To be turned into store.

Articles unserviceable afloat.

Quarterly survey afloat.

small afloat.

in repairs on the sails and rigging of any vessel until the necessity and expediency of such repairs and the estimated cost thereof have been ascertained and reported to the Navy Department by an examining board, which shall be composed of one naval officer, designated by the Secretary of the Navy, and the master rigger and the master sailmaker of the yard where such vessel may be lying.

(5) Articles found by survey to be unfit for further use on board or which can not be repaired with the immediate facilities, in the proper time, shall be condemned by the surveying officer to be turned into store, and he shall write in the proper place in the report the word store; and such articles, if the ship be at a navy yard, shall be turned into store at their invoice value, or if the ship be away from a navy yard, shall be kept on board until an opportunity arises to turn them in or send them to a yard by public conveyance.

(6) Invoices of such articles turned into store shall have stated on them the date of survey and the name and rank of the surveying officer.

1438. (1) When articles on board are totally unserviceable and require, by reason of their condition, immediate disposition, by being thrown overboard, burned, buried, or otherwise disposed of, the surveying officer is authorized to recommend such disposition instead of turning into store, and he shall record such recommendation in the "disposition" column of his report by writing in the word overboard, or burn, or indicating such action as the case may demand. The disposition, if approved, shall be made by the officer making the request and in all cases shall be certified to, across the face of the survey forwarded by that officer with his balance sheets, to the Paymaster General.

(2) When a ship is outside the waters of the United States, totally unserviceable articles, of no appreciable value, that take up valuable space on board shall be treated as articles requiring such immediate disposition, and shall be acted upon accordingly. In such cases the officer requesting the survey shall expend the articles from his books by expenditure voucher and forward his copy of the survey with his quarterly balance sheets, to the Paymaster General.

1439. (1) Captains of ships shall appoint at the beginning of each quarter to serve to the end of it, a surveying officer for articles in the pay department of the ship. To this officer the pay officer shall refer, either verbally or in writing, all such articles in his department as he may believe unfit for use, provided they do not exceed in value on any one occasion, three hundred dollars.

(2) The surveying officer shall keep an itemized record of all his surveys, which in case of his disability shall be used and referred to by the officer appointed in his place. He shall make his report at the end of the quarter, or earlier if ordered.

Clothing and 1440. Articles of clothing and small stores on board ship found stores by survey to be damaged may be appraised by the surveying officer, and issued at the reduced price in the same manner as other clothing and small stores. In such case the pay officer of the ship shall furnish the surveying officer with a list of the invoice values of the articles, and the appraised values shall be entered in the "remarks' column of the survey report. The pay officer shall expend the revalued articles from his books at the invoice price, and take them up again at the appraised value.

Reports of sur

Articles miss

1441. Upon the completion and signing of a survey of articles on board a ship, the three copies shall be forwarded to the officer order- veys afloat. ing the survey, who, after action thereon, shall return one copy to the officer requesting the survey, immediately forward one copy to the bureau concerned, and retain one copy for the files of his office. 1442. (1) When articles are lost or missing on board ship or do not correspond in quantity or kind to the marks on a package, the officer ing afloat. responsible shall request on the prescribed form, in triplicate, an investigation by a board of survey, and such a board shall be ordered in accordance with article 1434, paragraph 2. The report of the board shall be exhaustive and shall fix definitely, when possible, the responsibility for the loss or deficiency. The three copies of the report shall follow the course given in article 1441. The officer requesting the survey shall forward his copy to the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, with his quarterly returns, as a voucher as to the disposition of the articles.

(2) This same method shall be pursued by any officer receiving stores by shipment in which there is a shortage according to the invoices; but in this latter case the copy of the report received by the bureau concerned shall be forwarded to the Paymaster General for his action.

(3) An officer receiving a shipment in which there is a shortage, shall take up the invoice in full on his books, expending the missing articles according to the direction of the survey report; and he shall note in red ink on both copies of the summary the invoice value of the articles missing under each class. But in no case shall the class totals in the body of the summary be altered.

Survey of arti

store.

1443. (1) When articles are turned into store from a ship in commission, or a ship going out of commission, or when articles in store cles turned into are deteriorated from any cause, have become obsolete, or are borne on the books without value, or at a fictitious value, the general storekeeper shall request without delay a survey, such request to be made on the prescribed form, in triplicate. The commandant shall refer the request to the surveying officer of the yard department having cognizance of the articles, for his action, or in case the articles do not pertain directly to one of the departments having permanent surveying officers, to the surveying officer deemed most competent to survey the articles in question.

(2) The surveying officer receiving the order shall proceed to the place where the articles are held in store and make a thorough inspection of each article. He shall write in the appropriate space in the survey report his recommendation in each case.

(a) Articles found suitable for reissue from active stock shall be marked G. S. (general stock); articles that should be retained, without repairs, for issue to a particular ship, shall be marked G. S. with name of ship written below; articles to be repaired and then returned to store for issue shall be marked repair; those that can not be properly and expeditiously repaired at a navy yard, and those which should be repaired under an open-contract requisition, being marked contract repairs; articles to be repaired and then turned into store to be reserved for a particular ship shall be marked repair with the name of the ship written below; articles recommended to be sold shall be marked sell; articles found unsuitable in every respect shall be marked dump or burn, as may be expedient.

(b) When totally unserviceable articles are to be disposed of in any other way than as above, the disposition recommended, such as overboard, buried, firewood, etc., shall be indicated.

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Issue scrap heap.

(c) Articles unsuitable for general use in the active service of the Navy, but suitable for other Government use shall be so recommended, as for naval militia, for yard use, etc., and their present actual value shall be appraised by the surveying officer.

(d) Articles of metal, unserviceable and not warranting repairs, and which can not be sold in piece to advantage, shall be condemned to the issue scrap heap or the yard scrap heap, according as they may or may not be useful for reworking for Government use. Those condemned for the issue scrap heap shall be marked issue scrap, and appraised according to their value as metal, and those condemned Yard scrap for the yard scrap heap shall be marked yard scrap, and appraised as without value; and articles, part of which are valueless and other parts of which may be useful for some purpose shall be appraised as to their valuable parts, except what goes to the yard scrap, and the disposition marked in the appropriate space in the report, such as issue scrap, yard scrap, repairs to similar articles, hair, old canvas, junk, etc.

heap.

The dump.

Action of commandant.

(e) Articles of value, without invoice price, shall in all cases be appraised by the surveying officer.

(f) When articles are recommended to be repaired at a navy yard, the estimated present value of the articles shall be stated in the appraised value" column in the report, and the estimated cost and the time of the repairs shall in all cases be entered by item numbers in the proper place in the survey report.

(3) Only such totally unserviceable articles as are without value and unsalable, such as broken china, tin and wooden ware, worthless paints, brushes, etc., shall be thrown on the dump. Articles such as totally unserviceable powder and chemicals, decayed provisions, etc., the retention of which would be prejudicial to the safety and health of the community, shall not be deposited on the dump, but shall be condemned to be thrown overboard or otherwise destroyed.

(a) The general storekeeper shall be responsible for the final disposition of totally unserviceable articles, and shall certify to their disposal, across the face of the approved survey report forwarded by him with the quarterly balance sheets, to the Paymaster General.

1444. (1) The commandant, after approval of a survey report, shall immediately forward one copy to the officer requesting the survey, to be transmitted with the quarterly balance sheets to the Paymaster General, one copy to the head of the yard department concerned, for his files, and one copy to the bureau concerned. Action of bu- (2) A bureau receiving a survey report in which repairs or renewal of any particular article are estimated to cost over three hundred dollars, shall without delay inform the commandant of the approval or disapproval of the recommendation by the Department. 1445. (1) A general storekeeper upon receiving an approved sureral storekeeper. vey report shall immediately treat the articles as indicated in the report.

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Action of gen

Action of yard department.

(2) Articles to be repaired at a navy yard, with the exception of those estimated to cost over three hundred dollars, which must await the action of the bureau concerned, shall be stubbed out by the yard department concerned, the repairs made, and the articles returned to store for the purpose indicated.

Carrying out of (3) Articles recommended to be repaired by open contract shall recommenda- be held by the general storekeeper until a sufficient quantity of the same article, to be repaired, has accumulated in store to warrant an

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open contract for the repairs under the most economical conditions; but when an article so recommended may be required for issue in the near future, it may be repaired by open contract at once, without waiting for further accumulation, if such proceeding is considered more economical than the purchase of a new article in the open market.

Articles useful

(4) Articles recommended for particular purposes, such as naval militia use, yard use, etc., shall be expended at their invoice value for particular and taken up anew at the appraised value.

purposes.

(5) Articles valuable in part shall be expended, at the invoice Articles valuvalue, and taken up, at the appraised value, as metal, junk, hair, able in part. etc., as the case may be, making the proper changes in classification

when necessary.

(6) Articles to be sold shall be transferred to account d at the Articles to be invoice value, the difference between the invoice value and the sold. appraised value being adjusted as directed in article 1542, para

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(7) Articles having no invoice value shall be taken up at the appraised value.

(8) Articles totally unserviceable, and those to yard scrap, shall be expended.

(9) On all invoices, indicating these transactions, accompanying general storekeepers' balance sheets, the number and date of the survey request shall be stated; and all survey reports shall be forwarded to the Paymaster General with the balance sheets.

Survey of yard

1446. Immediately before the preparation of the schedules for a public sale at a navy yard or station, the general storekeeper shall scrap heap. request a survey of the yard scrap heap, and the scrap shall then be appraised, with approximate quantity stated, and taken up in account d, for sale.

Survey

1447. (1) It shall be the duty of the general storekeeper to store and arrange articles condemned for sale in suitable lots, and when board of sale. occasion requires present to the commandant a schedule of such lots for survey and final condemnation by the board appointed to conduct the sale. (See art. 1460.)

(a) The board of sale in forwarding the schedules for approval by the Department shall forward therewith a separate report stating that they have carefully examined all the articles in the schedules and recommend them for sale; and the return of the schedules approved by the Department, shall be considered as an approval of the board's recommendation.

(b) Any articles previously recommended for sale, but considered by the board of sale upon this final examination as not proper articles for disposition by public sale, shall be reported in writing to the commandant, who shall direct the general storekeeper to request a resurvey to determine the final disposition of the articles; and such articles shall be transferred or expended from account d, as may be necessary.

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Articles with

(2) Articles condemned for sale may at any time before the preparation of schedules for a general sale, be withdrawn for use by drawn from sale. stub requisition approved by the commandant. In such cases the general storekeeper shall transfer the articles from account d to the proper account, forwarding the commandant's order with the transfer invoice accompanying the quarterly balance sheet to the Paymaster General.

Articles missing on shore.

Real estate,

ery plant.

1448. (1) When articles are lost or missing on shore or do not correspond in quantity or kind to the marks on a package, the officer responsible shall request on the prescribed form, in triplicate, an investigation by a board of survey, and such a board shall be ordered in accordance with article 1434, paragraph 2. The report of the board shall be exhaustive and shall fix definitely, when possible, the responsibility for the loss or deficiency. The three copies of the report shall follow the course given in article 1441. The officer requesting the survey shall forward his copy to the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, with his quarterly returns, as a voucher as to the disposition of the articles.

(2) This same method shall be pursued by any officer receiving stores by shipment in which there is a shortage according to the invoices; but in this latter case the copy of the report received by the bureau concerned shall be forwarded to the Paymaster General for his action.

(a) An officer receiying a shipment in which there is a shortage, shall take up the invoice in full on his books, expending the missing articles according to the direction of the survey report; and he shall note in red ink on both copies of the summary the invoice value of the articles missing under each class. But in no case shall the class totals in the body of the summary be altered.

1449. (1) A survey of articles carried under Title E or F (real chattels, machin- estate and chattels and machinery plant, of shore stations) shall be requested by the head of the department concerned; and for such a survey a surveying officer of a department other than that to which the articles pertain shall, when possible, be assigned.

Old material.

If disapproved

(2) When such articles are condemned for sale, or to be used for other purposes, they shall be invoiced to the general storekeeper, both original and appraised values being stated. Where the original value can not be ascertained, the surveying officer shall enter in his report an estimated value. One copy of such report shall be retained in the bureau concerned and the other two copies be returned to the head of the department requesting the survey, who shall retain one copy for his files and forward the other to the Paymaster General at the end of the quarter, with invoices of property condemned under Titles E and F.

(3) Surveys on buildings or other structures destroyed or damaged by fire, water, or other cause, shall be requested by the head of department of yards and docks. Reports of such surveys shall show the original, or estimated original, cost, and the estimated loss in value.

1450. When any old material or articles, originally subject of charge under Title A or D, have accumulated to any extent in any department of a navy yard or station, through repairs and work on ships, the head of department concerned shall request a survey. When such material or articles are recommended to be turned into store for issue, or to be repaired for issue, or to be sold, they shall be invoiced to the general storekeeper, who shall treat_them in his books in the same manner as other stores surveyed. Itemized appraisal shall be made in such cases by the surveying officers.

1451. Should the commandant disapprove the recommendation by commandant. of a surveying officer, he shall return the report, with the proper indorsement, to the officer, who shall carefully reconsider his recommendation in accordance with such indorsement, and if, after such