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, which shall set forth clearly the particular disability under which the applicant labors.

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

hospitals.

1252. Officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps Persons sent to when on duty at a place where there is no naval hospital, may be other than naval 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.

Pensions of per

tal.

1253. Whenever any officer, seaman, or marine entitled to a pension is admitted to the Naval Home, Philadelphia, or to a naval sons in Naval hospital, his pension, while he remains there, shall be deducted from Home or hospihis 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.)

1254. (1) Expenses incurred by an officer of the Navy for medi- Expenses incines and medical attendance will not be allowed unless they were curred for mediincurred when he was on duty, and the medicines could not have cines, etc. been obtained from naval supplies, or the attendance of a naval medical officer could not have been had. (Sec. 1586, R. S.)

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

For the admin

1255. When officers required to make oath in answering interrogatories concerning the fitness of officers of the Navy or Marine istration of daths. Corps for promotion, find it impracticable to make such oath before one of the officers enumerated in article 256, paragraph 1, they will make the same before some person duly authorized by law to administer oaths. In such case officers will be careful to procure the necessary services at as reasonable a rate as possible, and will 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.

1256. Enlisted men of the Navy, not under instruction nor 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. 1257. (1) Men holding gun captains' certificates shall from the Gunnery prizes. date of the completion of the prescribed course of instruction for gun captain, as shown by such certificate, be awarded and paid gunnery prizes monthly, and proportionately for fractional parts of any month, as follows:

(2) Men holding "A" certificates, three dollars per month; "B" certificates, two dollars per month; "C" certificates, one dollar per month. These payments shall continue throughout the current

persons sen

enlistment, and during each succeeding reenlistment under honorable discharge, if within four months, until the holder of the certificate shall have been promoted to gun captain, second class, from which date this award shall cease.

(3) This award of gunnery prize money shall not be credited or paid for time out of service, between enlistments.

Clothing and 1258. In the event of an enlisted man of the Navy being sensmall stores for tenced by court-martial to confinement with loss of pay, such sentenced to loss of tence shall not deprive him of such articles of clothing and small stores as may be deemed necessary for his health and comfort by the commanding officer of the ship or barracks where he may be confined.

pay.

No allowance

1259. No allowance will be made for the expenses of persons for expenses of undergoing examination for appointments, except as provided by law for naval cadets.

candidates for appointment.

Allowance for witnesses.

Forage (Marine Corps).

Funeral ex

officers.

1260. (1) The actual expenses only of enlisted men suminoned as witnesses before a court-martial shall be paid, and shall be provided by the pay officer upon order of the commanding officer of the ship or station to which they belong.

(2) Citizens not in the employ of the United States, when summoned as witnesses before naval courts, shall be paid one dollar and fifty cents per diem and five cents per mile from and to their domiciles. Judge advocates shall, in their certificates of attendance, discriminate between citizen witnesses and those who are in the employ of the Government of the United States.

1261. Marine officers are entitled to draw forage from the Quartermaster's Department if it be allowed by law and army regulations, but no commutation for forage shall be paid.

SECTION 9.-PERSONS DECEASED.

1262. (1) When an officer of the Navy on duty dies in a foreign penses of naval country, the expenses of his funeral, not exceeding his sea pay for one month, will be defrayed by the Government and paid by the pay officer upon whose books the name of such officer was borne for pay. Should the funeral expenses exceed the amount_so allowed, the excess shall be charged against his account, and a separate bill for that amount must accompany the transfer to the Auditor for the Navy Department.

Funeral ex

(2) No funeral expense of a naval officer who dies in the United States shall be allowed. (See sec. 1587, R. S.)

1263. (1) Funeral expenses of officers of the Marine Corps must penses of officers be charged to the personal accounts of the deceased officers, and the bills sent as vouchers with the accounts when transmitted to the Auditor for the Navy Department.

and men of the Marine Corps.

Funeral ex

(2) The necessary and proper funeral expenses of enlisted men of the Marine Corps, being provided for by an annual appropriation, will be allowed, and the bills for such expenses are public bills.

1264. (1) The necessary and proper funeral expenses of an enpenses of enlisted listed man of the Navy who shall die while in actual service will men of the Navy. be allowed when approved by the Surgeon General, or if abroad, by the senior officer present.

(2) In the case of persons who die and are buried out of the United States, the amounts so paid shall not exceed fifty dollars each, unless due regard for decent burial renders greater expense

necessary, which fact must be certified to by the officer ordering the payment of the bill.

(3) Upon the transfer of a deceased person's account to the Auditor for the Navy Department the pay officer will note thereon the amount paid by him for the funeral expenses.

Estates of de

1265. (1) Balances due to deceased persons in the Navy or Marine Corps will not be paid until their accounts have been passed ceased persons. upon by the Treasury officers. Persons entitled to the estates of such deceased persons must apply to the Auditor for the Navy Department. Arrears found to be due will be paid in all cases to the proper persons interested, in preference to attorneys.

Wills of per

service.

(2) Wills of persons in actual service must, in all cases when possible, be in writing and attested by an officer. A nuncupative will sons dying in must be reduced to writing immediately, and be attested by at least two officers. The executor will be required to produce the original will or a copy duly authenticated.

SECTION 10.-PENSIONS.

Service pen

enlisted men.

1266. (1) Any disabled enlisted man who has not been discharged for misconduct shall, after ten years' service in the Navy sions to disabled or Marine Corps, be entitled to a pension, if a board of survey consisting of three naval officers, one of whom shall be a medical officer, appointed by the Secretary of the Navy, shall recommend it. (See sec. 4757, R. S.)

(2) After twenty years' service, any enlisted man disabled from sea service by reason of age or infirmity, who has not been discharged for misconduct, shall, if he so elect, be entitled to a pension equal to one-half the pay of his rating when last discharged, in lieu of being provided with a home in the Naval Home, Philadelphia. . (See sec. 4756, R. S.)

bility.

1267. Commanding officers on shore and afloat will require from Official returns the proper medical officers reports, made in accordance with the of death or disamedical instructions, of every case of death or disability occurring to persons in the naval service under their command. These reports shall be sent to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery as evidence of claims for pensions.

Testimony of

accidents.

1268. In all cases of injury by accident to persons in the Navy, not recorded in the medical journal by reason of the absence of the eye witnesses to medical officer or otherwise, the commanding officer shall direct a statement of the facts in the case to be made to the Surgeon General by an officer or, in the absence of an officer, by any other trustworthy person who was a witness to the accident. The statement shall show where the accident occurred, what the injured person was doing at the time, and how the accident was caused. It shall be as brief as possible consistent with clearness. The commanding officer shall indorse his opinion upon it, and it shall be referred to in the medical journal and be forwarded to the Surgeon General. 1269. In case of death, injury, or disability, where the official medical record may be incomplete, the Surgeon General shall decide eral to decide if as to whether such death, injury, or disability was received in the line of duty.

Surgeon Gen

records are in

complete.

CHAPTER XXVI.

SUPPLIES ON SHORE.

SECTION 1.-CUSTODY AND CARE ON SHORE.

1270. The custody, transfer, and issue of all supplies, and the Responsibility records of all property and plants at navy yards and stations belong. of Bureau of Suping and appertaining to the Navy Department, with the exceptions Plies and Achereinafter noted, shall be under the supervision of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.

counts.

The general

1271. At navy yards and stations there shall be an officer of the pay corps detailed as the general storekeeper, who shall, under the storekeeper. direction of the Paymaster General, have charge, with the exceptions noted, of the supplies, material, manufactured articles of ship's equipment, etc., subjects of invoice, at the respective yards and stations.

Medical sup

1272. Medical outfits for ships in commission are furnished from the naval laboratory. The senior medical officer on duty at a navy plies. yard shall have charge of all medicines, medical supplies, instruments, and other articles provided by the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery for use at the yard, for ships fitting out, or received from ships arriving.

Cadet store

1273. The cadet storekeeper at the Naval Academy shall be detailed from the pay corps and shall have authority, with the keeper at Naval approval of the Secretary of the Navy, to procure clothing and Academy. other necessaries for the naval cadets in the same manner as supplies are furnished to the Navy, to be issued under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy.

proper

Supplies to be properly guarded

1274. Supplies shall be so stored and guarded as to enable the general storekeeper to assume a rigid responsibility for their care and expenditure. 1275. (1) Officers in charge of supplies shall exercise a constant Officers in supervision over the stores in their custody and protect them by charge of supplies to exercise every means in their power against deterioration from any cause. care. (2) They shall, under the direction of the commandant of the Custody of yard or station, have charge of the keys of all storehouses and keys. buildings containing articles for which they are responsible. The keys must never be taken out of the yard, and when not in use shall

be kept in the designated place.

(3) They shall not give a receipt for articles delivered in the yard Invoices to be until furnished with invoices in duplicate, which shall be complete furnished. descriptive lists of the deliveries claimed, one receipt to be signed

and returned to the party delivering the articles and the other to

be retained.

Contract sup

(4) No supplies delivered by contractors shall be received unless marked and distinguished with the name of the contractor furnish- plies unmarked ing the same.

not to be received.

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