yard, station, or other service, which has been placed under the command of a navy officer, shall be subject to the lawful orders of the navy officer who may be placed in, or who may succeed to, such command, and to the lawful orders of the other navy officers of equal or superior relative or assimilated rank.

ARTICLE 5.

Whenever seamen and marines, under charge of navy and marine officers, shall be detached from vessels to perform military duties on shore, the officer highest in rank, or the senior officer of the same relative rank, shall command on such service.

ARTICLE 6.

Marine officers and civil officers shall not have any authority, or exercise any control, over each other while they are acting under the immediate command of a sea-officer, except in the following

cases:

Marine officers will command each other and the marines in whatever relates to the military duties and police in their detachments, according to their relative rank; and surgeons shall have authority to direct and regulate the professional duties and practice of assistant surgeons: provided that, in all cases, the orders given by such marine officer and surgeons shall be in conformity with the general regulations of the navy, and of their commanding sea-officer.

ARTICLE 7.

If an officer shall receive an order from his superior, contrary to any particular order of any other superior officer, or to the regulations of the navy, he shall respectfully represent [in writing, when practicable,] such contrariety to the superior officer from whom he shall have received the last order; and if, after such representation, the superior shall still insist upon the execution of his order, the officer is to obey him, and report the circumstances to the officer from whom he received the original order, if practicable; but every officer who shall divert another from any service upon which he may be ordered by a common superior, or require him to act contrary to the orders of such common superior, or interfere

with those under his command, must show that the public interests required it.

ARTICLE 8.

When an officer, in command of a fleet, squadron, or single ship, shall meet with his superior officer in command, he shall, if practicable, wait on him and show his general instructions; and if he shall have sealed or secret orders, and his superior officer should determine to take him under his immediate command, he will then make the fact of his having sealed or secret orders known to his superior, who will not, in any case, open any sealed orders, or divert the inferior officer from his original orders, or interfere in any way with the vessels, officers, or others under his command, unless he may conceive it absolutely necessary for the public service; and in case of any such diversion of force, or interference with the commands of an inferior officer by his superior, the inferior is to obey his original instructions afterwards, if still practicable and necessary, as soon as possible; and will, as early as the nature of the service will permit, communicate all the facts of the case to the person under whose orders he may have been previously acting.

ARTICLE 9.

Captains of the navy are eligible to the command of any vessel; commanders to the command of any vessel under 26 guns; and lieutenants to the command of vessels under 16 guns; but no officer is entitled to claim of the Department any particular command as a matter of right.

ARTICLE 10.

Whenever ships of the line shall be employed, a commander may be attached to each as executive officer.

ARTICLE 11.

The military officers of the land and sea-services of the United States shall rank together as follows:

Passed midshipmen with second lieutenants of the army.

Masters with first lieutenants of the army.

Lieutenants of the navy with captains of the army.

Commanders of the navy with majors of the army.

Captains of the navy, from date of commission, with lieutenants colonel of the army.

Captains of the navy of five years standing with colonels of the the army.

Captains of the navy of ten years standing with brigadiers general of the army.

Captains of the navy of fifteen years standing with majors general of the army.

But should higher grades be created in the navy, then commodores, or those captains only who may be appointed to the command of a squadron, shall rank with brigadiers general of the army.

Rear admirals with majors general.

Vice admirals with lieutenants general, and

Admirals with generals.

ARTICLE 12.

Nothing in the preceding article shall authorize a land officer to command any United States vessel or navy yard: nor any sea officer to command any part of the army on land. Neither shall an officer of one service have a right to demand any compliment on the score of rank from an officer of the other service.

ARTICLE 13.

TABLE showing the number of persons for the war complements of the dif ferent classes of vessels of the navy of the United States.

* If no commander is placed in a ship of the line, then one additional lieutenant. (a) To act as watch officer. (b) 2 to be passed and to act as watch officer. (m) The pay of a purser's clerk to be $65 a month in ships of the line commissioned for sea service; in a frigate, or razee, commissioned for sea service, or in a navy yard or receiving vessel, $50 a month.

(n) $40 per month in ships of the line—$35 in frigates-$25 in sloops-$18 in smaller vessels.

Total, excepting marines

Marines.

Captain or supe

rior officer

Lieutenants

1025 764 734 560 430 329 173 153 143 70

Sergeants

Corporals

Drummers

1

Fifers

1

Privates

62 54

54 40 40 32 16

16

16

Total of marines

75 66 66 50 50 41 22

22

22

22

Total of war complements

1100 830 800 610 480 370 195 175 165 70

As established by law.