diately after reveillé, the tents or quarters and the space around them will be cleared up and put in complete order. The roll calls at reveillé, retreat, and tattoo will be superintended by an officer.

ARTICLE 43.

There shall be daily at least one dress parade, if in the opinion of the commanding officer the number of men and other duties of the post will permit, either at troop or retreat.

ARTICLE 44.

After guard mounting, the arms will be discharged at a target erected for the purpose, or if there be none, the charges will be drawn and delivered to the orderly sergeant of the post.

ARTICLE 45.

Arms are never to be left loaded when the men are off duty, or not in expectation of an attack.

ARTICLE 46.

Service ammunition issued to the men will be frequently inspected, and each will be made to pay for the rounds expended without orders, or not in the way of duty, or which may be damaged by his neglect.

ARTICLE 47.

Soldiers in camp or garrison will wear the prescribed uniform of the corps; fatigue parties will wear the proper fatigue dress.

ARTICLE 48.

Saturday will be, unless other indispensable duties prevent, appropriated to police; and there will be, on each Sunday morning, before the hour for divine service, a general inspection of arms, clothing, accoutrements, quarters, hospital, mess-room, kitchens, and other articles in charge of the men.

ARTICLE 49.

The arms will not be taken to pieces without express permission from a commissioned officer. [

ARTICLE 50.

Cartridge boxes and bayonet scabbards will be polished with blacking instead of varnish; and white lead is forbidden to be used in cleaning belts and gloves-pipe clay or whiting will be used for that purpose.

ARTICLE 51.

The utmost attention is required of every officer to ensure the cleanliness of the men, as to their persons, clothing, arms, and accoutrements, and also to their tents or quarters.

ARTICLE 52.

A cook will be detailed for each mess, and great care will be observed in washing and scouring the cooking utensils; those made of copper or brass will not be used unless lined with tin.

ARTICLE 53.

Soldiers are at all times liable to be ordered on working parties as a duty; and will be paid, under the proper circumstances, the allowances made by law or regulation.

ARTICLE 54.

When marines are quartered in barracks the rooms shall be numbered in the same series, and the numbers inscribed on the outside of the door.

ARTICLE 55.

Officers' portmanteaux and valises will be marked with the name and rank of the owners.

ARTICLE 56.

Every article, excepting arms and accoutrements, belonging to enlisted men is to be marked with the name of the owner and corps.

ARTICLE 57.

The name of each non-commissioned officer and private will be labelled on his bunk, and the arms will be placed in a rack at the foot of each bunk, the accoutrements suspended over them, and be

designated by the rank and name of the possessor. The bayonets will be in the scabbard, stoppers in the muzzle, and cocks let down. Swords will be hung by the belts on pegs.

ARTICLE 58.

The knapsacks packed, will be placed on the lower shelf at the foot of the bunk. The great coat on the same shelf, rolled and strapped under the knapsack, folded inside out, the cap on the upper shelf, and the boots or shoes, well cleaned, hung on pegs over the head.

ARTICLE 59.

No article is to be put under the bedding, and when the bedding is not in use, it is to be neatly rolled up; fuel is to be kept in boxes near the fire places.

When employed in or near navy yards.

ARTICLE 60.

The commanding officer of marines stationed at, or doing duty within a navy yard, shall cause to be posted such sentinels as the commanding navy officer may require for the protection of the property under his charge or command, if the force of the marine command will possibly allow the same; but in case the commanding marine officer should consider the force under his command to be insufficient to place all the sentinels which may be thus required, it shall be his duty to represent the same to, and receive the final instructions of, the commandant of the yard on the subject.

ARTICLE 61.

The commanding officer of marines in a navy yard will, report daily to the commanding navy officer the number and disposition of the force under his command. He will also direct the officer of the day to report in person to the commanding navy officer of the navy yard to receive the countersign for the ensuing night and for his orders for the day.

ARTICLE 62.

All offences or neglects which marines may commit when on post or on other duty, which may have been required by the command

ing navy officer of a navy yard, are to be reported to him, that he may decide whether any punishment within his legal authority shall be inflicted, or whether report shall be made to the Secretary of the Navy for his decision. Offences which may be committed by ma rines within the barrack enclosures, or when not on duty as above mentioned, may be punished by the commanding marine officer as by law allowed, or reported to the commandant of the corps; and, it shall also be the duty of the commanding marine officer to report monthly to the commandant of the yard, and to the commandant of the corps, all the offences and punishments which may have taken place with those under his command, whether the punishments shall have been ordered by himself or the commanding navy officer of the yard.

ARTICLE 63.

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Marines when stationed at, or employed within, a navy yard are to conform to all the regulations which may be issued by the commandant thereof for its government and security.

No sea officer under the command of the commanding officer of a navy yard for the time being, is ever to permit or cause to be punished, any marine, except by confinement, without the express direction of such commanding officer. Nor is any marine officer, excepting the commanding marine officer of the station, post, or detachment, to permit or cause to be punished any marine, except by confinement, without the express direction of such commanding marine officer; and all confinements are to be reported without delay,

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ARTICLE 65.

Non-commissioned officers of the marines, when serving with a detachment under the orders of the commandant of a navy yard, may be reduced to the ranks for misconduct, by the concurrence of the commanding marine officer and commanding officer of the yard, and privates may be promoted to fill actual vacancies by such concurrence; but without such concurrence, no such reduction or promotion shall be made by either, but be left to the decision of the commandant of the corps.

ARTICLE 66.

The interior police and government of marines when in barracks within a navy yard, and their military instruction, shall be under the immediate direction of the commanding marine officer; and the indulgence of liberty for the day to the non-commissioned officers and privates may be granted by him; subject, however, to any general regulation or order which the commandant of the yard may deem necessary to the public interest connected with his command.

ARTICLE 67.

Small deficiencies in the complements of marines on board vessels in commission, under orders for sea, may be detailed and furnished from the marine force upon the station by the commanding marine officer, upon the requisition of the commanding naval officer upon the station, or upon his approval, without referring to the Department or commandant of the corps, when a delay might be injurious to the public interests; but immediate reports are to be made of all such transfers. The proper number of non-commissioned officers, and music, is to be sent on board with all detachments.

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ARTICLE 68.

When marines shall be stationed or in barracks without the limits of a navy yard, the internal regulations and police of their barracks or encampment, and the military instruction of the marines, shall be entirely under the direction of the commanding marine officer.

When a vessel is to be put in commission, the Secretary of the Navy will give the necessary instructions to have the proper number of officers and marines prepared to go on board...

ARTICLE 70.

When a vessel is ready for the reception of the marines, the commodore of the station will notify the commanding marine officer, whose duty it shall be to have sent to the designated place of embarkation, without delay, the detachment which may have been previously ordered for such vessel.