ARTICLE 229.

When in port he may cause fresh meat and vegetables to be is1 sued to the crew, not exceeding three days in the week, unless the surgeon may think it necessary to their health to issue them more frequently.

ARTICLE 230.

He shall endeavor to induce the men under his command to voluntarily relinquish the spirit part of their ration, provided they will relinquish it for not less than three months, or for the remainder of the cruise, and may withhold it without their consent from all persons who may be guilty of drunkenness. He will direct the purser to keep an account of spirits which may be thus relinquished or withheld, and to pay for the same at the price which may be established for it in the ration, either at their discharge, or at such other times as he may think will secure to the men the greatest benefit. He shall cause the allowance of spirits to be mixed with water before it is issued, which shall be done at dinner and in the afternoon only. He shall not allow wine, or other intoxicating liquors, to be taken on board without his permission, nor allow any person on board to sell such articles to others.

ARTICLE 231.

He will cause every attention to be paid to the comfort of the sick and wounded by the surgeons and others, and take care that proper persons be appointed to attend upon them.

ARTICLE 232.

He will require daily reports of the state of the sick from the surgeon, and his opinion of the best means of preserving or restoring health, whenever he may think proper.

ARTICLE 233.

When men are sent to the hospital (which is not to be done without the sanction of the superior officer in command on the station) they are, if practicable, to be accompanied by a medical officer and one of the sea officers of the vessel, who is to see that the clothing and bedding of the men are carefully delivered to the proper officer

of the hospital, with a complete list of the same, and an abstract of their accounts signed by the purser and approved by the captain.

ARTICLE 234.

Men who may be sent to a hospital in the United States from a vessel in commission are to be borne on the books of the vessel from which they are sent as a part of her complement until the vessel shall proceed to sea, or be paid off, unless they shall be sooner discharged or transferred from the vessel by competent authority. Application must be made, when practicable, before a vessel sails, for all men who have been sent to the hospital, and all such as, in the opinion of the surgeon, are in a state to join the vessel, are to be returned on board with their clothing and bedding; and if any clothing or other articles have been furnished to persons whilst at a hospital, with which they ought to be charged, the articles and their cost are to be particularly stated and returned to the vessel upon the back of the clothes' lists which were sent to the hospital with them, duly certified by the proper officer of the hospital, and given to the officer who receives the men, that they may be handed to the purser of the vessel, and charged against the pay of the persons who received the same.

ARTICLE 235.

When petty officers, or persons of inferior ratings, shall be left in a hospital after the sailing of the vessel from which they were sent, the surgeon of the hospital must report to the commander of the station whenever any of them are in a situation to justify their removal, that they may be sent to some other vessel, or discharged.

ARTICLE 236.

If any petty officer, or person of inferior rating, shall not have so far recovered as to justify his removal from the hospital when his term of service shall have expired, or if the injuries or disease of any person sent to the hospital will, in the opinion of the surgeon, prove incurable, or produce long continued inability to perform duty, the surgeon must immediately report such cases to the commander of the station, making a particular statement of all the facts and circumstances connected with each case within his knowledge, that they nay be transmitted to the Secretary of the Navy for his decision.

ARTICLE 237.

He shall direct officers, who may be sent to board a vessel, to ascertain if the state of such vessel would expose persons visiting her to quarantine; and the officer shall not, except in case of necessity, allow any such communication as would require quarantine, without orders from his commander. And should any vessel of the navy have had any communication, or visited any port, or have any disease on board which would require quarantine, it shall be the duty of the commander to have a yellow flag hoisted, to warn others against improper communication with her.

Preservation of the Stores.

ARTICLE 238.

The commander of a vessel, when she is first equipped, shall be furnished, by the commandant of the yard, with inventories of all the articles belonging to the different departments of the vessel; and he is, thereafter, to keep accurate accounts of all expenses incurred for the vessel in the different departments, and shall make quarterly returns to the commander of the division, squadron, or fleet, according to such forms as may be prescribed, to be by them transmitted to the Navy Department; so that the annual expenses of each vessel may be correctly ascertained.

ARTICLE 239.

He shall cause a regular and strict account of the receipts and expenditures of all articles of provisions and stores to be kept, and, after satisfying himself of their correctness, have the same entered, monthly, in a general abstract expense-book; and he shall, whenever the quantity of any article will allow it to be done, without great inconvenience, ascertain and note if the quantity actually on board corresponds with the quantity shown by the expense-books.

ARTICLE 240.

When the ship is paid off, or placed in ordinary, he shall require from the officers, charged with the provisions and stores of the yeomen, an abstract statement of the receipts and expenditures of provisions and stores during each year, and the total quantity during the cruise; and shall, under this abstract, enter the quantities

remaining on hand, as shown by general abstract expense-book. If the remaining provisions and stores shall be landed, or can be surveyed before he leaves the ship, the quantities actually landed, or found to be on hand by survey, shall also be stated under the quantities as shown by the abstract-book, and if any differences shall be found to exist, he shall cause inquiry to be made as to the cause, and note the result of such inquiry upon the report, and forward the same to the Navy Department. If the commander should be detached, and the ship delivered over, before the stores are landed or surveyed, he will sign and transmit, to the commanding officer of the navy yard, the required abstract of the receipts and expenditures during the cruise, and quantities on hand, as shown by the expense-books kept by him; and the commander of the navy yard will cause the quantities landed, or found by survey to be actually on hand, to be noted and forwarded as above directed.

ARTICLE 241.

He shall examine all returns and expenditures, all requisitions for supplies, all accounts rendered against the vessel, and, on being satisfied of their correctness, shall approve the same.

ARTICLE 242.

In making or approving requisitions for stores of any kind, he should, unless otherwise especially authorized, only require or approve for the articles which may be necessary to complete such quantities as are, or may be, established as the allowance for the vessel, or specially authorized, and the requisition must state that it is so made.

ARTICLE 243.

He shall use the utmost economy and care in every thing which relates to the expenses of the vessel or the public service; and shall require from all those under his command a rigid compliance with the regulations for the receipt, conversion, and expenditure of stores of every description.

ARTICLE 244.

Should it become necessary to cut or ship a cable, or should a vessel part one, the commander of the vessel, or, if he cannot, the

senior officer present, shall use every exertion to recover it; but should neither have an opportunity, such information must be for. warded to the Navy Department, or the nearest public agent of the United States, as may best enable them to have it done.

ARTICLE 245.

When a vessel is to be placed in ordinary, he shall, unless otherwise directed, after a survey which shall be made upon the different articles, cause all her stores to be safely delivered to the proper officer of the navy yard, well tallied and properly marked. He shall transmit to the commandant of the navy yard the general expensebook, duly approved by himself, up to the date of its transmission.

ARTICLE 246.

When any article shall be placed on board, or by special arrangement be ordered, or ordered as an experiment, or for ascertaining its advantages, the commander of the vessel shall transmit to the Navy Department, as often as once in three months, a report, stating the particular tests to which it may have been subjected, his opinion of its merits, and whether any, and if any, what, changes or modifica. tion, might be adopted with advantage.

ARTICLE 247.

When any barrels or packages, in which provisions or other articles have been received on board vessels, shall have been emptied, they shall, if they cannot be returned to a navy yard, either be converted to some public use in the vessel, or be sold, and the amount received for the same shall be paid to the purser, and accounted for by him in the same manner as other public moneys; and all articles so sold, and the amounts paid to the purser, shall be entered in the log-book.

ARTICLE 248.

All "slush" which may not be required for the use of the vessel shall be sold, and the proceeds paid over to the purser, who shall receive, expend, and account for the same, under the direction of the captain, for the following purposes only: