Officers falling 1192. If an officer fails to pass the examination preliminary to to pass examina- promotion, and passes upon a subsequent one, or if he fails to attend tion for promo- when ordered or permitted to be thus examined, for any cause other than physical disability, and afterwards, on examination, is found qualified and promoted, his pay for the higher grade will begin on the date of his new commission.

tion at proper time.

Officers leaving the service.

Pay of enlisted men fixed by the

President.

ty.

Clothing boun

Honorable-discharge money.

Continuousservice pay.

Detention be

of enlistment.

1193. Officers resigning from the service or dismissed shall be paid up to, and inclusive of, the day upon which they receive official notice of such dismissal or of the acceptance of resignation, unless some other date is particularly mentioned as the date from which it shall take effect.

1194. (1) The pay to be allowed to petty officers and the pay and bounty upon enlistment of seamen, ordinary seamen, firemen, and coal passers in the naval service shall be fixed by the President. (See sec. 1569, R. S.)

(2) As a bounty to encourage the enlistment of boys as apprentices in the Navy, the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to furnish to each apprentice, after his enlistment, and when first received on board ship, an outfit of clothing, not to exceed in value the sum of forty-five dollars. (Act of March 1, 1889.)

1195. (1) If any enlisted man or apprentice, being honorably discharged, 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.

(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. (3) Should the holder of any discharge from the Navy fail to reenlist within four months from the date of its issue, he will receive no pecuniary advantage on account of his previous naval service.

1196. (1) All petty officers and persons of inferior rating, servyond expiration ing either on foreign stations or in home squadrons, who may be detained in the service after the expiration of their enlistment, 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.

Sea men per

ment.

(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 compensation has been allowed did reenlist as aforesaid, or were detained by him under the section referred to.

1197. Every seaman, ordinary seaman, or landsman, who performing duty in forms the duty of a fireman or coal passer shall be entitled to receive, engine depart in addition to his compensation as seaman, ordinary seaman, or landsman, a compensation at the rate of thirty-three cents a day for the time he is employed as fireman or coal passer. (See sec. 1570, R. S.)

1198. A seaman transferred to a merchant ship in distress and Seamen transpaid thereon, is not entitled to be paid by the United States for the ferred to a ship time so engaged; but it shall be the duty of his commanding officer in distress. to stipulate that such seaman's wages shall equal his pay in the Navy, and the amount agreed upon shall be entered upon the articles.

1199. Petty officers or enlisted men absent from their stations or Men absent duty without leave, or after their leave has expired, shall forfeit all without leave to pay accruing during such unauthorized absence.

SECTION 2.-PAY AND BOUNTIES, MARINE CORPS.

forfeit pay.

Pay and allow

1200. (1) The officers of the Marine Corps shall be entitled to receive the same pay and allowances, and the enlisted men shall be ances. entitled to receive the same pay and bounty for reenlisting as are or may be provided by or in pursuance of law for the officers and enlisted men of like grades in the infantry of the Army. (Sec. 1612, R. S.)

(2) In determing the allowances referred to in the foregoing paragraph of this article the United States Army Regulations shall govern as far as practicable.

1201. (1) All officers of the Marine Corps are entitled to ten per Longevity pay. cent in addition to their current yearly pay, as given in the pay tables, for each and every period of five years' service, provided the total amount of such increase shall not exceed forty per cent of their current yearly pay, and provided further, that the pay of a colonel shall not exceed four thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and that of a lieutenant colonel four thousand dollars per annum.

(2) In calculating the increased pay of marine officers for length of service, the whole term of service from the date of original entry shall be taken, and not alone the period of service in the rank which they hold.

1202. The Secretary of the Navy shall deduct from the pay due each of the officers and enlisted men of the Marine Corps at the rate of twenty cents per month for each officer and marine, to be applied to the fund for Ñavy hospitals. (Sec. 1614, R. S.)

Hospital fund.

Pay during

1203. (1) Marine officers when absent on account of sickness or wounds, or lawfully absent from duty and waiting orders, shall leave. receive full pay; when absent with leave, for other causes, full pay during such absence not exceeding in the aggregate thirty days in one year, and half pay during such absence exceeding thirty days in one year, except as hereafter provided. When absent without leave, they shall forfeit all pay during such absence, unless the absence is excused as unavoidable.

(2) All officers on duty shall be allowed, in the discretion of the Leave, cumuSecretary of the Navy, sixty days' leave of absence without deduc- lative. tion of pay or allowance, provided that the same be taken once in two years; and the leave of absence may be extended to three months, if taken once only in three years, or to four months if taken only once in four years.

1204. Marine officers retired from active service shall receive Pay of retired seventy-five per cent of the pay of the rank upon which they are marine officers. retired, including the percentage added for length of service.

1205. Marine officers wholly retired from the service shall be Marine officers entitled to receive, upon their retirement, one year's pay and allow- wholly retired. ances of the highest rank held by them at the time of their retirement.

Allowance

of 1206. Enlisted men of the Marine Corps are entitled to an clothing to en- annual allowance of uniform clothing. Any articles drawn in

listed men.

Increased pay.

excess of this allowance shall be charged against them, and for articles not drawn they shall receive pay according to the annual estimated value thereof; but such amounts shall not be paid until final discharge from the service.

1207. (1) All enlisted men serving on a first period of five years' service shall be entitled to one dollar per month for the third year, two dollars per month for the fourth year, and three dollars per month for the fifth year's service, in addition to the prescribed pay. (2) Interest at the rate of four per cent per annum shall be allowed on pay "retained" by law existing prior to March 16, 1896. 1208. The musicians of the Marine Band shall be entitled to the Marine Band. receive at the rate of four dollars a month each, in addition to their pay as noncommissioned officers, musicians, or privates of the Marine Corps, so long as they shall perform, by the order of the Secretary of the Navy or other superior officer, on the Capitol grounds or the President's grounds. (See Sec. 1613, R. S.)

Musicians

of

Pay and allowances of enlisted

men retired.

Authority for advance of pay.

Restrictions as

1209. Enlisted men of the Marine Corps when retired shall receive three-fourths of their pay at the time of retirement, including commutation for subsistence and clothing at the rate of nine dollars and fifty cents per month, but not including fuel and quarters. They shall be furnished with transportation in kind to their homes.

SECTION 3.-ADVANCES.

1210. The President of the United States may direct such advance as he may deem necessary and proper to such persons in the naval service as may be employed on distant stations, where the discharge of the pay and emoluments to which they are entitled can not be regularly effected. (Sec. 1563, R. S.)

1211. Overpayments, other than such as are produced by authorto overpayments. ized advances, will be invariably disallowed, whether made in money, clothing, or small stores, excepting payments for the commutation of rations, and such advances in clothing or small stores as may have been made by the previous order of the captain of a ship, upon the ground that they were necessary to the health and comfort of the men, which order must be produced. A general approval of the roll in which the advances are charged will not be sufficient.

Advances to

1212. (1) All officers of the Navy and Marine Corps, when officers ordered to ordered to duty on board vessels attached to the Asiatic, South foreign duty. Atlantic, European, or Pacific stations, or to vessels detailed for duty on said stations, or to shore stations in the Philippine Islands, the Samoan Islands, the Island of Guam, or the Hawaiian Islands, shall be entitled to an advance of pay equal to three months' sea pay, and when ordered to other sea duty, or to shore duty in the islands of Cuba or Puerto Rico, to an advance of pay equal to two months' sea pay, provided they have not received an advance of pay within the previous twelve months.

Transfer from

(2) This advance will be paid by any purchasing pay officer on the presentation of his orders by any officer of the Navy or Marine Corps.

(3) Officers transferred from one ship to another, both being in one ship to an- commission for sea service, are not entitled to an advance of pay on

other.

account of such transfer.

(4) Officers are entitled to receive the pay due them up to the Advances not date of sailing, without reference to the advance received. Should checked until the ship, however, be detained beyond the time covered in such ship sails. advance, officers shall have the amount checked against them by the pay officer; but may, upon proper application, receive an additional advance at the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy.

vance.

(5) The purchasing pay officer shall, on paying an advance, Duty of officer indorse upon the original order of the officer receiving it the date making the adand the amount advanced; and he shall also notify the pay officer of the ship, without delay, of every such advance paid. A certified copy of the order upon which advanced pay is furnished should in all cases accompany the voucher.

(6) Every officer who, after being ordered to duty, receives an Duty of officers advance of pay shall immediately give notice thereof to the pay receiving an adofficer taking up his accounts, and no officer shall knowingly receive pay which should be checked against such advance.

vance.

pay of

(7) In cases where such advance of pay has been made, the pay Duty of officer of the ship on board of which the officer receiving it reports ficer of ship. for duty shall, without delay, inform both the Auditor for the Navy Department and the purchasing pay officer who made the advance, that he has checked the specified amount, adding the name of the ship to which such officer is first attached, the officer's name and rank, the date of the order, amount of pay advanced, and from whom received.

(8) Pay clerks may, upon application to the Secretary of the Navy, be allowed an advance as herein provided.

Pay clerks.

Advances on

abroad.

1213. When an advance shall have been made to an officer, on competent authority, for travel in foreign countries or to join or orders to travel return from a ship on a foreign station, he shall immediately after having completed his journey, transmit a statement to the Auditor for the Navy Department, accompanied, when possible, by substantiating vouchers, showing in detail the necessary expenditures he has incurred for such travel, and shall also transmit at the same time the original order under which it was performed.

Ration money

1214. The ration is not pay and will not be commuted in advance, nor shall commuted rations go to liquidate indebtedness to distinct from the Government, except when desired by the individuals commuting them.

pay.

or

1215. In all cases of advances or overpayments appearing on Entry on rolls the rolls, the name of the pay officer making such advance or over- of advances payment should be noted over the amount.

overpayments.

Advances to

1216. (1) Recruiting officers shall make no advance of pay unless specially authorized by the Navy Department; and in no case recruits. shall the amount advanced to petty officers exceed that advanced to seamen; and good security is to be taken for every advance until the person receiving it shall have been received and mustered on board of a ship of the United States.

(2) Recruiting officers shall not pay any advance or bounty money except to the person entitled to receive it; and they must produce his receipt, together with a certificate from the commanding officer of the ship to which the recruit may have been sent, that he has been actually received on board, or a statement as to his nonreceipt.

(3) Recruits will be provided with necessary clothing and small stores upon the written order of the captain of the ship, and if an

Assignments of pay to be at

tested.

Allotments.

pay officer.

advance in money has been authorized but not paid, the amount of such issues shall be deducted from the advance.

(4) The pay officer of a receiving ship, when recruits are received to whom an advance has been paid, shall certify to the recruiting officer that the amounts of money paid to the recruits, as exhibited by the accounts received, have been duly charged to them.

SECTION 4.-ALLOTMENTS.

1217. Every assignment of wages due to persons enlisted in the naval service, and all powers of attorney or other authority to draw, receipt for, or transfer the same shall be void, unless attested by the commanding officer and paymaster. The assignment of wages must specify the precise time when they commence. (Sec. 1576, R. S.)

1218. (1) Each person in the Navy and Marine Corps serving at remote stations or on board a seagoing ship, except apprentices on cruising training ships, shall, with the approval of his commanding officer, be allowed to allot such portion of his pay for the support of his family or other relatives, or for his own savings, as he may desire.

Made out by (2) Allotments shall be made out by the pay officer at the earliest possible moment after a ship is commissioned; and, after approval, shall be promptly forwarded by him, as herein required, in order to insure payment when due.

How made, (3) An allotment shall be executed in duplicate, and in the case registered, and of an enlisted person, witnessed by the commanding officer and paid. paymaster. After having been signed, it must be approved by the commanding officer, and registered by the pay officer, who shall be responsible for its deduction from the grantor's pay. Both copies shall be forwarded to the Auditor for the Navy Department, who will forward to the purchasing pay officer the copy intended for him. An allotment shall be made payable on the last day of the month, and for a stated term. In special cases it may be registered at the Auditor's office.

Death or dis

(4) The death, discharge, resignation, forfeiture of pay by sencharge of person tence of court-martial, or desertion, of a person who has an allothaving allotment running will be cause for stopping the same, and the pay offiment. cer of the ship to which the person was attached shall notify the Auditor for the Navy Department by the first opportunity that may occur; in default of which the pay officer will be held liable for amounts paid by the purchasing pay officer in consequence of such neglect. When an allotment is stopped, the pay officer shall charge the allotment for as many months in advance as will probably be required for information to reach the Auditor.

Expiration of,

otherwise.

(5) Immediately upon the return of a ship to the United States, by limitation or at the expiration of her cruise, the pay officer shall send to the Auditor for the Navy Department a list of the allotments to be stopped. He shall also notify that office of the expiration of any allotment by limitation, stating the amount checked by himself and the last month for which checked.

Cases of cap

(6) In cases of the capture of officers or men who have made ture, allotments allotments which may expire after their capture, the monthly payto continue. ments of the same shall be continued until otherwise ordered.