(2) When occurring.—(a) The dates of issue, renewal, and revocation of all appointments; (b) ratings; (c) disratings, and causes therefor. (3) Quarterly. (a) Marks for professional qualifications and conduct; (b) recommendations for honorable-discharge and good-conduct medals; (c) rating best qualified to fill; (d) offenses committed and punishments awarded. (4) On transfer.-All the information required in paragraph (3) to be entered quarterly, and the following additional: (a) Whether or not retention in service is desirable. (5) On discharge.-All the information required by paragraph (3) to be entered quarterly, and the following additional: (a) Date, place, cause, authority for and character of discharge, rate of pay, and state of account; (b) when an enlisted man is discharged while serving as coxswain to commander in chief, coxswain of a boat propelled by machinery, seaman in charge of hold, or landsman assigned as jack-of-the-dust or lamplighter, the fact must be noted upon his enlistment record in the space assigned to "rating;" and when an enlisted man is discharged who has had experience in running the engine of a launch, an ice machine, a refrigerating apparatus, or an evaporating plant, the fact shall be entered, in red ink, on his enlistment record; (c) all written requests of enlisted men regarding discharge while absent from the United States or from the coast of the United States where they may have enlisted, in which claims to transportation at Government expense may be waived, must, if granted, be entered in full on the enlistment record; (d) when an ordinary discharge is given the enlistment record must show whether or not the man is recommended for reenlistment, with the reasons for such recommendation; (e) when a person holding a continuous-service certificate is discharged and is "not recommended for reenlistment," the fact shall be indorsed upon his enlistment record with the reasons therefor; (f) an entry "Article 885 complied with" whenever the reports required by that article have been sent. (6) On desertion.-All of the information required by paragraph (3) to be entered quarterly, (ƒ) of paragraph 5 and following additional: (a) Date of desertion, place, attendant circumstances, rate of pay, and state of account. (7) On death. All of the information required by paragraph (3) to be entered quarterly, and the following additional: (a) Date, place, cause, place of burial or disposition of remains, rate of pay, and state of account. (8) Should the enlistment records be of an old form, and not contain columns for the required entries, they shall be made in some convenient place on the face of the record. (9) All entries should be made promptly as specified, and be duly signed by the captain. (10) In the case of transfer, the enlistment record is to accompany the man; upon discharge, desertion, or death, it shall be forwarded to the Bureau of Navigation. Errors and 849. (1) Any error or discrepancy which may at any time be observed in any enlistment_record shall be at once reported to the losses. Bureau of Navigation and authority requested to make the necessary correction. Petty officers. Acting appointments. (2) In the event of the loss of any enlistment records, application shall be made for copies. SECTION 5.-RATINGS AND DISRATINGS. 850. (1) Captains of ships shall, as far as practicable, fill vacant positions of petty officers, report their action to the Department, and submit the records of the men upon whom acting appointments have been conferred. (2) A landsman enlisted for a special position, shall be given an acting appointment in the rating of the position for which he was enlisted, immediately after being received on board a cruising ship. (3) Every person enlisted as a petty officer who does not hold a permanent appointment in the rating in which he enlisted shall be given a permanent appointment in that rating by the Bureau of Navigation. (4) Officer's stewards and cooks, and ship's cooks are rated men and not petty officers. They do not receive appointments, either acting or permanent, while serving in the messman branch. (5) No man shall be advanced in rating more than one class at a time, except by special authority, in each case, from the Bureau of Navigation. A petty officer must hold a permanent appointment in the rating in which he has served, or be under recommendation for such appointment after the full probationary service before being given an acting appointment in a higher. Water tenders may, however, be appointed from firemen, first class, who are qualified to fill that rating. (6) Petty officers shall be selected, as far as possible, from continuous-service men. When petty officers are selected for the seaman branch, preference shall be given to ex-apprentices and seaman gunners. (7) (a) Seamen holding gun captain's certificates shall be advanced to gun captains, second class, only through the rating of Coxswain or quartermaster, third class. They must have, for such advancement, not less than a "4" in signaling, and their marks in marksmanship with great guns and small arms must be noted on their record in reporting each advancement in rating. (b) No man shall be given an acting appointment as gun captain, second class, who does not hold a gun-captain's certificate. (c) Coxswains and quartermasters, third class, holding guncaptain's certificates, and gun captains, second and first classes. shall not be promoted or transferred into any other than the guncaptain branch. (8) In making ratings the rules printed on the back of enlistment records shall be consulted and complied with. (9) Members of the Hospital Corps (see art. 262) must pass satisfactorily a physical and professional examination before one or more medical officers prior to promotion; and enlisted men in the Navy or Marine Corps are eligible for transfer to this Corps. 851. When a man is selected for the position of a petty officer, the captain shall issue to him an acting appointment, which shall hold good for twelve months unless revoked for cause. Such acting appointment may be revoked at any time by the captain of the ship in which he is serving should the petty officer prove not qualified for the position he may be holding. Petty officers holding acting appointments shall receive the pay of the rating. 66 Permanent ap 852. When a petty officer has served satisfactorily in all respects under an acting appointment for a probationary period of twelve pointment. months, and is recommended on his enlistment record for an honorable discharge, has not less than a “4” in proficiency in rating, is a citizen of the United States, and has a good record, the captain shall recommend him to the Department for permanent appointment and submit his record. 853. (1) Should the Department not approve a recommendation Renewal of for a permanent appointment, or should the captain consider further acting appointprobationary service advisable, an acting appointment may be renewed. (2) Should an acting appointment expire by limitation of time while the holder is in a hospital for treatment or on board a receiving ship, it shall be renewed by the captain of the ship upon which his accounts are borne. ments. 854. (1) Except for those petty officers who belong to the crew Probationary of a receiving ship, the whole of the probationary service must be service. passed in a cruising ship, and a petty officer holding an acting appointment who is transferred to a receiving ship, or to a hospital for treatment, shall not receive credit for probationary service for the time he is there. (2) A petty officer honorably discharged while serving under an acting appointment, who reenlists within four months from date of discharge, shall receive credit for the probationary service performed under said appointment as soon as he is given an acting appointment under his new enlistment. Renewal or 855. When an acting appointment is renewed, the word "renewed," with the date, shall be entered on its face and signed by revocation. the captain; when revoked, the word "revoked," with the date and cause of revocation, shall be entered on its face and signed by the captain. 856. An apprentice, first class, during the last year of his enlistment, may be given an acting appointment as a petty officer, third class, of the seaman branch, and after he shall have served satisfactorily during nine months or more of the probationary period and is qualified, he shall be recommended for a permanent appointment previous to discharge. 857. Should a petty officer holding a permanent appointment in any rating be advanced to the next higher, he shall be given an acting appointment in said rating, and be required to serve under such appointment during the probationary period of twelve months subject to the rules given in articles 851 and 852. Apprentices. Advancement in rating. Transfer in 858. (1) Should a petty officer holding an acting appointment in any rating be transferred to another rating in the same class, he rating. shall be given an acting appointment in said rating and be required to serve during the probationary period of twelve months less onehalf the time he has already served under his first-mentioned acting appointment. (2) Should a petty officer holding a permanent appointment in any rating be transferred to another rating in the same class, he shall be given an acting appointment in said rating, subject to the Reduction by court-martial. Appointments, rules given in articles 851 and 852, except that the probationary period required shall be three months. 859. (1) A petty officer serving under a permanent appointment shall not be disrated except by sentence of a general or summary court-martial. (2) A petty officer serving under a permanent appointment, who is reduced by sentence of a court-martial to a lower class of petty officer, shall be considered as holding a permanent appointment in the rating to which he is reduced, and such fact shall be noted in red ink across his permanent appointment and signed by the captain. (See art. 1828, par. 7.) 860. Acting and permanent appointments are the property of the property of men. men to whom they have been issued and must be delivered to them upon transfer or discharge; while the men are serving on board ship, they shall be deposited with the captain for safe keeping. Enlisted men 861. (1) An enlisted man rated as mate or appointed a warrant not discharged officer is not thereby discharged from his enlistment. upon promotion. (2) In such cases, the enlistment record shall, when the man is serving afloat, be held on board the ship to which he is attached; if he is transferred to shore duty his enlistment record shall be forwarded to the Bureau of Navigation. 862. Men shall not be appointed as petty officers in the artificer branch unless they have the trade represented in the rating. 863. (1) Ex-apprentices with good records, who are qualified to perform the duties of a seaman, who have served continuously, and who are recommended by their commanding officers; and men who have completed the course of instruction in a training ship for landsmen, who are qualified to perform the duties of a seaman, who have reenlisted for four years within four months of the date of discharge, and who are recommended by their commanding officers, are eligible for detail for instruction as seamen gunners. In the case of petty officers who possess the above qualifications, those holding permanent appointments shall be detailed in the rating in which they are serving; those holding acting appointments shall have such acting appointments revoked previous to transfer. (2) The proficiency of men who take the prescribed course of instruction for seamen gunners, shall be determined by the report, to the Bureau of Navigation, of the Inspector of Ordnance under whose supervision the course is taken. (3) Men who have successfully completed the prescribed_course of instruction for seamen gunners, shall receive, from the Bureau of Navigation, a certificate as seaman gunner. (4) Men holding certificates as seamen gunners are entitled to the pay prescribed for said rating, and are entitled to reenlist as such. 864. (1) Persons holding either acting or permanent appointments as coxswains or quartermasters, third class, seamen, and apprentices, first class, who are in the last year of their enlistment and have not less than six months to serve, who have attained special proficiency as marksmen with great guns and small arms, or whose superior intelligence fits them to acquire such proficiency, and who by force of character and ability to command are deemed suitable to fill the rating of gun captain, are eligible, if citizens of the United States, for detail for the course of instruction on board a gunnery training ship; and upon the successful completion thereof, they will (3) Gun captains, having been trained as leading men, may be assigned, class for class, to fill any vacancy in the complement of the ship in the seaman branch, excepting vacancies for gunner's mates; but their rating shall not be changed by reason of such assignment. 865. Buglers will be supplied from the training stations, upon application to the Navy Department; but no apprentice detailed for such duty shall hold the rate or receive the pay of bugler during his term of service as an apprentice. 866. (1) No person shall be reduced below the rating in which he was received on board, except as provided for in article 851, or by order of the Navy Department, or by sentence of a court-martial. (2) A summary court-martial may disrate any rated person for incompetency. 867. Whenever a change of rating takes place the captain shall give to the pay officer an order in writing, stating the change of rating and the date it takes effect. 868. Every change of rating shall be fully entered in the log. 869. Any alien of the age of twenty-one years and upward who has enlisted or may enlist in the United States Navy or Marine Corps, and has served or may hereafter serve five consecutive years in the United States Navy, or one enlistment in the United States Marine Corps, and has been or may hereafter be honorably discharged, shall be admitted to become a citizen of the United States upon his petition, without any previous declaration of his intention to became such; and the court admitting such alien shall, in addition to proof of good moral character, be satisfied by competent proof of such person's service in and honorable discharge from the United States Navy or Marine Corps. (Act of July 26, 1894.) SECTION 6.-TRANSFERS. Buglers. Restrictions as to disratings. Changes in rat ing. Changes in rating to be logged. Naturalization. From one ship 870. (1) The transfer of an enlisted man from one ship or station to another, other than as provided for in article 871, shall only be or station to anmade as follows: (a) In home ports, by order of the Bureau of Navigation. (b) In foreign waters, by order of the commander in chief, when the interests of the service require it. (2) Transfers for temporary service between the ships of a fleet or squadron may be made at any time by the commander in chief or the senior officer present. (3) All transfers, whether permanent or for temporary service, shall be reported to the Bureau of Navigation. other. Removal of 871. (1) Sick persons may be sent to a hospital at any time upon the recommendation of the senior medical officer or of a medical board sick to hospital. of survey, approved by a commandant or senior officer present. |