Medals of Honor.

2. The name of the recipient is to be engraved on the back of the medal.

3. The names of all those upon whom the Navy Department may be pleased to confer the medal shall be publicly made known, aud a registry thereof kept in the Department.

4. The medal shall only be awarded to those petty officers, and others indicated, who shall have evinced in battle some signal act of valor or devotion to their country; and nothing save such conduct, coupled with good general qualities in the service, shall be held to establish a sufficient claim to it.

5. In order to enable the Department to discriminate fairly and properly in the premises, Commanding Officers, in recommending parties for the medal, are to state minutely the grounds of their recommendation-precisely what the deeds of valor or devotion were, and the circumstances attending them; and they are also to state the impressions made by the parties as to their general public worth.

6. Every person selected for the medal shall receive it publicly, from the hands of the senior officer present in command, before the crew to which he belongs, and at the instance of a general order from the Navy Department stating the cause of his special distinction.

7. Any one who, after having received the medal, shall again perform an act which, if he had not received the distinction, would have entitled him to it, shall have the authority conferred upon him by the Department to wear a bar attached to the ribbon by which the medal is suspendel; and for every additional act of the kind an additional bar shall be added.

8. To preserve pure this "Medal of Honor," it is to be distinctly understood that if any person on whom it shall have been conferred be subsequently convicted of treason, cowardice, felony, or any infamous crime, or if he be accused of any such offence, and do not, after a reasonable time, surrender himself to be tried therefor, his name shall forthwith be erased from the registry above mentioned by a general order from the Secretary of the Navy, who alone is to be the judge of the circumstances demanding the expulsion.

Medals of Honor --- Allotments.

9. An act of Congress, approved July 16, 1862, further directs that seamen distinguishing themselves in battle, or by extraordinary heroism in the line of their profession, may be promoted to forward warrant officers, or acting master's mates, as they may be best qualified, upon the recommendation of their Commanding Officer, approved by the Flag Officer and the Department; and that, upon such promotion, they shall receive a gratuity of one hundred dollars, and a "Medal of Honor."

10. In all cases of selections as above authorized, Commanding Officers are to communicate the names of the individuals without delay, in order that the Department may take prompt action with regard to them; and if the selection involve promotion, as contemplated by the act of Congress just mentioned, those officers are to be particular in stating whether it should be that of a forward warrant officer, or to that of an acting master's mate, together with their reasons therefor. Special attention to clauses 5 and 9 of these instructions is enjoined upon all Commanding Officers.

ARTICLE_XX.

Allotments.

799....An allotment must not exceed one-half the pay of the person granting it, except by the special permission of the Secretary of the Navy. It must be confined to making provision for the support of the family or other relatives of the grantor, for such time as he may be absent from them on public duty. It must not be made payable on any other than the last day of the month. After having been signed, it must have the approval of the Secretary of the Navy, or of the Commander of the vessel or station to which the person making it is attached, and will be registered by the Paymaster of such vessel or station, who will be responsible for its deduction from the grantor's pay; or, in special cases, it will be registered at the Fourth Auditor's Office.

It will be executed in duplicate, and in the case of commis

Allotments.

sioned or warrant officers, one part will be transmitted by the Paymaster who has registered it, to the Fourth Auditor's Office, and, in the case of any other person, both parts will be so transmitted. The Paymaster will send, with the allotments registered by him, a general abstract for the use of the Fourth Auditor's Office, and a particular abstract for each of the pay agents by whom they are payable. The death, discharge, forfeiture of pay by sentence of a court-martial, or desertion of a person who has an allotment running, will be communicated, by the Paymaster of the vessel or station to which he was attached, to the Fourth Auditor's Office, and to the pay agent by whom it is payable, by the first opportunity that may occur; in default of which, the Paymaster will be held liable for the amount paid by the pay agent in consequence of such neglect. In case of a discharge abroad, he will charge the allotment for as many months in advance as will probably be required for information of the discharge to reach the Fourth Auditor's Office. Immediately upon the return of a vessel to the United States, at the expiration of her cruise, the Paymaster will send to the Fourth Auditor's Office, and to the several pay agents by whom they are payable, a list of the allotments to be stopped. When an allotment is to be discontinued by request of the person granting the same, the reason must be assigned for its discontinuance. One letter should be addressed to the Fourth Auditor's Office, and one to the pay agent by whom it is payable.

800.... All persons enlisting for the Navy, on being transferred to a sea-going vessel, will be allowed to allot only a sum not exceeding one-half the wages corresponding with the rate they received on enlisting. Any subsequent rating conferred on board such vessel is not to govern in determining the amount that may be allotted.

801....Allotment tickets shall be made out by the Paymaster for all those persons on board who may wish to leave them for the benefit of their families or relatives, at the earliest moment after the ship is put in commission, and shall be promptly forwarded by him as required, in order to insure payment when due. In cases of capture of officers or men who have granted allotments which may expire after their capture, the monthly payments of the same are to be continued by pay agents until otherwise ordered.

Commanding Officer of a Station.

ARTICLE XXI.

STATIONS AND NAVY YARDS.

SECTION 1.

Commanding Officer of a Station.

802.... Whenever an officer shall be appointed to the command of a station in the United States, and not at the same time to the immediate command of a particular navy yard, the geographical limits of his command will be defined by the Secretary of the Navy.

803... All vessels of the United States in commission which shall arrive or be stationed within the limits of his command shall make their reports and submit all requisitions to him for examination and approval, and shall obey his orders, unless they shall be commanded by superior offices, or shall be under the orders and in the presence of his superior officer.

804....The Commanding Officer of a station will conform to all the regulations prescribed for Commanders-in-Chief of fleets or squadrons respecting the procuring and disbursement of stores and the discipline of the service, unless otherwise specially directed.

805.... The Commanding Officer of a station, appointed as above, shall exercise no authority or control over the Commanding Officer of a navy yard, or other shore establishment not placed expressly under his command, or over the vessels and persons put in charge or under the authority of such officer of a yard or other establishment, unless expressly directed so to do by the Secretary of the Navy, or in cases of great emergency, where time will not permit to refer to the Department for orders, and in all such cases he will make immediate report of the facts and of the reasons which governed him to the Department. 806....The rendezvous for recruits, receiving vessels, and naval hospitals, at a place or places within the limits of the Commanding Officer of a station, will be under his command.

807 ....He shall cause all vessels which may be fitted for, or return from sea, at the port where he may be, which are not commanded by

Commanding Officer of a Station.

his superior or senior officer, to be inspected by a board, to be composed of three Line Officers, (including an inspector of ordnance where one is available,) who shall report the state of their preparation for battle, discipline, and general condition and efficiency for service, in such form as may be prescribed by the Navy Department.

808.... He shall also cause an inspection to be made at the same time, by an engineer, a surgeon, and a paymaster, of the machinery, medical, and pay departments, respectively, who will report to him their condition.

809....Whenever the vessel to be inspected shall be under the orders and in the presence of a superior or senior officer, such superior or senior officer shall direct the above inspection to be made.

810....The inspecting officers shall, when vessels have just returned from sea, ascertain and report if any alterations have been made in the vessel, her armament, equipment, or arrangement during the cruise; and if so, the extent, and by whose orders, or by what authority.

811.... The senior officer in command of the station will give the necessary instructions to the purchasing agent to procure proper transportation for such men as he may be directed to send to any other place when he has no public vessel at his disposal for that purpose, and will send proper officers to take charge of them, informing the Secretary of the Navy of every draft so sent, and their number, the rate and amount of passage money, and the names of the officers under whose charge they were placed.

812....The Commanding Officer of a station is not to suffer any vessel of the Navy, commanded by an officer junior to himself, and not under the authority of one senior to himself present, to remain in port longer than shall be absolutely necessary after her Commanding Officer has received orders to depart; but he is to send her off in the execution of her instructions the moment she shall be in a condition to proceed to sea, if the state of the weather will permit.

813.... When the officer appointed or ordered to command a station is temporarily away--absent either on leave or duty-or unable to perform his duties by illness or otherwise, the Line Officer on shore duty, or on board a receiving vessel, within the limits of his command, next to him in rank or seniority, is to act in his stead.