21. Willfully breaking or injuring public property.

22. Wasting public property.

23. Maliciously throwing anything from aloft or about decks.

24. Inciting or assisting others to commit, or conniving with others to commit, any of the following offenses, viz:

Insubordinate conduct.

Aggravated cases of the preceding list of offenses can, of course, be referred to a general court-martial.

Confinement is allowed by law in all cases of persons to be tried by courtsmartial.

CHAPTER XII.

Messing of offi

cers.

Officers as passengers.

Chief.

APARTMENTS AND MESSES.

1.

Officers will mess in the apartments provided for them and not elsewhere, except as hereafter provided; nor shall separate messes be formed in the same apartment, nor meals be taken in rooms or at other places than the regular mess-table except in case of sickness. Cabin Officers in ships with two cabins, if they prefer it, may form one mess. A Commander-in-Chief may have his Chief-of-Staff or secretary, or either of them, in his mess; and a Commanding Officer may have his clerk; but in such cases they must be accommodated permanently in the cabin, and will not occupy the apartments provided for them elsewhere. All Commanding Officers, doing duty on board or ordered for passage, are to be regarded as Cabin Officers, and are to be accommodated in every respect as such.

2.

Officers as passengers are to mess with those with whom they are associated as to the occupation of apartments, but are not entitled to a state-room to the exclusion of any officer belonging to the complement of the vessel. 3.

Apartments of A Commander-in-Chief or Commanding Officer of a squadron or division Commander-in- when embarked will be entitled, where there are two cabins on different decks, to select one of them; the other is to be occupied by the Commanding Officer of the vessel, Chief-of-Staff, and such passengers as are Cabin Officers. 4.

Apartment

of

The Commanding Officer of a vessel, where there is no Flag Officer emCommanding Offi- barked and where there are two cabins on different decks, will be entitled to select one, and where there is but one cabin he is to occupy it. 5.

cer.

Where there is In case of there being but one cabin in a vessel having on board a Combut one cabin, and mander-in-Chief or Commanding Officer of a division or squadron, the officer a Commander-in-commanding shall be entitled to one-third of the space, divided off by a fore Chief on board. and aft bulk-head, provided the space occupied by the cabin is sufficient for

that purpose.

6.

When one of two cabins on different decks of a vessel is vacant, and, in the judgment of her Commanding Officer, not required for other purposes, he may permit it to be occupied by the Wardroom Officers as a withdrawing room, but no one is to sleep there.

9.

A Chief of Staff, or principal Aid to a Commander-in-Chief, serving on board a vessel provided with two cabins on different decks, if he does not mess with the Commander-in-Chief, is to mess with her Commanding Officer, and be accommodated in the same cabin. If there are two state-rooms in it, the Commanding Officer is to have the first choice, and in any arrangement of cabin accommodations, whereby there may be two state-rooms in the apartment assigned to the Commanding Officer of the vessel, the Chief of Staff shall be entitled to occupy one of them.

8.

When no other arrangement is feasible, the Commander in-Chief, Com- Commander-inmanding Officer of the vessel, and Chief of Staff are to occupy the cabin Chief, Commandjointly, the choice of accommodations to be in the order as above mentioned. ing Officer, and Chief of Staff messing together.

9.

Wardroom Offi

cers.

The state-rooms opening into the wardroom country will be occupied by State-rooms of the officers attached to the vessel; on the starboard side, by all the Line Officers, according to rank, commencing with the forward room; on the port side, by the Staff Officers, according to rank, commencing with the forward room. All other rooms shall be occupied as the Commanding Officer may direct; but in vessels where the wardroom is forward of the berth-deck, while the respective sides appropriated to Line and Staff Officers remain as provided above, the relative positions of the state-rooms of the different officers are to be reversed, so that the Aid or Executive Officer will occupy the after state-room, and the other Line Officers will come next to him according to rank; a similar change of position, from forward to aft, will take place in the state-rooms of Staff Officers on the port side of the wardroom.

10.

Rooms of War

In all vessels having a covered gun-deck, the Boatswain and Gunner will each have a room on the starboard side, forward of the steerage, and the rant Officers. Carpenter and Sailmaker be similarly accommodated on the port side; in other vessels; the Boatswain and Gunner will occupy one room jointly, fitted with two berths, on the starboard side, and the Carpenter and Sailmaker one on the port side.

11.

pit.

Should there be unoccupied state-rooms in the wardroom or on the berth Spare state-rooms deck or orlop-deck, they will be assigned by the Commanding Officer, first, on berth-deck, orto such officers of the complement of the vessel, whether Line or Staff, whoop, or in cockare entitled to rooms and are not provided, giving preference to the complement of Watch Officers of the vessel; when any, remaining rooms may be assigned as the Commanding Officer may deem expedient.

12.

At

Each mess of officers will select a caterer, whose duty it will be to preside Duties of caterat the mess-table and to manage and direct all the affairs of the mess. He ers of messes. will keep an account of all receipts and expenditures, from which an extract of the financial condition of the mess may at any time be ascertained. the close of each month he will render to the mess a statement of the account of the mess, with his receipts, expenditures, and balance on hand, if any, together with any bills remaining unpaid. He is to incur no indebtedness which cannot be discharged by the funds appropriated for the mess, and he will see that all bills are paid before leaving a port. If, however, from the

Wines, &c., not

unexpected sailing of the vessel, or from circumstances beyond his control, he is forced to leave any bills unpaid, he will report the number and amount to the Commanding Officer, who will take measures to have them paid as soon as possible.

13.

Wines, ales, and other liquors not prohibited by law on board vessels of o be mess stores. the Navy, shall be regarded as private stores, belonging to individuals only, and shall not be brought on board without the sanction of the Commanding Officer. In no case shall they form a part of the outfit or stores of any mess, and no member thereof shall be required to pay any share toward their purchase.

Who compose

steerage messes.

14.

All officers, not commanding, ranking above the grade of Ensign, and all the ward-room and officers in charge of departments are Ward-Room Officers. Those ranking with and below the grade of Ensign are Steerage Officers, excepting the Warrant Officers, who will form a mess by themselves.

In all officers' messes the caterer chosen by the mess will have charge of the general conduct and order of the mess, but the Aid or Executive Officer, or the officer acting as such, shall, as the officer charged with the police of the vessel, have the power to interfere at any time to prevent disorder or unrestrained breeches of decorum.

15.

Petty Officers' Petty Officers may be messed by themselves, and are not to be required to perform the duty of mess-cooks.

messes.

Master-at-Arms's

mess.

Messing of boys.

Stopped rations in vessels.

16.

The Master-at-Arms, Orderly Sergeant, all Yeomen, the Apothecary, Machinists, Coppersmiths, and Boiler-makers will mess together on the berthdeck.

17.

The boys will be distributed among the messes, but are to be berthed by themselves, under the charge of the Schoolmaster or one of the Petty Offi

cers.

18.

The messes. of the ship's company may commute as many rations as may be authorized by the Commanding Officer, for not less than three months, unless sooner detached, or unless their terms of service should expire in less than three months; and they may receive the established value in money from the Pay Officer when in port, at such times (not oftener than once a month) as the Commanding Officer may direct.

The responsi

CHAPTER XIII.

APPROVAL OF REQUISITIONS, PURCHASES, AND ARTICLES DELIVERED—
ACCOUNTS.

SECTION I.-Approval of requisitions, purchases, and articles delivered.

1.

The approval of a requisition is to be considered as a certificate on the bility of approval part of the approving officer that, in his opinion, the articles are necessary of requisitions. and conformable to the established allowances; and the approval of requisitions by the officer whose approval will authorize their procurement or delivery according to these regulations or to instructions from the Navy Department is to have the force and responsibility of an order. In the pro

curement and expenditure of stores, commanding and all other officers are peremptorily enjoined to be governed by the allowances established by the Navy Department, and, by the exercise of economy, to make them last for the full time specified, and longer if practicable. Unless in a case of absolute necessity, arising from accident or condemnation by survey, which must be plainly stated on the face of the requisition, or unless the article be of a character the quantity of which cannot be regulated, such as tar, oil for burning, oil or tallow for lubricating, waste, emery, rivets, files, boiler-iron, material for making or repairing joints about steam-works, slaked lime, a disinfectant, a medicinal, or stationery for the Commander-in-Chief, no departure from the allowances will be tolerated. Commanding Officers will be from allowances. held to a strict account for any requisitions they may approve in violation of these instructions, and for any want of care or interest on their part to secure economy in the use of the property over which they are required to exercise control; they will forward copies of bills of purchases to the proper Bureau Copies of bills of of the Navy Department, accompanying them with a statement of the quan- purchase to be sent tity of the articles put on board when the vessel was fitted out, and the date of their final expenditure.

2.

Νο

departure

to Bureau.

Approval of a

The approval or signature of a Commanding Officer to a muster-book or muster-roll is to be considered as his certificate of the correctness of all muster-roll. the entries made therein in relation to the date of enlistment, ratings, terms, and expiration of service.

3.

Approval

of

The approval of a Commanding Officer to a pay-roll, or to a transfer-roll or account, given to or sent with men transferred, is his certificate of the transfer-rolls, &c. correctness of those parts relating to the dates of enlistment, ratings, terms, and expiration of service, but the correctness of those parts relating to their accounts is upon the responsibility of the Pay Officer, and to be certified by his signature.

4.

Approval on

The approval of an officer to a bill for articles purchased or services rendered is to be received as a certificate that the purchase or service was duly bills. authorized; that the articles have been received by a responsible officer or that the service has been performed; that they conform to the contract or are satisfactory as regards the performance of the duty and the quality and price of the articles; but he is not responsible for the correctness of the calculations determining the amounts charged. The person receipting all bills of articles is to examine and report any errors, and the person paying them will be responsible for their correctness.

5.

Responsibil i t y for the correctness

of bills.

When a requisition for money re

If a requisition of a Pay Officer for money require the approval of an officer senior to his immediate Commanding Officer, such senior will require quires the apof the Commanding Officer of the vessel or navy-yard to which the Pay proval of a senior Officer belongs a written statement of the amount of money reported as being to the Command in the hands of the Pay Officer, as also a specification of the particular ing Officer. objects and amounts, under their appropriate heads, of appropriation for which the money is wanted.

6.

The approval of an officer whose approval, by the instructions of the Treasury or Navy Department, will authorize the payment of money, is to have the force of an order for such payment, and is always to be accompanied by the rank of the officer, the date of the approval, and the sum for which the account is approved written in words at length.

Approval a u

thorizing the pay

ment of money.

7.

Approval of offi- The Bureaus of the Navy Department will not pass bills for work per cer having charge formed that are not approved by the Commanding Officer who has been authorized to incur the indebtedness for, and has had charge of, such work.

of work.

A Commanding Officer on a foreign station, when re

8.

An officer on a foreign station, when relieved from command, will take care that all bills for articles, the requisitions for which he has approved, are lieved from com- settled; but if, from any circumstance, this cannot be done, he will be mand, to see that responsible for the correctness of the purchases, though the bill may be all bills, having authorized to be paid by his successor.

his approval, are settled.

Notification

to

9.

The Commanding Officer of a fleet, or of a vessel acting singly, will, bebe given for settle fore leaving a port, have the persons who have furnished supplies notified to attend at some specified time and place with their accounts, so that none may be left without receiving his inspection.

ment of bills.

Purchases made by any agent.

Articles deliver

be examined.

10.

Purchases made for the Navy by any agent of the Department are to be made after inquiry and comparison only on the most favorable terms for the Government, and upon prices agreed upon before the purchase is made, and he shall certify the same upon the bills.

11.

Where articles are delivered by, or under the direction of, an agent who ed by an agent to purchased them, the officer who is to take charge of and receipt for them shall examine the bills, and if, in his opinion, any of the articles are charged above the market-price, he shall, before receipting for them, report the same to the officer under whose approval they were required, and such approving officer shall institute inquiries and take such other methods as the case may require.

12.

When inspection Where an inspection is required to determine the quality of articles, or is required to de- their conformity with contracts or agreements, no receipts are to be given termine the quali- for them until the inspecting officers shall have certified their satisfaction. ty of articles.

Accounts with

SECTION II.-Accounts.

1.

Disbursing Officers are required to keep their accounts with the United the United States States separate and distinct under every bond given by them, and to state, in to be kept separate the caption of each quarterly account, the date of the bond under which it under every bond. is rendered.

mary

&c.

If a paymaster Any Pay Officer of the Navy, resident within the United States, who shall transmits sum transmit to the Fourth Auditor, within ten days after the end of every month, statement, a summary statement showing his balance at the commencement of the month, his receipts and disbursements, under each head of appropriation, during such month, and the balance at the end of the same, such statement being certified to be correct by the officer required to approve the accounts, shall be authorized to render his accounts for settlement quarterly instead of monthly, provided that such accounts be duly transmitted within one month after the end of the quarter to which they refer.