Regulations for the Government of the Navy of the United States

(or yearly salary, if paid in regular monthly or semimonthly installments), payments shall be made at such stipulated monthly rate without regard to the number of days the month paid for may contain.

(d) In cases when the service commences on an intermediate day of the month, and thus embraces only a fractional part thereof, thirty days will be assumed to constitute the entire duration of such month.

(e) When the service terminates at an intermediate day of the month, and hence embraces but a fractional part thereof, the whole number of days during which service was rendered in such fractional part of a month will be allowed in making payments.

(f) For convenience in calculating service embracing two or more months, or parts of months, but one fraction will be made. Thus, from the 21st of September to the 25th of November, inclusive, shall be calculated as follows: From the 21st of September to the 20th of October, inclusive, one month; from October 21st to November 20th, inclusive, another month; and from the 21st to the 25th of November, inclusive, five days; making two months and five days.

(g) When two fractions of months occur in any account for service, both together must be less than a whole month, as from the 21st of August to the 10th of September, the calculation of time shall be from August 21st to 30th, inclusive (ignoring the 31st), ten days, and from the 1st to the 10th of September, inclusive, ten days, making the time to be paid for twenty days.

(h) Service commencing in February will be calculated as though the month contained thirty days, thus: From February 21st to 28th (or 29th), inclusive, ten days. When the service commences on the 28th of that month three days will be allowed, and if on the 29th, two days.

(i) If service commences on the 31st day of any month, payment will not be made for that day.

(The foregoing rules do not apply to commutation of rations, nor to laborers employed at a per diem allowance. In computing them, the actual number of days are to be ascertained and allowed.

(2) Individual pay accounts should distinctly specify the exact time during which officers actually render service, under authority entitling them to pay, in the grade for which pay is claimed.

(3) In computing service for officers of the Navy under any rate of pay, the day on which it began and the day on which it ended should both be included; thus, sea pay is allowed for both the day of reporting and the day of detachment. Fractions of days are not to be recognized in making payments.

(4) When accounts are rendered for service stated to have been performed from one given date to another, one of the days named shall be excluded, unless it is specified or clearly shown by the form of the account that the service was "inclusive" of both.

(5) The following rules shall be observed for estimating the pay of laborers, workmen, and mechanics, for work performed in excess of eight hours per day, and for work performed outside of yard hours:

(a) For work performed, by reason of extraordinary emergency, in excess of eight hours per day, the ordinary rate of pay, with fifty per cent additional, shall be allowed.

(b) Men employed in relays shall be paid at the rate allowed for day work whether they work by day or at night.

(c) For work performed on Sundays or on legal holidays, the ordinary rate of pay, with fifty per cent additional, shall be allowed. (d) When the hourly pay of an employee for overtime involves the fraction "one-half cent," the daily pay for overtime shall be arbitrarily increased by four cents, making the same a multiple of eight.

(e) The foregoing provisions relate solely to laborers, workmen, and mechanics whose compensation has been fixed upon a basis of eight hours per day, and have no application to employees whose ordinary duties require their presence before or after yard hours, at night, on Sundays, or on legal holidays, and whose compensation has been fixed with reference to the irregular and unusual character of their employment.

SECTION 4.--REPORTS AND RETURNS.

Commanders in chief, captains of ships, etc., except torpedo-boat destroyers and torpedo boats, will see that the following reports and returns are made and forwarded:

Weekly, while fitting out When required. Weekly, when in U. S.