every officer of the Navy and Marine Corps shall the regulations make himself acquainted with, observe, obey, and, so far as his and all orders. authority extends, enforce the laws and regulations for the government of the Navy and the provisions of all orders and circulars emanating from the Navy Department. In the absence of instructions officers will conform to the usages and customs of the naval service. (2) Officers of all grades must carefully examine the regulations governing commanders-in-chief and captains, under which frequent reference is made to the duty of subordinate officers. (3) Any officer who may be required to take official action under Inquiries as to any regulation of the Department, or any law governing or refer- Interpretation. ring thereto, who may desire instructions or explanation as to the force, meaning, or effect of such law or regulation, shall address his communication of inquiry through the proper official channel to the Secretary of the Navy. 208. All officers in their relations with foreign states and with the Governments or agents thereof, shall observe and obey the law of nations. Relations with foreign states. knowledge of 209. If any person under the Navy Department has knowledge. Report of of any fraud, collusion, or improper conduct on the part of any frauds, etc. purchasing or other agent or contractor, or on the part of any person employed in superintending repairs, receiving or receipting for supplies, or has knowledge of any fraud, collusion, or improper conduct in any matters connected with the naval service he shall report the same immediately, in writing over his proper signature, to his immediate superior, specifying the particular act or acts of misconduct, fraud, neglect, or collusion, and the means of proving the same. Where a rob 210. In case of robbery, or on the discovery of loss of money or other public property, the person responsible for its custody shall bery occurs. immediately report the occurrence, and the senior officer present shall order a board of three officers to investigate the case, and to report fully all the circumstances connected therewith, which report shall be forwarded to the Secretary of the Navy, with a statement from the senior officer. 211. Officers shall report to their immediate superiors all Offenses comoffenses committed by persons belonging to the Navy or Marine mitted on shore to be reported. Corps, while on shore, which may come under their observation. 212. (1) Officers shall avoid any unnecessary expenditure of Responsibility public money or stores and, so far as may be in their power, pre- of money or for expenditure vent the same in others. Officers shall be held accountable for any stores. wasteful or improper expenditure that they may direct, authorize, or knowingly permit. Public transportation of stores. Incurring debts. Persons on board ship not to engage in trade. Gold, etc., taken as freight. (2) Public conveyance for the transportation of stores shall always be used when available. Heads of departments on board vessels, having stores to be shipped, shall make inquiry and keep themselves informed as to the movements of any public vessel by which the stores may be transported. 213. (1) Officers serving afloat shall before leaving port pay, or provide for paying, any debts they may have incurred. No officer shall at any time or place contract debts without a reasonable expectation of being able to discharge them. (2) It is enjoined upon all officers that failure to discharge their just indebtedness brings discredit not only upon themselves but upon the naval service. 214. No person in the Navy serving on board ship shall engage in trade or introduce any article on board for the purpose of trade without authority. 215. When gold, silver, or jewels shall be placed on board any ship for freight or safe keeping, as provided by the Articles for the Government of the Navy, the captain shall sign bills of lading for the amount and be responsible for the same. The usual percentage shall be demanded from the shippers and its amount shall be divided as follows: One-fourth to the commander-in-chief, onehalf to the captain of the ship, one-fourth to the navy pension fund. To entitle the commander-in-chief to receive any part of the amount, he must have signified to the captain of the ship, in writing, his readiness to unite with him in the responsibility for the care of the treasure or other valuables. When a commanderin-chief does not participate in a division, two-thirds shall inure to the captain of the ship and the remainder to the pension fund. 216. No officer shall order into service or assign to duty any dered to duty by officer who may be on leave of absence or on furlough, or make the Secretary of the Navy. any change in the distribution or arrangement of officers or enlisted men established by the Secretary of the Navy, except where required by the exigencies of the service on a foreign station, or as provided for in article 363; all such changes and the reasons therefor shall be reported to the Navy Department without delay by the officer ordering them. (Art. 1516, par. 2.) Officers or Acknowledging receipt of orders. Duty upon the receipt of orders. Duty when reporting in obedience to written orders. 217. Officers shall promptly acknowledge the receipt of all orders and, immediately after reporting in obedience thereto, communicate the fact and the date of reporting. (Arts. 234, 1108, and 1391.) 218. An order from competent authority to an officer of the Navy or of the Marine Corps requiring him to proceed to any point, but fixing no date and not expressing haste, shall be obeyed by leaving within four days after its receipt. If the order reads 'without delay," he shall leave within forty-eight hours; if "immediately," within twelve hours; and all officers shall endorse on their orders the date and hour of their receipt. The foregoing allowances of time do not apply to that part of an officer's orders which may require him to return to his regular station, etc., after performing the duty specified. 219. (1) When officers and others in the Navy or Marine Corps report for duty in accordance with written orders they shall present the orders to the officer to whom they report. (2) Officers shall endorse upon the orders of those who report to them the fact that the person ordered has reported for duty, and the date and place at which he so reported. 220. Officers visiting a command in the performance of any When visiting official duty connected therewith shall report to the commanding a command. officer. 221. (1) Orders issued by the Secretary or Assistant Secretary Execution of of the Navy direct to any commandant or other officer shall be orders. promptly executed and the proper bureau or other senior officer concerned immediately notified thereof. (2) If an officer receives an order from a superior annulling, An order received contrasuspending, or modifying one from another superior, or one con- dicting or contrary to instructions or orders from the Secretary of the Navy, flicting with anhe shall exhibit his orders, unless confidential and he has been for- other. bidden to do so, and represent the facts in writing to the superior from whom the last order was received. If, after such representation, the latter shall insist upon the execution of his order, it shall be obeyed, and the officer receiving and executing it shall report the circumstances to the superior from whom he received the original order. verting another from his duty. 222. An officer who diverts another from any service upon An officer dlwhich the latter has been ordered by a common superior, or requires him to act contrary to the orders of such superior, or interferes with those under his command, must immediately report, and show satisfactorily to the Secretary of the Navy or to the officer whose orders he has contravened, that the public interest required such action. All orders under such circumstances must be given in writing. obedience to or 223. Combinations of officers for the purpose of influencing Combinations legislation, remonstrating against orders, or complaining of de- for certain purposes forbidden. tails of duty, are forbidden. 224. An application for the revocation or modification of orders Not to delay to proceed will not justify any delay in their execution, if the offi- reporting in cer ordered is able to travel; and no person shall delay obedience ders. to an order for the purpose of making remonstrance or complaint. 225. All petitions, remonstrances, memorials, and communica- All communitions from any officer or officers of the Navy or Marine Corps, cations to Congress shall pass whether on the active or retired list, addressed to Congress, or to through the Deeither House thereof, or to any committee of Congress, on any sub-partment. ject of legislation relating to the Navy, pending, proposed, or suggested, shall be forwarded through the Navy Department, and not otherwise, except by authority of the Department. (Art. 244.) 226. No officer shall use language which may tend to diminish the confidence in or respect due to a superior in command; and it is the duty of every officer who hears such language to endeavor to check it and to report the same immediately to his superior. 227. (1) All votes, resolutions, or publications in praise or censure of any person in the naval service are forbidden. (2) No officer, clerk, or employe in the United States Government employ shall at any time solicit contributions from other officers, clerks, or employees in the Government service for a gift or present to those in a superior official position; nor shall any such officials or clerical superiors receive any gift or present offered or presented to them as a contribution from persons in Government employ receiving a less salary than themselves; nor shall any officer or clerk make any donation as a gift or present to any official superior. Every person who violates this section shall be summarily discharged from the Government employ. (Sec. 1784, R. S.) 52472-09- -5 Language reflecting upon a superior. Testimonials and presents forbidden. |