of any kind to be kept or carried into the store-rooms, without written orders to that effect from the commander of the vessel.

ARTICLE 406.

He shall keep regular accounts, according to the prescribed form, of all receipts, expenditures, conversions, or transfers of stores in the respective departments, specifying the time and place, and the person from whom the articles were received, and to whom, and for what purpose, they were delivered, and if converted to other purposes than those for which they were received, then by whose order it was done.

ARTICLE 407.

He shall present his returns of receipts and expenditures of stores, weekly, to the executive officer of the vessel, for his examination, who shall, if he find it correct, certify the same, and hand it to the commander of the vessel, that he may regulate his abstract expensebook by them.

ARTICLE 408.

The yeoman shall exhibit to the commanding officer of the vessel, monthly, his abstract-book of receipts and expenditures, within the first week of each month, that he may cause it to be compared with his own, and, if found correct, the commanding officer shall sign his name in the proper column.

ARTICLE 409.

When a ship is to be paid off, or placed in ordinary, the yeoman shall deliver to the commander of the vessel an abstract statement, showing the quality of stores originally received in each of the boatswain's, gunner's, carpenter's, and sailmaker's departments; the amount received and expended to the close of the year in which the vessel was equipped, and for each succeeding year, or to the end of the cruise, and, on separate lines, the whole quantities received or expended, and the quantities which ought to be remaining on hand by his expense-books; and if a survey has been held, or the articles have been turned into store, then the quantities found by sur

vey, or returned to store, and the differences, if any, between these quantities and those shown by his expense-books.

ARTICLE 410.

The yeoman shall not receive more than three-fourths of his pay until the stores in his charge shall have been examined and found correct, unless ordered by the Secretary of the Navy.

CHAPTER XXV.

FURLOUGHS AND LEAVES OF ABSENCE.

ARTICLE 411.

Permission to leave the United States can only be granted by the Secretary of the Navy; and no officer is ever to leave the United States, under any leave of absence, unless such leave shall expressly authorize or allow it.

ARTICLE 412.

Within the United States, leave of absence for a longer time than one week shall only be granted by the Secretary of the Navy, except in cases of great emergency, which must be immediately reported to him.

ARTICLE 413.

Commanding officers, acting under the immediate orders of the Secretary of the Navy, may, within the United States, grant leave of absence to persons under their command for not exceeding one week, provided it can be done without delaying the equipment of the vessel to which they may belong, or producing other injury to the public service, and the vessel shall not be under sailing orders at the time.

ARTICLE 414.

Commanders-in-chief of squadrons, and commanders of navy yards or stations, in the United States, shall not leave the limits of

their command for a longer period than one week, in any successive two months, without the permission of the Secretary of the Navy.

ARTICLE 415.

Commanders of vessels, acting under the orders of other officers, when in their presence, shall grant no permission for any person to be absent after the setting of the watch, without the sanction of such superior officer; and when alone, shall grant none which may be injurious to the public service, nor for longer time than forty-eight hours, without having the previous permission of the commanderin-chief.

ARTICLE 416.

Commanders-in-chief of fleets or squadrons abroad may grant permission for officers to leave the squadron for the purpose of returning to the United States, when it shall be duly certified that it is absolutely necessary on account of their health, but in no other case, unless specially authorized by the Secretary of the Navy.

CHAPTER XXVI.

PAY AND ALLOWANCES.

ARTICLE 417.

Allowances will be made for travelling expenses incurred, in obedience to any order, or in conformity with any rule or regulation of the navy, at the rate of ten cents a mile upon the mail-route, or the shortest route usually travelled, except when the person proceeds in a public vessel or conveyance, or an exchange of situation has been made at the request of the officer, or when an order shall be revoked, before it has been obeyed. The amount which will be due when the order shall be obeyed may be advanced by the navy agent, upon the order of the commanding officer, if the person about to obey the order will certify that he has not the means at hand for defraying the expenses of the journey.

ARTICLE 418.

The usual and necessary passage-money actually paid by officers in proceeding to join vessels upon a foreign station, or in returning from foreign service, under orders, or upon sick-ticket granted in conformity with these regulations, when they cannot return in a public vessel, may be paid by the purser of the vessel to which the officer may be attached, on his joining a foreign station, and by the navy agent at the port at which he may arrive when returning from a foreign station, upon the production of bills and receipts for passagemoney, and of bills in detail for each payment made for land-travel in foreign countries, certified by him, and approved by the commander of the station or squadron where the payment is to be made.

ARTICLE 419.

The service-pay of commission or warrant officers will commence from the date of their acceptance of an order to perform any service, and will terminate when the officer has completed the service, or has been superseded, discharged, or relieved from it, unless an order shall be rescinded or countermanded before it is obeyed; in which case, such an order will not affect the pay.

ARTICLE 420.

Officers returning from duty on a foreign station, as passengers, will not be allowed pay as though on duty.

ARTICLE 421.

Officers claiming pay under any order or acting appointment, must furnish to the disbursing officer, from whom the payment is claimed, a copy of such order or appointment, certified by himself to be correct; and must state on such copy the time when he acknowledged the receipt of such order or appointment, and when he obeyed the order, or entered upon his duties under the appointment.

ARTICLE 422.

Professors of mathematics, secretaries, and clerks, will only be paid from the actual commencement, and during the actual continuance of their service, without regard to any previous date of appointment, or acceptance of orders; and the actual commencement and

termination of the service of secretaries and clerks must be certified by the officers to whom they may be allowed, as a voucher to enable them to receive the final payment of their accounts, and the purser to enter them on the muster-book.

ARTICLE 423.

When officers, not attached to any vessel or station, present an account for pay to a purser, the account must specify the rank of the claimant; if employed, the nature of the service; if not employed, whether waiting orders, on leave of absence, or on furlough; the quarter of the year-whether the first, second, third, or fourth, or the number of days, designating the first and last which are included; and the amount claimed: and when paid, it must be receipted at the foot or upon the back, and the receipt must be dated when it is actually paid..

ARTICLE 424.

-To authorize the entry and payment of an officer under an acting appointment or order, he must furnish the purser with a copy of his appointment or order, and of his order to join the vessel; and no officer must be borne on the books, nor be paid under an acting appointment or order, except whilst he actually continues to perform the duties of such appointment; nor will an acting appointment, or order to perform duty in a higher grade in one vessel, be sufficient to justify his being borne on the books, or paid in such acting capacity in another vessel, without a new order or appointment, unless the appointment shall have been made by the Secretary of the Navy.

ARTICLE 425.

The accounts of unattached officers may be settled at the office of the Fourth Auditor, or by the pursers of stations, and by agents in foreign ports, when specially authorized by the Secretary of the Navy; but no accounts will be settled or paid at the Fourth Auditor's office excepting at quarterly periods, viz: the end of March, June, September, and December, unless an officer is ordered upon any service which detaches his account from that office, or when he wishes it permanently transferred.