Licensed pilots to be employed.

Coast pilots.

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(3) Preference should be given to licensed pilots and they must not be paid more than local rates.

(4) Coast pilots shall not be employed except by special authority from the Navy Department, and when employed are not to be paid local pilotage.

(5) A pilot is considered merely as an adviser to the captain, and relieve ship's of his presence on board a ship of the Navy shall not relieve the captain, or any of his subordinates, from full responsibility for the proper performance of the duties with which they, or any of them, may be charged concerning the navigation of the ship.

sponsibility.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

TRANSPORT SERVICE.

1647. General officers of the Army, when ordered to take passage Apartments of in a ship of the Navy, will live with the commander in chief, if one Army officers is embarked in the same ship; otherwise, general officers and all in a ship of the taking passage field officers by commission above the rank of major will live in the Navy. apartments of the captain. Other commissioned officers of the Army will live with the wardroom or steerage officers according to rank. This quartering shall not interfere with the sleeping apartments of the officers of the ship.

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1648. When officers of the Army are embarked with troops in a Apartments and ship commanded and officered by officers of the Navy, the latter mess of Army officers taking passhall occupy the apartments allotted to them, and separate accommodations shall be provided for the use of the officers of the Army port. and those under their command. The officers of the Army shall mess together, and not with the officers of the Navy, unless otherwise agreed upon with the sanction of the captain of the ship and commanding officer of the troops.

duty.

1649. (1) When any land troops, regular or volunteer, are em- Troops on board barked in ship of the Navy for duty therein, they shall, until naval ships for detached, be subject to the laws for the government of the Navy, and to the regulations of the ships, in the same manner as marines. (2) Whenever such troops shall be embarked for transport only, they shall be subject to the laws for the government of the Army sage only. instead of those for the Navy, but shall nevertheless be subject to and obey the regulations of the ship; and any offender may, while on board, be confined by the captain of the ship.

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1650. The captain of the ship shall have full power, on his own authority, to order an offender, whether officer or soldier, to be be placed in either naval or placed in either naval or military custody as he shall consider most military custody. desirable; but in all cases where an offender is to be disembarked for trial by military authority, he shall be placed in military custody on board the ship.

board.

1651. No Army court-martial shall be held on board of any ship Army courtin the Navy in commission, nor shall officers in charge of troops martial held on embarked order any public punishment or confinement in irons to be inflicted on board without the previous approval of the captain of the ship.

own officers.

1652. All orders to troops when embarked shall, as far as prac- Orders to troops ticable, be given through their own officers and noncommissioned to be given through their officers, and the captain of the ship shall bear in mind that although the discipline of all on board is under his entire control, he is nevertheless to leave the troops to the management of their own officers so far as may be consistent with the order and discipline of the ship.

Comfort and

1653. (1) In matters connected with the comfort and welfare of welfare of the the troops embarked, the captain will give due weight to representations from the Army medical officer in charge, conveyed to him by or through the commanding officer of the troops.

troops.

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(2) When troops are embarked, unaccompanied by a medical officompanied by a cer, the captain of the ship will direct the senior naval medical officer medical officer. to give them such professional attention as may be required.

CHAPTER XXXV.

CORRESPONDENCE.

1654. (1) For official correspondence in the Navy Department and in the naval service, letter paper only shall be used. It shall be eight inches by ten and one-half inches in size, and in single sheets; shall have fifteen lines on the first page, beginning at two inches from the top; the other page shall be blank. Typewriter letter paper shall be of the same size and unruled.

(2) Typewriter cap, used in special cases only, shall be eight inches by thirteen inches.

1655. (1) Only one side of the sheet shall be written upon, and a margin of three-fourths of an inch shall be left on each side of of. the writing.

(2) If two or more sheets are used, they shall be securely, but not permanently, fastened together.

Official paper.

Letters, form

(3) The first sheet shall be headed with the name of the ship, Heading, dates, station or place where written, and the date. (Special letter heads etc.

for different offices of a navy yard or station, or for different departments on board of a vessel, are forbidden.)

(4) In communications dated on board a ship at sea, the latitude and longitude shall be stated.

(5) Communications must be written in a legible hand, in concise terms, and without erasures or interlineations.

(6) Each page and paragraph shall be numbered.

(7) Signatures must be distinctly legible, and the signer's rank or rating shall be added.

At sea.

Erasures and interlineations.

Paragraphs to be numbered. Signature.

Reference

to

(8) In acknowledging, answering, or referring to communications from the Navy Department, its bureaus or offices, the file number letters received. and date shall be given and a brief reference made to the subject. (9) Inclosures shall be lettered and referred to by their letters. (10) Separate letters shall be written on separate subjects, unless the subjects are of like nature.

(11) The address of the officer or other person to whom a letter is written shall be placed at the end of the letter.

Inclosures. Separate subjects.

Address.

Officials to be

(12) All official communications intended for officers holding positions with recognized titles shall be addressed to them by title and addressed by title not by name, as The Secretary of the Navy," "The Chief of Bu- only. reau of Navigation,' The Commandant, The Commander in Chief, U. S. Naval Force, Station," "The Commander.

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Squadron (or division),' “The Commanding Officer."
(13) Officers commanding squadrons or stations, and other officers
having a regular correspondence with the Navy Department, shall bers.
number their letters; a new series beginning with each calendar
year.

1656. (1) All official communications from the Navy Department Letters to and its offices and bureaus to ships in commission for sea service, ships.

which refer to the movements of ships, to their condition, to their repairs, to their availability for sea service, or to their personnel, shall be forwarded through the Bureau of Navigation.

(2) All official communications to the Navy Department from ships in commission, other than those embraced in paragraph 3, shall be addressed to the Secretary of the Navy, with the name of the bureau or office to which the subject-matter pertains noted on the left-hand lower corner at the end of the letter, and on the lefthand lower corner of the envelope.

(3) All official communications to the Navy Department from ships in commission which refer to the movement of ships; to their condition; to their repair; to their availability for sea service; or which contain information of a confidential character, international, political, or otherwise, which might have a bearing upon the movements of our own or foreign vessels, either war vessels or merchantmen; or any action taken by a war vessel or merchantman that is deemed of sufficient importance to be mentioned in an official letter, shall be addressed, on the letter, as directed in paragraph 2 and be sent under cover to the Bureau of Navigation.

(4) Except from ships in commission, or as provided in paragraph 5, communications relating solely to subjects with which a bureau is intrusted, shall be addressed to the chief of that bureau.

(5) All official communications to the Navy Department from the islands of Guam and Tutuila, and from the United States naval stations and depots in island possessions and elsewhere beyond the continental limits of the United States, shall be addressed to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, with the name of the bureau or office to which the subject-matter pertains noted on the left-hand lower corner at the end of the letter, and on the left-hand lower corner of the envelope.

1657. (1) In general, all communications should be addressed to those who, by regulation or law, have cognizance of the subject presented, or are authorized to take action thereon.

(2) Applications for leave should be addressed to those authorized to grant it. (See arts. 1674 and 1676.)

(3) Applications for duty, and requests for a modification or revocation of orders, should be addressed to the Secretary of the Navy.

(4) An official appeal from an order or decision of the Secretary of the Navy, by an officer, should be addressed to the President as the common superior, and be forwarded through the Department, except in case of refusal or failure to forward, when it may be addressed directly.

1658. (1) Letters shall be folded twice. Across the fold which is the back of the heading, one inch from that end which is the lefthand side of the written page, shall be an indorsement, as follows: (a) The name of the ship, squadron, station, or place where written, and the date.

(b) The name of the writer (surname to the left) and his rank and official designation.

(c) A brief statement of the subject of the letter.

(d) The number of inclosures, if there be any.

(2) (a) All other indorsements shall be numbered and dated, and be made upon the second or third fold of the letter, or upon slips attached to the third fold.

(b) Indorsement slips, when used, shall be numbered and dated as in (a), contain a brief statement of the subject of the letter and