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CHAPTER XII.

THE MASTER.

ARTICLE 276.

The master, or officer appointed to perform his duties, will, if ordered to a vessel before her stowage is commenced, superintend, under the direction of the commanding officer of the yard, or commander of the vessel, as circumstances may require, the stowing of the ballast, water, provisions, and all other articles, in the hold and spirit room.

ARTICLE 277.

In stowing provisions, he shall take care that the oldest provisions be stowed so that they may be the first issued-breaking out and re-stowing those already on board if necessary for that purpose.

ARTICLE 278.

When the stowage of the hold of any vessel shall be completed, an entry must be made in the log-book, specifying particularly the quantity and arrangement of the ballast, number, size, and disposition of the tanks and casks, and of the quantity and stowage of provisions and other stores. Accurate plans must also be made of the stowage of the hold, showing the disposition of all the articles which must be inserted in the first part of the log-book, and, if any material change should be afterwards made in the stowage, the changes must be noted and new plans be inserted in the log-book.

ARTICLE 279.

If the stowage of the hold is made under the direction of the commandant of the yard, he must cause the commander of the vessel to be furnished with the plans and descriptions. If made at a navy yard, but under the direction of the commander of the vessel, the commander will furnish the commanding officer of the yard with them, that they may be inserted in the diary of the yard.

ARTICLE 280.

The master is to visit the hold and cable tiers very frequently, and see that they are kept in good order, and as clean as circum

stances will admit.

ARTICLE 281.

He is to have charge of the keys of the hold and spirit room, and shall only deliver them to a commission or warrant officer, or master's mate.

ARTICLE 282.

He is, under the direction of the commander or executive officer, to see that the cables are at all times properly secured and protected from injuries, that the tiers are kept clear, and that all necessary arrangements are made for anchoring, mooring, unmooring, or getting under way with the greatest facility and despatch.

ARTICLE 283.

He will, as often as once a month, examine the chain cables, and particularly the shackles and shackle-pins, to see that they can be readily removed in case it should be wished to slip the cable, or to slip parts from one to another cable.

ARTICLE 284,

He is, in the same manner, to see that the standing and running rigging, and the sails of the vessel, are at all times in good order, protected from injury and ready for service, and to report all such as may require alteration or repairs.

ARTICLE 285.

He is to be particularly careful to prevent any waste or improper expenditure of fuel or water, and he is to report daily to the captain the quantity of water expended in the last 24 hours, and the quantity remaining on hand.

ARTICLE 286.

When the vessel shall be approaching any land or shoals, or entering any port or harbor, he shall be very attentive to the soundings; and he shall at all times inform the commander of any danger to which he may think the vessel exposed, whether under charge of a pilot or not.

ARTICLE 287.

He shall examine the charts of all coasts which the vessel may visit, and note upon them any errors which he may discover, and inform the commanding officer of the same, that he may, if he thinks them sufficiently important, transmit them to the Navy Department.

ARTICLE 288.

He shall frequently examine the compasses, time-glasses, log and lead lines, and keep them in proper order for service, and he shall ascertain and report daily to the commanding officer the ship's place at meridian.

ARTICLE 289.

He is to have charge of, and must account for, all nautical books, instruments, charts, national flags and signals, belonging to the ship.

ARTICLE 290.

He shall have charge of keeping the ship's logbook, and see that all required particulars are duly entered in it; and he shall, immediately afterwards, send it to the lieutenants, that they may sign their names at the end of the remarks in their respective watches while the circumstances are fresh in their memories; and he shall then take it to the commanding officer for his inspection.

ARTICLE 291.

There shall be entered on the log, slate, and logbook, with minute exactness, the following particulars :

1st. The names and rank, or rating, of all persons who may join or be discharged from the vessel; the direction of the wind, state of the weather, courses steered, and distances sailed; time when any particular evolution or service was performed; the number of all signals made, the time when, by what vessel, and to what vessel they were made; the nature and extent of all public punishments inflicted, with the name and crime of the offender; the result of all observations made to find the ship's place, and all dangers discovered in navigation :

2d. The loss of, or serious injury to, boats, spars, sails, rigging, and stores of any kind, with the circumstances under which it happened:

3d. A particular account of all stores received, with their marks, contents, or quantities; from whom received, or by whom furnished, and the department for which they were received:

4th. A particular account of all stores condemned by survey, or converted to any other purpose than that for which they were originally intended:

5th. A particular account of all stores lent, or otherwise sent out of the vessel, and by what authority it was done :

6th. All the marks and numbers of every cask or bale which, on being opened, is found to contain less than is specified by the invoice, or than it ought to contain, with the deficiency found:

7th. Every alteration made in the allowance of provisions, and by whose orders:

8th. The employment of any hired vessel, her dimensions or tonnage, the name of the master or owner, the number of her crew, how or for what purpose employed, by whose order, and the reasons for her employment:

9th. The draught of water of the vessel when light; and afterwards, when taking in articles, the draught after the receipt of every 100 tons in ships of the line, every 50 tons in frigates, and every 25 tons in sloops of war; and always, before going to sea, and upon arriving in port, the draught forward and aft, and the height of the forward-part of the forward port-sill, after-part of after port-sill from the water, and the rake of the respective masts with reference to the water-line at the time.

ARTICLE 292.

He will make the entries of the receipt, conversion, loss, or expenditure of stores, after they shall have been examined by the officers who are to have, or have had, charge of them, who, if the entry is found to be correct, will sign their names at the bottom of the entry.

ARTICLE 293.

After the log has been signed by the officers of the watch, no alteration shall be made therein, except to correct some error, or supply some omission, and then only with the approbation of the commanding officer who had charge of the watch in which the al

teration or addition is proposed, and will sign the same, if satisfied of its correctness.

ARTICLE 294.

The master shall deliver to the commanding officer of the vessel, signed by himself, and certified to be correct, a fair copy of the logbook every six months, to be transmitted, by the first opportunity, in a public vessel, or by an officer, to the Navy Department. The original log-book shall be kept by the vessel until she is paid off, when it shall be placed in charge of the commanding officer of the yard, and by him be transmitted to the Navy Department.

ARTICLE 295.

Should the master be removed, or suspended, he shall sign the logbook, and deliver it to his successor, taking his receipt for the same, and for all articles under his charge.

CHAPTER XIII.

PURSERS.

ARTICLE 296.

All articles forming part of the ration, or taken on board as substitutes for parts of the ration, shall be considered as "provisions."

ARTICLE 297.

All articles of clothing or bedding, or from which clothing or bedding is, or is to be made, which shall be taken on board a vessel for the use of the officers and crew, shall be considered and called slop clothing."

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ARTICLE 298.

All articles of groceries not being parts of the ration, and all other articles not being provisions or slop clothing, taken on board in conformity with these regulations, to sell for the convenience of the crew, shall be considered as “small stores."

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