1718. In grateful recognition of the services, sacrifices, and sufferings of persons honorably discharged from the military and naval service of the country, by reason of wounds, disease, or the expiration of terms of enlistment, it is respectfully recommended to bankers, merchants, manufacturers, mechanics, farmers, and persons engaged in industrial pursuits to give them the preference for appointments to remunerative situations and employments. (Sec. 1755, R. S.)

Each officer to

1719. It shall be the duty of the commandant of each navy yard or station at which labor is employed, to furnish every officer under be furnished his command, for his future guidance, with a copy of all orders with copies of relating to the employment of labor at navy yards and stations.

orders.

Wages of em

1720. (1) The rates of wages of employees shall conform to the standard of private establishments in the immediate vicinity of the ployees. respective yards, and shall be determined semiannually, to take effect on the 1st day of January and July of each year.

(2) The commandant of each yard shall appoint semiannually, on the 1st day of May and the 1st day of November of each year, a board of officers who shall make diligent inquiry at the principal private mechanical establishments in the vicinity of the yard as to the rate of daily wages paid to the workingmen of different classes in each trade or occupation included in the trade schedule of the yard, who do work of the same character in that trade as that done in the yard, or resembling it as nearly as possible, and shall report to the commandant the result of such inquiries, and recommend rates for the payment of workmen of corresponding classes and trades at the yard.

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(3) The per diem pay shall be so established as to be a multiple of When the per diem pay as ascertained by the board in any class of any trade or occupation is not divisible by 8, the amount shall be increased or decreased to the nearest multiple of 8, and when the amount is equidistant from two multiples of 8, the higher amount shall prevail in determining the pay.

(4) When the board submits to the commandant the proposed semiannual schedule of wages, it shall also make a separate report, stating in full all changes from the previous approved schedule which involve an increase or decrease in the wages of any class of any trade or occupation, with the reasons therefor.

(5) The commandant shall then forward, in duplicate, the proposed schedule of wages for the yard, as approved by himself, which will be made on the blank form designated "Navy Yard Orders, Form 1, Revised," to the Department for its revision and approval, and when said schedule is approved by the Department, it shall remain in force during the ensuing six months.

Additional

(6) Whenever a necessity arises for workmen in a trade not authorized in the latest approved schedule of wages for a navy yard, the trades. fact shall be reported by the head of the department concerned to the commandant, and by him referred to the Navy Department with a statement of the reasons therefor. If approved, the trade shall be added to the schedule. Trades thus allowed shall be included in the schedule of wages for the yard on and after the date of the Department's approval.

(7) The semiannual schedule of wages shall not include the "civil ` establishment," provided for by statute, or "special employments (Schedule D)," authorized by Departmental order, the pay of which is fixed by the statute or order creating them, but shall be confined

Refusal to per

company.

exclusively to the approved trade schedule of the yard with approved additions to date.

1721. The refusal of any workman to perform duty in the fire form duty in fire companies shall, unless he be excused, as herein before provided, be considered good cause for his dismissal; and the failure of any person attached to a fire company to appear at his post upon the alarm of fire in the yard shall, unless satisfactorily explained, render him liable to dismissal.

1722. (1) All mechanics and laborers shall be paid twice a month, upon dates not more than ten days after the expiration of each month or half month. All other employees shall be paid upon the first and sixteenth of each month, or as soon thereafter as practicable.

(2) Each payment, whether for the first or second half of the month, shall be made upon one day or distributed over two or more days, according to the size of the force, in the discretion of the commandant, with the view of taking up the least possible time of the employees.

(3) It shall be the duty of the commandant to prescribe for each yard the order in which the different departments are to be paid, and in this and other respects to reduce the payment of men to a complete working system. The regular payments will be made outside of working hours. In order to economize time at yards where the force is large, payments will be made simultaneously at different pay windows.

(4) The quartermen, upon the day named for payment, shall form their men in the order of their names on the rolls, and conduct them to the pay office. They shall station themselves at the pay windows and identify each man as he answers to his name. If the men are not employed under a quarterman, this duty shall be performed by the foreman; and if there is neither foreman nor quarterman, then by the leadingman. The men shall present themselves at the pay windows strictly in the order in which their names appear on the rolls, as indicated by their tickets, be identified, hand in their tickets, and receive their money in an envelope on which are written their number and the amount of money inclosed. The pay clerk, in delivering the envelope, shall read aloud from the roll the name, number, and amount due. As the men receive their envelopes, they shall pass away promptly. The foreman, quarterman, or leadingman, as the case may be, shall identify the men in his charge, and it shall be the duty of the pay officer to make no payment until he is satisfied that the indentification is complete.

(5) A commissioned or warrant officer on duty at the yard and not connected with the pay office shall be detailed by the commandant for a specified period to witness payments. A separate officer shall be detailed for each pay window. It shall be the duty of this officer to check the payment on the pay ticket with a personal stamp, as the name of the payee and amount due are called, and immediately after the payments of each day are completed to compare, with the pay officer's assistance, the pay tickets with the pay roll, and append his signature to the roll opposite each name as a witness to each individual payment.

(6) No payment shall be made at other than the regular pay day and hour, except in case of discharge, enforced absence, or other sufficient cause, upon the recommendation of the head of department, approved by the commandant, and every such payment and

the cause thereof shall be made a matter of permanent record in the pay office.

(7) Special payments as above, authorized by the commandant, may be made at any convenient time; but, as in all other cases, it must be witnessed by the officer detailed for that duty, and the paymaster is responsible for seeing that the payee is properly identified. Where the workman can not come in person, payment may be made on a written order, on the back of his pay ticket, signed by the workman himself, and naming the person to whom the money is to be paid, and authenticated to the satisfaction of the pay officer. (8) In case of discharge properly authorized, men shall be paid at the pay office at any time during office hours, upon the presentation of their discharge ticket signed by the time clerk and approved by the head of department and commandant. There will be attached to the discharge ticket a receipt in full, signed by the payee, and duly witnessed by the witnessing officer, as above provided for. Identification of the payee must be made in the same manner as in the case of payments made upon the regular pay day, and the pay officer shall, as in the case of regular payments, be required to satisfy himself as to the completeness of the identification.

1723. (1) The office hours of the navy yards and the depart- Clerical force ments thereof shall be from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m., except on Sundays at navy yards. and holidays, or when business is suspended by competent authority.

(2) No clerk or employee performing clerical work shall be absent from duty during those hours without permission of the chief clerk of his department, except for half an hour allowed for luncheon; and no such permission shall be given except for good reasons, for which the chief clerk shall be held responsible.

(3) The chief clerk of each department shall keep a book, in which each clerk or employee performing clerical duty shall register his name and time of arrival in the morning, and of leaving in the afternoon. The book, or register of arrivals and departures, shall be kept in an accessible place up to 9.05 a. m. daily, at which time it shall be taken by the chief clerk, and all arrivals thereafter shall be registered in his presence or in the presence of some person designated by him for that purpose. At 4 p. m. of each day the register shall again be put in an accessible place, and each clerk shall register his name and time of leaving.

(4) The chief clerk shall make a weekly list of employees who are absent, with or without permission, during any part of the working hours, and present it, with such recommendations as he may deem proper, to the officer in charge of the department. He will also note the quality of their work.

(5) The head of the department shall make a weekly report of delinquents to the commandant, with recommendations. He shall also report such employees as are incompetent or inefficient, stating wherein the inefficiency consists. Cases of incapacity or inefficiency, whether from irregular attendance or other cause, shall be reported to the Navy Department.

(6) Where a clerk is not fully employed during office hours from want of work or any other cause, the chief clerk shall so report to the head of the department, who shall transmit the report with recommendations to the commandant. The commandant shall take measures to correct this, but if unable to do so he shall report the facts to the Navy Department, with suitable recommendations.

(7) The chief clerk shall apportion the work suitably among the employees and will see that each performs his proper share, and in

Commandant in relation to.

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erty, etc.

case of any increase or diminution of business, he shall recommend corresponding changes in the number of his force.

(8) The commandant is ultimately responsible for the work of the clerical force, as of all other employees; and he must see to it that such discipline, organization, and supervision are maintained as will prevent waste of time or money in the employment of the force.

SECTION 10.-VESSELS IN ORDINARY.

1724. When vessels are in " 'ordinary" at a naval station, the commandant shall cause necessary precaution to be taken to guard them against deterioration in every department.

1725. The captain of the yard shall have immediate supervision over such ships, and be charged with their mooring, unmooring, and moving; shall frequently inspect them, or cause them to be inspected by one of his assistants, and shall make a weekly report to the commandant of their condition in all departments.

Responsibility 1726. The equipment officer of the yard shall be charged with for care and pres- the care and preservation of all equipment property remaining on ervation of prop- board, and may, on the written approval of the commandant, remove and care for in his storerooms, ready for prompt return to the ship, such articles in whole or in part as, in his judgment, will there be best safeguarded against loss or damage; the ordnance officer, with the care and preservation of all ordnance property on board; the naval constructor, with the care and preservation of the hull, both inside and outside, and of all property on board under the cognizance of the Bureau of Construction and Repair; and the senior engineer officer, with the care and preservation of all steam machinery, boilers, and appurtenances on board under the cognizance of the Bureau of Steam Engineering. They shall take the necessary steps to protect the property for which they are responsible from deterioration or injury. Each shall inspect the vessels in "ordinary' semimonthly (or cause one of his assistants to do so), and shall report to the captain of the yard, on the 15th and 30th of the month, the result of such inspection, so far as relates to his department.

Care of machinery, etc.

1727. (1) The following instructions regarding the care and preservation of the machinery, boilers, and appurtenances of vessels in "ordinary" shall be observed:

(2) All iron and steel bright work of the machinery, except such parts as pass through stuffing boxes or upon sliding surfaces, (as piston rods, valve stems, slide and guide faces and journals) shall be kept covered with white lead and tallow.

(3) Packing shall not be removed from piston rods or valve stems. (4) All parts passing through stuffing boxes or working upon their surfaces, such as piston rods, valve stems, guide and slide faces, clutch coupling slides, interiors of steam cylinders and valve chests, must be cleaned and kept covered with a coating of vaseline, the machinery being moved after first application so as to bring all these parts upon properly covered surfaces.

(5) All bearings must be well oiled and the oil holes plugged with waste, the engines being turned one complete revolution after oiling. (6) All water containing parts of the machinery inside of outboard valves shall be kept thoroughly drained. Particular attention should be paid to draining of pump cylinders; condensers; feed, blow, and suction pipes; fire main; and all steam and exhaust piping, where it is possible for water to gather. In draining these

pipes, flange joints should be broken at the lowest parts of each system and wherever a pocket is formed which is not drained by a proper drain pipe. Outboard valve casings below valve seats must be kept covered where possible with nonconducting material, such as sawdust or manure temporarily boxed in.

(7) On the approach of cold weather the boiler shall be kept pumped out and thoroughly dried by a drying stove placed in front of a lower manhole plate after removing this lower and an upper manhole plate. An open box containing unslaked lime shall then be inserted through each of these manholes, the box being of the greatest capacity possible, and filled to about half its height with lime. The boiler shall then be closed up tight, all valves upon it having been previously closed. At this time it shall be seen to also, that a joint in the feed and blow systems of each boiler is broken so that no possible ingress of water can be had during the time the boiler is preserved in this way. After winter weather has passed and all liability to freezing ceased, the boilers will be opened up, lime boxes removed, and boilers filled with fresh water rendered slightly alkaline by the addition of salsoda.

(8) The gauges and oil cups will not be removed.

(9) All sea valves must be kept closed and properly secured. 1728. When a ship in "ordinary " is moved for repairs, the expense of the labor for moving shall be paid by that department which requires the ship to be moved.

Cost of moving.

1729. Each head of department shall include in his monthly Funds to be estimate of funds, a sufficient sum to cover the expenses necessary estimated for monthly. in executing his duties as enumerated in this section.

SECTION 11.-VESSELS IN RESERVE.

1730. (1) A vessel in reserve" will be in commission, with a complement of officers and men to be prescribed by the Bureau of Navigation.

In commission.

Accounts,

(2) The names of the officers and men of the complement shall be borne on the books of the receiving ship from which rations shall where carried. be drawn when necessary.

(3) The officers and men shall receive medical attention from the medical officer of the receiving ship.

(4) All commissioned officers shall form one mess.

(5) The rations of the enlisted force of the complement may be commuted.

(6) Only distilled, rain, or other water above suspicion shall be used for drinking or culinary purposes.

(7) The vessel shall be lighted by lamps.

(8) No drills or exercises shall take place. The whole force on board shall be available for general ship work eight hours per day. (9) All boats except one whaleboat, dinghy, and balsa shall be kept under cover on shore; such cover being specially provided if necessary.

(10) The weather decks shall be coated with a thick covering of turpentine and sawdust or other suitable material.

Medical attendance.

Officers' mess. Rations to be commuted.

Water for drinking, etc.

Lamps for lighting.

No drills to be

had.

Boats.

Protection of

decks.

Cooperage.
Parts of bat-

(11) All cooperage shall be preserved against drying out. (12) The mounts for the main and secondary batteries and torpedoes, the main battery guns, all unloaded shell, and all ordnance tery to be kept stores shall be on board ship.

on board.