CHAPTER XXVIII. SURVEYS AND SALES. SECTION 1.-SURVEYS ON PERSONNEL. Order for sur 1418. A survey may be ordered by the commandant of a station or the senior officer present upon any officer or other person under vey. his command, on the request of the senior medical officer of the ship or station where the person is serving. 1419. (1) A board of medical survey shall consist, when practicable, of three medical officers. (2) If it be inconvenient to detail three officers, two will suffice. In extreme cases, or on board a ship on detached service, the survey may be held by the medical officer of the ship. Boards of medical survey. Reports of sur 1420. (1) Reports of medical surveys upon officers and enlisted men of the Navy shall be made in triplicate through the command- vey. ing officer under whom the person surveyed is serving to the officer ordering the survey, who shall forward them to the Navy Department through the Bureau of Navigation. (2) Reports of medical surveys upon officers and enlisted men of the Marine Corps shall be made in like manner to the officer ordering the survey, who shall forward the first and second copies to the Navy Department, and the third to the Commandant of the Marine Corps. Instructions survey. 1421. (1) Reports of medical survey shall be made in accordance with the prescribed form. A definite opinion as to the origin of for making redisease or injury shall be given, and a statement made in every case ports of medical of all facts and circumstances connecting the disease or injury with the performance of duty or exposure incident thereto. When no unfitness is found it will be sufficient to state the fact. When unfitness is found, and is regarded as temporary, the phrase "unfit for duty" shall be used; when permanent, the expression "unfit for service" shall be employed. The common name of the disease shall be used. Under the head of Recommendation" shall be given the contemplated disposition of the patient. (2) In the case of an officer, the recommendation may be detachment either with sick leave or for hospital treatment; or, if the unfitness is judged to be temporary, the officer may be recommended for hospital treatment, with a view to his return to the station. If the disability be deemed permanent, it may be recommended that he be ordered before a retiring board. Enlisted men should be recommended to be sent to hospital for treatment, or to be discharged. 1422. (1) When a person surveyed within the United States or the limits of the North Atlantic Station is reported unfit for duty, posed of without and the report of the survey is approved by the officer ordering it, delay. the recommendation of the board as approved shall be carried out Cases to be dis Surveys on en United States. as soon as practicable, except in cases involving discharge, travel, leave, or retirement, which shall be referred to the Department. (2) Final action upon medical surveys held outside of the limits defined in the preceding paragraph will be taken by the senior officer present, except in cases of the retirement of officers or the discharge of persons enlisted in the United States. 1423. When enlisted persons are condemned by medical survey listed men in the in the United States on account of disease which may have resulted from their own indiscretions, or from causes not incident to the service, their transfer to another station or place for discharge shall not be recommended. General SECTION 2.-SURVEYS ON MATERIAL. sur- 1424. All vessels on their return from foreign stations, and all veys on ships vessels in the United States as often as once in three years, when every three practicable, shall be examined by competent boards of officers desigyears. nated by the Secretary of the Navy. The said boards shall ascertain and report to the Secretary of the Navy, in writing, which of said vessels are unfit for further service, or, if the same are unfinished in any navy yard, those which can not be finished without great and disproportionate expense, and shall in such report state fully the grounds and reasons for their opinion. (Act Aug. 5, 1882.) Captains to re- 1425. (1) Captains of ships shall report to the Department, port if general without delay, whenever the condition of their ships is such as to require a general survey in one or more branches, and such report, with the opinion of the forwarding officer indorsed thereon, shall be forwarded to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. surveys required. are General sur (2) If it shall appear, upon a consideration of all the circumstances, that a general survey under one or more bureaus is desirable, the Department will order it to be made accordingly. 1426. General surveys on vessels in ordinary will be ordered by veys on ships in the Department as occasion may arise. ordinary. General sur 1427. When a general survey is ordered, separate boards_shall veys; boards, how be constituted in accordance with law, classified under the heads composed. of ordnance, equipment, construction and repair, and steam engineering, according as the survey concerns one or more of these branches. Special repairs to vessels. 1428. (1) Whenever special repairs of limited extent, but beyond the capacity of the force on board, are required on a ship in commission, in home waters, not lying at a navy yard, the captain shall report the fact to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. The report, with the opinion of the forwarding officer indorsed thereon, will be referred to the bureaus concerned for recommendation, and if the circumstances make it expedient, the vessel will be ordered to a navy yard, and the Department will direct the repairs to be made, with or without a survey as the case may require. (2) Whenever a similar necessity exists in the case of a vessel at a navy yard, the captain shall make a similar report to the commandant, who will direct an examination by the head of department under whose cognizance the work comes. (3) If the repairs in question are such as will obstruct the movements of the vessel during their progress, by disabling her motive power or otherwise, or if they exceed five hundred dollars in estimated cost, the application shall be transmitted with the commandant's recommendation to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, that a survey may be ordered. (4) If the repairs do not interfere with the movements of the vessel, and are less than five hundred dollars in estimated cost, the commandant is authorized to order the survey if he deems it expedient, and whether ordered or refused, he shall report his action immediately to the Assistant Secretary. Reports of surto whom made. 1429. (1) All reports of surveys on ships shall be made to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, who shall refer them to the bureau veys, concerned for recommendation. They shall be made in triplicateone copy for the bureau, one for the head of the department at the yard, and one for the captain of the ship. (2) If it should appear to the latter that any of the items of repair are unnecessary or inexpedient or can be advantageously done by the force on board, he shall report the fact to the commandant, who shall forward the report with his recommendations to the Assistant Secretary. Contents of re (3) The report shall contain a classified statement of the work required, item by item, with such brief explanation as will show port. the necessity of each item; an estimate of the time and cost of each item, giving the cost of labor and material separately, and a summarized statement of the time and cost (labor and material) of the whole work under each bureau. Any item that will require the manufacture of special articles involving probable delays shall be specially noted in the survey. The report shall conclude with an approximate statement of the quantity and cost of materials not on hand which must be purchased in order to make the repairs recommended. Surveys of (4) In surveys of wooden ships, where the repairs are extensive, the report shall state the estimated cost of a new ship of the same wooden ships. size and like material, or new engines and machinery of the same character and power, as the case may be; and the report shall further state whether the repairs, having reference to their estimated cost, can be made within the statutory limit. (5) The commandant of the yard shall be held responsible for any delays in the completion of the survey. Delays in survey. Revision of rials. 1430. As soon as a report of a survey has been signed, the head of the department concerned shall make a careful revision of his schedule of mateschedule of materials, in order that requisitions may be started on their course the moment the order to proceed with the repairs is received at the yard. Requisitions 1431. (1) When a report of survey is approved the Assistant Secretary will notify the bureaus concerned, which shall issue the after approval of necessary orders to the commandant to proceed with the work. (2) Promptly upon the receipt of such orders requisitions for all materials needed to be purchased for the work shall be transmitted to the general storekeeper. The commandant shall exact the utmost promptness in the preparation of requisitions by the officers whose duty it is to make them, as well as in their issue by the general storekeeper. 1432. In all cases where a bureau makes favorable recommendations to the Department for repairs it will be understood that, unless otherwise stated, the condition of the bureau appropriation, having survey. Approval to depend on condition of appropri ation. Surveys on ships abroad. Equipage. Lost articles. reference to present and prospective obligations, is such as to justify the Department in authorizing the repairs. 1433. In general, surveys on the hull or machinery of a ship shall not be held in a foreign port without the authority of the Department, unless the supposed defects shall have been due to casualties, such as grounding, collision, etc. Such surveys shall be ordered by the commander in chief or the senior officer present. The report shall state the nature and extent of the accident, the cause, the probable time necessary for repairs, the cost thereof, and to whom, if to anyone, blame is to be attributed. The report shall embrace every detail necessary to a complete understanding of the case. When an accident or derangement shall occur to the machinery of a ship, the board shall be composed of three line officers, two of whom shall have had experience in the performance of engineering duties on shipboard; if such officers are not available, warrant machinists may be substituted for them. The report, in triplicate, shall be forwarded to the Department by the first opportunity. (See art. 1628.) 1434. (1) For the survey, condemnation, and appraisal of public property of the Navy, other than that provided for in articles 1424 to 1433, inclusive, surveying officers shall be appointed as follows: (a) For the survey of articles on board a ship away from a navy yard or station, the senior officer present shall appoint a commissioned officer, who shall be selected, when practicable, from a ship other than that from which the request emanates. (b) For the survey of articles on board a ship at a navy yard or station, of articles in the custody of a general storekeeper, and of all other material of any description at a navy yard or station, the commandant shall detail a commissioned officer from each of the departments of ordnance, equipment, construction and repair, steam engineering, and yards and docks; and for each survey requested one of these officers shall hold the survey. As a general rule these officers shall survey articles coming under the cognizance of the department to which they belong. (c) At stations where a large amount of work is carried on, two or more surveying officers from one department may be detailed. At stations where two or more departments are combined under one head, the number of surveying officers shall be reduced accordingly, if necessary. (d) Surveying officers thus appointed shall serve until relieved through the appointment of other officers. (e) When practicable a commandant may assign a pay officer, other than those attached to the general storekeeper's office, as permanent surveying officer to survey articles of provisions, clothing, and small stores, and contingent stores of the supplies and accounts department. (f) When the pay officer of a ship at a navy yard or station requests a survey, the commandant may appoint as surveying officer any pay officer serving under his jurisdiction. (2) (a) In the case of lost or missing articles, afloat or on shore, the senior officer present or the commandant, as the case may be, shall, at the request of the officer having had custody of the lost articles, or who received the shipment from which the articles are missing, appoint a board of three commissioned officers for investigation and report. (b) Silver services and other articles of value presented to ships of the Navy shall be subject to survey only for purposes of appraisal or the proper fixing of responsibility for damage or loss. (c) The china, glass, and plated tableware of mess outfits shall not be subject to survey afloat. In case of wreck or other extraordinary cause of injury, the question of special loss will be considered by the Department. Such articles may be surveyed when in the custody and carried on the books of a general storekeeper at a navy yard or station. (3) The board of sale appointed at a navy yard or station, at which a public sale is about to take place, to conduct the sale, shall be constituted, by this regulation, a board for the final condemnation of the property in question. Mess outfits. Board of sale. Articles not fit 1435. When in the opinion of an officer in charge of a department on board ship, property in his custody is no longer fit for use for use. on board owing to damage, deterioration, having become obsolete, or being in need of repairs, or is no longer needed owing to excess of quantity on hand, a request for a survey shall be made by him on the prescribed form, in triplicate. The senior officer present, or the commandant, to whom this request is forwarded, shall order a survey as provided in article 1434, paragraphs 1 or 2, as the case may be. The surveying officer, upon receiving the approved request for survey, shall proceed to the place where the articles are held in custody and survey each article in question. 1436. (1) The items on survey requests shall be numbered consecutively in red ink by the officer making the request. (2) A survey request shall not cover articles pertaining to more than one bureau. Form of request. Disposition of 1437. (1) If, in the opinion of an officer surveying articles on board a ship, any article is fit for further use for the purpose for articles afloat. which it was intended, or can be made so by available ship's force, he shall write in the proper space in his report the word retain, and the article shall remain in use on board. (2) If the survey shows that an article can be repaired in proper time for further use on board the ship, he shall write the word repair in his report; and if the ship is away from a navy yard, the repairs shall, on the approval of the survey by the senior officer present, at once be made on shore under requisition. If the ship is at a navy yard, repairs so recommended shall, if authorized, be made by delivery of the article, with an approved copy of the survey, to the head of the yard department concerned, and the cost thereof shall be charged to Title P, with the name of the ship as a subtitle, the articles repaired remaining on charge on the ship's books at the invoice value. (a) Articles of equipage made of rope, canvas, wood, metal, etc., that are renewed or repaired from "Supplies," shall be so renewed or repaired without survey. The renewed or repaired article shall continue to be borne on the books at its original invoice price, the "supplies" used in the repairs being expended "for use. (3) The estimated cost of all renewals or repairs recommended by a surveying officer shall be noted by item numbers in the proper place in the survey report. (4) In a navy yard or on board a ship at a navy yard no repairs estimated by a survey to cost over three hundred dollars shall be undertaken without previous sanction of the Department; and at a navy yard not more than one thousand dollars shall be expended Repairs. |